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  • June 2013
  • Article

What Is Privacy Worth?

By: Alessandro Acquisti, Leslie K. John and George Loewenstein
Understanding the value that individuals assign to the protection of their personal data is of great importance for business, law, and public policy. We use a field experiment informed by behavioral economics and decision research to investigate individual privacy... View Details
Keywords: Safety; Rights; Valuation; Ethics; Identity
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  • 20 Dec 2006
  • Op-Ed

Investors Hurt by Dual-Track Tax Reporting

Since when do the taxman and the shareholder agree? IRS Commissioner Mark Everson and SEC Chairman Christopher Cox (HBS MBA '76) have advanced a simple, but controversial proposal. Companies would be required to disclose how much they pay... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
  • 2023
  • Article

A Review of Commercialisation Mechanisms for Carbon Dioxide Removal

By: Conor Hickey, Sam Fankhauser, Stephen Smith and Myles Allen
The deployment of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) needs to be scaled up to achieve net zero emission pledges. In this paper we survey the policy mechanisms currently in place globally to incentivise CDR, together with an estimate of what different mechanisms are paying... View Details
Keywords: Carbon Dioxide Removal; Climate Change; Markets; Cost; Policy; Environmental Regulation
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  • April 2022
  • Teaching Note

Gender Equality in Business: 100 Years of Progress?

By: Boris Groysberg and Colleen Ammerman
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 422-066, "Gender Equality in Business: 100 Years of Progress?" The case traces the history of women in management from the early 20th to early 21st century through analysis of Harvard Business Review's coverage of women and gender. The... View Details
Keywords: History; Business History; Gender; Management; Employees; Leadership; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Work-Life Balance; Prejudice and Bias; Social Issues; Diversity; Equity; United States
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  • 24 Mar 2017
  • HBS Seminar

Francine Blau, ILR School, Cornell University

  • March–April 2019
  • Article

The Future of Leadership Development

By: Das Narayandas and Mihnea Moldoveanu
The need for leadership development has never been more urgent. Companies of all sorts realize that to survive in today’s volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous environment, they need different leadership skills and organizational capabilities from those that... View Details
Keywords: Talent Management; Executive Education; Leadership Development; Business Education; Management Skills; Learning; Online Technology
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  • 23 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 23

gap discourages research effort directed towards clean technologies. Carbon taxes and research subsidies may nonetheless encourage production and innovation in clean technologies, though the transition will typically be slow. We... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

    What about the race between education and technology in the Global South? Comparing skill premiums in colonial Africa and Asia

    Historical research on the race between education and technology has focused on the West but barely touched upon ‘the rest’. A new occupational wage database for 50 African and... View Details

    • August 2023
    • Article

    What About the Race Between Technology and Education in the Global South? Comparing Skill-premiums in Colonial Africa and Asia

    By: Ewout Frankema and Marlous van Waijenburg
    Historical research on the race between education and technology has focused on the West but barely touched upon ‘the rest’. A new occupational wage database for 50 African and Asian economies allows us to compare long-run patterns in skill premiums across the colonial... View Details
    Keywords: Skill Premium; Human Capital; Wages; History; Education; Africa; Asia
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    • 31 Mar 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    From SpinPop to SpinBrush: Entrepreneurial Lessons from John Osher

    inspiration for Dr. John's huge hit, the SpinBrush. After his successes with SpinPop and various baby products, Osher discovered that one of the keys to building a successful company and creating a product that people love is to find and exploit a View Details
    Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Consumer Products
    • 2018
    • Working Paper

    The Limitations of Dynamic Capabilities

    By: David J. Collis and Bharat Anand
    The concept of dynamic capabilities draws its theoretical basis from two classic traditions within the strategy field—the resource-based view of the firm (RBV) (Wernerfelt, 1984) and market positioning (Porter, 1996). A dynamic capability qualifies as a source of... View Details
    Keywords: Dynamic Capabilities; Business Ventures; Performance; Competitive Advantage
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    • 07 May 2019
    • News

    Global Workers Are Ready for Retraining

    • 01 Mar 2022
    • What Do You Think?

    Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?

    widening the generational gap in using cryptocurrency, buying and storing art and wine with nonfungible tokens, trading new kinds of securities on new internet investment sites offering new features, and thinking up new applications for... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 1999
    • Other Unpublished Work

    Executive Ownership and Control in Newly Public Firms: The Role of Venture Capitalists

    By: Malcolm Baker and Paul Gompers
    We study the implications of CEO equity ownership for incentives and control in a sample of 1,011 newly public firms. Before an initial public offering, equity investments by venture capitalists reduce CEO ownership by about half, from an average of 35 percent to 19... View Details
    Keywords: Equity; Ownership; Motivation and Incentives; Initial Public Offering; Investment; Venture Capital; Managerial Roles; Cost Management; Governance Controls; Executive Compensation
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    • 2021
    • Book

    The Future of Executive Development

    By: Mihnea C Moldoveanu and Das Narayandas
    Executive development programs have entered a period of rapid transformation, driven by digital disruption and a widening gap between the skills that participants and their organizations demand and those provided by their executive programs. This work delves into the... View Details
    Keywords: Executive Education; Leadership Development; Management Skills; Education Industry
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    • 11 Oct 2016
    • First Look

    October 11, 2016

    Christopher T. Stanton Abstract—Small business owners and others in self-employment have the option to transition to paid work. If there is initial uncertainty about earnings in entrepreneurship, this option increases the expected lifetime value of entering... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 10 Aug 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    COVID's Surprising Toll on Careers of Women Scientists

    Business School professors Kyle R. Myers, Karim R. Lakhani, and eight colleagues from institutions including Yale and Northwestern, published in the journal Nature Human Behavior in July. There’s already a “well-documented, persistent gender View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Pharmaceutical; Biotechnology; Health
    • September 2022
    • Case

    BancoSol: Financial Inclusion in the Perfect Storm

    By: Michael Chu and Carla Larangeira
    In the pandemic, financial inclusion icon BancoSol faces a government-mandated year-long deferral of all loan payments, followed by the sudden Covid death of its CEO. In a Bolivia mired in political turmoil following a failed presidential election, with clients not... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Making; Crisis Management; Management Succession; Business Strategy; Innovation Leadership; Risk and Uncertainty; Financing and Loans; Restructuring; Financial Services Industry; Latin America; Bolivia
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    • 09 Jun 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: June 9, 2015

    helps bridge the gap between people's moral values and their actual behavior. Combined, the REVISE framework guides the design of policy interventions to defeat dishonesty. Publisher's link:... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Research Summary

    Corporate Lobbying Strategy and Foreign MNEs

    “U.S. Defense Contracts and the Lobbying Strategies of Foreign MNEs: The Liability of Foreignness and Make-or-Buy Decisions about Political Goods”

    Many firms engage in lobbying with the expectation that their lobbying efforts will... View Details

    Keywords: Non-market Strategy; Political Strategy; Lobbying; Make V. Buy; Multinational Enterprise; Global Strategy; United States