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- 24 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Small Businesses Deserve More Credit
firms don’t even draw down the entirety of their credit lines,” says Kim, “They only draw down 55 cents for each dollar. So just having the option of borrowing more can spur growth.” Lessons for small businesses everywhere In View Details
- February 2015 (Revised May 2017)
- Case
Delhaize Group: Developing Leaders
By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott
Delhaize Group, the Belgian-based global food retailer, was focused on competing in the food retailing industry by developing leading positions in key markets via localized retailing strategies. Delhaize was committed to offering its customers superior value while... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Organizational Alignment; Talent Management; Leadership Development; Globalized Firms and Management; Human Capital; Talent and Talent Management; Corporate Strategy; Organizational Culture; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Belgium
Groysberg, Boris, and Sarah L. Abbott. "Delhaize Group: Developing Leaders." Harvard Business School Case 415-019, February 2015. (Revised May 2017.)
- 17 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Dividends as Reference Points: A Behavioral Signaling Approach
Keywords: by Malcolm Baker & Jeffrey Wurgler
- 20 Aug 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Hedge Fund Investor Activism and Takeovers
- October 2019
- Case
Agility Africa
By: Juan Alcacer, Caroline M. Elkins and Esel Çekin
This case illustrates the challenge and opportunities that firms face when developing and executing new business models in high-risk, low-infrastructure, low-trust countries. It features a global logistics group, Agility, that aimed to become the leader in supplying... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Business Model; Innovation and Invention; Expansion; Emerging Markets; Decision Choices and Conditions; Real Estate Industry; Distribution Industry; Africa
Alcacer, Juan, Caroline M. Elkins, and Esel Çekin. "Agility Africa." Harvard Business School Case 720-357, October 2019.
- 22 Nov 2023
- Research & Ideas
Humans vs. Machines: Untangling the Tasks AI Can (and Can't) Handle
Wharton School; Katherine Kellogg from MIT’s Sloan School of Management, and Hila Lifshitz-Assaf of Warwick Business School. Embedded inside a multinational consulting firm The researchers tested how 758 consultants—some 7 percent of... View Details
- 12 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Value of a ‘Portable’ Career
performance. We have also written a few cases on these topics. One in particular focuses on an event planner who is planning to change firms ("Don Jenkins, Between Opportunities"). View Details
- 30 May 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship’s Wild Ride
the evolution of the field at HBS. In March, Mike Roberts, executive director of Entrepreneurial Studies at HBS, spoke with Stevenson about entrepreneurship's remarkable rise in importance and popularity. Q: Howard, I'd like to talk about... View Details
Keywords: by William Mahoney
- 08 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 8, 2015
people it affects, the more important it is that the apology be pitch-perfect. Once a company decides that an apology is necessary, it needs to carefully consider the who, what, where, when, and how of executing it. For core violations,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- January 2020
- Article
Compensation Consultants and the Level, Composition, and Complexity of CEO Pay
By: Kevin J. Murphy and Tatiana Sandino
We provide fresh evidence regarding the relation between compensation consultants and CEO pay. First, firms that employ consultants have higher-paid CEOs—this result is robust to firm fixed effects and matching on economic and governance variables. Second, while this... View Details
Keywords: Consultants; Benchmarking; Incentive Pay; Executive Compensation; Complexity; Motivation and Incentives; Governance
Murphy, Kevin J., and Tatiana Sandino. "Compensation Consultants and the Level, Composition, and Complexity of CEO Pay." Accounting Review 95, no. 1 (January 2020): 311–341.
- 2019
- Working Paper
Compensation Consultants and the Level, Composition, and Complexity of CEO Pay
By: Kevin J. Murphy and Tatiana Sandino
We provide fresh evidence regarding the relation between compensation consultants and CEO pay. First, firms that employ consultants have higher-paid CEOs—this result is robust to firm fixed effects and matching on economic and governance variables. Second, while this... View Details
Keywords: Consultants; Benchmarking; Incentive Pay; Executive Compensation; Complexity; Motivation and Incentives; Governance
Murphy, Kevin J., and Tatiana Sandino. "Compensation Consultants and the Level, Composition, and Complexity of CEO Pay." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-027, September 2017. (Revised March 2019. Accepted and forthcoming at The Accounting Review.)
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
useful and saleable by-product. The term "by-product synergy" (BPS) has been coined to describe this practice. By converting waste into by-product, the firm not only reduces its waste disposal cost and potentially increases... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
Working PapersHow Firms Respond to Being Rated Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji, Michael W. Toffel Abstract While many independent rating systems are designed primarily to help buyers overcome information asymmetries when making purchasing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Research Summary
Understanding the Drivers and Limits of Corporate Growth
By: Gary P. Pisano
Perhaps no issues garners more attention of senior executives and Boards of Directors than growth. Yet, the underlying factors shaping and limiting corporate growth are poorly understood. Empirically, we know that some corporations grow much faster than... View Details
- 2023
- Working Paper
Where Strategy Matters: Evidence from a Global Startup Field Study
By: Nataliya Langburd Wright
The role of strategy for innovative startups is theoretically ambiguous and much debated among
practitioners. I interviewed executives of 253 scaling software ventures from 34 countries and
scored the alignment of their market and organizational choices to detect... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship And Strategy; Scaling Technology Ventures; Global Contextual Intelligence; Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Global Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy
Wright, Nataliya Langburd. "Where Strategy Matters: Evidence from a Global Startup Field Study." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-041, January 2023. (Revised July 2023.)
- February 2024
- Case
Chime Solutions
Just two years after launching its 10k by 2020 initiative to hire 10,000 employees by 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic forced Chief Executive Officer Mark Wilson to send nearly all of his staff at Chime Solutions (Chime) to work from home. Chime was a customer contact firm... View Details
Keywords: Working Capital; Service Operations; Recruitment; Performance; Change Management; Retention; Financial Institutions; Employee Relationship Management; Talent and Talent Management; Growth Management; Mission and Purpose; Communications Industry; Service Industry; United States
Bernstein, Shai, William R. Kerr, Christopher Stanton, Raymond Kluender, and Mel Martin. "Chime Solutions." Harvard Business School Case 824-133, February 2024.
- 2016
- Working Paper
Innovation Adoption and Organizational Identity: Identity Dynamism as a Strategic Resource for Top Management Team Decision Making
By: Ryan Raffaelli, Mary Ann Glynn and Michael Tushman
Organizations continuously face decisions about whether to adopt radical innovations. We examine the relationship between innovation adoption and identity, linking identity with firm strategy to explain innovation adoption over time. We conceptualize identity as... View Details
- 2007
- Working Paper
The Impact of Shareholder Activism on Financial Reporting and Compensation: The Case of Employee Stock Options Expensing
By: Fabrizio Ferri and Tatiana Sandino
In this paper we examine the economic consequences of over 150 shareholder proposals to expense employee stock options (ESO) submitted during the proxy seasons of 2003 and 2004–the first case where the SEC has allowed an accounting matter to be subject to an advisory... View Details
- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
all become consumers of the health care industry. Indeed, health care affects everyone and encompasses a diverse set of services from childbirth, to illness prevention, to the management of chronic disease and end-of-life care. Health care in the United States is View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Research Summary
Building Effective Relationships Across Cultures
Trust is the foundation of any successful collaborative relationship. In my first stream of research, I draw on the basic distinction between cognition-based versus affect-based trust– that is, trust from the head versus trust from the heart – to better... View Details