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  • 30 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

Better informed firms and consumers choose more favorable arbitrators. We develop and calibrate a model of arbitrator selection in which, like the current process, both the informed firms and uninformed consumers have control over the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 23

Kingdom, and the United States). By this measure, family CEOs work 9% fewer hours relative to professional CEOs, even when we control for a wide range of CEO, firm, and industry characteristics. The differences in hours worked between... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 21 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 21

1,000 companies in California. ISO 9001 adopters subsequently had far lower organizational death rates than a matched control group of non-adopters. Among surviving employers, ISO adopters had higher growth rates for sales, employment,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 May 2008
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First Look: May 20, 2008

spend less, order a higher percentage of "should" items (e.g., vegetables), and order a lower percentage of "want" items (e.g., ice cream) controlling for customer fixed effects. However, orders placed by a customer... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 30, 2007

process so that creators produce tangible artifacts regularly; (6) realize that there will always be some conflict between an organization's creators and its stewards; (7) avoid overly prescriptive control mechanisms that may alienate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Aug 2016
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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 connotative attributes of background... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 25

cross-group network effects are neither necessary nor sufficient for an organization to be a MSP. Second, our definition emphasizes the difference between MSPs and alternative forms of intermediation such as "re-sellers," which take View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6

recommendations for stocks with larger market capitalizations and lower return volatility than their sell-side peers, consistent with their facing fewer conflicts of interest and having a preference for liquid stocks. Tests with no View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008

critics have often complained that industrial revolution management transfers control of a job away from workers, encourages human exploitation in pursuit of cost minimization, and alienates workers from their labor. But the arrangements... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • April 2022 (Revised August 2022)
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Conflicts of Interest at Uptown Bank

By: Jonas Heese
In 2013, two employees debated whether to blow the whistle on their employer, Bell Bank, after completing an internal review that revealed undisclosed conflicts of interest. Bell Bank’s Asset Management business disproportionately invested clients’ money in Bell Bank’s... View Details
Keywords: Whistleblower; Whistleblowing; Mutual Funds; Conflicts Of Interest; Decision Making; Decisions; Judgments; Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Finance; Financial Institutions; Banks and Banking; Financial Management; Investment; Investment Funds; Governance; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Governance Compliance; Governance Controls; Policy; Law; Legal Liability; Social Psychology; Motivation and Incentives; Perception; Perspective; Trust; Financial Services Industry; North and Central America; United States
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Heese, Jonas. "Conflicts of Interest at Uptown Bank." Harvard Business School Case 122-022, April 2022. (Revised August 2022.)
  • 13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018

estimation with propensity score matched samples. We find that relative to propensity score matched control firms, treated firms significantly increased disclosure following the regulations. We also find increased likelihood by treated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Apr 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now

there in sufficient numbers that they’re not all alone and cringing in the face of a dominant figure who can control their fate,” says Kanter, author of Men and Women of the Corporation, a book about corporate power, particularly as it... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 25 May 2010
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First Look: May 25

controlling shareholder to list equity. Higher valuations support listings associated with greater agency costs. We test the predictions that follow from this idea on a sample of publicly listed corporate subsidiaries in Japan. When there... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008

for business strategy, organization, control systems, and sales management requirements. As a result, the case raises issues and analytics relevant to topics such as aligning strategy and organization, strategy implementation, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Mar 2008
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Reducing Risk with Online Advertising

tells HBS Working Knowledge. "Indeed, if you paid your suppliers more slowly they'd almost certainly pay their suppliers more slowly, which would have the desired effect. "You have no control, and yet you have full control... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Video Game; Web Services
  • 14 Oct 2002
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The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

processes of production and distribution. This was a massive innovation over the older model of a single owner who tried to oversee everything. Under managerial capitalism, ownership became dispersed, but control remained concentrated in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 12 Aug 2002
  • Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

governments, and define the parameters of each individual project. Eventually the local partners would be expected to take over a controlling interest in the venture. Once an affiliate corporation had been linked to local partners and the... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
  • 01 Apr 2015
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The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care

if we take on the responsibility, we'll work to control our own costs. Health care is 17 percent of our gross domestic product. If we can drive down costs while improving outcomes, that will be much more favorable to our economy and to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 19 Oct 2011
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Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future

On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate
  • 27 May 2009
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First Look: May 27, 2009

foreclosure discounts appear to be related to the threat of vandalism in low-priced neighborhoods. After aggregating to the zip-code level and controlling for regional price trends, the prices of forced sales are mean-reverting, while the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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