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- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
about these ideas. We gathered thirty years of U.S. patent data and wrote up some code that identifies the inventors and links them to each other for three million patents and two million inventors. Our first cut was to look at the...
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- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
individuals at global companies around standards promulgated in the most prominent international ethical codes and (2) the level of adherence of companies to those standards. Second, with my colleague Andrew Molinsky, I am in the thick of...
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by Manda Salls
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
behavior of others. In addition, increasing moral saliency by having participants read or sign an honor code significantly reduced or eliminated unethical behavior. While dishonest behavior motivated moral leniency and led to strategic...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
Almost immediately after the crash, a chastened industry began to emerge. Congress rewrote the tax code and put tax-loss syndicators out of business. The S&L industry tanked, forcing a massive federal bailout. And the Japanese...
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- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
starting in 1992 with a focus on the three King codes of corporate governance (King I in 1994, King II in 2000, and King III in 2009). From a reporting perspective these reforms culminated in the "apply to explain why not"...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/512054-PDF-ENG Novozymes: Cracking the Emerging Markets Code Krishna G. Palepu and Karol MisztalHarvard Business School Case 112-084 In 2011, the management of Novozymes, the industrial...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
urban district has cracked the code about how to spread excellence across its entire system. We asked our nine districts what their biggest barriers were in achieving excellence at scale, and they described five categories of management...
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- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
only after multiyear lags, and the public-facing versions are aggregated to the county or ZIP code level. In contrast, crowdsourced data from online platforms such as Yelp are often contemporaneous and geographically finer than official...
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
honor code significantly reduced or eliminated unethical behavior. While dishonest behavior motivated moral leniency and led to strategic forgetting of moral rules, honest behavior motivated moral stringency and diligent recollection of...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
for-profit software companies. Linux is open source (all code is made available for redistribution by anyone) and harnesses the collective power of thousands of programmers-both independent and employees of major software firms such as...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
challenges business leaders face is The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro, which is about an English butler, Stevens, and the decisions he makes while in service to his master, Lord Darlington, between the First and the Second World Wars. Stevens acts on a very...
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- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
easy to compare online, discount coupons and codes have high uptake, and sellers often bear the cost of shipping products to buyers. In addition to these factors, online selling precludes many methods of price discrimination exercised in...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
policies that a great majority of those in the private sector agree are necessary. They defy labels—they're not Republican or Democratic, not liberal or conservative policies. Almost everybody agrees we've got to simplify the corporate tax code: statutory rates are too...
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Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
tightly controls its search engine technology that is the core of its advertising profits. In a similar way, Facebook uses open source code to run its site and has recently opened up the design of its data centers, but closely guards its...
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by Michael Blanding
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
parties operating either through the government or an insurance company that's paying. We would need a code. A code comes from the AMA [American Medical Association]. Will the AMA give us a code? Well, not easily, because the doctors are...
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- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
teach a professional code of ethics similar to those promoted in law, education, science, and medicine, that the staffing of managerial positions be guided by considerations of moral character and ethical performance, and that a corporate...
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Martha Lagace