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the changing world of business, society, and education. PhD Programs Accounting & Management Business Economics (Includes Finance) Health Policy (Management) Marketing Organizational Behavior Strategy... View Details
  • August 2017
  • Article

Tort Reform and Innovation

By: Alberto Galasso and Hong Luo
Current academic and policy debates focus on the impact of tort reforms on physicians’ behavior and medical costs. This paper examines whether these reforms also affect incentives to develop new technologies. We develop a theoretical model that predicts that the impact... View Details
Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Health Care and Treatment; Technological Innovation; Legal Liability; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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  • 23 Feb 2018
  • Working Paper Summaries

Trade Creditors' Information Advantage

Keywords: by Victoria Ivashina and Benjamin Iverson

    Lauren H. Cohen

    Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; brokerage; financial services; federal government; investment banking industry; state government
    • May 2008
    • Article

    Regulation and Bonding: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Flow of International Listings

    By: Suraj Srinivasan and Joseph Piotroski
    In this paper, we examine the economic impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) by analyzing foreign listing behavior onto U.S. and U.K. stock exchanges before and after the enactment of the Act in 2002. Using a sample of all listing events onto U.S. and U.K. exchanges... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Stocks; Government Legislation; Market Transactions; Motivation and Incentives; United Kingdom; United States
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      Ranjay Gulati

      Ranjay Gulati is the Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration and the former Unit Head of the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. His pathbreaking research, which focuses on unlocking organizational and unleashing... View Details

      Keywords: biotechnology; computer; financial services; industrial goods; information technology industry; pharmaceuticals; professional services; retailing
      • 28 Jul 2015
      • First Look

      First Look: July 28, 2015

      credibility of these reviews is fundamentally undermined when businesses commit review fraud, creating fake reviews for themselves or their competitors. We investigate the economic incentives to commit review fraud on the popular review... View Details
      Keywords: Carmen Nobel
      • 2011
      • Working Paper

      Free to Punish? The American Dream and the Harsh Treatment of Criminals

      By: Rafael Di Tella and Juan Dubra
      We describe the evolution of selective aspects of punishment in the U.S. over the period 1980-2004. We note that imprisonment increased around 1980, a period that coincides with the "Reagan revolution" in economic matters. We build an economic model where beliefs about... View Details
      Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Economy; Moral Sensibility; Mathematical Methods; Opportunities; Behavior; United States
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      Financial Incentives

      My research examines how the performance effects of internal governance and the design of compensation vary by managerial position. For example, I document links between innovation and stock options for corporate R&D heads;... View Details

      • 09 Jul 2013
      • Research & Ideas

      Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch

      three years ago: "Rethinking the nature of executive pay within the context of our larger economic and social system and the challenges we face may enable us to create a new model of compensation rooted in a more realistic... View Details
      Keywords: by Jim Aisner
      • 07 Jul 2008
      • Research & Ideas

      Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

      how to preserve ethical discipline when the legal rules of the game are ambiguous and executives stand to reap enormous rewards by exaggerating or camouflaging a company's true economic performance, I outline organizational processes that... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
      • 2015
      • Book

      Political Standards: Corporate Interest, Ideology, and Leadership in the Shaping of Accounting Rules for the Market Economy

      By: Karthik Ramanna
      There are certain institutions underlying our modern market-capitalist system that are largely outside the interest and understanding of the general public—e.g., rulemaking for bank capital adequacy, actuarial standards, accounting standards, and auditing practice. In... View Details
      Keywords: Business And Society; Financial Institutions; Financial Reporting; GAAP; IFRS; Lobbying; Capitalism; Sustainability; Accounting; Finance; Business and Government Relations; Leadership; Accounting Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States; China; India
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      • 29 Apr 2016
      • HBS Seminar

      Richard Freeman, Harvard University & NBER

      • December 2019
      • Article

      When Do We Punish People Who Don't?

      By: Justin W. Martin, Jillian J. Jordan, David G. Rand and Fiery Cushman
      People often punish norm violations. In what cases is such punishment viewed as normative—a behavior that we “should”or even“must”engage in? We approach this question by asking when people who fail to punish a norm violator are, themselves, punished. (For instance, a... View Details
      Keywords: Punishment; Norms; Cooperation; Societal Protocols; Adaptation
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      • 2014
      • Working Paper

      Cleaning House: The Impact of Information Technology on Employee Corruption and Performance

      By: Lamar Pierce, Daniel Snow and Andrew McAfee
      This paper examines how firm investments in technology-based employee monitoring impact both misconduct and productivity. We use unique and detailed theft and sales data from 392 restaurant locations from five firms that adopt a theft monitoring information technology... View Details
      Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Information Technology; Ethics; Performance Productivity; Employees
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      Rebecca Henderson Videos

      By: Rebecca M. Henderson

      "Reimagining Capitalism" USM Foundation 2018

      "Rebecca Henderson: Professor, Harvard University" The Innovation Centre 2017

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      • 2018
      • Chapter

      The United States in Contemporary Perspectives: Evolving Forms, Strategy, and Performance

      By: David J. Collis, Bharat Anand and J. Yo-Jud Cheng
      BOOK ABSTRACT: In spite of surging interest in the business group organization among business scholars, economists, and historians in recent years, academic research on business groups has, to date, remained within the boundary of emerging markets. The major aim of... View Details
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        Ray A. Goldberg

        A native of North Dakota, Dr. Goldberg received his A.B. from Harvard University in 1948, his MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in 1950 and his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Minnesota in 1952.

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        Keywords: agribusiness; agriculture; fast food; food; food processing; forest products; grocery; high technology; information; restaurant; retailing; soft drink; textiles; tobacco; transportation; wholesale; wine

          Emily R. McComb

          Emily McComb is a Senior Lecturer in the Finance Unit at HBS, teaching "Finance 2" in the required curriculum of the MBA program, as well as a co-leader of the HBS Impact Investment Fund in the elective curriculum. Prior to joining the HBS faculty in 2017, Emily was... View Details

          Keywords: financial services; health care
          • September 2000
          • Case

          Japanese Financial Crisis and the Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan, The

          By: Malcolm S. Salter and Andrew Eggers
          Illustrates the failure of Japan's banking elite to adjust to new economic conditions. View Details
          Keywords: Financial Crisis; Banks and Banking; Behavior; Japan
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