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  • 13 Nov 2020
  • News

Global Ambition

and Chew each have their own area of interest. She enjoys investing and entrepreneurship. “I just love startups. I’m industry agnostic,” says Kao, now running Tamarind, a family office. She is also committed to contributing to the social... View Details
  • Web

Business, Government & the International Economy - Faculty & Research

network. The company faced a major crisis when a bridge under its management collapsed, resulting in the deaths of 43 people. Under the leadership of Alessandro Benetton, the second generation of the family took control and steered the... View Details
  • 2016
  • Teaching Note

Advanced Leadership Pathways: Raymond Jetson's MetroMorphosis and the Effort to Transform Baton Rouge

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Tessa Natanay Hamilton and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
Teaching Note for Case 315-057. Building on his successes as a politician and preacher in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Rev. Raymond Jetson sought to empower Baton Rouge citizens to innovate solutions for their community challenges. After stepping down as the head of the... View Details
Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit Organizations; Business and Community Relations; Problems and Challenges; Leadership; Louisiana; Baton Rouge
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  • December 2012
  • Article

On the Efficiency-Fairness Trade-Off

By: Dimitris Bertsimas, Vivek F. Farias and Nikolaos Trichakis
This paper deals with a basic issue: How does one approach the problem of designing the "right" objective for a given resource allocation problem? The notion of what is right can be fairly nebulous; we consider two issues that we see as key: efficiency and fairness. We... View Details
Keywords: Decision Support; Cost vs Benefits; Fairness; Resource Allocation; Performance Efficiency; Air Transportation Industry
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  • 17 Aug 2023
  • Research & Ideas

‘Not a Bunch of Weirdos’: Why Mainstream Investors Buy Crypto

emerging market. A study of 59 million US consumers Di Maggio, the Ogunlesi Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at HBS, collaborated on the research with Darren Aiello, Jason Kotter, and Mark J. Johnson of Brigham Young... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • 08 Jan 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Who Rises to Power in American Business?

privileged families have always had an easier path to traditional power. Those on the outside—foreigners, women, African-Americans, non-Protestant religious affiliations—often pursued other paths to power. When doors were closed,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Finance - Faculty & Research

equity investments. Historically, private equity was accessible only to institutional investors like pension funds, endowments, sovereign wealth funds, and large family offices. However, as personal wealth has grown among broader segments... View Details

    Rakesh Khurana

    Rakesh Khurana is the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development at the Harvard Business School. He is also Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, co-Master of Cabot House at Harvard College, and the Danoff Dean of Harvard College. 

    Professor... View Details

    Keywords: executive search
    • February 2022 (Revised January 2023)
    • Case

    Creating and Measuring Purpose at Viega

    By: Ethan Rouen, Suraj Srinivasan and James Barnett
    At its headquarters in Attendorn, Germany, Viega’s chairwoman Anna Viegener gathered the company’s leadership team to discuss their progress on formalizing purpose-driven leadership as a strategic driver within the organization. Viega manufactured and distributed... View Details
    Keywords: Growth and Development; Employee Relationship Management; Leadership; Mission and Purpose; Expansion; Measurement and Metrics; Germany
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    • January 2022
    • Case

    VidyaGyan: Bridging the Rural Urban Divide

    By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Rachna Chawla, Kairavi Dey and Anjali Raina
    Set up in 2008, VidyaGyan was a residential school for children in grades 6-12 from low-income rural families in Uttar Pradesh in northern India. It was the brainchild of Shiv Nadar and Cabinet Secretary T.S.R. Subramanian, who recognized the enormous potential hidden... View Details
    Keywords: Non-profit; Education; Social Enterprise; Non-Governmental Organizations; Nonprofit Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Wealth and Poverty; Demographics; Equality and Inequality; Performance Evaluation; Opportunities; Education Industry; South Asia; India
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    • 2009
    • Chapter

    Do Private Equity-owned Firms Have Better Management Practices?

    By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
    We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from over 4,000 medium sized manufacturing firms across Asia, Europe and the US. These measures of managerial practice are strongly associated with firm-level performance (e.g. productivity,... View Details
    Keywords: Private Equity; Management Practices and Processes; Production; Private Ownership; Performance Improvement; Performance Productivity
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    • 31 Jan 2017
    • News

    All The Single Ladies - Women Who Downplay Their Successes And Why It’s a Huge Mistake

    • Research Summary

    When Cultural Worlds Collide: Investigating the Cross-Cultural Multiple Audience Problem

    Today, many individuals have social networks that span cultural boundaries. For example, you may have a network of colleagues in China, friends and family in the U.S., and a group of childhood friends in Greece. Chances are, you are probably comfortable interacting... View Details
    Keywords: Cross-cultural Networks; Multiple Audience Problem; Managing Multiple Identities
    • Article

    The Baby Benefits Club

    By: Debora L. Spar
    This past summer several prominent firms seemed to be competing for the title of America's most family-friendly company. In August, Netflix announced plans to offer new mothers and fathers "unlimited leave". Microsoft countered quickly, promising to increase its own... View Details
    Keywords: Parental Leave; Maternity Leave; Employees; Compensation and Benefits; Policy; Gender; Equality and Inequality
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    Achieving Value in Highly Complex Acute Care: Lessons from the Delivery of Extra Corporeal Life Support

    By: Michael Nurok, Jonathan Warsh, Erik Dong, Jeffrey Lopez, Mayumi Kharabi and Robert S. Kaplan
    We applied a value (outcomes and cost) analysis to extracorporeal life support (ECLS), a relatively rare but very expensive ICU therapy with highly variable outcomes. To address the outcome component of the value approach, we created guidelines for ECLS delivery; to... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Cost Management; Value; Analysis
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    • 2008
    • Other Unpublished Work

    Are Private Equity Firms Better Managed?

    By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
    We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from over 4,000 medium sized manufacturing firms across Asia, Europe and the US. These measures of managerial practice are strongly associated with firm-level performance (e.g. productivity,... View Details
    Keywords: Private Equity; Management Practices and Processes; Production; Performance Improvement; Manufacturing Industry; Asia; Europe; United States
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      John D. Macomber

      John Macomber is a Senior Lecturer in the Finance unit at Harvard Business School. His professional background includes leadership of real estate, construction, and information technology businesses. At HBS, Mr. Macomber's work focuses on climate adaptation and the... View Details

      Keywords: building materials; construction; energy; green technology; infrastructure industry; real estate; transportation; utilities; waste management; insurance industry
      • Web

      Creating Emerging Markets

      Jones, "Deeply Responsible Business A Global History of Values-Driven Leadership" (Harvard University Press, 2023) 15 May 2022 The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute Leadership to Last: New Book by Geoffrey Jones and Tarun... View Details
      • 17 Aug 2020
      • Research & Ideas

      What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership

      by unloading to and confiding in and trusting your fellow officers and your men.” Advice and exercises for leaders While the entire world is enduring the COVID-19 pandemic, the crisis is affecting individuals in drastically different ways depending on where they live,... View Details
      Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
      • March 2008 (Revised March 2009)
      • Case

      Transforming AMFAM

      By: Rakesh Khurana, Rajiv Lal and Cathy Ross
      On a winter day in December 2007 at the American Family Mutual Insurance Company (AMFAM) headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin, Dave Anderson and Jack Salzwedel remained in the conference room after the senior management meeting had concluded. Anderson, CEO of AMFAM since... View Details
      Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Governing and Advisory Boards; Marketing; Mission and Purpose; Strategic Planning; Insurance Industry; United States
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