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- 17 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Dividends as Reference Points: A Behavioral Signaling Approach
Keywords: by Malcolm Baker & Jeffrey Wurgler
- 06 Jun 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Do Strict Capital Requirements Raise the Cost of Capital? Banking Regulation and the Low Risk Anomaly
- 17 Jan 2007
- Op-Ed
Learning from Private-Equity Boards
If Enron had been owned and controlled by a small group of private-equity investors, could the monitoring and control practices of a professionally run buyout shop have protected Enron's shareholders and employees from the problems that... View Details
- 02 Feb 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Lawful but Corrupt: Gaming and the Problem of Institutional Corruption in the Private Sector
- August 2007 (Revised September 2008)
- Case
Baker & McKenzie (A): A New Framework for Talent Management
By: Boris Groysberg and Eliot Sherman
Describes the process by which the largest law firm in the world developed a unique framework for personnel management. In 2004, John Conroy is about to take the reigns as the leader of Baker and McKenzie, the largest law firm in the world by employees, with offices in... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Framework; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Retention; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Adoption; Legal Services Industry
Groysberg, Boris, and Eliot Sherman. "Baker & McKenzie (A): A New Framework for Talent Management." Harvard Business School Case 408-008, August 2007. (Revised September 2008.)
- 07 Jun 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
How Short-Termism Invites Corruption--And What to Do About It
Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter
- 21 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
Enron Jury Sent the Right Message
Enron case should not be taken as a one-off judgment by a business school professor. Many years ago, at the dedication of the Harvard Business School campus on June 24, 1927, Owen Young—a lawyer, visionary capitalist, founding chairman of... View Details
Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter
- 10 Nov 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Crony Capitalism, American Style: What Are We Talking About Here?
Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter
- 23 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
As Climate Fears Mount, More Investors Turn to 'ESG' Funds Despite Few Rules
Investor interest in social responsibility has skyrocketed in the past three years, even as US regulations to hold companies accountable remain in flux and the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) label itself draws backlash. Investors are willing to pay a... View Details
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
survey by the Charities Aid Foundation of America. A staggering 97 percent of respondents expect their funding to decline during the next 12 months as the struggling economy and social distancing hurts fundraising efforts. What can... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 29 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control
George Serafeim and Malcolm Baker have long been interested in investor motivations that go beyond pure financial return to include environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria. With the recent... View Details
- January 2013
- Article
Level Two Negotiations: Helping the Other Side Meet Its 'Behind-the-Table' Challenges
A long analytic tradition has explored the challenge of productively synchronizing "internal" with "external" negotiations, with a special focus on how each side can best manage internal opposition to agreements negotiated "at the table." Implicit in much of this work... View Details
Keywords: James Baker; Internal Negotiation; Dispute Resolution; Bargaining; Two-level Games; Negotiation; Germany; United States
Sebenius, James K. "Level Two Negotiations: Helping the Other Side Meet Its 'Behind-the-Table' Challenges." Negotiation Journal 29, no. 1 (January 2013): 7–21.
- 03 Jan 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Financing the Response to Climate Change: The Pricing and Ownership of US Green Bonds
- 03 Jun 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
The Risk Anomaly Tradeoff of Leverage
- 22 Jan 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Financial Patent Quality: Finance Patents After State Street
- Research Summary
Wage Policies and Incentives to Invest in Firm-Specific Human Capital (joint with George Baker and Nancy Dean Beaulieu)
The accumulation of firm-specific knowledge improves firm productivity and employee reten-tion, by creating a wedge between what the employee is worth inside and outside the firm. How does the firm create incentives for investment in firm-specific human capital when... View Details
- 06 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Behavioral Finance—Benefiting from Irrational Investors
new shares you suddenly own of a company that you never intended to buy in the first place? Logic suggests that you would be likely to sell those shares. But research by Associate Professor Malcolm Baker,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- September 2008
- Book Review
Review of The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism, by John Bogle
By: Malcolm Baker
Baker, Malcolm. "Review of The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism, by John Bogle." Journal of Economic Literature 46, no. 3 (September 2008): 731–735.
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Enron’s Lessons for Managers
Some events mark a generation. If a marker is a source of deep learning about ourselves, as Malcolm Salter believes it is, then the Enron crisis is exactly that for business people. Political scientists have the Bay of Pigs; engineers... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace