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- February 1999 (Revised June 1999)
- Case
Hotmail
Sabeer Bhatia, cofounder and CEO of Hotmail, is making efforts to finance and grow this business, which is based on free Web-based e-mail. Describes early, successful efforts at raising several rounds of venture capital and presents choices around a next stage of...
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Venture Capital;
Internet;
Financing and Loans;
Problems and Challenges;
Business Startups;
Web Services Industry
Roberts, Michael J., and Shripriya Mahesh. "Hotmail." Harvard Business School Case 899-165, February 1999. (Revised June 1999.)
- March 1994 (Revised July 2000)
- Case
London Symphony Orchestra (A), The
Riding the crest of recent artistic and organizational successes, this self-governing symphony orchestra now confronts the challenge of engendering a culture in which, in the words of the managing director, "everyone in the orchestra is constantly thinking, how can we...
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Hackman, J. Richard, Erin Lehman, and Adam Galinsky. "London Symphony Orchestra (A), The." Harvard Business School Case 494-034, March 1994. (Revised July 2000.)
- 12 May 2014
- News
The Alibaba Effect
- 21 Feb 2017
- News
Why It Pays Off to Be Funny at Work—Usually
- 27 Apr 2014
- News
Hello, Stranger
- 16 Mar 2012
- News
The price of happiness in the workplace
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Value Maximization and Stakeholder Theory
Contending with that value maximization approach is "stakeholder theory" which says that managers should make decisions so as to take into account all of the interests of all stakeholders in a...
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by Michael C. Jensen
- 2015
- Working Paper
Strategy-Proofness, Investment Efficiency, and Marginal Returns: An Equivalence
By: John William Hatfield, Fuhito Kojima and Scott Duke Kominers
We show that a mechanism induces an agent to make efficient ex ante investment choices if and only if it rewards that agent with his marginal surplus; additionally, for an ex post efficient mechanism, these properties are equivalent to strategy-proofness for the agent....
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Strategy-proofness;
Investment Efficiency;
Providing Marginal Rewards;
Vickrey-Clarke-Groves Mechanisms;
Mechanism Design;
Market Design;
Human Capital
Hatfield, John William, Fuhito Kojima, and Scott Duke Kominers. "Strategy-Proofness, Investment Efficiency, and Marginal Returns: An Equivalence." Working Paper, January 2015.
- 31 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Setting Interns Up for Success at Your Startup
At a young, growing company, there is always more work to be done. There are strategies to build, projects to complete, partnerships to forge, data to crunch, employees to develop – the list goes on. That’s why bringing on an intern to...
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Entrepreneurship
- 28 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Clock Is Ticking: 3 Ways to Manage Your Time Better
living, and a chance to live in different ways going forward. Similar to our research findings about those who take sabbaticals, we learned three things about how we spend our time: How we spend our time at...
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by Kristen Senz
- Article
Shadow of the Contract: How Contract Structure Shapes Inter-Firm Dispute Resolution
By: Fabrice Lumineau and Deepak Malhotra
This paper investigates how contract structure influences inter-firm dispute resolution processes and outcomes by examining a unique dataset consisting of over 150,000 pages of documents relating to 102 business disputes. We find that the level of contractual detail...
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Keywords:
Governance Controls;
Contracts;
Rights;
Negotiation;
Conflict and Resolution;
Power and Influence
Lumineau, Fabrice, and Deepak Malhotra. "Shadow of the Contract: How Contract Structure Shapes Inter-Firm Dispute Resolution." Strategic Management Journal 32, no. 5 (May 2011): 532–555.
Roy D. Shapiro
Roy D. Shapiro is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration. He is currently the faculty co-chair of the School's Technology and Operations Management Unit... View Details
- November 1994 (Revised February 1997)
- Case
Levi Strauss & Co.: Global Sourcing (A)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Jane Palley Katz
In 1993, senior managers at Levi Strauss & Co., the world's largest brand-name apparel manufacturer, were deciding whether the company should have a business presence in China, given the human rights and other problems there. The China Policy Group has been asked to...
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Management Teams;
Decisions;
Management Skills;
Trade;
Brands and Branding;
Rights;
Ethics;
Foreign Direct Investment;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
China
Paine, Lynn S., and Jane Palley Katz. "Levi Strauss & Co.: Global Sourcing (A)." Harvard Business School Case 395-127, November 1994. (Revised February 1997.)
- August 2009
- Article
Mental Accounting and Small Windfalls: Evidence from an Online Grocer
By: John Beshears and Katherine L. Milkman
We study the effect of small windfalls on consumer spending decisions by comparing the purchases online grocery customers make when redeeming $10-off coupons with the purchases they make without coupons. Controlling for customer fixed effects and other variables, we...
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Mental Accounting;
Windfalls;
Marginal Propensity To Consume;
Coupons;
Marketing Communications;
Consumer Behavior;
Accounting;
Cognition and Thinking;
Retail Industry
Beshears, John, and Katherine L. Milkman. "Mental Accounting and Small Windfalls: Evidence from an Online Grocer." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 71, no. 2 (August 2009): 384–394.
- April 2012
- Article
Storybook-keepers: Numbers and Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America
To give an account of something is to tell a story about it, and to hold someone accountable is to make him responsible for that story. This essay explores the ways bookkeepers wove numbers into narratives and the way the stories they told influence their...
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Rosenthal, Caitlin C. "Storybook-keepers: Numbers and Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America." Common-place 12, no. 3 (April 2012).
- May 2013 (Revised March 2014)
- Case
Hubei Lantian (A)
By: David F. Hawkins, Michael Shih-Ta Chen and Nancy Hua Dai
Emily Wang, an analyst with Future Securities, a Shanghai-based investment firm, is given the task of making stock purchase recommendations to her supervisor from a number of Chinese common stocks. One stock in particular, Hubei Lantian Co., Ltd. (Hubei Lantian),...
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Hawkins, David F., Michael Shih-Ta Chen, and Nancy Hua Dai. "Hubei Lantian (A)." Harvard Business School Case 113-118, May 2013. (Revised March 2014.)
- 10 Dec 2012
- News
Apple Mac To Be Made In USA
- 16 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Turning One Thousand Customers into One Million
drivers, Uber today is arguably as well informed about low-wage workers as the US Department of Labor.) By gathering this information, Uber was able to use the online ads to identify the right drivers. Etsy followed a View Details
- 01 Nov 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Long Does It Take to Improve an Organization’s Culture?
Research Network, http://ssrn.com/abstract=2805602, accessed November 5, 2016. Satya Nadella with Greg Shaw and Jill Tracie Nichols, Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone (Harper...
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by James Heskett