Publications

01 Mar 2009
News

Model Patient

rebuilding.” Since becoming law in 2006, reform in Massachusetts has meant coverage not only for Madelyn Rhenisch but also for all except a tiny percentage of the state’s residents. Rhenisch’s story, and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance

07 Aug 2012
First Look

First Look: August 7

Access Improve Firm Value? Evidence from the Business Roundtable Challenge Authors:Bo Becker, Guhan Subramanian, and Daniel B. Bergstresser Publication:Journal of Law and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

December 2002 (Revised October 2006)
Case

Tesco Plc.

By: David E. Bell

Tesco, a supermarket chain, has been transformed from a third-rate retailer to a global leader in the past ten years. This case describes how that was accomplished. Interviews with Tesco employees explain the company's approach to understanding customers, motivating... View Details

Keywords: History; Motivation and Incentives; Leadership; Internet and the Web; Supply Chain Management; Global Strategy; Globalization; Customer Focus and Relationships; Business Strategy; Retail Industry

October 2003 (Revised January 2016)
Exercise

The BCPC Internet Strategy Team: An Exercise

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Laura Feldman

This short fictional case forms the basis of a team decision-making exercise. The case, inspired by a real decision facing a major telecommunications company, describes a cross-functional management team convened by the CEO for the purpose of developing a... View Details

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Decision Making; Risk and Uncertainty; Information Management; Perspective; Product Launch; Internet and the Web; Knowledge Sharing; Telecommunications Industry

2023
Chapter

Market Design Under Weak Institutions

By: Benjamin N. Roth

As market designers begin to address economic inequality, we will necessarily also begin to engage marginalized populations who have so far not been served well by the markets in which they participate. We will need new market designs for participants who may not... View Details

Keywords: Market Design; Equality and Inequality; Trust; Emerging Markets

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January 2016
Case

Acxiom

By: John Deighton

Acxiom built the market for personal data, yet sales have been flat for a decade during which marketing's appetite for data has exploded. Will the acquisition of a digital data onboarder LiveRamp give marketers what they want from a data broker? View Details

Keywords: Big Data; Direct Marketing; Personal Data; Privacy; Digital Marketing; Retargeting; Rights; Analytics and Data Science; Ethics; Marketing; United States

14 Feb 2012
News

Cost-Saving Measures

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; National Security and International Affairs; National Security and International Affairs; National Security and International Affairs

July 2021
Article

Consumers—Especially Women—Avoid Buying from Firms with Higher Gender Pay Gaps

By: Tobias Schlager, Bhavya Mohan, Katherine DeCelles and Michael I. Norton

We document a unique driver of consumer behavior: the public disclosure of a firm’s gender pay gap. Four experiments provide causal evidence that when firms are revealed to have gender pay gaps, consumers are less willing to pay for their goods, a reaction driven by... View Details

Keywords: Pay Gap; Perceived Wage Fairness; Purchase Intention; Gender; Wages; Fairness; Perception; Consumer Behavior

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2006
Chapter

Policy Implications of Weak Property Rights

By: James Anton, Hillary Greene and Dennis Yao

Keywords: Property; Rights; Policy; Government and Politics

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

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01 Sep 2008
News

Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?

leveraged, interconnected, and therefore vulnerable to shocks; inadequate rule of law and protection for property rights and contracts;... View Details

December 2012
Article

Evidence on the Use of Unverifiable Estimates in Required Goodwill Impairment

By: Karthik Ramanna and Ross L. Watts

SFAS 142 requires managers to estimate the current fair value of goodwill to determine goodwill write-offs. In promulgating the standard, the FASB predicted managers will, on average, use the fair value estimates to convey private information on future cash flows. The... View Details

Keywords: Goodwill Impairment; Fair-value Accounting; FASB; SFAS 142; Fair Value Accounting; Standards; Cash Flow; Agency Theory; Motivation and Incentives; Forecasting and Prediction; Goodwill Accounting

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04 Apr 2022
News

Strengthening City Hall’s Foundations

In an opinion piece published by the Jerusalem Post on April 4, 2022, Michael Bloomberg (MBA 1966) announced a new management training program to support mayors in Israel. The Bloomberg-Sagol Center for City Leadership, created in partnership with Yossi Sagol (MBA... View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support

01 Mar 2023
News

Research Brief: Great Expectations

treat other people and the expectations we hold drive how they turn out.” His findings appear in the paper, “The Passionate Pygmalion Effect: Passionate Employees Attain Better Outcomes in Part Because of More Preferential Treatment by... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

03 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 3

at two giant mutual fund companies, the author has also been an attorney, a government official, a law school professor, and a business school professor—sometimes simultaneously. Over the years, he has... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2008
News

Supporting the Troops

(MBA 11/’47), cofounder of the Wall Street firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, served in the Navy in World War II and says the GI Bill helped him earn degrees from Swarthmore College, HBS, and Columbia View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

2018
Working Paper

Managing Through Organizational Change: Employee Alignment in the Presence of Unexpected Career Concerns

By: Ohchan Kwon and Jee-Eun Shin

This study examines performance consequences due to unexpected career concerns – layoff risks due to institutional reasons. Exploiting a company-wide announcement of a merger decision by management as a trigger event for unexpected career concerns, we examine employee... View Details

Keywords: Career Changes; Performance Measures; Incentives; M＆A; Employees; Personal Development and Career; Mergers and Acquisitions; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance; Motivation and Incentives

November 2016 (Revised March 2017)
Case

Three Problems in Protecting Competition

By: Benjamin Edelman and Lena Goldberg

In three mini-cases, readers see a range of disputes in competition law—and apply legal principles to assure fair competition. View Details

Keywords: Law; Competition; Fairness