Media Regulation - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

Do TV Debates Sway Voters?

87 percent, during the two months before an election, indicating that the information received in this period matters overall. Voters who switched candidates didn’t change their policy preferences. Voters’ policy views remained consistent, despite the onslaught of... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

31 Aug 2021
Book

Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate

to agitate, innovate, and orchestrate change, but also because how power will be distributed ultimately comes down to what we all choose to value and how we decide to regulate control over those valued resources. These collective choices... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

12 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser

repealed the regulations shortly after they were introduced. Finra has considered measures to level the playing field, including letting parties eliminate more arbitrators and boosting arbitrators’ pay. Egan’s research suggests that those... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

19 Dec 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

excluded the use of sulfites, while in Europe some use was permitted. For winemakers, distributors and retailers, navigating the complex layers of regulations regarding organic wine was enormously time intensive. Many winemakers chose to... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

06 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 6

Third, commercial banks in the 1950s began offering revolving credit accounts as a means to attract new depositors at a time when banking regulation restricted the interest they could offer on deposits. Read the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Jan 2017
HBS Case

How Should Advertisers Respond to Consumer Demand for Whiter Skin?

Stay beautiful”—went viral on social media in 2013. (See illustration below) Campaign ad featuring Indian actress Nandita Das protesting skin-lightening creams. Source: Women of Worth, courtesy Rohit Deshpandé Fair skin part of India’s... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Beauty & Cosmetics

17 Jan 2023
Book

Good Companies Commit Crimes, But Great Leaders Can Prevent Them

officials. Soltes turns his hand to corporate crime after making a media splash with his 2016 book, Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of a White-Collar Criminal. Based on personal visits, letters, and phone calls with 48 disgraced... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

04 Mar 2019
What Do You Think?

What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?

actions. Some of the media (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google) they employ, however, represent a threat of monopoly that should be addressed by the very governments that, ironically, could turn big data against us. So say... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Advertising; Consumer Products

25 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy

this is a political decision, and it's above my pay grade. There may be some strategic assets that we (as Americans) don't want to sell to foreigners. Congress is going to have to decide which ones those are. It may be that we don't want to sell certain elements of our... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

02 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

What If Closing the Wage Gap Means Everyone Earns Less?

It’s a sticky but common dilemma for managers: A valued employee finds out that a coworker earns more, gets upset, and demands a raise. If gender or race figure into the wage gap, tensions can escalate fast. Companies, including Whole Foods, Starbucks, and the social... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

30 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?

opted for only minimal control in order to create larger personal networks. Further, there was little governmental regulation of social networking companies protecting those users. In the past two weeks, Facebook’s world had changed with... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Information Technology

18 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization

(Photo source: iStock) Economic cluster theory has been used to describe the growth of many industries, including the automotive business around Detroit, high tech in Silicon Valley, and digital media in Seoul. These regions benefit by a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness

09 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements

studies drivers of regulatory behavior as well as the resulting decision-making process of managers within regulated organizations. In the paper The Effects of Media Slant on Firm Behavior, forthcoming in... View Details

Keywords: by Jen Deaderick; Media & Broadcasting

13 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)

only player, but it should try to become the first player that comes to mind when customers, analysts, or the media think about the new market category. McDonald points to recent examples such as SpaceX in commercial space flight and... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Aerospace; Food & Beverage; Retail

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

including proprietary data that has never been shared with scholars before and can lead to novel lines of inquiry.” Harvard Business School’s Michael Toffel. “This is my soapbox message to academics: be more relevant,” he says. Toffel, whose own research examines how... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

26 Oct 2017
Research Event

In an Era of 'Fake News,' What is the Future of Advertising and Publishing?

pondered the impact of fake news on democracy, the potential for government regulation of the internet, and the future of business models that support traditional media such as newspapers. The event was... View Details

Keywords: by Jen Deaderick; Media & Broadcasting; Media & Broadcasting

06 Mar 2007
First Look

First Look: March 6, 2007

Self-Policing in the Shadow of the Regulator Authors:Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel Abstract As part of a recent trend toward more cooperative relations between regulators and industry, novel government... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 Jul 2019
Op-Ed

Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?

technology-driven efforts to sway their votes, and from as far away as Russia, according to US government claims. Social media in general and Facebook specifically were the primary weapons of choice. It worked so well that spending by US... View Details

Keywords: by George Riedel

25 Aug 2009
First Look

First Look: August 25

Working PapersAnger and Regulation Authors:Rafael Di Tella and Juan DubraNBER Working Paper Series, No. 15201, August 2009 Abstract We propose a model where voters experience an emotional cost when they observe a firm that has displayed... View Details