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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
the way society at large views the role of nonprofit organizations and their management. "There's a growing willingness to work together across the nonprofit, business, and View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
The emergence of civilian governments and market economies throughout the region presents the opportunity for people to be included in the shaping of their destiny - if they can participate. Microfinance... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making
The following article is the eighth in a series on the activities and research taking place in each academic unit at HBS. Whether it involves getting striking baseball players back on the field, cutting a deal with a foreign supplier, or... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 2009
- Comment
The Behavioral Economics of the Labor Market:Central Findings and Their Policy Implications by Ernst Fehr, Lorenz Goette, and Christian Zehnder
By: George P. Baker
Baker, George P. Comment on "The Behavioral Economics of the Labor Market:Central Findings and Their Policy Implications by Ernst Fehr, Lorenz Goette, and Christian Zehnder." Policymaking Insights from Behavioral Economics, edited by Christopher L. Foote, Lorenz Goette, and Stephan Meier, 241–244. Boston, MA: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 2009.
- October 2011 (Revised October 2011)
- Teaching Note
Barack Obama and the Bush Tax Cuts (TN) (B)
By: Matthew Weinzierl and Jacob Kuipers
Teaching Note for 712-012. View Details
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
a number of modifications to the current set of risk-based capital requirements, to the leverage ratio, and to the Federal Reserve’s stress-testing framework. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53243... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2008
- Working Paper
Traveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India
By: Lakshmi Iyer and Anandi Mani
We develop a framework to empirically examine how politicians with electoral pressures control bureaucrats with career concerns as well as the consequences for bureaucrats' career investments. Unique micro-level data on Indian bureaucrats support our key predictions.... View Details
Keywords: Governance Controls; Political Elections; Management Skills; Managerial Roles; Personal Development and Career; Societal Protocols; India
Iyer, Lakshmi, and Anandi Mani. "Traveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-006, July 2008. (Revised April 2009, November 2009.)
- December 1998 (Revised May 1999)
- Exercise
Negotiating Peace Accords in Bellicoso for the Head of the Opposition Political Party (OPP): General Instructions and Confidential Information
Bellicoso is a multi-party conflict resolution simulation based loosely on the bitter civil war in El Salvador. It is designed to explore issues in: 1) the management of interactions between external negotiations between sides and internal negotiations within them, 2)... View Details
Keywords: War; Negotiation Tactics; Negotiation Participants; Government and Politics; Conflict and Resolution; El Salvador
"Negotiating Peace Accords in Bellicoso for the Head of the Opposition Political Party (OPP): General Instructions and Confidential Information." Harvard Business School Exercise 899-090, December 1998. (Revised May 1999.)
- December 1998 (Revised May 1999)
- Exercise
Negotiating Peace Accords in Bellicoso for the Director of the National Landowners Association (NLU): General Instructions and Confidential Information
Bellicoso is a multi-party conflict resolution simulation based loosely on the bitter civil war in El Salvador. It is designed to explore issues in: 1) the management of interactions between external negotiations between sides and internal negotiations within them, 2)... View Details
Keywords: War; Negotiation Tactics; Negotiation Participants; Government and Politics; Conflict and Resolution; El Salvador
"Negotiating Peace Accords in Bellicoso for the Director of the National Landowners Association (NLU): General Instructions and Confidential Information." Harvard Business School Exercise 899-089, December 1998. (Revised May 1999.)
- December 2024
- Article
Coordinating the Energy Transition: Electrifying Transportation in California and Germany
By: Nicholas Goedeking and Jonas Meckling
California and Germany share ambitious emission reduction targets. Yet California is ahead of Germany in electrifying transportation by several metrics, including the number of public charging stations. We show that variation in the politics of coordination in... View Details
Keywords: Electric Vehicles; Coordination; Technology Adoption; Infrastructure; Transportation; Government and Politics; Energy; Utilities Industry; Germany; California
Goedeking, Nicholas, and Jonas Meckling. "Coordinating the Energy Transition: Electrifying Transportation in California and Germany." Art. 114321. Energy Policy 195 (December 2024).
- Article
Traveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India
By: Lakshmi Iyer and Anandi Mani
We develop a framework to empirically examine how politicians with electoral pressures control bureaucrats with career concerns as well as the consequences for bureaucrats' career investments. Unique micro-level data on Indian bureaucrats support our key predictions.... View Details
Keywords: Framework; Government and Politics; Investment; Competency and Skills; Personal Development and Career; Rank and Position; Forecasting and Prediction; India
Iyer, Lakshmi, and Anandi Mani. "Traveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India." Review of Economics and Statistics 94, no. 3 (August 2012): 723–739.
- 30 Jan 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Understanding Different Approaches to Benefit-Based Taxation
- March 2009
- Article
The Impact of Shareholder Activism on Financial Reporting and Compensation: The Case of Employee Stock Options Expensing
By: F. Ferri and Tatiana Sandino
We examine the economic consequences of more than 150 shareholder proposals to expense employee stock options (ESO) submitted during the proxy seasons of 2003 and 2004, the first case in which the SEC allowed a shareholder vote on an accounting matter. Our results... View Details
Keywords: Shareholder Activism; Shareholder Votes; Stock Option Expensing; Executive Compensation; Financial Reporting; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Corporate Governance; Business and Shareholder Relations; Investment Activism
Ferri, F., and Tatiana Sandino. "The Impact of Shareholder Activism on Financial Reporting and Compensation: The Case of Employee Stock Options Expensing." Accounting Review 84, no. 2 (March 2009): 433–466.
- June 2023
- Case
ByteDance: TikTok and the Trials of Going Viral in 2023
By: William C. Kirby, Noah B. Truwit and John P. McHugh
In March 2023, Chew, with an army of well-paid U.S. lobbyists and TikTok creators, descended on Washington. In his testimony, he planned to highlight the 150 million daily active American users on TikTok and how the platform had benefitted small business owners and... View Details
- 28 May 2017
- Blog Post
HBS on the Road: Ghana, Nigeria, and Côte d'Ivoire
company and social entrepreneurship focused on youth unemployment to name just two), investors, government ministers, and executives of pan-African companies. And, they were... View Details
- July 1996 (Revised December 2001)
- Case
Becton Dickinson--Designing the New Strategic, Operational, and Financial Planning Process
By: Robert L. Simons, Antonio Davila and Afroze A Mohammed
Describes management's attempts to design and install a sophisticated planning and control system in an international company as it changes its strategy. Issues of strategy implementation, accountability, and performance measurement are at the core of the analysis, as... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategy; Business or Company Management; Corporate Accountability; Governance Controls; System; Performance Evaluation
Simons, Robert L., Antonio Davila, and Afroze A Mohammed. "Becton Dickinson--Designing the New Strategic, Operational, and Financial Planning Process." Harvard Business School Case 197-014, July 1996. (Revised December 2001.)
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
underpaid and is more pronounced for firms with weak corporate governance and high employee turnover. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- May 2016 (Revised June 2016)
- Case
A Succession as the Engine for Success
By: Jay Lorsch, Emily McTague and Rosa Maria Fite
Francisco J. Riberas sat in his office reflecting on his first summer working at the family business, in 1989. Growing up, Francisco Riberas had learned about the company through conversations with his father, Francisco Riberas Pampliega, over the dinner table and in... View Details
- Summer 2020
- Article
Venture Capital's Role in Financing Innovation: What We Know and How Much We Still Need to Learn
By: Josh Lerner and Ramana Nanda
Venture capital is associated with some of the most high-growth and influential firms in the world. Academics and practitioners have effectively articulated the strengths of the venture model. At the same time, venture capital financing also has real limitations in its... View Details
Lerner, Josh, and Ramana Nanda. "Venture Capital's Role in Financing Innovation: What We Know and How Much We Still Need to Learn." Journal of Economic Perspectives 34, no. 3 (Summer 2020): 237–261.
- August 2023 (Revised May 2024)
- Case
Dicerna Pharmaceuticals: Decision Making in Clinical Trial Design and Operations
By: Satish Tadikonda and Amanda McEwen
The success or failure of Dicerna Pharmaceuticals (Dicerna) as an emerging pharmaceutical company would likely hinge on its lead drug candidate Nedosiran and the company’s ability to see it successfully through clinical development. Ralf Rosskamp, Chief Medical... View Details
Keywords: Business Strategy; Health Testing and Trials; Product Development; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Pharmaceutical Industry
Tadikonda, Satish, and Amanda McEwen. "Dicerna Pharmaceuticals: Decision Making in Clinical Trial Design and Operations." Harvard Business School Case 824-018, August 2023. (Revised May 2024.)