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- Article
What Can Managers Privately Disclose to Investors?
By: Eugene F. Soltes
Regulators have long been aware that differential access to information can undermine the efficiency and fairness of financial markets. In an effort to place investors on equal footing, the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2000 created Regulation Fair Disclosure...
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Disclosure Regulation;
Information;
Communication;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
Soltes, Eugene F. "What Can Managers Privately Disclose to Investors?" Yale Journal on Regulation Bulletin 36 (2018): 148–169.
- April 2012 (Revised February 2017)
- Case
Dovernet
By: Robert Simons and Natalie Kindred
This case illustrates the implications of using stringent performance measurement systems to create performance pressure, motivate employee achievement, and sharpen a firm's competitiveness. It opens by describing the downsides of the ruthlessly competitive culture at...
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Motivation and Incentives;
Information Technology;
Competitive Advantage;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Organizational Culture;
Performance Evaluation;
Compensation and Benefits;
Web Services Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
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Simons, Robert, and Natalie Kindred. "Dovernet." Harvard Business School Case 112-061, April 2012. (Revised February 2017.)
- June 2003
- Case
Judo in Action
Contains four short stories about small firms challenging large firms. Illustrates some of the ideas that have been termed "judo strategy." In each case, one can argue that the small firm attempts to use the large firm's size and incumbency to constrain the large firm...
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Corts, Kenneth S., and Deborah Freier. "Judo in Action." Harvard Business School Case 703-454, June 2003.
- 2022
- Article
Values and Inequality: Prosocial Jobs and the College Wage Premium
By: Nathan Wilmers and Letian Zhang
Employers often recruit workers by invoking corporate social responsibility, organizational purpose, or other claims to a prosocial mission. In an era of substantial labor
market inequality, commentators typically dismiss these claims as hypocritical: prosocial...
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Wilmers, Nathan, and Letian Zhang. "Values and Inequality: Prosocial Jobs and the College Wage Premium." American Sociological Review 87, no. 3 (2022): 415–442.
- 2020
- Working Paper
Reputation Fuels Moralistic Punishment That People Judge to Be Questionably Merited
By: Jillian J. Jordan and Nour Kteily
Critics of outrage culture allege that virtue signaling fuels morally questionable punishment. But does reputation actually have the power to motivate punishment that people see as ambiguously deserved? Across four studies (total n = 9,587), among both liberals and...
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Jordan, Jillian J., and Nour Kteily. "Reputation Fuels Moralistic Punishment That People Judge to Be Questionably Merited." Working Paper, December 2020.
- 07 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Right Way to Cry in Front of Your Boss
read vignettes about an individual’s display of distress, which they described as caused by either emotionality or passion. They then rated the competency of that person. Participants perceived those who said they were passionate as more...
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by Roberta Holland
- 27 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Recovering from the Need to Achieve
of themselves. "I wish a lot of the HBS students were more aware of how their behavior impacts others." he says. The Power Of Vulnerability Flying without a Net is not a quantitative book, a fact that DeLong initially worried about before writing it. It is...
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by Kim Girard
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
person's view of the water privatization (relative to other privatizations) was 16% more negative if he/she was read a vignette with some of the negative statements about the water privatization that Argentina's President expressed during...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2010
- What Do You Think?
How Transparent Should Boards Be?
Summing Up The dilemma posed by the HP-inspired vignette of a CEO allegedly failing to adhere to company values divided respondents to the September column. Two schools of thought evolved. One was that the CEO should be fired for cause...
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by Jim Heskett
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
(B):http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/112037-PDF-ENG Purchase this supplement (C):http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/112038-PDF-ENG "Denise Frazer and Paolo Canto: A Case Vignette on Feedback—Denise Frazer's Perspective Joshua...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2005
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?
and forcing it into bankruptcy. Other unions at the airline decided not to support the strike in view of past differences they had had with the mechanics. As a result, the airline continued to operate with replacement labor. It is perhaps one small View Details
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by James Heskett
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
provides rich insights into how contracts between labels and artists are structured and how advances in technology are impacting the music industry and its players. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/511031-PDF-ENG Employment View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
covers the history of newspapers, industry economics, current news consumption trends, the response of the newspapers to the threat of the Internet, and vignettes highlighting newspaper business models throughout the world. Purchase this...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
vignette with some of the negative statements about the water privatization that Argentina's president expressed during the nationalization process. Interestingly, the effect of the vignette on households...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
employees who struggle with mental health issues. To engage students in a role-play, the note includes a vignette featuring a struggling CEO. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/515062-PDF-ENG Harvard Business...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
materiality remains unclear. Using a series of vignettes based on actual private investor meetings, I investigate how managers and regulators understand Reg FD. I find considerable uncertainty and disagreement among both managers and...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
decide whether to let employees go. In light of Barry-Wehmiller’s people practices and strategy, what should he do? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717420-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 817-010 Entrepreneurial Sales and Marketing...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
case: http://hbr.org/product/andreessen-horowitz/an/814060-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 314-067 'These People Are Fiduciaries...' The fiduciary duties of loyalty and care, the corporate opportunity doctrine, and the business judgment rule are introduced in the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
about the causes of regional variations in health care expenditures. Using vignettes from patient and physician surveys linked to fee-for-service Medicare expenditures, this study asks whether patient demand-side factors or physician...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
investigated the influence of outcome information on ethical judgment. Participants read a series of vignettes describing ethically-questionable behaviors. We manipulated whether those behaviors were followed by a negative or positive...
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Martha Lagace