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- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
Performance Goals and Incentives This module explains how managers use performance goals and incentives to ensure that employee actions align with the strategy of the organization. We demonstrate how to use goals to communicate business...
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Carmen Nobel
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
enforce policies for affiliates, while other merchants ask their ordinary marketing staff to perform these functions. For clear violations of applicable rules, we find that outside specialists are most effective at excluding the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
number of distinct predictions about the cost of capital for alternatives relative to traditional mean-variance analysis. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-013.pdf Testing Coleman's Social-Norm Enforcement Mechanism:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
property regimes; procurement policies that favor new firms; standards that allow competition by component rather than by system and—sometimes—antitrust enforcement that forces large, well-established firms to share the market. I'm firmly...
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- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
frequently a win-lose exchange between nations which are unequal either in their power or in their willingness to enforce basic standards of human rights, worker safety, and environmental impact. Another golden opportunity for people...
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by Paul R. Lawrence
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
faces as general manager at various stages of the organization's development—and how his style, priorities, and approach must change as the needs of the organization change. Provides an opportunity for action planning to address the major...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
countries with MCSR, corporate governance improves and on average, companies implement more ethical practices, bribery and corruption decrease, and managerial credibility increases. These effects are larger for countries with stronger law View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
companies and that corporate governance improves. Furthermore, we find that companies implement more ethical practices, including reducing bribery and corruption, which increases managerial credibility. These effects are larger for countries with stronger law View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
press An abstract is unavailable at this time. Book: http://ceo.usc.edu/book/doing_research_that_is_useful.html Business Network Transformation in Action Authors: Marco Iansiti and Ross Sullivan Publication: In Business Network...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
numerous conversations about race, social justice, and racism, CEO and Chief Rioter of Rioting.co Sarah Endline (MBA 2001) was eager to broaden the discussion, share the resources she’d been gathering, and promote action. “Words and statements matter, but View Details
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
procurement relationships for manufacturers and that this effect is partially mediated by the level of joint action and the quality of information exchange between the partners. Decomposing dependence asymmetry into the conditions of a...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Winslow Homer: American Passage By William R. Cross (MBA 1986) Farrar, Straus and Giroux In 1860, at the age of 24, Winslow Homer (1836–1910) sold Harper’s Weekly two dozen wood engravings, carved into boxwood blocks and transferred...
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- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
more or fewer decision-making responsibilities to managers. By simultaneously addressing the choice of both competitive actions and organizational design, the paper makes an attempt at bringing economic theory and management strategy...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
their own compliance and enforce the law against themselves? This paper addresses these questions by investigating the factors that lead organizations to self-disclose violations, the effects of self-policing on regulatory compliance, and...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
voluntary programs-such as certification regimes, codes of conduct, and social monitoring-that seek to enforce global standards governing business practices. But little is known about the conditions under which companies are more likely...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
change initiatives-Predictability, Teaming and Open Communication, and Results Only Work Environment-that alter the structure and culture of work in ways that enable better work and better lives. August 2013 Tax Administration Review Randomized Tax View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
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and Action Planning (LEAP) Organizational Behavior Ryan Raffaelli Spring2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Leadership and Happiness General Management Arthur Brooks Spring2025 Q3 1.5 Leading a Family Business (LFB) Strategy Josh Baron Spring2025 Q4 1.5 ^ back...
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- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
are witnessing the dawn of a new model of corporate power: The coordination of actions and decisions on the front lines now appears to stem from widely shared values and a sturdy platform of common processes and technology, not from...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
affiliate marketing programs in which merchants oversee thousands of affiliates they have never met. Some merchants hire outside specialists to set and enforce policies for affiliates, while other merchants ask their ordinary marketing...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
big firms’ appetite for technology, but also of their aversion at the time to acquiring it through potentially risky partnerships with innovative upstarts. And in part it was because B2B fintech, which is where much of the action in New...
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