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- June 2007
- Article
Law and Finance in Historical Perspective: Politics, Bankruptcy Law, and Corporate Governance in Brazil, 1850-2002
By: Aldo Musacchio
Keywords:
Law;
Finance;
History;
Perspective;
Government and Politics;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Corporate Governance;
Brazil
Musacchio, Aldo. "Law and Finance in Historical Perspective: Politics, Bankruptcy Law, and Corporate Governance in Brazil, 1850-2002." Journal of Economic History 67, no. 2 (June 2007): 502–506. (Dissertation summary.)
- 2004
- Working Paper
Are Perks Purely Managerial Excess?
By: Raghuram G. Rajan and Julie Wulf
Why do some firms tend to offer executives a variety of perks while others offer none at all? A widespread view in the corporate finance literature is that executive perks are a form of agency or private benefit and a way for managers to misappropriate some of the...
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Keywords:
Motivation and Incentives;
Performance Productivity;
Executive Compensation;
Corporate Finance
Rajan, Raghuram G., and Julie Wulf. "Are Perks Purely Managerial Excess?" NBER Working Paper Series, No. 10494, May 2004. (Published in Journal of Financial Economics 2006.)
- April 2000
- Supplement
BRL Hardy: Globalizing an Australian Wine Company
Interviews alternating the country subsidiary and corporate headquarters views of Christopher Carson, marketing director of BRL Hardy Europe and Steve Millar, marketing director and CEO of BRL Hardy Ltd. In four segments focusing on the source of...
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Keywords:
Business Subsidiaries;
Business Headquarters;
Management Teams;
Conflict and Resolution;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry
Bartlett, Christopher A. "BRL Hardy: Globalizing an Australian Wine Company." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 300-506, April 2000.
- August 1975 (Revised July 1993)
- Case
Acton-Burnett, Inc.
By: John J. Gabarro
Describes the formation, selection, and experience of a task force with multidepartmental membership. The problems faced by the task force leader at the end of the case raise issues of who does the selection; the establishment of group norms, values, and goals; the...
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Gabarro, John J. "Acton-Burnett, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 476-018, August 1975. (Revised July 1993.)
- May 2024
- Case
HarvEast
By: Jeremy Friedman and Natalie Kindred
In late 2023, Dmitry Skornyakov, CEO of Ukrainian agribusiness HarvEast, was navigating the turmoil caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that began in 2014 and escalated into full-scale war in February 2022. Before the full-scale invasion, HarvEast managed 127,000...
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Keywords:
Goods and Commodities;
Natural Resources;
Food;
Problems and Challenges;
Adaptation;
Innovation and Management;
Crisis Management;
Logistics;
Supply Chain;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Loss;
Trust;
Human Needs;
War;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Chile;
South America;
Latin America;
Ukraine
- December 2020
- Supplement
France Télécom (B): A Wave of Staff Suicides
In the B case we learn that at least 19 France Telecom employees took their own lives between 2006 and 2009, 12 others attempted suicide, and eight suffered from serious depression for reasons reportedly related to work. Some of these deaths occurred in public places,...
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Keywords:
Mental Health;
Change;
Crime and Corruption;
Ethics;
Health;
Human Capital;
Human Resources;
Labor and Management Relations;
Labor Unions;
Law;
Social Psychology;
Strategy;
Leadership Style;
Organizations;
Problems and Challenges;
Relationships;
Crisis Management;
Employees;
Well-being;
Telecommunications Industry;
Europe;
European Union
Montgomery, Cynthia A., and Ashley V. Whillans. "France Télécom (B): A Wave of Staff Suicides." Harvard Business School Supplement 721-421, December 2020.
- 2009
- Article
Placing the Normative Logics of Accountability in 'Thick' Perspective
By: Alnoor Ebrahim
This article provides a critical reflection on the heavily normative nature of current accountability debates. In particular, it explores three streams of normative discourse on nonprofit accountability: improving board governance, improving performance-based...
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Keywords:
Fair Value Accounting;
Accounting;
Governance;
Performance Evaluation;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Goals and Objectives;
Management Practices and Processes;
Power and Influence;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Organizational Structure;
Relationships;
Accounting Industry
Ebrahim, Alnoor. "Placing the Normative Logics of Accountability in 'Thick' Perspective." American Behavioral Scientist 52, no. 6 (2009): 885–904.
- November 2018
- Teaching Note
The Tax Man: Taxes in Private Equity Real Estate
By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Sayiddah Fatima McCree
Teaching Note for HBS No. 218-077. This teaching note provides the back up analysis for the various alternatives to be considered in choosing the optimal investment structure for the real estate acquisition. It contrasts the interests of the tax exempt investors...
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- 2013
- Chapter
Behavioral Corporate Finance: A Current Survey
By: Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler
We survey the theory and evidence of behavioral corporate finance, which generally takes one of two approaches. The market timing and catering approach views managerial financing and investment decisions as rational managerial responses to securities mispricing. The...
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Keywords:
Managerial Roles;
Theory;
Corporate Finance;
Financial Management;
Investment;
Market Timing;
Behavioral Finance;
Prejudice and Bias;
Economics;
Forecasting and Prediction
Baker, Malcolm, and Jeffrey Wurgler. "Behavioral Corporate Finance: A Current Survey." In Handbook of the Economics of Finance, Volume 2A: Corporate Finance, edited by George M. Constantinides, Milton Harris, and Rene M. Stulz, 357–424. Handbooks in Economics. New York: Elsevier, 2013.
- August 2002 (Revised January 2003)
- Case
Siebel Systems: Anatomy of a Sale, Part 1
By: John A. Deighton and Das Narayandas
How does a $2 million software sale happen? This case traces efforts by Siebel Systems to sell lead management software to discount broker Quick & Reilly. The buying process is mapped out over four years. Covers in detail the last six months—from Siebel's initial...
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Keywords:
Leadership;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Marketing Strategy;
Consumer Behavior;
Organizational Structure;
Behavior;
Competition;
Applications and Software;
Technology Industry
Deighton, John A., and Das Narayandas. "Siebel Systems: Anatomy of a Sale, Part 1." Harvard Business School Case 503-021, August 2002. (Revised January 2003.) (request a courtesy copy.)
- November 1988 (Revised July 1997)
- Case
Technology Transfer at a Defense Contractor
By: Linda A. Hill
At a time of great changes in the corporate environment, Larry Yoshino, a design lab manager at Parsons Controls Corp., faces a delay in a costly defense project due to the inability of one of his subordinates to gain the cooperation of engineers at Parsons'...
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Change Management;
Conflict Management;
Managerial Roles;
Management Teams;
Employees;
Competitive Strategy;
Projects
Hill, Linda A. "Technology Transfer at a Defense Contractor." Harvard Business School Case 489-084, November 1988. (Revised July 1997.)
- 27 Dec 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Team Learning Capabilities: A Meso Model of Sustained Innovation and Superior Firm Performance
- January 2024
- Supplement
Winning Business at Russell Reynolds
By: Ethan Bernstein and Cara Mazzucco
In an effort to make compensation drive collaboration, Russell Reynolds Associates’ (RRA) CEO Clarke Murphy sought to re-engineer the bonus system for his executive search consultants in 2016. As his HR analytics guru, Kelly Smith, points out, that risks upsetting—and...
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Keywords:
Restructuring;
Talent and Talent Management;
Compensation and Benefits;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Performance Evaluation;
Motivation and Incentives;
Consulting Industry
Bernstein, Ethan, and Cara Mazzucco. "Winning Business at Russell Reynolds." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 424-704, January 2024.
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
activities cancelled and some teams' facilities closed, there won't be enough time for player physicals, gathering psychological testing, getting further verified information about the players and some teams having to conduct the draft...
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- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
http://people.hbs.edu/mluca/Papers%20on%20RIS/Land%20Reform.pdf August 2013 Psychological Science Evil Genius? How Dishonesty Can Lead to Greater Creativity By: Gino, F., and S. Wiltermuth Abstract—We propose that dishonest and creative...
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Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
PillemerHarvard Business School Note 910-029 This extensive note synthesizes current psychological and neuroscientific research on how people make decisions with moral implications. Research summaries and scenarios illustrate critical...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
frontline employees take initiative to improve their work systems to prevent operational failures. Drawing on the system improvement and team-learning literatures, we develop a framework of frontline system improvement and test it using survey data from 37 workgroups....
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Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- February 2024
- Teaching Note
TimeCredit
By: Emanuele Colonnelli, Raymond Kluender and Shai Benjamin Bernstein
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 824-139. TimeCredit is an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that is developing large language models (LLMs) to generate accounting memos. The case follows Ndonga Sagnia, a Gambian Harvard Business School MBA student with an accounting...
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- May 2016 (Revised November 2018)
- Supplement
Moleskine (B)
By: Ryan Raffaelli, Raffaella Sadun and Kathy Qu
This case discusses the decisions and outcomes of CEO Arrigo Berni and founder Maria Sebregondi that the Moleskine (A) case laid out.
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Keywords:
Creative Industries;
Brand Building;
Digital Innovation;
Digital Services And Strategy;
Process Improvement;
Organization Change And Adaptation;
Culture;
Identity Construction;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Leadership;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Technological Innovation;
Creativity;
Brands and Branding;
Consumer Products Industry
Raffaelli, Ryan, Raffaella Sadun, and Kathy Qu. "Moleskine (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 716-464, May 2016. (Revised November 2018.)
- 2013
- Chapter
FollowMe.IntDev.Com: International Development in the Blogosphere
By: Ryann Manning
This chapter explores online blogs as a new forum for discussing ideas and practices in international development. Based on a qualitative study of conversations that take place across multiple blogs, I conclude that the blogosphere combines features of a public sphere,...
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Keywords:
International Development;
Blogging;
Social Media;
Public Sphere;
Blogs;
Equality and Inequality;
Globalization;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Developing Countries and Economies
Manning, Ryann. "FollowMe.IntDev.Com: International Development in the Blogosphere." Chap. 12 in Popular Representations of Development: Insights from Novels, Films, Television and Social Media, edited by David Lewis, Dennis Rodgers, and Michael Woolcock. New York: Routledge, 2013.