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- May 1982 (Revised June 1982)
- Case
Air Traffic Controllers
By: Michael Beer
On August 3, 1981 President Ronald Reagan terminated 12,000 air traffic controllers, members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, for violating their no-strike oath. Provides background on the human resources policies and practices of the Federal...
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Keywords:
Resignation and Termination;
Labor and Management Relations;
Government and Politics;
Labor Unions;
Negotiation;
Employees;
Air Transportation Industry;
United States
Beer, Michael. "Air Traffic Controllers." Harvard Business School Case 482-056, May 1982. (Revised June 1982.)
- spring 1981
- Article
From Competitor to Consumer: The Changing Focus of Federal Regulation of Advertising, 1914-1938
By: R. S. Tedlow
Tedlow, R. S. "From Competitor to Consumer: The Changing Focus of Federal Regulation of Advertising, 1914-1938." Business History Review 55, no. 1 (spring 1981).
- 1981
- Other Unpublished Work
Housing Regulation in Cambridge: Its Goals and Effects
By: Dutch Leonard
- February 1979 (Revised December 1983)
- Case
Allied Chemical Corp. (A)
Describes Allied, the chemical industry, and the effects of the Kepone problem (a toxic pesticide dumped into the James River) as of 1976. The executive in the case must decide whether the company should support the passage of the Toxic Substances Control Act and an...
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Keywords:
Pollutants;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Decision Making;
Laws and Statutes;
Welfare;
Legal Liability;
Business and Government Relations;
Chemical Industry
Lodge, George C., and Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. "Allied Chemical Corp. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 379-137, February 1979. (Revised December 1983.)
- 1979
- Article
Approximating the Efficiency Gain of Tax Reforms
By: Jerry R. Green and Eytan Sheshinski
Proper analysis of tax reform requires evaluation of the welfare effects induced by a change from one tax system to another. We present two methods for estimating these changes using only local information pertaining to an initial equilibrium with distortive taxes. It...
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Green, Jerry R., and Eytan Sheshinski. "Approximating the Efficiency Gain of Tax Reforms." Journal of Public Economics 11, no. 2 (1979): 179–195.
- 1978
- Chapter
Alternatives for Mineral Tax Reform
By: Malcolm Gillis, Louis T. Wells, Glenn Jenkins and Brian Wright
- 1978
- Chapter
Issues and Policies Related to Mining Tax Reform
By: Malcolm Gillis, Louis T. Wells and Ulrich Petersen
- June 1977 (Revised May 1997)
- Case
University of Trent
Focuses on two issues: 1) technical systems that can be employed in nonprofit organizations for control and motivational purposes. Systems discussed range from payroll monitoring systems to zero-base budgeting and 2) the managerial environment needed for serious...
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Keywords:
Information Technology;
Motivation and Incentives;
Business or Company Management;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Governance Controls;
Education Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E. "University of Trent." Harvard Business School Case 177-245, June 1977. (Revised May 1997.)
- spring 1976
- Article
Information, Politics and Economic Analysis: The Regulatory Decision Process in the Air Freight Cases
By: M. E. Porter and J. F. Sagansky
Keywords:
Information;
Government and Politics;
Economics;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Decision Making
Porter, M. E., and J. F. Sagansky. "Information, Politics and Economic Analysis: The Regulatory Decision Process in the Air Freight Cases." Public Policy 24, no. 2 (spring 1976): 263–307.
- December 1971
- Article
Optimum Consumption and Portfolio Rules in a Continuous-Time Model
By: Robert C. Merton
Merton, Robert C. "Optimum Consumption and Portfolio Rules in a Continuous-Time Model." Journal of Economic Theory 3 (December 1971): 373–413. (Chapter I of Ph.D. dissertation; Chapter 5 in Continuous-Time Finance.)
- January 1971
- Article
Admissible Decision Rules for the E-Model of Chance-Constrained Programming
By: Robert S. Kaplan, Mark Eisner and John Soden
Kaplan, Robert S., Mark Eisner, and John Soden. "Admissible Decision Rules for the E-Model of Chance-Constrained Programming." Management Science 17 (January 1971): 337–353.
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Corporate Governance and International Competitiveness
By: W. Carl Kester
W. Carl Kester's research involves comparisons of national or broad regional systems of corporate governance (e.g., German, Japanese, Anglo-American), and the influence these systems exert on corporate investment and international competitiveness. Kester has found...
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- Other Unpublished Work
Going Bust in Bangkok: Lessons from Bankruptcy Law Reform in Thailand
By: C. Fritz Foley
- Forthcoming
- Article
Human Bias in the Oversight of Firms: Evidence from Workplace Safety Violations
By: Jonas Heese, Gerardo Pérez Cavazos and Andreya Pérez Silva
We study the effects of mood as a source of human bias on regulators’ oversight and enforcement decisions. We use weather at facilities at the time of an OSHA inspection to proxy for the OSHA compliance officers’ mood. We find that during periods of good mood due to...
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Keywords:
Prejudice and Bias;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Happiness;
Working Conditions;
Safety
Heese, Jonas, Gerardo Pérez Cavazos, and Andreya Pérez Silva. "Human Bias in the Oversight of Firms: Evidence from Workplace Safety Violations." Review of Accounting Studies (forthcoming). (Pre-published online November 3, 2023.)
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Overview
By: Meg Rithmire
Land Bargains and Chinese Capitalism: The Politics of Property Rights under Reform
Published October, 2015
China since the 1980s has been the scene of unprecedented efforts at urban construction and growth, even in the absence of privatization of ownership... View Details
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By: Aiyesha Dey
Professor Dey’s research explores governance and agency conflicts, board structure, governance regulation and corporate behavior, ownership structure, and the relation between executives’ characteristics and corporate behavior. In analyzing corporate governance...
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By: Anywhere Sikochi
Having grown up in a developing country, Professor Sikochi’s research focus is driven by a desire to understand how capital flows to firms and entrepreneurs with the ultimate goal to help build capital markets in the developing economies. To this end, he conducts... View Details
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Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs ( Princeton University Press, October 2002)
By: Rakesh Khurana
In this book, I argue that the external CEO labor market was born in a burst of rhetoric about wresting control of corporations away from a group of self-interested insiders, as senior managers in the era of managerial capitalism had come to be portrayed. The rationale...
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- Forthcoming
- Article
Technological Adoption and Taxation: The Case of China's Golden Tax Reform
By: Haichao Fan, Yu Liu, Nancy Qian and Jaya Y. Wen
This paper investigates the effect of Phase 2 of the Golden Tax Project on VAT in China. The reform introduced computer-generated invoices and electronic transaction linking. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, we show that the reform increased VAT by reducing...
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Keywords:
Taxation;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Technological Innovation;
Economic Growth;
China
Fan, Haichao, Yu Liu, Nancy Qian, and Jaya Y. Wen. "Technological Adoption and Taxation: The Case of China's Golden Tax Reform." Tax Policy and the Economy (forthcoming). (To appear in Volume 38 (2024))