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- September 2013 (Revised June 2016)
- Case
The Morning Star Company: Self-Management at Work
By: Francesca Gino, Bradley R. Staats, Brian J. Hall and Tiffany Y. Chang
Morning Star, a collection of affiliated companies, had grown steadily since 1970 when Chris Rufer, president and founder, started the business hauling tomatoes to processing plants in a truck. The company's main products continued to be tomato-based, including a... View Details
Keywords:
Business or Company Management;
Motivation and Incentives;
Working Conditions;
Plant-Based Agribusiness;
Food;
Management Practices and Processes;
Compensation and Benefits;
Manufacturing Industry;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
Gino, Francesca, Bradley R. Staats, Brian J. Hall, and Tiffany Y. Chang. "The Morning Star Company: Self-Management at Work." Harvard Business School Case 914-013, September 2013. (Revised June 2016.)
- 2013
- Article
Matching with Couples: Stability and Incentives in Large Markets
By: Fuhito Kojima, Parag A. Pathak and Alvin E. Roth
Accommodating couples has been a long-standing issue in the design of centralized labor market clearinghouses for doctors and psychologists, because couples view pairs of jobs as complements. A stable matching may not exist when couples are present. This article's main...
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Keywords:
Market Design;
Marketplace Matching;
Balance and Stability;
Jobs and Positions;
Family and Family Relationships;
Health Care and Treatment;
Employment Industry;
Health Industry
Kojima, Fuhito, Parag A. Pathak, and Alvin E. Roth. "Matching with Couples: Stability and Incentives in Large Markets." Quarterly Journal of Economics 128, no. 4 (November 2013): 1585–1632.
- June 2013
- Background Note
Venture Philanthropy: Its Evolution and Its Future
By: Allen Grossman, Sarah Appleby and Caitlin Reimers
This note explores the current state of venture philanthropy in the U.S. and its future. Based on interviews with 28 practitioners in the field of philanthropy and a review of the literature since the publication of the article introducing the concept of venture...
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Keywords:
Philanthropy;
Nonprofit;
Social Institutions;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Civil Society or Community;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
United States
Grossman, Allen, Sarah Appleby, and Caitlin Reimers. "Venture Philanthropy: Its Evolution and Its Future." Harvard Business School Background Note 313-111, June 2013.
- 2013
- Dissertation
Designing Freemium: A Model of Consumer Usage, Upgrade, and Referral Dynamics
By: Clarence Lee, Vineet Kumar and Sunil Gupta
Abstract. Over the past decade "freemium" (free + premium) has become the dominant business model among internet start-ups for its ability to acquire and monetize a large install-base with limited marketing resources. Freemium is a hybrid strategy where a firm offers...
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- May 2013
- Case
Bridgewater Associates
By: Jeffrey T. Polzer and Heidi K. Gardner
Bridgewater Associates was the world's largest hedge fund with approximately $120 billion in assets under management in mid-2012, and its leaders attribute its record-beating performance to the firm's culture of "radical transparency." The founder, Ray Dalio, was...
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Keywords:
Management Style;
Motivation and Incentives;
Management Practices and Processes;
Organizational Culture;
Performance;
Leadership Style;
Investment;
Financial Services Industry
Polzer, Jeffrey T., and Heidi K. Gardner. "Bridgewater Associates." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 413-702, May 2013.
- 2014
- Working Paper
Hidden Structure: Using Network Methods to Map System Architecture
By: Carliss Baldwin, Alan MacCormack and John Rusnak
In this paper, we describe an operational methodology for characterising the architecture of complex technical systems and demonstrate its application to a large sample of software releases. Our methodology is based upon directed network graphs, which allows us to...
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Baldwin, Carliss, Alan MacCormack, and John Rusnak. "Hidden Structure: Using Network Methods to Map System Architecture." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-093, May 2013. (Revised April 2014.)
- May 2013
- Article
Hybrid Innovation in Meiji Japan
By: Tom Nicholas
Japan's hybrid innovation system during the Meiji era of technological modernization provides a useful laboratory for examining the effectiveness of complementary mechanisms to patents. Patents were introduced in 1885, and by 1911, 1.2 million mostly non-pecuniary...
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Keywords:
Prizes;
Technological Innovation;
System;
Patents;
Knowledge;
Value;
Cost vs Benefits;
Factories, Labs, and Plants;
Performance Effectiveness;
Japan
Nicholas, Tom. "Hybrid Innovation in Meiji Japan." International Economic Review 54, no. 2 (May 2013): 575–600.
- May 2013
- Article
The Stock Selection and Performance of Buy-Side Analysts
Prior research on equity analysts focuses almost exclusively on those employed by sell-side investment banks and brokerage houses. Yet investment firms undertake their own buy-side research and their analysts face different stock selection and recommendation incentives...
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Keywords:
Buy-side Analysts;
Sell-side Analysts;
Stock Recommendations;
Recommendation Optimism;
Recommendation Performance;
Investment Recommendations;
Conflicts Of Interest;
Financial Markets;
Financial Institutions;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Groysberg, Boris, Paul Healy, George Serafeim, and Devin Shanthikumar. "The Stock Selection and Performance of Buy-Side Analysts." Management Science 59, no. 5 (May 2013): 1062–1075.
- March 2013
- Case
Massachusetts Financial Services (Abridged)
By: Brian J. Hall and Karen Huang
This case describes the compensation and performance evaluations at an investment management company. The senior management team of Massachusetts Financial Services (MFS) Investment Management was contemplating an introduction of hedge funds at the firm, but many...
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Keywords:
Compensation;
Incentives;
Investment Management;
Performance Measurement;
Portfolio Management;
Motivation and Incentives;
Asset Management;
Performance Evaluation;
Compensation and Benefits;
Financial Services Industry;
Massachusetts
Hall, Brian J., and Karen Huang. "Massachusetts Financial Services (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 913-036, March 2013.
- March 2013
- Case
NovaStar Financial: A Short Seller's Battle
By: Suraj Srinivasan and Amy Kaser
The NovaStar case describes the challenges faced by short seller Marc Cohodes of hedge fund Rocker Partners as he tried to expose what he thought was widespread fraud in mortgage lender NovaStar Financial. The case is set in the time period from 2001 to 2007 and tracks...
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Keywords:
Short Selling;
Financial Accounting;
Financial Analysis;
Financial Analysts;
Valuation;
Business Analysis;
Financial Statement Analysis;
Financial Statements;
Securitization;
Securities Analysis;
Fraud;
Accounting Quality;
Accounting Red Flags;
Accounting Restatements;
Hedge Fund;
Hedge Funds;
Accounting Scandal;
Accounting Fraud;
Financial Crisis;
Financial Intermediaries;
Financial Firms;
Corporate Accountability;
Subprime Lending;
Mortgage Lending;
Accounting;
Accrual Accounting;
Fair Value Accounting;
Governance;
Governance Compliance;
Corporate Governance;
Governance Controls;
Financial Services Industry;
United States;
California
Srinivasan, Suraj, and Amy Kaser. "NovaStar Financial: A Short Seller's Battle." Harvard Business School Case 113-120, March 2013.
- 2013
- Article
Achievement Motivation, Strategic Orientations and Business Performance in Entrepreneurial Firms: How Different are Japanese and American Founders?
By: Rohit Deshpandé, Amir Grinstein, Elie Ofek and Sang-Hoon Kim
Purpose: There is lack of research on the link between the personal disposition of an entrepreneurial firm's founder, the firm's strategic orientation, and its performance outcomes. Also, there is lack of cross-national research on entrepreneurial firms' strategic...
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Keywords:
Motivation;
Entrepreneurs;
Japan;
Motivation and Incentives;
Entrepreneurship;
Japan;
United States
Deshpandé, Rohit, Amir Grinstein, Elie Ofek, and Sang-Hoon Kim. "Achievement Motivation, Strategic Orientations and Business Performance in Entrepreneurial Firms: How Different are Japanese and American Founders?" International Marketing Review 30, no. 3 (2013).
- January 2013
- Case
Luotang Power: Variances Explained
By: Robert Simons and Craig Chapman
The general manager of Luotang Power, a coal-fired power plant located in central China, reviews annual results before a meeting with the board of directors. He thought the company performed well during the year and both plant availability and fuel economy had improved...
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Keywords:
China;
Financial Statements;
Management Accounting;
Variance Analysis;
Environmental Regulations;
Incentives;
Electric Power Generation;
Contracts;
Valuation;
Energy Generation;
Accounting;
Performance Evaluation;
Energy Industry;
China
Simons, Robert, and Craig Chapman. "Luotang Power: Variances Explained." Harvard Business School Brief Case 913-533, January 2013.
- August 2012
- Article
Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Ownership and Establishment Performance
By: Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen
We examine the differential response of establishments to the recent global financial crisis with particular emphasis on the role of foreign ownership. Using a worldwide establishment panel dataset, we investigate how multinational subsidiaries around the world...
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Keywords:
Globalization;
Financial Crisis;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Analytics and Data Science;
Business Subsidiaries;
Production;
Finance;
Performance;
Ownership
Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie Chen. "Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Ownership and Establishment Performance." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 4, no. 3 (August 2012): 30–55. (Also NBER Working Paper No. 17141.)
- December 2012
- Teaching Note
The Paris Opera Hotel (TN)
By: Arthur I Segel
This case provides an introduction to hotel investment, development and management from the perspective of a short term oriented investor group. Students learn that hotels are a unique real estate property type, with performance often tied to the broader economy, and...
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- December 2012
- Article
What Drives Corporate Social Performance? The Role of Nation-level Institutions
By: Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim
Based on Whitley's "National Business Systems" (NBS) institutional framework (Whitley 1997, 1999), we theorize about and empirically investigate the impact of nation-level institutions on firms' corporate social performance (CSP). Using a sample of firms from 42...
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Keywords:
Environment;
Environmental Performance;
Corporate Social Responsibility;
Sustainability;
Institutions;
Institutional Theory;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Environmental Sustainability;
Corporate Governance
Ioannou, Ioannis, and George Serafeim. "What Drives Corporate Social Performance? The Role of Nation-level Institutions." Journal of International Business Studies 43, no. 9 (December 2012): 834–864.
- 2012
- Article
Specialization and Variety in Repetitive Tasks: Evidence from a Japanese Bank
By: B. Staats and F. Gino
Sustaining operational productivity in the completion of repetitive tasks is critical to many organizations' success. Yet research points to two different work-design-related strategies for accomplishing this goal: specialization to capture the benefits of repetition...
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Keywords:
Motivation;
Productivity;
Specialization;
Variety;
Work Fragmentation;
Boundaries;
Performance Productivity;
Organizations;
Research;
Strategy;
Motivation and Incentives;
Opportunities;
Market Transactions;
Resource Allocation;
Performance;
Goals and Objectives;
Learning
Staats, B., and F. Gino. "Specialization and Variety in Repetitive Tasks: Evidence from a Japanese Bank." Management Science 58, no. 6 (June 2012): 1141–1159.
- December 2012
- Article
Grand Innovation Prizes: A Theoretical, Normative, and Empirical Evaluation
By: Alan MacCormack, Fiona Murray, Scott Stern and Georgina Campbell
This paper provides a systematic examination of the use of a Grand Innovation Prize (GIP) in action—the Progressive Automotive Insurance X PRIZE—a $10 million prize for a highly efficient vehicle. Following a mechanism design approach we define three key dimensions for...
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MacCormack, Alan, Fiona Murray, Scott Stern, and Georgina Campbell. "Grand Innovation Prizes: A Theoretical, Normative, and Empirical Evaluation." Research Policy 41, no. 10 (December 2012): 1779–1792.
- October 2012
- Article
Securitization without Adverse Selection: The Case of CLOs
By: Effi Benmelech, Jennifer Dlugosz and Victoria Ivashina
In this paper, we investigate whether securitization was associated with risky lending in the corporate loan market by examining the performance of individual loans held by CLOs. We employ two different datasets that identify loan holdings for a large set of CLOs and...
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Keywords:
Personal Finance;
Performance;
Markets;
Banks and Banking;
Debt Securities;
Investment Portfolio;
Financing and Loans
Benmelech, Effi, Jennifer Dlugosz, and Victoria Ivashina. "Securitization without Adverse Selection: The Case of CLOs." Journal of Financial Economics 106, no. 1 (October 2012): 91–113.
- 2012
- Working Paper
Risky Business: The Impact of Property Rights on Investment and Revenue in the Film Industry
By: Venkat Kuppuswamy and Carliss Y. Baldwin
Our paper tests a key prediction of property rights theory, specifically, that agents will respond to marginal incentives embedded in property rights when making non-contractible, revenue-enhancing investments (Grossman and Hart, 1986; Hart and Moore, 1990). Using rich...
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Keywords:
Property Rights;
Property;
Rights;
Investment;
Contracts;
Revenue;
Motivation and Incentives;
Motion Pictures and Video Industry;
United States
Kuppuswamy, Venkat, and Carliss Y. Baldwin. "Risky Business: The Impact of Property Rights on Investment and Revenue in the Film Industry." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-007, July 2012. (Revised August 2012.)
- July 2012
- Case
Performance Management at Vitality Health Enterprises, Inc.
By: John Bingham and Michael Beer
Vitality Health Enterprises, a medium-sized firm that manufactures health and personal care products, has experienced six straight quarters of strong revenue growth. James Hoffman, the new Senior Vice President of Human Resources, fears that the chain of success is...
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Keywords:
Performance Evaluation;
Motivation and Incentives;
Compensation and Benefits;
Talent and Talent Management;
Health Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
United States
Bingham, John, and Michael Beer. "Performance Management at Vitality Health Enterprises, Inc." Harvard Business School Brief Case 913-501, July 2012.