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  • June 2023
  • Article

The Effect of Firms' Information Exposure on Safeguarding Employee Health: Evidence from COVID-19

By: Lisa Yao Liu and Shirley Lu
We show that information exposure through international business networks enables firms to take proactive measures that benefit employees and potentially the local community. Specifically, in the early days of COVID-19, firms that have business networks with China and... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Networks; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Health Pandemics; Decision Choices and Conditions; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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Kidneys for Sale: Who Disapproves, and Why?

By: Stephen Leider and Alvin E. Roth
The shortage of transplant kidneys has spurred debate about legalizing monetary payments to donors to increase the number of available kidneys. However, buying and selling organs faces widespread disapproval. We survey a representative sample of Americans to assess... View Details
Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Policy; Health; Market Transactions; Attitudes; Trust
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  • 26 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 26

  Publications International Marketing Review Achievement Motivation, Strategic Orientations and Business Performance in Entrepreneurial Firms: How Different Are Japanese and American Founders? By: Deshpandé, Rohit, Amir Grinstein, Elie... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2003
  • What Do You Think?

To Whom Should Boards be Accountable?

toward short-term thinking in general among corporate directors of U.S. firms. George's view brings to mind the story of a well regarded, widely read, influential regional newspaper that was forced into a public auction by a hostile... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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PhD Programs - Doctoral

students join the Business Economics program directly from an undergraduate or master's program, others have worked in economic consulting firms or as research assistants at universities or intergovernmental organizations. The PhD program in Health View Details
  • 31 Jan 2007
  • Working Paper Summaries

Behavioral Decision Research, Legislation, and Society: Three Cases

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
  • Research Summary

Managing sustainability in supply chains

By: Michael W. Toffel
I am examining codes of conduct, management process standards, and government voluntary programs that address environmental and labor issues, seeking to understand what enables some of these programs to actually deliver on their promise of distinguishing organizations... View Details
Keywords: Environment; Environmental Performance; Environmental Regulation; Environmental Strategy; Regulation; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; Service Industry; Construction Industry; United States; California
  • 08 May 2019
  • News

Gifts of the Immigrants, Woes of the Natives: Lessons from the Age of Mass Migration

    Regina E. Herzlinger

    Regina E. Herzlinger is the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. She was the first woman to be tenured and chaired at Harvard Business School and serve on many established and start-up corporate health care/medical... View Details

    Keywords: health care; insurance industry; medical devices; retailing; digital health
    • 2016
    • Article

    The Federal Reserve's Balance Sheet as a Financial-Stability Tool

    By: Robin Greenwood, Samuel Gregory Hanson and Jeremy C. Stein
    We argue that the Federal Reserve should use its balance sheet to help reduce a key threat to financial stability: the tendency for private-sector financial intermediaries to engage in excessive amounts of maturity transformation—i.e., to finance risky assets using... View Details
    Keywords: Central Banking; Policy; Risk Management; Public Administration Industry; United States
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    • 10 Nov 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Crony Capitalism, American Style: What Are We Talking About Here?

    Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter
    • November 2019 (Revised February 2020)
    • Case

    Starbucks: Reaffirming Commitment to the Third Place Ideal

    By: Francesca Gino, Katherine B. Coffman and Jeff Huizinga
    On April 12, 2018, two African American entrepreneurs had scheduled a business meeting at a Starbucks in Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square neighborhood. They sat without ordering, waiting for a local businessman to show up for the meeting. The store manager called 911... View Details
    Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Values and Beliefs; Prejudice and Bias; Crisis Management; Employees; Training
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    • 28 May 2019
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Labor Market Shocks and the Demand for Trade Protection: Evidence from Online Surveys

    Keywords: by Rafael Di Tella and Dani Rodrik
    • 16 Mar 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: March 16

    judgments made with clear incentives for objectivity. The consistency we observe between public and private judgments indicates that participants believed their biased assessments. Our results suggest that the psychology of conflict of... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • December 2012 (Revised July 2013)
    • Case

    The “Chongqing Model” and the Future of China

    By: Meg Rithmire
    Since opening to the global economy in 1979, but especially since entering the WTO in 2001, China's economy grew at rates around 10% annually by attracting FDI and promoting exports. After the financial crisis that began in 2008 and depressed demand in the United... View Details
    Keywords: China; Public Sector; Private Sector; Developing Countries and Economies; Macroeconomics; Public Administration Industry; China
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    • 04 Jan 2019
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Digital Commons: Tragedy or Opportunity? A Reflection on the 50th Anniversary of Hardin’s Tragedy of the Commons

    Keywords: by Frank Nagle
    • Research Summary

    International business and political risk in West Africa

    This project, based on confidential corporate archives, explores the response of foreign companies to political decolonization and the threat of expropriation in Ghana and Nigeria. Foreign companies in Ghana and Nigeria, especially those from Britain, had a... View Details

    • 06 Sep 2005
    • What Do You Think?

    What are the Lessons of New Orleans?

    Summing Up Management is a complex process. Good plans executed poorly may be worse than poor plans executed well. This is never truer than at times of disaster, in which plans made from afar have to be implemented by those on the scene first, often with limited... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 22 Apr 2019
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Government Technology Policy, Social Value, and National Competitiveness

    Keywords: by Frank Nagle
    • 03 Mar 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: March 3, 2009

    but they must also think about how to manage the entire firm's portfolio. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=809072 Necessity and Invention: Monetary Policy Innovation and the Subprime... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace