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- April 2016
- Teaching Note
The Fall of the 'Fabulous Fab'
By: Eugene F. Soltes
Teaching note for HBS Case#114-063 View Details
Keywords: Management; Corporate Accountability; Ethics; Financial Crisis; Finance; Financial Services Industry; United States
Soltes, Eugene F. "The Fall of the 'Fabulous Fab'." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 116-056, April 2016. (request a courtesy copy.)
- 2012
- Other Unpublished Work
Prosperity at Risk: Findings of Harvard Business School's Survey on U.S. Competitiveness
By: Michael E. Porter and Jan W. Rivkin
Porter, Michael E., and Jan W. Rivkin. "Prosperity at Risk: Findings of Harvard Business School's Survey on U.S. Competitiveness." January 2012. (Report.)
- January 2002
- Background Note
Telecommunications Act of 1996, The
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Daniel J. Green
Reed Hundt, former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, reflects on the passage and implementation of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. The act was intended to stimulate competition and innovation in the telecommunications sector. Its provisions were of... View Details
Eisenmann, Thomas R., and Daniel J. Green. "Telecommunications Act of 1996, The." Harvard Business School Background Note 802-144, January 2002.
- 1977
- Book
Work and Family in the United States: A Critical Review and Policy Agenda
By: R. M. Kanter
Kanter, R. M. Work and Family in the United States: A Critical Review and Policy Agenda. Social Science Frontiers. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1977. (Reprintings: Chapters 1-3 in Family Business Review (featured classic), vol. 2, spring 1989, pp. 77-114.)
- 09 Nov 2017
- News
Paving the Way for Veterans to Serve in Congress
cost of elections over the past 20 years.” George Shultz, who served as Secretary of State during the Reagan administration, has mentored and advised generations of veterans in Congress and is serving on With Honor’s advisory board.... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- October 2013
- Article
How Firms Respond to Mandatory Information Disclosure
By: Anil R. Doshi, Glen W.S. Dowell and Michael W. Toffel
Mandatory information disclosure regulations seek to create institutional pressure to spur performance improvement. By examining how organizational characteristics moderate establishments' responses to a prominent environmental information disclosure program, we... View Details
Keywords: Information Disclosure; Institutional Theory; Environmental Strategy; Mandatory Disclosure; Environmental Performance; Information; Corporate Disclosure; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Performance Improvement; Environmental Sustainability; Manufacturing Industry; United States
Doshi, Anil R., Glen W.S. Dowell, and Michael W. Toffel. "How Firms Respond to Mandatory Information Disclosure." Strategic Management Journal 34, no. 10 (October 2013): 1209–1231. (Featured in The Regulatory Review.)
- August 1995 (Revised September 1995)
- Case
Hutton Branch Manager (C)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Jane Palley Katz
Centers on the company's plea of guilty to 2,000 counts of mail and wire fraud in response to the U.S. government's challenge to its cash management practices. Describes the Justice Department's investigations as well as the findings and recommendations of former... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Financial Management; Governance Controls; Crime and Corruption; Governance Compliance; Law Enforcement; Financial Services Industry; United States
Paine, Lynn S., and Jane Palley Katz. "Hutton Branch Manager (C)." Harvard Business School Case 396-046, August 1995. (Revised September 1995.)
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
facing both nonprofits and other social-purpose enterprises. Another concerns the ways in which businesses can influence a community's health and create meaningful partnerships with government and nonprofit organizations. A third has to... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- January 2005
- Case
Managing Failure: American Bankruptcy Law at a Crossroads
By: David A. Moss, Mary Oey and Jonathan Lackow
Introduces the core principles and challenges of bankruptcy law (both individual and corporate) against the backdrop of the early 1970s, when the U.S. bankruptcy system appeared to be failing. With personal bankruptcy filings at record levels and successful corporate... View Details
Moss, David A., Mary Oey, and Jonathan Lackow. "Managing Failure: American Bankruptcy Law at a Crossroads." Harvard Business School Case 705-024, January 2005.
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
stem-cell R&D will almost certainly fade,” explains HBS professor Debora Spar, “because determined would-be buyers and sellers will eventually constitute a market of their own, either by circumventing the law or by pushing the state to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Business and Environment Initiative at HBS
result in a special issue of the Journal of Accounting and Economics.” “It is critical for us to understand the relationships between our economic systems and the natural environment, and to figure out the leadership and governance... View Details
- 19 Sep 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation During the Great Migration
- May 1987
- Background Note
Tax Reform Act of 1986
By: James F. Gammill Jr. and Timothy A. Luehrman
Gammill, James F., Jr., and Timothy A. Luehrman. "Tax Reform Act of 1986." Harvard Business School Background Note 287-086, May 1987.
- July 2015
- Article
Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of U.S. Firms
By: Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr and William F. Lincoln
We study the impact of skilled immigrants on the employment structures of U.S. firms using matched employer-employee data. Unlike most previous work, we use the firm as the lens of analysis to account for a greater level of heterogeneity and the fact that many skilled... View Details
Keywords: Firms; Scientists; Engineers; Inventors; H-1B; Age; Employment; Immigration; United States
Kerr, Sari Pekkala, William R. Kerr, and William F. Lincoln. "Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of U.S. Firms." Journal of Labor Economics 33, no. S1 (July 2015): S147–S186.
- December 2013
- Teaching Note
Choosing a Charitable Giving Vehicle
By: Robert C. Pozen, Mayur Desai and Maura A. Graul
Elaine White is an accountant advising two couples, the Carsons and Bradleys, regarding their charitable giving options and related tax strategies. The Carsons are an upper-middle class family with $295,000 in income, a moderate amount of deductions, and... View Details
- June 27, 2011
- Article
A Plan to Tax the Foreign Income of U.S. Companies
By: Robert C. Pozen
Pozen, Robert C. "A Plan to Tax the Foreign Income of U.S. Companies." Bloomberg Businessweek (June 27, 2011).
- 22 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
A Randomized Field Study of a Leadership WalkRounds™-Based Intervention
Background: Leadership WalkRounds have been widely adopted as a technique for improving patient safety and safety climate. WalkRounds involve senior managers directly observing frontline work and soliciting employees' ideas about improvement opportunities. However, the... View Details
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
Taxation and Innovation in the 20th Century By: Akcigit, Ufuk, John Grigsby, Tom Nicholas, and Stefanie Stantcheva Abstract—This paper studies the effect of corporate and personal taxes on innovation in the United States over the 20th... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating a Global Business Code
cross-cultural management, which is that in the United States you can get a quick yes in agreeing to participate, but when you get into actual implementation, the yes may turn into a no," Paine says. "In Japan, it's likely that... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel