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  • February 2016
  • Article

Positive and Normative Judgments Implicit in U.S. Tax Policy, and the Costs of Unequal Growth and Recessions

By: Benjamin B. Lockwood and Matthew Weinzierl
Calculating the welfare implications of changes to economic policy or shocks to the economy requires economists to decide on a normative criterion. One way to make that decision is to elicit the relevant moral criteria from real-world policy choices, converting a... View Details
Keywords: Judgments; Taxation
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  • 09 Sep 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Perspectives from the Boardroom--2009

Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch, Joseph L. Bower, Clayton S. Rose & Suraj Srinivasan
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Fecal Microbiota Transplants —Too Simple to be Safe? Case Histories of Transformational Advances

By: Amar Bhide and Srikant M. Datar
By 2013, after many decades of very slow development and adoption, Fecal Microbiota Transplantation procedures were attracting widespread attention. This case history chronicles the: 1) pioneering fecal transplants performed in the 20th century; 2) development of the... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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Accounting & Management - Doctoral

individual firms; rewarding and monitoring the performance of managers; formulating, executing and evaluating strategy by firm managers; understanding the profitability of suppliers, products, customers, distribution channels, and... View Details
  • 16 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 16, 2008

push both proprietary and shared platforms toward hybrid governance models characterized by centralized control over platform technology (i.e., closed sponsorship) and shared responsibility for serving users (i.e., an open provider role).... View Details

    John D. Dionne

    John D. Dionne has been a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School since 2014 and is a recently retired Senior Managing Director and Senior Advisor to Blackstone. He is also Managing Partner of Franconia Capital, a... View Details

    • Program

    Strategic Marketing for Driving Growth

    resonate with customers Make strategic tradeoffs with a thorough understanding of implications for marketing Assess the performance of your marketing function, including talent, programs, and infrastructure Synchronize marketing... View Details
    • 13 Sep 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: September 13

    energy and potential of their people to deliver superior economic and social value. Book: http://hbr.org/product/higher-ambition-how-great-leaders-create-economic-/an/12957-HBK-ENG The Culture Cycle: How to Shape the Unseen Force That Transforms View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • April 1991 (Revised July 1992)
    • Case

    Koito Manufacturing Ltd.

    By: W. Carl Kester and Robert W. Lightfoot
    Having acquired a 26% stake in Koito Manufacturing, a Japanese automotive parts supplier in the Toyota Group, T. Boone Pickens seeks a seat on Koito's board of directors. Koito's management resists, claiming Pickens is an unhelpful greenmailer, not a true long-term... View Details
    Keywords: Acquisition; Debates; Corporate Governance; Production; Supply Chain; Performance Efficiency; Welfare; Auto Industry; Japan; United States
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    • 29 Oct 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Estimating the Effects of Large Shareholders Using a Geographic Instrument

    Keywords: by Bo Becker, Henrik Cronqvist & Rüdiger Fahlenbrach
    • 04 Feb 2016
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Risk Preferences and Misconduct: Evidence from Politicians

    Keywords: by Dylan Minor; Public Administration; Financial Services
    • October 2007
    • Article

    Grist: A Strategic Approach to Climate

    By: Michael E. Porter and Forest Reinhardt
    Climate change will affect everything businesses do, as government efforts to mitigate carbon emissions cause their prices to rise steeply. This special edition of Forethought takes a hard-nosed look at the risks and opportunities of climate change. Michael E. Porter... View Details
    Keywords: Customer Value and Value Chain; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Leadership; Logistics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Improvement; Climate Change; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy
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    • Summer 2013
    • Response

    How Caesars Entertainment Is Betting on Sustainability: Response

    By: Michael W. Toffel
    One of the largest gaming companies in the world expanded its sustainability efforts using a scorecard to guide and goad managers. This response assesses Caesars Entertainment's CodeGreen scorecard, advocates a more comprehensive environmental assessment to target... View Details
    Keywords: Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Entertainment; Energy; Energy Conservation; Buildings and Facilities; Goals and Objectives; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Evaluation; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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    • 22 Aug 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    A Randomized Field Study of a Leadership WalkRounds™-Based Intervention

    WalkRounds -based programs and performance has not been rigorously examined in a set of randomly selected hospitals. Objective: To fill this research gap, we conducted a randomized field study of a WalkRounds -based program. Research... View Details
    Keywords: by Anita L. Tucker & Sara J. Singer; Health
    • 02 Nov 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    Shareholders Need a Say on Pay

    “Historically, when the government tries to set limits it doesn't work very well.” Say on pay has been a research focus of HBS assistant professor Fabrizio Ferri, who started his career at Stern Stewart & Co specializing in View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services
    • October 6, 2020
    • Article

    Test Your Board's Readiness for the Post-COVID Era

    By: Lynn S. Paine
    Research suggests that well-run boards take the process of self-evaluation quite seriously, often using a combination of director surveys and personal interviews to assess the functioning and effectiveness of the board, its committees, and its individual members. As... View Details
    Keywords: Health Pandemics; Governing and Advisory Boards; Performance Evaluation
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    • August 2008
    • Case

    Progressive Corporation: Variable Dividends

    By: Timothy A. Luehrman and Brenda W. Chia
    In 2006, Progressive Corporation announced a change in its dividend policy. Henceforth, dividends would be paid annually rather than quarterly and, more importantly, would be set according to a formula that would result in considerably greater year-to-year variability... View Details
    Keywords: Capital Structure; Policy; Goals and Objectives; Performance; Business and Shareholder Relations; Insurance Industry
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      Trevor Fetter

      Trevor Fetter is a Senior Lecturer and the Henry B. Arthur Fellow at Harvard Business School, where he has been on the faculty since 2019. He teaches two MBA required courses: Financial Reporting and Control and Leadership and Corporate Accountability. He has also... View Details

      • Web

      Placement - Doctoral

      Ramarajan (Co-Chair), N/A, and Teresa M. Amabile Elliot Stoller Organizational Behavior, 2023 Placement: University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, School of Government Dissertation: Centralized Management in Democratic View Details
      • July 1991 (Revised August 2000)
      • Case

      California PERS (A)

      By: Jay O. Light, Jay W. Lorsch and James O. Sailer
      Examines California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS), the world's fourth largest pension fund. Dale Hanson, CEO of CalPERS, has a problem; how does he use CalPERS' influence as the holder of a small percentage of 1,300 American companies to put pressure on... View Details
      Keywords: Employees; Retirement; System; Asset Pricing; Performance Improvement; Corporate Governance; Investment Funds; Investment Return; California
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