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- December 2020 (Revised February 2021)
- Supplement
The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations
By: Mihir A. Desai and Suzanne Antoniou
How should historic social injustices be addressed? Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and their descendants, including Representative Regina Goodwin of Tulsa, believe they should be addressed through reparations and have consequently continued to push the government... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Judgments; Race; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Policy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government Legislation; Government and Politics; Government Administration; Lawsuits and Litigation; Legal Liability; Leading Change; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Conflict and Resolution; Conflict Management; Loss; Motivation and Incentives; Perspective; Prejudice and Bias; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Welfare; Tulsa; Oklahoma; United States
- 19 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Marijuana
licenses grew in Colorado from 37 to 200, along with creation of 500 medical marijuana dispensaries. Most recreational buyers seemed to be casual users. In fact, for those six months, recreational marijuana accounted for 80 percent of the... View Details
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
Michael W. Toffel Publication:Organization Science (forthcoming) Abstract Governments and other organizations often outsource activities to achieve cost savings from market competition. Yet such benefits are often accompanied by poor... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety
50,911 fewer foodborne illness-related hospitalizations and 19.01 million fewer foodborne illness cases per year, reducing annual foodborne illness costs by $14.20 billion to $30.91 billion,” the authors write. Lessons for inspections... View Details
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Should You Sell Your Digital Privacy?
self-adjust to technological innovation. But the idea of offering the opportunity to buy privacy is hard to swallow—if privacy is something to which we are entitled, should our share of it depend on ability to pay? Inevitably it does. Whenever we claim privacy, we... View Details
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
wrong answer unless one takes into account the different ways in which firms compete (that is, their business strategy). Because macro-level shocks reverberate differently at the firm level depending on whether a firm has a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
central role by shaping her beliefs off the equilibrium path (and thus, enables separation between the types). This result also illustrates the uniqueness of the signaling model presented here. Unlike other signaling models, the suggested model does not require that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
variables are you tracking? How are you creating accountability for performance on those variables? (4) What strategic boundaries have you set? Does everyone know what actions are off-limits? (5) How are you generating creative tension?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
behavior and practices led Enron down the path from truly innovative to fraudulent management? How could Enron’s board of directors have failed to detect the business, ethical, and legal risks embedded in the company’s aggressive financial strategies and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
historical account of their humble origins, lack of resources, and determined struggle against the odds. We identify two essential dimensions of an underdog biography: external disadvantage, and passion and determination. We demonstrate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
minds of those responsible for governance. When a business is profitable and paying healthy dividends to its stockholders, fraudulent activities and accounting irregularities can go unnoticed. However, when revenue and cash flow decline,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 2, 2010
situations that are heavily or completely determined by chance. We examine whether such overestimation of control persists in situations where people do have control. Our results suggest a simple model that accounts for prior findings on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Way Whistleblowers Reduce Government Fraud
Allegations and Government Contracting, forthcoming in the Journal of Accounting Research, was co-written by Heese and HBS Assistant Professor Gerardo Perez Cavazos. Empowering whistleblowers The False Claims Act enables individual... View Details
- 06 Mar 2006
- What Do You Think?
The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?
David McKnight's comments reflected a similar need to take into account Chinese officials' views: "A far smarter approach is to evaluate the ethical impacts of Chinese law on a company's business model, and determine how to meet both... View Details
- 01 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation
shows. Partisan divides exist even within specific professions. Democrats accounted for more than 50 percent of chief or general legal officers at firms, but Democrats made up only 27 percent of chief financial officers. Similar fissures... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
http://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-managerial-economics-9780199782956?cc=us&lang=en&tab=overview 2013 pub Infrastructure for Ore: Benefits and Costs of a Not-So-Original Idea By: Wells, Louis T., Jr... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
China‘s income inequality has risen rapidly over that same time frame, Vietnam‘s has only grown moderately. Structural and socio-cultural determinants fail to account for these divergent pathways. Existing political variables are also... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
govern partnering relationships through fixed-price contracts, whereas in others, firms use more flexible time and materials or performance-based contracts. How do these choices affect the costs and benefits that arise from greater levels... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
and managed as investment accounts with the goal of accumulating the largest possible pot of savings. Communication with savers is framed entirely in terms of assets and returns. Ask a saver what his 401(k) is worth and you'll hear a cash... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps
what can be done to reverse that trend. In doing so, they take aim at some misconceptions about what keeps voters home, and show the surprising effectiveness of door-to-door canvassing at getting more people to the polls. Voting is not easy In the first study, Voter... View Details