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23 Apr 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Corporate Financial Policies in Misvalued Credit Markets

Keywords: by Jarrad Harford, Marc Martos-Vila & Matthew Rhodes-Kropf; Financial Services; Banking

July 2001 (Revised October 2001)
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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

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2020
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Defining AI in Policy versus Practice

By: P.M. Krafft, Meg Young, Michael Katell, Karen Huang and Ghislain Bugingo

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Enhancing Policy Models with Exploratory Analysis

By: Arthur C. Brooks and Gregory B. Lewis

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November 1977 (Revised March 1984)
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Cargill, Inc.: Managing Corporate Public Policy

By: Ray A. Goldberg

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11 Dec 2018
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Herzlinger Editorial Influences Federal Healthcare Policy

11 Apr 2013
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Current fiscal policy harms U.S. competitiveness

25 Feb 2020
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Pricing Policies That Protect Your Brand

August 2012
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Organ Allocation Policy and the Decision to Donate

By: Judd B. Kessler and Alvin E. Roth

Organ donations from deceased donors (cadavers) provide the majority of transplanted organs in the United States, and one deceased donor can save numerous lives by providing multiple organs. Nevertheless, most Americans are not registered organ donors despite the... View Details

Keywords: Organ Donation; Health; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Decision Making; Resource Allocation; Mathematical Methods; United States

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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

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November 2000
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Patent Policy Innovations: A Clinical Examination

By: Josh Lerner

Keywords: Patents; Policy; Innovation and Invention

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February 1992 (Revised May 1993)
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Competitive Information Policy at United Technologies

By: Lynn S. Paine

Keywords: Information; Policy; Competitive Strategy; Ethics; Technology Industry

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2006
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Policy Implications of Weak Property Rights

By: James Anton, Hillary Greene and Dennis Yao

Keywords: Property; Rights; Policy; Government and Politics

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01 Mar 2006
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HBS Reverses Policy On Grade Disclosure

In a mid-December letter to all MBA students, Dean Jay Light announced that the School was dropping its seven-year-old policy that prohibited students from revealing their grades to potential employers. The change takes effect with the... View Details

Keywords: grades; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

02 Jun 2019
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A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy

and economics who draw on data to inform managerial and policy decisions, they decided to see if they could use their skills to examine gun violence in America. Today, nearly seven years later, research conducted by Malhotra and Luca has... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

December 2023
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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

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4.6 HBS Campus Demonstration Policy | MBA

4.6 HBS Campus Demonstration Policy 4.0 General Policies This policy outlines guidance and requirements for and restrictions on demonstrations and other forms of dissent on the... View Details

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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

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