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- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
illustration of the earliest trends and dilemmas (c. 1900–1930), when business schools found themselves caught between their business connections and their striving for moral View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
Practices of Trade: Jurisdictional Disputes in the U.S. Commerce in Cadavers Author:Michel Anteby Publication:Administrative Science Quarterly 55, no. 4 (2010) Abstract This study examines the U.S. commerce in human cadavers for medical education and research to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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- 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
- 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
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
supported. The political perspective we develop contributes to organizational theory by showing (a) the importance of government signaling as a mechanism of political influence, (b) how different types of dependency on the government expose firms to different types of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Status: When and Why It Matters
like to believe that people pay for status for purely symbolic reasons, but the empirical evidence for that has been weak at best," says Harvard Business School's Daniel Malter, an assistant professor in the Strategy unit who studies...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
Sharing News That Might Be Bad
This scenario, inspired by a Harvard Business School case, may ring familiar. It raises an increasingly prevalent, and difficult, management issue: how much information to share and when to share it. You look up to find the concerned face...
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by Paul Michelman
- 27 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 27, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507058 The Remains of the Day Summary: Reasoning From a Moral Code Harvard Business School Module Note 607-071 No abstract available. Purchase this case:...
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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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- 14 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting
tackle if reporting is to achieve legitimacy in the system of market capitalism, says Ramanna. "One of the things we hope the conference does is bring to bear some of our research methods to address this central question of whether...
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- 02 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps
strictly an American phenomenon. “Voter turnout has been declining in many Western democracies over the past decades,” says Vincent Pons, assistant professor at Harvard Business School in the Business, Government, and the International...
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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
- 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
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
Several conclusions arise than can help inform the design of care delivery platforms for HIV/AIDS. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-093.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAccenture's War for Talent in India Harvard View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-090.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsChina Rising: An Economic Snapshot Harvard Business School Note 308-064 "Rising China: An Economic Snapshot" provides readers with an overview of...
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Martha Lagace