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    Howard H. Stevenson

    Howard H. Stevenson is Sarofim-Rock Baker Foundation Professor emeritus, former Senior Associate Dean, Director of Publishing, and Chair of the Harvard Business Publishing Company board. The Sarofim-Rock Chair was established in 1982 to provide a continuing base for... View Details

    Keywords: broadcasting; communications; computer; construction; financial services; forest products; health care; high technology; industrial goods; insurance industry; investment banking industry; manufacturing; paper; professional services; real estate; service industry; software; venture capital industry
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    Initiatives | About

    students, and alumni connect with practitioners in the field to develop insights that drive impact. They provide powerful platforms to address complex, multi-dimensional topics that demand a new managerial... View Details
    • 10 Mar 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: March 10, 2009

    develop an inductive theory of "IP modularity," from which we derive testable propositions and managerial implications. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-097.pdf Diasporas and Domestic Entrepreneurs:... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • December 2009
    • Article

    Empire-Building or Bridge-Building? Evidence from New CEOs' Internal Capital Allocation Decisions

    By: Yuhai Xuan
    This article investigates how the job histories of CEOs influence their capital allocation decisions when they preside over multi-divisional firms. I find that, after CEO turnover, divisions not previously affiliated with the new CEO receive significantly more capital... View Details
    Keywords: Business Divisions; Decision Choices and Conditions; Capital Budgeting; Financial Management; Managerial Roles; Resource Allocation
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    • July–August 2012
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    What Good Are Shareholders?

    By: Justin Fox and Jay W. Lorsch
    The article looks at the role outside shareholders play in corporate governance in the U.S., and the relationship between companies' shareholders and managers, as of 2012. It recounts the shift beginning in the 1970s toward shareholders claiming an increasing amount of... View Details
    Keywords: Shareholder Activism; Business and Shareholder Relations; Investment Activism; Corporate Governance; Decision Making; Managerial Roles; United States
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    • 21 Aug 2012
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    First Look: August 21

    prior to and following Corzine's arrival, and the strategic and managerial decisions taken by Corzine to reorient the firm. In addition, the sovereign debt trade, created to boost earnings, is described in some in some detail. Purchase... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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    Curriculum - MBA

    symbolically and emotionally). Design Theory and Practice (DTP) empowers students to create products that are meaningful, to people who use them and to society at large. The course has three purposes: To inspire students about the power... View Details
    • 18 Feb 2015
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    First Look: February 18

    power. Publisher's link: http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/amy-cuddy/presence/9780316256575/ February 2015 Prentice Hall Managerial Accounting: Making Decisions and Evaluating Performance By: Datar, Srikant M., and Madhav V. Rajan... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 26 Jan 2010
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    First Look: Jan. 26

    surgical procedures. In-process analyses that allow rapid feedback to the surgeon based on surrogate markers may provide a powerful method for quality improvement. Methods: The authors reviewed performance data from all bilateral... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
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    Marketing - Faculty & Research

    and Anne Coughlan We study the extent and depth of MAP violations among online retailers and confront managerial wisdom with empirical data. More Information Award Outstanding Case Teacher By: Anita Elberse This world-wide Case Centre... View Details
    • 2010
    • Working Paper

    Corporate Governance When Founders Are Directors

    By: Feng Li and Suraj Srinivasan
    We examine CEO compensation, CEO retention policies, and M&A decisions in firms where founders serve as a director with a non-founder CEO (founder-director firms). We find that founder-director firms offer a different mix of incentives to their CEOs than other firms.... View Details
    Keywords: Business Startups; Governing and Advisory Boards; Executive Compensation; Retention; Managerial Roles; United States
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    Jesse Holman Jones and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation

    By: Nitin Nohria, Anthony Mayo and Bridget Gurtler
    Jesse Holman Jones is regarded as one of the most influential men in reviving the American economy from the Great Depression. With only an 8th grade education, he rose to the top of the banking, real estate, and lumber industries, as well as the upper echelons of... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Financial Strategy; Business History; Leading Change; Managerial Roles; Business and Government Relations; Power and Influence
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    • 11 Oct 2013
    • HBS Seminar

    Sen Chai, Post-Doc Labor & Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School, and NBER

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    MBA Experience - Leadership

    achieve superior performance. The final module introduces a model for strategic career management. Leadership & Corporate Accountability In this course, students learn about the complex responsibilities facing business leaders today. Through cases about difficult View Details
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    Help - Alumni

    HBS Nonprofit/Public Sector Loan Repayment Assistance Program? The HBS Nonprofit/Public Sector Loan Repayment Assistance Program can help reduce the need-based educational debt repayment burden for alumni taking managerial positions in... View Details
    • 25 Jan 2021
    • Book

    In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded

    How did the United States become the world’s center of business growth following its founding in 1776? Surely a number of nations had powerful natural resources, stable financial and legal institutions, and dynamic entrepreneurs over that same span. Why was American... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing
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    Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

    arbitrage trading. Prior to that, he held managerial and trading positions at several major Wall Street firms. Blicksilver graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Brooklyn College in 1976 before earning his MBA with distinction... View Details
    • 06 Feb 2007
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    First Look: February 6, 2007

    larger class of financial and managerial consultants who sought to refine business decision-making through the introduction of statistical data and scientific analysis. The failure of most forecasting agencies to predict the stock market... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace

      Nitin Nohria

      Nitin Nohria served as the tenth dean of Harvard Business School from 2010-2020. He previously served as co-chair of the Leadership Initiative, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development, and Head of the Organizational Behavior unit.

      As Dean, building on... View Details

      Keywords: accounting industry; arts; biotechnology; emerging market private equity; energy; executive search; financial services; green technology; health care; high technology; industrial goods; information technology industry; infrastructure industry; investment banking industry; legal services; management consulting; manufacturing; oil ＆ gas; petroleum; pharmaceuticals; professional services
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      Online Business Courses & Certifications | HBS Online

      transformative change. 7 weeks, 6-8 hrs/week Enroll by January 9 $1,850 Certificate Management Essentials Professors Joseph Fuller & David Garvin Master four vital managerial processes: decision-making, implementation, organizational... View Details