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- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
paper trail, indicating the paper trail's preventive deterrence effect. This leads to strong enforcement spillovers up the VAT chain. These findings confirm that when taking evasion into account, significant differences emerge between otherwise equivalent View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Case Against Racial Colorblindness
openly discriminatory practices, contemporary legal arguments for colorblindness have become increasingly geared toward combating race-conscious policies," they write. "If racial minority status confers an advantage in hiring and school... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 22 Feb 2018
- Book
The New History of American Capitalism
questions with the tools generated by the innovation of past decades, including the relationship between money and power, commerce and politics, exchange and social status. Its effort is to find new ways of exploring how institutions, political movements, and View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
construction of global migration databases, to the legal codification of national policies regarding high-skilled migration, to the analysis of patent data regarding cross-border inventor movements. A common theme throughout this research... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?
at least in the U.S. the average consumer is pretty unaware of these programs. Companies that want to differentiate themselves in this way need to figure out how to do so. If it involves a cost premium, how can that be translated into a price premium? [While voluntary... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift
ethics at its core is about excellence and high attainment rather than misdeeds and malfeasance. But we do pay attention to misconduct, and I have seen many types over the years—from the garden-variety deceptions and betrayals that sap morale and waste human energy to... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
are you working on next? A: Given the success we've had with the structure of this novel in classrooms and with readers so far, with the support of our talented Harvard Business Press team, we're extending the hybrid case-novel form to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion
significant upfront costs in the form of severance. Pay cuts can be temporary or permanent. The challenge with salary cuts is that your best people, the ones with the most work options, may choose to leave the firm. A study of an inbound... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 10 Sep 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Branding Yoga
two breathing exercises in a room heated to 105°F. Hundreds of cease-and-desist letters were slapped on competing studio owners. The Indian government, meanwhile, took umbrage with Bikram's legal claims, arguing that yoga was part of the... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
is not to make an airtight case about the state of contemporary management, but rather to raise important questions. By comparing management with the legal and medical professions, we hope to stimulate discussion and debate that can lead... View Details
- 01 Nov 2019
- What Do You Think?
Should Non-Compete Clauses Be Abolished?
organizations to make investments in employees in the form of training and education. What may surprise you is how far down into the organization NCCs can legally extend. Some states only disallow them for... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
developed an innovation fair in which every unit could show off its most promising new concepts. I was privileged to judge the first one with the then CEO, where we gave an award to the legal department for its ethics program, featuring a... View Details
- 02 Oct 2017
- What Do You Think?
Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?
specialized form of central planning. “A change from the current insane, superstitious, or religious belief in official money may occur sooner than expected.” Xingang, on the other hand, worried that digital currencies are instruments... View Details
- 13 Apr 2021
- Book
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
companies, and the gender pay gap persists. While young women are aware of these systemic problems, the more nuanced forms of sexism that persist today often take them by surprise, say Ammerman and co-author Boris Groysberg, the Richard... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
States. Yet to roll out lottery-linked products in an efficient way, we need to address the legal and regulatory barriers. Q: Can these ideas for savings vehicles be extended to households with higher incomes too? A: The work that I do... View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Dragging Patent Trolls Into the Light
role by sticking up for small inventors, going up against big companies that steal the ideas of entrepreneurs who are unable to fight their own legal battles. (NPEs acquire patents either by purchasing them from companies, inventors, and... View Details
- 24 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Do We Tax?
summarized in a critique by [Harvard economist] Martin Feldstein, "all property and individual abilities should be regarded as society's common resource." Instead, Equal Sacrifice assumes individuals have the first claim to their output, and that they voluntarily agree... View Details
- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
there's some wiggle room for negotiation," Choudhury says. Two, the local community must form a coalition with a larger organization, such as an established non-governmental organization or even the national government. "It's... View Details
- 05 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?
SEC within 10 days of buying a 5 percent (or greater) stake in a company. It’s a legal requirement, which, like many disclosure requirements, is meant to level the playing field. Once that form is filed,... View Details
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
well-crafted homer can be a source of pride when fellow workers take note. Says Anteby: "If employers are able to tap into these drivers, and remain within the legal boundary, then they might be in a better position to allow their... View Details