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Dissent in Organizations, Employee and Stakeholder voice, Social Movements and Organizations, Sociology of Work and Professions

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    Fiduciary Duties and Equity-debtholder Conflicts

    We use an important legal event to examine the effect of managerial fiduciary duties on equity-debt conflicts. A 1991 legal ruling changed corporate directors’ fiduciary duties in Delaware firms, limiting managers’ incentives to take actions that favor... View Details

    • 12 Feb 2016
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    Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict

    people he wanted to hurt, or why he must hurt them,” she recalls. That moment in December 2007 set in motion Mendhro’s vision for the Dreamfly, a global initiative designed to educate, expose, and empower people living in communities of... View Details
    Keywords: Jill Radsken
    • September 2003 (Revised February 2005)
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    Analyst Conflicts (A): Resolved?

    By: Ashish Nanda
    This case tracks the events leading to the April 2003 industry settlement on equity research in financial services companies. View Details
    Keywords: Conflict of Interests; Law; Negotiation Deal; Financial Services Industry
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    Nanda, Ashish. "Analyst Conflicts (A): Resolved?" Harvard Business School Case 904-021, September 2003. (Revised February 2005.)
    • 12 Jul 2012
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    Negotiation Processes As Sources of (And Solutions To) Interorganizational Conflict

    Keywords: by Elizabeth Long Lingo, Colin Fisher & Kathleen L. McGinn
    • April 2002
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    Note on Minority Interest

    This case provides a brief introduction to the concept of minority interest and the issues that it gives rise to in valuation of firms. View Details
    Keywords: Valuation; Investment; Business and Shareholder Relations
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    Kedia, Simi. "Note on Minority Interest." Harvard Business School Background Note 202-116, April 2002.
    • December 26, 2018
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    Why Family Businesses Need to Find the Right Level of Conflict

    By: Josh Baron
    Many families avoid conflict because it makes them uncomfortable. For families that own and manage businesses, this is a problem. Conflict avoidance leads people to avoid difficult–but necessary–conversations and decisions. Instead of avoiding conflict, the people who... View Details
    Keywords: Management Skills; Conflict and Resolution; Family Business
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    Baron, Josh. "Why Family Businesses Need to Find the Right Level of Conflict." Harvard Business Review (website) (December 26, 2018).
    • April 1996 (Revised March 2008)
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    Exercises on Tradeoffs and Conflicting Objectives

    Presents two methodologies for making decisions in the face of conflicting objectives, pricing out, and additive scoring systems. This material is followed by four exercises designed to develop and test understanding of the basic methodology. The exercises include an... View Details
    Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions
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    "Exercises on Tradeoffs and Conflicting Objectives." Harvard Business School Exercise 396-307, April 1996. (Revised March 2008.)
    • January 1995 (Revised June 1995)
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    Managing Conflict in a Diverse Workplace

    Consists of several vignettes and discussion points around issues of conflict in the workplace. Issues presented are differences of race, gender, nationality, culture, religion; access to power, training, advancement; tolerance of style of management, language,... View Details
    Keywords: Conflict Management; Working Conditions; Diversity Characteristics
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    Gentile, Mary C., and Sarah Gant. "Managing Conflict in a Diverse Workplace." Harvard Business School Case 395-090, January 1995. (Revised June 1995.)
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    Teaching and Research Interests

    Professor Morris is highly regarded for his research on social judgment, the study of how people make sense of events observed in their environment (both internal and external to their work settings). One of his main emphases is on the effects of cross-cultural... View Details
    • Fall 2016
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    The Integrity of Private Third-party Compliance Monitoring

    By: Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel
    Government agencies are increasingly turning to private, third-party monitors to inspect and assess regulated entities’ compliance with law. The integrity of these regulatory regimes rests on the validity of the information third-party monitors provide to regulators.... View Details
    Keywords: Regulation; Compliance; Compliance Policies; Conflict Of Interest; Independent Third Party; Inspection; Audit Quality; Auditor; Audit; Environment; Safety; Conflict of Interests; Working Conditions; Labor; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Governance Compliance; Accounting Audits
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    Short, Jodi L., and Michael W. Toffel. "The Integrity of Private Third-party Compliance Monitoring." Administrative & Regulatory Law News 42, no. 1 (Fall 2016): 22–25.
    • 2008
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    Media versus Special Interests

    By: Alexander Dyck, David A. Moss and Luigi Zingales
    We argue that profit-maximizing media helps overcome the problem of "rational ignorance" highlighted by Downs (1957) and in so doing makes elected representatives more sensitive to the interests of general voters. By collecting news and combining it with entertainment,... View Details
    Keywords: Voting; Government Legislation; Media; Interests; Power and Influence; United States
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    Dyck, Alexander, David A. Moss, and Luigi Zingales. "Media versus Special Interests." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 14360, September 2008.
    • September 1978 (Revised November 1979)
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    Some Aspects of Problem Solving and Conflict Resolution in Management Groups

    Provides a brief overview of the strengths and weaknesses of group problem solving and suggests criteria for when to use a group. Also, describes the three primary modes of conflict resolution (smoothing and avoidance; bargaining and forcing, problem solving) and... View Details
    Keywords: Conflict Management; Groups and Teams
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    Ware, James P. "Some Aspects of Problem Solving and Conflict Resolution in Management Groups." Harvard Business School Background Note 479-003, September 1978. (Revised November 1979.)
    • July 2012
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    El Paso's Sale to Kinder Morgan

    By: John Coates, Clayton Rose and David Lane
    On October 16, 2011, El Paso agreed to sell itself to Kinder Morgan for just over $21 billion. Shareholders filed suit, arguing that the process was tainted by conflict and that a higher price could be obtained. Delaware Chancellor Leo Strine agreed with the plaintiffs... View Details
    Keywords: El Paso; Kinder Morgan; Goldman Sachs; Leo Strine; Conflicts Of Interest; Corporate Governance; Relationships; Lawsuits and Litigation; Energy Industry; Banking Industry; United States
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    Coates, John, Clayton Rose, and David Lane. "El Paso's Sale to Kinder Morgan." Harvard Business School Case 313-021, July 2012.
    • January 2008 (Revised May 2013)
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    Accounting for Interest Rate Derivatives

    Explains the accounting for interest rate derivatives under Statement of Financial Accounting Standards 133. View Details
    Keywords: Accounting; Financial Instruments; Interest Rates; Standards
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    Kimbrough, Michael D., and Nicole Thorne Jenkins. "Accounting for Interest Rate Derivatives." Harvard Business School Background Note 108-061, January 2008. (Revised May 2013.)
    • 2012
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    Strength in Numbers: The Political Power of Weak Interests

    By: Gunnar Trumbull
    This book investigates the sources of interest group influence on public policy. Trumbull argues that diffuse groups like consumers are more influential, and industry less influential, than we commonly assume. View Details
    Keywords: Government and Politics; Interests; Power and Influence; Demand and Consumers; Policy
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    Trumbull, Gunnar. Strength in Numbers: The Political Power of Weak Interests. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012.
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    Current Research Interests

  • Employment Contract, Collective Bargaining, and Human Capital Investment
  • American Welfare Capitalists, 1910-1940
  • Political Economy of New Deal Labor Legislation
  • A Comparative Historical Analysis of Wartime Labor Regulation during W.W.II in the U.S.... View Details
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    Research and Publication Interests

    Michelle Craig McDonald is currently writing a Harvard Business School case study on the impact of the International Coffee Act on small producers. She is interested in early American economic development, especially the role of foreign trade and re-exported... View Details
    • 2024
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    LASH Risk and Interest Rates

    By: Laura Alfaro, Saleem Bahaj, Robert Czech, Jonathan Hazell and Ioana Neamtu
    We introduce a framework to understand and quantify a form of liquidity risk that we dub Liquidity After Solvency Hedging or “LASH” risk. Financial institutions take LASH risk when they hedge against losses, using strategies that lead to liquidity needs when the value... View Details
    Keywords: Liquidity; Monetary Policy; Non-bank Intermediaries; Hedging; Risk and Uncertainty; Investment Funds; Financial Condition; Interest Rates
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    Alfaro, Laura, Saleem Bahaj, Robert Czech, Jonathan Hazell, and Ioana Neamtu. "LASH Risk and Interest Rates." Bank of England Staff Working Papers, No. 1,073, May 2024. (NBER Working Paper Series, No. 33241, December 2024.)
    • 2010
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    Geography, Poverty and Conflict in Nepal

    By: Quy-Toan Do and Lakshmi Iyer
    This paper conducts an empirical analysis of the geographic, economic and social factors that contributed to the spread of civil war in Nepal over the period 1996-2006. This within-country analysis complements existing cross-country studies on the same subject. Using a... View Details
    Keywords: Ethnicity; War; Poverty; Geography; Conflict and Resolution; Government and Politics; Economics; Nepal
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    Do, Quy-Toan, and Lakshmi Iyer. "Geography, Poverty and Conflict in Nepal." Journal of Peace Research 47, no. 6 (2010).
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