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  • 02 Aug 2021
  • Research & Ideas

What If Closing the Wage Gap Means Everyone Earns Less?

laws that seek to give workers more bargaining power by requiring companies to disclose employee salaries. However, opening up the books for all to see has put 2 to 3 percent less cash in workers’ pockets, at least in the US private... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • April 2008 (Revised September 2008)
  • Case

Shareholder Activists at Friendly Ice Cream (A)

By: Fabrizio Ferri, V.G. Narayanan and James Weber
Two activist investors, one a founder and one a hedge-fund manager, seek to improve board oversight at a chain restaurant company. Prestley Blake founded Friendly Ice Cream in 1935 with his brother, and the two created a chain of full-service restaurants. In 1979 they... View Details
Keywords: Investment Activism; Governing and Advisory Boards; Lawsuits and Litigation; Business or Company Management; Business and Shareholder Relations; Conflict of Interests; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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  • 30 Jul 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way

engage in a voluntary transaction, it must be because they both want to, and it makes them better off. The kinds of things I'm calling repugnant are transactions that some people don't want other people to engage in. Repugnant is different from, say, disgusting. There... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 07 Jul 2021
  • Book

Good News for Disgraced Companies: You Can Regain Trust

providing a warm, welcoming, personalized experience at every level, from executives and managers to housekeeping and wait staff. And Patagonia has demonstrated its pro-environment stance by continually re-examining its practices—from... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • September 2017
  • Case

Christine Lagarde

By: Julie Battilana, Carin-Isabel Knoop, Vanessa Ampelas and Noemie Assenat
The case covers the youth and career trajectory of Christine Lagarde across her time at Baker & McKenzie, as a minister in the government of France and as the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The case highlights the challenges and opportunities she faced... View Details
Keywords: Change; Personal Development and Career; Power and Influence; Leadership; Gender; Leading Change
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  • 20 Dec 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

the rule of law doesn't function. My first book projects—The Power and the Money and The Politics of Property Rights—looked at how businesses solved that problem in revolutionary Mexico. Firms in Mexico, both foreign and domestic, dealt... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation
  • 08 Mar 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens

should systematically work with community groups and local leaders so they feel intense personal and tangible stakes in the proposal. Detailed preliminary discussions with construction trades should make the huge amount of new work... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius; Real Estate; Construction
  • 08 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 8, 2015

processes to consumers and beneficiaries to producers, generates a positive feedback loop through which value is created for both parties. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50173 forthcoming Stanford Technology View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser

School Working Knowledge. HBS Digital Media Producer Amelia Kunhardt produced the video interview. [Image: kuri2000 ] Related Reading The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services
  • 27 Jan 2023
  • Op-Ed

Have We Lost Sight of Integrity?

Easterbrook, and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg. Rife with bravado, New York Congressman Santos campaigned on being the “full embodiment of the American dream.” The only problem was that many of his personal claims—including tentpoles punctuating... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 28 Jan 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India

"In some sense people in these societies are running faster than their rules and laws can keep up. So they are creating the rules as they go along. And entrepreneurship is, after all, doing things in new ways, ahead of social norms... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Nov 2019
  • What Do You Think?

Should Non-Compete Clauses Be Abolished?

use should be further restricted or they should be redesigned. But just how to redesign them poses a further question. In a nutshell, that’s one reading of reader responses to this month’s column. Russell Beck commented that “based on both View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 05 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 5

pricing in quarters where they have a financial incentive to close a deal, resulting in mispricing that costs the vendor 6%-8% of revenue. Robustness checks demonstrate that price discrimination by the vendor does not explain the identified effects. Paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Oct 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The Dark Side of Fintech Borrowing

from one of the three major credit reporting agencies over several years. This offered an in-depth look at borrowers that either used a fintech company or a bank to obtain a personal loan. (A personal loan... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Banking
  • 04 Jan 2022
  • What Do You Think?

Firing McDonald’s Easterbrook: What Could the Board Have Done Differently?

transferred to a personal account from his corporate email account. The board also was able to allege that Easterbrook had actually had physical sexual relationships with three other McDonald’s employees in 2018. In other words,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 04 Jun 2020
  • Book

It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward

earned paychecks for goods and services, pledge our lives to another person in marriage, cast a ballot for someone who will represent our interests. We rely on laws and contracts as safety nets, but even... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • September 2008 (Revised October 2008)
  • Case

Shareholder Activists at Friendly Ice Cream (A1)

By: Fabrizio Ferri, V.G. Narayanan and James Weber
Two activist investors, one a founder and one a hedge fund manager, seek to improve board oversight at a chain restaurant company. Prestley Blake founded Friendly Ice Cream in 1935 with his brother, and the two created a chain of full-service restaurants. In 1979, they... View Details
Keywords: Investment Activism; Governing and Advisory Boards; Lawsuits and Litigation; Business or Company Management; Business and Shareholder Relations; Conflict of Interests; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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  • 13 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk

gives away a drug called Mectizan for river blindness. That's one pill per person per year. And we found it's really hard to get that the last mile to the people who really need it. Okay? So I would say there are two big issues with... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Pharmaceutical
  • 02 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 2

personal connections amongst U.S. politicians have a significant impact on Senate voting behavior. Networks based on alumni connections between politicians are consistent predictors of voting behavior. We estimate sharp measures that... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 12 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 12

GlaxoSmithKline: Sourcing Complex Professional Services Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) uses an innovative new approach to procuring outside legal counsel: it replaces relationship-based selection and law firms' traditional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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