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- 2013
- Working Paper
Testing Coleman's Social-Norm Enforcement Mechanism: Evidence from Wikipedia
By: Mikolaj J. Piskorski and Andreea Gorbatai
Since Durkheim, sociologists have believed that dense network structures lead to fewer norm violations. Coleman (1990) proposed one mechanism generating this relationship and argued that dense networks provide an opportunity structure to reward those who punish norm...
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Keywords:
Governance Compliance;
Governance Controls;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Information Publishing;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Social Issues;
Societal Protocols
Piskorski, Mikolaj J., and Andreea Gorbatai. "Testing Coleman's Social-Norm Enforcement Mechanism: Evidence from Wikipedia." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-055, December 2010. (Revised September 2011, March 2013.)
- Web
Generative AI for Business Leaders - Course Catalog
explore the challenges of privacy, copyright, and compliance in GenAI applications, developing a nuanced understanding of how to navigate these issues. You will learn to assess the risks associated with Generative AI, propose mitigation...
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- 09 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer
their compliance skills. But this group lacked influence with top management. With its own logic and terminology, management viewed the new guard's methods as incompatible with the way the bank was run and difficult to attach to the...
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- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
to help anticipate the next flash point, putting into practice significant enforcement actions, and introducing new management structures. Although he thinks Sarbanes-Oxley needs some adjustment to lower the compliance costs for smaller...
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- February 2016 (Revised June 2016)
- Supplement
The Maggi Noodle Safety Crisis in India (B)
By: Karthik Ramanna and Radhika Kak
The local government in Delhi has ordered a ban on Nestlé's flagship product in India—Maggi Noodles, citing excessive lead content per government lab tests. Nestlé disputes the government tests, noting that internal and third-party tests show the product to be safe....
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Keywords:
Multinationals;
Globalization;
Regulation;
Customer Relations;
Business And Government;
Safety;
Leadership;
Food;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Governance Compliance;
Crisis Management;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Business and Government Relations;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Delhi
Ramanna, Karthik, and Radhika Kak. "The Maggi Noodle Safety Crisis in India (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 116-014, February 2016. (Revised June 2016.)
- 11 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections
111.3 million subscribers, could see a profit increase of at least $28 million from a single retention campaign if it applied their approach. Gupta says the method could be applied in nonprofit areas to predict, for example, patient View Details
- 12 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 12
Framework Authors:Robert S. Kaplan and Anette Mikes Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 6 (June 2012) Abstract Risk management is too often treated as a compliance issue that can be solved by drawing up lots of rules and making...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Unspoken Messages of COVID-19 Restrictions
that emphasizing an activity’s health risks might encourage compliance better than imposing blanket restrictions. “If the opening up messaging was, ‘Yes, we will allow you to do this because we respect individual freedom, but you’re...
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- 05 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
Simple Ways to Take Gender Bias Out of Your Jobs
health. In one of the lessons, students were tasked with using behavioral design to de-bias talent management; in another, to promote ethics and compliance in organizations. Guest speakers in her class included Aniela Unguresan,...
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All Industries
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
selection, and creating separate committees for professional practice, ethics, and compliance and operations; and enhancing its ethics and compliance program through human resource processes (e.g.,...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
EVs want to conquer the mass market, they’ll need to, well, crush it. Until recently, the EV market had a high end and a low end—but no real middle. On the one hand, there was Tesla, which entered the market from the top. On the other, there were so-called View Details
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2017
principal payments increased by $1 million from the prior year to $8 million. Capitalization of endowment income—or cash used to purchase endowment units—was a $4 million use of cash in fiscal 2017, compared with $3 million in the prior year. In View Details
- 23 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Little Understanding Motivates Copyright Abusers to Pay Up
obtained from the Internet. Furthermore, many businesses use a third-party designer, whom is presumed to have cleared related rights. Motivating copyright compliance on the Web is complicated by users who don’t know they are violating the...
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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
momentum for the NCF’s founding. Thomas, chairman and CEO of Rapid7, a cybersecurity and compliance solutions and services company, says that 19 founders launched the NCF, “but it could easily have been 100.” Among many Black and brown...
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Deborah Blagg
- February 2016
- Supplement
The Maggi Noodle Safety Crisis in India (C)
By: Karthik Ramanna and Radhika Kak
The local government in Delhi has ordered a ban on Nestlé's flagship product in India—Maggi Noodles, citing excessive lead content per government lab tests. Nestlé disputes the government tests, noting that internal and third-party tests show the product to be safe....
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Keywords:
Multinationals;
Globalization;
Regulation;
Customer Relations;
Business And Government;
Safety;
Leadership;
Food;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Governance Compliance;
Crisis Management;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Business and Government Relations;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Delhi
Ramanna, Karthik, and Radhika Kak. "The Maggi Noodle Safety Crisis in India (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 116-038, February 2016.
- August 2012
- Supplement
Albert 'Jack' Stanley in Nigeria (C)
By: Lena G. Goldberg and Annelena Lobb
The international joint venture that successfully bid for $6 billion in contracts to build LNG trains on Nigeria's Bonny Island became entangled in a widening bribery and corruption probe triggered by an unrelated accusation against an employee of one of the JV...
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Keywords:
Ethics;
Crime and Corruption;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Governance Compliance;
Law;
Joint Ventures;
Business Subsidiaries;
Government Legislation;
Rail Industry;
Nigeria;
United States;
United Kingdom
Goldberg, Lena G., and Annelena Lobb. "Albert 'Jack' Stanley in Nigeria (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 313-019, August 2012.
- January 2001 (Revised May 2001)
- Background Note
State, The
By: Rawi E. Abdelal
Surveys approaches to understanding the state; highlights the relationships between the state, order, and property; and offers an analytical framework for how states vary from place to place and over time.
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Keywords:
Business and Government Relations;
Governance Compliance;
Framework;
Economic Sectors;
Policy;
Private Ownership;
Public Ownership;
Entrepreneurship;
Development Economics;
Equality and Inequality
Abdelal, Rawi E. "State, The." Harvard Business School Background Note 701-077, January 2001. (Revised May 2001.)
- 11 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
The House Wants to Squelch Voices of ‘Small’ Shareholders. Research Shows Those Voices Matter.
going to get a sit-down with the CEO,” says Eugene F. Soltes, the Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, whose research focuses on corporate misconduct and compliance systems. “So these...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 18
which toolmaking was not central, and those to which toolmaking was important. As for the influence activities that imply toolmaking, we can outline the contours of three modes of operation, which describe experts operating as Compliance...
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Anna Secino
- 23 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 23
their own operations, shifting enforcement resources away from voluntary disclosers. We also find that firms that voluntarily disclosed regulatory violations and committed to self-policing improved their regulatory compliance and...
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Sean Silverthorne