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Optimal Capital-Gains Taxation under Limited Information

By: Jerry R. Green and Eytan Sheshinski
Taxation of capital gains at realization may distort individuals' decisions regarding holding or selling during an asset's lifetime. This creates the problem of designing a tax structure for capital gains so as to induce efficient patterns of holding and selling.... View Details
Keywords: Capital Gains; Optimal Taxation; Taxation
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Green, Jerry R., and Eytan Sheshinski. "Optimal Capital-Gains Taxation under Limited Information." Journal of Political Economy 86, no. 6 (December 1978): 1143–1158.
  • February 2021
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Health Care Measurements That Improve Patient Outcomes

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Lara Jehi, Clifford Y. Ko, Andrea Pusic and Mary Witkowski
This article describes the challenges and solutions in determining whether a patient’s treatment has been successful. Such an assessment depends on multiple factors, including the patient’s pretreatment status; the qualifications of personnel performing the treatment;... View Details
Keywords: Outcomes Measurement; Health Care and Treatment; Outcome or Result; Measurement and Metrics
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Kaplan, Robert S., Lara Jehi, Clifford Y. Ko, Andrea Pusic, and Mary Witkowski. "Health Care Measurements That Improve Patient Outcomes." NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery 2, no. 2 (February 2021).
  • February 2015 (Revised September 2016)
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Making stickK Stick: The Business of Behavioral Economics

By: Leslie K. John and Michael Norton
Email mking@hbs.edu for a courtesy copy.

This Teaching Note explains the theory of the case and teaching plan for the case: Making sticK Stick: The Business of Behavioral Economics (514019). The case focuses on a... View Details
Keywords: Behavioral Economics; Behavior Change; B2B Vs. B2C; Human Resource Management; Marketing Of Innovations; Health & Wellness; Weight Loss; Charitable Giving; Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Entrepreneurship; Internet and the Web; Health; Business Model; Sales; Human Resources; Health Industry; United States
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John, Leslie K., and Michael Norton. "Making stickK Stick: The Business of Behavioral Economics." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 515-088, February 2015. (Revised September 2016.) (Email mking@hbs.edu for a courtesy copy.)
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Collaboration Networks, Structural Holes, and Innovation: A Longitudinal Study

By: Gautam Ahuja
To assess the effects of a firm's network of relations on innovation, this paper elaborates a theoretical framework that relates three aspects of a firm's ego network-direct ties, indirect ties, and structural holes (disconnections between a firm's partners)—to the... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Social and Collaborative Networks; Innovation and Invention; Chemical Industry
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Ahuja, Gautam. "Collaboration Networks, Structural Holes, and Innovation: A Longitudinal Study." Administrative Science Quarterly 45, no. 3 (September 2000): 425–455.
  • February 2011
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It's the Recipient That Counts: Spending Money on Strong Social Ties Leads to Greater Happiness Than Spending on Weak Social Ties

By: Lara B. Aknin, Gillian M. Sandstrom, Elizabeth W. Dunn and Michael I. Norton
Previous research has shown that spending money on others (prosocial spending) increases happiness. But, do the happiness gains depend on who the money is spent on? Sociologists have distinguished between strong ties with close friends and family and weak... View Details
Keywords: Happiness; Relationships; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving
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Aknin, Lara B., Gillian M. Sandstrom, Elizabeth W. Dunn, and Michael I. Norton. "It's the Recipient That Counts: Spending Money on Strong Social Ties Leads to Greater Happiness Than Spending on Weak Social Ties." PLoS ONE 6, no. 2 (February 2011): e17018.
  • January 1998 (Revised March 2000)
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Reading Rehabilitation Hospital: Implementing Patient-Focused Care

Reading Rehab Hospital has experimented with a popular new concept in health care--patient-focused care--intended to increase quality and reduce costs by organizing care delivery around particular diagnoses or "service lines," rather than around the functions or... View Details
Keywords: Demand and Consumers; Production; Service Operations; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
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Gittell, Jody H., and Mason Brown. "Reading Rehabilitation Hospital: Implementing Patient-Focused Care." Harvard Business School Case 898-172, January 1998. (Revised March 2000.)

    The Global Rise of Democracy

    We examine the influence of an interstate network created by intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) on the global diffusion of democracy. We propose that IGOs facilitate democracy’s diffusion by transmitting information between member states and by interpreting... View Details
    • 17 Jun 2008
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    First Look: June 17, 2008

    lending depends critically on the nature of the competitive environment in which banks are located. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-101.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsFinansbank 2006 Harvard Business School Case... View Details
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    The Role of Suggested Pricing in Retail

    Does a $100 shirt seem more valuable when its price tag shows a 50 discount off an original price of $200? Pricing information in retail settings often has three components: an original price, a percent discount, and the final price. Little empirical evidence exists... View Details

    • February 2025 (Revised February 2025)
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    What's Heiring Next? The Saga of the Murdoch Media Empire

    By: Lauren Cohen, Mayra Gazel and Sophia Pan
    As Lachlan Murdoch left the courthouse, he puzzled on the next phase of his battle for control over his father Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. With Rupert aging and his siblings determined to retain their voting rights, Lachlan was convinced that the future of News... View Details
    Keywords: Family Business; Lawsuits and Litigation; Rights; Management Succession; Family Ownership; Family and Family Relationships; Power and Influence; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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    Cohen, Lauren, Mayra Gazel, and Sophia Pan. "What's Heiring Next? The Saga of the Murdoch Media Empire." Harvard Business School Case 225-085, February 2025. (Revised February 2025.)
    • 2025
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    Turning Away from the State: Trade Shocks and Informal Insurance in Brazil

    By: Paula Rettl
    How does economic globalization affect vote choices? Conventional wisdom holds that voters who lose from economic integration support parties that propose expanding the welfare state. However, in the Global South, where the state is frequently weak or under-resourced,... View Details
    Keywords: Global Strategy; Globalized Economies and Regions; Governance; Government Administration; Political Elections; Voting; Latin America; Brazil; South America
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    Rettl, Paula. "Turning Away from the State: Trade Shocks and Informal Insurance in Brazil." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-038, February 2025.
    • March 2022
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    Revealing Corruption: Firm and Worker Level Evidence from Brazil

    By: Emanuele Colonnelli, Spyridon Lagaras, Jacopo Ponticelli, Mounu Prem and Margarita Tsoutsoura
    We study how the disclosure of corrupt practices affects the growth of firms involved in illegal interactions with the government using randomized audits of public procurement in Brazil. On average, firms exposed by the anti-corruption program grow larger after the... View Details
    Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Corporate Disclosure; Business Growth and Maturation; Brazil
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    Colonnelli, Emanuele, Spyridon Lagaras, Jacopo Ponticelli, Mounu Prem, and Margarita Tsoutsoura. "Revealing Corruption: Firm and Worker Level Evidence from Brazil." Journal of Financial Economics 143, no. 3 (March 2022): 1097–1119.
    • March 2023
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    Not from Concentrate: Collusion in Collaborative Industries

    By: Jordan M. Barry, John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers and Richard Lowery
    The chief principle of antitrust law and theory is that reducing market concentration—having more, smaller firms instead of fewer, bigger ones—reduces anticompetitive behavior. We demonstrate that this principle is fundamentally incomplete.

    In many... View Details
    Keywords: Antitrust; Antitrust Law; Antitrust Theory; Law And Economics; Collusion; Collaboration; Collaborative Industries; Regulation; "Repeated Games"; IPOs; Initial Public Offerings; Underwriters; Real Estate; Real Estate Agents; Realtors; Syndicated Markets; Syndication; Brokers; Market Concentration; Competition; Law; Economics; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Game Theory; Initial Public Offering
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    Barry, Jordan M., John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers, and Richard Lowery. "Not from Concentrate: Collusion in Collaborative Industries." Iowa Law Review 108, no. 3 (March 2023): 1089–1148.
    • 2022
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    The Ordinary Concept of a Meaningful Life: The Role of Subjective and Objective Factors in Third-Person Attributions of Meaning

    By: Michael Prinzing, Julian De Freitas and Barbara L. Fredrickson
    The desire for a meaningful life is ubiquitous, yet the ordinary concept of a meaningful life is poorly understood. Across six experiments (total N = 2,539), we investigated whether third-person attributions of meaning depend on the psychological states an agent... View Details
    Keywords: Experimental Philosophy; Folk Theories; Meaning In Life; Moral Psychology; Positive Psychology; Moral Sensibility; Satisfaction
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    Prinzing, Michael, Julian De Freitas, and Barbara L. Fredrickson. "The Ordinary Concept of a Meaningful Life: The Role of Subjective and Objective Factors in Third-Person Attributions of Meaning." Journal of Positive Psychology 17, no. 5 (2022): 639–654.
    • 2018
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    The Limitations of Dynamic Capabilities

    By: David J. Collis and Bharat Anand
    The concept of dynamic capabilities draws its theoretical basis from two classic traditions within the strategy field—the resource-based view of the firm (RBV) (Wernerfelt, 1984) and market positioning (Porter, 1996). A dynamic capability qualifies as a source of... View Details
    Keywords: Dynamic Capabilities; Business Ventures; Performance; Competitive Advantage
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    Collis, David J., and Bharat Anand. "The Limitations of Dynamic Capabilities." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-029, September 2019.
    • May 2016
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    Cooperation in Multicultural Negotiations: How the Cultures of People with Low and High Power Interact

    By: Shirli Kopelman, Ashley E. Hardin, Christopher G. Myers and Leigh Plunkett Tost
    This study examined whether the cultures of low- and high-power negotiators interact to influence cooperative behavior of low-power negotiators. Managers from four different cultural groups (Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, and the United States) negotiated face-to-face in... View Details
    Keywords: Global Collaboration; Negotiations; Culture; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Participants; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Hong Kong; Germany; Israel; United States
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    Kopelman, Shirli, Ashley E. Hardin, Christopher G. Myers, and Leigh Plunkett Tost. "Cooperation in Multicultural Negotiations: How the Cultures of People with Low and High Power Interact." Journal of Applied Psychology 101, no. 5 (May 2016): 721–730.
    • March 2014
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    Cheating More for Less: Upward Social Comparisons Motivate the Poorly Compensated to Cheat

    By: Leslie K. John, George Loewenstein and Scott Rick
    Intuitively, people should cheat more when cheating is more lucrative, but we find that the effect of performance-based pay rates on dishonesty depends on how readily people can compare their pay rate to that of others. In Experiment 1, participants were paid 5 cents... View Details
    Keywords: Dishonesty; Social Comparison; Pay Secrecy; Motivation and Incentives; Fairness; Decision Making; Compensation and Benefits
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    John, Leslie K., George Loewenstein, and Scott Rick. "Cheating More for Less: Upward Social Comparisons Motivate the Poorly Compensated to Cheat." Special Issue on Behavioral Ethics. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 123, no. 2 (March 2014): 101–109.
    • September–October 2012
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    One-Switch Conditions for Multiattribute Utility Functions

    By: Ali E. Abbas and David E. Bell
    We introduce a variety of new independence conditions for multiattribute utility functions that permit preference dependencies among the attributes of a decision problem. The hierarchy of new conditions varies in the degree to which it specifies the functional form,... View Details
    Keywords: One-switch; Utility Independence; Risk Aversion; Multiattribute Utility; Decision Making
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    Abbas, Ali E., and David E. Bell. "One-Switch Conditions for Multiattribute Utility Functions." Operations Research 60, no. 5 (September–October 2012): 1199–1212.
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    The Global Rise of Democracy: A Network Account

    By: Magnus Thor Torfason and Paul Ingram
    We examine the influence of an interstate network created by intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) on the global diffusion of democracy. We propose that IGOs facilitate this diffusion by transmitting information between their member states and by interpreting that... View Details
    Keywords: International Relations; Networks; Society; Transformation; Power and Influence; Country; Globalization
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    Torfason, Magnus Thor, and Paul Ingram. "The Global Rise of Democracy: A Network Account." American Sociological Review 75, no. 3 (June 2010): 355–77.
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    Hire Talent

    depends on intentionally managing technology, routines, and communication. The HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD) office shares practical tips to help you and your team thrive. Whether you work from home full-time or split your... View Details
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