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  • April 2018 (Revised July 2023)
  • Technical Note

Whistleblower Legislation in the Context of Financial Reporting

By: Aiyesha Dey, Jonas Heese and James Weber
This note provides an overview of U.S. federal legislation relating to whistleblowing, Sarbanes-Oxley, Dodd-Frank (including the Office of the Whistleblower), and the False Claims Act. View Details
Keywords: Whistleblower; Sarbanes-Oxley; Dodd-Frank; False Claims Act; Securities And Exchange Commission; Government Legislation; Financial Reporting; United States
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  • 01 Jun 2024
  • News

Action Plan: Role-Play

When you encounter the phrase private investigator, chances are good the character you conjure up in your mind doesn’t resemble Sarah Carson (MBA 1971). So much the better for Carson, whose work has often required convincing people she was a small-business employee... View Details
Keywords: Christine Speer Lejeune; photo by Christina Gandolfo; detective; private investigator; undercover; acting
  • 2017
  • Working Paper

The Role of Taxes in the Disconnect Between Corporate Performance and Economic Growth

By: Urooj Khan, Suresh Nallareddy and Ethan Rouen
We investigate the relation between the growth in corporate profits and the overall U.S. economy, focusing on the impact of the U.S. corporate tax regime on this relation. We document that the growth of corporate profits, on average, has outpaced the growth of the... View Details
Keywords: Taxes; Gdp; Corporate Profits; American Jobs Creation Act Of 2004; Taxation; Economic Growth; Profit; United States
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  • January 2018
  • Article

The Effect of Cost Sharing on an Employee Weight Loss Program: A Randomized Trial

By: Leslie K. John, Andrea Troxel, William Yancy, Joelle Y. Friedman, Jingsan Zhu, Lin Yang, Robert Galvin, Karen Miller-Kovach, Scott Halpern, George Loewenstein and Kevin Volpp
Purpose: We tested the effects of employer subsidies on employee enrollment, attendance, and weight loss in a nationally-available weight management program.
Design: A randomized trial tested the impact of employer subsidy: 100%; 80% 50% and a hybrid 50% subsidy... View Details
Keywords: Affordable Care Act (ACA); Subsidies; Weight Loss; Obesity; Incentives; Behavioral Economics; Motivation and Incentives; Behavior; Health Disorders; Health Care and Treatment; Compensation and Benefits; United States
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  • September 2014 (Revised January 2017)
  • Teaching Note

Access Health CT: Marketing Affordable Care (A) & (B)

By: John A. Quelch
Keywords: Affordable Care Act (ACA); Marketing Communications; Market Segmentation; Marketing Management; Startup Management; Analysis; Innovation and Invention; Marketing; Measurement and Metrics; Outcome or Result; Performance; Strategy; Health Industry; Insurance Industry; North and Central America
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  • 2023
  • Welcome

Robin J. Ely and Lakshmi Ramarajan Deliver Opening Remarks at the 2023 Race, Gender & Equity at Work Symposium - Tools for Humanity: Rage and Love as Acts of Resistance and Renewal

  • June 2020
  • Article

Informing Dissent

By: Hillary Greene and Dennis Yao
The first part of this commentary argues that because the production of dissent depends on the availability of information, greater attention should focus on government restrictions on access to official information. At no time is this more important than when... View Details
Keywords: Dissent; Information Monopoly; Economics Of Speech; Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA); Self-censorship; Social Pressure; Information; Government and Politics; Spoken Communication; Society
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    [Dissertation Research] Bringing Worlds Together: Cultural Brokerage in Multicultural Teams

    My dissertation (2013 Organization Science/ INFORMS Dissertation Proposal Competition Finalist) examines the dynamics and creative performance of multicultural teams. Using both qualitative and quantitative methods, I introduce the concept of "cultural... View Details

    • Article

    Discussion of "Ivory Tower and Industrial Innovation: University-Industry Technology Transfer Before and After the Bayh-Dole Act in the United States" by David C. Mowery, Richard R. Nelson, Bhaven N. Sampat, and Arvids A. Ziedonis

    By: Josh Lerner
    Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Education; Information Technology; Patents; Law; Communication; United States
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    • 18 May 2023
    • Video

    Robin J. Ely and Lakshmi Ramarajan Deliver Opening Remarks at the 2023 Race, Gender & Equity at Work Symposium - Tools for Humanity: Rage and Love as Acts of Resistance and Renewal

    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    The Structure of Board Committees

    By: Kevin D. Chen and Andy Wu
    We document and analyze board committee structures utilizing a novel dataset containing full board committee membership for over 6,000 firms. Board committees provide benefits (specialization, efficiency, and accountability benefits) and costs (information... View Details
    Keywords: Board Of Directors; Board Committees; Specialization; Accountability; Information Segregation; Overloaded Directors; Multi-commitee Directors; Sarbanes-Oxley Act; Corporate Accountability; Governing and Advisory Boards; Accounting; Corporate Governance
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    • March 2018 (Revised November 2018)
    • Case

    Managing Religion in the Workplace: Abercrombie & Fitch and Masterpiece Cakeshop

    By: Derek van Bever
    Challenges related to managing religion in the workplace are on the rise, as are religious discrimination claims and monetary settlements, in the United States and around the world. This case examines two incidents of alleged religious discrimination that made their... View Details
    Keywords: Religious Discrimination; First Amendment; Religious Freedom Restoration Act; Business Ethics; Religion And Business; Management; EEOC; Ethics; Religion; Conflict Management; Retail Industry; United States
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    • June 2013 (Revised August 2013)
    • Background Note

    Note on Pension Guarantee Funds

    By: Robert C. Pozen and Patricia Bissett Higgins
    The United States and the United Kingdom both had quasi-government agencies that provided back-up insurance for individuals participating in defined benefit ("DB") pension plans. This note compares and contrasts the United Kingdom's Pension Protection Fund ("PPF") with... View Details
    Keywords: Pensions; Pension Guarantee Funds; Pension Protection Fund; Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation; Employee Retirement Income Security Act; PBGC; ERISA; MAP-21; Legislation; Insurance; Saving; Retirement; Labor; Labor and Management Relations; Employees; Insurance Industry; United States; United Kingdom
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    • August 2018 (Revised August 2019)
    • Case

    Oscar Health Insurance: What Lies Ahead for a Unicorn Insurance Entrant?

    By: Leemore Dafny and Victoria Marone
    Keywords: Oscar Insurance; Fintech; US Health Care; Affordable Care Act (ACA); Health Insurance Marketplaces; Insurer Competition; Provider Consolidation; Market Entry; Health Care and Treatment; Entrepreneurship; Market Entry and Exit; Negotiation; Growth Management; Health Industry; Insurance Industry; New York (state, US); New Jersey
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    • May 16, 2016
    • Article

    Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer

    By: Dina Gerdeman and John A. Quelch
    Chipotle Mexican Grill’s ongoing struggle to win customers back months after a contaminated food crisis highlights the challenges companies face with keeping food safe.

    Chipotle has seen its shares tumble and recently reported its first-ever quarterly loss... View Details
    Keywords: Food Safety; Organic Food; Supply Chain Management; Globalization Of Food Business; Mérieux NutriSciences: Marketing Food Safety Testing; Food Safety Modernization Act 2011; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Transition; Economic Systems; Food; Health; Supply and Industry; Logistics; Practice; Problems and Challenges; Quality; Safety; Business Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Customization and Personalization; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Insurance Industry; Public Administration Industry; Public Relations Industry; Retail Industry; Service Industry; Mexico; North America; United States; Canada
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    • March 2021 (Revised July 2021)
    • Case

    Aledade

    By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Samyukta Mullangi and Nicholas Samonas
    To truly supercharge growth, should Aledade take a step back and focus on product development? View Details
    Keywords: Health Care; Health Care Costs; Health Care Delivery; Health Care Entrepreneurship; Health Care Industry; Medicare; ACOs; Affordable Care Act (ACA); COVID-19; Health Care and Treatment; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Development; Health Industry; United States
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    • 2015
    • Case

    Advanced Leadership Pathways: Paul Lee and Asian Americans Advancing Justice

    By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Frank Jerome LaNasa and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
    Paul Lee and Asian Americans Advancing Justice 2013 AL Fellow, 2014 Senior AL Fellow
    Two years after the formation of the Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAAJ), a national affiliation of four independent Asian American civil rights groups, Paul Lee, who... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership Skills; Asian; Asian Americans; Asian Americans Advancing Justice; Civil Rights; Asian Law Caucus; Asian Pacific American Legal Center; Asian American Institute; Asian American Justice Center; Immigration Issues; Immigration Reform; Affirmative Action; Coalition; Asian American Activism; Japanese; Chinese; Korean; Indian; Pakistani; Hmong; Cambodian; Laotians; Filipino; Vietnamese; Pacific Islanders; Ethnic Group; Model Minority; Anti-asian Prejudice; Pan-asian; Discrimination; Immigrants; Immigration Acts; Alien Land Laws; Sei Fujii; Naturalize; Interracial; Immigration And Nationality Act Of 1965; Refugees; War; Warfare; Vincent Chin; Bigotry; Chinatown; Boston; Social Impact; Asian American Lawyers Association; National Asian Pacific Bar Association; Asian Community Development Corporation; Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence; Southeast Asia; Mee Moua; Change Management; Demographics; Prejudice and Bias; Rights; Immigration; Leadership; Problems and Challenges; Society; North and Central America
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    • 10 Oct 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    In Empowering Black Voters, Did a Landmark Law Stir White Angst?

    between 2000 and 2018, the researchers identify a “surge in racial animosity induced by the [Voting Rights Act]'' that persists over decades. “While the Act improved the conditions of Black Americans along multiple dimensions, it also... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 27 Jun 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    These Management Practices, Like Certain Technologies, Boost Company Performance

    practices that act exactly as a new technology would, like advanced machinery might help companies increase output. Universal management practices can help increase a company’s productivity, just as technology can do. Credit: Kadmy “The... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • March 2015 (Revised December 2016)
    • Case

    American Well: The DTC Decision

    By: Elie Ofek and Natalie Kindred
    In late 2013, telehealth company American Well, which developed a digital platform that allowed patients to conduct online medical consultations with physicians, is considering pursuing a direct-to-consumer (DTC) strategy. Founded in 2006, American Well had, to date,... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care; Telehealth; Telemedicine; American Well; Schoenberg; Boston; Israel; Technology; Online Care; Direct-to-consumer; DTC; Health Insurance; Affordable Care Act; Health Care Reform; Accountable Care Organizations; Technology Change; Innovation ＆ Entrepreneurship; Digital Marketing; Strategy; Competition; Information Technology; Marketing; Technological Innovation; Technology Adoption; Entrepreneurship; Marketing Strategy; Health Industry; Technology Industry; Boston; Massachusetts; United States; Israel
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