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Curriculum - Case Method Project

Capital, and Government: The Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902 This case explores how the federal government, under President Theodore Roosevelt, sought to adjudicate between the interests of capital and labor during the Second Industrial... View Details
  • 16 Nov 2021
  • HBS Case

How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves

company’s difficulties—including increased competition in the industry and the inflexibility of French labor laws and unions—rather than management decisions. When they learn about the suicides, however,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 09 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 9, 2016

affiliates with positive net trade credit positions were significantly more likely than others to repatriate dividends to parent companies in the United States. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50554 January 2016 Journal of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Oct 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Why the Largest Minority Group Faces the Most Hate—and How to Push Back

attitudes may even bleed into hiring practices and the labor market. Policymakers, activists, and business leaders can take steps now to prevent it by: Spreading awareness. Policymakers could initiate awareness campaigns to help white... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • 27 Feb 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Why Companies Should Share Their DEI Data (Even When It’s Unflattering)

increases brand attitude, and the company is seen as having more commitment to diversifying the workforce.” US law requires companies with more than 100 employees to report their workforce’s gender, race, and ethnicity by job category to... View Details
Keywords: by Shalene Gupta
  • 20 May 2014
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First Look: May 20

an effort to accomplish this. The second involved a fiscal policy plan whose initial thrust was expansionary, but which also sought to reduce future budget deficits. The last one involved a series of microeconomic reforms aimed at expanding GDP and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Students on the Job Market - Doctoral

disclosure of repurchase intent and more detailed quantitative repurchase disclosure. While the modernized rule became effective in October 2023, it was vacated in December 2023. Due to different quarter start dates, the law was effective... View Details
  • 27 Sep 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Religion in the Workplace: What Managers Need to Know

First Amendment’s free speech clause against nondiscrimination laws by asking counsel the simple question, “How would you have this court draw the line?” Ruling in December 2017, the justices sidestepped that broader issue by ruling 7-2... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage; Apparel & Accessories
  • 19 May 2015
  • First Look

First Look: May 19

and bank executives appear to profit from the analysts' bias since the bias is associated with higher levels of insider trading. Our results highlight the bias created by asking analysts to rate their outside opportunities in the labor... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • July 2008
  • Article

Crime and Punishment in the 'American Dream'

By: Rafael Di Tella and Juan Dubra
We observe that countries where belief in the "American dream" (i.e., effort pays) prevails also set harsher punishment for criminals. We know that beliefs are also correlated with several features of the economic system (taxation, social insurance, etc). Our objective... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Economic Systems; Values and Beliefs; Law Enforcement; Mathematical Methods; Personal Characteristics; United States
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  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

It Came in the First Ships: Capitalism in America

In most capitalist economies today, it is embedded in the intricate law of contracts enforced by governments through courts. Still another English corporation instrumental in populating the New World was the Royal African Company.... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
  • 01 Jun 2023
  • HBS Case

A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?

homes in those neighborhoods, property values would decline and put the FHA’s loans at risk. By 1968, when Congress ultimately passed a law banning racial discrimination in housing, the three decades that Black people had been shut out of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Apparel & Accessories
  • 09 Nov 2023
  • News

From the Brink

Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994), Adam Chepenik (MBA 2010), Sebastián Negrón-Reichard (JD/MBA 2024) As the senior top official in the US Treasury Department on domestic finance issues, Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994) could see Puerto Rico’s financial meltdown coming, like watching a... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
  • 05 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

across countries. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52239 2018 The Nature of Human Creativity Creativity and the Labor of Love By: Amabile, Teresa M. Abstract—This book provides an overview of the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center | About

College and College of William & Mary, MBA; May Chao Wellesley College and HBS; Christine Chao, Colgate University and Columbia Law School, JD; Grace Chao, Wellesley College, HBS, Ph.D. Columbia University; and Angela Chao , Harvard... View Details
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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Acquisition (4) Knowledge Dissemination (5) Knowledge Management (40) Knowledge Sharing (14) Knowledge Use and Leverage (11) Knowledge (68) Labor and Management Relations (3) Labor (136) View Details
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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

national banks from state laws against predatory lending by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) as a quasi-experiment to study the effect of deregulation and its interaction with competition on the supply of complex... View Details
  • 21 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 21, 2010

economic downturn. The case is complemented by a video (HBS No. 810-704) with co-founder commentary and extensive live footage of Blue Man performances and the Blue School. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810108-PDF-ENG Remedies for Patent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Apr 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Companies Can Expand Their Talent Pool by Giving Ex-Convicts a Second Chance

Assistant Professor Zoë Cullen. After all, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to create challenges for companies attempting to fill job openings as record numbers of people quit their jobs in search of new opportunities in a hot labor... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 19 Dec 2023
  • Research & Ideas

15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023

Inflation Reduction Act This bonus episode features the Harvard Law School Environmental and Energy Law Program’s CleanLaw podcast, where professors Jody Freeman (Harvard) and Greg Dotson (University of... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost