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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Faculty Books
Visiting Professor Gulati examines the "network re-sources" that arise from these ties; how successful firms manage the ties; and how the ties influence strategy, access to material resources, and perceptions of a firm's legitimacy held...
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- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
Business derives its legitimacy from ideology—the ideas of property rights and marketplace competition, for example. In the 1980s, Professor Ezra Vogel of Harvard and I compared the ideologies of nine...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Social Innovation Goes Mainstream
for her opening address at the tenth anniversary Social Enterprise Conference on March 1. The daylong event, heralded in advance by Forbes as one of the top business gatherings for 2009, was organized by students from HBS and the Harvard...
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- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
Social Legitimacy and Global Capitalism Authors:Rawi Abdelal and John G. Ruggie Publication:Chap. 7 in New Perspectives on Regulation, edited by David Moss and John Cisternino, 151-162. Cambridge, Mass.: The Tobin Project, 2009 Abstract...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
The Exchange: The Tech Leader’s Tightrope
Given the example of COVID, and how Apple had to ascertain the legitimacy of government requests, the students will need to make some pretty substantive ethical distinctions on these points. That is, at least for me, one of the key...
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Kine Seck Mercier
about what I wanted to do, how I wanted to contribute. It would also give me access to opportunities I wouldn’t otherwise have.” Participating in the positivity HBS attracted Kiné by virtue of a brand known worldwide: “It gives you View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
attributable to comparability. Together, the findings are consistent with mandatory IFRS adoption improving comparability and thus leading to capital market benefits by reducing insiders' ability to exploit private information. Epistemic Contests and the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
real-world relevance. This relevance-rigor gap affects the quality of our teaching as well as the institutional legitimacy of our business schools. We argue that executive education is an underutilized...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
(Editor's Note. Carl Icahn is in the news again. On Monday, SEC filings revealed the militant investor has sold his entire stake in eBay, after successfully pushing the company to spin off its PayPal operation. Harvard Business School...
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- 21 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Voter ID Laws Don't Work (But They Don't Hurt Anything, Either)
elections at all. We asked the study’s coauthor, Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Vincent Pons, for some insights on the results. Pons has studied voter participation and engagement issues in France, Italy, and Africa. He...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals
KHURANA: Creating analytical traction and academic legitimacy for a hard-to-define quality that’s needed now more than ever before. In June, Professors Rakesh Khurana and Nitin Nohria cochaired a two-day, cross-disciplinary colloquium at...
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Julia Hanna
- 27 Oct 2020
- News
HBS Votes
Stay Cool Daniella Ballou-Aares (MBA 2001), CEO of the Leadership Now Project, believes that "protecting the legitimacy of November's election is, at its core, about preserving American democracy.” Ballou-Aares convened a group of 50...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Building a Strong and Prosperous Society
lowest voter participation rates of any major democracy. Are you optimistic about business and government working together in support of democracy? RH: I’m not optimistic, but I am hopeful. I think the decline of democracy is a mortal...
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- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
directors accountable to company owners." Major business groups lost no time denouncing the reform measures as vehicles for ceding enormous power to a small number of special-interest investors, namely, unions and public employee...
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by Roger Thompson
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
economic actors. Capitalist competition takes place in markets that exist in legal and regulatory frameworks and are governed by a political authority with the power and legitimacy to empower as well as regulate behavior and punish...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
between the management scores of autonomous government schools and regular government schools is accounted for by differences in the principal's leadership and better governance. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/rsadun/Management_Schools_November2014.pdf...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Venturing: Entrepreneurship on the Inside
for those who want to help them reinvent themselves. "We think about all these great large companies that have failed," said HBS professor Michael Roberto, who moderated the discussion. "But there are lots of great examples of new View Details
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by Kenneth Liss
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
expressing frustration about their country’s recurring crises, and describing a business class lacking cohesion. While Chilean business leaders have secured legitimacy for...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting
How do you measure corporate accountability? And can you do it credibly? Since the financial crisis of 2008-2009, for-profit corporations are facing greater demand to disclose more than revenues and expenses on annual financial reports. In response, some are pointing...
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- 24 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Can Obamacare Be Saved?
many carriers may have to develop a fundamentally different business model—the commercial segment model is not viable for the public exchanges.” INGREDIENTS FOR SUCCESS From consumers: Consumers need to learn how to make smarter choices...
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