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- 15 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Five Imperatives for Improving Health Care
conference and survey from Harvard's business and medical schools may prove particularly timely. Delivered by the Forum on Healthcare Innovation, which was formed last year with encouragement from the respective deans of the two...
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- 19 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023
businesses are turning to AI for its efficiencies and revolutionary potential, but its proliferation has sparked widespread skepticism and questions about equity, privacy, liability, transparency, and security. William Kerr talks to AI...
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by Danielle Kost
- 09 May 2017
- What Do You Think?
Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?
owners of a corporation, professional managers and directors are their agents, primarily responsible for carrying out their wishes and creating value for them. This idea was further developed in a 1976 article by Michael Jensen and View Details
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by James Heskett
- 01 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making
other places." During the decision-making process, George explains, this means asking probing questions and insisting that managers present each situation in objective terms, rather than with a positive spin. "You must...
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by Garry Emmons
- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?
make for himself at age twelve. He also started his own university, Shantou University, in 1981, with a similar purpose. 2) William and Victor Fung of Li & Fung: old traditional Chinese family-owned companies now run View Details
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by D. Quinn Mills
- 05 May 2022
- HBS Case
College Degrees: The Job Requirement Companies Seek, but Don't Really Need
retention practices, notes that the new HBS note comes at a time of ongoing racial reckoning sparked by the police killing of George Floyd, whose death two years ago shined a light on numerous inequities...
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by Jay Fitzgerald
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Birth of the American Salesman
Scott. The book looks at the changing image of the salesman, represented by the likes of George Babbitt and Willy Loman. In the end, says Friedman, salesmen not only fed America's thirst for consumerism,...
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by Laura Linard
- 05 Mar 2009
- What Do You Think?
How Frank or Deceptive Should Leaders Be?
by Nobel-prize winner in economics George Akerlof and economist Robert Sheeler of "irrational exuberance" fame. These authors cite the importance of what John Maynard Keynes once referred to as...
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by Jim Heskett
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
problem. Bottom line: By not dealing effectively with "too big to fail" and the funding issue, Dodd-Frank may actually raise the risk to the system. Luis M. Viceira, George E. Bates Professor: The...
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- July 2003 (Revised February 2004)
- Background Note
M&A Legal Context: Hostile Takeovers
By: Carliss Y. Baldwin, Constance E. Bagley and James Quinn
Introduces students to the main tactical maneuvers used by hostile bidders, including bear hugs, proxy fights, tender offers, and toeholds. Also describes how, in the United States, tender offers are regulated by the federal government via the Williams Act.
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Acquisition;
Cash;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Code Law;
Bids and Bidding;
United States
Baldwin, Carliss Y., Constance E. Bagley, and James Quinn. "M&A Legal Context: Hostile Takeovers." Harvard Business School Background Note 904-005, July 2003. (Revised February 2004.)
- 11 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Budgeting Kills Your Company
that didn't take any time at all," says William J. Bruns Jr., Henry R. Byers Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School and a visiting professor at Northeastern University. After each unit's sales and...
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by Loren Gary
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Wide Horizon
earlier in the week. The father initially wondered if this was just the “fever effect,” a phenomenon of behavioral improvements noted by some parents of children with ASD when their kids have fevers, which he had previously observed in...
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Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
- 21 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?
hamper productivity through “human obstruction” tactics, by purposely and surreptitiously making poor decisions and being uncooperative. “Making a faulty decision may be simply a matter of placing tools in one spot instead of another,”...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Do Social Movements Sway Voters? Not Really, Except for One
of Economic Research, Pons and Gethin say “protests generate substantial internet activity but have limited effects on political attitudes.” One exception: Black Lives Matter The Black Lives Matter protests in the wake of George Floyd’s...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Temptation at Work
- July 2023 (Revised February 2024)
- Case
'Bugs' Burger Bug Killers
By: Ryan W. Buell and William Fulmer
In the height of its success, Bugs Burger Bug Killers (BBBK; Burger has a soft 'g' - it rhymes with merger) was the largest independent extermination company in America, growing at more than 20% per year. BBBK built its business on the promise of pest eradication,...
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- 04 Mar 2019
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?
provided by us willingly.” George Yurieff put it this way: “If you are concerned about your privacy and want to somehow protect yourself to some extent, start paying for services which you want to use stop...
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- 21 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Missing the Wave in Ship Transport
shipping industry, constructing patterns of return for investors. “We were shocked at how predictable the returns are in this industry.” The research results—that heavy investment in a boom depresses future earnings—were unexpected, says Greenwood, the View Details
- 23 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Break the Expert’s Curse
Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw famously wrote, "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." But it's often more accurate to say, "He who can do can't teach." It's natural for novices to seek out experts for guidance. That's why many...
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