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- 31 Jul 2023
- News
Striving for Imperfection
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Since he left HBS in 1990, Charles Conn (MBA 1990) has built a full and varied portfolio career. Early on, he was a partner at McKinsey and then a tech executive, founding Ticketmaster-Citysearch. Today,...
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
2016 How does financial deregulation affect the competitive landscape of the banking sector? Di Maggio, Kermani, and Korgaonkar examine the effects of a 2004 rule that deregulated national banks to allow for higher risk lending practice,...
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- 24 Feb 2022
- Op-Ed
Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC
billing rule that hospitals had ignored, it imposed a tangle of new requirements and directed the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to help prevent excess out-of-network charges. And consider the HHS’s multimillion dollar...
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- 01 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Big Influence of Small Countries in the United Nations Secretariat
rules and norms between nations. "Just the conversations that are happening in the UN are important in determining international priorities—do we go after land mines, or gender disparity, or corruption? Any of these decisions will...
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by Michael Blanding
- 04 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?
rules and thus on capital markets, observes Karthik Ramanna, an associate professor and Henry B. Arthur Fellow in the Accounting and Management unit at Harvard Business School, where he studies the political economy of corporate...
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- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
rules of the game. In the B Corp movement, we’re working to advance fundamental economic system reform. For example, B Lab UK is pushing for the Better Business Act to make it mandatory for all businesses to advance the benefit of both...
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- 04 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Life
importance of allocating resources in such a way that they match the strategy, starting with tales of woe from giants like Unilever and Apple and segueing into stories of friends whose marriages fell apart due to neglect. "Watch where...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?
learning to predict which candidates will do best in a particular position. The question is, how much should companies weight this information versus the more subjective impression gleaned from job interviews? “Essentially firms [are] trying to figure out how to best...
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- 25 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 25
controlled the allocation of financial resources into two new varieties of state capitalism: Leviathan as a majority and as a minority investor. In this book we study the implications of such transformation using detailed data from Brazil...
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Anna Secino
- 07 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits
tax rules for corporations work? And how do U.S. rules compare to how other countries tax their corporations on foreign profits? A: While the overall picture is somewhat complex, there are several underlying...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
"While companies might have an intended strategy, the strategy that actually emerges can be very different," says HBS professor Clark G. Gilbert. It is a topic that Gilbert and professor Joseph L. Bower have explored at length for a new book they have edited,...
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by Martha Lagace
- 03 Sep 2020
- Op-Ed
Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC
in-network and out-of-network providers, and disclose consumers’ cost-sharing liability. Hospitals and insurers lost their lawsuit to block these rules from coming into effect, but say they will appeal. Their lobbying clout is powerful...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
Palandjian Photo courtesy Tracy Palandjian Cohen Main article: Where Innovation Rules Governments and philanthropies have long sought to improve the lives of society’s least fortunate and most vulnerable, often with discouraging results....
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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Patrick Moreton
“erstwhile Californian,” he is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego. An avid long-distance runner and a voracious reader, Moreton also enjoys sailing, hiking, skiing, and other outdoor activities. The Federal Communications Commission relaxed media...
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- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
decisions. We review relevant psychology, economic theory and predictions, empirical challenges, empirical evidence, new directions such as behavioral signaling, and open questions. Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w17333 Payout Taxes and the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
For many investors planning for retirement, asset allocation is a crucial issue. How much should I put into stocks, bonds, and cash? But Harvard Business School professor Daniel Bergstresser says that households with substantial assets in...
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by Ann Cullen
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World
articles from the Wall Street Journal and The Economist they learn about "decision rights" and alienability and how these institutional devices solve the control problems in a capitalist society. The second portion of the course, "Defining the View Details
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Susan Young
- 04 Oct 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Surviving Success: When Founders Must Go
fit. "Initially we allocated very few pages to the search process itself, but as we got into it, we realized how much rich material was there," says Wasserman. "An added plus was the issue of how involved Lew should be in...
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- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
that each choice is made based on one of several rules. The rules include rational choice, level-1 reasoning, an attempt to maximize joint payoff, and an attempt to increase fairness. The probability of using the different View Details
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Sean Silverthorne