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Team - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

by Professor Michael E. Porter and is based in the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business School. Faculty and staff engaged in research and education in value based health care form... View Details
  • 02 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 3, 2008

Exercise of Leadership, a New Model Authors:Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron, Kari L. Granger Abstract This paper is the (pre-course) introduction document to an experimental course developed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Just Say No to Wall Street: Putting A Stop to the Earnings Game

By: Joseph Fuller and Michael C. Jensen

Putting an end to the "earnings game" requires that CEOs reclaim the initiative by avoiding earnings guidance and managing expectations in such a way that their stocks trade reasonably close to their intrinsic value. In place of earnings forecasts, management should... View Details

Keywords: Stocks; Performance Expectations; Goals and Objectives; Risk and Uncertainty; Growth and Development Strategy; Decisions; Risk Management; Budgets and Budgeting; Earnings Management; Value; Projects
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  • 01 Feb 1999
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Too Much of a Good Thing?

suggest to some that the impact of excess capacity as a factor in the world economy could increase in the coming decades. Michael C. Jensen, the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration, is a... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 10 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 10

recipients' actual trustworthiness. This lax approach gives rise to adverse selection: the sites that seek and obtain trust certifications are actually less trustworthy than others. Using an original dataset on web site safety, I demonstrate that sites certified View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 21

Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/product/aligning-strategy-and-sales-the-choices-systems-and-behaviors-that-drive-effective-selling/an/11964-HBK-ENG October 2014 Oxford University Press Leading Sustainable Change: An Organizational Perspective By: Henderson, Rebecca,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11

Maintenance of Certification Examinations By: Valentine, Melissa A., S. Barsade, Amy C. Edmondson, A. Gal, and R. Rhodes Abstract—Context: Physicians can demonstrate mastery of the knowledge that supports continued clinical competence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • November 2023 (Revised July 2024)
  • Background Note

Corporate Climate Targets

By: Willy C. Shih, Michael W. Toffel and Kelsey Carter
Companies that are addressing climate change by mitigating their greenhouse gas emissions often set reduction targets. This note describes several types of widely used carbon reduction targets, including carbon neutral, science based, net zero, real zero, and carbon... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Sustainability; Environmental Strategy; Climate Risk; Target-setting; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Accountability; Policy; Measurement and Metrics; Strategic Planning; Social Issues; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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  • 12 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 12

Michael Schwarz Abstract We consider market rules for the transfer of IP addresses, numeric identifiers required by all computers connected to the Internet. Excessive fragmentation of IP address blocks... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 1996
  • Case

TRW's Information Services Division: Strategic Human Resource Management

By: Michael Beer and Gregory C. Rogers
Looks at a change effort initiated by a human resources manager within a division of TRW. The effort utilizes a change process to try to deal with some of the division's issues around organizational effectiveness, especially that of a long-term strategy. In so doing,... View Details
Keywords: Human Resources; Change Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Managerial Roles; Strategy; Problems and Challenges
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  • April 1995 (Revised November 1995)
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Human Resources at Hewlett-Packard (A)

By: Michael Beer and Gregory C. Rogers
Provides an overview of the human resource policies and practices applied by Hewlett-Packard (HP). Discusses HP's reactions as an organization to changes in its business environment. As such, it is an opportunity to analyze HP's practices, and how they have been... View Details
Keywords: Human Resources; Change; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Policy; Computer Industry
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  • 23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23

  PublicationsEngineers and the State in Modern China Author:William C. Kirby Publication:In Prospects for the Professions in China, edited by William P. Alford, William C.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Negotiation Course Online | HBS Online

ethical standards, while creating and claiming greater value in future negotiations: whether you will be buying or selling a home, getting a new job, working with international business partners, or anything in between. Matt C. US Navy... View Details
  • 20 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 20

more likely to involve collaboration across locations, particularly with inventors from the firm's primary R&D site. Our results suggest that R&D dynamics in clusters are heavily influenced by multi-location firms with innovative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Events - Private Capital Project

moderated by Professor Shai Bernstein (Marvin Bower Associate Professor, HBS) and Professor Josh Lerner (Co-head of HBS Private Capital Project) When AI Meets PE 101 December 5, 2023, “When AI Meets PE (101)” with View Details
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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Business, Government & the International Economy Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students 2024 Mattias E. Fibiger : Winner of the 2024 Michael H. Hunt Prize for International History from the... View Details
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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

excellence in quality and timeliness of editorial work, in the role of Associate Editor. David J. Collis : “Can You Say What Your Strategy Is?” (with Michael G. Rukstad, April 2008) was selected by the... View Details
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Creating Leaders: An Ontological Model

By: Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen and Kari L. Granger
The sole objective of our ontological approach to creating leaders is to leave students actually being leaders and exercising leadership effectively as their natural self-expression. By "natural self-expression" we mean a way of being and acting in any leadership... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Development; Goals and Objectives; Science; Attitudes; Perspective
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  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Beyond Agency Theory: The Hidden and Heretofore Inaccessible Power of Integrity (PDF file of Keynote Slides)

By: Michael C. Jensen and Werner Erhard

There is far too much concern today about the conflicts of interest between people; for example, conflicts of interest between agents and owners—historically a favorite topic of Jensen—and not enough attention paid to the damage caused by an individual's conflict of... View Details

Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Lawfulness; Production; Organizations; Performance Improvement; Agency Theory; Conflict of Interests; Trust; Competitive Advantage; Value Creation
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  • 17 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 17

Lehman Brothers reduced their lending to a greater extent. Nobel Laureate Panel Discussion: What Retirement Means to Me Authors:Robert C. Merton, Paul A. Samuelson, and Robert M. Solow Publication:Chap. 1 in The Future of Life-Cycle... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace