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  • Research Summary

"Creating Competitive Advantage Through Knowledge Management" (with Elie Ofek)

This project explores how the concept of Knowledge Management (KM) is likely to impact competition among professional services firms (e.g. Consultants, Accounting Firms and Advertising Agencies). Assuming that the "KM technology" exhibits economies of scale, first we... View Details
  • 2017
  • Chapter

Are Founder CEOs Good Managers?

By: Victor Manuel Bennett, Megan Lawrence and Raffaella Sadun
We investigate the management practices adopted by firms where the founders are also the CEOs using data from the World Management Survey. We find that founder CEO firms have the lowest management scores of any owner-manager pair type and that this difference is... View Details
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Performance
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  • June 2012
  • Article

A Reexamination of Tunneling and Business Groups: New Data and New Methods

By: Jordan I. Siegel and Prithwiraj Choudhury
One of the most rigorous methodologies in the corporate governance literature uses firms' reactions to industry shocks to characterize the quality of governance. This methodology can produce the wrong answer unless one considers the ways firms compete. Because... View Details
Keywords: Governance; System Shocks; India
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  • 05 Jan 2014
  • News

Offbeat Dispatches From Economic Summit

  • September 2023 (Revised January 2024)
  • Case

Helmy Abouleish: Making a Desert Bloom

By: Geoffrey G. Jones and Maxim Pike Harrell
This case examines the history of prominent Egyptian-based social enterprise SEKEM from its foundation in 1977 until the COP27 conference held in Sharm El-Sheikh in 2022. Led by father and son team Ibrahim and Helmy Abouleish, SEKEM turned desert into farmland using... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Climate Change; Values and Beliefs; Social Enterprise; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Egypt
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    Vikram Gandhi

    Vikram S. Gandhi is the Gerald P. Kaminsky Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the General Management Unit. He has developed and teaches two new courses in the Elective Curriculum of the MBA Program. The first is a finance and investing course, Sustainable... View Details

    Keywords: financial services
    • 18 Apr 2022
    • HBS Case

    Dick’s Sporting Goods Followed Its Conscience on Guns—and It Paid Off

    cases entitled “Dick’s Sporting Goods: Getting Out of the Gun Business.” “Standing on the societal sidelines is increasingly becoming less of an option for companies and business leaders.” Riedel stresses that no two companies are the same. Other View Details
    Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
    • Research Summary

    Distributed Innovation in Open Systems—The Role of Modularity

    By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
    Distributed innovation in open systems is an important trend in the modern global economy. As education levels rise and communication costs fall, more people have the means and motivation to innovate. Supply chains now stretch around the world as firms outsource... View Details
    • November 2013
    • Article

    Which U.S. Market Interactions Affect CEO Pay? Evidence from UK Companies

    By: Joseph Gerakos, Joseph Piotroski and Suraj Srinivasan
    This paper examines how different types of interactions with U.S. markets by non-U.S. firms are associated with higher level of CEO pay, greater emphasis on incentive-based compensation, and smaller pay gap with U.S. firms. Using a sample of CEOs of UK firms and using... View Details
    Keywords: CEO Compensation; International Pay; Incentives; Cross-listing; United Kingdom; Motivation and Incentives; Executive Compensation; Globalization; Corporate Governance; United Kingdom; United States
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    • February 2009 (Revised February 2012)
    • Case

    Exeter Group, Inc. (A)

    By: Robert G. Eccles, Das Narayandas and Kerry Herman
    Jonathan Kutchins and Mark Cullen, managing partners of IT consulting firm Exeter Group, Inc., are considering four potential client engagements. Three of them involve prominent universities, an area of market strength for the firm, and one involves a top-tier strategy... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Resource Allocation; Market Entry and Exit; Service Operations; Performance Capacity; Business Strategy; Information Technology; Consulting Industry
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    • 2007
    • Working Paper

    The Impact of Shareholder Activism on Financial Reporting and Compensation: The Case of Employee Stock Options Expensing

    By: Fabrizio Ferri and Tatiana Sandino
    In this paper we examine the economic consequences of over 150 shareholder proposals to expense employee stock options (ESO) submitted during the proxy seasons of 2003 and 2004–the first case where the SEC has allowed an accounting matter to be subject to an advisory... View Details
    Keywords: Executive Compensation; Financial Reporting; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Corporate Governance; Investment Activism; Business and Shareholder Relations
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      Roy D. Shapiro

      Roy D. Shapiro is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.  He is currently the faculty co-chair of the School's Technology and Operations Management Unit... View Details

      • 24 Sep 2024
      • Research & Ideas

      Why Small Businesses Deserve More Credit

      It’s Wall Street doctrine that small firms struggle to raise capital at reasonable rates and are often rejected for credit lines and loans because banks think their risk profile is too high. “If you really want to drive investment,... View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Banking
      • November 1994
      • Case

      Electrical Distributors, Inc.

      By: David F. Hawkins
      The owner of a small electrical supply firm has grown beyond his ability to fund growth with internally generated funds. He seeks a bank loan, which falls short of his needs. View Details
      Keywords: Financial Management; Private Equity; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financing and Loans; Borrowing and Debt; Corporate Finance; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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        Martin A. Sinozich

        Martin Sinozich is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in both MBA and Executive Education programs.  For first-year MBAs, Martin teaches in Field Global Immersion, a required course that... View Details

        • 03 Jul 2015
        • News

        It takes time for reality to catch up with rhetoric

        • 20 Oct 2010
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Financing Risk and Bubbles of Innovation

        Keywords: by Ramana Nanda & Matthew Rhodes-Kropf; Financial Services
        • 02 Jan 2014
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work

        Keywords: by Oriana Bandiera, Andrea Prat & Raffaella Sadun
        • 12 May 2008
        • Research & Ideas

        Accounting Information as Political Currency

        Corporate donations to political campaigns reveal a lot about mutual back-scratching in the political and business arenas. Now new research from Harvard Business School reveals that corporate giving may consist of more than monetary contributions. The evidence shows... View Details
        Keywords: by Martha Lagace
        • October 2013 (Revised May 2014)
        • Supplement

        The TELUS Share Conversion Proposal, Spreadsheet Supplement

        By: Lucy White and Benjamin C. Esty
        A proxy battle between a Canadian firm and a US hedge fund over a proposal to unify the firm's dual class share structure. View Details
        Keywords: Stock Shares; Capital Structure; Investment Funds; Telecommunications Industry; Canada; United States
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