Responsibilities To Customers - Publications - Faculty & Research

2008
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Corporate Honesty and Business Education: A Behavioral Model

By: Rakesh Khurana and Herbert Gintis

Since the mid-1970s neoclassical economic theory has dominated business school thinking and teaching in dealing with the nature of human motivation. However valuable in understanding competitive product and financial markets, neoclassical economic theory employs an... View Details

Keywords: Business Education; Ethics; Managerial Roles; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Culture; Business and Shareholder Relations; Mathematical Methods; Behavior

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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

were deciding whether to participate in a Series B round for PEGAfrica, which sold solar home systems in Africa via pay-as-you-go (PAYG) financing plans that allowed customers View Details

13 Sep 2010
Research & Ideas

The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding

the February Journal of Consumer Research is based on the results of a series of lab and online studies with over 2,000 consumers recruited from national online samples. We tested their response to underdog... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

August 2023 (Revised March 2024)
Case

Raya Partners: Profitability and Purpose

By: Arthur Segel, Ephraim Mernick and Olivia Barba

Raya Partners, a private equity firm, faces a crucial decision regarding Asa Specialty Coatings Company (ASCC). The dilemma involves shifting ASCC's manufacturing operations to Mexico, a move that would boost profitability and reduce emissions but result in significant... View Details

Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Communication Strategy; Private Equity; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mexico; Vermont

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Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

“private placement” method that facilitated loans between blue-chip borrowers and private lenders with the assurance of lender safety and rate of return. This method of financing, a standard technique today, proved invaluable for companies trying View Details

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Paul Feghali

My customers would return the books to me after class with the cash inside. Before graduating 8th grade, I had my first business exit, selling my inventory and assets to a... View Details

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2.4 Disciplinary Process - MBA

with the respondent and the CRB. After receiving the Initial Report, the respondent will have the opportunity to submit a written response that will be shared with the CRB. CRB Meeting The CRB meets in a... View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

Research Brief: Staying in the Game

to make bankruptcy more accessible and less costly for small businesses. Only 11 percent of small business owners were aware of it. In their survey, the researchers also found that 70 percent of respondents believed those who file for... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

organization (CRO) PAREXEL, this case traces the evolution of the firm as it reinvents itself in response to the transformation of the CRO sector from a small, secondary cluster of firms into a major player... View Details

10 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Do You Have Change Fatigue?

the road as it can see. In short, Semco redefines change: instead of being the work of senior leaders, it's the responsibility of what Semler calls "atoms," groups of eight to twelve employees who... View Details

Keywords: by Nick Morgan

20 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?

sometime incubate those. We sometimes partner with people that have those. But what we do is create economic coalitions between those atomic units in order to provide for the delivery to the View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

29 Jan 2018
Book

How 'Teaming' Saved 33 Lives in the Chilean Mining Disaster

family members, emergency response teams, rescue workers, and reporters poured into the vicinity. Meanwhile, the Chilean mining community dispatched experts, drilling machines, and bulldozers. At the request of President Pinera, Codelco,... View Details

Keywords: by Amy C. Edmondson; Mining

19 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Birth of the American Salesman

nation developed organized sales forces to the same degree as the United States by the early twentieth century. For the average salesman, used to traveling more or less on his own (and at that time, almost... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

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CEO Leadership - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

as simple as that, you’re in for an awakening. Even though you bear full responsibility for your company’s well-being, you are a few steps removed from many of the factors that drive results. You have more power than anybody else in the... View Details

10 May 2012
Working Paper Summaries

The Flattened Firm—Not as Advertised

Keywords: by Julie Wulf

30 Jul 2001
What Do You Think?

What’s the Future of Corporate Governance?

response to last month's column suggests both a conclusion and a question: It will be different, but will it be more effective? First, the differences. Corporate governance in the future will, according... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Photography and Print Advertising - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

America. 3 Photographs like Gilbert Seehausen’s striking before-and-after shots attesting to the benefits of Lady Esther face powder offered persuasive realism that appealed to View Details

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1.11 Leaves of Absence - MBA

capacity of the MBA Program, the student may need to wait to return until space in the class is available. It remains the student’s responsibility View Details

18 Dec 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Grooming Next-Generation Leaders

according to Sasser, a Baker Foundation Professor. These employees enjoy access to talent-identification systems. Big organizations can point to formal programs led by... View Details