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- 04 Jan 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
The Political Economy of Bilateral Foreign Aid
- 11 Apr 2024
- In Practice
Why Progress on Immigration Might Soften Labor Pains
Business Administration at HBS and co-director of Harvard’s Managing the Future of Work initiative. Marco Tabellini: One negative scenario and one positive for firms Given the current political climate, it’s unlikely the US Congress will relax immigration restrictions.... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 2023
- Working Paper
The Effects of Inconsistent Work Schedules on Employee Lateness and Absenteeism
By: Caleb Kwon and Ananth Raman
Problem Definition: Employee lateness and absenteeism pose challenges for businesses, particularly in the retail industry, where punctuality is vital for optimal store operations and customer service. This paper relates employee lateness and absenteeism with... View Details
Kwon, Caleb, and Ananth Raman. "The Effects of Inconsistent Work Schedules on Employee Lateness and Absenteeism." Working Paper, August 2023.
- 30 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Your Crisis Response Plan: The Ten Effective Elements
should represent a broad range of potential emergency situations that the organization could plausibly face. Examples include: shooter on site, epidemic, bomb threat, major fire, major external terrorist attack, major economic... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
- 13 Mar 2023
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Should Leave
Advise, but only if asked. A good organization will plan for your succession, and to help out, you may want to develop a couple of plausible candidates. Your boss or human resources may ask for your opinions about who should succeed you,... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 18 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Cost of Leaning In
was less than the individual contribution,” Exley explains. “The purpose for that was to create a situation where individuals might plausibly want to negotiate a better agreement.” When workers entered negotiations with their firms, they... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Nov 2022
- Op-Ed
Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)
novelty into a broad range of video entertainment and information content. TikTok today has the same quirky feel that YouTube once had. It is small revenue-wise, compared to YouTube. Although it does not report financials, plausible... View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
my life,” said RJ Melman, president of Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises and creator and developer of more than 13 restaurant concepts. “I know a good chunk of those people, this is a family business.” In 2012, the World Economic Forum published an assessment of View Details
- 09 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
War in Ukraine: Soaring Gas Prices and the Return of Stagflation?
policy decisions. So the question is, ‘What drives those policy decisions?’ Those will be driven by the geopolitics. If we want to make sense of what happens next with financial markets, energy markets, and sanctions, we need to be able to make educated guesses and... View Details
- 2024
- Article
Half the Firms, Double the Profits: Public Firms' Transformation, 1996–2022
By: Mark J. Roe and Charles C.Y. Wang
The number of public firms in the United States has halved since the beginning of the twenty-first century, causing consternation among corporate and securities law regulators. The dominant explanations, often advanced by Securities and Exchange commissioners when... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Law; Securities Regulation; Sarbanes-Oxley Act; Concentration Levels; Antitrust; Initial Public Offering; Public Ownership; Private Equity; Venture Capital; Mergers and Acquisitions; Monopoly; United States
Roe, Mark J., and Charles C.Y. Wang. "Half the Firms, Double the Profits: Public Firms' Transformation, 1996–2022." Journal of Law, Finance, and Accounting 8, no. 2 (2024): 211–264.
- 04 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Life
job, if you're building a happy family: to realize that they need to be motivated and that there's a clear way to motivate them." Listing your assumptions about a prospective plan and assessing their plausibility can help determine the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Research Summary
The Value of Family Ownership, Control, and Management
In collaboration with Professor Raphael Amit of Wharton, Belén Villalonga is investigating how family ownership, control, and management affect firm value. Their forthcoming Journal of Financial... View Details
- 21 Mar 2012
- Op-Ed
Finding the Right Jeremy Lin Storyline
Protestant faith makes him seem less "other" to a non-Asian-American audience than his race, especially in the context of current public discourse about politicians who have Muslim names or Mormon faith? There are two plausible... View Details
- 12 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising
impeding competition among search engines. Looking beyond the proposed Google-Yahoo transaction, I urge the Committee to examine the "may not cop[y]" provision in Google's AdWords API Terms & Conditions. This provision lacks any View Details
- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
living longer—but eventually dying of diseases that could plausibly have an environmental component. Just as there has been progress in scientifically detecting foreign contaminants in the air and water, the public clamors for protection... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Faculty Debates Lessons from Enron's Collapse
an “emperor's new clothes” scenario, where those who did raise questions were dismissed out of hand? What role did deregulation play? Did a “perfect storm”–like convergence of unlikely factors overtake the company, or is what happened to Enron a View Details
- 23 Jan 2008
- Op-Ed
A House Divided: Investment or Shelter?
term's end. A family needed to amass a 50 percent down payment; few Americans could. So homeownership was neither a plausible individual aspiration nor a policy prescription. The word home had no investment connotations. The ultrarich... View Details
- 06 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 6
for tax analysis answers this question in the affirmative. Moreover, a plausible parameterization using data on height and wages implies a substantial height tax: a tall person earning $50,000 should pay $4,500 more in tax than a short... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments
In the course of her work, Rebecca Henderson meets business executives who don't address the threat of climate change because they don't believe that it exists. Her recommendation: They should consider investments in environmental sustainability anyway, assuming that... View Details