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Should Business Have Human Rights Obligations?
By: Nien-he Hsieh
Businesses and their managers are increasingly called upon to take on human rights obligations. Focusing on the case of multinational enterprises (MNEs), the paper argues we have reason to reject assigning human rights obligations to business enterprises and their... View Details
Keywords: Human Rights; Ruggie Principles; Corporate Responsibility; Multinationals; Rights; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
Hsieh, Nien-he. "Should Business Have Human Rights Obligations?" Special Issue on Business and Human Rights. Journal of Human Rights 14, no. 2 (April–June 2015): 218–236.
- March 2015 (Revised August 2020)
- Case
Putting the Guiding Principles into Action: Human Rights at Barrick Gold (A)
By: Rebecca Henderson and Nien-he Hsieh
In 2010, Human Rights Watch, a well-regarded international NGO, approached Barrick Gold asserting that members of the company’s security force at the Porgera Gold Mine in Papua New Guinea had on multiple occasions raped women who were trespassing onto the mine’s waste... View Details
Keywords: Human Rights; Business And Society; Rights; Policy; Leading Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations
Henderson, Rebecca, and Nien-he Hsieh. "Putting the Guiding Principles into Action: Human Rights at Barrick Gold (A)." Harvard Business School Case 315-108, March 2015. (Revised August 2020.)
- February 2009 (Revised September 2011)
- Background Note
Business and Human Rights
By: Lynn S. Paine and Lara Adamsons
This note addresses some of the most frequently asked questions about the relation between human rights and business. Topics include the definition of human rights, the business leader's role regarding human rights, and legal liability of companies and executives for... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Ethics; Human Capital; Legal Liability; Rights; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
Paine, Lynn S., and Lara Adamsons. "Business and Human Rights." Harvard Business School Background Note 309-097, February 2009. (Revised September 2011.)
- November 2018 (Revised November 2024)
- Technical Note
Human Rights
By: Reshmaan Hussam, Mattias E. Fibiger and Grace Liu
Hussam, Reshmaan, Mattias E. Fibiger, and Grace Liu. "Human Rights." Harvard Business School Technical Note 719-036, November 2018. (Revised November 2024.)
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Foreign Investment and Human Rights
By: Debora Spar
Spar, Debora. "Foreign Investment and Human Rights." Challenge 42, no. 1 (January–February 1999): 55–80.
- 26 Apr 2008
- HBS Conference
Business and Human Rights Conference
- 07 May 2008
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Harvard Business School Hosts Business and Human Rights Conference
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Profitable Souls: Foreign Investment and the Fate of Human Rights
By: Debora L. Spar
This is a project about foreign investment, about what happens when big multinational firms invest in small, poor, and often nasty places. Typically, most observers assume that this is a largely negative relationship: that multinationals exploit the local population,... View Details
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Rights of First Refusal Are a Bad Deal
Rights of first refusal are contract clauses common in such industries as entertainment. In 2001, Paramount Studios and the National Broadcasting Company negotiated the broadcasting View Details
- 02 Apr 2019
- News
The Right Way to Get Your First 1,000 Customers
- 24 Jan 2024
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Making a Movement: The History and Future of Human Rights
- Spring 1983
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Doing What's Right vs. Doing the Right Thing: The Normative Underpinnings of Human Resource Strategy
Schlesinger, Leonard A. "Doing What's Right vs. Doing the Right Thing: The Normative Underpinnings of Human Resource Strategy." Human Resource Management 22, nos. 1/2 (Spring 1983).
- April 2010
- Course Overview Note
Managing Human Capital
By: Boris Groysberg
Managing Human Capital, a second-year elective course at Harvard Business School, seeks to create business leaders who understand human resources practices essential to firm performance and who think strategically about managing their own careers. This Managing Human... View Details
- March 2023
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Authentic First Impressions Relate to Interpersonal, Social, and Entrepreneurial Success
By: David M. Markowitz, Maryam Kouchaki, Francesca Gino, Jeffrey T. Hancock and Ryan L. Boyd
This paper examines how verbal authenticity influences person perception. Our work combines human judgments and natural language processing to suggest verbal authenticity is a positive predictor of interpersonal interest (Study 1: 294 dyadic conversations), engagement... View Details
Keywords: Authenticity; Impression Formation; Natural Language Processing; First Impressions; Communication; Perception; Success
Markowitz, David M., Maryam Kouchaki, Francesca Gino, Jeffrey T. Hancock, and Ryan L. Boyd. "Authentic First Impressions Relate to Interpersonal, Social, and Entrepreneurial Success." Social Psychological & Personality Science 14, no. 2 (March 2023): 107–116.
- August 2020
- Supplement
Putting the Guiding Principles into Action: Human Rights at Barrick Gold (C)
By: Nien-hê Hsieh
Hsieh, Nien-hê. "Putting the Guiding Principles into Action: Human Rights at Barrick Gold (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 321-033, August 2020.
- March 2016 (Revised December 2017)
- Supplement
Putting the Guiding Principles into Action: Human Rights at Barrick Gold (B)
By: Rebecca Henderson and Nien-hê Hsieh
Henderson, Rebecca, and Nien-hê Hsieh. "Putting the Guiding Principles into Action: Human Rights at Barrick Gold (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 316-139, March 2016. (Revised December 2017.)
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
In Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices, the authors combine the latest thinking from the biological and social sciences to lay out a new theory on human nature. The idea: We are all influenced and... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria