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- 18 Aug 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Immigrant Entrepreneurship
Keywords: by Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
permanent sharing, temporary sharing affects both whether and what people reveal. Specifically, temporary sharing increases compliance with the request to take a selfie (study 1) View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Article
From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation During the Great Migration
By: Vasiliki Fouka, Soumyajit Mazumder and Marco Tabellini
How does the arrival of a new minority group affect the social acceptance and outcomes of existing minorities? We study this question in the context of the First Great Migration. Between 1915 and 1930, 1.5 million African Americans moved from the U.S. South to Northern... View Details
Fouka, Vasiliki, Soumyajit Mazumder, and Marco Tabellini. "From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation During the Great Migration." Review of Economic Studies 89, no. 2 (March 2022): 811–842. (Also appears in VoxEU, The New York Times, Broadstreet, the Skepticast, and Oxford University Press Blog.)
- Web
4.5 University-Wide Statement on Rights and Responsibilities - MBA
adopted on an interim basis by the Governing Boards on September 20, 1970, and were voted to remain in effect indefinitely in May 1977. The second interpretation was adopted by the View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
reason why the government found itself forced by the fears (some fantastic but others quite justified) of the electorate to act. Firms such as Carnegie Steel, Standard Oil, and American Tobacco seemed to be... View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- November 2013
- Case
GlaxoSmithKline in China (A)
By: John A. Quelch and Margaret L. Rodriguez
Four GlaxoSmithKline employees were accused of bribing Chinese health care workers to prescribe the company's drugs. The accusations brought to light the questionable incentive structures of the Chinese health care system and the pressure on companies to adhere to... View Details
Keywords: Public Health; Pharmaceuticals; China; Bribery; CSR; Hong Bao; Health Care; Drug; GlaxoSmithKline; GSK; Witty; Government; Marketing; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Corporate Strategy; Corporate Governance; Business and Government Relations; Ethics; Pharmaceutical Industry; China; United Kingdom; United States
Quelch, John A., and Margaret L. Rodriguez. "GlaxoSmithKline in China (A)." Harvard Business School Case 514-049, November 2013.
- 20 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Workshop Encourages Corporate Reporting on Environmental and Social Sustainability
stakeholders at an HBS workshop last week. Integrated reports combine a company's financial, environmental, social, and governance performance measures into a report that can be presented View Details
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
suggest important strategic considerations for managers selecting supplier factories and provide key insights for the design of transnational sustainability governance regimes. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2011
- Op-Ed
Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society
reporting is the combination in a single document of the material measures of financial and nonfinancial—environmental, social, and governance (ESG)—performance View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim
- February 2009 (Revised October 2012)
- Case
Tata Motors in Singur: Public Purpose and Private Property (B)
By: Laura Alfaro, Lakshmi Iyer and Namrata Arora
In October 2008, Tata Motors canceled their car manufacturing plant in West Bengal state, in the face of widespread farmer protests over land acquisition issues. This meant abandoning a project in which the company had invested $300 million and delaying the launch of... View Details
Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Rights; Emerging Markets; Property; Business and Government Relations; Conflict and Resolution; Auto Industry; Manufacturing Industry; West Bengal
Alfaro, Laura, Lakshmi Iyer, and Namrata Arora. "Tata Motors in Singur: Public Purpose and Private Property (B)." Harvard Business School Case 709-029, February 2009. (Revised October 2012.)
- June 2018
- Article
The Fed, the Bond Market, and Gradualism in Monetary Policy
By: Jeremy C. Stein and Adi Sunderam
We develop a model of monetary policy with two key features: (i) the central bank has some private information about its long-run target for the policy rate, and (ii) the central bank is averse to bond-market volatility. In this setting, discretionary monetary policy... View Details
Stein, Jeremy C., and Adi Sunderam. "The Fed, the Bond Market, and Gradualism in Monetary Policy." Journal of Finance 73, no. 3 (June 2018): 1015–1060.
- 2021
- Working Paper
From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation During the Great Migration
By: Vasiliki Fouka, Soumyajit Mazumder and Marco Tabellini
How does the arrival of a new minority group affect the social acceptance and outcomes of existing minorities? We study this question in the context of the First Great Migration. Between 1915 and 1930, 1.5 million African Americans moved from the U.S. South to Northern... View Details
Fouka, Vasiliki, Soumyajit Mazumder, and Marco Tabellini. "From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation During the Great Migration." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-018, August 2018. (Revised May 2021. Forthcoming at Review of Economic Studies. Also appears in VoxEU, The New York Times, Broadstreet and in the Skepticast.)
- Winter 2015
- Article
When One Size Doesn't Fit All: Evolving Directions in the Research and Practice of Enterprise Risk Management
By: Anette Mikes and Robert S. Kaplan
Enterprise risk management (ERM) has become a crucial component of contemporary corporate governance reforms, with an abundance of principles, guidelines, and standards. This paper portrays ERM as an evolving discipline and presents empirical findings on its current... View Details
Mikes, Anette, and Robert S. Kaplan. "When One Size Doesn't Fit All: Evolving Directions in the Research and Practice of Enterprise Risk Management." Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 27, no. 1 (Winter 2015): 37–40.
- 2015
- Working Paper
Materiality in Corporate Governance: The Statement of Significant Audiences and Materiality
By: Robert G. Eccles and Tim Youmans
Under the prevailing ideology of "shareholder primacy" most boards of directors believe that they are prevented from considering stakeholders other than shareholders in determining material issues and materiality for strategy and reporting. New research is showing that... View Details
Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Corporate Governance; Business and Shareholder Relations
Eccles, Robert G., and Tim Youmans. "Materiality in Corporate Governance: The Statement of Significant Audiences and Materiality." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-023, September 2015.
- 20 Jan 2015
- News
J.P. Morgan’s Witness and the Holes in Corporate Criminal Law
- 29 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums
An old adage says that it's not what you know, it's whom you know. But outsiders can take heart: even for those who don't belong to a high-power social network, there's power in simply keeping track of who went to school with whom. Associate Professors Lauren H. Cohen... View Details
- 2021
- Book
Harvard Business Review Family Business Handbook: How to Build and Sustain a Successful, Enduring Enterprise
By: Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer
Navigate the complex decisions and critical relationships necessary to create and sustain a healthy family business--and business family. Though "family business" may sound like it refers only to mom-and-pop shops, businesses owned by families are among the most... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Entrepreneurship; Family and Family Relationships; Outcome or Result; Business Model; Conflict and Resolution; Organizational Culture
Baron, Josh, and Rob Lachenauer. Harvard Business Review Family Business Handbook: How to Build and Sustain a Successful, Enduring Enterprise. Harvard Business Review Press, 2021.
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
systems and nonfunctional governance systems." "In the 1980s," says Jensen, "there were many more takeovers, mergers, leveraged buyouts, and restructurings intended to create... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 18 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
design of transnational sustainability governance regimes. Harvard Business School Case 517-090 Kjell and Company: Motivating Salespeople Through the Sales-Force Compensation Plan No abstract available.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- December 1992
- Exercise
Negotiation Exercise on Tradeable Pollution Allowances: Group C, Utility #2
Describes the position of Utility #2 in negotiating Group C with respect to 1) its SO emissions reduction requirements; 2) the costs of its alternative compliance strategies; and 3) the nature of its state regulatory environment. View Details
Keywords: Negotiation; Pollutants; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Governance Compliance; Utilities Industry
Emmons, Willis M., III. "Negotiation Exercise on Tradeable Pollution Allowances: Group C, Utility #2." Harvard Business School Exercise 793-082, December 1992.