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- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
of IGOs that focus on economic issues, but also on those with social and cultural mandates. This demonstrates that relational governance is important and feasible in the global context and for the most risky transactions. Finally we...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
Matchabelli, the son of nobility in Georgia and an amateur chemist. He began blending perfumes for his friends at an antique shop in New York before founding his own perfume company in 1926 . The social importance of smelling and looking...
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- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
tradeoffs, by the very definition of maximizing. Unless you see the fallacy of this approach and are sensitive to how many cultural and economic reinforcements are making it seem inevitable, you make yourself all the more vulnerable to...
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by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
Brokerage and Brokering: An Integrative Review and Organizing Framework for Third Party Influence By: Halevy, Nir, Eliran Halali, and Julian Zlatev Abstract— Brokerage and brokering are pervasive and consequential organizational phenomena. Prevailing models underscore...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
experiment evoking a realistic context, that privacy concerns are indeed sensitive to the indirect consequences of information transmission. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-075.pdf How Is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
necessary for eliciting effort from those affecting the quality of interdependent teamwork. We consider the role of incentives versus social processes in catalyzing collaboration. We test our hypotheses using a unique data set of 260...
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Sean Silverthlorne
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
corporate environmental ratings that guide investors to select "socially responsible," and avoid "socially irresponsible," companies. We examine how several hundred firms respond to corporate environmental ratings issued by a prominent independent...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
supporters note a number of reforms over the past two decades, including a current review of the Bank's information disclosure policy, and a series of "safeguards" on sensitive issues such as environmental impacts and effects on...
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by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
service (price) sensitive customers in markets where it has supplied relatively high (low) levels of service quality in the past. Furthermore, we show that it is the high quality incumbent's most valuable customers, those with the longest...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
under Risk Authors:Eyal Ert and Ido Erev Abstract Five studies are presented that explore the assertion that losses loom larger than gains. The first two studies reveal equal sensitivity to gains and losses. For example, half of the...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Supplemental Financial Information II - Annual Report 2020
to 750 students. The program supplements salaries for MBA students working in entrepreneurial organizations, social enterprises, and other non-traditional sectors. Approximately half of the School’s MBA students currently receive...
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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Juneteenth Story: Celebrating the End of Slavery in the United States By Alliah L. Agostini (MBA 2009); Illustrated by Sawyer Cloud becker&mayer! Kids On June 19, 1865—more than two years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation...
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- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
Social Psychology Bulletin The Amount and Source of Millionaires' Wealth (Moderately) Predicts Their Happiness By: Donnelly, Grant Edward, Tianyi Zheng, Emily Haisley, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Two samples of more than 4,000...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
sorting effect, whereby firms trade-off service quality and price, and in turn, the incumbent attracts service (price) sensitive customers in markets where it has supplied relatively high (low) levels of service quality in the past....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
large due to either product characteristics or the distance between exporter and importer. Finally, we find that in countries with well-developed finance, total exports and the allocation of exports across importers are more sensitive to...
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Carmen Nobel
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
Working PapersCorporate Social Entrepreneurship Authors:James Austin and Ezequiel Reficco Abstract Corporate Social Entrepreneurship (CSE) is a process aimed at enabling business to develop more advanced...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
toward lower-uncertainty periods. We document that the resulting opportunistic earnings management is concentrated in CEOs, firms, and periods where such incentives are likely to be strongest: (1) where CEO wealth is sensitive to change...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
Mouse and the Wealthy Elephant Live Happily Ever After? Authors:James E. Austin and Herman B. Leonard Abstract What happens when small iconic socially oriented businesses are acquired by large corporations? Such mergers create significant...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
insurance. Employment regulations more directly tax firms making frequent labor adjustments than other labor insurance mechanisms. Venture capital and private equity investors are especially sensitive to these labor adjustment costs....
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
become less critical of the experience—in this study, less sensitive to possible bugs while playing an otherwise identical “revised” video game—and whether this mediates the effect of revision framing on positive evaluations. Studies 5A...
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Sean Silverthorne