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- September 1982 (Revised December 1987)
- Case
Herbert Hoover
McCraw, Thomas K. "Herbert Hoover." Harvard Business School Case 383-013, September 1982. (Revised December 1987.)
- February 1980 (Revised November 1981)
- Case
Work of a Regulatory Agency: The EPA and Toxic Substances
By: J. Ronald Fox and Lynne O. Cabot
Keywords: Government Administration; Environmental Sustainability; Policy; Public Administration Industry; United States
Fox, J. Ronald, and Lynne O. Cabot. "Work of a Regulatory Agency: The EPA and Toxic Substances." Harvard Business School Case 380-081, February 1980. (Revised November 1981.)
- October 7, 2022
- Article
Why Nations Lead or Lag in Energy Transitions
By: Jonas Meckling, Phillip Lipscy, Jared Finnegan and Florence Metz
Meckling, Jonas, Phillip Lipscy, Jared Finnegan, and Florence Metz. "Why Nations Lead or Lag in Energy Transitions." Science 378, no. 6615 (October 7, 2022): 31–33.
- January 2020
- Article
The Long-Run Dynamics of Electricity Demand: Evidence from Municipal Aggregation
By: Tatyana Deryugina, Alexander MacKay and Julian Reif
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
Deryugina, Tatyana, Alexander MacKay, and Julian Reif. "The Long-Run Dynamics of Electricity Demand: Evidence from Municipal Aggregation." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 12, no. 1 (January 2020): 86–114.
- 2014
- Working Paper
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
Gartenberg, Claudine, and Julie Wulf. "Pay Harmony: Peer Comparison and Executive Compensation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-041, November 2012. (Revised May 2013, March 2014.)
- 2017
- 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
- News
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
- Career Coach
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
- Web
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
- February 1999 (Revised November 2009)
- Case
Michael Brown: Negotiating Slots at Foxwoods (A)
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
Sebenius, James K. "Michael Brown: Negotiating Slots at Foxwoods (A)." Harvard Business School Case 899-234, February 1999. (Revised November 2009.)
- 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
- 02 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
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
- 28 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
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
- 29 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
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
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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
- Working Paper Summaries
Net Neutrality: A Fast Lane to Understanding the Trade-offs
- March 2024
- Article
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
Vogel, Matthew, Pragya Kakani, Amitabh Chandra, and Rena M. Conti. "Medicare Price Negotiation and Pharmaceutical Innovation Following the Inflation Reduction Act." Nature Biotechnology 42, no. 3 (March 2024): 406–412.