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- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
communities, and make our cities smarter. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-141.pdf The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution Authors:N. Gregory Mankiw and Matthew Weinzierl... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech
for creating public policies that actively assist these companies in their early stages, or even in their more-established stages. The nation should definitely consider a regulation that makes... View Details
- 29 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 29
superior economic performance. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-110.pdf Trade Policy and Firm Boundaries Authors:Laura Alfaro, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger, and Andrew F. Newman Abstract We study how trade View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
identifying possible forms of bias, and evaluating methods of verifying whether bias in fact occurs. I then consider possible legal and policy responses, and I assess search engines' likely defenses. I conclude that regulatory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
differences appear to be associated with different models of development—open, distributed organizations developing systems with smaller cores. We find that core components are often dispersed throughout a system, making their detection... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- April 2022 (Revised August 2022)
- Case
Conflicts of Interest at Uptown Bank
By: Jonas Heese
In 2013, two employees debated whether to blow the whistle on their employer, Bell Bank, after completing an internal review that revealed undisclosed conflicts of interest. Bell Bank’s Asset Management business disproportionately invested clients’ money in Bell Bank’s... View Details
Keywords: Whistleblower; Whistleblowing; Mutual Funds; Conflicts Of Interest; Decision Making; Decisions; Judgments; Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Finance; Financial Institutions; Banks and Banking; Financial Management; Investment; Investment Funds; Governance; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Governance Compliance; Governance Controls; Policy; Law; Legal Liability; Social Psychology; Motivation and Incentives; Perception; Perspective; Trust; Financial Services Industry; North and Central America; United States
Heese, Jonas. "Conflicts of Interest at Uptown Bank." Harvard Business School Case 122-022, April 2022. (Revised August 2022.)
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55865 in press Behavioural Public Policy Invisible Inequality Leads to Punishing the Poor and Rewarding the Rich By: Hauser, Oliver P., Gordon T. Kraft-Todd, David Rand, Martin A. Nowak, and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders
companies should use company policy to actively make allowances for different negotiation styles of men and women? McGinn: Giving women more on their first offer is presuming a main effect. It is presuming... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Mar 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: What's the Next 'Big Thing' in Finance?
from policies and incentives, are there other solutions to drive oil and gas investments? Cohen: People and firms respond to incentives, so the only thing you can do is either reward or sanction. History has shown that if you want a... View Details
- 16 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Zambian Schoolgirls Receive Negotiation Training
educational outcomes. “Negotiation isn’t just for making better deals, it’s vital for creating better lives” With HBS Associate Professor Nava Ashraf, University of Pennsylvania Wharton School Assistant Professor Corinne Low, and Remmy... View Details
Keywords: Re: Kathleen L. McGinn
- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
that neither view is quite right. Although the new forms (built upon a half-century of research on and experience with self-managed teams) can help organizations become more adaptable and nimble, most companies shouldn't adopt their principles wholesale. A piecemeal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
We then introduce a framework that provides a unified perspective on these research streams, thereby highlighting some important areas for future research and policy analysis in entrepreneurial finance. Organizational Designs and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
innovation is held by design-build construction firms? I don't think we know the answer to that, but it's interesting to consider what sort of policies in the areas of procurement, IP, and antitrust legislation would support that level of... View Details
- 02 Jul 2015
- Op-Ed
The Future of the Greek Economy
they will be able to withdraw their funds at a later date—and at what exchange rate. This happened in Brazil in the early 1990s and in Argentina in the early part of this century, when similar desperate policies were enacted. The... View Details
- 07 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?
Its early milestones—comparative product tests launched by Consumer Reports in 1936, the Kennedy administration's Consumer Bill of Rights in 1960, Ralph Nader's critique of the U.S. automobile industry in Unsafe at Any Speed in 1965—became models for subsequent... View Details
- 08 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How to Hire a Millennial
General Electric isn’t moving to Boston’s waterfront for the views, however breathtaking they may be. In the increasingly fierce battle for millennial talent, GE’s decision to uproot its long-time headquarters from suburban Connecticut is nothing less than a... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Fuller
- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Affordable Housing: Israel and the United States
more from shopping malls, they have shown little interest in building affordable apartments. Government policies have favored home ownership, and today's interest rates are low. Finally, the rising prosperity of Israel has exacerbated... View Details
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
entrepreneurship, and policy making. "It was an exciting effort that joined health care administrators, policymakers, and academics in discussing how to strengthen management education in the health sector, with a special focus on... View Details
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
basis for specifying the responsibilities of business managers. The second is framing the role of business in society by looking to the values realized by the basic building blocks of contemporary economic activity, i.e., markets and firms. The third is View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
from within the organization and from without and summarizes the strategic issues facing Allstate in early 2007. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708485 ATH MicroTechnologies, Inc. (A): View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace