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- 03 Jun 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Eliciting Taxpayer Preferences Increases Tax Compliance
- 2021
- Working Paper
International Evidence on the Effects of a Local Presence by U.S. Credit Rating Agencies
By: Liran Eliner, Michael Machokoto and Anywhere Sikochi
Major U.S. credit rating agencies are criticized for failing to understand developments in other economies and thereby impeding capital access by assigning lower ratings. Consistent with this, we find that Moody's and S&P credit ratings are more favorable after the... View Details
Keywords: Credit Rating Agencies; Credit Ratings; Rating Adjustments; Rating Disagreement; Geographic Proximity; Soft Information; Credit; Geographic Location; Local Range
Eliner, Liran, Michael Machokoto, and Anywhere Sikochi. "International Evidence on the Effects of a Local Presence by U.S. Credit Rating Agencies." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-083, February 2020. (Revised August 2021.)
- 25 May 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Self-Regulatory Institutions for Solving Environmental Problems: Perspectives and Contributions from the Management Literature
Keywords: by Andrew King & Michael W. Toffel
- May 2019
- Supplement
Did You Decide to Proceed by Targeting Three or Six New Products?
Toffel, Michael W. "Did You Decide to Proceed by Targeting Three or Six New Products?" Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 619-714, May 2019.
- 16 Jun 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
Paying Up for Fair Pay: Consumers Prefer Firms with Lower CEO-to-Worker Pay Ratios
- 09 Feb 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Do Corporate Social Responsibility Ratings Predict Corporate Social Performance?
- 05 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
How To Deceive Others With Truthful Statements (It's Called 'Paltering,' And It's Risky)
target’s beliefs by giving a false or distorted impression. But it’s not just businesspeople who palter. Donald Trump has done it. Hillary (and Bill) Clinton, too. Chances are you have paltered. “People seem to be using this strategy... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Case Against Racial Colorblindness
"It's so appealing on the surface to think that the best way to approach race is to pretend that it doesn't exist," says behavioral psychologist Michael I. Norton, an associate professor at Harvard Business School. "But research shows... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 27 Feb 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Judgment Aggregation in Creative Production: Evidence from the Movie Industry
- 08 Oct 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Developing Theory Using Machine Learning Methods
- 14 May 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
Humblebragging: A Distinct-and Ineffective-Self-Presentation Strategy
- 2013
- Article
Where Not to Eat? Improving Public Policy by Predicting Hygiene Inspections Using Online Reviews
By: Jun Seok Kang, Polina Kuznetsova, Yejin Choi and Michael Luca
Restaurant hygiene inspections are often cited as a success story of public disclosure. Hygiene grades influence customer decisions and serve as an accountability system for restaurants. However, cities (which are responsible for inspections) have limited resources to... View Details
Keywords: Safety; Food; Governance Compliance; Mathematical Methods; Applications and Software; Public Administration Industry; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
Kang, Jun Seok, Polina Kuznetsova, Yejin Choi, and Michael Luca. "Where Not to Eat? Improving Public Policy by Predicting Hygiene Inspections Using Online Reviews." Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (2013): 1443–1448.
- 06 Jun 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Complex Disclosure
- 23 Sep 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Nowcasting the Local Economy: Using Yelp Data to Measure Economic Activity at Scale
- 13 Nov 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Shareholder Activism and Firms’ Voluntary Disclosure of Climate Change Risks
- March 2013
- Other Article
Redesigning Primary Care: A Strategic Vision to Improve Value by Organizing Around Patients' Needs
By: Michael E. Porter, Erika A. Pabo and Thomas H. Lee
Primary care in the United States currently struggles to attract new physicians and to garner investments in infrastructure required to meet patients' needs. We believe that the absence of a robust overall strategy for the entire spectrum of primary care is a... View Details
Keywords: Health
Porter, Michael E., Erika A. Pabo, and Thomas H. Lee. "Redesigning Primary Care: A Strategic Vision to Improve Value by Organizing Around Patients' Needs." Health Affairs 32, no. 3 (March 2013): 516–525.
- 13 Jun 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Handshaking Promotes Cooperative Dealmaking
- 08 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Decision Rights: Who Gives the Green Light?
for the pricing of bids made by its foreign subsidiaries. The company believed that its U.S.-based executives would be more effective in making pricing decisions because they had a broader purview of the company's needs. But the time... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- January 2011
- Book Review
Rethinking Decision Making, book review of The Art of Choosing, by Sheena Iyengar, and Streetlights and Shadows: Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making, by Gary Klein
Wheeler, Michael A. "Rethinking Decision Making, book review of The Art of Choosing, by Sheena Iyengar, and Streetlights and Shadows: Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making, by Gary Klein." Negotiation Journal 27, no. 1 (January 2011).