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  • Research Summary

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Professor Sawyer’s research focuses on U.S. political economy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, concentrating on the development of competition policy and the administrative state. While the conventional history of U.S. competition policy portrays the... View Details

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The Implications of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act on Cancer Care Delivery

By: Heidi W. Albright, Mark Moreno, Thomas W. Feeley, Ronald Walters, Marc Samuels, Alissa Pereira and Thomas W. Burke
In March 2010, President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act. This legislation attempts to address cost control and improve the quality of healthcare in the United States. Cancer is a... View Details
Keywords: Health Care Policy; Health Care; Cancer Care In The U.S.; Cancer Care Services; Health; Law; Quality; Health Industry; North and Central America
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  • November 2012 (Revised June 2013)
  • Case

The Levees Repaired, a System Still Broken: Post Katrina Turnaround at the Orleans Public Defenders (A)

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Olivia Leskinen
Law Professor Ronald Sullivan was asked to lead a turnaround of the Orleans Public Defenders as a one-year assignment following Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The office was underfunded and had perverse incentives embedded throughout the system. Sullivan's new vision to... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Management; New Orleans
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  • 18 Sep 2019
  • News

Tillerson’s exit interview

    Andy Zelleke

    Andy Zelleke is the MBA Class of 1962 Senior Lecturer of Business Administration. A member of the General Management unit, he is the Faculty Chair of HBS’ Middle East & North Africa Research Center.

    Since Spring 2021, Dr. Zelleke has taught “Unpacking... View Details

    Keywords: federal government; professional services; defense; financial services
    • 05 May 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Greed, Fear, and The System Hinder Corporate Reform

    Enforcers of regulatory laws are making some headway, particularly since the passage last summer of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, but their work as a whole needs more teeth, according to panelists at the session on regulation and enforcement.... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • June 2015
    • Case

    1996 Welfare Reform in the United States

    By: Matthew Weinzierl, Katrina Flanagan and Alastair Su
    On August 22, 1996, U.S. President Bill Clinton signed into law the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA)—a dramatic reform of the American system of economic assistance for the poor that, as its title suggested, attempted to... View Details
    Keywords: Welfare State; Public Goods; Moral Hazard; Median Voter Theorem; Poverty; Welfare; Public Administration Industry; United States
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    • 08 Nov 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    Handgun Waiting Periods Prevent Hundreds of Homicides Each Year

    iStockPhoto State laws that require people to wait a few days before purchasing firearms reduce gun-related homicides by 17 percent, new research shows. Waiting periods saved 750 lives per year in the 17 states that had such policies in... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 12 Aug 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser

    and Stanford University Professor Amit Seru—detail their findings in the revised working paper Arbitration with Uninformed Customers, released in May. Brokers’ critical advantages in arbitration About 40 percent of American investors rely... View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

      Louis E. Caldera

      Louis Caldera is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He teaches Leadership and Corporate Accountability, a required first-year course in the MBA program. He has previously taught law school courses on corporate... View Details

      • Fall, 2024
      • Article

      Sixty Years of the Voting Rights Act: Progress and Pitfalls

      By: Andrea Bernini, Giovanni Facchini, Marco Tabellini and Cecilia Testa
      We review the literature on the effects of the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA), which removed formal restrictions to Black political participation. After a brief description of racial discrimination suffered by Black Americans since Reconstruction, we introduce the goals... View Details
      Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Equality and Inequality; Race; Political Elections; Voting; Policy; Outcome or Result; Government Legislation
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      • 14 Jul 2022
      • Research & Ideas

      When the Rubber Meets the Road, Most Commuters Text and Email While Driving

      commutes on drivers’ work and personal lives. The work-from-anywhere world is changing the landscape of the American commute, as are potential advances in technology that could make cars smarter. The researchers sought to determine both... View Details
      Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

        William C. Kirby

        William C. Kirby is T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He is a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor. He serves as Chairman of the Harvard... View Details

        Keywords: education industry; wine

          Michael A. Wheeler

          Mike Wheeler joined the HBS faculty in 1993 and has taught extensively in its MBA, Executive, and distance learning programs. His highly interactive 8-week/40-hour HBS Online Negotiation... View Details

          Keywords: arts; construction; e-commerce industry; energy; federal government; green technology; internet; legal services; nonprofit industry; petroleum; pharmaceuticals; publishing industry; real estate; service industry; sports; state government; utilities
          • 2009
          • Other Unpublished Work

          The Pecora Hearings

          By: David Moss, Cole Bolton and Eugene Kintgen

          In 1932, in the depths of the Great Depression, the Senate Banking Committee began a much-publicized investigation of the nation's financial sector. The hearings, which came to be known as the Pecora hearings after the Banking Committee's lead counsel Ferdinand... View Details

          Keywords: Financial History; Financial Crisis; Financial Markets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government Legislation; Laws and Statutes; Business and Government Relations; Financial Services Industry
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            Amy W. Schulman

            Amy W. Schulman is an accomplished business leader, widely recognized for growing and stabilizing global businesses, commitment to people, strategic judgment, and efforts to advance women and promote inclusive workplace cultures.

            Ms. Schulman joined Harvard... View Details

            • 12 Oct 1999
            • Research & Ideas

            It Came in the First Ships: Capitalism in America

            one long entrepreneurial adventure. Even down to the present day, more Americans have probably made fortunes from the appreciation of real estate values than from any other source. But land is only the starting place for the epochal drama... View Details
            Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
            • September 1991 (Revised December 1991)
            • Case

            G. Heileman Brewing Co. (A): Power Failure At PowerMaster

            By: Stephen A. Greyser
            In June 1991, Heileman announced plans to introduce a high-alcohol malt liquor under the name PowerMaster (PM). Although the company claimed PM would be positioned as an upscale product and marketed on the basis of its superior taste, minority advocates and alcohol... View Details
            Keywords: Advertising Campaigns; Ethics; Lawfulness; Brands and Branding; Product Positioning; Demand and Consumers; Market Entry and Exit; Food and Beverage Industry
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            • March 2018
            • Article

            Polluted Morality: Air Pollution Predicts Criminal Activity and Unethical Behavior

            By: Jackson G. Lu, Julia J. Lee, F. Gino and Adam D. Galinsky
            Air pollution is a serious problem that influences billions of people globally. Although the health and environmental costs of air pollution are well known, the present research investigates its ethical costs. We propose that air pollution can increase criminal and... View Details
            Keywords: Pollutants; Behavior; Moral Sensibility; Crime and Corruption
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            • January 2025 (Revised March 2025)
            • Case

            DJI- Striving for Innovation Amid Contestation

            By: William C. Kirby and Daniel Fu
            DJI was founded in a college dorm room in Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong. By 2020, DJI, a company manufacturing drones, occupied a 77% share of consumer drone sales in the United States with a wide array of clients including law enforcement and government agencies. Its... View Details
            Keywords: Drones; Hong Kong; China; Chinese Manufacturing; Chinese Dream; China's Political Economy
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