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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Cutting the Gordian Knot of Employee Health Care Benefits and Costs: A Corporate Model Built on Employee Choice

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Barak D. Richman
The U.S. employer-based health insurance tax exclusion created a system of employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) with limited insurance choices and transparency that may lock employed households into health plans that are costlier or different from those they prefer to... View Details
Keywords: After-tax Income; Consumer-driven Health Care; Health Care Costs; Health Insurance; Income Inequality; Tax Policy; Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Insurance; Employees; Income; Taxation; Policy; United States
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    Michael A. Wheeler

    Mike Wheeler joined the HBS faculty in 1993 and has taught extensively in its MBA, Executive, and distance learning programs. His highly interactive 8-week/40-hour HBS Online Negotiation... View Details

    Keywords: arts; construction; e-commerce industry; energy; federal government; green technology; internet; legal services; nonprofit industry; petroleum; pharmaceuticals; publishing industry; real estate; service industry; sports; state government; utilities
    • September 2013
    • Case

    Advanced Leadership Pathways: David Weinstein and Write the World

    By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Juliane Calingo Schwetz and Patricia Bissett Higgins
    David Weinstein, a lawyer and former Chief Administrative Officer of mutual fund giant Fidelity Investments, launched Write the World, a proprietary online platform that included a writing curriculum, essay prompts in distinct subject matter, and access to expert... View Details
    Keywords: Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Expansion; Social Entrepreneurship; Education; Business Startups; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving
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    • June 2001 (Revised September 2010)
    • Exercise

    Deal-crafting Toolkit

    By: Michael A. Wheeler
    Illustrates the potential sources of value creation as well as practical barriers to its achievement. Students analyze five brief scenarios that would yield efficient trades over valuation, discount rates, expectations, and risk tolerance, but that might be thwarted by... View Details
    Keywords: Negotiation Deal; Negotiation Process; Behavior; Valuation; Value Creation
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    • 14 Mar 2023
    • Cold Call Podcast

    Can AI and Machine Learning Help Park Rangers Prevent Poaching?

    Keywords: Re: Brian L. Trelstad; Computer; Information Technology; Technology
    • November 2007 (Revised June 2011)
    • Case

    ISS A/S (A)

    By: Clayton S. Rose
    Provides the opportunity to examine the nature and extent of a company's responsibilities to its bondholders, and to develop an enhanced understanding of the challenges in managing contractual obligations, and circumstances under which business leaders might agree to... View Details
    Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Bonds; Contracts; Private Equity; Leveraged Buyouts; Privatization; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Borrowing and Debt; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Europe
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    • Web

    Alumni

    Profile using VMock, a smart career platform that provides instant personalized feedback to improve aspects like presentation, language, and skills. Work with a Career Coach From crafting a personal narrative to realizing a career vision,... View Details
    • 12 Oct 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: October 12, 2006

      Working PapersDo Corporate Social Responsibility Ratings Predict Corporate Social Performance? Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji, David I. Levine, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Ratings of corporations'... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • January 1990 (Revised November 1990)
    • Background Note

    Note on Compensation and Incentive Systems

    Provides a brief analysis of issues in the design of an effective compensation system, with particular emphasis on incentives. Provides an analytic framework for thinking about compensation. Topics covered include the composition of the pay package, fringe benefits,... View Details
    Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Compensation and Benefits
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    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    Nowcasting the Local Economy: Using Yelp Data to Measure Economic Activity

    By: Edward L. Glaeser, Hyunjin Kim and Michael Luca
    Can new data sources from online platforms help to measure local economic activity? Government datasets from agencies such as the U.S. Census Bureau provide the standard measures of economic activity at the local level. However, these statistics typically appear only... View Details
    Keywords: Economy; Analytics and Data Science; Local Range; Social and Collaborative Networks
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    • November 1999
    • Case

    Long-Term Capital Management, L.P. (C)

    By: Andre F. Perold
    Long-Term Capital Management, L.P. (LTCM) was in the business of engaging in trading strategies to exploit market pricing discrepancies. Because the firm employed strategies designed to make money over long horizons--from six months to two years or more--it adopted a... View Details
    Keywords: Fluctuation; Capital; Financial Liquidity; Financing and Loans; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Corporate Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Management; Risk Management; Markets; Motivation and Incentives; Financial Services Industry
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    • November 2020
    • Case

    Valuing Celgene's CVR

    By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
    When Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) acquired Celgene Corporation in November 2019, Celgene shareholders received cash, BMS stock, and a contingent value right (CVRs) that would pay $9 if the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved three of Celgene’s late stage... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Value; Valuation; Judgments; Decision Making; Cash Flow; Financial Instruments; Cognition and Thinking; Pharmaceutical Industry; Biotechnology Industry; United States
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    • December 2021
    • Case

    Whistleblowing at Veolia: A Technology Solution

    By: Aiyesha Dey, Jonas Heese, Christian Godwin and James Weber
    In 2019, Bruno Masson, the vice chairman of Veolia’s Ethics Committee, was preparing for a meeting on a rollout plan for a new whistleblowing system to more countries. Veolia, a global supplier of water, waste, and energy services, had recently gone through several... View Details
    Keywords: Whistleblowing; Corporate Misconduct; Corporate Governance; Ethics; Crime and Corruption; Values and Beliefs; Trust; Employee Relationship Management; Utilities Industry
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    • 12 Oct 2022
    • Video

    Lumumba Seegars: Inequality & Agency in ERGs

    • January 2022 (Revised April 2025)
    • Case

    Steem Versus Hive: Testing Blockchain Governance

    By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
    This case examines a pivotal governance conflict that occurred in 2020 when Justin Sun, founder of the TRON blockchain, acquired Steemit Inc., the company behind a popular social media platform operating on the Steem blockchain. Steem, launched in 2016 by Daniel... View Details
    Keywords: Blockchain; Mergers and Acquisitions; Values and Beliefs; Corporate Governance; Organizational Culture; Social and Collaborative Networks; Technology Industry
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    • December 1996 (Revised January 1997)
    • Case

    Brent Spar Incident, The: "A Shell of a Mess"

    By: Stephen A. Greyser and Norman Klein
    Seeking to dispose of an outmoded oil drilling platform in the North Sea, Shell finds itself confronted by Greenpeace and other environmentalists. The protesters land 12 people onto the rig and initiate media coverage of their "occupation." The case follows the events... View Details
    Keywords: Communication; Media; Social Issues; Mining Industry; United Kingdom
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    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Scapegoating and Discrimination in Times of Crisis: Evidence from Airbnb

    By: Michael Luca, Elizaveta Pronkina and Michelangelo Rossi
    We present evidence that discrimination against Asian-American Airbnb users sharply increased at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a DiD approach, we find that hosts with distinctively Asian names experienced a 20 percent decline in guests relative to hosts... View Details
    Keywords: Discrimination; Behavioral Economics; Market Design; Health Pandemics; Prejudice and Bias; Digital Platforms; Design
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    • Web

    Faculty & Research

    Journal of Financial Economics 165 (March 2025). Optimal Illiquidity By: John Beshears , James J. Choi, Christopher Clayton, Christopher Harris, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian We study the socially optimal level of illiquidity in... View Details
    • May 2021 (Revised August 2021)
    • Case

    Airbnb During the Pandemic: Stakeholder Capitalism Faces a Critical Test

    By: Benjamin C. Esty and Allison Ciechanover
    As the COVID pandemic spread in early 2020, global travel ground to a halt. For Airbnb, the San Francisco-based platform for renting accommodations, the impact was both swift and severe as revenues plummeted more than 70% over the prior year. Responding to the sudden... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Corporate Governance; Crisis Management; Leadership; Digital Platforms; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Value Creation; Decision Making; Goals and Objectives; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Travel Industry; Tourism Industry; Service Industry; United States
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    • 21 Aug 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

    https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54887 forthcoming Production and Operations Management The Operational Value of Social Media Information By: Cui, Ruomeng, Santiago Gallino, Antonio Moreno, and Dennis J. Zhang... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman