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  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Equal Opportunity? Gender Gaps in CEO Appointments and Executive Pay

By: Matti Keloharju, Samuli Knüpfer and Joacim Tåg
This paper uses exceptionally rich data on Swedish corporate executives and their personal characteristics to study gender gaps in CEO appointments and pay. Both gaps are sizeable: 18% for CEO appointments and 27% for pay. At most one-eighth of the gaps can be... View Details
Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Executive Compensation; Gender; Sweden
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  • 25 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 25

James J. Gross, and Jennifer S. Lerner Publication: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (in press)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jul 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity

Sony can get consumers to conceive of a digital camera as an extension of a camcorder versus an analog camera substitute, then consumers are more likely to favor Sony. Your goal is to influence the View Details
Keywords: by Michael J. Roberts; Technology
  • August 2022
  • Case

Atlanta Ransomware Attack (A)

By: Amit Goldenberg and Julian Zlatev
This case describes the March 2018 Ransomware attack on the information technology (IT) systems of the city of Atlanta and the response by Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and her administration. The case includes a brief background on Bottoms and her young administration at... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Government and Politics; Government Administration; Information Technology; Cybersecurity; Information Management; Leadership; Management; Crisis Management; Management Teams; Negotiation; Risk and Uncertainty; Social Psychology; Perception; Personal Characteristics; Perspective; Power and Influence; Society; Public Administration Industry; United States; Georgia (state, US); Atlanta
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  • 28 Jun 2016
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June 28, 2016

raise funds from outside investors. The relationship appears not to be causal but instead driven by selection effects across heterogeneous teams with varying degrees of inequality aversion. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Nov 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

and (3) evaluate outputs from models to (4) develop a plan for action. In this case students explore the challenges of using sentiment analysis to monitor and understand public perception around brands.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Jul 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Is Greed Ruining Private Equity Firms?

In a first-ever look at the internal economics driving private equity partnerships, Harvard Business School researchers have found that many of these funds can be torn apart by greed among founding partners who take home a much bigger... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Banking; Financial Services
  • 10 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution

characterized mid-twentieth-century America was essential to supermarket success. However, the supermarket sweet spot in the middle of the income distribution has been shrinking for decades. As income View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 07 Dec 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship

Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed—and What to Do about It. Government has played similar catalytic roles in creating hubs of innovation is places such as Tel Aviv and Singapore. Such success stories... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
  • 2011
  • Working Paper

Charitable Giving When Altruism and Similarity Are Linked

By: Julio J. Rotemberg
This paper presents a model in which anonymous charitable donations are rationalized by two human tendencies drawn from the psychology literature. The first is people's disproportionate disposition to help those they agree with while the second is the dependence of... View Details
Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Mathematical Methods; Attitudes; Interests; Perception; Wealth and Poverty
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  • 11 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

The Paradoxical Quest to Make Food Look 'Natural' With Artificial Dyes

color “was a malleable, external characteristic of the food,” Hisano says—per consumer perception that an orange should live up to its name. “By the 1940s, the so-called color-add process had been widely... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities

their companies public, and to grant stock options to management. Once public, stock valuations depended on Wall Street's perceptions that the company would sustain strong growth. At first, newspaper chains met growth targets by acquiring... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 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
  • January 2008
  • Article

Nonemployment Stigma as Rational Herding: A Field Experiment

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee
Long spells of unemployment are known to reduce the likelihood of re-employment, but it is difficult to discern the reasons for this observation. Using an experimental method that controls for search intensity and possible discouragement of job applicants, I document... View Details
Keywords: Job Search; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Employment; Cognition and Thinking; Perception; Creativity; Human Needs; Job Interviews; Selection and Staffing; Recruitment; Managerial Roles; Judgments; Employment Industry
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  • 21 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know

Programs at Harvard Business School. She and Bohnet, a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School who serves as director of its Women and Public Policy Program, have extensively studied gender gaps and View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 15 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 15

http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/13-039%20Nov%202012_612ce7e2-7f81-4eea-9126-3c0964f2be2f.pdf August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics Search-Based Peer Firms: Aggregating Investor View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 17

Bavel Abstract—Human faces are used as cues to the presence of social agents, and the ability to detect minds and mental states in others occupies a central role in social interaction. In the current research, we present evidence that the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Aug 2013
  • First Look

First Look: August 20

narratives and frames that influence the perception of green building; and future directions for the theory and practice of sustainable construction. The essays offer uniquely... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 25 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 25, 2007

subject, Ranjay Gulati examines the 'network resources' that arise from these ties, how successful firms manage these, and how they influence strategy, access to material resources, and perceptions of a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Dec 2005
  • What Do You Think?

Is Growth Good?

violence of all sorts is poverty—not absolute poverty, but inequality between the classes. If growth brings more economic equality into a society, then yes, growth is good." Pruthul Patel writes,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett

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