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  • 12 Jan 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits

answers to understand that laxity including political contributions to politicians and even proximity to SEC headquarters. Heese had a different thought. Do Regulators Play Favorites? What if companies were given a pass on their lax... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 25 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 25

the weakening of democratic governance and the politics of decisions about industrial policy. Publisher's link: http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-05631-9.html August 2013 Research Policy Digital Dark Matter and the Economic View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2023
  • Teaching Note

The Opioid Settlement and Executive Pay at AmerisourceBergen

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan Ni
Teaching Note for HBS Case No 122-014. In 2020, AmerisourceBergen Corporation, a Fortune 50 company in the drug distribution industry, agreed to settle thousands of lawsuits filed nationwide against the company for its opioid distribution practices that critics alleged... View Details
Keywords: Opioids; Shareholder Activism; Investment Activism; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Governance Compliance; Governance Controls; Executive Compensation; Risk Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Distribution Industry; Health Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States; West Virginia; Tennessee; Ohio; Pennsylvania
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  • 11 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 11

of bank leverage and risk exposures contributes to a form of systemic risk. We compute bank exposures to system-wide deleveraging, as well as the spillover of a single bank's deleveraging onto other banks. We show how our model can be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Dec 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016

readers Also popular in 2016: You, the readers! We at Working Knowledge are grateful for and proud of the thoughtful, thought-provoking, and wide-ranging comments you've contributed to our stories. Take this story from earlier in... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Sep 2008
  • HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities
  • 2017
  • Report

The American Angel: The First In-Depth Report on the Demographics and Investing Activity of Individual American Angel Investors

By: Laura Huang, Andy Wu, Min Ju Lee, Jiayi Bao, Marianne Hudson and Elaine Bolle
Early-stage financing from angel investors is critical to the success of high-growth startups. Recent estimates suggest that annual US angel investment activity may total as much as $24 billion each year, contributing to the growth and success of more than 64,000... View Details
Keywords: Angel Investors; Geography; Risk; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Demographics; Geographic Location; Decision Making; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; United States
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  • 2022
  • Working Paper

Coordination and Incumbency Advantage in Multi-Party Systems: Evidence from French Elections

By: Kevin Dano, Francesco Ferlenga, Vincenzo Galasso, Caroline Le Pennec and Vincent Pons
In theory, free and fair elections can improve the selection of politicians and incentivize them to exert effort. In practice, incumbency advantage and coordination issues may lead to the (re)election of bad politicians. We ask whether these two forces compound each... View Details
Keywords: Political Parties; Incumbent Politicians; Democracy; Political Elections; Competitive Advantage
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  • 30 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers

annually in the United States equaled the crash of one fully loaded 747 airplane every one-and-a-half days. “At first, these campaigns are great—they bolster the frequency with which solutions are shared by a significant margin....[But]... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health
  • Research Summary

Unintended Consequences of Fundraising Tactics

Charity fundraisers use a variety of methods to increase donations, with three of the most common being matching funds, seed money, and thank you gifts. Field experiments have shown that matching funds (Eckel and Grossman, 2008) and seed money (List and Lucking-Reiley,... View Details
  • 28 Apr 2011
  • Op-Ed

While Waiting for Japan’s Recovery, Let’s Enhance Supplier Competitiveness at Home

earthquake damage. They can take action now to ensure that America invests in growing our domestic stock of world-class suppliers. A national campaign to enhance supply-chain partnerships could also accelerate job creation. America needs... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • 23 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 23

disclosure subsidize consumers. And third, higher competition intensity tends to increase the volume of consumer information disclosed by firms. Our findings are particularly relevant to the business models of Internet firms and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 31

  PublicationsDo Voters Demand Responsive Governments? Evidence from Indian Disaster Relief Authors:Shawn Cole, Andrew Healy, and Eric Werker Publication:Journal of Development Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Using rainfall, public relief, and election data from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Nov 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying

Keywords: by William R. Kerr, William Lincoln & Prachi Mishra
  • Research Summary

Overview

By: Vincent Pons
Professor Pons studies questions in political economy and development with the goal of understanding how democratic systems function, and how they can be improved.

He decomposes the electoral cycle into four essential steps: the factors affecting voter... View Details
  • spring 2007
  • Article

Corporate Legitimacy and Advertising: British Companies and the Rhetoric of Development in West Africa, 1950-1970

Around 1960, the first independent African nations emerged, marking the beginning of the momentous political event that, among other things, would change the visual representations and the copy of advertisements. Development, modernity, and industrialization became... View Details
Keywords: Advertising Campaigns; Developing Countries and Economies; Africa; Great Britain
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  • 2024
  • Working Paper

The Fading Light of Democratic Capitalism: How Pervasive Cronyism and Restricted Suffrage Are Destroying Democratic Capitalism as a National Ideal…and What to Do about It

By: Malcolm S. Salter
What are we to do about declining public trust and confidence in democratic capitalism, which many citizens consider a cornerstone of our national ideology and identity? While the answer is not entirely clear, I argue in this essay that any effort aimed at restoring... View Details
Keywords: Government Administration; Economic Systems; Trust; United States
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  • 28 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 28

  PublicationsManager-Specific Effects on Earnings Guidance: An Analysis of Top Executive Turnovers Authors:Francois Brochet, Lucile Faurel, and Sarah McVay Publication:Journal of Accounting Research (forthcoming) Abstract We investigate how managers View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Aug 2023
  • What Do You Think?

As Leaders, Why Do We Continue to Reward A, While Hoping for B?

so-called “operative level.” So, politicians are rewarded for campaigning on low-quality goals and avoiding the details. Then, as citizens, we complain about the quality of elected officials when the issues later get down to the operative... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 09 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Unilever—A Case Study

peaked in the early 1930s. Using published figures, Lever estimated its profit as a percentage of capital employed at 26 percent between 1930 and 1932, compared with P&G's 12 percent. Countway's greatest contribution was in marketing.... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Manufacturing; Retail

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