by Michael Pirson - Publications - Faculty & Research

study by Michael Luca, Harvard Business School’s Lee J. Styslinger III Associate Professor of Business Administration, in collaboration with Susan Athey, the economics of technology professor at Stanford... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Health; Technology

13 Nov 2019
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Shareholder Activism and Firms’ Voluntary Disclosure of Climate Change Risks

Keywords: by Caroline Flammer, Michael W. Toffel, and Kala Viswanathan

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

15 Mar 2018
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Backhanded Compliments: How Negative Comparisons Undermine Flattery

Keywords: by Ovul Sezer, Alison Wood Brooks, and Michael I. Norton

June 2017
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The Social Trajectory of a Finance Professor and the Common Sense of Capital

By: Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana

This paper traces the career of Michael Jensen, a Chicago finance PhD turned Harvard Business School professor to reveal the intellectual and social conditions that enabled the emergence and institutionalization of what we call the “neoliberal common sense of capital,”... View Details

Keywords: Executive Pay; The Firm; Michael Jensen; Neo-Liberalism; Shareholder Value; Agency Theory; Corporate Governance; Executive Compensation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Transformation

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23 May 2018
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How to Know If Your Neighborhood Is Being Gentrified

that gentrification can ruin neighborhoods by forcing out existing businesses that serve the needs of the locals. “We found that changes in the local economy—such as a new coffee shop opening—can predict gentrification,” says Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

06 May 2010
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Introductory Reading For Being a Leader and The Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological Model

Keywords: by Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron & Kari L. Granger; Education

12 Oct 2022
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When Design Enables Discrimination: Learning from Anti-Asian Bias on Airbnb

Airbnb hosts of Asian descent had significantly fewer stays early in the COVID-19 pandemic—and the design of the travel site may have inadvertently enabled discrimination that shut Asians out, says new research by Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds; Technology; Travel

May 6, 2024
Book Review

Is That What You Really Think?: Book Review of "Third Millennium Thinking" by Saul Perlmutter, John Campbell and Robert MacCoun

By: Michael Luca

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Survival of the Fittest: The Impact of the Minimum Wage on Firm Exit

Environmental Federalism in the European Union and the United States

Quality Management and Job Quality: How the ISO 9001 Standard for Quality Management Systems Affects Employees and Employers

Customer-Driven Misconduct: How Competition Corrupts Business Practices

Paying Up for Fair Pay: Consumers Prefer Firms with Lower CEO-to-Worker Pay Ratios

When $3+$1 > $4: The Effect of Gift Salience on Employee Effort in an Online Labor Market

The Revision Bias

Beyond Symbolic Responses to Private Politics: Examining Labor Standards Improvement in Global Supply Chains

How Elastic Are Preferences for Redistribution? Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments

Complex Disclosure

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

COVID-19 Lessons: Social Media Can Nudge More People to Get Vaccinated