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  • 18 Aug 2022
  • Op-Ed

Your Best Employees Are Burning Out: A Framework for Retaining Talent

past four decades, organizations ranging from Fortune 500 companies to federal, state, and local governments have slashed benefits, retirements, job security, and labor protections. These actions have saved... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and MaShon Wilson
  • 26 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises

cost.” During the two vulnerable weeks before government relief kicked in, Lawson delivered 200,000 prepared meals to victims, including onigiri rice balls, bread, and cups of noodles. The company also took care of its own in an area... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • March 2023 (Revised September 2023)
  • Case

Patagonia: 'Earth Is Now Our Only Shareholder'

By: Brian Trelstad, Nien-hê Hsieh, Michael Norris and Susan Pinckney
In September 2022, Yvon Chouinard, the iconoclastic founder of outdoor apparel company Patagonia, announced a new ownership model for his company. Chouinard and his family had held complete control of the company's voting and non-voting stock since its founding 50... View Details
Keywords: Trusts; Business Ventures; Business Organization; Family Business; Restructuring; Change; Disruption; Transition; Decision Making; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Finance; Financial Management; Governance; Corporate Governance; Investment Activism; Leadership; Labor; Law; Common Law; Management; Goals and Objectives; Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Ownership; Ownership Type; Family Ownership; Private Ownership; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Society; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Value; Value Creation; Apparel and Accessories Industry; United States
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  • April 2021 (Revised April 2022)
  • Case

OneTen: One Million Opportunities in Ten Years

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Courtney Han
In the wake of George Floyd's killing in May 2020, and widespread protests for social justice in the United States, OneTen was formed by a coalition of 40 large companies to provide one million jobs for African-Americans in 10 years. The case describes the background... View Details
Keywords: Labor Market; COVID-19 Pandemic; Diversity; Race; Jobs and Positions; Opportunities; Social Issues; Employment; Equality and Inequality; Equity; United States
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  • 2025
  • Working Paper

Impact Investing and Worker Outcomes

By: Josh Lerner, Markus Lithell and Gordon M. Phillips
Impact investors claim to distinguish themselves from traditional venture capital and growth equity investors by also pursuing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) objectives. Whether they successfully do so in practice is unclear. We use confidential Census... View Details
Keywords: ESG; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Private Equity; Venture Capital; Wages
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  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Cheaper by the Dozen: Using Sibling Discounts at Catholic Schools to Estimate the Price Elasticity of Private School Attendance

By: Susan Dynarski, Jonathan Gruber and Danielle Li
The effect of vouchers on sorting between private and public schools depends upon the price elasticity of demand for private schooling. Estimating this elasticity is empirically challenging because prices and quantities are jointly determined in the market for private... View Details
Keywords: Price; Religion; Entrepreneurship; Education
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  • 2025
  • Working Paper

Tax Elasticities of Top Donors: Evidence from Family Foundations

By: Simon Essig Aberg
High net-worth donors who give through a family foundation or donor-advised fund constitute the fastest growing segment of charitable giving in the United States. Using a novel database of foundation tax filings, I document facts about top donors, estimate how they... View Details
Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Taxation; Motivation and Incentives
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    Jerry R. Green

    Jerry R. Green

    David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy

    John Leverett Professor in the University

    Harvard University

     

    Jerry Green is the John Leverett Professor in the University and the David A. Wells... View Details

    Keywords: aerospace; education industry; insurance industry; professional services
    • Web

    Nonprofit Board Service - Alumni

    Executive Education programs on nonprofit leadership: Governing for Nonprofit Excellence , Accelerating Board Capacity for School District Board Members and Driving Nonprofit Performance and Innovation . Faculty book: Effective... View Details
    • 04 Feb 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    How To Do Business in Islamic Countries

    Islamic finance and an emeritus professor of investment banking at Harvard Business School. Hayes, who continues to travel regularly to Islamic countries for research and consulting, offered advice to HBS students on January 23 as part of... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • Web

    Hiring International Students

    professional business function and employers do not need to interact with the US government to secure work authorization. There is no cost to employers and this is the first step to ensuring a smooth transition to full-time worker. It is... View Details
    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Shareholder Activism on Sustainability Issues

    By: Jody Grewal, George Serafeim and Aaron Yoon
    Shareholder activism on sustainability issues has become increasingly prevalent over the years, with the number of proposals filed doubling from 1999 to 2013. We use recent innovations in accounting standard setting to classify 2,665 shareholder proposals that address... View Details
    Keywords: Sustainability; Activism; Activist Investors; Activist Shareholder; Corporate Social Responsibility; Environment; Corporate Performance; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Governance; Business and Shareholder Relations; Investment Activism
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    • Web

    Team - Case Method Project

    Cornell University and his Ph.D. from Yale. David is the author of numerous books, articles, and case studies , mainly on the history of economic policy and democratic governance in the United States. He is the recipient of many honors,... View Details
    • 05 Feb 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: February 5, 2008

    Have Persistent Effects Over Time? A Look at Law and Finance around the World c. 1900 Author:Aldo Musacchio Abstract How persistent are the effects of legal institutions adopted or inherited in the distant past? A substantial literature... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • February 2009 (Revised February 2022)
    • Case

    Fannie Mae: Public or Private?

    By: David A. Moss, Cole Bolton and Kimberly Hagan
    In 1987, President Ronald Reagan established the President's Commission on Privatization to identify federal government functions that could be shifted to the private sector. One agency that the Commission considered was the Federal National Mortgage Association, or... View Details
    Keywords: Restructuring; Financial Institutions; Mortgages; Government and Politics; Business History; Privatization; Private Sector; Laws and Statutes; United States
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    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    What Triggers National Stock Market Jumps?

    By: Scott R. Baker, Nicholas Bloom, Steven J. Davis and Marco Sammon
    We examine newspapers the day after major stock-market jumps to evaluate the proximate cause, geographic source, and clarity of these events from 1900 in the US, 1930 in the UK and 1980 in 12 other countries. We find four main results. First, the United States plays an... View Details
    Keywords: Uncertainty; Policy Uncertainty; Stock Market; Financial Markets; Volatility; Risk and Uncertainty; Policy; Newspapers
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    • May 2020
    • Case

    Trust Merchant Bank

    By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Pippa Tubman Armerding, Dilyana Karadzhova Botha and Salim Dewji
    Trust Merchant Bank (TMB), a leading bank in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), needs to decide whether to enter the soon-to-be-liberalized insurance industry. Since its founding in 2004, TMB has played a pivotal role in reshaping the DRC banking landscape by... View Details
    Keywords: Retail Banking; Financial Services; Financial Inclusion; Turnaround; Fintech; Banks and Banking; Financial Condition; Insurance; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Business Model; Family Business; Entrepreneurship; Information Technology; Monopoly; Banking Industry; Insurance Industry; Africa; Congo, Democratic Republic of the
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    • November 2020
    • Case

    Wilderness Safaris: Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis

    By: James E. Austin, Megan Epler Wood and Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard
    This case is an epilogue to “Wilderness Safaris: Impact Investing and Ecotourism Conservation in Africa” (2-321-020), which ends with the emergence of the pandemic in March 2020. The final discussion area for that case can be “What should Wilderness Safari CEO Keith... View Details
    Keywords: Communities; COVID-19; Ecotourism; Travel; Travel Industry; Conservation Planning; Reopening; Investor Relations; Project Strategy; Governance; Decision Making; Cash; Health Pandemics; Business and Shareholder Relations; Tourism Industry; Africa
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    • 04 Jun 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: June 4

    regressions should be complemented by realized-returns regressions. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1967706   Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 713-074 Currency Wars In February 2013, the G-20 View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 17 Dec 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    Women Receive Harsher Punishment at Work Than Men

    afterwards, their employment prospects were pretty dismal,” says Mark Egan, an assistant professor of finance at Harvard Business School. Egan details the misconduct findings in a new working paper, “When Harry Fired Sally: The Double... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services