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- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
incentives to engage with shareholders. Misaki Capital was founded in 2013 with a strategy of constructively engaging with portfolio firms, providing operational and financial advice to management in order to improve shareholder value....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
point. "His hands perform a rapid-fire ballet of encouragement: palms outstretched to reassure the uncertain student, wrists moving in quick circles to urge onward the confident," noted a 1976 article in the Harvard Gazette....
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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
to emphasize a point. “His hands perform a rapid-fire ballet of encouragement: palms outstretched to reassure the uncertain student, wrists moving in quick circles to urge onward the confident,” noted a 1976 article in the Harvard...
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- 17 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring
all. One reported a relatively unchanged workout regimen, while the other five had increased their exercise, two of them working out with personal trainers multiple times a week. Those who initially reported meditating, with one...
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- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
actually built by these firms? Many would argue that answers to these questions are irrelevant. As long as services are performed and products manufactured, they say, such organizational configurations are beneficial. They allow companies...
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- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
systems in the software industry. Our sample includes 1,286 software releases taken from 19 distinct applications. We find that 75%-80% of systems possess a core-periphery structure. However, the number of components in the core varies widely, even for systems that...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
management and waste to energy, as well as the characteristics of the waste management industry. The intent of the (A) case is to have students perform operational analysis on the organic waste to energy process to evaluate whether a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
horizon, implying that growth is less risky than value at long horizons. Investors with access to bills and bonds exhibit similar behavior when value and growth tilts are computed relative to the total equity allocation of the portfolio....
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
funds have been misleading, but even these problematic perceptions can make performing their roles difficult. The second major challenge relates to the need to generate good returns on investments. Groups, particularly the larger ones,...
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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
In 2015 I moved from New York City to Madison, Connecticut, where I met, quite by chance, Ginny Vancil and her brother, Richard. I thought, How many Vancils can there be in the world? I asked if they knew Richard “Dick” Vancil, who was my first professor for my first...
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- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
companies to become targets for private equity-backed, take-private transactions. We consider the characteristics of 483 private equity-backed deals in the 2000-2007 period relative to public companies, and find that, in addition to the...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
Grossman Periodical:Harvard Business Review 84, no. 11 (November 2006) Abstract One of the biggest management challenges anywhere is how to improve student performance in urban public schools in the United States. There has been no...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
firms to make certain enhancements public, creating an incentive for firms to free ride on the contributions of others. This practice raises a number of puzzling issues. First, why should a firm further develop a product if competitors...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
to work in isolation without understanding the whole, they brought in the UDA, then headed by Nayana. Fortunately he took the whole thing by the scruff of its neck, prioritized, identified goals, and made a clear plan.” Given the project’s scope and complexity, as well...
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- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been...
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- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
for gasoline in the United States to consist of five distinct regions. Other large markets where transport costs are relatively high in relation to product value, such as cement in Brazil or beer in China, can be similarly broken down....
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
- March 2023 (Revised January 2024)
- Case
Deepa Bachu (A): Design Thinking at Pensaar Design
By: Thomas Graeber, Joshua Schwartzstein and Amram Migdal
In this case, set in June 2019 in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Deepa Bachu of Pensaar Design and her team work with client ITC Ltd. to use design thinking and behavioral experiments to improve workplace safety and strive toward the company’s zero-accident goal. The...
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Buildings and Facilities;
Design;
Education;
Training;
Working Conditions;
Business or Company Management;
Production;
Business Processes;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Outcome or Result;
Performance Improvement;
Programs;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Groups and Teams;
Labor and Management Relations;
Rank and Position;
Safety;
Attitudes;
Behavior;
Motivation and Incentives;
Trust;
Well-being;
Consulting Industry;
Pulp and Paper Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
India
Graeber, Thomas, Joshua Schwartzstein, and Amram Migdal. "Deepa Bachu (A): Design Thinking at Pensaar Design." Harvard Business School Case 923-026, March 2023. (Revised January 2024.)
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
corporate gamesmanship and dizzying sums associated with M&A; activity, for the business scholar, such deals are often more interesting as windows inside organizations, revealing how they adapt and perform in times of dramatic change....
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Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
Abstract We examine the effect of mandatory International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) adoption on firms' information environment. We find that after mandatory IFRS adoption, consensus forecast errors decrease for firms that mandatorily adopt IFRS View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2017
- News
Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest
for us meant you could agree to the whole although maybe individual parts were difficult for you. The incentive for that was that if we achieved this, implementation became highly probable. It meant that if we failed, or if we had a...
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