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- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
evidence. This paper analyzes the role of third-party information for VAT enforcement through two randomized experiments among over 400,000 Chilean firms. Announcing additional monitoring has less impact on transactions that are subject... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
important Delaware case law created a difference in the standard of judicial review for the two basic methods of freezing out minority shareholders. While a freeze-out executed as a statutory merger is subject to stringent... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
topics. They were not limited to subjects often identified with women. They did not revolve around the latest fashions, scandals, or celebrity gossip. It was clear that she was talking about something much bigger and much more... View Details
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
measures would work. But the only fixed time frame we know for sure is death. Everything else is subject to moving targets. If you wish to live with a continually renewing sense of success that really seems worthwhile and lasting on all... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
city employees are legally protected by many state constitutions. The key constraint in changing health care obligations, however, is usually political, especially pressure from public employee unions. If healthcare benefits can be legally reduced, View Details
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
big and five times as productive as the typical backyard chicken. The incongruity of Vinod Kapur's elegant appearance and his subject matter struck me as fascinating, but the most intriguing element of the presentation was how he arranged... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders
Q: What are the root causes of these differences in negotiation success? Riley Bowles: What some studies do is look at salary and control for a whole bunch of things: How many years of experience the subjects had, what program they were... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
systemic risks need more oversight and management, the minority response strongly rejects the majority’s call for identifying systemically risky institutions and subjecting them to new capital and liquidity requirements and insurance... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
Community, who is also chair of the School’s new Gender Initiative. Ely has long studied gender in business, focusing her research on professional services firms. Recently, though, several large tech companies have approached her on the View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
such a demanding yet fascinating field of research, whether the subject of study is a single deal or the entire industry's movements. "There are many interrelationships that involve economic, political, and human factors," comments... View Details
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
here we investigate the effects of time. We show that when social influence is intermittent it provides the benefits of constant social influence without the costs. Human subjects solved the canonical traveling salesperson problem in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
simultaneously with many employees, each of whom finds himself matched with a firm only after a process of search. When employment increases as a result of reductions in market power, the marginal product of labor falls. This fall tempers the bargaining power of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Celebrating Latinx Heritage Month at HBS
know my students in South Carolina, I saw a parallel between many of their experiences and my own. Some of my students had experienced direct and malicious racism, and all had been the subject of casual racial contempt – the clerks who... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
the fact that the word “retirement” has outgrown its usefulness? The word itself suggests a literal withdrawal, a distancing from the world that doesn’t suit most graduates of HBS and certainly doesn’t jibe with the subjects profiled... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
caused a lot of uncertainty. Specific companies or business sectors would suddenly find themselves the object of very aggressive, extreme criticism, not just by administration sources, but by the president publicly, which was unprecedented. Companies and sometimes... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
are subject to inspection to ensure they meet quality, safety, and environmental standards imposed by companies and regulators. This paper explores how the scheduling of inspections risks introducing bias that erodes inspection quality by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
manufacturer, subject to unconditional, multi-year sales minimums and significant forward financial obligations. Taking out long-term bank loans, his firm has purchased modern, high-speed machinery to manufacture this line. Yet his... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
1978, U.S. airlines were one of the most government-regulated businesses, when suddenly full deregulation changed the competitive landscape once again. How individual executives both shaped the industry and were shaped by it is the View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
development during World War II, spearheaded the construction of an HBS-like business school in France (INSEAD), and, perhaps most notably, launched the modern venture capital industry. His remarkable life is the subject of a new... View Details
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
choice thus leads subjects to violate the weak axiom of revealed preference (WARP). Friend or Foe? Cooperation and Learning in High-Stakes Games Authors:FFelix Oberholzer-Gee, Joel Waldfogel, and Matthew White Publication:Review of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace