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- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
utilitarian criterion can be simulated using conventional constraints and methods. A wide range of optimal policy outcomes can result, including those consistent with existing policies. To the extent that such an objective reflects the mixed View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
the way that, for more than a century, it has articulated and shaped for the larger society a set of ideas, aspirations, and norms concerning business and management. Moreover, the visions and values animating the university-based...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
some firms selectively disclose relatively benign impacts, creating an impression of transparency while masking their true performance. We identify key company- and country-level factors that limit firms' use of selective disclosure by intensifying scrutiny on them and...
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Carmen Nobel
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
positive theory of integrity that has no normative content and argue that there are large gains from putting integrity into finance-into both the theory and practice of finance. We define integrity as being whole and complete and...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
Leonard M. Harlan (MBA '61, DBA '65), president of Castle Harlan, Inc., who has been a guest lecturer in Poorvu's class several times over the years. Part of this understanding is learning how to make deals in a fragmented industry where nonstandard pricing is the...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
than using more explicit cosmetics. In Shanghai, two women shade themselves as they walk past an ad for a skin-lightening cream. Powered globally by marketing, media, and entertainment, commercial beauty ideals may challenge local cultural View Details
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
would have otherwise been undertaken at home. These two tempting claims are found to have limited, if any, systematic support. Instead, modern welfare norms that capture the nature of multinational firm activity recommend a move toward...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
with the responsibility to enforce rules may penalize transgressors more harshly when they are faced with a conflicting motivation to be lenient. Specifically, we test how transgressors are punished when it is their birthday: a day when social View Details
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Sean Silverthlorne
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
Moreover, we find that relatively higher wages also promote social norms such that coworkers are less (more) likely to collude to steal inventory from their company when relative wages are higher (lower). Our research contributes to an...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
And so what we learned is, people with specific schedules got respected. But, like, one of the things we do now is, there are norms around how you manage your calendar. And it is something that we had to deal with a bit with the move to...
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- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
down, it is likely that hybrid remote arrangements will become the norm at workplaces globally. It is important to design hybrid-remote work arrangements that also allow for geographic flexibility and work-from-anywhere. Additionally,...
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- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
early 1990s, but foreign brides currently comprise 4% to 35% of newlyweds in these developed Asian countries. This paper argues that two factors account for this rapid increase in "bride importation": the rapid growth of women's educational attainment and a...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
clamor for accountability, it is tempting to accept the popular normative view that more accountability is better. But is it feasible, or even desirable, for nonprofit organizations to be accountable to everyone for everything? The...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
would probably stay for your entire career. And that's when HR departments probably focused most on compliance and most on standardization. Then when we got to a point where it was no longer the norm to stay at one place for your entire...
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- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
number of structural changes that forced an ongoing re-examination and modification of traditional norms and policies emphasizing exclusivity in agency-client relationships. A typology of conflicts that has arisen in the U.S. shows the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
“Ramen head.” “These things are traumatizing for an elementary school kid—when you don’t fit in perfectly,” she recalls. And there were different customs and norms that required acclimation. The school had no janitors, so the students...
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Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
what’s happening to education all across the world. Snackable content in business settings has definitely become the norm. And while that’s become the norm in the economic context, we still see education largely as these big set piece...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
those off. And yet for some reason with the use of human capital, people that have been willing to accept this, candidly very mediocre, norm for a long time.Kerr: Pat, give us a sense of how much this enables an organization. How much...
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- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
book on it.” MARCH 18 Khan Academy founder Sal Khan (MBA 2003) announced plans to help students and parents navigate the new norm of distance learning. Read more about his work here. MARCH 16 Moderna, led by CEO Stéphane Bancel (MBA 2000,...
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Europe, the UK, the Middle East, South Africa, and Latin America. Throughout the course, we will explore differing conceptions of “good governance” and what they mean in practice. We will consider, for instance, departures from the long-standing View Details