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- 12 Jan 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.
Kenny: They also encouraged him to continue his education, which was highly unusual at that time, right? George: Well, certainly for a minister as well. I mean, if an African American was fortunate enough to get into medical school or law...
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- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
large-scale corporations and free competition, American Fair Trade argues that trade associations of independent proprietors lobbied and litigated to reshape competition policy to their benefit. At the turn of the 20th century, this widespread fair trade movement...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
Spontaneous Deregulation: How to Compete with Platforms That Ignore the Rules By: Edelman, Benjamin G., and Damien Geradin Abstract—Many successful platform businesses—think Airbnb, Uber, and YouTube—ignore laws and regulations that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
accelerated sharply in the U.S. economy. In this paper, we identify several other industry-level changes that have occurred during the same time and argue that they are consistent with an increased use of information technology (IT). We use case studies to illustrate...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
their areas of expertise, have attempted to influence the debate through opinion pieces in major newspapers. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, HBS professor Jay Lorsch and coauthors Martin Lipton and Theodore Mirvis—partners of the New York View Details
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by Roger Thompson
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
digital platform, and the increased fiscal pressures created by the worldwide economic crisis. Unfortunately, the educational programs for future health care leaders fail to provide many of the needed skills, according to a survey of CEOs of the world's most innovative...
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- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
objective of rTSR is to filter shocks unrelated to managerial performance, following the informativeness principle, we document that a significant subset of firms that choose index-based benchmarks do not adequately achieve this...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
evidence that such “CEO activism” can influence public opinion and consumer attitudes. Our field experiment examines the impact of Apple CEO Tim Cook’s public statements opposing a pending religious freedom law that critics warned would...
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- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
company's commitment to sustainability mean that firms that ignore this do so at their own risk. BMW Group has been a leader in recognizing this. Several years ago, it issued a Sustainable Value Report detailing energy consumed, water...
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by Staff
- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
foreign direct investment in an environment of politics, geography, globalization, and history. Since the end of apartheid, South Africa had undertaken substantial economic reforms in order to attract more foreign direct investment, but it was slow in coming. At the...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
Britain in 1963, Chandaria recalled how the firm experienced many pressures from the government, but survived and flourished through a determination to be seen as good citizens. "Every time there were political pressures from politicians...
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- 16 May 2016
- HBS Case
Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer
product, it can affect the entire supply for that brand. China implemented stricter food safety laws in April 2015, but the country may not have enough qualified enforcement staff. And inspectors don’t always enforce regulations as...
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- 20 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 20, 2007
discipline to nationalized banks. Pharmaceutical Regulation in the United States and Europe Author:Arthur Daemmrich Periodical:Focus on Law Studies 23, no 1 (fall 2007): 8-11 Read the full paper:...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Several innovative regulatory programs are encouraging firms to police their own regulatory compliance and voluntarily disclose, or "confess," the violations they find. Despite the...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
Sloan School of Management, Harvard Law School, Stanford Graduate School of Business, the University of South Africa, and the Iran Center for Management Studies. His books on teaching, Education for Judgment: The Artistry of Discussion...
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- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
doing an MBA. For technical work, the training an Analyst gets from a Wall Street firm is better than the training they would receive at business school. [ ] The same point was made by a senior partner in a consulting firm, who, when...
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- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
Access Improve Firm Value? Evidence from the Business Roundtable Challenge Authors:Bo Becker, Guhan Subramanian, and Daniel B. Bergstresser Publication:Journal of Law and Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 18, 2016
exclusionary effects. We then assess Google’s practices under competition law and, where appropriate, suggest remedies to right the violations we uncover. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51607 Global...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
displays) at the fiscal year-end. Firms also engage in similar behavior following periods of poor financial performance. Furthermore, our results confirm managers' stated willingness to sacrifice long-term value in order to smooth...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
enabled ships to sail the open sea rather than hug the coast. To solve that problem, governments responded by enacting laws of the sea. It then became clear to me that it was almost impossible to understand the Internet by thinking of it...
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by Jim Aisner