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We study the dynamics of residential electricity demand by exploiting a natural experiment that produced large and long-lasting price changes in over 250 Illinois communities. Using a flexible difference-in-differences matching approach, we estimate that the price... View Details

Keywords: Electricity Demand; Consumption Dynamics; Energy; Policy; Demand and Consumers; Price; Mathematical Methods

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Pay Harmony: Peer Comparison and Executive Compensation

By: Claudine Gartenberg and Julie Wulf

This study suggests that peer comparison affects both wage setting and productivity within firms. We report three changes in division manager compensation following a 1991–1992 controversy over executive pay. We argue that this controversy increased wage comparisons... View Details

Keywords: Pay-for-Performance; Internal Labor Markets; Peer Comparison; Firm Geography; Behavior; Executive Compensation; Policy

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Gender Conformity & Nonconformity

Thinking Expansively About Gender Nonconformity and Workplace Anti-Discrimination Strategies

23 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

AIDS in Africa—What’s the Solution?

$10 behind health care, there's a problem." Dr. Pride Chigwedere, an Oak Foundation Research Fellow at the Harvard AIDS Institute who worked as a physician in Zimbabwe, said the policy issues begin with difficulties designing... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

01 Mar 2009
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Just Keep Our Money

experiment, the offer of bonds did not crowd out private-sector savings. Our success in offering bonds at tax time has led a coalition of grassroots organizations, companies, and policy analysts to urge the Treasury Depart-ment to make it... View Details

Keywords: Peter Tufano; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

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Adam Shimer

cycles. He has led prospective candidates through hundreds of case interviews, and also acted as a first round interviewer for more than 30 Bain applicants. Adam left consulting to work at the Chicago Mayor’s Office as an economic policy... View Details

09 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

How to Speed Up Energy Innovation

Is there a special sauce for stimulating innovation in the energy sector, a concoction to spur cost-effective developments toward solving the climate change problem? HBS professor Rebecca Henderson doesn't claim to know all the ingredients for that special sauce. But... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

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Impact Stories - Business & Environment

both great financial and environmental returns." Angela Amos MBA 2014 | Shaping the Big Picture “I believe stakeholder engagement is necessary to address climate change. At work, I evaluate diverse perspectives to craft legally sound, fact-based View Details

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Michael Brown: Negotiating Slots at Foxwoods (A)

By: James K. Sebenius

The issues of the impending negotiation between the CEO of Foxwoods and the governor of Connecticut over lifting the ban on slot machines at Foxwoods are presented. Reviews the gaming business in the United States, the special history of Indian gaming, the Pequot... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Policy; Negotiation Deal; Business and Government Relations; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Connecticut

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10 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

COVID's Surprising Toll on Careers of Women Scientists

or is not allowing you to come onto campus does not seem to make a difference on what the scientists are reporting,” Myers says. “It’s not really about a policy of whether you can go into campus per se. It's whether your postdocs are... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Pharmaceutical; Biotechnology; Health

02 Jan 2019
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SUMMING UP: Do We Need an Artificial Intelligence Czar?

people.” He goes on to describe what we need in a LinkedIn article that he wrote. In his words, “we need policies to guide us on how AI is used. Policies that are shaped by well-informed debate, following... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

28 Jun 2017
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Minimum Wage Hikes Drive (Lousy) Restaurants Out of Business

Mathematica Policy Research. “Increases to the minimum wage then disproportionately push them over the edge.” The research brings more insight into the continuing argument over whether raising the minimum wage hurts businesses. The... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

29 May 2006
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How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?

emphasis on services naturally accompany the growth of a knowledge society, representing an insurance policy for the continuance of innovation and progress necessary to maintain world economic leadership? What do you think? Original... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

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How to Onboard Recently Graduated MBAs - Recruiting

perspectives, new dimensions — and sometimes new challenges — are naturally introduced: evolving what is familiar means that establishing and promoting shared expectations can become more complex. To reduce friction and increase mutual satisfaction in the workplace,... View Details

Leon L. Bean

Beginning with a self-made rubber hunting boot, Bean created a retailing giant and became one of the pioneers of the mail-order industry, introducing the first Bean’s catalog in 1914. He instilled a “customer first” culture with generous return and service View Details

Keywords: Retail

07 Mar 2016
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Net Neutrality: A Fast Lane to Understanding the Trade-offs

Keywords: by Shane Greenstein, Martin Peitz, and Tommaso Valletti; Media & Broadcasting; Technology; Telecommunications

March 2024
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Medicare Price Negotiation and Pharmaceutical Innovation Following the Inflation Reduction Act

By: Matthew Vogel, Pragya Kakani, Amitabh Chandra and Rena M. Conti

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) requires Medicare to negotiate lower prices for some medicines with high Medicare spending. Using historical data from public and proprietary sources to apply the IRA's negotiation criteria retrospectively, we identify all drugs that... View Details

Keywords: Policy; Government Legislation; Health Care and Treatment; Negotiation; Price; Pharmaceutical Industry

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