Professor Charles Williams - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Jan 2020
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Can Capitalism Be Fixed by Making Companies More Just?

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In the area of equity valuation, Professor Wang explores how firm fundamentals and valuation models can be used to understand expected return variation, with a focus on valuation-implied cost of capital and its use as a proxy for expected returns. In his study of... View Details

07 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

The Business of Biotech

years required to bring a drug to market—and the potential for failure looming every step of the way—the business of biotech is one of managing uncertainty over time. HBS professor Gary P. Pisano, a longtime observer of the industry,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

05 Jan 2022
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Venture Capitalist Tim Draper Continues to Stand by Elizabeth Holmes after Guilty Verdict

15 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 15

http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/13-039%20Nov%202012_612ce7e2-7f81-4eea-9126-3c0964f2be2f.pdf August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics Search-Based Peer Firms: Aggregating Investor Perceptions Through Internet Co-Searches By: Lee, View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

16 Apr 2012
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The Inner Workings of Corporate Headquarters

Physicists tell us entropy is the natural state of the world, and that law seems especially true in today's multidivisional company. "When you create organizational subunits of any form, they'll have a tendency to focus internally on their own things," says... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

24 Sep 2001
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How To Be an Angel Investor

the Harvard framework (Figure 11.1), which was developed by William Sahlman 1 and Howard Stevenson 2 is described in Chapter 12. Good judgement comes from experience and experience comes from making bad judgments. So it is with evaluating... View Details

Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson

17 Mar 2020
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Is There a Winner in Huawei’s Digital Cold War with the U.S.?

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Harvard Business School Online Courses & Learning Platforms

$1,850 Certificate Leading Change and Organizational Renewal Professors Michael Tushman and Charles O’Reilly Lead your organization through successful transformation by learning how to execute for today and... View Details

07 Aug 2009
What Do You Think?

Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?

care providers such as doctors and hospitals placing profits before client needs (David Stahl, John Van Slyke, Roger Chen, Jan Fersing, Hugh Quick, among others); the agency problem separating payers such as individuals, businesses, and the Government from users (Adam... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health

02 Apr 2010
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Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?

covered together during that time, especially several of you who have responded to more than half of the topics (and to C. J. Cullinane who has offered views on nearly every one). This month's column yielded many hypotheses to explain why U.S. employees' job... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

08 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries

manufacturer learned after it entered a joint venture with a Chinese company and hired a local manager to run the Chinese operation. As described in Charles Olivier's 1996 WorldLink article, "Investing in China: 12 Hard... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

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Faculty & Research | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Business Administration William A. Sahlman Baker Foundation Professor Dimitri V. D'Arbeloff - MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus George Serafeim... View Details

27 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

and SEC oversight than previously suggested. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52776 forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Reexamining Staggered Boards and Shareholder Value By: Wang, Charles C.Y., and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Oct 2023
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Beyond the 'Business Case' in DEI: 6 Steps Toward Meaningful Change

going to solve the deeper issues that organizations need to be facing,” Williams said. In 1996, Harvard Business School professors Robin Ely and David Thomas were among the first scholars to point out that... View Details

Keywords: by Katherine Hutt Scott and Barbara DeLollis

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Technology & Operations Management Faculty - Faculty & Research

Management Practice in Business Administration Stefan H. Thomke William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration Chair, General Management Program Michael W. Toffel Senator John Heinz View Details

13 Feb 2020
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How Partisanship Is Destroying America’s Competitiveness

08 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 8, 2008

hyperbolic discounting and shows in the field that the impact of intrapersonal conflict can be large in magnitude. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-099.pdf How Is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence from a Natural Experiment Authors:Eric D. Werker, Faisal... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Oct 2009
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Can the “Masks of Command” Coexist with Authentic Leadership?

concludes that "These are terribly important questions with no easy answers." Bill George, former Chairman and CEO of Medtronic and now a professor at the Harvard Business School, thinks he knows the answers. George lays out the... View Details