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January 2020 (Revised July 2020)
Case

BlackRock: Linking Purpose to Profit

By: Rohit Deshpandé, Aiyesha Dey and George Serafeim

The case revolves around the actions that Barbara Novick, co-founder and Vice-Chair of Blackrock, and Michelle Edkins, Global Head of Investment Stewardship, would need to take in response to the controversial CEO letters from Laurence (Larry) Fink, Chairman and CEO of... View Details

1985
Book

The Coming of Managerial Capitalism: A Casebook on the History of American Economic Institutions

By: A. D. Chandler Jr. and R. S. Tedlow

Keywords: Economic Systems; Managerial Roles

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Article

Turnkey or Tailored? Relational Pluralism, Institutional Complexity, and the Organizational Adoption of More or Less Customized Practices

By: Ryan Raffaelli and Mary Ann Glynn

We examine how the organizational adoption of new practices is influenced by relational pluralism, i.e., an organization's multiple ties to actors inside and outside its industry. We theorize that institutional mechanisms of practice diffusion underlying relational... View Details

Keywords: Networks; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business Processes; Adoption; Customization and Personalization

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2024
Working Paper

Racial Discrimination and the Social Contract: Evidence from U.S. Army Enlistment During WWII

By: Nancy Qian and Marco Tabellini

This paper documents that the Pearl Harbor attack triggered a sharp increase in volunteer enlistment rates of American men, the magnitude of the increase was smaller for Black men than for white men and the Black-white gap was larger in counties with higher levels of... View Details

Keywords: State Capacity; Institutions; War; Race; Prejudice and Bias; Government Administration; United States

15 Oct 2015 - 18 Oct 2015
Conference Presentation

Institutional Economics and Managed Competition: U.S. Antitrust, Economics and Law in the Progressive Era, 1911-1929

By: Laura Phillips Sawyer

Nov 2014
Conference Presentation

Institutional Economics and Managed Competition: U.S. Antitrust, Economics and Law in the Long Progressive Era

By: Laura Phillips Sawyer

09 Oct 2024
HBS Seminar

E. Glen Weyl, Microsoft Research's Plural Technology Collaboratory, Founder and Chair of the Plurality Institute

2006
Chapter

The Social Dimensions of Entrepreneurship

By: Amir Licht and Jordan I. Siegel

Schumpeter's canonical depiction of the entrepreneur as an agent of social and economic change implies that entrepreneurs are especially sensitive to the social environment. We use an organizing framework based on institutional economics, in combination with lessons... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Social Institutions; Culture; Law; Social Networks; Reputation; Social Entrepreneurship; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact

August 2012 (Revised March 2015)
Case

Egypt: Turbulence, and Transition?

By: Diego Comin, Mohamed Heikal and Adam Said

The case goes over the evolution of politics and institutions in Egypt over the last 50 years. The case provides new insights on the reasons for violent political transitions and also explores the effects of political instability on productivity and competitiveness. View Details

Keywords: Institutional Change; Military; Competitiveness; Democracy; Revolution; Productivity; History; Transition; Economic Systems; Competition; War; Performance Productivity; Organizations; Government and Politics; Volatility; Egypt

October 2020
Article

IQ from IP: Simplifying Search in Portfolio Choice

By: Huaizhi Chen, Lauren Cohen, Umit Gurun, Dong Lou and Christopher J. Malloy

Using a novel database that tracks web traffic on the SEC’s EDGAR servers between 2004 and 2015, we show that mutual fund managers gather information on a very particular subset of firms and insiders, and their surveillance is very persistent over time. This tracking... View Details

Keywords: Tracked Trades; Return Predictability; Institutional Trading; Insider Trading; Institutional Investing; Information; Investment Portfolio; Decisions; Management

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16 Oct 2002
Keynote Speech

Value Shift: The Need for a New Corporate Ethic." Speaker. "Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement

By: Lynn S. Paine

Keywords: Ethics

2017
Working Paper

Elite Ideas and Incremental Policy Change: The Expansion of Primary Education in India

By: Akshay Mangla

This paper analyzes India’s recent enactment of universal primary education. Given the clientelistic features of Indian democracy, this programmatic policy change presents a puzzle. Drawing on interviews and official documents, I find that committed state elites... View Details

Keywords: India; Political Economy; Ideas; Institutional Change; Education; Change Management; India

2008
Working Paper

The Cost of Property Rights: Establishing Institutions on the Philippine Frontier Under American Rule, 1898-1918

By: Lakshmi Iyer and Noel Maurer

We examine three reforms to property rights introduced by the United States in the Philippines in the early 20th century: the redistribution of large estates to their tenants, the creation of a system of secure land titles, and a homestead program to encourage... View Details

Keywords: Property; Ownership; Rights; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Cost; History; Philippines; United States

11 Oct 2009
Conference Presentation

The impact of institutional actors as attention structures on entrepreneurial activity in the U.S. biodiesel industry

By: Shon R. Hiatt

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Energy Industry; Biotechnology Industry; United States

September 2016
Case

Financial Services at Falabella (A)

By: C. Fritz Foley and Agustin M. Hurtado

In 2010, the board and senior management team of Falabella, a leading retailer with operations throughout Latin America, faced choices about what to do with its financial services division. More than 4.5 million customers had CMR credit cards that could be used in... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Credit; Financial Institutions; Personal Finance; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Banking Industry; Retail Industry; Latin America; Chile; Argentina; Colombia; Peru

June 2013
Background Note

Venture Philanthropy: Its Evolution and Its Future

By: Allen Grossman, Sarah Appleby and Caitlin Reimers

This note explores the current state of venture philanthropy in the U.S. and its future. Based on interviews with 28 practitioners in the field of philanthropy and a review of the literature since the publication of the article introducing the concept of venture... View Details

Keywords: Philanthropy; Nonprofit; Social Institutions; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Entrepreneurship; Civil Society or Community; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; United States

7 Jun 2012
Conference Presentation

How Do Risk Managers Become Influential? A Field Study of Toolmaking and Expertise in Two Financial Institutions

By: Anette Mikes

2007
Other Paper

The Institutional Dynamics of Community Fields: Growth and Decline in the Nonprofits of 100 American Cities, 1987-2002

By: Christopher Marquis, Gerald F. Davis and Mary Ann Glynn

2022
Working Paper

How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools

By: Rakesh Khurana, Kenneth C. Kimura and Marion Fourcade

March 2012 (Revised March 2012)
Teaching Note

Ganging up on Cancer: Integrative Research Centers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (TN) (A) and (B)

By: Heidi K. Gardner

Keywords: Health Industry

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