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- 2021
- Working Paper
No-fault Default, Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, and Financial Institutions
By: Robert C. Merton and Richard T. Thakor
This paper analyzes the costs and benefits of a no-fault-default debt structure as an alternative to the typical bankruptcy process. We show that the deadweight costs of bankruptcy can be avoided or substantially reduced through no-fault-default debt, which permits a... View Details
Keywords: No-fault Default; Chapter 11; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Borrowing and Debt; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Financial Institutions; Contracts
Merton, Robert C., and Richard T. Thakor. "No-fault Default, Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, and Financial Institutions." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 28341, January 2021.
- Research Summary
The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building
The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building makes two main theoretical contributions to the scholarship on credit markets and institutional development. First, the book demonstrates that opportunistic lenders can take... View Details
- 2015
- Article
What's so Institutional about Leadership?: Leadership Mechanisms of Value Infusion
By: Ryan Raffaelli and Mary Ann Glynn
Leaders are important social actors in organizations, centrally involved in establishing and maintaining institutional values, a view that was articulated by Philip Selznick (1957) nearly a half-century ago, but often overlooked in institutionalists' accounts. Our... View Details
Raffaelli, Ryan, and Mary Ann Glynn. "What's so Institutional about Leadership? Leadership Mechanisms of Value Infusion." Research in the Sociology of Organizations 44 (2015): 283–316.
- 2016
- Book
Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in Emerging Markets
By: Lakshmi Iyer
Emerging markets play an increasingly important role in the global economy, accounting for 31% of global GDP and more than 50% of global foreign direct investment in 2012. However, doing business in emerging markets remains subject to a high degree of "policy risk,"... View Details
Keywords: Property Rights; Economic Policy; Political Economy; Emerging Markets; Economic Growth; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations
Iyer, Lakshmi. Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in Emerging Markets. World Scientific Publishing, 2016.
- March 1990
- Case
Chase Manhattan Bank (E): The Institutional Bank
Shapiro, Benson P. "Chase Manhattan Bank (E): The Institutional Bank." Harvard Business School Case 590-088, March 1990.
- August 1984
- Case
Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology (Condensed)
By: Joseph L. Bower
Keywords: Chemical Industry
Bower, Joseph L. "Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology (Condensed)." Harvard Business School Case 385-061, August 1984.
- Article
Are Crises Good for Long-term Growth? The Role of Political Institutions
By: Alberto Cavallo and Eduardo Cavallo
This paper provides empirical evidence for the importance of institutions in determining the outcome of crises on long-term growth. We show that once unobserved country-specific effects and other sources of endogeneity are accounted for, political institutions affect... View Details
Keywords: Growth; Democracy; Macroeconomics; Growth and Development; Financial Crisis; Economic Growth; Government and Politics
Cavallo, Alberto, and Eduardo Cavallo. "Are Crises Good for Long-term Growth? The Role of Political Institutions." Journal of Macroeconomics 32, no. 3 (September 2010): 838–857.
- 2024
- Chapter
Corporations as the Central Institutions of Society
Mark Twain observed that, “Prediction is very difficult—particularly when it involves the future,” and he was right. One way to reduce the risk of becoming an infamous forecaster—like the experts who told us the Internet would quickly collapse, that Apple would never... View Details
Badaracco, Joseph L. "Corporations as the Central Institutions of Society." Chap. 4 in Justifying Next Stage Capitalism: Exploring a Hopeful Future, edited by Michel Dion and Moses Pava, 87–106. Springer, 2024.
- 2012
- Chapter
The Institutional Logic of Great Global Firms
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "The Institutional Logic of Great Global Firms." Chap. 3 in Towards a New Theory of the Firm: Humanizing the Firm and the Management Profession, edited by Joan Enric Ricart Costa and Josep Maria Rosanas Marti, 79–108. Bilbao: Fundación BBVA, 2012.
- 2024
- Working Paper
Private Regulation, Institutional Entrepreneurship and Climate Change: A Business History Perspective
By: Ann-Kristin Bergquist and Geoffrey Jones
Private regulatory systems, including voluntary efforts by firms to restrain their own behavior are the primary form of global climate change governance. However, when environmental challenges first rose up on the scientific and political agendas during the 1970s, the... View Details
Keywords: Certification; Climate Change; Environmental Regulation; Business History; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy
Bergquist, Ann-Kristin, and Geoffrey Jones. "Private Regulation, Institutional Entrepreneurship and Climate Change: A Business History Perspective." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-041, January 2024.
- March 2025 (Revised April 2025)
- Teaching Note
Moving Science: The Rowland Institute at Harvard
By: Maria Roche
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 724-441. View Details
- 2015
- Chapter
Studying Elites in Institutions of Higher Education
By: Scott Snook and Rakesh Khurana
Snook, Scott, and Rakesh Khurana. "Studying Elites in Institutions of Higher Education." Chap. 6 in Handbook of Qualitative Organizational Research: Innovative Pathways and Methods, edited by Kimberly D. Elsbach and Roderick M. Kramer, 54–65. New York, NY: Routledge, 2015.
- 1999
- Working Paper
Unemployment Shocks and Endogenous Labor Market Institutions
By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
Di Tella, Rafael, and Robert MacCulloch. "Unemployment Shocks and Endogenous Labor Market Institutions." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 00-035, November 1999.
- 2000
- Chapter
Environmental Destruction: Individual, Organizational, and Institutional Explanations
By: M. H. Bazerman and A. J. Hoffman
- December 2011 (Revised September 2014)
- Case
The Kid Grows Up: Decisions at the Sundance Institute
By: Mukti Khaire and Eleanor Kenyon
The Sundance case raises the question of how markets for innovative cultural products can be created and what the role of intermediaries in creative industries ought to be. The case describes the history of the Sundance Institute, which was founded by actor/director... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment; Entrepreneurship; Decision Making; Film Entertainment; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; United States
Khaire, Mukti, and Eleanor Kenyon. "The Kid Grows Up: Decisions at the Sundance Institute." Harvard Business School Case 812-051, December 2011. (Revised September 2014.)
- 2015
- Chapter
The Long Run Consequences of Colonial Institutions
By: Lakshmi Iyer
Iyer, Lakshmi. "The Long Run Consequences of Colonial Institutions." In A New Economic History of Colonial India, edited by Latika Chaudhary, Bishnupriya Gupta, Tirthankar Roy, and Anand Swamy. Routledge, 2015.
- March 1990 (Revised March 1990)
- Supplement
Chase Manhattan Bank (G): International Institutional Sales
Keywords: Banking Industry
Shapiro, Benson P. "Chase Manhattan Bank (G): International Institutional Sales." Harvard Business School Supplement 590-090, March 1990. (Revised March 1990.)
- 2002
- Chapter
Institutions as Barriers and Enablers to Negotiated Agreements: Institutional Entrepreneurship and the Plum Creek Habitat Conservation Plan
By: John G. Troast, Andrew Hoffman, Hannah Riley and Max Bazerman
Troast, John G., Andrew Hoffman, Hannah Riley, and Max Bazerman. "Institutions as Barriers and Enablers to Negotiated Agreements: Institutional Entrepreneurship and the Plum Creek Habitat Conservation Plan." Chap. 10 in Organizations, Policy and the Natural Environment: Institutional and Strategic Perspectives, edited by A Hoffman and M Ventresca. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002.
- 2001
- Working Paper
Institutions as Barriers and Enablers to Negotiated Agreements: Institutional Entrepreneurship and The Plum Creek Habitat Conservation Plan
By: John G. Troast Jr., Andrew J. Hoffman, Hannah C. Riley and Max Bazerman
- Forthcoming
- Article
The Institutional Sources of Economic Transformation: Explaining Variation in Energy Transitions
By: Jared Finnegan, Phillip Lipscy, Jonas Meckling and Florence Metz
Why are some governments more effective in promoting economic change than others?
We develop a theory of the institutional sources of economic transformation. Institutions can
facilitate transformation through two central mechanisms: insulation and compensation.... View Details
Keywords: Policy; Business and Government Relations; Supply and Industry; Demand and Consumers; Transformation; Economic Systems; Climate Change
Finnegan, Jared, Phillip Lipscy, Jonas Meckling, and Florence Metz. "The Institutional Sources of Economic Transformation: Explaining Variation in Energy Transitions." Journal of Politics (forthcoming).