Publications

September–October 2021
Article

Internalization of Advertising Services: Testing a Theory of the Firm

By: Alvin J. Silk, Birger Wernerfelt and Shuyi Yu

In 1956, a group of trade associations representing publishers and independent advertising agencies signed a consent decree aimed at ending a set of trade practices that for half a century effectively precluded advertisers from owning and operating in-house agencies.... View Details

Keywords: Internationalization; Specialization; Theory Of The Firm; Advertising Agencies; Advertising; Organizational Structure; Theory

01 Mar 2010
News

Search in Progress

Twelve senior HBS faculty are working with Harvard President Drew Faust and several other faculty members from across the University as part of an advisory search group to consider View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Fall, 2024
Article

Sixty Years of the Voting Rights Act: Progress and Pitfalls

By: Andrea Bernini, Giovanni Facchini, Marco Tabellini and Cecilia Testa

We review the literature on the effects of the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA), which removed formal restrictions to Black political participation. After a brief description of racial discrimination suffered by Black Americans since Reconstruction, we introduce the goals... View Details

Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Equality and Inequality; Race; Political Elections; Voting; Policy; Outcome or Result; Government Legislation

2015
Discussion Paper

The Roles of Import Competition and Export Opportunities for Technical Change

By: Claudia Steinwender

A variety of empirical and theoretical trade papers have suggested and documented a positive impact of trade on the productivity of firms. However, there is less consensus about the underlying mechanism at work. While trade papers focus on access to export markets,... View Details

Keywords: Performance Productivity; Trade

2018
Flash Talks

Exploring the Leadership Aspirations and Learning Experiences of Diverse Women Progressing Toward Top Leadership

28 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

The Importance of ‘Don’t’ in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior

is for companies to frame goals in terms of promotion, and what we show here is that this might actually lead to cheating as a side effect.” The dichotomy raises an important... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

2017
Working Paper

The Importance of Unemployment Insurance as an Automatic Stabilizer

By: Marco Di Maggio and Amir Kermani

We assess the extent to which unemployment insurance (UI) serves as an automatic stabilizer to mitigate the economy's sensitivity to shocks. Using a local labor market design based on heterogeneity in local benefit generosity (defined as the percentage of household... View Details

Keywords: Unemployment Insurance; Automatic Stabilizers; Bartik Shocks; Aggregate Demand; System Shocks; Employment; Balance and Stability; Insurance; Volatility; Insurance Industry

28 Feb 2011
News

The Importance of 'Don't' in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior

25 Apr 2019
News

Who’s the Most Important Member of an NFL Franchise?

04 Dec 2018
Podcast

Larry Summers: Urban-rural inequality and the importance of work

Examining the realities of rural America, Larry Summers concludes that the problem is not just one of providing people with incomes—it’s about the very basic human connection between work and satisfaction. Speaking with Bill, Summers advocates “employer subsidies” to... View Details

Research Summary

Papers in progress

“The ‘Carbon Club’: Oil Companies, Climate Change & the Shaping of Public Policy”. Conspiracy theories abound, but the roles of the major oil companies in influencing public policy on climate change remain largely obscure. This... View Details

spring 1994
Article

Unilateral Commitments and the Importance of Process in Alliances

By: R. Gulati, T. Khanna and N. Nohria

Keywords: Alliances

Purchase

21 May 2024
News

The Importance of Trust for Managing Through a Crisis

01 Jan 2005
News

The Importance of Structure and Process to Strategy Implementation

Keywords: Eric M. Olson, Stanley F. Slater, G. Tomas M. Hult

spring 1994
Article

Unilateral Commitments and the Importance of Process in Alliances

By: Ranjay Gulati, Tarun Khanna and Nitin Nohria

How the partners in an alliance view their joint venture can have much to do with its success or failure. Each partner fears that the other will get the larger payoff by acting opportunistically while it cooperates in good faith. The result is that both partners choose... View Details

Keywords: Management Style; Partners and Partnerships; Joint Ventures; Management Practices and Processes; Alliances; Trust; Game Theory

1982
Article

Low Involvement Decision Processes: The Importance of Choice Tactics

By: Rohit Deshpandé, Wayne D. Hoyer and Scott Jeffries

Register to Read

19 Feb 2021
News

A Playbook for Progress

asked about sisterhood. 92 percent of Black women, 90 percent of Latinx women felt that sisterhood would be important to them at work. And the... View Details

November 1988 (Revised March 1990)
Case

Progressive Corp.: Coping with the Problem of Dual Career Parents (A)

By: Shoshana Zuboff

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Work-Life Balance; Problems and Challenges