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- June 2021
- Teaching Note
Serum Institute of India (SII): Racing to Save Lives During a Pandemic
By: Rohit Deshpandé and James Barnett
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 521-028. View Details
- 2019
- Book
Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt
By: Arthur C. Brooks
To get ahead today, you have to be a jerk, right?
Divisive politicians. Screaming heads on television. Angry campus activists. Twitter trolls. Today in America, there is an “outrage industrial complex” that prospers by setting American against... View Details
Divisive politicians. Screaming heads on television. Angry campus activists. Twitter trolls. Today in America, there is an “outrage industrial complex” that prospers by setting American against... View Details
Keywords: Political Participation; Political Culture; Moral Sensibility; Government and Politics; Society; United States
Brooks, Arthur C. Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt. New York: Broadside Books, 2019. (National bestseller.)
- 03 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It
Leaders from some 150 nations have convened in Paris this week for the COP21 conference with a singular goal: to fight the global threat of climate change. Each of them have brought to Paris their own national plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that drive... View Details
- January 2025
- Article
Automatic Enrollment with a 12% Default Contribution Rate
By: John Beshears, Ruofei Guo, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian and James J. Choi
We study a retirement savings plan with a default contribution rate of 12% of income, which is much higher than previously studied defaults. Twenty-five percent of employees had not opted out of this default 12 months after hire; a literature review finds that the... View Details
Keywords: Retirement Savings; Defined Contribution Retirement Plan; Automatic Enrollment; Retirement; Saving; Income; Decision Choices and Conditions
Beshears, John, Ruofei Guo, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, and James J. Choi. "Automatic Enrollment with a 12% Default Contribution Rate." Journal of Pension Economics & Finance 24, no. 1 (January 2025): 152–182. (20th Anniversary Special Issue.)
- 07 May 2019
- News
How Sonja Hoel Perkins Saved John McAfee from an Especially Bad Deal
As a young analyst, early in her career, Sonja Hoel Perkins (MBA 1993) had a nose for deals, according to the book Alpha Girls: The Women Upstarts Who Took on Silicon Valley’s Male Culture and Made the Deals of a Lifetime, by Julian Guthrie, an excerpt of which appears... View Details
- 23 Oct 2023
- Podcast
Saving BlackBerry: CEO John Chen Explains How to Make the Hard Calls
John Chen was hired to save an iconic smartphone company that ran out of juice. BlackBerry had gone from being a corporate world must-have to a global has-been. Chen says the key to turning Blackberry around was being prepared to make hard calls, even in midst of... View Details
- 23 Jan 2022
- News
Plan for Free N95 Masks Could Save Domestic Mask Makers—Or Kill Them
- 16 Oct 2017
- News
Gun waiting periods could save hundreds of lives a year, study says
- January 2015
- Case
Aura Light: From a Light Bulb Manufacturer to an Energy Savings Solutions Provider
By: Krishna Palepu and Elena Corsi
A Swedish light bulb manufacturer reviews its strategy to better compete against large global multinationals. View Details
Palepu, Krishna, and Elena Corsi. "Aura Light: From a Light Bulb Manufacturer to an Energy Savings Solutions Provider." Harvard Business School Case 115-027, January 2015.
- 25 Feb 2013
- Talk
OSHA Inspections: Saving Workers or Killing Jobs? Evidence from Randomized Inspections in California
Toffel, Michael W. "OSHA Inspections: Saving Workers or Killing Jobs? Evidence from Randomized Inspections in California." Harvard-NIOSH Education and Research Center Seminar, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, February 25, 2013.
- Article
Is Saving Lives Your Task or God's?: Religiosity, Belief in God, and Moral Judgment
By: Netta Barak-Corren and Max Bazerman
Should a Catholic hospital abort a life-threatening pregnancy or let a pregnant woman die? Should a religious employer allow his employees access to contraceptives or break with healthcare legislation? People and organizations of faith often face moral decisions that... View Details
Keywords: Normative Conflict; Inaction; Indirectness; Deontology; Utilitarianism; Sunday Effect; Religion; Moral Sensibility; Decisions; Judgments
Barak-Corren, Netta, and Max Bazerman. "Is Saving Lives Your Task or God's? Religiosity, Belief in God, and Moral Judgment." Judgment and Decision Making 12, no. 3 (May 2017): 280–296.
- July 2023 (Revised November 2023)
- Case
The Miccosukee Tribe and the Battle to Save the Everglades: A Miami Climate Action Story
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Joyce J. Kim
The Miccosukee Indians, a small tribe of indigenous people in South Florida, have a long-standing interest in protecting the land, waterways, and habitats of the Everglades, their ancestral home, which serves as a watershed for urban areas in Miami-Dade County and a... View Details
Keywords: Native Americans; Climate Change; Change; Leadership; Natural Environment; Florida; Everglades National Park
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Joyce J. Kim. "The Miccosukee Tribe and the Battle to Save the Everglades: A Miami Climate Action Story." Harvard Business School Case 324-002, July 2023. (Revised November 2023.)
- February 2022
- Article
Borrowing to Save? The Impact of Automatic Enrollment on Debt
By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian and William L. Skimmyhorn
Does automatic enrollment into a retirement plan increase financial distress due to increased borrowing outside the plan? We study a natural experiment created when the U.S. Army began automatically enrolling newly hired civilian employees into the Thrift Savings Plan.... View Details
Keywords: Retirement Savings; Automatic Enrollment; Choice Architecture; Nudge; Financial Distress; Retirement; Saving; Borrowing and Debt; Behavior
Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, and William L. Skimmyhorn. "Borrowing to Save? The Impact of Automatic Enrollment on Debt." Journal of Finance 77, no. 1 (February 2022): 403–447.