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- 24 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
These Coronavirus Heroes Show Us How Crisis Leadership Works
We are in the greatest crisis of our lifetimes—even worse than 9/11 and the 2008-09 financial meltdown that triggered the Great Recession. This crisis is directly affecting every person, even those who don’t recognize it yet. Now is a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: Ruling the Waves
in their early stages, to threaten governmental control and authority. While aspects of its power may indeed be diminished, government inevitably survives these apparent challenges, Spar observes, because... View Details
- September 2009
- Article
Labor Market Institutions and Global Strategic Adaptation: Evidence from Lincoln Electric
By: Jordan I. Siegel and Barbara Zepp Larson
Although one of the central questions in the global strategy field is how multinational firms successfully navigate multiple and often conflicting institutional environments, we know relatively little about the effect of conflicting labor market institutions on... View Details
Keywords: Institutions; Labor Market; Complementarity; Global Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Labor Unions; Laws and Statutes; Operations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Manufacturing Industry
Siegel, Jordan I., and Barbara Zepp Larson. "Labor Market Institutions and Global Strategic Adaptation: Evidence from Lincoln Electric." Management Science 55, no. 9 (September 2009): 1527–1546. (Although one of the central questions in the global strategy field is how multinational firms successfully navigate multiple and often conflicting institutional environments, we know relatively little about the effect of conflicting labor market institutions on multinational firms' strategic choice and operating performance. With its decision to invest in manufacturing operations in nearly every one of the world's largest welding
markets, Lincoln Electric offers us a quasi-experiment. We leverage a unique data set covering 1996–2006 that combines data on each host country's labor market institutions with data on each subsidiary's strategic choices and historical operating performance. We find that Lincoln Electric performed significantly better in countries with labor laws and regulations supporting manufacturers' interests and in countries that allowed the free
use of both piecework and a discretionary bonus. Furthermore, we find that in countries with labor market institutions unfriendly to manufacturers, Lincoln Electric was still able to overcome most (although not all) of the institutional distance by what we term flexible intermediate adaptation.)
- 02 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Need a Say on Pay
Representatives passed a bill granting shareholders a non-binding vote on executive compensation and severance packages. It also maintains that compensation committees should be independent of management. But given its non-binding status,... View Details
- November–December 2023
- Article
Tax-Loss Harvesting with Cryptocurrencies
By: Lin William Cong, Wayne Landsman, Edward Maydew and Daniel Rabetti
We describe the taxation landscape in the cryptocurrency markets, especially concerning U.S. taxpayers, and examine how recent increases in tax scrutiny have led to changes in crypto investors' trading behavior. We argue conceptually and then empirically document that... View Details
Cong, Lin William, Wayne Landsman, Edward Maydew, and Daniel Rabetti. "Tax-Loss Harvesting with Cryptocurrencies." Art. 101607. Journal of Accounting & Economics 76, nos. 2-3 (November–December 2023).
- August 2008 (Revised May 2009)
- Case
Consumer Payment Systems — Japan
By: Benjamin Edelman and Andrei Hagiu
In 2008, the Japanese consumer payments landscape featured ongoing widespread use of cash, limited use of credit cards and rapid rise of e-money systems based on contactless technology embedded in cards and especially mobile phones. The case details the alliances that... View Details
Keywords: Personal Finance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Digital Platforms; Alliances; Competitive Strategy; Information Infrastructure; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Japan
Edelman, Benjamin, and Andrei Hagiu. "Consumer Payment Systems — Japan." Harvard Business School Case 909-007, August 2008. (Revised May 2009.) (request a courtesy copy.)
- 07 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 7
http://www.people.hbs.edu/wkerr/130424-CGK-IPE.pdf Board Games: Timing of Independent Directors' Dissent in China By: Ma, Juan, and Tarun Khanna Abstract—This paper examines the circumstances under which so-called "independent"... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat
U.S. consumers more power over decisions related to health care. Those who advocate consumer-driven health care—including conference chair Professor Regina E. Herzlinger—believe that shifting control of... View Details
- June 2023
- Article
Regulatory Limits to Risk Management
By: Ishita Sen
Variable annuities, the largest liability of U.S. life insurers, are investment products containing long-dated minimum return guarantees. I show that guarantees with similar economic risks are treated differently by regulation and these differences impact insurers’... View Details
Keywords: Interest Rate Risk; Variable Annuities; Capital Regulation; Reinsurance; Derivatives; Risk Management; Interest Rates; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
Sen, Ishita. "Regulatory Limits to Risk Management." Review of Financial Studies 36, no. 6 (June 2023): 2175–2223. (Lead Article and Editor's Choice, Winner of the RFS Rising Scholar Award 2024.)
- December 2020 (Revised February 2021)
- Teaching Note
The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations
By: Mihir A. Desai and Suzanne Antoniou
How should historic social injustices be addressed? Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and their descendants, including Representative Regina Goodwin of Tulsa, believe they should be addressed through reparations and have consequently continued to push the government... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Judgments; Race; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Policy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government Legislation; Government and Politics; Government Administration; Lawsuits and Litigation; Legal Liability; Leading Change; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Conflict and Resolution; Conflict Management; Loss; Motivation and Incentives; Perspective; Prejudice and Bias; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Welfare; Tulsa; Oklahoma; United States
- Article
The CMS New Rule on Ambulatory Surgical Centers Earns Only Partial Credit
By: Junaid Nabi and Robert S. Kaplan
The Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced that it will be removing more... View Details
Keywords: Ambulatory Care; Payment Policy; Health Care and Treatment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
Nabi, Junaid, and Robert S. Kaplan. "The CMS New Rule on Ambulatory Surgical Centers Earns Only Partial Credit." Health Affairs Blog (June 2, 2021).
- 02 Mar 2016
- Blog Post
HBS FIELD - A Sneak Peek Into Retail
how unique the FIELD experience is. It was the first time that I, or the rest of my group, had total control over the development and presentation of a company defining... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 06 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
WHY WE STARTED THE HBS BLACK INVESTMENT CLUB
owned by women and minorities control less than 1% of total industry assets. Less than one percent. This is the problem that our club has set out to address. “The industry’s reliance on personal... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 06 Sep 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?
on a resource controlled by a few relatively unstable nations have been sounded for years. In the U.S., they became especially acute at the time of the first oil crises in the 1970s. One response was a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- January 2011 (Revised April 2011)
- Case
CME Group
By: Forest L. Reinhardt and James Weber
The case describes CME Group, the world's largest commodities exchange, futures and options on futures contracts, history, regulation, and the strategic choices the company faced. CME Group was formed from the oldest and most well-known exchanges in the world. Traders... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Stocks; Goods and Commodities; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Risk Management; Market Participation; Market Transactions; Financial Services Industry; United States
Reinhardt, Forest L., and James Weber. "CME Group." Harvard Business School Case 711-005, January 2011. (Revised April 2011.)
- 30 Sep 2014
- News
Life Lessons on the Open Seas
on the island of Nantucket off Massachusetts, serves more than 1,000 children, adults, and veterans every year. “I’m a firm believer in growing only as fast as you can control the quality View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 02 Jul 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Inflation with COVID Consumption Baskets
Keywords: by Alberto Cavallo
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
an artifact of soundtrack alone because attitudes toward sharks did not differ among participants assigned to audio-only control treatments. This is the first study to demonstrate empirically that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- June 1996 (Revised July 1997)
- Case
Hostile Bid for Red October, The
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Alan Bigman
Manatep Bank, a Russian investment bank, has just announced the country's first hostile tender offer for Red October, a confectionery company located in Moscow. As the chief financial officer of the target company, Yuri Yegorov must decide how to respond, how much his... View Details
Keywords: Capital Markets; Cash; Governance Controls; Financial Condition; Investment Banking; Financial Markets; Trade; Valuation; Financial Management; Food and Beverage Industry; Moscow
Esty, Benjamin C., and Alan Bigman. "Hostile Bid for Red October, The." Harvard Business School Case 296-084, June 1996. (Revised July 1997.)
- 08 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Europe Lags in Pharmaceuticals and Biotech
pharma," said HBS professor Regina Herzlinger, moderating a panel discussion titled "Pharma and Biotech—Where does Europe Stand in the World?" The discussion was held at the conference on November 22. At the start of the... View Details