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  • 10 May 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Who Has Potential? For Many White Men, It’s Often Other White Men

opportunities to learn how the organization could do its core work better. Monitor and recalibrate their development efforts. Businesses track indicators of whether people are thriving—like promotion and retention rates and employees’... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • February 2025
  • Article

Sale of Private Equity–Owned Physician Practices and Physician Turnover

By: Victoria Berquist, Lev Klarnet and Leemore Dafny
Private equity (PE) ownership of physician practices is increasing, with owners targeting sales, or exits, in 3 to 7 years. Little is known about the association of exit with physician retention and subsequent employment. Using panel data over the period 2014-2020, we... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Retention; Health Industry
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  • 2022
  • Working Paper

Politics at Work

By: Emanuele Colonnelli, Valdemar Pinho Neto and Edoardo Teso
We study how individual political views shape firm behavior and labor market outcomes. Using new micro-data on the political affiliation of business owners and private-sector workers in Brazil over the 2002–2019 period, we first document the presence of political... View Details
Keywords: Private Sector; Employees; Prejudice and Bias; Brazil
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  • September–October 2018
  • Article

Online MAP Enforcement: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment

By: Ayelet Israeli
This paper investigates a manufacturer’s ability to influence compliance rates among its authorized online retailers by exploiting changes in the Minimum Advertised Price (MAP) policy and in dealer agreements. MAP is a pricing policy widely used by manufacturers to... View Details
Keywords: Pricing Policies; Pricing; Channel Management; Legal Aspects Of Business; Retail; Price; Policy; Governance Compliance; Distribution Channels; Management; Retail Industry
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  • February 2004
  • Article

Launching a World-Class Joint Venture

By: James Bamford, David Ernst and David G. Fubini
More than 5,000 joint ventures, and many more contractual alliances, have been launched worldwide in the past five years. Companies are realizing that JVs and alliances can be lucrative vehicles for developing new products, moving into new markets, and increasing... View Details
Keywords: Mergers ＆ Acquisitions; Strategic Alliances; Joint Ventures; Alliances; Organizational Structure; Alignment; Mergers and Acquisitions
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  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Cohort Turnover and Operational Performance: The July Phenomenon in Teaching Hospitals

By: Hummy Song, Robert S. Huckman and Jason R. Barro
We consider the impact of cohort turnover—the planned simultaneous exit of a large number of experienced employees and a similarly sized entry of new workers—on operational performance in the context of teaching hospitals. Specifically, we examine the impact of the... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Health Care Operations; Hospitals; Productivity; Empirical Operations; Service Delivery; Training; Performance Productivity; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States
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  • 2013
  • Working Paper

Do Strict Capital Requirements Raise the Cost of Capital? Banking Regulation and the Low Risk Anomaly

By: Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler
Minimum capital requirements are a central tool of banking regulation. Setting them balances a number of factors, including any effects on the cost of capital and in turn the rates available to borrowers. Standard theory predicts that, in perfect and efficient capital... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Cost of Capital; Capital Markets; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; United States
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  • 01 Jan 2007
  • News

Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987

population—including marginalized and underprivileged sectors—equal access to products and services, as well as a stake in the overall economy," he states. One example of this model is Ayala's Manila Water operation, which pipes water at modest View Details
  • 29 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Are You Paying a Tip--or a Bribe?

tipping and corruption is counterintuitive in the United States. But there is a fuzzy line between the two." Countries with higher rates of tipping behavior also tended to have higher rates of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Profile

Thomaz Galvao

venture they are incubating in the i-lab. “Our country has one of the highest unemployment rates in the Americas,” Thomaz explains. “There are significant gaps between supply and demand for job occupations: companies can’t find people... View Details
  • 16 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 16

research. Analysis of the citation rates of the articles in our data set by non-negotiation organizational research indicates that more open systems assumptions increase the likelihood that a negotiation article will be cited in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Nov 2022
  • Research & Ideas

When Agreeing to Disagree Is a Good Beginning

said. She described a study at the Kennedy School executive education program that paired attendees to discuss controversial topics and then asked them to rate their partners’ receptiveness. “What we saw was interesting and hopeful,” said... View Details
Keywords: by Clea Simon, Harvard Gazette
  • 31 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 31

large due to either product characteristics or the distance between exporter and importer. Finally, we find that in countries with well-developed finance, total exports and the allocation of exports across importers are more sensitive to exchange View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 May 2022
  • HBS Case

College Degrees: The Job Requirement Companies Seek, but Don't Really Need

people with college degrees, also known as degree inflation or credentialing, has been particularly detrimental for workers of color who, due to historic inequities, proportionately don’t obtain college degrees at the same rate as whites,... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 30 Nov 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Donors Are Turned Off by Overhead Costs. Here’s What Charities Can Do

recommendations from watchdogs like CharityWatch, which tend to give higher ratings to charities with low overhead costs. But that can lead to a harmful cycle in which charities keep their overhead costs unreasonably low in order to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • Web

Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online

constructive conversation encouraged me to think in new and creative ways. Knowing that your peers were rating your participation and reading your contributions was truly compelling. Leslie Pico Entrepreneur This was an awesome way to get... View Details
  • Web

Investing for Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

at affordable rates the HBS Impact Investment Fund is part of an important local ecosystem working to build greater equity and diversity in business ownership, and ultimately in wealth creation . The fund also seeks to provide HBS... View Details
  • Web

Historical Data Visualization - Business History

Politics & Economics Adult Literacy Rates Trends Over Time Corporations Apollo Hospitals Historical Maps Commodities Apples, Bananas, Oranges, and Dates (1907) Trends Over Time Corporations Arçelik Corporation (Koç Group) Trends Over Time... View Details
  • 20 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Language Wars Divide Global Companies

Language Frustration Neeley and her colleagues found ample evidence that language anxiety and frustration were common throughout many of the interviews; many reported a sense of being "other" or experiencing an "us versus them" dynamic at a work... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 26 Aug 2014
  • First Look

First Look: August 26

Real Rates By: Hanson, Samuel G., and Jeremy C. Stein Abstract—Changes in monetary policy have surprisingly strong effects on forward real rates in the distant future. A 100 basis point increase in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne