Moral Hazard - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 May 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Many firms can choose between an employment mode, in which the firm controls service provision by employing professionals, sales representatives or other types of agents, and an agency (or platform) mode, in which these agents take control... View Details

2016
Working Paper

Controlling Versus Enabling — Online Appendix

By: Andrei Hagiu and Julian Wright

Section 1 of this online appendix contains the proof of the technical Lemma (Lemma 2) used in the Proof of Lemma 1 in the main paper, which states that Ω* (.) is continuous and differentiable at R*. Section 2 provides the linear example with cost differences between... View Details

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16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008

design changes. It describes trade-offs associated with several major policy decisions, including whether to hold firms physically or financially responsible for the recovery of their products, when to impose recycling fees, whether to include disposal and View Details

18 Jun 2013
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Publications 2006 Emotion Review The Power of the Cognition/Emotion Distinction for Morality By: Bazerman, Max H., Francesca Gino, Lisa L. Shu, and Chia-Jung Tsay Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

24 Feb 2021
Lessons from the Classroom

What History's Biggest Wars Teach Us About Leading in Peace

a cataclysmic war. Consider a conflict from an opponent’s viewpoint The wars Malhotra examines in his “War & Peace” course illustrate the hazards of drawing lessons from too few salient experiences, of failing to properly diagnose the... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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Curriculum - Business & Environment

hazards on city streets? Wei and four schoolmates at Peking University had launched ofo on their campus with 1000 bikes in fall 2015. Since then, they had deployed 6.5 million. The question now was how many more? The Social Purpose of the... View Details

06 Aug 2019
Cold Call Podcast

Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?

some conflict or challenge that they overcome, and you have to have a moral of the story, like what's the message we're trying to convey? That's actually surprisingly easy to do in 30 or 60 seconds. Some people, obviously, are better at... View Details

Keywords: Advertising; Sports; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting

23 Mar 2023
News

SVB Crash Analysis

Global Banking Turmoil Harvard professor and economist Kenneth Rogoff says it's far better to sell a bank than to bail it out. Bailouts for Everyone? Harvard Law School professor Daniel Tarullo, who served as Fed regulator, talks about the View Details

06 Dec 2011
Op-Ed

Greater Fiscal Integration Best Solution for Euro Crisis

deleveraging that made them sell European sovereign debt. But the ECB's most powerful weapon - intervening in the bond market - is still locked away. Draghi needs to create consensus among the German "hawks" who worry about the inflationary risks of debt... View Details

Keywords: by Dante Roscini

01 Jun 2009
News

Too Big To Fail

to help, has the government unwittingly created the mother of all moral hazards — implicit rescue guarantees as far as the eye can see? No doubt about it, says HBS professor and economic historian David... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance

02 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

The Role of Government When All Else Fails

soundness of their banks, that product liability law has led consumers to be more careless in the way they use products, and so on. While many of these criticisms are probably exaggerated, it is undoubtedly true that moral View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

03 Feb 2021
News

Power Play

watching the utility industry—finally, 20 years after deregulation—fall to more nimble competition with smaller and decarbonized assets.” Sustainability, which had become a bit of a buzzword in investment circles, had long felt like the right thing to do from a View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

17 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

Resisting the Seductions of Success

professional life, throws his family into chaos, and puts them in physical danger. Leaders aim at success, not self-destruction, but this is exactly what Tony brings on himself. This story confronts us with one of the oldest and most perplexing themes in literature—the... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing

13 Mar 2012
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regulation. In this paper, we argue that the considerable moral hazard associated with private regulatory monitoring can be mitigated by understanding conflicts of interest in the monitoring organizations'... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015

November 2015 Quarterly Journal of Economics Behavioral Hazard in Health Insurance By: Baicker, Katherine, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Joshua Schwartzstein Abstract—A fundamental implication of standard moral... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

unwittingly created the mother of all moral hazards—implicit rescue guarantees as far as the eye can see? No doubt about it, says HBS professor and economic historian David Moss. "The extension of implicit guarantees to all systemically... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services

01 Mar 2010
News

Rx for Too Big to Fail

pulling the financial system back from the brink. This marked a sharp contrast to the disastrous “liquidationist” policies of the early 1930s, when public officials (particularly at the Federal Reserve) were so afraid of moral View Details

Keywords: David Moss; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

06 Mar 2006
What Do You Think?

The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?

not see any threat or moral hazard when the service provider makes clear to its customer the potential threat of use or sharing of the information by the intelligence or other authorities. Forewarned is... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

return profile is going to go down, and the cultures at these firms are going to change dramatically over the next couple of years." The Risk Of Moral Hazard David Moss, professor and historian,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

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