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30 Aug 2021
News

One and the Same

rather than a weakness.” Wooldridge has been working to subvert gender imbalances ever since. In May, she was named director of the Workplace Gender and Equality Agency (WGEA), a government entity devoted to promoting and improving gender... View Details

Keywords: wage gap; COVID; women; equality; leadership

18 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

GM’s IPO: Back to the Future

Steve Rattner, who chaired the government task force, found the initial assessments of their needs woefully understated and badly documented, reflecting decades of lost market share and destroyed shareholder value. The deal that was... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

22 Sep 2015
News

Finding New Ways to Solve Civic Problems

energy, and also community involvement. And as a deputy majority whip, you have the opportunity to take a leadership role and actually work with all of your colleagues to make sure that they have the information they need to make the best decisions possible on View Details

August 2008
Article

The Implications of Unverifiable Fair-value Accounting: Evidence from the Political Economy of Goodwill Accounting

By: Karthik Ramanna

I study the evolution of SFAS 142, which uses unverifiable fair-value estimates to account for acquired goodwill. I find evidence consistent with the FASB issuing SFAS 142 in response to political pressure over its proposal to abolish pooling accounting. The result is... View Details

Keywords: Accounting; Fair Values; Politics; Standard Setting; Fair Value Accounting; Goodwill Accounting; Government Legislation; Agency Theory

SSRN

January 2023
Article

Racial Diversity and Racial Policy Preferences: The Great Migration and Civil Rights

By: Alvaro Calderon, Vasiliki Fouka and Marco Tabellini

Between 1940 and 1970, more than 4 million African Americans moved from the South to the North of the United States, during the Second Great Migration. This same period witnessed the struggle and eventual success of the civil rights movement in ending institutionalized... View Details

Keywords: Civil Rights; Great Migration; History; Race; Rights; Prejudice and Bias; Government Legislation

Article

Foreclosure with Incomplete Information

By: Lucy White

Keywords: Behavior; Decision Making; Research; Government Legislation; Society

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01 Sep 2010
News

Noted & Quoted

also be a statutory cap on leverage, a maximum speed limit, if you will, that regulators can’t loosen.” — HBS professor David Moss commenting on the need for financial reform legislation to place limits on the amount banks can borrow for... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

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

Keywords: Change; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Policy; Government Legislation; United States

Educators

February 2023
Article

A Different Framework to Achieve Universal Coverage in the U.S.

By: Katherine Baicker, Amitabh Chandra and Mark Shepard

This JAMA Forum discusses alternative ways to achieve universal coverage in the US such as administrative simplification in the Affordable Care Act plans to increase enrollment, having a basic policy that would be available to everyone, and options for supplemental... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Government Legislation; Insurance; Cost; United States

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2003
Chapter

La tragédie de la thalidomide: affaires judiciaries et résponses législatives, 1959-1971

By: Arthur A. Daemmrich

Keywords: History; Courts and Trials; Government Legislation; Health Disorders; Pharmaceutical Industry

June 2006
Article

Enlarging the Societal Pie Through Wise Legislation: A Psychological Perspective

By: Jonathon Baron, Max Bazerman and Katherine Shonk

Keywords: Society; Government Legislation; Growth and Development; Health; Perspective

2022
Article

Leadership & Overconfidence

By: Don A Moore and Max H. Bazerman

Expressions of confidence can give leaders credibility. In the political realm, they can earn votes and public approval for decisions made in office. Such support is justified when the confidence displayed is truly a sign that a leader (whether a candidate or an... View Details

Keywords: Personal Characteristics; Leadership; Government Legislation; Political Elections

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support

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31 Jan 2013
News

Bloomberg's Washington footprint explodes

01 Dec 2016
News

Bloomberg’s Gift to Boost Cities

“Running a city is one of the most complex jobs on the planet. A mayor is responsible for overseeing unwieldy bureaucracies, managing budgets, making policy, implementing programs, bringing legislators together, harnessing technology,... View Details

20 Jul 2020
Op-Ed

It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees

valid, pay-as-you-go basis would avoiding worsening Medicare’s mammoth unfunded liabilities and could even help address them. The Public Option should also avoid government accounting; independent accountants should verify that the Public... View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard J. Boxer; Health; Insurance

01 Jun 2001
News

Group Therapy: The Role of Business Groups in Emerging Economies

priority of policymakers in emerging markets cannot be achieved rapidly nor by government decree. After all, it took the United States a century to achieve its present level of development. Finally, agencies and multinational companies... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services

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Video Clips & Discussion Questions - Creating Emerging Markets

Conferences Lessons from History Lessons from History Video Clips & Discussion Questions Resources on Indian Business History Business & Government Relations Panel Dr. Prathap C. Reddy Dr. Prathap C. Reddy Founder and Chair of Apollo... View Details

September 2019
Article

Bill McKibben’s Influence on U.S. Climate Change Discourse: Shifting Field-Level Debates Through Radical Flank Effects

By: Todd Schifeling and Andrew J. Hoffman

This article examines the influence of radical flank actors in shifting field-level debates by increasing the legitimacy of preexisting but peripheral issues. Using network text analysis, we apply this conceptual model to the climate change debate in the United States... View Details

Keywords: Government Legislation; Climate Change; Public Opinion; Power and Influence; Policy; United States

March 2024 (Revised July 2024)
Case

The CHIPS Program Office

By: Mitchell B. Weiss and Sebastian Negron-Reichard

In February 2023, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo weighed signing off on a Notice of Funding Opportunity (“NOFO”) with at least one unconventional provision: a pre-application (“pre-app”) to the actual application for parts of $39 billion in direct semiconductor... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Public Sector; Government Administration; Government Legislation; Motivation and Incentives; Semiconductor Industry; Public Administration Industry; United States

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