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Gun Violence in the United States
By: Deepak Malhotra
My colleagues and I are studying gun violence from two perspectives. First, how do events like mass shootings impact gun policy? Do they have any effect? We find that they do, but not in the way most people would expect. Second, we are studying which types of gun...
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- 2024
- Working Paper
Age at Immigrant Arrival and Career Mobility: Evidence from Vietnamese Refugee Migration and the Amerasian Homecoming Act
By: Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr and Kendall Smith
We study the long-run career mobility of young immigrants, mostly refugees, from Vietnam who moved to the United States during 1989-1995. This third and final migration wave of young Vietnamese immigrants was sparked by unexpected events that culminated in the...
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Keywords:
Vietnam;
Vietnam War;
Assimilation;
Immigration;
Refugees;
Age;
Outcome or Result;
Personal Development and Career;
Viet Nam
Kerr, Sari Pekkala, William R. Kerr, and Kendall Smith. "Age at Immigrant Arrival and Career Mobility: Evidence from Vietnamese Refugee Migration and the Amerasian Homecoming Act." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-044, January 2024.
- Article
Market Reactions to Sovereign Litigation
By: Faisal Z. Ahmed and Laura Alfaro
Recent rulings in the ongoing litigation over the pari passu clause in Argentinian sovereign debt instruments have generated considerable controversy. Some official-sector participants and academic articles have suggested that the rulings will disrupt or impede...
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Keywords:
Sovereign Debt;
Litigation;
Vulture Funds;
Argentina;
Sovereign Finance;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Markets;
Argentina
Ahmed, Faisal Z., and Laura Alfaro. "Market Reactions to Sovereign Litigation." Capital Markets Law Journal 12, no. 2 (April 2017): 141–163.
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
4+2 = Sustained Business Success
research effort in which we carefully examined more than 200 well-established management practices as they were employed over a ten-year period by 160 companies. Our findings took us quite by surprise. Most of the management tools and techniques we View Details
- 10 Nov 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Managing Reputation: Evidence from Biographies of Corporate Directors
- 2003
- Article
Size of the Pie and Share of the Pie: Implications of Structural Embeddedness for Value Creation and Value Appropriation in Joint Ventures
By: Ranjay Gulati and Lihua Wang
This chapter examines the factors that may influence the total value created in a joint venture (JV) and also the relative value appropriated by each partner in the venture. We look at the effects of both partners' embeddedness in prior networks of relationships and...
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Gulati, Ranjay, and Lihua Wang. "Size of the Pie and Share of the Pie: Implications of Structural Embeddedness for Value Creation and Value Appropriation in Joint Ventures." Research in the Sociology of Organizations 20 (2003): 209–242.
- Article
The Economic Consequences of Hospital Admissions
By: Carlos Dobkin, Amy Finkelstein, Raymond Kluender and Matthew Notowidigdo
We use an event study approach to examine the economic consequences of hospital admissions for adults in two datasets: survey data from the Health and Retirement Study, and hospitalization data linked to credit reports. For non-elderly adults with health insurance,...
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Keywords:
Personal Finance;
Borrowing and Debt;
Insurance;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Health Care and Treatment
Dobkin, Carlos, Amy Finkelstein, Raymond Kluender, and Matthew Notowidigdo. "The Economic Consequences of Hospital Admissions." American Economic Review 108, no. 2 (February 2018): 308–352.
- August 2018
- Case
Christine Lagarde (A): A French Prime Minister Calls
By: Julie Battilana and Carin-Isabel Knoop
This case covers formative events and influences in Christine Lagarde’s childhood and her trajectory from studying political science and law to heading the world’s largest law firm. As she prepares to transition back to practice in 2005, the new Prime Minister of...
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Battilana, Julie, and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "Christine Lagarde (A): A French Prime Minister Calls." Harvard Business School Case 419-017, August 2018.
- Spring 2014
- Article
Charting Dynamic Trajectories: Multinational Firms in India
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Tarun Khanna
In this article, we provide a synthesizing framework that we call the "dynamic trajectories" framework to study the evolution of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in host countries over time. We argue that a change in the policy environment in a host country presents an...
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Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Tarun Khanna. "Charting Dynamic Trajectories: Multinational Firms in India." Special Issue on Business, Networks, and the State in India. Business History Review 88, no. 1 (Spring 2014): 133–169.
- January – February 2012
- Article
How Managers Use Multiple Media: Discrepant Events, Power, and Timing in Redundant Communication
By: Paul Leonardi, Tsedal Neeley and Elizabeth M. Gerber
Several recent studies have found that managers engage in redundant communication; that is, they send the same message to the same recipient through two or more unique media sequentially. Given how busy most managers are, and how much information their subordinates...
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Keywords:
Communication;
Media;
Information;
Groups and Teams;
Projects;
Management Style;
Power and Influence;
Motivation and Incentives;
Technology
Leonardi, Paul, Tsedal Neeley, and Elizabeth M. Gerber. "How Managers Use Multiple Media: Discrepant Events, Power, and Timing in Redundant Communication." Organization Science 23, no. 1 (January–February 2012): 98–117.
- 2020
- Working Paper
An Executive Order Worth $100 Billion: The Impact of an Immigration Ban's Announcement on Fortune 500 Firms' Valuation
By: Dany Bahar, Prithwiraj Choudhury and Britta Glennon
On June 22, 2020, President Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) that suspended new work visas, barring nearly 200,000 foreign workers and their dependents from entering the United States and preventing American companies from hiring skilled immigrants using H-1B or L1...
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Keywords:
Visa;
Foreign Workers;
Fortune 500;
Immigration;
Policy;
System Shocks;
Business Ventures;
Valuation
Bahar, Dany, Prithwiraj Choudhury, and Britta Glennon. "An Executive Order Worth $100 Billion: The Impact of an Immigration Ban's Announcement on Fortune 500 Firms' Valuation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-055, October 2020.
- 25 Sep 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Colocation and Scientific Collaboration: Evidence from a Field Experiment
- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
creating an inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystem can be seen through the stories of four women—two of them Black, one Latinx, and one white—who launched new enterprises in Miami with an eye to diversifying tech jobs in the future. According to a recent case View Details
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by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
Manage Time By: Porter, Michael E., and Nitin Nohria Abstract—In 2006 Harvard Business School’s Michael E. Porter and Nitin Nohria launched a study tracking how large companies’ CEOs spent their time, 24/7, for 13 weeks: where they were,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
disasters had a positive impact. Firms' philanthropic history and communities' inter-corporate network cohesion moderated some of these effects. This study extends institutional and community literatures by illuminating the geographic...
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Carmen Nobel
- Research Summary
International Trade
Economists believe that there is substantial “missing trade” due to trade barriers, such as tariffs and transport costs, that constrain the global activities of firms. Professor Steinwender goes a step farther by studying indirect trade barriers, notably information... View Details
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
slowly over time. We discuss the implications of our findings for interest rate predictability, the transmission of monetary policy, and the validity of high-frequency event study approaches for assessing...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 2022
- Working Paper
Politics at Work
By: Emanuele Colonnelli, Valdemar Pinho Neto and Edoardo Teso
We study how individual political views shape firm behavior and labor market outcomes. Using new micro-data on the political affiliation of business owners and private-sector workers in Brazil over the 2002–2019 period, we first document the presence of political...
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Colonnelli, Emanuele, Valdemar Pinho Neto, and Edoardo Teso. "Politics at Work." Working Paper, December 2022.
- 2013
- Working Paper
Securities Litigation Risk for Foreign Companies Listed in the U.S.
By: Beiting Cheng, Suraj Srinivasan and Gwen Yu
We study securities litigation risk faced by foreign firms listed on U.S. exchanges. We take into account not only the propensity for foreign firms to commit violations of U.S. securities laws but also the costs that investors face when suing foreign firms. We find...
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Keywords:
Litigation Risk;
Cross Listing;
Bonding;
10b-5;
Securities Litigation;
U.S.Listing;
Class Action;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Debt Securities;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Ethics;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
United States
Cheng, Beiting, Suraj Srinivasan, and Gwen Yu. "Securities Litigation Risk for Foreign Companies Listed in the U.S." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-036, October 2012. (Revised March 2014.)
- 2018
- Working Paper
Managing Through Organizational Change: Employee Alignment in the Presence of Unexpected Career Concerns
By: Ohchan Kwon and Jee-Eun Shin
This study examines performance consequences due to unexpected career concerns – layoff risks due to institutional reasons. Exploiting a company-wide announcement of a merger decision by management as a trigger event for unexpected career concerns, we examine employee...
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