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- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
offering an exemplar of participatory development. CFK's affiliation with University of North Carolina offers a new model of social enterprise. After eight years of success under the founding leadership of Salim Mohamed, Rye Barcott, and...
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Carmen Nobel
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
that organizations could motivate employees simply by showing them how their work helped others—in other words, by harnessing and increasing their altruistic capital. In December 2009, the Society for Family Health (SFH), an affiliate of...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
put his employer at serious risk. But withholding the loan will likely deprive hundreds of farmers affiliated with the agro-processor their livelihoods in this poor rural corner of Tanzania. Purchase this...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
picture as firms emerge as weak transferors of knowledge and contribute to income divergence. However, the evidence is partial and patchy. Many topics, from the relations between affiliates and parents in multinational firms, to the...
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by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
dissertation, the World Bank, the International Corporate Governance Network, the OCDE, and so on were promoting this principle as a way to overcome the abuses of managers or controlling shareholders who expropriated small shareholders or tunneled corporate resources...
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- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
Williams If the current environment is any indicator, biotech companies—and the large pharmaceutical firms many of them are affiliated with—won't be the only sector of the economy trying to capitalize on the new pool of genetic...
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Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
taking an exclusive versus non-exclusive model. So, whereas there are websites like the ones that you mentioned and platforms that do try to build a large amount of content to drive people to links to affiliated lenders, we are focused on...
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- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
survey by the Charities Aid Foundation of America. A staggering 97 percent of respondents expect their funding to decline during the next 12 months as the struggling economy and social distancing hurts fundraising efforts. What can nonprofit leaders and donors do?...
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by Danielle Kost
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
way in its home market. Beiersdorf invested heavily in political risk management. In the wake of World War I, the company developed a "ring" organizational structure as a way for affiliates to disguise ownership, circumvent...
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- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
Kanebo, a large Japanese cosmetics company whose management engaged in a massive accounting fraud. ChuoAoyama was PwC's Japanese affiliate and one of Japan's "Big Four" audit firms. In May 2006, the Japanese Financial Services...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Terms of Use - HBS Online
other images, text, layouts, arrangements, displays, illustrations, documents, materials, audio and video clips, HTML and files. All Harvard Business School Online Content is the property of Harvard Business School Online and/or its View Details
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
Abstract This paper explores the psychology of conflict of interest by investigating how conflicting interests affect both public statements and private judgments. The results suggest that judgments are easily influenced by affiliation...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
distribution company in its own right. On October 30, 2006, it relaunched its Website—and, in effect, its business. With its new, consumer-facing home page, and with new offerings for advertisers and affiliates as well as video...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
moved from relative isolation to center stage. Thirty-six of the world’s leading China experts—all affiliates of the renowned Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University—answer key questions about where this new superpower...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
while offering increased payments to good-type agents. I estimate that a leading affiliate network could have invoked an optimal payment delay to eliminate 71% of fraud without decreasing profit. Download the paper:...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
definition comprising people whose primary affiliation is with one of the social sciences or management, but who are extremely interested in the historical development of business, sometimes doing original research themselves, sometimes...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
does not seem to explain the higher level of firm diversification. However, we find that Chinese state-owned enterprises diversify their operations more aggressively than other Chinese firms. Research limitations/implications—Ownership data and business group View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
106 clubs, associations, and affiliates in 39 countries. HBS Faculty 42% of faculty born outside the United States representing 43 countries. Global Initiative 7 global research centers: Hong Kong, Tokyo, Shanghai, Paris, Buenos Aires,...
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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
accounting, operations, human resources, and customer and product development. The context is small enough to understand the entire organization." In addition to the faculty members who teach courses in entrepreneurship described above, several other members of the...
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
although from the beginning it has been closely affiliated and supported by Bain & Company, where Tierney was worldwide managing director before leaving in 2000 to cofound Bridgespan. Over the years, Bain’s support has been instrumental...
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