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  • 16 Apr 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Auditing Oligopoly and Lobbying on Accounting Standards

Keywords: by Abigail M. Allen, Karthik Ramanna & Sugata Roychowdhury; Accounting; Banking

    Felix Oberholzer-Gee

    Felix Oberholzer-Gee is the Andreas Andresen Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. An award-winning instructor, his academic work and consulting are focused on competitive strategy and the effects of digital technology on corporate... View Details

    Keywords: media; professional services; manufacturing; advertising
    • July 9, 2014
    • Article

    A Great Negotiator's Essential Advice

    By: James K. Sebenius
    The Program on Negotiation (PON), an active Harvard-MIT-Tufts consortium, honored View Details
    Keywords: Negotiation Process; Negotiation Tactics; Personal Development and Career; Negotiation Style; Singapore
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    • 22 May 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: May 22, 2007

    J. Gomes, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, and Luis M. Viceira Abstract Governments are known for procrastinating when it comes to resolving painful policy problems. Whatever the political motives for waiting to decide, procrastination distorts... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 05 Jan 2017
    • Working Paper Summaries

    High-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration

    Keywords: by Sari Pekkala Kerr, William Kerr, Çağlar Özden, and Christopher Parsons
    • spring 1987
    • Article

    Second-Sourcing and the Experience Curve: Price Competition in Defense Procurement

    By: James J. Anton and Dennis A. Yao
    We examine a dynamic model of price competition in defense procurement that incorporates the experience curve, asymmetric cost information, and the availability of a higher cost alternative system. We model acquisition as a two-stage process in which initial production... View Details
    Keywords: Acquisition; Government and Politics; Price; Competition; Mathematical Methods
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    • Web

    Entrepreneurial Management - Faculty & Research

    of entrepreneurial success for our students and for practitioners worldwide. Because it is such a complex phenomenon, entrepreneurship must be studied through multiple lenses. We use three. The process of entrepreneurship - We seek to... View Details
    • 04 Sep 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Is Government Just Stupid? How Bad Decisions Are Made

    that would hurt only a small, narrowly defined special-interest group—in many cases, a group that has already manipulated the political process to its advantage. We agree with Stiglitz's argument that... View Details
    Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman, Jonathan Baron & Katherine Shonk
    • September 2021 (Revised November 2022)
    • Case

    Community Solutions

    By: Brian Trelstad and Tom Quinn
    Community Solutions was an anti-homelessness nonprofit founded in 2011 after protagonist Rosanne Haggerty grew frustrated with the limited impact of traditional housing and outreach strategies. It set an ambitious goal, reached in some partner communities, of ending... View Details
    Keywords: Change; Change Management; Disruption; Transformation; Communication; Communication Strategy; Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Social Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Capital Budgeting; Capital Markets; Country; Government Administration; Government Legislation; Housing; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy; Knowledge Sharing; Leading Change; Resource Allocation; Mission and Purpose; Performance Evaluation; Performance Improvement; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Opportunities; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Human Needs; Public Opinion; Social Issues; Societal Protocols; Poverty; Welfare; Well-being; System; Equality and Inequality; Consulting Industry; Real Estate Industry; United States; New York (city, NY); Florida; Texas
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    • 05 Jul 2006
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Reinventing Savings Bonds

    Keywords: by Peter Tufano & Daniel Schneider; Financial Services
    • 2022
    • Chapter

    Fiscal Development under Colonial and Sovereign Rule

    By: Ewout Frankema and Marlous van Waijenburg
    This chapter explores differences in the making of a ‘modern’ fiscal state under colonial and sovereign rule. Focusing on African and Asian colonies (1820–1970) and their respective European metropoles, it argues that while the introduction of ‘modern’... View Details
    Keywords: Fiscal Modernization; Colonial Rule; Economic History; Sovereign Finance; History; Taxation; Africa; Asia
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      Nitin Nohria

      Nitin Nohria served as the tenth dean of Harvard Business School from 2010-2020. He previously served as co-chair of the Leadership Initiative, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development, and Head of the Organizational Behavior unit.

      As Dean, building on... View Details

      Keywords: accounting industry; arts; biotechnology; emerging market private equity; energy; executive search; financial services; green technology; health care; high technology; industrial goods; information technology industry; infrastructure industry; investment banking industry; legal services; management consulting; manufacturing; oil ＆ gas; petroleum; pharmaceuticals; professional services
      • 2015
      • Chapter

      Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration

      By: Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr and William F. Lincoln
      Firms play a central role in the selection, sponsorship, and employment of skilled immigrants entering the United States for work through programs like the H-1B visa. This role has not been widely recognized in the literature, and the data to better understand it have... View Details
      Keywords: Business or Company Management; Human Capital; Immigration; Innovation and Invention; United States
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      • Person Page

      Course Development

      By: Debora L. Spar

      Managing International Trade and Investment

      Despite the ease with which it is often conducted, doing business across borders is not the same as doing it at home. Rather, it entails a whole new set of managerial challenges: re-assessing competitive... View Details

      • 2013
      • Article

      Historical Legacies, Modern Conflicts: State Consolidation and Religious Pluralism in Greece and Turkey

      By: Kristin Fabbe
      Through a comparative study of state consolidation processes and the acceptance of religious tolerance in Greece and Turkey, this piece shows that there is often a direct link between strategies of state building, the creation of state identities, and contemporary... View Details
      Keywords: Religion; Government and Politics; Power and Influence; Turkey; Greece
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      • 2024
      • Working Paper

      Bounded Solidarity: The Role of Migrants in Shaping Entrepreneurial Ventures

      By: Astrid Marinoni and Prithwiraj Choudhury
      We explore a previously unexamined aspect of migrants’ contributions to local entrepreneurial ecosystems: the value created by cooperative interactions between migrants and locals in entrepreneurial ventures. Specifically, we analyze whether mixed teams composed of... View Details
      Keywords: Migration; Mobility; Entrepreneurship; Immigration; Demographics; Groups and Teams
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      • 24 Oct 2018
      • Sharpening Your Skills

      Startup or Established Company? Which Is Best for You?

      executive teams can be world class or “legacy” leaders who can’t move with the times. There are many tradeoffs when factoring leadership into the decision process of startup versus mature. Startup founded by serial entrepreneurs. This can... View Details
      Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
      • 08 Nov 2016
      • First Look

      November 8, 2016

      policy reforms flounder. Unlike incremental policy reforms, they are often seen to be politically risky and prone to failure. Using examples of success and failure, coupled with insights from practitioners and academics who have succeeded... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • September 2006 (Revised December 2006)
      • Case

      Arizona Department of Public Health: The Challenges of Preparing for a Public Health Emergency

      By: Lynda M. Applegate, Ajay Vinze, T. S. Raghu and Minu Ipe
      In the post-9/11 era information technology enablement for emergency preparedness and response have taken on increased significance. Public health organizations like ADHS play a critical role in any statewide preparation for large scale emergencies. With issues like... View Details
      Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Information Technology; Health Care and Treatment; Business Processes; Service Delivery; National Security; Health Industry; Public Administration Industry; Arizona
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      • 2013
      • Comment

      Fairness and Redistribution: Comment

      By: Rafael Di Tella and Juan Dubra
      In an influential paper, Alesina and Angeletos (2005)—henceforth, AA—argued that a preference for fairness could lead two identical societies to choose different economic systems. In particular, two equilibria might arise: one with low taxes and a belief that the... View Details
      Keywords: Taxes; Beliefs; Economic Systems; Values and Beliefs; Fairness; Taxation
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