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  • 09 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements

where FNC was available. Before the passage of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, which put a cap on soft money donations to national political parties, firms were allowed to make large donations to parties whose proposed... View Details
Keywords: by Jen Deaderick; Media & Broadcasting
  • 03 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster

to helping the combined companies compete with rivals such as Disney and Cap Cities/ABC. To get the deal done, however, Michael Ovitz, talent agent turned unorthodox corporate matchmaker, kept the parties mostly apart during the process,... View Details
Keywords: by Ron S. Fortgang, David A. Lax & James K. Sebenius
  • 03 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling

care system, and the controls in the legislation are either worrisome (the Independent Payment Advisory Board, for example, allows a handful of people rather than the American public to cap health care expenses) or unrealistic, relying on... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Health
  • 04 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

wanted to invest. Roberts also took into account the possible impact on his mutually respectful relations with his fellow partners. From a housing project in Brooklyn, New York, Roberts became a scientist who did advanced study at Duke and Harvard, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 27

help explain all three facts. We then exploit a natural experiment in the expiration in legislation surrounding the H-1B visa cap for high-skilled immigrant workers to study how these costs affect firms' responses to policy changes. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Aug 2005
  • What Do You Think?

Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?

tax. This has effectively capped salaries, but invites unlimited compensation in other forms. Several high-performing companies such as Costco Wholesale and Whole Foods Markets limit CEO pay to some multiple of the average salary paid to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 10 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities

renewal of existing franchises. 16 With new rules in place improving their access to programming and capping franchise fees, cable operators rushed to develop urban markets. They encountered a chaotic and sometimes corrupt process as they... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 21 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 21

culture as the primary cause of the disaster. Drawing on public sources, this case traces the circumstances surrounding the accident, including not only the role of BP, but also of the two principle subcontractors hired to actually do the drilling and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley

companies, although it was ultimately deferred for companies with market caps of less than $75 million and made permanent in the Dodd-Frank Act. Audit standards also were modified in 2007, a change that reportedly reduced costs for many... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Accounting; Banking
  • 27 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

existing relationships do affect spillovers, primarily by capping downsides, but also by limiting the upsides of being near a high-performing team. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52779 Evaluating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Feb 2001
  • Research & Ideas

David, Goliath, and Disruption

Sony and Sega and Nintendo have a combined market cap that's 10X of SGI's. "To me, that's a classic example of drinking your own bath water and not realizing it. SGI had the technology; they were 10 years ahead of everybody. But that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 21 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation

but it will be up to the regulators themselves to use these tools wisely. Ideally, I would like to have seen more in the way of hard limits, including a tougher cap on leverage, written into the legislation to prevent backsliding by... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5

powers include increasing the business lending cap and raising secondary capital from non-members. The protagonist is a research analyst who must evaluate the benefits of credit unions against the costs, including the federal tax... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Nov 2007
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Moral Leader

decisions will come as business leaders figure out how to respond to new regulations, taxes, or to cap and trade schemes, all enacted to control the buildup of greenhouse gases. In addition to providing opportunities for quick-witted... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education
  • 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008

low-powered incentives (and more generally low wages). We also discuss the role of ability, the tax system, and the way to derive a measure of the value of illegal funds for the agent. Cost Reductions, Cost Padding and Stock Market Prices: The Chilean Experience with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 3, 2007

"decouple" payments to European farmers. Explores the logic behind agricultural supports, with a focus on the economic, political, and cultural context of French farming. Discusses efforts to reform the CAP in the context of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Mar 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”

It's also true for some of the most admired in business. Here's a familiar success pattern that should give pause, but instead seems to shed all possibility of providing "sticky" lessons: After a meteoric rise in his company's earnings during the boom, a... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
  • 20 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

the ultimate wealth that feeds the local economy derives heavily from the traded economy. Therefore, the US economy's inability to generate net new jobs in the traded sector for the last decade is deeply disturbing. Also, the ability to raise wages, particularly in the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
  • 15 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Are the Most Talented Employees the Highest Paid? Yes—If They’re Bankers

income varies according to how well they perform. In finance, performance is measured in money. Make more money, get more money. The findings indicate that if Europe wants its most talented bankers to stay and make money, it may be economically unwise to regulate their... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking
  • 17 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 17, 2008

the 1990s. In order to attract investors, the founders of companies organized before 1910 often included in the statutes stronger protections for small shareholders than what was mandated by law. The most important of these protections were maximum vote provisions that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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