Publications

Article

Workplace Stressors & Health Outcomes: Health Policy for the Workplace

By: Joel Goh, Jeffrey Pfeffer and Stefanos A. Zenios

Extensive research focuses on the causes of workplace-induced stress. However, policy efforts to tackle the ever-increasing health costs and poor health outcomes in the United States have largely ignored the health effects of psychosocial workplace stressors such as... View Details

Keywords: Occupational Health; Mortality; Stress; Meta-analysis; Health

July 2001 (Revised October 2001)
Case

Policy Management Systems Corp.: The Financial Reporting Crisis

Tim Williams, the new CFO of a publicly-traded enterprise software company, attempts to rebuild his company's reputation for reliable financial reporting following a highly visible financial reporting crisis. The crisis begins with an earnings shortfall warning, which... View Details

Keywords: Accrual Accounting; Revenue Recognition; Capital Markets; Policy; Corporate Governance; Accounting Audits; Technology Industry

1992
Article

Public Policy and British Multinational Banks 1914-1982

By: G. Jones

Keywords: Business History; Multinational Firms and Management; Policy; Banks and Banking; United Kingdom

December 2023
Case

Three Decades of Cluster Policy in Catalonia: What's Next?

By: Christian H.M. Ketels

The case profiles the development of cluster-based economic development activities in Catalonia, one of Spain's most prosperous regions, over the last thirty years. It describes the evolution of these activities between 1990 and 2022 and puts these changes into the... View Details

Keywords: Economic Sectors; Economy; Geographic Location; Policy; Development Economics; Spain

March 2022
Article

Strategic State Capacity: How States Counter Opposition to Climate Policy

By: Jonas Meckling and Jonas Nahm

When can states implement policies against the opposition from powerful interest groups? Research on state capacity has examined bureaucratic sources of capacity, leaving unexplained why countries with similar levels of bureaucratic capacity vary in goal attainment. We... View Details

Keywords: Power and Influence; Policy; Environmental Regulation

08 Jun 2019
Working Paper Summaries

The Gift of Global Talent: Innovation Policy and the Economy

Keywords: by William R. Kerr

1998
Chapter

Competitive Policy Shocks and Strategic Management

By: P. Ghemawat, R. E. Kennedy and Tarun Khanna

Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; System Shocks; Globalization

Article

Income Tax Policy and Charitable Giving

By: Arthur C. Brooks

August 2018
Article

Pension Policy and the Financial System

By: David S. Scharfstein

27 Feb 2014
Conference Presentation

Considerations on Recent U.S. Monetary Policy

By: Dante Roscini

Winter 2002
Article

Patent Policy Reform and Its Implications

By: Josh Lerner

October 2003
Teaching Note

Dividend Policy at Linear Technology (TN)

By: Malcolm P. Baker

Teaching Note to (9-204-066). View Details

Keywords: Semiconductor Industry

August 1995 (Revised March 1998)
Background Note

Competition Policy in Japan in 1995

July 1981 (Revised June 1987)
Case

Hartmann Luggage Co.: Price Promotion Policy

By: John A. Quelch

The president and the marketing vice president are reviewing past Hartmann price promotions in order to decide whether to run one or more promotions in 1981-82. View Details

Keywords: Price; Product Marketing; Consumer Products Industry

2009
Chapter

Behavioral Aspects of Price Setting, and Their Policy Implications

By: Julio J. Rotemberg

This paper starts by discussing consumers' cognitive and emotional reaction to posted prices. Cognitively, some consumers do not appear to make effective use of price information to maximize their consumption-based utility. Emotionally, prices can induce regret and... View Details

Keywords: Inflation and Deflation; Price; Policy; Laws and Statutes; Demand and Consumers; Business and Government Relations

2020
Book

Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 20

By: Josh Lerner and Scott Stern

October 2017
Article

The Revolutionary Roots of Russian Foreign Policy

By: Jeremy Friedman

Russia continues to be caught between a need to integrate itself into the West and a desire to maintain its independence from the West. View Details

Keywords: International Relations; History; Russia

2006
Chapter

Competitiveness in Developing Economies: The Role of Clusters and Cross-Cutting Policies

By: Christian H.M. Ketels

Competitiveness is high up on the policy agenda for countries around the world and at all stages of development. But while there is little disagreement that countries need to "upgrade their competitiveness"—even more so as the level of globalization is increasing—there... View Details

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Framework; Globalization; Policy; Growth and Development; Industry Clusters; Competitive Strategy

January 2003
Case

Exchange Rate Policy at the Monetary Authority of Singapore

By: Mihir A. Desai and Mark Veblen

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is responsible for the country's monetary policy, and its decisions are intended to support the country's overall strategy for sustainable economic growth with price stability. MAS has been very successful in managing exchange... View Details

Keywords: Currency Exchange Rate; Policy; Money; Singapore