Publications

2012
Working Paper

Payout Taxes and the Allocation of Investment

When corporate payout is taxed, internal equity (retained earnings) is cheaper than external equity (share issues). If there are no perfect substitutes for equity finance, payout taxes may therefore have an effect on the investment of firms. High taxes will favor... View Details

Keywords: Business Earnings; Equity; Financing and Loans; Investment; Taxation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Motivation and Incentives

Article

The Economy of Fear: H.P. Lovecraft on Eugenics, Economics and the Great Depression

By: Sophus A. Reinert

The early twentieth-century weird writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft is today best remembered for his genre defining style of academic noir pulp fiction. Yet in focusing on certain tropes of his work, such as the many memorable monsters he created to populate his... View Details

Keywords: H.P. Lovecraft; Society; Economics

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08 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019

far from ideal. Past efforts to impact perceptions of Israel, spearheaded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as well as various Jewish organizations, were mainly aimed at “explaining” Israel’s political position View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

24 Apr 2014
News

Connecting people and policymakers in a conversation online

After taking an active role in Barack Obama’s reelection campaign, in which she discovered how much she enjoyed canvassing voters and talking to people, Elsa Sze (MBA/MPP 2014) wanted to extend the intensity of View Details

Article

Popular Acceptance of Inequality Due to Innate Brute Luck and Support for Classical Benefit-based Taxation

By: Matthew C. Weinzierl

U.S. survey respondents' views on distributive justice differ in two specific, related ways from what is conventionally assumed in modern optimal tax research. When expressing their preferences over allocations in stylized, hypothetical scenarios meant to isolate key... View Details

Keywords: Optimal Taxation; Welfarism; Luck; Benefit-based Taxation; Taxation; Equality and Inequality; Attitudes

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March 2003 (Revised March 2011)
Background Note

A Note on Antitrust and Competitive Tactics

By: Dennis A. Yao

Provides an overview of antitrust law as it relates to competitive strategy. Discusses the problem of managing antitrust risk and provides a guide to business actions that pose antitrust risk. View Details

Keywords: Laws and Statutes; Risk Management; Monopoly; Business and Government Relations; Competitive Strategy

Educators

01 Mar 2017
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

and come away with a deeper understanding of the greatest strengths and vulnerabilities of the nation’s democracy as well as its resilience over time. He adapts the case method to revitalize conversations... View Details

20 Nov 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018

about “content moderation”—not for the easy topics like spam or copyright material—but for the hard things revolving around political points of view, hate speech, polarizing perspectives, etc. How will Facebook strike the balance between... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

02 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019

experiments replicated and extended this basic effect, providing evidence of when and why it occurs. Taken together, these studies imply that the proactive revelation of costs can improve a firm’s bottom... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

April 2011 (Revised March 2013)
Supplement

BANEX and the No Pago Movement (B)

By: Shawn Cole and Baily Blair Kempner

This case examines Grassroots Capital's decision of whether or not to continue investing in a Bolivian microfinance bank that is suffering financial distress. View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Microfinance; Investment; Government and Politics; Crisis Management; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Services Industry; Bolivia

01 Apr 2001
News

Jimmy Lai Chee-ying: Rags, Riches, and Risk

the Chinese government and openly supporting the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong and the mainland. He isn’t afraid to swim against the current View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores

26 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

not to give. Managers of nonprofit organizations should carefully assess this tension when determining if and how to provide information on their performance metrics. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55523... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

October 2012 (Revised February 2013)
Case

Jim Johnson's Re-election to the Goldman Sachs Board

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Kelly Baker

The case presents the opposition by a leading institutional investor in Goldman Sachs to the re-election of Jim Johnson to the board of directors of the company. The investor, Sequoia Fund, opposes the re-election citing Jim Johnson's prior track record as the CEO of... View Details

Keywords: Board Of Directors; Corporate Governance; Director Elections; Goldman Sachs; Reputation; Institutional Investing; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Accountability; Banking Industry; New York (city, NY)

Educators

April 2003 (Revised September 2003)
Case

Harold Morton and the Rivendell Board (A)

By: F. Warren McFarlan and Ingrid Vargas

Describes the thoughts of a new trustee prior to his first trustees meeting. View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards

Educators

2006
Chapter

Corruption and the Demand for Regulating Capitalists

By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch

Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Economic Systems

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2016
Working Paper

Henry A. Kissinger as Negotiator: Background and Key Accomplishments

By: James K. Sebenius, Laurence A. Green and Eugene B. Kogan

Following a brief summary of Henry A. Kissinger’s career, this paper describes six of his most pivotal negotiations: the historic establishment of U.S. diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China, the easing of geopolitical tension with the Soviet Union,... View Details

Keywords: Kissinger; Bargaining; Diplomacy; Multiparty Negotiations; Dispute Resolution; Mediation; Coercive Diplomacy; Negotiation; International Relations; Personal Development and Career; United States

SSRN

2012
Working Paper

Brides for Sale: Cross-Border Marriages and Female Immigration

Every year, a large number of women migrate as brides from developing countries to developed countries in East Asia. This phenomenon virtually did not exist in the early 1990s, but foreign brides currently comprise 4 to 35 percent of newlyweds in these developed Asian... View Details

Keywords: Immigration; Gender; Developing Countries and Economies; Education; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; East Asia; Japan; South Korea; Taiwan; Singapore

April 1980
Teaching Note

Management Succession and Board Membership, Teaching Note

By: Richard G. Hamermesh

Keywords: Management Succession; Governing and Advisory Boards