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  • 02 Jun 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Signing at the Top: The Key to Preventing Tax Fraud?

truth.") Now research suggests that the federal government might be able to encourage honest reporting simply by moving the signature line to the top of the form, such that signers declare that they will tell the truth rather than that... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accounting
  • 31 Mar 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

What Do CEOs Do?

Keywords: by Oriana Bandiera, Luigi Guiso, Andrea Prat & Raffaella Sadun
  • 07 Sep 2012
  • News

Something for the weekend

  • 24 Jun 2021
  • News

COVID-19 Has Stymied Governments’ Efforts to Collect Data

  • 26 Oct 2020
  • News

Trump's work visas suspension cost $100B in big companies' market value – study

    Trevor Fetter

    Trevor Fetter is a Senior Lecturer and the Henry B. Arthur Fellow at Harvard Business School, where he has been on the faculty since 2019. He teaches two MBA required courses: Financial Reporting and Control and Leadership and Corporate Accountability. He has also... View Details

    • 2011
    • Working Paper

    From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America

    By: Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana
    As the main producers of managerial elites, business schools represent strategic research sites for understanding the formation of economic practices and representations. This article draws on historical material to analyze the changing place of economics in American... View Details
    Keywords: Economics; Practice; Business Education; Labor and Management Relations; Decision Making; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Change; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Finance; Knowledge; Production; Business Conglomerates; Education Industry; United States
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    • 29 Oct 2024
    • HBS Seminar

    Lynn Wu, Wharton

    • 03 Apr 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Clear and Present Danger: Planning and New Venture Survival Amid Political and Civil Violence

    Keywords: by Shon Hiatt & Wesley Sine
    • October 2021 (Revised May 2023)
    • Case

    Engine No.1: An Impact Investing Firm Engages with ExxonMobil

    By: Mark Kramer, Shawn Cole, Vikram S. Gandhi and T. Robert Zochowski
    ExxonMobil, the world's fifth largest source of carbon emissions, remained committed to aggressively expanding its oil & gas business despite global warming. During the COVID pandemic this strategy resulted in massive losses as the price and demand for oil declined. ... View Details
    Keywords: Carbon Emissions; Global Warming; Impact Investment Funds; Hedge Fund Activism; Leadership Development; Business Model; Renewable Energy; Resource Allocation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Governing and Advisory Boards
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    • 18 Sep 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    When Words Get in the Way: The Failure of Fiscal Language

    work and save, and the amount of direct government consumption. But each of these policies can be measured with no recourse to ill-defined terms, such as 'taxes,' 'transfer payments,' and 'deficits.'" Developed by Kotlikoff (in... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna
    • 2008
    • Report

    Survey Questionnaire on Environmental Management Practices: Summary of Results by Industry and Practices

    By: Magali Delmas and Michael W. Toffel
    This document provides a summary of the results of a survey on Environmental Management Practices (EMP) conducted by the University of California at Santa Barbara during October and November 2003. The survey was sent to 3255 facilities in 8 industrial sectors: pulp,... View Details
    Keywords: Economic Sectors; Surveys; Management Practices and Processes; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Non-Governmental Organizations
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    • 25 May 2022
    • News

    How Economic Interdependence Fosters Alliances and Democracy

    • 12 Oct 2017
    • News

    What Trump could learn from polar explorer Ernest Shackleton

    • 22 Apr 2020
    • News

    Oil Prices to Remain Low, Sen Says

    • 22 May 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Forgiving Student Loan Debt Leads to Better Jobs, Stronger Consumers

    get their other finances in order, and make more substantial contributions to the economy, according to a new research study Second Chance: Life without Student Debt. The study was co-written by Harvard Business School Associate Professor Marco Di Maggio, Indiana View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 27 Nov 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Voting Democrat or Republican? The Critical Childhood Influence That's Tough to Shake

    Pons conducted the study with Harvard doctoral students Sahil Chinoy and Martin Koenen; Jacob Brown, an assistant professor at Boston University; and Enrico Cantoni, senior assistant professor at the University of Bologna in Italy. Does... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand

      Richard G. Hamermesh

      Richard Hamermesh was the MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School. While at HBS Richard served as co-chair of the HBS Healthcare... View Details

      Keywords: health care
      • April 8, 2025
      • Article

      Creating Workplaces Free of Forever Chemicals

      By: Joseph G. Allen, Heather A. Henrikson and Michael W. Toffel
      Forever chemicals are toxic and widely used in buildings and yet they remain on the rise globally with little regulation to control them. In the United States, for example, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations currently cover only forever chemicals in... View Details
      Keywords: Occupational Health; Safety Regulations; Regulation; Working Conditions; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Safety; Health
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      • 17 Jan 2024
      • Research & Ideas

      Are Companies Getting Away with 'Cheap Talk' on Climate Goals?

      Companies regularly set ambitious climate goals, but these plans often end up like many people’s New Year’s resolutions: unmet aspirations that quietly fizzle out. While companies often gain positive media attention by trumpeting plans for reducing greenhouse gas... View Details
      Keywords: by Tim Gray