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- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
about China, but few make sense of what is truly at stake. The questions addressed in this unique volume provide a window onto the challenges China faces today and the uncertainties its meteoric ascent on...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
opinion and policies? What are its risks and rewards? And what is the playbook for leaders considering speaking out? The authors of this article...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
maintaining a vibrant organization requires cultivating an environment that supports risk taking. Asking participants to recall situations in which their organizations succeeded and failed at being creative,...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 03 Oct 2023
- Webinars: Career
Tech in the Job Search: LinkedIn for Career Exploration
CPD and a former LinkedIn insider equip you with the tools and insights you need for a fruitful data-driven exploration for the next stage of your career. Learn to better engage with fellow alumni and avoid the uncertainty of blindly committing to a new path by...
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- 13 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
Working at the Intersection of Business and Environment
likely to be affected by climate change or related regulation and recommend steps it should take to address related risks while simultaneously seizing emerging opportunities for investment or innovation. ...
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- 27 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
HBS Alumni and Students Take On the Climate Crisis
Talking About Climate Change in the MBA Classroom Cause or solution? Risk or opportunity? How business leaders should own up to and tackle climate change is at the forefront of the MBA classroom at Harvard...
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- 2021
- Working Paper
False Signaling and Personal Moral Failings: Two Distinct Pathways to Hypocrisy with Unequal Moral Weight
By: Jillian J. Jordan and Roseanna Sommers
Moral engagement is a key feature of human nature: we hold moral values, condemn those who violate those values, and attempt to adhere to them ourselves. Yet moral engagement can make us appear hypocritical if we fail to behave morally. When does moral engagement risk...
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Moral Engagement;
Hypocrite;
Dishonesty;
Moral Values;
Moral Sensibility;
Behavior;
Values and Beliefs
Jordan, Jillian J., and Roseanna Sommers. "False Signaling and Personal Moral Failings: Two Distinct Pathways to Hypocrisy with Unequal Moral Weight." Working Paper, January 2021.
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
restaurants in the LA area and sold frozen dumplings and other Korean foods in Costco across the U.S., and KCON.tv, a digital media channel, were experiencing commercial...
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Carmen Nobel
- 09 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
personality traits of entrepreneurs. We first consider baseline personality traits like the Big-5 model, self-efficacy and innovativeness, locus of control, and the need for achievement. We then consider...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
with shale gas development can be incredibly disruptive locally, and fracking water usage clearly competes with local values and legacy uses. But shale gas production appears environmentally manageable,...
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Global Trade, Capital and National Institutions - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Global Trade, Capital and National Institutions Course Number 1565 Professor Laura Alfaro Spring; Q3; 1.5 credits14 SessionsExam Course Overview This course addresses the opportunities created by the emergence of a...
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- April 1993 (Revised May 1994)
- Case
Genzyme Corporation: Strategic Challenges with Ceredase
Genzyme Corp., one of the largest biotechnology companies, has succeeded in developing, manufacturing, and commercializing its first therapeutic, a treatment for a rare genetic disease. Analysis of the case requires students to identify and understand how Genzyme has...
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Risk Management;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Corporate Strategy;
Technology;
Health;
Product Development;
Biotechnology Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
United States
Teisberg, Elizabeth O., and Sharon L. Rossi. "Genzyme Corporation: Strategic Challenges with Ceredase." Harvard Business School Case 793-120, April 1993. (Revised May 1994.)
- September 2009
- Article
What Rough Beast: Synthetic Biology, Uncertainty, and the Future of Biosecurity
By: Gautam Mukunda, Kenneth Oye and Scott C. Mohr
Mukunda, Gautam, Kenneth Oye, and Scott C. Mohr. "What Rough Beast: Synthetic Biology, Uncertainty, and the Future of Biosecurity." Politics and the Life Sciences 28, no. 2 (September 2009).
- Web
Fama-French Portfolios and Factors | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
non-traded, market-wide, undiversifiable risk factors. Price impact is separated into permanent (variable) and transitory (fixed) price effects. Go To Database Access Access method WRDS Access notes Harvard...
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ink: Home Cooking, Secure Retirements, and Restoring Humanity to Finance
Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return, seeks to redeem the oft-maligned finance industry. Desai argues that “viewing finance through the prism of the humanities will help us...
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- 2021
- Working Paper
Science-Based Carbon Emissions Targets
By: David Freiberg, Jody Grewal and George Serafeim
We examine the effect of voluntarily adopting a standard for setting science-based carbon emissions targets on target difficulty and investments to achieve those targets. We find that firms with a track record of setting and achieving ambitious carbon targets are more...
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Target;
Targeting;
Target-setting;
Target Efficiency;
Management Control Systems;
Management Accounting;
Environment;
Environmental And Social Sustainability;
Climate Change;
Environmental Management;
Environmental Accounting;
Environmental Sustainability;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques
Freiberg, David, Jody Grewal, and George Serafeim. "Science-Based Carbon Emissions Targets." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-108, March 2021.
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic
were able to understand how firms are approaching the tremendous uncertainty related to COVID-19. One of the aspects of this research that has impressed me the most is how, for many companies, this crisis has created an opportunity to...
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Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog
risks that globalization entails. All managers now face a business environment where international, macroeconomic, and political phenomena matter. Understanding the genesis of financial View Details
- 18 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
between competitors in health care markets—whether payers or providers. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52843 May 2017 Strategic Organization Firms, Crowds, and Innovation By: Felin, Teppo, Karim R....
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Sean Silverthorne