Conflict Of Laws - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Nov 2014
HBS Case

How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World

profit. How do these chefs express the full extent of their culinary innovativeness while at the same time as creating a return for investors? Two recent Harvard Business School case studies explore this tension through the experience... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders

from different points of cultural reference, they learn to anticipate and deal with the kinds of value conflicts they are likely to face as global managers. Paine points out... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

07 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence

conflicts of interest. For example, the change in the commission structure in 1974 created a whole new dynamic that influenced the role of research by investment banks. And the... View Details

Keywords: by Harvard Management Update

02 Jan 2019
What Do You Think?

SUMMING UP: Do We Need an Artificial Intelligence Czar?

times but would invest in preventing (the) law of (the) jungle from taking over.” ArlenMD suggested that there are organizations on whose efforts an oversight initiative could be built. He cited as one... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

24 May 2004
Research & Ideas

When Reputation Trumps Regulation

Financial Economics, suggests that reputational bonding better explains the success and failure of cross-listings than legal bonding. This is largely due to the fact that the Securities and Exchange Commission, for a number View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

06 Jun 2012
What Do You Think?

Is Something Wrong with the Way We Work?

jobs and work-life balance, and perceptions of team collaboration, efficiency, and effectiveness. What, if anything, is wrong with this picture? (In spite of differences in labor View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Consulting

01 Feb 2012
What Do You Think?

Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?

farms of Europe and the US. It helps explain laws to protect small business from the ravages of the A&Ps and Walmarts. It increasingly drives politics as well as government... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

12 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits

We all know how political influence works: company X donates money to politician Y, and then that pol leans on regulator Z to go easy on his new best friend. In economic parlance, that circle of back-scratching is known as... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

22 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs

positive effects. This may be because the laws that surround skilled visas don't allow companies to pay much less than the prevailing wage. "The most extreme studies find a differential of 20 percent or... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Computer; Financial Services

22 Apr 2015
Op-Ed

Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths

past few years (yes there are some). It is true that Greece reformed laws and regulations to make its economy more open to foreign trade and as a result more competitive. Trade (defined as the sum of exports... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

31 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

thinker as she tracks leads and confronts complex mysteries across 25 books. I’m glad that John Lescroart is still writing about lawyer Dismas Hardy and police inspector Abe Glitzky (half-Black, half-Jewish) and has added Diz’s daughter Rebecca Hardy, newly graduated... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Information; Publishing

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

enabled ships to sail the open sea rather than hug the coast. To solve that problem, governments responded by enacting laws of the sea. It then became clear to me that it was almost impossible to understand... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

14 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

is expressed in myriad ways, from the success of the Vietnam Memorial Wall to the proliferation of laws extending human rights in every domain. The new individuals have plenty... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

19 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

University of California law professor Jodi Short, and HBS doctoral student Andrea Hugill examined factors such as whether it was more effective to send the same auditors back to a company or send new... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

22 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients

When the COVID-19 virus spread worldwide and normal life ground to a halt last year, we thought voluntary employee turnover would drop as well. But the opposite happened in one area: Lift outs—a group of workers who defect... View Details

Keywords: by Robin Abrahams, Boris Groysberg, and Steven L. Manchel

24 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care

back in vogue in Washington D.C. House Republicans will start to fill in the details on a tax proposal ultimately expected to reach a thousand pages. The goal is to get the bill signed into law by President Donald Trump by the end View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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