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  • 2009
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The Pecora Hearings

By: David Moss, Cole Bolton and Eugene Kintgen

In 1932, in the depths of the Great Depression, the Senate Banking Committee began a much-publicized investigation of the nation's financial sector. The hearings, which came to be known as the Pecora hearings after the Banking Committee's lead counsel Ferdinand... View Details

Keywords: Financial History; Financial Crisis; Financial Markets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government Legislation; Laws and Statutes; Business and Government Relations; Financial Services Industry
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Moss, David, Cole Bolton, and Eugene Kintgen. "The Pecora Hearings." 2009. (Draft case.)
  • 03 May 2004
  • What Do You Think?

How Much Is Enough?

those posing questions about how we should think about "just enough." Bill Thompson put in words what a number of the respondents seemed to assume when he said, "I believe that the current, quasi-obscene disparities [in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 09 Jul 2014
  • Research & Ideas

How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools

forces with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Boston Consulting Group to determine how business leaders can partner more effectively with educators to support America's students and schools. "Study after study has shown... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education
  • February 2015
  • Supplement

The Affordable Care Act (G): The Final Votes

By: Joseph L. Bower and Michael Norris
In the fall of 2009, the House and Senate each voted to pass health reform bills. These bills then had to be combined into the Affordable Care Act and the ACA had to be passed by both houses. Reconciliation had to be used because of Republican Scott Brown's Senate... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Health Care Policy; Government And Politics; Health; Policy; Health Industry; United States
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Bower, Joseph L., and Michael Norris. "The Affordable Care Act (G): The Final Votes." Harvard Business School Supplement 315-038, February 2015.
  • June 2018 (Revised January 2020)
  • Case

Renegotiating NAFTA

By: Laura Alfaro, Haviland Sheldahl-Thomason and Sarah Jeong
January 1, 2019 marked the 25th anniversary of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Twenty-five years after the landmark trade pact was signed by the United States, Canada, and Mexico, considerable debate surrounded it. Trade and trade agreements were a... View Details
Keywords: Trade; Negotiation; Agreements and Arrangements; Cost vs Benefits; Auto Industry; United States; Mexico; Canada
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Alfaro, Laura, Haviland Sheldahl-Thomason, and Sarah Jeong. "Renegotiating NAFTA." Harvard Business School Case 318-143, June 2018. (Revised January 2020.)
  • 19 Dec 2014
  • Research & Ideas

China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature

Despite its name, the Great Wall of China began as a series of smaller, isolated defensive fortifications. Those structures grew and were later unified into the imposing structure that exists today. The Great Wall is a great metaphor for the Chinese economy. View Details
Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Manufacturing
  • 08 Mar 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens

negotiating too narrowly with those who have formal power and authority. Negotiation experts have a patriarchal name for a version of this classic—and avoidable—mistake: Decide-Announce-Defend or DAD. Along with gaining the full-throated support of New York Mayor View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius; Real Estate; Construction
  • 15 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

academics talk a good game about the need for interdisciplinary thinking, but we usually fall back on the strengths (or prejudices) of our primary discipline. Chandler was heavily influenced by sociologists such as Max Weber and Talcott... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Forthcoming
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Legislators' Demand for Firms' Financial Statements: Evidence from U.S. Congressional Redistricting Events

By: Matthew Ma, Jing Pan, Ethan Rouen and Laura Wellman
We investigate whether U.S. House representatives and their staff seek financial information from constituent firms to inform their legislative decisions. We exploit shifts in U.S. congressional districts (i.e., the reconfiguration of federal district lines or... View Details
Keywords: Redistricting; Lobbying; Legislators; Voting Behavior; Corporate Disclosure; Government Legislation; Voting; Behavior
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Ma, Matthew, Jing Pan, Ethan Rouen, and Laura Wellman. "Legislators' Demand for Firms' Financial Statements: Evidence from U.S. Congressional Redistricting Events." Review of Accounting Studies (forthcoming). (Pre-published online July 7, 2025.)
  • 05 Dec 2016
  • Research & Ideas

How The 2016 Presidential Candidates Misled Us With Truthful Statements

Bill Clinton about allegations of his having had an affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. In his answers, the president speaks in the present tense as a way of dodging Lehrer’s questions. Jim Lehrer: “No improper... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 Dec 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Founder of Modern Venture Capital

Georges F. Doriot, an educator and a founder of the modern venture capital industry, is the subject of a new exhibition and website at Harvard Business School, where he spent 40 years. The charismatic professor taught business and... View Details
Keywords: Education; Financial Services
  • 05 Mar 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

CPC/CPA Hybrid Bidding in a Second Price Auction

Keywords: by Benjamin Edelman & Hoan Soo Lee
  • 29 Aug 2018
  • What Do You Think?

What Should Harley-Davidson’s Management Do?

company executives, who “biked” there on their own machines. Executives and employees alike shared a devotion to motorcycle culture. Its outlook was improved by the 2017 tax cut that would have reduced its tax View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Auto
  • 02 Aug 2017
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Summing Up: Why Can’t Organizations Engage Their Employees?

“Engagement comes from spirit, and if the organization has little or no spirit—if it see mission as simply ‘maximizing shareholder value’—then engagement will remain an elusive thing.” George Yurieff added that “as long as the order entry... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Oct 2009
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Can the “Masks of Command” Coexist with Authentic Leadership?

concludes that "These are terribly important questions with no easy answers." Bill George, former Chairman and CEO of Medtronic and now a professor at the Harvard Business School, thinks he knows the answers. View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • June 2005 (Revised March 2007)
  • Case

ACHAP (African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnerships): the Merck/Gates Initiative in Botswana

By: V. Kasturi Rangan
By June 2004, ACHAP, a three-way partnership of The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Merck, and the Botswana government, had committed nearly $60 million of the $100 million toward various AIDS education, prevention, and treatment programs. It was time to evaluate... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Social Marketing; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Evaluation; Business and Government Relations; Partners and Partnerships; Health Industry
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Rangan, V. Kasturi. "ACHAP (African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnerships): the Merck/Gates Initiative in Botswana." Harvard Business School Case 505-057, June 2005. (Revised March 2007.)
  • 31 Oct 2007
  • HBS Case

Climate Change Puts Heat on GMs

students tend to take the rational approach that it's fine to spend $100 on insulating a building if that brings down the energy bill by $100. "The only problem is that if an NGO or activist... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities
  • 08 Mar 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”

mountain in the world or how many zeros you tally up in your portfolio. New levels of human performance take us closer to the gods and set the stage for what we hope is excellence in our own DNA. These moments also make good copy. Rocketing success markers that are... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
  • 16 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Times Captures History of American Business

From the dawn of the U.S. transcontinental railroad in 1869 to the widespread embrace of consumer products like cell phones and iPods in our time, the story of American business is in constant motion, never at rest—or at ease. A new volume edited and narrated View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News
  • 20 Dec 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

the limits of attempts by outside governments to improve business and political conditions in other countries. Answering them, however, required a long and detailed romp through the history of US involvement with what Secretary of War... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation
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