Publications

August 2010
Article

Antitrust—What Role for Strategic Management Expertise?

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Dennis A. Yao

Keywords: Strategy; Management; Experience and Expertise; Law

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11 Nov 2014
First Look

First Look: November 11

entities. The strategy of a new evaluation system should adjust the structure of the original evaluation system with the idea of reform and require the development of the rule of law, including formulating relevant View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?

complete ease and success from offshore. A rating of 0, meanwhile, might be assigned to an occupation such as child-care worker or short-order cook, where the laws of physics simply prevent a task from... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

15 Jan 2016
Working Paper Summaries

Incentives for Prosocial Behavior: The Role of Reputations

Keywords: by Christine L. Exley

January 1988 (Revised March 1995)
Supplement

Digital Equipment Corp.: The Endpoint Model (B1)

By: David A. Garvin

Should follow Digital Equipment Corp.: The Endpoint Model (A). The plant manager has been promoted and students must decide what kind of individual--background, training, personal style, etc.--they would like to replace him. View Details

Keywords: Training; Leadership Style; Management Succession; Identity; Technology; Technology Industry

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2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

involvement is rooted in the values of Black Psychology, which uplifts the interconnectedness and resilience of people and rejects an individual and deficit approach.... View Details

31 Jul 2007
First Look

First Look: July 31, 2007

Asian Currency Crisis led to the collapse of agreements Indonesia had negotiated for private electric power only a few years earlier. The ensuing struggle meant bad publicity and several hundred million dollars in costs for Indonesia. As... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 26, 2008

Publication:Harvard Law Review 120, no. 5 (March 2007) No abstract is available at this time. Read the article: http://www.harvardlawreview.org/issues/120/march07/subramanian.pdf Managing the Impact of Employee Turnover on Performance:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

April 2005
Article

How Strategists Really Think: Tapping the Power of Analogy

By: G. Gavetti and Jan W. Rivkin

Keywords: Cognition and Thinking; Power and Influence

July 1999 (Revised December 2005)
Case

Quickturn Design Systems, Inc. (F)

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Katharina Pick

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Patents; Governing and Advisory Boards; Behavior; Lawsuits and Litigation; Organizations; Acquisition; Corporate Governance; Service Industry

July 1999
Case

Quickturn Design Systems, Inc. (C)

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Katharina Pick

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Patents; Governing and Advisory Boards; Behavior; Lawsuits and Litigation; Organizations; Acquisition; Corporate Governance; Service Industry

July 1999 (Revised April 2001)
Case

Quickturn Design Systems, Inc. (B)

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Katharina Pick

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Patents; Governing and Advisory Boards; Behavior; Lawsuits and Litigation; Organizations; Acquisition; Corporate Governance; Service Industry

07 Oct 2015
What Do You Think?

What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?

countries like the US and Germany is that immigration has a tendency to attract those with the strongest motivation to form a new life, learn new skills, and obey the law... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: February 7

Read the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-039.pdf Walking the Talk in Multiparty Bargaining: An Experimental Investigation Authors:Kathleen L. McGinn, Katherine L. Milkman, and Markus Noth Publication:Journal of Economic View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Article

Signaling Firm Performance Through Financial Statement Presentation: An Analysis Using Special Items

By: Edward J. Riedl and Suraj Srinivasan

This paper investigates whether managers' presentation of special items within the financial statements reflects economic performance or opportunism. Specifically, we assess special items presented as a separate line item on the income statement (income statement... View Details

Keywords: Managerial Roles; Financial Statements; Economics; Performance; Research; Opportunities; Business Earnings; Motivation and Incentives

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2008
Working Paper

Hiring Cheerleaders: Board Appointments of 'Independent' Directors

By: Lauren Cohen, Andrea Frazzini and Christopher J. Malloy

We test the hypothesis that firms appoint independent directors who are overly sympathetic to management, while still technically independent according to regulatory definitions. We explore a subset of independent directors for whom we have detailed, micro-level data... View Details

Keywords: Competency and Skills; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Governing and Advisory Boards; Managerial Roles; Prejudice and Bias

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March 2008 (Revised June 2011)
Case

MySpace

By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, David T. Chen and Carin-Isabel Knoop

The case, set in late 2007, examines what MySpace—the largest online social network—should do to respond to its agile competitor, Facebook. Since its inception MySpace had experienced phenomenal growth, acquiring 20 million members in its first 20 months of operation,... View Details

Keywords: Open Source Distribution; Partners and Partnerships; Social and Collaborative Networks; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Internet and the Web; Digital Platforms; Information Technology Industry