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  • 2012
  • Article

Conflict Policy and Advertising Agency-Client Relations: The Problem of Competing Clients Sharing a Common Agency

By: Alvin J. Silk
What restrictions should be placed on advertising agencies with respect to serving accounts or clients that are competitors of one another in order to avoid conflicts of interest? In recent decades, the advertising and marketing services industry has undergone a number... View Details
Keywords: Advertising Agency; Competitors; Marketing Services Industry; Structural Changes; Agency-client Relationships; Hybrid Conflict Policies; Safeguards; Advertising; Advertising Industry; Europe; Latin America; North and Central America
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  • April 2022 (Revised August 2022)
  • Case

Conflicts of Interest at Uptown Bank

By: Jonas Heese
In 2013, two employees debated whether to blow the whistle on their employer, Bell Bank, after completing an internal review that revealed undisclosed conflicts of interest. Bell Bank’s Asset Management business disproportionately invested clients’ money in Bell Bank’s... View Details
Keywords: Whistleblower; Whistleblowing; Mutual Funds; Conflicts Of Interest; Decision Making; Decisions; Judgments; Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Finance; Financial Institutions; Banks and Banking; Financial Management; Investment; Investment Funds; Governance; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Governance Compliance; Governance Controls; Policy; Law; Legal Liability; Social Psychology; Motivation and Incentives; Perception; Perspective; Trust; Financial Services Industry; North and Central America; United States
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  • 2012
  • Working Paper

Conflict Policy and Advertising Agency-Client Relations: The Problem of Competing Clients Sharing a Common Agency

By: Alvin J. Silk
What restrictions should be placed on advertising agencies with respect to serving accounts or clients that are competitors of one another in order to avoid conflicts in interest? In recent decades, the advertising and marketing services industry has undergone a number... View Details
Keywords: Advertising; Service Delivery; Competition; Conflict of Interests; Policy; Practice; Advertising Industry; United States
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  • 31 May 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Conflict Policy and Advertising Agency-Client Relations: The Problem of Competing Clients Sharing a Common Agency

Keywords: by Alvin J. Silk; Advertising
  • 2014
  • Article

The Governance of Social Enterprises: Mission Drift and Accountability Challenges in Hybrid Organizations

By: Alnoor Ebrahim, Julie Battilana and Johanna Mair
We examine the challenges of governance facing organizations that pursue a social mission through the use of market mechanisms. These hybrid organizations, often referred to as social enterprises, combine aspects of both charity and business at their core. In this... View Details
Keywords: Governance; Hybrid Organizations; Nonprofit; Performance Measurement; Legal Form; Agency Theory; Stakeholder Management; Mission and Purpose; Social Enterprise; Corporate Accountability
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  • April 2024
  • Article

An Integrative Model of Hybrid Governance: The Role of Boards in Helping Sustain Organizational Hybridity

By: Anne-Claire Pache, Julie Battilana and Channing Spencer
Hybrid organizations must sustainably attend to multiple goals embedded in different institutional spheres. Past research has highlighted the value for hybrids in recruiting board members representing different logics to avoid attentional drifts; yet, diverse boards... View Details
Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Business or Company Management; Organizational Structure
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  • Column

The Changing Geography of Work: Priorities for Policy Makers

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury
The COVID-19 pandemic thrust the issue of how and where we work into the spotlight. The adoption of remote and hybrid work increased exponentially as lockdowns necessitated social distancing. But now, as we enter a new phase of the pandemic, the Geography of Work—where... View Details
Keywords: Remote Work; Hybrid Work Model; Work-from-anywhere; Employees; Geographic Location; Policy
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  • 01 Mar 2006
  • News

The Real Conflict

shareholders. Instead, millions of Americans who shop at Wal-Mart would likely end up paying higher prices. This last point suggests that the debate around Wal-Mart isn’t really about a Marxist conflict between capital and labor. Instead,... View Details
Keywords: Pankaj Ghemawat; Ken A. Mark; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

    Best-selling and New Cases by Ben Esty

    Best-Selling Cases:  

      1) Eaton: Portfolio Transformation & Cost of... View Details

    • 09 Dec 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Mental Health in the Aftermath of Conflict

    Keywords: by Quy-Toan Do & Lakshmi Iyer
    • 22 Oct 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees

    The COVID-19 pandemic made remote work more the norm than the exception, and now many companies are struggling to map out a hybrid plan that both managers and employees can embrace long term. With return-to-work View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 06 Sep 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Does Hybrid Work Actually Work? Insights from 30,000 Emails

    time while staying in close contact with managers. Choudhury has also studied remote and hybrid work policies at several organizations, including Tata Consultancy Services, Tulsa Remote, GitLab, Zapier, and... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand
    • Web

    Conflict of Interest | About

    Conflict of Interest HBS strives to adhere to the highest standard of integrity, ethics and respect in a manner consistent with HBS Community Standards. To view the staff policy, please refer to this page about View Details
    • March 1996 (Revised January 2001)
    • Case

    Incidents in Trade Policy

    By: Louis T. Wells Jr. and Courtenay Sprague
    Discusses a series of incidents of conflict between the United States and foreign governments on trade. View Details
    Keywords: Trade; Policy; Agreements and Arrangements; Conflict and Resolution; Globalization; Government and Politics; United States
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    • 14 Jan 2022
    • Blog Post

    Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees

    The COVID-19 pandemic made remote work more the norm than the exception, and now many companies are struggling to map out a hybrid plan that both managers and employees can embrace long term. With return-to-work View Details
    Keywords: All Industries
    • 2009
    • Working Paper

    Mental Health in the Aftermath of Conflict

    By: Quy-Toan Do and Lakshmi Iyer
    We survey the recent literature on the mental health effects of conflict. We highlight the methodological challenges faced in this literature, which include the lack of validated mental health scales in a survey context, the difficulties in measuring individual... View Details
    Keywords: Ethnicity; War; Health Disorders; Policy; Health Care and Treatment; Conflict and Resolution; Bosnia and Hercegovina
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    • December 2010
    • Article

    Building Sustainable Hybrid Organizations: The Case of Commercial Microfinance Organizations

    By: Julie Battilana and Silvia Dorado
    We explore how new types of hybrid organizations (organizations that combine institutional logics in unprecedented ways) can develop and maintain their hybrid nature in the absence of a "ready-to-wear" model for handling the tensions between the logics they combine.... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Structure; Microfinance; Growth and Development Strategy; Identity; Commercialization; Balance and Stability; Policy; Recruitment; Business Model
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    • November 2001
    • Background Note

    Sexual Harassment Law and Policy

    By: Michael A. Wheeler, Georgia Levenson and Arturo Corso
    Outlines the recent development of legal principles regarding sexual harassment, including procedures in the United States and state courts, what circumstances constitute harassment, the resolution of these conflicts and the resulting consequences for the individuals... View Details
    Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Policy; Working Conditions; Code Law; Outcome or Result; Conflict and Resolution; United States
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    • 1996
    • Chapter

    Zum Konflikt zwischen intrinsischer Motivation und umweltpolitischer Instrumentenwahl [The Conflict Between Intrinsic Motivation and the Choice of Environmental Policy Instruments]

    By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Bruno S. Frey
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    • 2024
    • Article

    State Capacity and Varieties of Climate Policy

    By: Jonas Meckling and Ari Benkler
    Countries vary in the adoption of sticks and carrots in climate policy. Differences in institutional capacity and fiscal space shape national policies. This matters for the effectiveness of national mitigation efforts and the extent of international conflict over... View Details
    Keywords: Climate Change; Policy; Country
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