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  • 07 Feb 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Supervisor of Sandwiches? More Companies Inflate Titles to Avoid Extra Pay

of getting hit by a lawsuit and facing enforcement action by federal labor regulators. “The firms have an incentive—and a very real incentive—to put you just over the line,” Cohen says. Fixing the problem Looking ahead, one solution would be an overhaul of the New... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
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Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

25th Apply to CORe Apply to CORe for Credit Designed to help you achieve fluency in the language of business, CORe is a business fundamentals program that combines Business Analytics, Economics for Managers, and Financial Accounting with... View Details
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Finance - Faculty & Research

725-408, February 2025. Managing EPS at Stanley Black & Decker? By: Jonas Heese , Joseph Pacelli , Yuan Zou and James Barnett February 2025 | Case | Faculty Research The case explores Stanley Black and Decker’s (SBD) 2022 financial restatement announcement, which... View Details

    Reinventing State Capitalism

    In this book we study the evolution of corporate governance arrangements that governments have adopted for their state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the last 20 years. We show that the process of privatization and liberalization of the 1990s and early 2000s created... View Details

    • 31 Mar 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: March 31, 2009

    http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-101.pdf Does Public Ownership of Equity Improve Earnings Quality? Authors:Dan Givoly, Carla Hayn, and Sharon P. Katz Abstract We compare the quality of accounting numbers produced by two types of public... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 17 Mar 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook

    and social science research is specialist, peer-reviewed journals. Second, much research takes the form of case studies and is often qualitative rather than quantitative. In disciplines where standardized social science methodology,... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • November 2024
    • Article

    The Health Costs of Cost Sharing

    By: Amitabh Chandra, Evan Flack and Ziad Obermeyer
    What happens when patients suddenly stop their medications? We study the health consequences of drug interruptions caused by large, abrupt, and arbitrary changes in price. Medicare’s prescription drug benefit as-if-randomly assigns 65-year-olds a drug budget as a... View Details
    Keywords: Outcome or Result; Health Care and Treatment; Budgets and Budgeting; Cost
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      Robert C. Merton

      Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

      Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

      Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
      • 24 Feb 2022
      • Op-Ed

      Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC

      institutions within individual and community networks. But they have not done so to date. Enter the SEC One novel way to assure that independent hospitals create network plans is to harness a new accounting standard, as specified by the... View Details
      Keywords: by Regina Herzlinger and Richard Boxer; Health
      • 27 Jun 2016
      • Research & Ideas

      These Management Practices, Like Certain Technologies, Boost Company Performance

      firms in the bottom 25 percent. In fact, by comparing the management numbers to other factors, the researchers determined that worldwide, quality of management accounted for a whopping 30 percent of the differences in productivity across... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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      Leadership - Faculty & Research

      approach these leadership roles to withstand the pressures that can divert behavior away from the espoused purposes and ethical standards of medicine? July–August 2014 Article How the Other Fukushima Plant Survived By: Ranjay Gulati ,... View Details
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      Student Research - Doctoral

      2002 to 2020, there were over 1,000 mergers of U.S. hospitals. During this period, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) took enforcement actions against 13 transactions. However, using the FTC’s standard screening tools, we find that 20% of... View Details
      • 20 Apr 2011
      • Research & Ideas

      Blind Spots: We’re Not as Ethical as We Think

      without anyone realizing that they are doing anything wrong. Q: What is motivational blindness? A: Motivational blindness is the tendency to not notice the unethical actions of others when it is against our own best interests to notice—such as auditors who fail to... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
      • 06 Apr 2010
      • First Look

      First Look: April 6

      standard deviation increase in the divergence increases the average loan spread by approximately 18%, or 35 basis points. The effect of the excess control rights on the cost of bank debt is more pronounced when the borrowing firm is... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 16 Feb 2023
      • HBS Case

      ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?

      The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details
      Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Financial Services
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      FAQ - Alumni

      counted in that year’s giving totals and listed in HBS's annual Report on Giving . For questions about an existing pledge or to customize your pledge fulfillment schedule, please contact HBS Gift Management at gifts@hbs.edu or 617.495.6207. Is my pledge legally... View Details
      • 01 Mar 2023
      • What Do You Think?

      How Much Does 'Deep Purpose' Matter to the Bottom Line?

      unknown. Excellence: When achieving high standards matters more than short-term performance. Altruism: When a company serves customers, employees, and others first and assumes that profit will follow. Making money—a lot of it—may result... View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett
      • 28 Feb 2022
      • Research & Ideas

      How Racial Bias Taints Customer Service: Evidence from 6,000 Hotels

      the accounts were chosen to suggest a sender’s gender, race, and education. Examples include LaToya Washington, which was meant to signal a Black sender, Brad Anderson to indicate a white sender, and Mei Chen to represent an Asian sender.... View Details
      Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
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      Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

      Interactive Messaging Unit (IMU), the online industry's catalyst for going "beyond the banner" and standardizing new ad formats that dramatically enhanced both the user experience and ad performance. His influence in this evolution earned... View Details
      • 21 Jul 2021
      • Research & Ideas

      What Does an ESG Score Really Say About a Company?

      Receiving more information can clarify the complex, but not when it comes to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores. A recent study shows that the more information a company discloses about its ESG practices, the more rating agencies disagree on how well... View Details
      Keywords: by Kristen Senz