• 12 Aug 2020
• Research & Ideas

Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser

and jury, consumers must bring their grievances to an expert panel that’s more likely to take the brokerage’s side, reducing consumer awards by $40,000 on average, says HBS research. “Unlike judges, arbitrators aren’t randomly assigned,”... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

• 01 Dec 2023
• News

The Exchange: Help Wanted

are currently used by HR. Fuller: There’s an awful lot that has to get arbitrated here in terms of the way work is thought about, and how people get evaluated and developed. Over the 120 years or so of significant organized capital, most... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

• 04 Feb 2002
• Research & Ideas

How To Do Business in Islamic Countries

foreign arbitration awards. "It's very important to watch how fast Saudi Arabia moves toward WTO membership. It will have a great deal to do with the political stability of the country, its dealing with the challenges of the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

• 06 Feb 2014
• HBS Seminar

Karthik Ramanna, Harvard Business School

• Web

Forum - U.S. Competitiveness

Burning Glass Technologies, decided to study those questions. While we would not presume to arbitrate between the various schools of thought represented by distinguished scholars, we did conclude that a problem exists and it represents a... View Details

• 03 Dec 2020
• Research & Ideas

Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

employment-related rights such as arbitration but cannot do any work for their employer. If the no-work rule is violated, the employee must be paid. Furloughs often have a specified end date that can be adjusted as the economic outlook... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

• 30 Oct 2018
• First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

as a complement to existing theory-creating methods, such as multiple-case inductive studies, as well as traditional methods of causal inference. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55043 Arbitration... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

• 01 Sep 2005
• News

Professors Thompson, Healy Remembered

social responsibility. Healy was an authority on labor relations and arbitration who joined the faculty in 1946. He remained active in high-level dispute resolution while teaching at HBS and was the coauthor of Collective Bargaining, a... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

• 14 Jul 2009
• First Look

First Look: July 14

governs disputes between foreign investors and host governments. First is the inconsistency of the decisions rendered by arbitration panels established under bilateral investment treaties, investment provisions of regional trade... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

• 20 Apr 2015
• Blog Post

India Conference 2015

and organizing team to dream big when it came to India and her future. The first day of the conference covered many panels including India’s security challenges, skill development programs, smart city plans, education, liberalization of legal and View Details

• 01 Feb 1999
• News

Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office

while Asians prefer arbitration or out-of-court settlement. Management-labor relations in Asia are also generally less confrontational, families figure more prominently in organizational structures, and ties between government and... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

• 05 Mar 2007
• Research & Ideas

Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments

demand reimbursement from the poor. And they have fought arbitration decisions that they believe have not take into account the one-sided nature of deals, underlying corruption, and the impact of economic crises. Q: What are some of the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities

• 01 Dec 2015
• Research & Ideas

What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions

conflicts single-handedly, arbitrating disputes as they arose. “These ad hoc interventions allowed him to temporarily relieve tensions and provided fixes to immediate issues,” the researchers explain in the paper. “However, they did not... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

• 10 Sep 2001
• Research & Ideas

The Negotiator’s Secret: More Than Merely Effective

confrontational approach in its recent struggle with the U.S. Department of Justice. The company certainly appeared overoptimistic about its chances in court. Similarly, Arthur Andersen likely exhibited overconfidence in its arbitration... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius