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  • 15 Jul 2019
  • Book

Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence

regulations on buybacks as some propose, I’m in favor of boards being much more active in evaluating buybacks, limiting accelerated share buybacks, and changing the accounting treatment of buybacks so that managers are not tempted by... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Serving the Public Interest Through Competition: British Railroads - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

mergers, Parliament began to regulate the level of capital and the number of acquisitions permitted. William Gladstone, political leader and Christian socialist philosopher, believed the state had moral responsibilities to the public... View Details
  • 30 Jul 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way

regulated circumstances. If your bank ever presents you with a mortgage like that, it's in violation of the National Organ Transplant Act." So the slippery-slope argument is actually an area of agreement, or at least not outright... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 27 Jun 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Social Norms Versus Social Responsibility: Punishing Transgressions Under Conflicting Obligations

Keywords: by Francesca Gino, Celia Moore & Lamar Pierce
  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Cutting the Gordian Knot of Employee Health Care Benefits and Costs: A Corporate Model Built on Employee Choice

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Barak D. Richman
The U.S. employer-based health insurance tax exclusion created a system of employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) with limited insurance choices and transparency that may lock employed households into health plans that are costlier or different from those they prefer to... View Details
Keywords: After-tax Income; Consumer-driven Health Care; Health Care Costs; Health Insurance; Income Inequality; Tax Policy; Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Insurance; Employees; Income; Taxation; Policy; United States
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  • 27 Feb 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets

lies in asking bigger questions about contexts other than the developed world. This will require the embrace of new sources of data, perhaps especially including digital data, including oral history. This paper is making a statement about the potential of embracing... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 2020
  • Discussion Paper

Acting Now While Preparing for Tomorrow: Competitiveness Upgrading Under the Shadow of COVID-19

By: Christian H.M. Ketels and Peter Clinch
This paper aims to provide policy makers, especially those focused on the longer-term growth potential of their countries, with an initial framework to think about their action priorities in the context of the overall COVID-19 response. Our focus is on the... View Details
Keywords: Competitiveness; COVID-19 Pandemic; Competition; Government Administration; Health Pandemics; Economy; Supply Chain; Safety
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  • 02 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters

farther you get from your home base, the harder it is to be confident of that knowledge. Be aware that processes you consider core may turn out to be very different from those used by the target company. Cultural differences and governmental View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower
  • 18 Nov 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Who Really Determines CEO Salary Packages?

solutions versus what drives some to drive more individual solutions.” Gallani also wants to look into why there aren’t more government regulations to hold compensation consultants accountable for their role in determining CEO pay. She... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consulting
  • 10 Aug 2015
  • Research & Ideas

New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly

market has grown at a rate of 6 percent annually in the United States. Government approval of new medical devices seems slower than it needs to be, according to a new study. ©iStock.com/basha The FDA has only regulated medical devices... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Technology
  • Web

Industry Information - Alumni

national discussion about how technology and innovation are transforming the way government agencies serve citizens and perform vital functions." + – Health Care FierceHealthcare Provides the latest industry news and analysis on the business of healthcare, covering... View Details
  • 11 Apr 2023
  • Blog Post

BTG Bioliquids: Creating Fast Pyrolysis Bio-Oil from Biomass Residue Streams

sees their competitive advantage in product/engineering innovation and flexibility in having a small team. As regulation evolves in Europe, BTG Bioliquids is also looking at the U.S. market, due to the recent passage of the Inflation... View Details
  • 21 Feb 2005
  • Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

intending to idealize what we have called the bona fide professions, we believe that the comparison we undertake in this paper has merit as a way of suggesting how management as an institution might be reformed, other than through the blunt instruments of law and View Details
Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice
  • May 2022
  • Article

Strengthening Digital Infrastructure: A Policy Agenda for Free and Open Source Software

By: Frank Nagle
While there is little debate that digital forces are playing an increasingly crucial role in the economy, there is limited understanding of the importance of the digital infrastructure that underlies this role. Much of the discussion around digital infrastructure has... View Details
Keywords: Open Source; Applications and Software; Policy; Infrastructure; Open Source Distribution
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  • Web

Student Spotlight: 2023 HCC Co-Presidents Reflect on Their Time at HBS and the Current Health Care Systems - Blog: Health Supplement

stakeholders, and what policies and regulations might incentivize them to act a certain way. What is your opinion on the current health care system? What would you change and why? I have always had a very realistic view of the healthcare... View Details
  • 03 Dec 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

Governor Cuomo issued a series of regulations surrounding sick and paid family leave and disability benefits. Employers should also focus on maximizing compassion and care despite the limitations of a virtual work world. Rebecca Knight... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
  • 2016
  • Book

Strategy Beyond Markets

By: John de Figueiredo, Michael Lenox, Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Rick Vanden Bergh
Strategy beyond markets has been an active area of research inquiry since the early 1990s. Since its inception, the scholarship emanating from this research stream has grown substantially in quantity, quality, and breadth. Likewise, firms across the world have... View Details
Keywords: Strategy
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  • 01 Feb 2021
  • What Do You Think?

Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?

information technology that we have been expecting for several decades finally kick in, producing larger-than-expected productivity gains to fuel both higher wages and higher profits? How important was the loosening of regulations on... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Feb 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The ‘Luxury Prime’: How Luxury Changes People

make self-serving decisions and ignoring the plight of others. To date, more than a year since the crisis started, despite much public outrage and threats to more strongly regulate the financial industry, there do not seem to be any... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 24 Jun 2021
  • Blog Post

Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class

CEO where she utilizes her degree and experience daily. “Being in this role you inherently have to use both sides of the degree,” she noted. “On a day-to-day basis, I’m thinking through business plans for new programs, evaluating how new government View Details