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      Whistleblower Legislation in the Context of Financial Reporting
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      • 2019
      • Working Paper

      Cash-For-Information Whistleblowing Programs: Effects on Whistleblowing and Consequences for Whistleblowers

      By: Aiyesha Dey, Jonas Heese and Gerardo Pérez Cavazos
      We examine whistleblowers’ and firms’ behaviors under cash-for-information programs. Using a dataset of allegations filed under the False Claims Act, we find that whistleblowers only report 50% of the cases internally before contacting the authorities, and only 30% of...  View Details
      Keywords: Whistleblowers; Cash-for-information Schemes; False Claims Act; Corporate Misconduct; Compliance Programs; Information; Governance Compliance; Organizations; Behavior
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      Dey, Aiyesha, Jonas Heese, and Gerardo Pérez Cavazos. "Cash-For-Information Whistleblowing Programs: Effects on Whistleblowing and Consequences for Whistleblowers." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-048, February 2020.
      • February 2020
      • Article

      Being 'Good' or 'Good Enough': Prosocial Risk and the Structure of Moral Self-regard

      By: Julian Zlatev, Daniella M. Kupor, Kristin Laurin and Dale T. Miller
      The motivation to feel moral powerfully guides people’s prosocial behavior. We propose that people’s efforts to preserve their moral self-regard conform to a moral threshold model. This model predicts that people are primarily concerned with whether their...  View Details
      Keywords: Prosocial Behavior; Moral Sensibility; Decision Making; Risk And Uncertainty; Behavior; Perception
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      Zlatev, Julian, Daniella M. Kupor, Kristin Laurin, and Dale T. Miller. "Being 'Good' or 'Good Enough': Prosocial Risk and the Structure of Moral Self-regard." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 118, no. 2 (February 2020): 242–253.
      • June 2019
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      Fraud Allegations and Government Contracting

      By: Jonas Heese and Gerardo Pérez Cavazos
      This paper examines whether fraud allegations affect firms’ contracting with the government. Using a dataset of whistleblower allegations brought under the False Claims Act against firms accused of defrauding the government, we find that federal agencies do not reduce...  View Details
      Keywords: Whistleblower; Fraud Allegations; False Claims Act; Government Contracting; Risk Allocation; Government And Politics; Contracts; Crime And Corruption; Risk And Uncertainty; Business And Government Relations
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      Heese, Jonas, and Gerardo Pérez Cavazos. "Fraud Allegations and Government Contracting." Journal of Accounting Research 57, no. 3 (June 2019): 675–719.
      • May 28, 2019
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      How Russia Found a Disinformation Haven in America

      By: Rawi Abdelal and Galit Goldstein
      The Mueller Report established that “the Russians” undertook information operations campaigns to meddle in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Though this has been clear for a long time, Americans continue to discuss Russian information operations in the wrong way....  View Details
      Keywords: Elections; Donald Trump; Social Media; Political Elections; National Security; Technology; Governing Rules, Regulations, And Reforms; Russia; United States
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      Abdelal, Rawi, and Galit Goldstein. "How Russia Found a Disinformation Haven in America." National Interest (May 28, 2019).
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      Decreases In Readmissions Credited to Medicare's Program to Reduce Hospital Readmissions Have Been Overstated

      By: Christopher Ody, Lucy Msall, Leemore S. Dafny, David Grabowski and David Cutler
      Medicare’s Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) has been credited with lowering risk-adjusted readmission rates for targeted conditions at general acute care hospitals. However, these reductions appear to be illusory or overstated. This is because a...  View Details
      Keywords: Readmission Rates; Hospitals; Acute Care Hospitals; Medicare; Myocardial Infarction; Heart Failure; Health Care And Treatment
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      Ody, Christopher, Lucy Msall, Leemore S. Dafny, David Grabowski, and David Cutler. "Decreases In Readmissions Credited to Medicare's Program to Reduce Hospital Readmissions Have Been Overstated." Health Affairs 38, no. 1 (January 2019): 36–43.
      • 2018
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      The Orphan Drug Act at 35: Observations and an Outlook for the Twenty-First Century

      By: Nicholas Bagley, Benjamin Berger, Amitabh Chandra, Craig Garthwaite and Ariel Dora Stern
      On the 35th anniversary of the adoption of the Orphan Drug Act (ODA), we describe the enormous changes in the markets for therapies for rare diseases that have emerged over recent decades. The most prominent example is the fact that the profit-maximizing price of new...  View Details
      Keywords: Health Care And Treatment; Laws And Statutes; Research And Development; Investment; Markets; Monopoly
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      Bagley, Nicholas, Benjamin Berger, Amitabh Chandra, Craig Garthwaite, and Ariel Dora Stern. "The Orphan Drug Act at 35: Observations and an Outlook for the Twenty-First Century." Chap. 4 in Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 19, edited by Josh Lerner and Scott Stern, 97–137. University of Chicago Press, 2018.
      • April 2018
      • Technical Note

      Whistleblower Legislation in the Context of Financial Reporting

      By: Aiyesha Dey, Jonas Heese and James Weber
      This note provides an overview of U.S. federal legislation relating to whistleblowing, Sarbanes-Oxley, Dodd-Frank (including the Office of the Whistleblower), and the False Claims Act.  View Details
      Keywords: Whistleblower; Sarbanes-oxley; Dodd-frank; False Claims Act; Securities And Exchange Commission; Government Legislation; Financial Reporting; United States
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      Dey, Aiyesha, Jonas Heese, and James Weber. "Whistleblower Legislation in the Context of Financial Reporting." Harvard Business School Technical Note 118-090, April 2018.
      • March 2017
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      Artful Paltering: The Risks and Rewards of Using Truthful Statements to Mislead Others

      By: Todd Rogers, Richard Zeckhauser, F. Gino, Michael I. Norton and Maurice E. Schweitzer
      Paltering is the active use of truthful statements to convey a misleading impression. Across two pilot studies and six experiments, we identify paltering as a distinct form of deception. Paltering differs from lying by omission (the passive omission of relevant...  View Details
      Keywords: Ethics; Negotiation Tactics
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      Rogers, Todd, Richard Zeckhauser, F. Gino, Michael I. Norton, and Maurice E. Schweitzer. "Artful Paltering: The Risks and Rewards of Using Truthful Statements to Mislead Others." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 112, no. 3 (March 2017): 456–473.
      • July–August 2016
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      Beyond the Holacracy Hype: The Overwrought Claims—and Actual Promise—of the Next Generation of Self-Managed Teams

      By: Ethan Bernstein, John Bunch, Niko Canner and Michael Lee
      Holacracy and other forms of self-organization have been getting a lot of press. Proponents hail them as "flat" environments that foster flexibility, engagement, productivity, and efficiency. Critics say they're naive, unrealistic experiments. We argue, using evidence...  View Details
      Keywords: Self-managed Organizations; Self-managed Teams; Reliability; Adaptability; Holacracy; Organization Design; Organization Structure; Organizational Design; Organizational Charts; Organizational Architecture; Organizational Forms; Organizational Structure; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Organizational Change And Adaptation; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Productivity; Management Practices And Processes; Management Systems; Managerial Roles; Human Resources; Apparel And Accessories Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Retail Industry; Public Administration Industry; Technology Industry; North America
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      Bernstein, Ethan, John Bunch, Niko Canner, and Michael Lee. "Beyond the Holacracy Hype: The Overwrought Claims—and Actual Promise—of the Next Generation of Self-Managed Teams." Harvard Business Review 94, nos. 7-8 (July–August 2016): 38–49.
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      SOX after Ten Years: A Multidisciplinary Review

      By: Suraj Srinivasan and John C. Coates IV
      We review and assess research findings from 120+ papers in accounting, finance, and law to evaluate the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. We describe significant developments in how the Act was implemented and find that despite severe criticism, the Act and...  View Details
      Keywords: Financial Reporting; Laws And Statutes; United States
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      Srinivasan, Suraj, and John C. Coates IV. "SOX after Ten Years: A Multidisciplinary Review." Accounting Horizons 28, no. 3 (September 2014): 627–671.
      • 2014
      • Working Paper

      SOX after Ten Years: A Multidisciplinary Review

      By: John C. Coates and Suraj Srinivasan
      We review and assess research findings from 120 papers in accounting, finance, and law to evaluate the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. We describe significant developments in how the Act was implemented and find that despite severe criticism, the Act and institutions...  View Details
      Keywords: Laws And Statutes
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      Coates, John C., and Suraj Srinivasan. "SOX after Ten Years: A Multidisciplinary Review." John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business Discussion Paper, No. 758, May 2014.
      • 2010
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      Feeling Good about Giving: The Benefits (and Costs) of Self-interested Charitable Behavior

      By: L. Anik, L. B. Aknin, M. I. Norton and E. W. Dunn
      While lay intuitions and pop psychology suggest that helping others leads to higher levels of happiness, the existing evidence only weakly supports this causal claim: research in psychology, economics, and neuroscience exploring the benefits of charitable giving has...  View Details
      Keywords: Advertising; Cost Vs Benefits; Philanthropy And Charitable Giving; Outcome Or Result; Relationships; Research; Behavior; Happiness; Motivation And Incentives
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      Anik, L., L. B. Aknin, M. I. Norton, and E. W. Dunn. "Feeling Good about Giving: The Benefits (and Costs) of Self-interested Charitable Behavior." In The Science of Giving: Experimental Approaches to the Study of Charity, edited by D. M. Oppenheimer and C. Y. Olivola. Psychology Press, 2010.
      • 2010
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      The Paranoid Style in the Study of American Politics

      By: David Moss and Mary Oey
      What drives policy making in a democracy? The conventional view is that political actors, like economic actors, pursue their self interest, and that special interest groups dominate the policy making process by satisfying policy makers' need for money and other forms...  View Details
      Keywords: Policy; Government Legislation; Media; Interests; Power And Influence; Public Opinion; United States
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      Moss, David, and Mary Oey. "The Paranoid Style in the Study of American Politics." In Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation, edited by Edward J. Balleisen and David A. Moss. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
      • 2009
      • Working Paper

      Feeling Good about Giving: The Benefits (and Costs) of Self-Interested Charitable Behavior

      By: Lalin Anik, Lara B. Aknin, Michael I. Norton and Elizabeth W. Dunn
      While lay intuitions and pop psychology suggest that helping others leads to higher levels of happiness, the existing evidence only weakly supports this causal claim: Research in psychology, economics, and neuroscience exploring the benefits of charitable giving has...  View Details
      Keywords: Philanthropy And Charitable Giving; Research; Behavior; Happiness; Motivation And Incentives
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      Anik, Lalin, Lara B. Aknin, Michael I. Norton, and Elizabeth W. Dunn. "Feeling Good about Giving: The Benefits (and Costs) of Self-Interested Charitable Behavior." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-012, August 2009.
      • 2008
      • Book

      On Competition

      By: M. E. Porter
      Competition is one of society's most powerful forces for making things better in many fields of human endeavor. The study of competition and the creation of value, in their full richness, have preoccupied me for several decades. Competition is pervasive, whether it...  View Details
      Keywords: Leadership; Practice; Competitive Strategy; Theory; Value Creation
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      Porter, M. E. On Competition. Updated and Expanded Ed. Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing, 2008.
      • January 2008
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      Innovation Killers: How Financial Tools Destroy Your Capacity to Do New Things

      By: Clayton M. Christensen, Stephen P. Kaufman and Willy C. Shih
      Most companies aren't half as innovative as their senior executives want them to be (or as their marketing claims suggest they are). What's stifling innovation? There are plenty of usual suspects, but the authors finger three financial tools as key accomplices....  View Details
      Keywords: Investment; Innovation And Management; Growth And Development Strategy; Business And Shareholder Relations; Prejudice And Bias; Value Creation
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      Christensen, Clayton M., Stephen P. Kaufman, and Willy C. Shih. "Innovation Killers: How Financial Tools Destroy Your Capacity to Do New Things." Special Issue on HBS Centennial. Harvard Business Review 86, no. 1 (January 2008).
      • 2008
      • Other Unpublished Work

      The Paranoid Style in the Study of American Politics

      By: David Moss and Mary Oey

      The conventional view is that political actors, like economic actors, pursue their self interest, and that special interest groups dominate the policy making process by satisfying policy makers' need for money and other forms of political support. Indeed, many...  View Details

      Keywords: Policy; Government Legislation; Media; Interests; Power And Influence; Public Opinion; United States
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      Moss, David, and Mary Oey. "The Paranoid Style in the Study of American Politics." 2008.
      • November – December 2007
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      Fundamentally Flawed Indexing

      By: Andre F. Perold
      A new theory of finance is being advanced as providing definitive proof that holding stocks in proportion to their market capitalizations is an inferior investment strategy. The claim is that capitalization weighting necessarily invests more in overvalued stocks and...  View Details
      Keywords: Investment; Capital Markets; Financial Strategy; Stocks; Financial Management; Valuation
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      Perold, Andre F. "Fundamentally Flawed Indexing." Financial Analysts Journal 63, no. 6 (November–December 2007). (

      Winner of Graham and Dodd Best Perspectives Award For excellence in financial writing​

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      • August 2003 (Revised January 2013)
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      Multinational Corporations in Apartheid-era South Africa: The Issue of Reparations

      By: Geoffrey Jones and Cate Reavis
      Considers the lawsuits filed on behalf of victims of apartheid against multinationals who operated in South Africa prior to 1994. Reviews the debates about divestment from and sanctions against South Africa from the 1950s. Includes case studies of companies that...  View Details
      Keywords: Ethics; Multinational Firms And Management; Government Legislation; Lawsuits And Litigation; Business And Government Relations; Prejudice And Bias; South Africa
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      Jones, Geoffrey, and Cate Reavis. "Multinational Corporations in Apartheid-era South Africa: The Issue of Reparations." Harvard Business School Case 804-027, August 2003. (Revised January 2013.)
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      Revitalizing Businesses

      By: William E. Fruhan
      William E. Fruhan, Jr. is exploring how firms act to enhance shareholder value when competitive pressures or takeovers threaten their operations. The approach most frequently taken involves fixing businesses that can be fixed and advantageously divesting those that...  View Details
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