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- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
quality of accounting information. Overall, a tractable accounting-based valuation model provides a unifying framework for obtaining reliable proxies of expected returns worldwide. Download working paper:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-099WP.pdf Evaluating the Impact of SA 8000 Certification Authors:Michael J. Hiscox, Claire Schwartz, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract SA 8000, along with other types of View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Paradoxical Quest to Make Food Look 'Natural' With Artificial Dyes
all-year-round—even though the true color of butter fluctuated throughout the year. “Uniformity of color was one of the qualities that butter color makers stressed to their customers,” Hisano writes, citing a 1905 advertisement in which...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 14
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-148.pdf PublicationsOpen to Negotiation: Phenomenological Assumptions and Knowledge Dissemination Authors:Corinne Bendersky and Kathleen L. McGinn Publication:Organization Science (forthcoming) Abstract Phenomenological...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
households. The quality of the liquidity services provided by bank liabilities depends on their safety in case of default. Commercial bank debt is fully insured and thus provides full liquidity. However, commercial banks do not...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Tennessee staying independent for another 75 years, it’s the talent pipeline that we spend most of our time trying to think about how we secure. We struggle to get the quantity or the quality of technology professionals that we need, and...
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- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
Context: How States, Markets, and Civil Society Shape Adherence to Global Labor Standards By: Toffel, Michael W., Jodi L. Short, and Melissa Ouellet Abstract—Transnational business regulation is increasingly implemented through private voluntary programs-like View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 10, 2009
for fresh fruit and vegetables and a third-party certification system to monitor compliance. By 2008, the GLOBALGAP standard had expanded to cover coffee, tea, livestock, and aquaculture. Over 90,000 producers in 87 countries had been...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #11: Mary Jo Veverka (HBS 1978): Fostering Actionable Climate Literacy
carbon footprint. MJ cited a 2020 study included in the National Library of Medicine, which estimated that individual yearly carbon emissions could be reduced by almost 19 gigatons if all secondary school students were taught about climate change. And yet, experts say...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
being managed on quality of the product and scrap rates.Kerr: Yeah. If in this vicious cycle, if the employee will leave relatively soon anyway, that can reduce my near-term incentives to be making those 45-minute feedback...
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Using the JTBD Framework to Grow a Business: Lessons From a JTBD Research Project - Forum for Growth
plan. Knowing well that at least one partner is an absolute requirement for a project like ours, I asked one of our Product Managers, Alex Cartmill, to work with me. The passionate dialogue and debate ensuing from JTBD research are essential to the findings’ View Details
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
signal and infer quality of difficult-to-observe management practices. Prior evaluations of voluntary management programs have focused on those that lack verification mechanisms and have found little evidence that they legitimately...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
hiring more workers. Publisher's link: http://people.hbs.edu/mluca/oDesk.pdf May 2015 HR Certification Institute Leave No Slice of Genius Behind: Selecting and Developing Tomorrow's Leaders of Innovation By: Kanter, Rosabeth M. Abstract—...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
they overcame huge obstacles to execute their strategies in industries as diverse as renewable energy, organic food, natural beauty, eco-tourism, recycling, architecture, and finance. The pioneering efforts to build certification schemes...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
McDonald’s gift certificates every Christmas. Flatley would usually head to McDonald’s with her mom and siblings after gymnastics class—a special, happy family moment amidst the chaos of crammed schedules. Cunningham’s local McDonald’s...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
and reinforced the importance of learning. I came to ServiceNow about seven months ago to lead global education and training certification and also build a pipeline of talent. I also had a similar role at Salesforce, and I was there for...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
want to take advantage of those forces of change. And they need advice and expertise and skill from outside their own organization to make that happen quicker and with higher quality than they could if they did it on their own. Now, with...
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- 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007
but all share a belief in the importance of understanding change over time. Publisher's site: http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Business/History/ The Effect of Macro Information Environment Change on the Quality of Management...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
products but erroneously expect others to dislike dissimilar ones (Studies 1 and 2). While people readily select dissimilar items for themselves (particularly if the dissimilar item is of higher quality than a similar one), they fail to...
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Carmen Nobel
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
about the meaning of life after this.Fuller: Okay.Aguh: But no, no. So a couple pieces of your question. One thing that this administration focused a lot on—and definitely in my time with the Department focused on—was job quality and good...
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