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- March 2021
- Article
The Impact of the General Data Protection Regulation on Internet Interconnection
By: Ran Zhuo, Bradley Huffaker, KC Claffy and Shane Greenstein
The Internet comprises thousands of independently operated networks, where bilaterally negotiated interconnection agreements determine the flow of data between networks. The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) imposes strict restrictions on...
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Keywords:
Personal Data;
Privacy Regulation;
GDPR;
Interconnection Agreements;
Internet and the Web;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
Zhuo, Ran, Bradley Huffaker, KC Claffy, and Shane Greenstein. "The Impact of the General Data Protection Regulation on Internet Interconnection." Telecommunications Policy 45, no. 2 (March 2021).
- February 2021
- Case
Apple: Privacy vs. Safety (A)
By: Henry McGee, Nien-hê Hsieh, Sarah McAra and Christian Godwin
In 2015, Apple CEO Tim Cook debuted the iPhone 6S with enhanced security measures that enflamed a debate on privacy and public safety around the world. The iPhone 6S, amid a heightened concern for privacy following the 2013 revelation of clandestine U.S. surveillance...
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Keywords:
Iphone;
Encryption;
Data Privacy;
Customers;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Decision Making;
Ethics;
Values and Beliefs;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Government and Politics;
National Security;
Law;
Law Enforcement;
Leadership;
Markets;
Safety;
Social Issues;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Civil Society or Community;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Technology Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
Telecommunications Industry;
Electronics Industry;
United States;
China;
Hong Kong
McGee, Henry, Nien-hê Hsieh, Sarah McAra, and Christian Godwin. "Apple: Privacy vs. Safety (A)." Harvard Business School Case 321-004, February 2021.
- February 2021
- Case
Board Director Dilemmas—New Year, New Timing
By: Suraj Srinivasan, David G. Fubini and Amram Migdal
This case focuses on a junior partner at a private equity (PE) firm who sits on the board of one of the firm’s portfolio companies. In the case, the board member asks the CEO to accelerate a cost-cutting initiative and looks to a seasoned industry veteran who is also a...
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Srinivasan, Suraj, David G. Fubini, and Amram Migdal. "Board Director Dilemmas—New Year, New Timing." Harvard Business School Case 121-043, February 2021.
- February 2021 (Revised May 2021)
- Case
SafeGraph: Selling Data as a Service
By: Ramana Nanda, Abhishek Nagaraj and Allison Ciechanover
Set in January 2021, the CEO of SafeGraph, a four-year-old startup that sold Data as a Service, looked to the future. His aim was to become the most trusted source for data about a physical place. The company provided points of interest (POI) and foot traffic data on...
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Keywords:
Data As A Service;
Monetization;
Pricing;
Business Startups;
Analytics and Data Science;
Consumer Behavior;
Analysis;
Business Model;
Health Pandemics;
Information Industry;
United States
Nanda, Ramana, Abhishek Nagaraj, and Allison Ciechanover. "SafeGraph: Selling Data as a Service." Harvard Business School Case 821-082, February 2021. (Revised May 2021.)
- February 2021
- Case
New England Baptist Hospital: Getting Paid for Value
By: Robert S. Kaplan, Mary Witkowski, Toby E. Emanuel and Syed S. Shehab
New England Baptist Hospital (NEBH), a national leader in adult orthopedic care, has the lowest rate of complications and 30-day readmissions in New England, but gets paid 30% less for its surgeries than nearby institutions. NEBH introduces, with several large...
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Keywords:
Healthcare;
Healthcare Spending;
Healthcare Innovation;
Healthcare Industry;
Health Care Outcomes;
Health Care Delivery;
Health Care Reform;
Bundled Payments;
Health Care and Treatment;
Spending;
Innovation and Invention;
Value Creation;
Strategy;
Health Industry;
North America
Kaplan, Robert S., Mary Witkowski, Toby E. Emanuel, and Syed S. Shehab. "New England Baptist Hospital: Getting Paid for Value." Harvard Business School Case 121-036, February 2021.
- February 2021
- Case
The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations
By: Mihir Desai, Ruth Page, Suzanne Antoniou and Leanne Fan
How should historic social injustices be addressed? Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and their descendants, including Representative Regina Goodwin of Tulsa, believe they should be addressed through reparations and have consequently continued to push the government...
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Keywords:
Costs And Consequences;
Decisions;
Judgment And Decision-making;
Lawsuit;
Leading Change;
Conflict Resolution;
Perspective Taking;
Prejudice;
Bias;
Reparations;
Decision Making;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Cost vs Benefits;
Judgments;
Race;
Ethics;
Fairness;
Moral Sensibility;
Values and Beliefs;
Conflict Management;
Governance;
Corporate Accountability;
Corporate Governance;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Policy;
Government and Politics;
Government Legislation;
History;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Legal Liability;
Mission and Purpose;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Motivation and Incentives;
Civil Society or Community;
Social Issues;
Oklahoma;
Tulsa;
United States
Desai, Mihir, Ruth Page, Suzanne Antoniou, and Leanne Fan. "The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 221-707, February 2021.
- February 2021 (Revised September 2022)
- Case
Shareholder Activists and Corporate Strategy
By: David J. Collis and Caeden Brynie
This library case examines the rise of shareholder activism in recent years, particularly in the public eye, and analyzes its effects on corporate strategy, growth, and shareholder value. It looks at three contemporary targets of shareholder activism in particular—Bed...
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Keywords:
Shareholder;
Shareholder Activism;
Board;
Board Of Directors;
Hedge Fund;
Hedge Fund Activism;
Strategy;
Corporate Strategy;
Investment Activism;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Business and Shareholder Relations
Collis, David J., and Caeden Brynie. "Shareholder Activists and Corporate Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 721-437, February 2021. (Revised September 2022.)
- February 12, 2021
- Article
The Commercial Space Age Is Here
By: Matt Weinzierl and Mehak Sarang
In May of 2020, SpaceX made history as the first private company to send humans into space. This marks not only a tremendous technological achievement, but also the first indication that an entirely new “space-for-space” industry—that is, goods and services designed to...
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Keywords:
Space Economy;
New Markets;
Emerging Markets;
Opportunities;
Entrepreneurship;
Commercialization;
Aerospace Industry
Weinzierl, Matt, and Mehak Sarang. "The Commercial Space Age Is Here." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (February 12, 2021).
- 2021
- Working Paper
Consuming Contests: Outcome Uncertainty and Spectator Demand for Contest-based Entertainment
By: Patrick J. Ferguson and Karim R. Lakhani
Contests that are designed to be consumed for entertainment by non-contestants are a fixture of economic, cultural and political life. In this paper, we examine whether individuals prefer to consume contests that have more uncertain outcomes. We look to...
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Keywords:
Contest Design;
Information Preferences;
Consumer Demand;
Sports;
Entertainment;
Games, Gaming, and Gambling;
Demand and Consumers;
Outcome or Result
Ferguson, Patrick J., and Karim R. Lakhani. "Consuming Contests: Outcome Uncertainty and Spectator Demand for Contest-based Entertainment." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-087, February 2021.
- February 2021
- Case
China Rapid Finance: The Collapse of China’s P2P Lending Industry
By: William C. Kirby, Bonnie Yining Cao and John P. McHugh
China’s peer-to-peer (P2P) lending industry had over 3,000 platforms at its height in 2015. China Risk Finance (CRF) was one of the country’s P2P success stories. With over 1 million borrowers using CRF’s platform, it raised $60 million in its 2016 IPO on the New York...
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Keywords:
Financial Services;
P2P Lending;
Government And Business;
Regulation;
Finance;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Strategy;
Financial Services Industry;
China
Kirby, William C., Bonnie Yining Cao, and John P. McHugh. "China Rapid Finance: The Collapse of China’s P2P Lending Industry." Harvard Business School Case 321-124, February 2021.
- 2021
- Chapter
Governing for Growth in Scope: Cultivating a Comparative Understanding of How Peer Production Collectives Evolve
By: Rebecca Karp, Amisha Miller and Siobhan O'Mahony
One of the early challenges for any peer production collective is how to govern the growth of new members or contributors. Scope growth was not a topic of concern when scholars were focused on understanding the emergence of peer production collectives as a phenomenon...
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Keywords:
Peer Production Collectives;
Scope Growth;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Governance;
Growth Management
Karp, Rebecca, Amisha Miller, and Siobhan O'Mahony. "Governing for Growth in Scope: Cultivating a Comparative Understanding of How Peer Production Collectives Evolve." Chap. 11 in The Handbook of Peer Production, edited by Mathieu O'Neil, Christian Pentzold, and Sophie Toupin, 137–152. John Wiley & Sons, 2021.
- February 6, 2021
- Editorial
The Chinese Debt Trap Is a Myth: The Narrative Wrongfully Portrays Both Beijing and the Developing Countries It Deals With.
By: Deborah Brautigam and Meg Rithmire
Our research shows that Chinese banks are willing to restructure the terms of existing loans and have never actually seized an asset from any country, much less the port of Hambantota. A Chinese company’s acquisition of a majority stake in the port was a cautionary...
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Brautigam, Deborah, and Meg Rithmire. "The Chinese Debt Trap Is a Myth: The Narrative Wrongfully Portrays Both Beijing and the Developing Countries It Deals With." The Atlantic (website) (February 6, 2021).
- February 2021
- Supplement
HNA Group: Global Excellence with Chinese Characteristics (C)
By: William C. Kirby, Billy Chan and John P. McHugh
July 2017 was supposed to be a triumphant month for HNA Group. The latest Fortune Global 500 list showed the company had again skyrocketed in its ranking to no. 170, an improvement of over 200 positions from the year prior. Yet earlier that same July, the mysterious...
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Keywords:
Conglomerate;
Airline Industry;
Coronavirus;
Financial Risk;
Debt;
Bankruptcy;
Global Strategy;
Restructuring;
Health Pandemics;
Financial Markets;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Financial Condition;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Business and Government Relations;
Air Transportation Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
China
Kirby, William C., Billy Chan, and John P. McHugh. "HNA Group: Global Excellence with Chinese Characteristics (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 321-123, February 2021.
- February 2021 (Revised March 2023)
- Supplement
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic and the Global Economy (B)
By: Alberto Cavallo and Christian Godwin
By December 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic had swept across the globe, creating widespread disruption in all aspects of everyday life. Almost 90 million people had been infected and nearly two million had died from the disease. By this point in the pandemic—a year since...
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Keywords:
COVID-19 Pandemic;
Economy;
Health Pandemics;
Economic Slowdown and Stagnation;
Global Range;
Crisis Management;
Disruption
Cavallo, Alberto, and Christian Godwin. "The Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic and the Global Economy (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 721-434, February 2021. (Revised March 2023.)
- 2021
- Working Paper
Crisis Interventions in Corporate Insolvency
By: Samuel Antill and Christopher Clayton
We model the optimal resolution of insolvent firms in general equilibrium. Collateral constrained
banks lend to (i) solvent firms to finance investments and (ii) distressed firms to
avoid liquidation. Liquidations create negative fire-sale externalities. Liquidations...
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Keywords:
Insolvent Firms;
Government Intervention;
Liquidation;
Econometric Models;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Governance;
Policy
Antill, Samuel, and Christopher Clayton. "Crisis Interventions in Corporate Insolvency." Working Paper, February 2021. (Accept with Revisions, Journal of Finance.)
- 2021
- Article
Fundraising for Stigmatized Groups: A Text Message Donation Experiment
By: Katerina Linos, Laura Jakli and Melissa Carlson
As government welfare programming contracts and NGOs increasingly assume core aid functions, they must address a long-standing challenge—that people in need often belong to stigmatized groups. To study other-regarding behavior, we fielded an experiment through a...
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Keywords:
Demographics;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Communication Strategy;
Civil Society or Community;
Non-Governmental Organizations;
Welfare;
Greece
Linos, Katerina, Laura Jakli, and Melissa Carlson. "Fundraising for Stigmatized Groups: A Text Message Donation Experiment." American Political Science Review 115, no. 1 (2021): 14–30.
- 2021
- Other Unpublished Work
Obsolescence of the Obsolescing Bargain: Why Governments Must Get Investor-State Contracts Right
By: Louis T. Wells and Karl P. Sauvant
Gone are the days when governments could easily renegotiate natural resource and other investment contracts if foreign investors, e.g., reaped bonanzas from rising resource prices, surprisingly rich discoveries, or terms that were too favorable. Today, international...
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Wells, Louis T., and Karl P. Sauvant. "Obsolescence of the Obsolescing Bargain: Why Governments Must Get Investor-State Contracts Right." Columbia FDI Perspectives, No. 298, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, February 2021.
- 2024
- Working Paper
Public Debt and Investment Under Political Competition: Evidence from Toxic Loans
By: Julien Sauvagnat and Boris Vallée
We examine the response from local governments and their voters to a large and exogenous
increase in municipal indebtedness. We first show that municipalities with loans that become
“toxic” exhibit a reduction in municipal investments as large as the associated...
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Keywords:
Public Debt;
Public Investments;
Political Contestation;
Toxic Loans;
Borrowing and Debt;
Investment;
Public Sector;
Government and Politics;
Local Range;
Financing and Loans
Sauvagnat, Julien, and Boris Vallée. "Public Debt and Investment Under Political Competition: Evidence from Toxic Loans." Working Paper, 2024.
- 2021
- Chapter
Sostenibilidad y negocios verdes en América Latina
By: Geoffrey Jones
This chapter in the first-ever business history textbook on Latin America examines the impact of modern business enterprise on the natural environment of the region between the 19th century and the present day. It argues that although global capitalism created much...
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Keywords:
Environment;
Business History;
Environmental Sustainability;
Latin America;
North and Central America
Jones, Geoffrey. "Sostenibilidad y negocios verdes en América Latina." Chap. 7 in Historia empresarial en América Latina: temas, debates y problemas, edited by Andrea Lluch, Martín Monsalve Zanatti, and Marcelo Bucheli, 171–194. Bogotá, Colombia: Universidad de los Andes, 2021, Spanish ed.
- February 2021
- Article
The Department of Justice as a Gatekeeper in Whistleblower-Initiated Corporate Fraud Enforcement: Drivers and Consequences
By: Jonas Heese, Ranjani Krishnan and Hari Ramasubramanian
We examine drivers and consequences of U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) oversight of whistleblower cases of corporate fraud against the government. We find that the DOJ is more likely to intervene in and conduct longer investigations of cases that have a higher chance...
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Keywords:
Whistleblowing;
Department Of Justice;
DOJ Enforcement;
Performance Measures;
False Claims Act;
Crime and Corruption;
Governance Compliance;
Law Enforcement
Heese, Jonas, Ranjani Krishnan, and Hari Ramasubramanian. "The Department of Justice as a Gatekeeper in Whistleblower-Initiated Corporate Fraud Enforcement: Drivers and Consequences." Journal of Accounting & Economics 71, no. 1 (February 2021).