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Tax Aversion in Labor Supply
By: Judd B. Kessler and Michael I. Norton
In a real-effort laboratory experiment, labor supply decreases more with the introduction of a tax than with a financially equivalent drop in wages. This “tax aversion” is large in magnitude: when we decompose the productivity decrease that arises from taxation, we... View Details
Keywords: Taxes; Labor Supply; Productivity; Experiments; Wages; Human Capital; Performance Productivity; Taxation
Kessler, Judd B., and Michael I. Norton. "Tax Aversion in Labor Supply." Special Issue on Taxation, Social Norms and Compliance. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 124 (April 2016): 15–28.
- September 2000
- Background Note
Professional Services Module Four: Managing the Organization Through Processes
By: Thomas J. DeLong, Ashish Nanda and Scot H. Landry
Focuses on how the internal processes connect strategy with implementation. View Details
DeLong, Thomas J., Ashish Nanda, and Scot H. Landry. "Professional Services Module Four: Managing the Organization Through Processes." Harvard Business School Background Note 801-010, September 2000.
- 05 May 2022
- News
Like-Minded
seemingly missing in Japan’s financial world. They couldn’t put their collective finger on it—not until, that is, they built their own VC firm. To be clear, the trio did not set out to create the first female-led venture capital firm in... View Details
- 05 Nov 2024
- Research & Ideas
AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen
It's an AI-age twist on the classic Turing Test, developed by British computer scientist Alan Turing in 1950 to judge whether machines could exhibit “intelligence.” Called the “Wade Test,” after the CEO of the company the researchers... View Details
- November–December 2024
- Article
Loss of Peers and Individual Worker Performance: Evidence From H-1B Visa Denials
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Kirk Doran, Astrid Marinoni and Chungeun Yoon
We study how restrictive immigration policies that result in the unexpected loss of co-workers affect the performance of skilled migrants employed in organizations. Specifically, we examine the impact of the loss of team members on their co-workers’ performance in... View Details
Keywords: Immigration; Performance Productivity; Employees; Human Capital; Ethnicity; Groups and Teams
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Kirk Doran, Astrid Marinoni, and Chungeun Yoon. "Loss of Peers and Individual Worker Performance: Evidence From H-1B Visa Denials." Organization Science 35, no. 6 (November–December 2024): 2040–2063.
- 28 Aug 2015
- Blog Post
What is the HBS Health Care Initiative?
staff who support the many health care activities and programs both on and off campus. 2. Career education Later in the fall, the Health Care Initiative works with the Career and Professional Development (CPD) department to execute... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Leadership in Practice
William F. Dawson Jr. (MBA 1991) After three decades working with executives in scores of private and public companies, Wellspring Capital Management CEO William F. Dawson Jr. (MBA 1991) is convinced that “the most successful business... View Details
- June 2014
- Case
Stock Options at Celia-Check
By: Brian Hall, Andrew Wasynczuk and Karen Huang
Describes issues facing three young founders of a high-tech start-up, including hiring an experienced CEO and negotiating with a potential VC investor. Focuses on the incentive and compensation aspects of negotiating with job candidates (e.g., what percentage of the... View Details
- Profile
Leo Markel
Why was earning your MBA at Harvard Business School important to you? I came to Harvard Business School to further develop my leadership ability. While confident in my analytical skills, I recognized that I did not have the leadership... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Four Promoted to Full Professor
protection, particularly patents, on the competitive strategies of firms in high-technology industries. Venture Capital and Private Equity, an elective course Lerner developed and introduced into the HBS... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
documents the development of scholarship devoted to marketing, consumer behavior, and industrial psychology, academic disciplines that have helped to spread American-style capitalism into every corner of the... View Details
- 16 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities
improvement and offer new methods to city planners and real estate developers looking to identify areas in need of improvement. The collaborators reveal their findings in a May 2017 paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of... View Details
- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
International Development Harvard Business Review Press The spread of capitalism worldwide has made people wealthier than ever before. But capitalism’s future is far from assured. Pandemics, income... View Details
- 08 Jan 2016
- News
Investing in Sustainability
later, as an analyst at Fidelity and a portfolio manager at SAC Capital. “I spent 15 years researching and trading in the food and energy space,” says Tiller. “In the course of doing my research, I developed views not just on what was... View Details
- 04 Apr 2019
- News
Promoting Diversity at Sundance and Beyond
Brickson Diamond (MBA 1999) was in the midst of a successful career in investment management with the $1.7 trillion Capital Group Companies when he cofounded the Blackhouse Foundation, a nonprofit aimed at advancing the careers of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Talent: The Best Employee Perk?
“[Just] as organizations that invested financial capital more wisely than their rivals performed better in the past, the companies that do the best job of managing time, talent, and energy are the ones that win today’s competitive races.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Faculty Books
as venture capital and buyouts but excluding hedge funds—has become a much larger, more influential part of the global economy over the past two decades. The authors—Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking; Leamon, an... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)
stance as director general of SEC Nigeria. “We made sure that the cost of wrongdoing was very high and that there were no sacred cows. I knew that the Nigerian capital markets could be transformative—that this was a role where I could... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- April 2004 (Revised March 2008)
- Case
Precise Software
By: Paul A. Gompers and Sara Bergson
Yossi Sela, general partner at Gemini Venture capital, considers a new investment in Precise Software. The firm is at a crisis point, and Sela needs to decide whether he will fire the firm's chief executive officer. Conflicts between the American CEO and the Israeli... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Investment; Resignation and Termination; Crisis Management; Managerial Roles; Conflict and Resolution; Israel; United States
Gompers, Paul A., and Sara Bergson. "Precise Software." Harvard Business School Case 204-157, April 2004. (Revised March 2008.)
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Marked Managers
biotech industry. At HBS, Higgins currently teaches Self-Assessment and Career Development in the MBA curriculum and Strategic Human Resource Management in the Executive Education Program. What is a career... View Details