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  • 30 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

The gender punishment gap in hiring and firing dissipates at firms with a greater percentage of female managers at the firm or local branch level. The gender punishment gap is not driven by gender differences in View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • February 26, 2024
  • Article

Making Workplaces Safer Through Machine Learning

By: Matthew S. Johnson, David I. Levine and Michael W. Toffel
Machine learning algorithms can dramatically improve regulatory effectiveness. This short article describes the authors' scholarly work that shows how the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) could have reduced nearly twice as many occupational... View Details
Keywords: Government Experimentation; Auditing; Inspection; Evaluation; Process Improvement; Government Administration; AI and Machine Learning; Safety; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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  • 10 Aug 2012
  • News

Something for the weekend

  • 01 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 1, 2008

Jobs Might Be Offshorable?" Authors:Troy Smith and Jan W. Rivkin Abstract In a 2007 working paper, Alan Blinder assessed the "offshorability" of hundreds of U.S. occupations View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Career Coach

Rohit Sahni

investment pitches, accounting and financial questions, and financial modeling. Rohit enjoys helping students explore a profession within financial services. He also enjoys... View Details
  • 19 Jul 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard

illegally. The 1993 Council of Europe's Resolution 1003 on the ethics of journalism clearly states that "In the journalist's profession the end does not justify the means; therefore information must be obtained by legal View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Journalism & News; Publishing
  • 01 Dec 2014
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014

degrees, apprenticeships, and occupational learning. Faculty Books Own Your Future: How to Think Like an Entrepreneur and Thrive in an Unpredictable Economy by Paul B. Brown,... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2016
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016

innovation that calls for “big teaming”: intense collaboration between professions and industries with completely different mindsets. To explore the kind of leadership required to build the future, they tell... View Details
  • July 2011
  • Background Note

Just an MOU or a Real Deal?

By: Lena G. Goldberg and Mary Beth Findlay
Notwithstanding the professed intention of a party to an MOU, a "preliminary" agreement can have binding effect. This note explores the circumstances under which MOUs may give rise to binding and enforceable agreements. View Details
Keywords: Curriculum and Courses; Contracts; Legal Liability; Management; Risk Management
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  • 25 Feb 2020
  • News

The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation

personal: A spouse’s or partner’s job, a child’s schooling, or a parent’s health can prevent a worker from considering a move. Often, though, the stumbling blocks affect larger groups of workers. “There’s a lot of geographic immobility because of regulation, View Details
Keywords: April White
  • Article

Individuals' Decision to Co-Donate or Donate Alone: An Archival Study of Married Whole Body Donors in Hawaii

By: Michel Anteby, Filiz Garip, Paul V. Martorana and Scott Lozanoff

Background: Human cadavers are crucial to numerous aspects of health care, including initial and continuing training of medical doctors and advancement of medical research. Concerns have periodically been raised about the limited number of whole body... View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Health Care and Treatment; Personal Characteristics; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Health Industry; Hawaii
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  • 01 Dec 2001
  • News

Reaching Out

taxi drivers," Mukhtar notes. "They are typically an older group, and their occupation by its nature is a sedentary one." The drivers' diet is poor (too many irregular junk food meals consumed on the go),... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance
  • 28 May 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets

vigilance when they are auditing their clients. Of course, auditors might deny that litigation risk is what motivates them to uphold quality. The profession has high standards of conduct and their reputation... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Accounting
  • 07 Aug 2017
  • Research & Ideas

'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips

Credit:  iStock If you think looking for a job in your profession is difficult, try being an accounting PhD looking for work in academia. Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Ethan Rouen advises job hunters to start a physical... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Accounting; Education
  • Web

4.5 University-Wide Statement on Rights and Responsibilities | MBA

implicit in the University-wide Statement on Rights and Responsibilities that any unauthorized occupation of a University building, or any part of it, that interferes with the ability of members of the... View Details
  • 23 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018

2018 Protean Power: Exploring the Uncertain and Unexpected in World Politics Firms in Firmament: Hydrocarbons and the Circulation of Power By: Abdelal, Rawi Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 May 2012
  • News

Government Regulation That Actually Works

  • 27 Mar 2018
  • HBS Seminar

Jeffrey Clemens, University of San Diego, Economics

  • 08 May 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018

Understanding these biases can help managers develop alternative scheduling regimes that reduce bias in quality assessments in domains such as food safety, process quality, occupational safety, working conditions, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Sep 2007
  • What Do You Think?

Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?

means? What do you think? To read more: Rakesh Khurana, From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett