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  • 18 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 18, 2007

well as in the United States. Explores the costs and benefits of the company's choices about its vertical, horizontal, and geographical scope. Considers the risks of economic regulation, increasing concerns... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Jan 2017
  • First Look

January 3, 2017

disclosure of fundamentals and trading transparency. This is socially inefficient if a large fraction of market participants are speculators, and hedgers have low processing costs. But in these circumstances, forbidding hedgers’ access to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Feb 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Is ‘Conscious Capitalism’ an Antidote to Income Inequality?

never mind narcissism and all the disorders of greed We can't fix the world with economic systems too big a job all we tiny ones have is our love and conscience." Etienne Douaze maintains that the concept is alive and well in Germany's Mittelstand: " (an) ethos of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 2015
  • Working Paper

'Be Careless with That!' Availability of Product Upgrades Increases Cavalier Behavior Toward Possessions

By: Silvia Bellezza, Joshua M. Ackerman and Francesca Gino
Consumers are often faced with the opportunity to purchase a new, enhanced product (e.g., a new phone), even though the device they currently own is still fully functional. We propose that consumers act more recklessly with their current products and are less concerned... View Details
Keywords: Carelessness; Product Upgrade; Justification; Loss; Consumer Behavior; Attitudes; Product; Ownership
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  • 07 Jan 2016
  • Blog Post

Is HBS Too Big?

concerned about feeling like a number rather than a student in the classroom. Once I got to HBS I realized that it feels big in all the right ways and small in allthe right ways. What I mean is that there... View Details
  • 04 Dec 2023
  • Blog Post

My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service

Care Units. I came to school passionate about access and equity in health care, and curious about systemic barriers to resources that allow communities to live healthy lives. As soon as I got to campus... View Details
  • 26 Oct 2021
  • Blog Post

Tap into Top Talent with the HBS Leadership Fellows Program

organization or role, but Zeaske encourages any student ready to accelerate their social enterprise career to think broadly about how the program can help them have impact. Referring to his Leadership... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise
  • 06 Jun 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Do Strict Capital Requirements Raise the Cost of Capital? Banking Regulation and the Low Risk Anomaly

Keywords: by Malcolm Baker & Jeffrey Wurgler; Banking; Financial Services
  • 05 May 2015
  • First Look

First Look: May 5

socially driven purpose because of how it affects-through the visibility of firm membership and through the visibility of the firm's actions-employee identity and reputation, where we define "identity" as our own beliefs View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

social issues unrelated to their core business, ranging from environmental issues to LGBT rights and race relations. In the first study of this phenomenon, we implement two field experiments to provide evidence on how CEO activism can... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • November 2020
  • Supplement

Valuing Celgene's CVR

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
When Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) acquired Celgene Corporation in November 2019, Celgene shareholders received cash, BMS stock, and a contingent value right (CVRs) that would pay $9 if the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved three of Celgene’s late stage... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Value; Valuation; Judgments; Decision Making; Cash Flow; Financial Instruments; Cognition and Thinking; Pharmaceutical Industry; Biotechnology Industry; United States
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  • 20 Apr 2016
  • Research & Ideas

When CEOs Become Activists

Business, Aaron Chatterji, call “CEO activism,” in which corporate executives speak out about social or environmental issues not obviously related to their core businesses. “What prompted this research is... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Publishing
  • August 2004
  • Article

Inequality and Happiness: Are Europeans and Americans Different?

By: Rafael Di Tella, Alberto Alesina and Robert MacCulloch
We study the effect of the level of inequality in society on individual well-being using a total of 123,668 answers to a survey question about “happiness”. We find that individuals have a lower tendency to report themselves happy when inequality is high, even after... View Details
Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Happiness; Global Range; Local Range; United States; Europe
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Faculty & Research

market investors and non-investors; (ii) concerns about the treatment of workers and CEO pay rank highest, higher than concerns about workforce... View Details
  • December 2001 (Revised June 2002)
  • Case

Compensation at Level 3 Communications

Level 3's unique compensation plan rewarded managers for the firm's performance only if the firm's stock price movement exceeded that of the market. This design was intended to maximize shareholder value by tying manager's performance more closely to that of the firm,... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Compensation and Benefits; Telecommunications Industry
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  • March 1997 (Revised March 1998)
  • Case

Help the World See: Self-Sustaining Eye Care in Belize

In 1992, Help the World See (HTWS), a U.S. nonprofit organization dedicated to improving eye care in developing countries, established permanent, self-sustaining eye care clinics in Belize in conjunction with the Belize Council for the Visually Impaired (BCVI). The... View Details
Keywords: Conflict of Interests; Nonprofit Organizations; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Belize
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  • 20 Aug 2007
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively

example, both companies know that their investors are very concerned about the large amount of cash generated in oil and gas, but each has committed to explaining its use in a different way. While BP is very... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
  • November–December 2024
  • Article

How Robust Is Your Climate Governance?

By: Lynn S. Paine and Suraj Srinivasan
During the past few years, as evidence of climate change and its effects has mounted, many corporate boards have added climate governance to their agendas. But the maturity of boards’ climate-oversight processes and activities varies widely.
To better... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Climate Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Governing and Advisory Boards
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  • 29 May 2006
  • What Do You Think?

How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?

motives, our paradigms, and what we are willing to accept and ignore to get what we think that we need." C. J. Cullinane was concerned that "This trend (service sector relative growth) will indeed... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Service
  • 12 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 12, 2006

  Working PapersDo Corporate Social Responsibility Ratings Predict Corporate Social Performance? Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji, David I. Levine, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Ratings of corporations'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne