Conflicts Of Interest - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Sep 2007
What Do You Think?

Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?

classroom spaces for those interested in managing people, that the market may help redress problems described above? What do you think? Original Article My areas of interest... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

Winter 2021
Article

Dealmaking Disrupted: The Unexplored Power of Social Media in Negotiation

By: James K. Sebenius, Ben Cook, David A. Lax, Isaac Silberberg and Paul Levy

While social media has had profound effects in many realms, the theory and practice of negotiation have remained relatively untouched by this potent phenomenon. In this article, we survey existing research in this area and develop a broader framework for understanding... View Details

Keywords: Bargaining; 3D Negotiation; Negotiation; Conflict and Resolution; Social Media

Citation

Find at Harvard

February 1986 (Revised September 2011)
Case

Donna Dubinsky and Apple Computer, Inc. (A)

Describes a major conflict within Apple Computer in 1985 over control of product distribution. The founder and chairman, Steve Jobs, proposed a new distribution process which would transfer many responsibilities away from distribution manager, Donna Dubinsky. Dubinsky... View Details

Keywords: Management Teams; Conflict and Resolution; Computer Industry; United States

Citation

Educators

Purchase

28 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Minimum Wage Hikes Drive (Lousy) Restaurants Out of Business

It is often not as granular as researchers would like; for example, it may provide data by county, rather than by city or at the business level, and it may not include all the variables researchers are interested in, such as quality and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

02 Jan 2018
Op-Ed

'Dear Working Knowledge'--Our Favorite Reader Comments of the Year

hobbies, long dinners, drinks with friends, etc., I wonder how much of this can be attributed to older generations valuing something we do not. My colleagues and I are clear that we're not interested in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

15 Jun 2018
News

Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life

very, very quickly, and it causes this fan blade to detach. And because the jet engine is spinning so quickly, as the fan blade detaches, it starts to shoot through the wing. And it ends up punching this enormous hole in the wing of the... View Details

September 2018
Supplement

From Beirut With Love (B): The Last Judgment

By: Christina R. Wing, Esel Y. Cekin and Samer Al-Rachedy

Citation

Purchase

25 Mar 2016
News

New Head of MBA Admissions Is 2013 Grad

Chad Losee Chad Losee Harvard Business School has announced that it has chosen Chad Losee (MBA 2013) to be its next managing director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid. Losee will succeed Dee Leopold (MBA 1980), who has headed the... View Details

06 Jul 2021
Blog Post

The MS/MBA Technology Showcase: A Celebration of Our Startups

thrown-together coding skills, my network, and sheer luck. I landed my first job as a software engineering consultant at Red Hat, and launched into a new world of software engineering. Two years later, I combined my View Details

Web

Financial Management of Smaller Firms - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Financial Management of Smaller Firms Course Number 1452 Baker Foundation Professor Richard Ruback Professor of Management Practice Royce Yudkoff Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 28 Sessions Exam... View Details

01 Feb 2000
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

The start of a new century is certainly a momentous time. When I think about the last century and what it has meant to HBS, I am struck by how much the School has grown in stature and scale. Our alumni play a pivotal role in reinforcing... View Details

Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)

01 Apr 2000
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

The HBSAA Board of Directors has been hard at work this year, and I am delighted to report progress on a number of initiatives that will benefit alumni. After welcoming twelve new members and inaugurating... View Details

Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)

12 Jan 2004
What Do You Think?

How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?

responses did not correlate well with country of origin. One interesting example concerned fears about the two-tiered economy created by job exportation. Before concluding, "These trends cannot be... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

November 2008
Journal Article

Can Research Committees Add Value for Investors? An Analysis of Lehman Brothers' Ten Uncommon Values® Recommendations

By: Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy and Yang Gui

Since 1949 Lehman Brothers has used an investment committee to select the top ten recommendations made by its analysts each year. We examine the performance of this committee's recommendations and find that on average its selections generated abnormal returns of 2.7%... View Details

Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Stocks; Financial Markets; Investment; Investment Return; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Performance Expectations; Groups and Teams; Research; Value Creation

Citation

Find at Harvard

Purchase

February 2008
Exercise

Gerson Lehrman Group

By: Robert G. Eccles Jr. and David Lane

Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG) brought together decision makers in search of hard-to-find answers with specialized experts in nearly every imaginable field. Over time, GLG developed software to help minimize potential conflicts of interest among and between experts and... View Details

Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Customer Focus and Relationships; Governance Compliance; Conflict of Interests; Competitive Advantage; Software; Consulting Industry

Citation

Find at Harvard

31 Aug 2020
What Do You Think?

Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?

in the ranks that diversity and inclusion are in the best interest of the entire organization. The question posed—Why don’t more organizations understand the power of diversity... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark

could also explore how differing trajectories of technological development influence the evolution of industrial clusters. It would also be interesting to chart the attempts by... View Details

Keywords: by Donald Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

2010
Working Paper

Lawful but Corrupt: Gaming and the Problem of Institutional Corruption in the Private Sector

By: Malcolm S. Salter

This paper describes how the gaming of society's rules by corporations contributes to the problem of institutional corruption in the world of business. "Gaming" in its various forms involves the use of technically legal means to subvert the intent of society's rules in... View Details

Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Civil Society or Community; Competitive Advantage; Earnings Management; Trust; Law; Performance; Investment Funds; Private Sector; Behavior; Relationships; Goals and Objectives

Citation

Read Now

23 Dec 2010
News

What Is Value in Health Care?

January 2019
Article

Pay Now or Pay Later? The Economics within the Private Equity Partnership

By: Victoria Ivashina and Josh Lerner

The economics of partnerships have been of enduring interest to economists, but many issues regarding intergenerational conflicts and their impact on the continuity of these organizations remain unclear. We examine 717 private equity partnerships and show that (a) the... View Details

Keywords: Partnerships; Leveraged Buyout; Partners and Partnerships; Private Equity; Venture Capital; Leveraged Buyouts

Citation

SSRN

Find at Harvard