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Accounting & Management - Faculty & Research

Starkweather and Joshua White We study how Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) affect firms’ engagement with shareholders. Our analyses exploit a quasi-natural experiment using say-on-pay voting outcomes near a threshold that... View Details
  • Web

Students on the Job Market - Doctoral

Experiment There are concerns that managers repurchase shares myopically to benefit themselves at the costs of shareholders and society. Due to these concerns, the SEC adopted its 2023 Share Repurchase Disclosure Modernization Rules (the... View Details
  • Web

South Asia - Global

South Asia Mumbai For the past decade the HBS community has demonstrated a strong interest in research related to South Asia. The India Research Center (IRC) was established in 2006 and is based in Mumbai. Following significant economic... View Details
  • 23 Jun 2023
  • HBS Case

This Company Lets Employees Take Charge—Even with Life and Death Decisions

example for companies struggling to re-engage “quiet quitters” while balancing rising costs and mixed economic signals. The company began in the Netherlands in 2006 as an antidote to what the founders viewed as innovation-crushing managed... View Details
Keywords: by Annelena Lobb; Health
  • March 2012 (Revised October 2012)
  • Case

Hayman Capital Management

By: Robin Greenwood, Julie Messina and Jared Dourdeville
In late December 2011, Hayman Capital founder and portfolio manager Kyle Bass was reviewing Japanese government budget projections for 2012. The projections appeared contrary to Hayman Capital's views on Japan, where the fund had built a bearish position. Japan had the... View Details
Keywords: Investment Management; Speculative Bubbles; Japan; Government Policy; Financial Management; Price Bubble; Credit; Financial Strategy; Behavioral Finance; Government and Politics; Macroeconomics; Financial Services Industry; Japan
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  • 2013
  • Other Unpublished Work

Household Bargaining and Excess Fertility: An Experimental Study in Zambia

By: Nava Ashraf, Erica Field and Jean Lee
We posit that household decision-making over fertility is characterized by moral hazard due to the fact that most contraception can only be perfectly observed by the woman. Using an experiment in Zambia that varied whether women were given access to contraceptives... View Details
Keywords: Family and Family Relationships; Negotiation; Developing Countries and Economies; Zambia
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  • 24 Jul 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Part-Time Employees Want More Hours. Can Companies Tap This ‘Hidden’ Talent Pool?

and the United States in 2020 conducted by the Managing the Future of Work project, which Fuller co-chairs. The insights come at a crucial moment for employers, who continue to scramble to fill openings despite economic headwinds. “A... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 2016
  • Working Paper

The Skills Gap and the Near-Far Problem in Executive Education and Leadership Development

By: Mihnea Moldoveanu and Das Narayandas
Executive development programs have entered a period of rapid transformation, driven on one side by the proliferation of a new technological, cultural, and economic landscape commonly referred to as “digital disruption” and on the other by a widening gap between the... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Executive Education; Disruption; Management Skills
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  • 28 Aug 2023
  • Research & Ideas

How Workplace Wellness Programs Can Give Employees the Energy Boost They Need

salary, attrition due to burnout is worth preventing. Why companies should focus on employee energy Studies have found that employees who are in good health are more likely to feel engaged and productive at work, and employees in good mental health are less likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson
  • Web

Finance - Faculty & Research

allowed? This question has motivated six congressional bill proposals over decades of policy debate. Using a novel natural experiment and Census-Bureau microdata, we inform this debate. Comparing observably similar firms within a... View Details
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Can Evidence-Based Information Shift Preferences Towards Trade Policy?

By: Laura Alfaro, Maggie X. Chen and Davin Chor
Amid public skepticism about trade, we investigate whether evidence-based information--a concise statement of a research finding--can shape preferences towards trade policy. Across survey experiments conducted over 2018-2022 on U.S. general population samples, we... View Details
Keywords: Evidence; Preference; Trade Policy; Information; Trade; Policy; Attitudes
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  • May 2023
  • Article

Gentrification and Retail Churn: Theory and Evidence

By: Edward L. Glaeser, Michael Luca and Erica Moszkowski
How does gentrification transform neighborhood retail amenities? This paper presents a model in which gentrification harms incumbent residents by increasing rental costs and by eliminating distinctive local stores. While rising rents can be offset with targeted... View Details
Keywords: Gentrification; Neighborhoods; Impact; Local Range; Transition; Civil Society or Community; Welfare; Economic Growth
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  • 08 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 8, 2010

Publication:American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract This paper reports a three-phase experiment on a stylized labor market. In the first two phases, agents face simple games, which we use to estimate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Non-Adherence in Health Care: A Positive and Normative Analysis

By: Mark Egan and Tomas J. Philipson
Non-adherence in health care results when a patient does not initiate or continue care that a provider has recommended. Previous research identifies non-adherence as a major source of waste in US health care, totaling approximately 2.3% of GDP, and have proposed a... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Behavior; Economics; Analysis; Mathematical Methods
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  • July 2013 (Revised May 2017)
  • Case

European Integration: Meeting the Competitiveness Challenge

By: Michael E. Porter and Christian Ketels
The case discusses the origins and development of the European Integration process from the post-war period up to 2007, focusing particularly on the efforts of the Lisbon-agenda under way since 2000 to enhance Europe's competitiveness. It discusses the different policy... View Details
Keywords: Integration; Globalized Economies and Regions; Competition; Development Economics; Global Range; Policy; Failure; European Union; Europe
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  • 28 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 28

change its strategy in order to keep up with India's changing social, political, and economic landscape? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/516116-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case PEL-079 Uncommon Schools... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Help - Alumni

Program with Harvard Medical School /Master in Business Administration (MD/MBA) Master in Business Administration (MBA) Owner/President Management Program (OPM) PhD in Business Economics (PhDBE or PhDBusEc) PhD in Information, Technology,... View Details
  • 2018
  • Chapter

Time, Money, and Subjective Wellbeing

By: Cassie Mogilner, A.V. Whillans and Michael I. Norton
Time and money are scarce and precious resources: people experience stress about having insufficient time and worry about having insufficient money. This chapter reviews research showing that the ways in which people spend their time and money, the tradeoffs that... View Details
Keywords: Money; Time Management; Happiness; Satisfaction
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  • 23 Jul 2021
  • Blog Post

Trends in Consumer Products

show the range of consumer product companies’ experience, I interviewed alumni from three companies to share their stories from the last year of Covid. Their experiences underscore the importance of being an agile marketer and staying... View Details
  • 01 Jul 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Creating Reciprocal Value Through Operational Transparency

Keywords: by Ryan W. Buell, Tami Kim & Chia-Jung Tsay