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- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
of employer-sponsored insurance—$4,500 in 2011. Absent the requirement that healthy people buy insurance, it is likely that the individual insurance market will consist primarily of sick people. They will have $ 4,500 to buy a policy with... View Details
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
immigrants made a conspicuous impact. Part I demonstrates the dominant role of immigrants in forming public financial policies from 1775 to 1817. Part II surveys 12 merchant and investment banking firms founded during the nineteenth... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
affects emotions. Finally, work in economics on the design of monetary policy makes several assumptions (e.g., a representative agent, a summary measure of emotions akin to utility exists and that individuals only care about income and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 12
choice, and consumers fight back by rooting out and disseminating pricing policies that seem unfair. The problem is that companies generally think of value as a pie that is rightfully theirs. But value is not fixed, and it neither... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Board
external events in the late 1990s, accelerated dramatically with the accounting scandals of the Enron era plus the passage of Sarbanes-Oxley, and then continued to change under the pressure of shareholder activism. There's a lot more attention paid to non-fun stuff... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- September–October 2013
- Article
The Role of Organizational Scope and Governance in Strengthening Private Monitoring
By: Lamar Pierce and Michael W. Toffel
Governments and other organizations often outsource activities to achieve cost savings from market competition. Yet such benefits are often accompanied by poor quality resulting from moral hazard, which can be particularly onerous when outsourcing the monitoring and... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Decision Choices and Conditions; Corporate Accountability; Governance Compliance; Policy; Management Practices and Processes; Demand and Consumers; Market Design; Market Entry and Exit; Market Transactions; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Business Processes; Organizational Structure; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Expectations; Practice; Transportation; Transportation Industry; Service Industry; United States; New York (state, US)
Pierce, Lamar, and Michael W. Toffel. "The Role of Organizational Scope and Governance in Strengthening Private Monitoring." Organization Science 24, no. 5 (September–October 2013): 1558–1584. (Winner of the NBS Research Impact on Practice Award from the Academy of Management (AOM) and Network for Business Sustainability (NBS))
- 29 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Gender Gap: Why Fewer Women Are Dying
people's perceptions over time." Survey respondents also answered questions about how much they agreed with a variety of restrictive public policy measures, including closing schools, shutting down nonessential shops, and imposing... View Details
- 20 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind
Whither Uber? Competitive Dynamics in Transportation Networks. “I’m trying to counterbalance the many papers that exult in how fabulous Uber is, and how it’s practically God’s gift to mankind,” Edelman says. Forthcoming in the journal Competition View Details
- 11 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
The House Wants to Squelch Voices of ‘Small’ Shareholders. Research Shows Those Voices Matter.
of America’s shareholders from voicing their concerns. When a shareholder has a beef with a company’s business practices, they can submit a formal proposal to suggest a policy change. The company can respond to the proposal in one of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 18
wage comparisons affect firm policies on executive pay? This paper explores that question using a 1992 SEC proxy disclosure rule that mandated increased disclosure of executive pay. We argue that this rule differentially increased wage... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
Competition Policy International Whither Uber? Competitive Dynamics in Transportation Networks By: Edelman, Benjamin G. Abstract—Transportation Network Companies offer notable service advances—but do they comply with the law? And if not,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007
effect of the policy reforms on the entry of startups versus facility expansions by existing firms. We find that the deregulations reduced financing constraints, particularly among small startups, and improved allocative efficiency across... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
from 3% to 15% as a fraction of government budget without negatively affecting publication quality and quantity. This follows incentive policy change and leadership change at labs, an event whose timing is plausibly exogenous being... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
WorldCom, Adelphia, and other former high flyers. These scandals demonstrate not only a lapse of ethics but also a disdain for the rule of law. Enron's lawyers and auditors appeared more concerned with exploiting loopholes than ensuring View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
addition, firms with more KLD concerns have slightly, but statistically significantly, more pollution and regulatory compliance violations in later years. KLD environmental strengths, in contrast, do not accurately predict pollution... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710019-PDF-ENG Chile's Copper Surplus: The Road Not Taken (B) Laura Alfaro, Dante Roscini, and Renee KimHarvard Business School Supplement 710-020 In 2009, Chile's Finance Minister Andres Velasco's fortunes had been reversed.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
Policy Experiment By: Alfaro, Laura, Anusha Chari, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—Emerging-market governments adopted capital control taxes to manage the massive surge in foreign capital inflows in the aftermath of the global financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008
Evaluation Framework for Product Take-Back Policies Authors:Michael W. Toffel, Antoinette Stein, and Katharine L. Lee Abstract Manufacturers are increasingly being required to adhere to product take-back regulations that require them to... View Details
- 23 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 23
of multinationals from developed countries in developing countries. The central argument is that strategies were shaped by the trade-off between opportunity and risk. Three broad environmental factors determined the trade-off. The first was the prevailing political... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
Quasi-Experiment By: Israeli, Ayelet Abstract—This paper investigates a manufacturer’s ability to influence compliance rates among its authorized online retailers by exploiting changes in the Minimum Advertised Price (MAP) View Details