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- 25 Aug 2009
- News
An Ounce of Prevention
- 2012
- Chapter
Lessons for the Financial Sector from 'Preventing Regulatory Capture: Special Interest Influence, and How to Limit It'
By: Daniel Carpenter, David Moss and Melanie Wachtell Stinnett
In the wake of the global financial crisis of 2007–09, regulatory capture has
become at once a diagnosis and a source of discomfort. The word “capture” has been used by dozens upon dozens of authors—ranging from
pundits and bloggers to journalists and leading...
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Carpenter, Daniel, David Moss, and Melanie Wachtell Stinnett. "Lessons for the Financial Sector from 'Preventing Regulatory Capture: Special Interest Influence, and How to Limit It'." Chap. 3 in Making of Good Financial Regulation: Towards a Policy Response to Regulatory Capture, edited by Stefano Pagliari, 70–84. Grosvenor House Publishing Limited, 2012.
- August 2007
- Column
Pitch Your Offer—and Close the Deal
By: Deepak Malhotra and Max H. Bazerman
The article offers several strategies on how to be a good negotiator and decision maker for business developments. The strategies that are presented were an extract from the book Negotiation Genius: How to Overcome Obstacles and Achieve Brilliant Results at the...
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Malhotra, Deepak, and Max H. Bazerman. "Pitch Your Offer—and Close the Deal." Negotiation 10, no. 8 (August 2007).
- 2005
- Working Paper
Letting Misconduct Slide: The Acceptability of Gradual Erosion in Others' Unethical Behavior
By: Francesca Gino and Max H. Bazerman
Four laboratory studies show that people are more likely to overlook others' unethical behavior when ethical degradation occurs slowly rather than in one abrupt shift. Participants served in the role of watchdogs charged with catching instances of cheating. The...
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Gino, Francesca, and Max H. Bazerman. "Letting Misconduct Slide: The Acceptability of Gradual Erosion in Others' Unethical Behavior." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 06-007, August 2005. (Revised September 2006, February 2007, January 2009. Previously titled "Slippery Slopes and Misconduct: The Effect of Gradual Degradation on the Failure to Notice Others' Unethical Behavior.")
- 20 Oct 2022
- News
Envy, the Happiness Killer
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
of the defective Ford Pinto and the downfall of Bernard Madoff, the authors investigate the nature of ethical failures in the business world and beyond and illustrate how we can become more ethical, bridging the gap between who we are and...
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Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- January 2009 (Revised November 2011)
- Case
The Tip of the Iceberg: JP Morgan Chase and Bear Stearns (A)
By: Clayton S. Rose, Daniel Baird Bergstresser and David Lane
"Bear Stearns & Co. burned through nearly all of its $18 billion in cash reserves during the week of March 10, 2008, and an unprecedented provision of liquidity support from the Federal Reserve on Friday, March 13 was insufficient to reverse the decline in Bear's...
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Keywords:
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Financial Crisis;
Capital;
Financial Liquidity;
Financial Strategy;
Corporate Governance;
Crisis Management;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Competition;
Valuation;
Financial Services Industry
Rose, Clayton S., Daniel Baird Bergstresser, and David Lane. "The Tip of the Iceberg: JP Morgan Chase and Bear Stearns (A)." Harvard Business School Case 309-001, January 2009. (Revised November 2011.)
- November 2019 (Revised February 2020)
- Case
Starbucks: Reaffirming Commitment to the Third Place Ideal
By: Francesca Gino, Katherine B. Coffman and Jeff Huizinga
On April 12, 2018, two African American entrepreneurs had scheduled a business meeting at a Starbucks in Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square neighborhood. They sat without ordering, waiting for a local businessman to show up for the meeting. The store manager called 911...
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Keywords:
Mission and Purpose;
Values and Beliefs;
Prejudice and Bias;
Crisis Management;
Employees;
Training
Gino, Francesca, Katherine B. Coffman, and Jeff Huizinga. "Starbucks: Reaffirming Commitment to the Third Place Ideal." Harvard Business School Case 920-016, November 2019. (Revised February 2020.)
- Fall 2020
- Article
Sizing Up Corporate Restructuring in the COVID Crisis
By: Robin Greenwood, Benjamin Iverson and David Thesmar
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the financial and legal system will need to deal with a surge of financial distress in the business sector. Some firms will be able to survive, while others will face bankruptcy and thus need to be liquidated or reorganized. Many...
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Greenwood, Robin, Benjamin Iverson, and David Thesmar. "Sizing Up Corporate Restructuring in the COVID Crisis." Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (Fall 2020). (Also NBER Working Paper, No. 28104.)
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
system to an entirely new level," he warns. But Moss has a fix: The federal government should slap tough new regulations on all firms that pose "systemic risk" —the risk that a failure of one institution could wreak havoc across the...
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Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation
As the financial crisis has shown, neither traditional market failure models nor public choice theory, by themselves, sufficiently inform or explain our current regulatory challenges, nor point us toward the best solutions. Regulatory studies, long neglected in an...
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- 14 Jul 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
From Russia with Love: The Impact of Relocated Firms on Incumbent Survival
- April 2000
- Article
The Fable of Fisher Body
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Daniel F. Spulber
General Motors' (GM) acquisition of Fisher Body is the classic example of market failure in the literature on contracts and the theory of the firm. According to the standard account, GM merged vertically with Fisher Body in 1926, a maker of auto bodies, because of...
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Keywords:
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Failure;
Contracts;
Vertical Integration;
Market Transactions;
Investment;
Trust;
Production;
Assets;
Supply Chain;
Opportunities;
Technology;
Auto Industry
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Daniel F. Spulber. "The Fable of Fisher Body." Journal of Law & Economics 43, no. 1 (April 2000): 67–104.
- September–October 2023
- Article
Interpretable Matrix Completion: A Discrete Optimization Approach
By: Dimitris Bertsimas and Michael Lingzhi Li
We consider the problem of matrix completion on an n × m matrix. We introduce the problem of interpretable matrix completion that aims to provide meaningful insights for the low-rank matrix using side information. We show that the problem can be...
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Keywords:
Mathematical Methods
Bertsimas, Dimitris, and Michael Lingzhi Li. "Interpretable Matrix Completion: A Discrete Optimization Approach." INFORMS Journal on Computing 35, no. 5 (September–October 2023): 952–965.
- July 2021
- Case
Amazon HQ2
By: James K. Sebenius and Ben Cook
Amazon’s failed bid for a second headquarters location (“HQ2”) in Long Island City, New York offers many lessons for negotiators looking to avoid similar high-profile defeats in strategically important deals. The company’s project – which promised to bring billions of...
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Keywords:
Buildings and Facilities;
Negotiation;
Public Opinion;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Problems and Challenges
Sebenius, James K., and Ben Cook. "Amazon HQ2." Harvard Business School Case 922-009, July 2021.
- Research Summary
Economics of Organization and Firm Performance
A great deal of theoretical and empirical research indicates that economic actors should organize activities so as to minimize the 'transaction costs' associated with managing these activities. But little is known about the consequences of violating this prescription....
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- 2019
- Working Paper
‘Organizing’, ‘Innovating’ and ‘Managing’ in Complexity Space
By: Michael C. Moldoveanu
We two-dimensional measure of organizational complexity that distinguishes between the informational and computational dimensions of complexity and aims to function as a maximally context-invariant environment for posing fundamental questions about organizational...
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Moldoveanu, Michael C. "‘Organizing’, ‘Innovating’ and ‘Managing’ in Complexity Space." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-128, June 2019.
- February 2018
- Supplement
Robert K. Steel at Wachovia (B)
By: Gautam Mukunda, Nien-hê Hsieh and David Lane
In September 2008, Robert Steel presided over the sale of Wachovia, a top U.S. bank, less than three months after becoming its CEO. Wachovia’s exposure to risky home loans led depositors and creditors to flee the bank on Friday, September 26, after the FDIC seized and...
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Keywords:
Leadership;
Financial Crisis;
Robert Steel;
Wachovia;
Sheila Bair;
Richard Kovacevich;
Wells Fargo;
Vikram Pandit;
Citigroup;
FDIC;
Tim Geithner;
Mortgage Lending;
Contagion;
Mergers And Acquisitions;
Financial Services;
Banking;
Decision Making;
Ethics;
Fairness;
Finance;
Leadership Style;
Crisis Management;
Management Style;
Risk Management;
Negotiation;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Banking Industry;
United States
Mukunda, Gautam, Nien-hê Hsieh, and David Lane. "Robert K. Steel at Wachovia (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 418-056, February 2018.
- 22 May 2020
- News
What Hospitals Overwhelmed by Covid-19 Can Learn From Startups
Case: The Weir Group: Reforming Executive Pay (A)
In February 2018, the Remuneration Committee together with the full Board of Directors of the Scotland-based engineering company The Weir Group had to decide whether to seek a shareholder vote at the upcoming Annual General Meeting in April on a proposal to...
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