Ownership - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Apr 2019
Book

Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

or Visa), each of which may or may not be inclined to provide access. Some of the data, such as banking information, is not controlled by the business owner. This is why Open Banking initiatives in Europe and the United Kingdom, which gave View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Financial Services

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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

Business (LFB) Josh Baron Spring 2025 Q4 1.5 Mastering Consulting and Advisory Skills (also listed under Organizational Behavior) David G. Fubini Spring 2025 Q3 1.5 Modern Corporate Strategy: Revitalizing the Corporation Jorge Tamayo Fall 2024 Q1 1.5 Jorge Tamayo... View Details

01 Mar 2009
News

Model Patient

sprains, and the like,” Herzlinger explains. “The charge is around $69, so uninsured people can go there instead of to the emergency room, which has long waits and charges much more. And with CVS’s chain ownership involving hundreds of... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance

24 Dec 2013
First Look

First Look: December 24

differs by firm ownership. We study CEOs in the Indian manufacturing sector, where family ownership is widespread and the productivity dispersion across firms is substantial. Time use analysis of 356 CEOs of listed firms yields three sets... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

12 Jul 2011
First Look

First Look: July 12

amplify pressures to improve. Examining organizational responses to a change in a prominent information disclosure program, we provide some of the first empirical evidence characterizing organizations' heterogeneous responses to information disclosure regulations. We... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

22 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients

working remotely, and the psychological ownership of having all your work materials at home, have led recruits to behave in some very risky fashions. We’ve seen some alarmingly aggressive and improper pre-departure behaviors in 2020 and... View Details

Keywords: by Robin Abrahams, Boris Groysberg, and Steven L. Manchel

October 2021
Supplement

Diversifying P&G's Supplier Base (B)

By: Kris Ferreira, Kym Lew Nelson, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Sarah Mehta

This (B) case accompanies the (A) case of the same title. View Details

Keywords: Business Ventures; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Model; Business Organization; Family Business; Joint Ventures; Demographics; Diversity; Ethnicity; Race; Fairness; Ownership; Supply Chain Management; Consumer Products Industry; Service Industry; United States; Ohio

Citation

Purchase

28 May 2008
First Look

First Look: May 28, 2008

cash-only offer from Cablevision, and a $15 billion cash-only offer from KKR and Providence. The fact that both Comcast and Cablevision are themselves family-controlled and with a large wedge between the family's ownership and control... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

the software code, in order to create products that were compatible with IBM and other third-party hardware. With subsequent rounds of financing, XTV's ownership percentage declined. This was the only XTV spin-off that was syndicated to... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough

02 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

The Role of Government When All Else Fails

motivations have come together, it seems to me, because stock ownership is now so much more widespread than it once was, as a result of 401(k)s and the like. We won't know for some time whether this marks a defining feature of an emerging... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

01 Dec 2008
News

No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis

something that will take years.” Home Ownership: Back to Basics HBS lecturer Nicolas Retsinas, who before arriving at Harvard served as assistant secretary for housing in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, offered a historical perspective on U.S.... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson;Martha Lagace; deregulation; moral hazard; the middle class; Finance

14 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

The Big Money for Big Projects

conditions. One of the key assumptions underlying this proposition is that financing and investment decisions are separable and independent. When this assumption holds, various financing decisions such as the firm's capital structure, its View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

19 Aug 2021
News

A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues

Daniel, is that today, out of all of the racial and ethnic groups in America, the home ownership of Blacks is at the lowest. And it's not because Blacks are less qualified for those mortgages, it is all as a result of anti-Black... View Details

01 Jun 2017
News

Supercharged

probably won’t be individuals. Ridesharing, says Shen, is taking off even faster in China than it is in the United States. And it’s doing so in part for cultural reasons. In China, Shen explains, ownership has historically been less... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Tavis Coburn

October 2023 (Revised April 2024)
Case

ghSMART & Co: Building and Scaling a Time Smart Firm

By: Ashley Whillans and Sara Coronel Rodriguez

"For ghSMART, freedom is the first principle from which all good things flow”—Geoff Smart, Chairman and Founder, ghSMART. ghSMART was a leadership advisory firm that was grounded in the principle of freedom. Talented Consultants and Partners could work remotely from... View Details

Keywords: Time; Consulting Firms; Time Management; Talent and Talent Management; Employee Relationship Management; Innovation Strategy; Knowledge Sharing; Organizational Culture; Going Public; Partners and Partnerships; Expansion; Reputation

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Educators

Purchase

21 May 2013
First Look

First Look: May 21

industrial gas concern held by Hoechts and complicated by partial family ownership. The case considers the relationship the partners forged with the family owners to bring about a favorable exit for the private equity partners and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: September 13

business. The book describes a conceptual framework, "the culture cycle," for managing culture that comprises setting and meeting expectations; establishing trust, engagement, and ownership among employees and customers that... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7

a natural experiment. Because firms with substantial institutional ownership would have been most affected by the SEC's now-delayed changes, we use the share and composition of institutional investors to sort firms into those more and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Sep 2019
News

Hollywood Ending

back to the studio to use as they wish, giving the creators ownership of their IP. “When HBS writes the case about Quibi, one of the things I’m sure they’ll talk about is this decision to not compete with our suppliers,” Toubassy says.... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photo by Christina Gandolfo

February 2017
Case

Clear Channel (A): The Rise, 1972–2003

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

At the end of 2003, Clear Channel Communications, Inc., a diversified media group with revenues of $8.9 billion, could claim leadership positions in all three of its main businesses. Clear Channel Broadcasting was the largest radio-station operator in the world, with... View Details