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  • 17 Apr 2022
  • Book

How to Avoid the 'Ethical Slide' That Leads Companies Astray

question-and-answer format that’s accessible for everyone from C-suite executives to business students. It covers a wide range of topics, from the basics of ethical behavior and legal liabilities to the cultivation of best practices and... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • Web

Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

information to the income statement. Moreover, there are far more serious issues in accounting and governance that warrant attention including the level and structure of executive compensation, other liability and asset accounting... View Details
  • 18 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers

what he calls the negative outliers. The estimated cost—based on turnover triggered by the toxic worker and the cost associated with new hires and training—is likely on the low end, Minor says, because it doesn’t take into account lawsuits or other View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Integrity: Without It Nothing Works

By: Michael C. Jensen
There is confusion between integrity, morality and ethics. In our much longer paper on the topic (see "Integrity: A Positive Model that Incorporates the Normative Phenomena of Morality, Ethics and Legality" (available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=920625)) my co-authors,... View Details
Keywords: Trust; Moral Sensibility; Legal Liability; Behavior
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  • Web

Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

intermediaries. They show that at least two types of segmentation drive arbitrage dynamics: funding and balance sheets. Their results suggest specialization on both the asset and liability sides of intermediary balance sheets is important... View Details
  • Web

Eligibility | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Organizations with a central focus on social impact will be considered. These include certified B Corporations (B-Corps) and limited liability corporations (L3Cs) in the U.S., or another country’s equivalent. NOTE: Applications from... View Details
  • Article

Red Light States: Who Buys Online Adult Entertainment?

By: Benjamin Edelman
This paper studies the adult online entertainment industry, particularly the consumption side of the market. In particular, it focuses on the demographics and consumption patterns of those who subscribe to adult entertainment websites. On the surface, this business... View Details
Keywords: Online Technology; Segmentation; Film Entertainment; Demographics; Web Sites; Competition; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Demand and Consumers; Legal Liability; Culture; Religion; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States
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  • 01 Jun 2024
  • News

Leveraging Generative AI

Four decades after HBS became the first business school in the country to require the use of personal computers in the MBA Program, the School is undergoing a different kind of technological transformation, one that leverages generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • 07 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation

compete with the (now improved) remote and digital alternatives that have emerged. The surging demand for risk mitigation also has implications for policymakers. Greater use of robotics, artificial intelligence, and automation will put the regulatory and View Details
Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso
  • Web

Banking System - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Measures of Risk The ratio of market cap to tier1 capital (aggregated across public banks) remains much lower than pre-crisis highs. Source: Bank Holding Company Y9C Data Market leverage is defined as the total liabilities plus market... View Details
  • 2010
  • Casebook

Global Capital and National Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture

By: Laura Alfaro
All managers face a business environment in which international and macroeconomic phenomena matter. International capital flows can significantly affect countries' development efforts and provide clear investment opportunities for businesses. During the 1990s and early... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Capital; International Finance; Globalized Economies and Regions; Policy; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations
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  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Integrity: A Positive Model That Incorporates the Normative Phenomena of Morality, Ethics, and Legality Abridged

By: Werner H. Erhard, Michael C. Jensen and Steve Zaffron
We present a positive model of integrity that, as we distinguish and define integrity, provides powerful access to increased performance for individuals, groups, organizations, and societies. Our model reveals the causal link between integrity and increased... View Details
Keywords: Trust; Performance Productivity; Information Technology; Knowledge; Moral Sensibility; Opportunities; Competitive Advantage; Legal Liability; Cost vs Benefits
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  • 29 Sep 2021
  • Research & Ideas

For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas

gain experience, they get worse at predicting timelines." Record venture capital investment and a surge of new businesses launched during the COVID-19 pandemic are raising the stakes for entrepreneurs. In a domain that prizes speed, failure to set accurate product... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • Web

Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Corporate Finance Studies for “Contingent Capital Trigger Effects: Evidence from Liability Management Exercises” (September 2019). 2019 Edward B. Berk : Received the 2019 HBS Student Association Faculty Teaching Award for exceptional... View Details
  • 21 Oct 2015
  • Research & Ideas

How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good

nightly fee. Of course, now we know the idea as Airbnb, a $10 billion business with 1.5 million listings around the world. But back then it must have seemed crazy. The liability issues alone seemed insurmountable—to say nothing of the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Accommodations; Financial Services
  • October 2021 (Revised October 2022)
  • Case

The Opioid Settlement and Controversy Over CEO Pay at AmerisourceBergen

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan Ni
In 2020, AmerisourceBergen Corporation, a Fortune 50 company in the drug distribution industry, agreed to settle thousands of lawsuits filed nationwide against the company for its opioid distribution practices that critics alleged had contributed to the nationwide... View Details
Keywords: Opioids; Drug; Investors; Shareholder Activism; Investment Activism; Executive Compensation; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Governance Compliance; Governance Controls; Risk Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Legal Liability; Distribution Industry; Health Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States; West Virginia; Tennessee; Ohio; Pennsylvania
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  • September 2013 (Revised February 2016)
  • Case

GlaxoSmithKline: Sourcing Complex Professional Services

By: Heidi K. Gardner and Silvia Hodges Silverstein
Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) uses an innovative new approach to procuring outside legal counsel: it replaces relationship-based selection and law firms' traditional time-based billing with data-driven decision making and an online reverse auction. In... View Details
Keywords: Legal Industry; Procurement; Professional Service Firms; Pricing; Competition; Change Management; Supply Chain Management; Legal Liability; Business Processes; Legal Services Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • 01 Jul 2015
  • Research & Ideas

A Bank That Takes Parmesan as Collateral: The Cheese Stands a Loan

fresh milk to single-product producers, most of which are limited liability cooperatives of farmers, and most of whom outsource the maturation process to warehouse operators. Before it hits store shelves, cheese is matured for 18, 24, 30,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Food & Beverage
  • 20 Feb 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?

that's the goal,” he says. “So, is that policy going to get transferred over to the private sector? Or is the private sector going to be able to operate more like high-risk adventure activities, where the individuals are able to sign away a lot of risk or a lot of... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Wallask; Aerospace; Tourism; Transportation
  • 29 Aug 2023
  • News

Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases

sort of a liability that currently people are not being charged for. But they're opting into a system where they're like, "No, no, I want to pay. I want to pay my fair share." Is that the right way to look at it? SP: Yes, that's exactly... View Details