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Sign up for the weekly Working Knowledge e-mail newsletter, offering business leaders cutting-edge research and ideas from Harvard Business School faculty. *Email Please read our privacy policy . Change your... View Details
  • 12 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

The Three Components of Family Governance

example, have any shares changed hands since the last meeting? Are there new tax laws shareholders need to be aware of? If your family has fifteen or fewer adults, you may be able to have in-depth discussions and create plans and View Details
  • 31 Aug 2015
  • Research & Ideas

How Ben Franklin’s ‘Way to Wealth’ Introduced American Capitalism to the World

of wisdom and many others were made famous by Benjamin Franklin in his 1758 essay known as The Way to Wealth, first published as a sermon delivered by “Father Abraham” in Poor Richard’s Almanack. “I’m interested in how ideas reflect but also View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 29 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 29

  PublicationsOvercoming Resistance to Organizational Change: Strong Ties and Affective Cooptation Authors:Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract We propose a relational theory of how View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • July 2010
  • Article

The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and U.S. Ethnic Invention

By: William R. Kerr and William F. Lincoln
This study evaluates the impact of high-skilled immigrants on U.S. technology formation. We use reduced-form specifications that exploit large changes in the H-1B visa program. Higher H-1B admissions increase immigrant science and engineering (SE) employment and... View Details
Keywords: Engineering; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Immigration; Innovation and Invention; Patents; Business and Government Relations; Science; United States
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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

default settings. Using a structural model, we find that among consent policies requiring site-specific decisions, consumer surplus is maximized when consent interfaces clearly display all options and default to acceptance in the absence... View Details
  • 15 Jul 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Five Imperatives for Improving Health Care

experts including executives, policy makers, and academics. In association with the conference, the Forum launched an HBS and HMS Survey of Executive Sentiment in Health Care. “There's a lot of activity that goes on in health care that... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 07 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 7

resources in the ongoing accumulation of scientific knowledge. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2478627 October 2014 Research Policy 'Open' Disclosure of Innovations, Incentives and Follow-on Reuse:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Mar 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Learning from Failed Political Leadership

enterprise system; and that b) all peoples inhabiting the planet are potentially our friends if we could only get rid of a few terrorist troublemakers. American foreign policy is often based on these erroneous beliefs—which we demonstrate... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Pay Harmony: Peer Comparison and Executive Compensation

By: Claudine Gartenberg and Julie Wulf
This study suggests that peer comparison affects both wage setting and productivity within firms. We report three changes in division manager compensation following a 1991–1992 controversy over executive pay. We argue that this controversy increased wage comparisons... View Details
Keywords: Pay-for-Performance; Internal Labor Markets; Peer Comparison; Firm Geography; Behavior; Executive Compensation; Policy
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  • 10 Dec 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Truth Be Told: Unpacking the Risks of Whistleblowing

costs. It’s more like an insurance payment. Whistleblowers incur a lot of costs and get some money as compensation. That changes how we think about whistleblower incentives; it isn’t a reward. White: Is there abuse of these statutes?... View Details
Keywords: by April White
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HBS - The year in Review

administration, business economics, organizational behavior, and health policy management. During the Class Day ceremony the day prior, graduates, their guests, families, and friends honored five faculty with teaching awards and heard... View Details
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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Paycheck? White Paper, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, June 2020. With Frederick M. Hess. Future Positive: How Companies Can Tap Into Employee Optimism to Navigate Tomorrow’s Workplace , Report, Harvard Business... View Details
  • 28 Nov 2023
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Economic Growth Draws Companies to Asia. Can They Handle Its Authoritarian Regimes?

elites and the regime’s ability to discipline the financial system. The ultimate insights from the book include the idea that business elites can hold a “disruptive” power over political elites, forcing them to change View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • October 2020 (Revised February 2021)
  • Case

The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations

By: Mihir A. Desai, Suzanne Antoniou and Leanne Fan
How should historic social injustices be addressed? Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and their descendants, including Representative Regina Goodwin of Tulsa, believe they should be addressed through reparations and have consequently continued to push the government... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Judgments; Race; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Policy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government Legislation; Government and Politics; Government Administration; Lawsuits and Litigation; Legal Liability; Leading Change; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Conflict and Resolution; Conflict Management; Loss; Motivation and Incentives; Perspective; Prejudice and Bias; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Tulsa; Oklahoma; United States
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  • 31 Mar 2008
  • HBS Case

JetBlue’s Valentine’s Day Crisis

JetBlue founder, chairman, and then-CEO David Neeleman would later call "the worst operational week in JetBlue's seven-year history." A Storm Brews It started with a winter ice storm forecasted to change to rain. With that... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Air Transportation
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Land in China's Political Economy

By: Meg Rithmire

Land Bargains and Chinese Capitalism: The Politics of Property Rights under Reform

Published October 2015

China since the 1980s has been the scene of unprecedented efforts at urban construction and growth, even in the absence of privatization... View Details

  • 22 Nov 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Carbon Tariffs: Impacts on Technology Choice, Regional Competitiveness, and Global Emissions

Keywords: by David F. Drake; Manufacturing
  • 01 Dec 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Financing Innovation

Keywords: by William R. Kerr & Ramana Nanda
  • 15 Nov 2022
  • Book

Stop Ignoring Bad Behavior: 6 Tips for Better Ethics at Work

in unethical acts and policies if we use a few strategies: Reduce the risk of speaking up. Workers and managers who want to speak out should develop a game plan just in case speaking out results in being fired. Workers can also make it... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds