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The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations

By: Mihir A. Desai, Suzanne Antoniou and Leanne Fan

How should historic social injustices be addressed? Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and their descendants, including Representative Regina Goodwin of Tulsa, believe they should be addressed through reparations and have consequently continued to push the government... View Details

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03 May 2016
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First Look, May 3, 2016

Zou Abstract—There is relatively little prior evidence on the potential impact of rank and file employees on financial reporting choices outside union negotiations. We contribute to the literature by providing new evidence that firms... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas

product." “"Whenever you invent something, you open up a trajectory and people are going to come after you.” The other choice companies have is to keep an idea secret in order to protect the value of the idea and maximize... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

04 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Don’t Lose Money With Customers

disciplined firms are at the market and segment levels if the same focus and precision don't exist in customer choice as well," Narayandas points out. In the second phase, Narayandas identifies three key aspects of managing customer... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs

21 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 21

usual. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=409116 Philips versus Matsushita: Competing Strategic and Organizational Choices Harvard Business School Case 909-415 Traces the evolving competition... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 6, 2007

outside of the market, or having to engage in costly and risky strategic behavior. I'll draw on recent examples of market design ranging from labor markets for doctors and new economists, to kidney exchange, and school choice in New York... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Aug 2024
In Practice

Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

electric school buses to jeopardize consumer support and make your innovations controversial again. The choice is stark. In a climate-denying administration, this may set back the industry for years, letting global warming continue... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009

small IT consulting firm, Exeter needs to make careful choices about how it allocates resources to projects, and it is not clear if the firm has the capacity to add all four projects at once. Thus Kutchins and Cullen have to decide which,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Nov 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Moral Leader

were Ms. X, what would you do?", in literature we get to see "the rest of the story." Because we are searching for examples of moral leadership, we want to understand the impact of characters' choices on the situation they... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education

09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008

this choice and increases the chance that governments will under-invest. Policy suggestions that may alleviate this problem are discussed. Download the HBS working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-040.pdf The Impact of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

points. Pseudo-set framing changes gambling choices (Study 1), effort (Studies 2 and 3), giving behavior (Field Data and Study 4), and purchase decisions (Study 5). These effects persist in the absence of any reward, when a cost must be... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

31 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

recent book of non-fiction that I believe will be historically important. Both my choices top 700 pages, hence my hesitancy. The first book is Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate. It inevitably appears on the list of greatest war novels of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Information; Publishing

12 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 12

extremely limited. Theoretically, delegation of authority is expected when locally adapted choices are most important to the overall value of the firm, when local information advantages are significant, or when the cost of processing... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 26

settings, reflects risk neutrality in choice among low-magnitude mixed gambles. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-056.pdf PublicationsConstructing the International Economy Editors:Rawi Abdelal, Mark Blyth, and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 23

variety of applications and services that drive the popularity of software. The first principle focuses on enabling choice: firms should allow consumers and partners to have a real choice between complementary products and services from... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 10, 2007

forces in a company's government, legal, and social environment. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707469 U.S. Taxation of Foreign-Source Corporate Income Harvard Business School Note 207-085 Identifies several of the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Sep 2003
Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act

they bring a difficult choice to life: "This new business requires completely different marketing and manufacturing skills, even though the exact same customers will purchase the product. Do you want to set up an independent unit, or... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin

17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17

offline. While Progress grapples with the scope of the repairs and an increasingly skeptical insurance provider, the Duke board begins to doubt their choice for the leader of the combined companies. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Jan 2014
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features a seller with private information and costly buyer participation. The empirical context of the study is the market for original movie ideas. Consistent with the theory, I find that inexperienced writers are excluded from selling early-stage ideas, restricting... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Mar 2013
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differences in strategic orientation choices and their performance outcomes for American and Japanese entrepreneurial firms, focusing on founders' achievement motivation as a key personal disposition. Design/methodology/approach: A survey... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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