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- 2022
- Chapter
Of Learning and Forgetting: Centrism, Populism, and the Legitimacy Crisis of Globalization
By: Rawi Abdelal
Every order is a bargain with disappointments and trade-offs. Thus is every order an unstable equilibrium. The first era of globalization, circa 1870–1914, created both international prosperity and domestic instability. That instability was fully realized during the...
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Keywords:
Globalization;
Policy;
Economic Systems;
Balance and Stability;
Europe;
European Union;
United States
Abdelal, Rawi. "Of Learning and Forgetting: Centrism, Populism, and the Legitimacy Crisis of Globalization." In The Downfall of the American Order? edited by Peter J. Katzenstein and Jonathan Kirshner, 105–123. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022.
- September 2012
- Case
Getting Back to Your Roots: Rose Carpenter's Story
By: John A. Davis, Janet Kraus and Lisa Strope
Rose Carpenter is a successful entrepreneur who is considering the personal implications of leaving the business she created to pursue her own interests.
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Keywords:
Career Planning;
Entrepreneurs;
Life Planning;
Work-Life Balance;
Entrepreneurship;
Decisions
Davis, John A., Janet Kraus, and Lisa Strope. "Getting Back to Your Roots: Rose Carpenter's Story." Harvard Business School Case 813-077, September 2012.
- July 2012
- Case
Revenue Solutions, LLC
By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
Keywords:
Small Business;
Partnerships;
Work-Life Balance;
Partners and Partnerships;
Israel;
United States
Ruback, Richard S., and Royce Yudkoff. "Revenue Solutions, LLC." Harvard Business School Case 213-032, July 2012.
- 2008
- Working Paper
Stability and Nash Implementation in Matching Markets with Couples
By: Claus-Jochen Haake and Bettina-Elisabeth Klaus
We consider two-sided matching markets with couples. First, we extend a result by Klaus and Klijn (2005, Theorem 3.3) and show that for any weakly responsive couples market there always exists a "double stable" matching, i.e., a matching that is stable for the couples...
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Haake, Claus-Jochen, and Bettina-Elisabeth Klaus. "Stability and Nash Implementation in Matching Markets with Couples." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-017, August 2008.
- 2017
- Working Paper
The Importance of Unemployment Insurance as an Automatic Stabilizer
By: Marco Di Maggio and Amir Kermani
We assess the extent to which unemployment insurance (UI) serves as an automatic stabilizer to mitigate the economy's sensitivity to shocks. Using a local labor market design based on heterogeneity in local benefit generosity (defined as the percentage of household...
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Keywords:
Unemployment Insurance;
Automatic Stabilizers;
Bartik Shocks;
Aggregate Demand;
System Shocks;
Employment;
Balance and Stability;
Insurance;
Volatility;
Insurance Industry
Di Maggio, Marco, and Amir Kermani. "The Importance of Unemployment Insurance as an Automatic Stabilizer." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-009, July 2016. (Revise and Resubmit to American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics.)
- March 2011
- Teaching Note
Sniffing Out Opportunities at PetSmart (TN)
By: V.G. Narayanan and Lisa Brem
Teaching Note for #110-025.
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- November 1988 (Revised March 1990)
- Case
Progressive Corp.: Coping with the Problem of Dual Career Parents (A)
By: Shoshana Zuboff
Zuboff, Shoshana. "Progressive Corp.: Coping with the Problem of Dual Career Parents (A)." Harvard Business School Case 489-031, November 1988. (Revised March 1990.)
- March 2010
- Article
Matching with Preferences over Colleagues Solves Classical Matching
In this note, we demonstrate that the problem of "many-to-one matching with (strict) preferences over colleagues" is actually more difficult than the classical many-to-one matching problem, "matching without preferences over colleagues." We give an explicit reduction...
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Kominers, Scott Duke. "Matching with Preferences over Colleagues Solves Classical Matching." Games and Economic Behavior 68, no. 2 (March 2010): 773–780.
- 2008
- Working Paper
Stable Many-to-Many Matchings with Contracts
By: Bettina-Elisabeth Klaus and Markus Walzl
We consider several notions of setwise stability for many-to-many matching markets with contracts and provide an analysis of the relations between the resulting sets of stable allocations for general, substitutable, and strongly substitutable preferences. Apart from...
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Klaus, Bettina-Elisabeth, and Markus Walzl. "Stable Many-to-Many Matchings with Contracts." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-046, September 2008.
- January 2023 (Revised November 2023)
- Technical Note
Ethical Analysis: Honesty and Self-Interest
By: Nien-hê Hsieh and Christopher Diak
Information asymmetry is pervasive in business and can often confer great advantage. This note distinguishes forms of deceptive behavior in the face of information asymmetry and aims to help students analyze their impermissibility.
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Hsieh, Nien-hê, and Christopher Diak. "Ethical Analysis: Honesty and Self-Interest." Harvard Business School Technical Note 323-067, January 2023. (Revised November 2023.)
- 1995
- Article
Putting the Work Back into Work/Family
By: Leslie Perlow
Keywords:
Work-Life Balance
Perlow, Leslie. "Putting the Work Back into Work/Family." Group & Organization Management 20, no. 2 (1995): 227–239.
- 11 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Marissa Mayer Should Bridge Distance Gap with Remote Workers
Marissa Mayer's decision to ask Yahoo! employees to work from offices rather than at home has at least two potentially negative consequences, one for her and one for her employees. But she can mitigate both by linking personal and professional identity for herself and...
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- August 1995 (Revised April 1998)
- Background Note
A Note for Analyzing Work Groups
By: Linda A. Hill
Presents a model for understanding the behavior and evolution of primary, stable work groups over time. The model describes contextual factors, design factors, and emergent culture as determinants of group behavior and performance. Describes emergent behavior, norms,...
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Hill, Linda A. "A Note for Analyzing Work Groups." Harvard Business School Background Note 496-026, August 1995. (Revised April 1998.)
- June 1998
- Article
The Politics of Monetary Leadership and Followership: Stability in the European Monetary System Since the Currency Crisis of 1992
By: Rawi Abdelal
Despite widespread scepticism, there is a fundamental continuity in the stability of the European Monetary System (EMS) before and after the 1992 crisis. Although speculative pressures provoked European leaders to widen the fluctuation bands of the Exchange Rate...
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Abdelal, Rawi. "The Politics of Monetary Leadership and Followership: Stability in the European Monetary System Since the Currency Crisis of 1992." Political Studies 46, no. 2 (June 1998): 236–259. (Winner of Harrison Prize Awarded each year for the best article published by Political Studies in that volume.)
- August 13, 2024
- Editorial
Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?
By: Susanna Gallani, Lidia Moura and Katie Sonnefeldt
Gallani, Susanna, Lidia Moura, and Katie Sonnefeldt. "Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?" Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (August 13, 2024).
- 2024
- White Paper
Healthy Outcomes: How Employers' Support for Employees with Caregiving Responsibilities Can Benefit the Organization
By: Joseph B. Fuller
Fuller, Joseph B. "Healthy Outcomes: How Employers' Support for Employees with Caregiving Responsibilities Can Benefit the Organization." White Paper, Harvard Business School Project on Managing the Future of Work, January 2024.
- 1997
- Book
Finding Time: How Corporations, Individuals, and Families Can Benefit from New Work Practices
By: Leslie Perlow
Why do Americans work so hard? Are the long hours spent at work really necessary to increase organizational productivity? Perlow documents the work life of employees who assume that for their own success and the success of their organization they must put in extended...
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Perlow, Leslie. Finding Time: How Corporations, Individuals, and Families Can Benefit from New Work Practices. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997.
- November 2010
- Teaching Note
Saudi Arabia: Modern Reform, Enduring Stability. Dubai: Global Economy (TN)
Teaching Note for 709042 and 709043.
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- May 2021
- Article
Stability, Strategy-Proofness, and Cumulative Offer Mechanisms
By: John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers and Alexander Westkamp
We consider the setting of many-to-one matching with contracts, where firms may demand multiple contracts, but each worker desires at most one contract. We introduce three novel conditions—observable substitutability, observable size monotonicity, and...
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Keywords:
Matching With Contracts;
Stability;
Strategy-proofness;
Substitutability;
Size Monotonicity;
Cumulative Offer Mechanism;
Marketplace Matching;
Balance and Stability
Hatfield, John William, Scott Duke Kominers, and Alexander Westkamp. "Stability, Strategy-Proofness, and Cumulative Offer Mechanisms." Review of Economic Studies 88, no. 3 (May 2021): 1457–1502.