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- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
established processes for stakeholder engagement, to be more long-term oriented, and to exhibit higher measurement and disclosure of nonfinancial information. Finally, High Sustainability companies significantly outperform their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
additional important challenge of marketing the restructuring to the capital market. The most obvious way to do this is to disclose useful information to investors and analysts that they can use to value the restructuring more accurately.... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
- 26 May 2022
- HBS Case
Apple vs. Feds: Is iPhone Privacy a Basic Human Right?
championing privacy as controversy was swirling around an extensive US government surveillance program that had been disclosed by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. Snowden had leaked information indicating that... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
insiders strategically sell shares prior to the disclosure of goodwill impairment losses. We provide evidence that insiders of goodwill impairment firms engage in abnormal selling of their shares quarters prior to the announcement of such... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
disclosure of problem information to a large group of outside solvers is an effective means of solving scientific problems. The approach solved one-third of a sample of problems that large and well-known... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
behavior and ways to counter it with information on why to give. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50771 Voluntary, Self-Regulatory, and Mandatory Disclosure of Oil and... View Details
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
(1990) and Petersen-Rajan (1995) models of information acquisition in credit markets. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-077.pdf Strategies to Fight Ad-sponsored Rivals Authors: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Feng Zhu... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- May 2023
- Article
Equilibrium Effects of Pay Transparency
By: Zoë B. Cullen and Bobak Pakzad-Hurson
The public discourse around pay transparency has focused on the direct effect: how workers seek
to rectify newly-disclosed pay inequities through renegotiations. The question of how wage-setting
and hiring practices of the firm respond in equilibrium has received... View Details
Keywords: Pay Transparency; Online Labor Market; Privacy; Wage Gap; Corporate Disclosure; Wages; Negotiation
Cullen, Zoë B., and Bobak Pakzad-Hurson. "Equilibrium Effects of Pay Transparency." Econometrica 91, no. 3 (May 2023): 765–802. (Lead Article.)
- 02 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Increase Middle Class Incomes
patents and valuable intangible assets to low-tax jurisdictions. Nobody benefits except capital owners because the companies are using it as a tax strategy, not as a springboard for building plants and hiring droves of workers. Rouen emphasizes he’s trying to View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
by 5%-7% per year in risk-adjusted stock returns. In sum, our results document a surprisingly large impact of immigrants' economic role as conduits of information for firms in their new countries. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
Recruiters: Highlight Your Company’s Diversity, Not Just Perks and Pay
disclosures with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). While many companies have been trying to build more inclusive workplaces, only half of S&P 500 companies had gone as far as naming a chief diversity officer as of 2021,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs
the patent application, the invention is unpatentable in that country. For example, if the invention is publicly disclosed to a Japanese national visiting a tradeshow in the United States, then under Japanese patent law, if no patent application has been filed, that... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 23 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
As Climate Fears Mount, More Investors Turn to 'ESG' Funds Despite Few Rules
Investor interest in social responsibility has skyrocketed in the past three years, even as US regulations to hold companies accountable remain in flux and the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) label itself draws backlash. Investors are willing to pay a... View Details
- 24 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business?
digital age is a fertile area of his research. Luca is looking at rankings, expert evaluations, online consumer reviews, and quality disclosure laws to see how they work in market settings, and which are most important for consumers. To... View Details
- 05 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Six Ways to Build Trust in Negotiations
in good faith, yet talks sometimes collapse because each side lacks trust in the other's competence and good intentions. One party might want to make a concession or share sensitive information in the hope of inspiring View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
- 05 Feb 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?
leaders: 1. How much information should be shared inside the organization? 2. Do we have a choice? A recent example suggests that the disclosure debate might well be extended to View Details
- 11 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The High Risks of Short-Term Management
developed a long-term-oriented approach through formal (e.g., incentive systems) or informal institutions (e.g., building the corporate culture over time and employee selection). The finding that more long-term-oriented firms have lower... View Details
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
scores on Yelp.com. We implement a two-stage intervention that separately identifies consumer response to information disclosure and a disclosure design with improved... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138794313/ January 2015 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Strategic Disclosure: The Case of Business School Rankings By: Luca, Michael, and Jonathan Smith Abstract—We empirically analyze View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2022
- Op-Ed
Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC
out to bolster the “ability to identify and disseminate crucial information during the formative moments of a crisis," but has yet to offer implementation guidelines. How can such complex requirements—housed within the HHS, a $1.4... View Details