Filter Results:
(515)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(701)
- People (1)
- News (99)
- Research (515)
- Events (8)
- Multimedia (2)
- Faculty Publications (262)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(701)
- People (1)
- News (99)
- Research (515)
- Events (8)
- Multimedia (2)
- Faculty Publications (262)
Sort by
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
Ramanna Abstract—SEC oversight of publicly listed firms ranges from comment letter (CL) reviews of firms’ reporting compliance to pursuing enforcement actions against violators. Prior literature finds that firm political connections (PC)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
accountability at the project and policy levels since the early 1990s, particularly through the establishment and enforcement of social and environmental safeguards and complaint and response mechanisms. But there remain major shortfalls.... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
Taxation Without Information: Deterrence and Self-Enforcement in the Value Added Tax By: Pomeranz, Dina Abstract—Claims that the VAT facilitates tax enforcement by generating paper trails on transactions between firms contributed to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
Apple and government authorities from accessing data stored on the device. Law enforcement officials warned that the encryption hindered investigations for criminal cases and international terrorism and called on Apple to build a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
if the government is subject to oversight, and whether bureaucrats and politicians are independent from one another. Companies should gauge the level of actual trust among the populace as opposed to enforced trust. For instance, if people... View Details
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44722 No Taxation without Information: Deterrence and Self-Enforcement in the Value Added Tax By: Pomeranz, Dina Abstract—Claims that the VAT facilitates tax enforcement by generating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
enforcing deceptive advertising guidelines against “fictitious pricing”—the practice of quoting list prices that do not truthfully reflect prior selling prices. This paper uses a large retail transaction data set that features wide... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?
interest in enforcing consistency in order to build their brands. On the other, their business models are predicated on the ability to empower professionals to deliver services independently. The key word to understanding this brave new... View Details
- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
Possibly taking a page out of the USAA playbook, several Wall Street organizations are trying to enforce a policy to prevent employees from working seven-day weeks, encouraging them to take either Saturdays or Sundays off. There is little... View Details
- 10 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: It’s a Bad Idea to Ban Customers From Recording Videos
discreet—smartphones are easily concealed. A banning policy often itself causes escalation of a conflict. “The video that this store doesn’t want you to see!” is that much more likely to get attention. And when store staff enforce a ban... View Details
- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
affiliate marketing programs in which merchants oversee thousands of affiliates they have never met. Some merchants hire specialist outside advisors to set and enforce policies for affiliates, while other merchants ask their ordinary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
increases repayment rates, as borrowers anticipate that a good credit record improves their access to credit. This incentive effect of information sharing is substantial when repayment is not third party enforceable and lending is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
(1998) compiled a list of forty-seven such initiatives; more recently, Business for Social Responsibility, a national business association, prepared a document in 2000 that compares and contrasts eight of these standards (http://www.bsr.org/resourcecenter). Lacking... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
- 16 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Is MySpace.com Your Space?
per visit on the site. But MySpace and its rivals have also come under fire from law enforcement officials, policymakers, and parents, who worry that they are a haven for child predators. Given that backlash, is MySpace a safe bet for... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
perhaps unlikely leader, Edna Gleason, organized California’s retail pharmacists and coordinated trade networks to monitor and enforce Resale Price Maintenance (RPM) contracts, a system of price-fixing, then known as “fair trade.”... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
U.S. firms and foreign firms from strong rule of law countries show a positive association between restatement frequency and internal control weaknesses. Firms from weak rule of law countries show no significant association. We interpret these findings as home country... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
to do so may allow these rivals to gain advantage through illicit strategies, particularly under institutional regimes where regulatory monitoring or enforcement is weak," the paper states. For government agencies, the findings... View Details
- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
involves companies turning over and making transparent their code, which they’re not used to doing.” “Establishing a digital regulator would allow enforcement to adapt more quickly to evolving technology, and it would have the benefit of... View Details
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset
required the Patriots to play in the stadium through 2001. Most real-estate investors wouldn't have cared about that latter clause; they would value the lease for its guaranteed rent, regardless of where the team actually played. But Kraft had his eye on eventually... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
patent protection. Improvement in the enforcement of patent rights. Improvement in the administration of the patent system. On paper, fifteen of the sixteen countries we studied improved IPR along at least four of the five dimensions. In... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell