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- August 17, 2020
- Guest Column
The Case for Stakeholder Dividends: Why It’s Time for the Financial Sector to Put Its Money Where Its Mouth Is
By: Peter Tufano and Timothy Flacke
Tufano, Peter, and Timothy Flacke. "The Case for Stakeholder Dividends: Why It’s Time for the Financial Sector to Put Its Money Where Its Mouth Is." Nextbillion.net (August 17, 2020).
- July 2024
- Article
The Passive-Ownership Share Is Double What You Think It Is
By: Alex Chinco and Marco Sammon
Each time a stock gets added to or dropped from a benchmark index, we ask: “How much money would have to be tracking that index to explain the huge spike in rebalancing volume we observe on reconstitution day?” While index funds held 16% of the US stock market in 2021,...
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Keywords:
Indexing;
Passive Investing;
Exchange-traded Funds (ETFs);
Russell Reconstitution Day;
Trading Volume;
Information-based Asset Pricing;
Investment Funds;
Asset Pricing
Chinco, Alex, and Marco Sammon. "The Passive-Ownership Share Is Double What You Think It Is." Journal of Financial Economics 157 (July 2024).
- May 9, 2024
- Article
Business Education Is Broken: Here Are Strategies to Fix It
By: Andrew J. Hoffman
Business schools have lost their way. Students are schooled in a system that, having raised the standard of living for millions of people over centuries, is now facing systemic failures in both the environmental and social domains—failures that market forces cause and,...
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Keywords:
Education Reform;
Business And Society;
Climate Change;
Equality and Inequality;
Environmental Sustainability;
Business Education
Hoffman, Andrew J. "Business Education Is Broken: Here Are Strategies to Fix It." Inspiring Minds (May 9, 2024).
- August 2021 (Revised September 2022)
- Case
Patch Technology: Making It Easy to Do the Right Thing
By: Tomomichi Amano, Robert J. Dolan and Carol Zhang
In 2021, the growing threat of climate change pushed companies around the world to understand that significant behavioral change was necessary. While many recognized that decreasing emissions was critical, more sophisticated players such as Microsoft began to recognize...
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Amano, Tomomichi, Robert J. Dolan, and Carol Zhang. "Patch Technology: Making It Easy to Do the Right Thing." Harvard Business School Case 522-037, August 2021. (Revised September 2022.)
- 2014
- Article
Paying It Forward: Generalized Reciprocity and the Limits of Generosity
By: Kurt Gray, Adrian F. Ward and Michael I. Norton
When people are the victims of greed or recipients of generosity, their first impulse is often to pay back that behavior in kind. What happens when people cannot reciprocate, but instead have the chance to be cruel or kind to someone entirely different—to pay it...
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Gray, Kurt, Adrian F. Ward, and Michael I. Norton. "Paying It Forward: Generalized Reciprocity and the Limits of Generosity." Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 143, no. 1 (February 2014): 247–254.
- June 21, 2017
- Article
Uber Can't Be Fixed—It's Time for Regulators to Shut It Down
By: Benjamin G. Edelman
I argue that Uber's intentional malfeasance is its comparative advantage. But having grown through intentional illegality, Uber should face strict enforcement of applicable preexisting laws—penalties that would probably bankrupt the company.
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Keywords:
Lawfulness;
Laws and Statutes;
Legal Liability;
Law;
Transportation;
Transportation Industry;
Information Technology Industry
Edelman, Benjamin G. "Uber Can't Be Fixed—It's Time for Regulators to Shut It Down." Harvard Business Review (website) (June 21, 2017). (Translations: Japanese, Russian.)
- 2021
- Working Paper
The Value of Data and Its Impact on Competition
By: Marco Iansiti
Common regulatory perspective on the relationship between data, value, and competition in online platforms has increasingly centered on the volume of data accumulated by incumbent firms. This view posits the existence of "data network effects," where more data leads to...
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Keywords:
Online Platforms;
Data Network Effects;
Analytics and Data Science;
Value;
Competition;
Digital Platforms
Iansiti, Marco. "The Value of Data and Its Impact on Competition." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-002, July 2021.
- January 2008
- Article
Do Well by Doing Good? Don't Count on It
By: Joshua D. Margolis, Hillary Anger Elfenbein and James P. Walsh
Research over 35 years shows only a weak link between socially responsible corporate behavior and good financial performance. However, there's no evidence of risk in doing good, only in being exposed for misdeeds.
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Keywords:
Values and Beliefs;
Profit;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Performance Effectiveness;
Behavior
Margolis, Joshua D., Hillary Anger Elfenbein, and James P. Walsh. "Do Well by Doing Good? Don't Count on It." Social Responsibility. Special Issue on HBS Centennial. Harvard Business Review 86, no. 1 (January 2008): 19.
- January 2000
- Article
The Tragedy of the Commoners: Biotechnology and its Publics
By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
Keywords:
Biotechnology Industry
Daemmrich, Arthur A. "The Tragedy of the Commoners: Biotechnology and its Publics." Nature Biotechnology 18, no. 1 (January 2000): 2–4.
- October 2005
- Article
Growing Talent As If Your Business Depended on It
By: Jeff Cohn, Rakesh Khurana and Laura Reeves
Cohn, Jeff, Rakesh Khurana, and Laura Reeves. "Growing Talent As If Your Business Depended on It." Harvard Business Review 83, no. 10 (October 2005).
- July 1991 (Revised March 1992)
- Background Note
Matching the Process of Product Development to Its Context
By: Robert J. Dolan
Dolan, Robert J. "Matching the Process of Product Development to Its Context." Harvard Business School Background Note 592-009, July 1991. (Revised March 1992.)
- 1985
- Chapter
Cost-Benefit Analysis Applied to Risks: Its Philosophy and Legitimacy
By: Dutch Leonard and Richard Zeckhauser
- 16 Nov 2021
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mass General Brigham Diversify Its Community of Innovators?
- Article
Forward Discount Bias: Is It an Exchange Risk Premium?
By: K. A. Froot and J. Frankel
Keywords:
Currencies;
Exchange Rates;
International Macroeconomics;
Monetary Policy;
Currency Controls;
Fixed Exchange Rates;
Floating Exchange Rates;
Currency Bands;
Currency Zones;
Currency Areas;
Rational Expectations;
Asset Pricing
Froot, K. A., and J. Frankel. "Forward Discount Bias: Is It an Exchange Risk Premium?" Quarterly Journal of Economics 104, no. 1 (February 1989): 139–161. (Revision of "Findings of Forward Discount Bias Interpreted in Light of Exchange Rate Survey Data," NBER Working Paper No. 1963 and Sloan Working Paper No. 1906-87, August 1987. Reprinted in Advances in Behavioral Finance, edited by Richard Thaler. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1993: 359-382 and in Speculation and Financial Markets, edited by M. Taylor and L. Gallagher. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2001.)
- 1 Feb 1994
- Conference Presentation
Creativity: What Is It? Where Does It Come From?
Keywords:
Creativity
- 1993
- Chapter
The Role of IT Networking in Sustaining Competitive Advantage
By: S. P. Bradley
Bradley, S. P. "The Role of IT Networking in Sustaining Competitive Advantage." In Globalization, Technology, and Competition: The Fusion of Computers and Telecommunications in the 1990s, edited by S. P. Bradley, J. A. Hausman, and R. L. Nolan. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1993, Korean ed.
- September 2019
- Supplement
Measuring the Impact of GGO and its Regional Teams
By: Ranjay Gulati
Gulati, Ranjay. "Measuring the Impact of GGO and its Regional Teams." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 420-707, September 2019.
- April 2017
- Article
How Sales Can Wield Its Most Effective Weapon: Pricing
This article discusses certain core ways that sales people can use, but sometimes abuse, pricing authority and the implications for effective sales management.
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Cespedes, Frank V. "How Sales Can Wield Its Most Effective Weapon: Pricing." Quotable (April 2017).