Filter Results
:
(289)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(289)
- News (46)
- Research (213)
- Events (1)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (39)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(289)
- News (46)
- Research (213)
- Events (1)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (39)
- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
board accountability through greater transparency in decision making, more representative vote allocation, or better parliamentary scrutiny. In other words, although civil society efforts have led to some gains in accountability with...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
Greenwashing By: Marquis, Christopher, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Under increased pressure to report environmental impacts, some firms selectively disclose relatively benign impacts, creating an impression of transparency while...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
order to smooth earnings (Graham, Harvey and Rajgopal, 2005). We estimate that marketing actions can be used to boost quarterly net income by up to 20% depending on the depth of promotion. But there is a price to pay, with the cost in the...
View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
how these institutions affect one another. This expertise—combined with better institutional transparency and the banks' new lower—risk practices-leads to a more stable system than the one that existed five years ago. But for the...
View Details
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
highly, especially given their general aversion to such pursuits. The overvaluation that occurs as a result of the IKEA Effect has implications for organizations as a contributor to two key organizational pitfalls: sunk cost effects and...
View Details
Keywords:
by Staff
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
worked with committee members to examine every expenditure, from staff cell phones to printing costs to health care concessions. Trimming was necessary but not enough; unthinkable as it seemed, all librarian positions in the district...
View Details
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
campaign backfired because the Electoral Commission failed to fulfill its commitment to deliver a transparent and peaceful election. The decrease in trust is stronger in areas that experienced election-related violence and for individuals...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- Web
From the Chief Financial Officer - Annual Report 2020
Great Recession, they developed a playbook that included not only strategies for containing costs but also opportunities for new growth. The team was guided by the desire to ensure that, in the face of a recession, the School’s...
View Details
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
through social learning) and costs (lower maximum solution quality due to a reduction in individual exploration for novel answers) relative to independent problem solving. In contrast to prior work, which has focused on how the presence...
View Details
Keywords:
Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
render their brick-and-mortar formats unable to earn their cost of capital. A few retailers face the challenge of successfully capturing the opportunities ecommerce presents to increase the productivity of their existing brick-and-mortar...
View Details
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
may not be a pure-strategy equilibria. In the standard case where marginal costs are weakly positive, there is no pure strategy where the lower quality B firm obtains positive market share. We also consider the case where A has negative...
View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- Web
Global Activities 2020-2021 - Global Activities 2021
study “Unilever's Response to the Future of Work” that Kerr authored with Emilie Billaud and Mette Fuglsang Hjortshøj of the Europe Research Center. In their conversation, Kerr and Dalton also explore the importance of being transparent...
View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
its open society and “messy,” yet functioning, market-based democracy as a more conducive environment for long-term development. Its Western-style legal system and transparent financial systems encourage a chaotic, bottom-up approach to...
View Details
Keywords:
Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
consumer-driven system would require transparency in health-care quality and costs. Can you imagine shopping in a supermarket where you don't know products' prices or ingredients? In the 1930s, President Roosevelt created the SEC to...
View Details
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
ties back to the cost of code switching and micro-aggressions in the workplace. People’s satisfaction with work, their sense of belonging, among Black employees, actually grew when we shifted into remote work in our research, where white...
View Details
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
fact that despite careful attention to the importance of neighborhood priority, Boston’s implementation of its 50-50 reserve–open seat split was nearly identical to the outcome of a counterfactual system without any reserves. Transparency...
View Details
Keywords:
Carmen Nobel
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Create Winning Streaks
accountability: Make information transparent and accessible, by fostering straight talk and communicating the facts, which builds trust and prevents denial. Cultivate collaboration: Create conversations across the organization; talking is...
View Details
Keywords:
by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
residential real estate and away from more productive investments. Third, the cost of professional investment management is too high, which drains talent from other industries. The financial sector could promote the health and...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
much more complicated due in part to the development of mortgage brokers. The new system fueled a bevy of mortgage backed securities and derivatives that were terribly difficult for experts to comprehend, he said. Too much leverage combined with too little View Details
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
examine how well the most widely used ratings—those of Kinder, Lydenberg, Domini Research & Analytics (KLD)—provide transparency about past and likely future environmental performance. We find KLD "concern" ratings to be...
View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace