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  • 01 Mar 2004
  • News

Reforming Company Boards

Solutions for Better Corporate Governance (Bloomberg Press) emphasizes accountability, transparency, performance measurement, and a strong system of checks and balances in its practical approach to reform.... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Services
  • 09 Jan 2020
  • News

Your Whole Self

April: One of the things I like about these principles is that you don't think about them primarily as lifestyle hacks. It's not exclusively about time management or improved productivity. You're really... View Details
  • 06 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 6, 2007

Industry Harvard Business School Case 507-021 ViaGen has invested heavily to develop cloning technology for the livestock industry. Cloning has the potential to significantly improve the genetics of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2014
  • News

Groundwork

and improvements to this residential space. 4 Klarman Hall ETA 2018 Klarman Hall will replace Burden Hall as a venue for events and gatherings. The building will include elements of a large-scale conference... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; George F. Baker III; real estate; Tata Hall; Educational Services; Real Estate
  • 11 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 11, 2006

closely related to marketing management. Based on interviews with one hundred large Moscow firms in the late 1990s, the new kinds of organizational forms (privatized or private) had more entrepreneurial and less bureaucratic corporate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

improves financial performance on measures such as profitable investments at the individual portfolio-company level and overall fund returns. And even though associating with similar people can have social... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14

and society at large. To do that, it has to increase shareholder value while at the same time improving the firm's performance on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) dimensions. This article outlines... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2

the benefits of unexpected inflation are tempered by higher interest rates. We obtain that costs from inflation more than offset the benefits from reducing tax distortions. We further discuss sustainability View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 2

to engage in deception. Drawing on literatures in social psychology and workplace self-esteem, we theorize that negative comparisons with peers could cause either junior or senior employees to seek to improve reported relative View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 May 2016
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May 31, 2016

and Michael E. Menietti Abstract—We investigate the factors driving workers’ decisions to generate public goods inside an organization through a randomized solicitation of workplace improvement proposals in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

From Das’s Desk

them said about the experience: “Wow, what an amazing 72-hour ride! I have never been moved like that before. This might have been the best three days of my life (and I will use the lessons to improve the... View Details
Keywords: Das Narayandas
  • 31 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 31, 2007

writing for practitioners by and more interest in research by practitioners few systematic efforts have been made to close the gap. The chapter begins with a discussion of the strategic value R&D in management can have for firms. It... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2005
  • News

Transforming the IRS

For decades, the IRS judged employees’ performance by using narrow, unbalanced, and frequently perverse — but easily gathered — statistics that focused almost entirely on revenue coming from audit assessments and property seizures.... View Details
Keywords: Ann Cullen; IRS; Many Unhappy Returns; reform; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government
  • 24 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

computational power for model estimation. We overcome computational burden by utilizing an improved simulator for likelihood evaluation and the general-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU) technology that takes advantage... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Apr 2017
  • HBS Case

This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly

experience with a debt collector, it reduces the risk of regulatory scrutiny and may incline them more toward doing business with the bank again in the future. Lastly, Turkasset’s methods are better for employees, as well, who see... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 31 May 2011
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First Look: May 31

performance of business units can be evaluated using measures of economic value creation. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/211061-PDF-ENG China... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs

balance internal resources. On the one hand, they need to focus some of their people on continually improving and growing the core business. On the other hand, they must free others to break all the rules in... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
  • 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=43620 Pay for Environmental Performance: The Effect of Incentive Provision on Carbon Emissions Authors:Robert G. Eccles, Ioannis Ioannou, Shelley Xin Li, and George Serafeim Abstract Corporations are... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Dec 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

of firm entry and exit, output, and R&D. Taxing the continued operation of incumbents can lead to sizable gains (of the order of 1.4% View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Nov 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity

"But maybe we aren't as good at battling curiosity or being overloaded by visual stimuli as we might think. The frontline people who perform a particular task 12 hours a day may be the best people to determine whether that task needs... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing