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  • 17 Nov 2015
  • Lessons from the Classroom

How Activist Investors Became Respectable

a generation. Once reviled as villains operating on the fringes of the market, they are now powerful forces at work in the mainstream of business. Activist investing gained legitimacy and View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Financial Services; Banking
  • 12 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

emergent machine of the sovereign state. Yet such strategic interaction rarely yielded a decisive victory for either the secular state or for religion. By tracing how state-builders engaged religious institutions, elites, and attachments,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Feb 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Barriers to Acting in Time on Energy and Strategies for Overcoming Them

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman; Energy; Utilities
  • 08 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019

generating a brand book for Israel that suggested a guiding brand position of “creative energy”; inviting social media influencers to partake in trips focused on lifestyle interests; generating appealing, non-conflict related content... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 04 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

certification programs are understandable and largely predictable if the ideas, interests, and power of key actors are accurately assessed. When alignment View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

a practice described here as “structured empowerment” to balance control and flexibility as they grow. I define structured empowerment as a practice that grants employees both (a) the power to make choices... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

design tools is a powerful force that is leveling the global technology playing field. It democratizes innovation and makes future competition more challenging. This paper describes the knowledge flows... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 May 2023
  • Blog Post

Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS (part 2)

“American” as a separator; a little line that pushes two worlds apart. I think it’s more powerful to think of it as a bridge. Standing on that bridge, we have access to a unique vantage point. With that comes the opportunity to take... View Details
  • 15 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

influence the perceptions that people have about a place in a way that is conducive to their goals. This background note lays the ground for instructors to expose students to the concept of a place brand, allow them to examine the ways in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Laws vs. Contracts: Legal Origins, Shareholder Protections, and Ownership Concentration in Brazil, 1890–1950

By: Aldo Musacchio
The early development of large multidivisional corporations in Latin America required much more than capable managers, new technologies, and large markets. Behind such corporations was a market for capital in which entrepreneurs had to attract investors to buy either... View Details
Keywords: Voting; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Governance Controls; Contracts; Laws and Statutes; Ownership Stake; Brazil
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  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Spanning the Institutional Abyss: The Intergovernmental Network and the Governance of Foreign Direct Investment

By: Juan Alcacer and Paul Ingram
Global economic transactions such as foreign direct investment must extend over an institutional abyss between the jurisdiction, and therefore protection, of the states involved. Intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), whose members are states, represent an important... View Details
Keywords: International Finance; Foreign Direct Investment; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Governance Controls; International Relations; Social Issues
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  • January 2015 (Revised October 2015)
  • Case

Trouble at Tessei

By: Ethan Bernstein and Ryan W. Buell
In 2005, Teruo Yabe is asked to revive Tessei, the 669-person JR-East subsidiary responsible for cleaning its Shinkansen ("bullet") trains. Operational mistakes, customer complaints, safety issues, and employee turnover are at or near all-time highs, even as the... View Details
Keywords: Service Management; Employee Engagement; Employee Motivation; Leadership And Managing People; Quality Improvement; Efficiency; Japan; Operational Transparency; Employee Coordination; Transparency; Leadership; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Employees; Quality; Transportation Industry; Japan
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  • 07 Nov 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

Fall 2017 Business History Review The Alternative Business History: Business in Emerging Markets By: Austin, Gareth, Carlos Davila, and Geoffrey Jones Abstract—This article suggests that the business history of emerging markets should be... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

How could Cowen continue to exploit its competitive advantage with data? Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/418035-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 818-111 The Powers That Be (Internet Edition): Google, Apple,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

substitutability is preserved under economically important transformations such as trade endowments, mergers, and limited liability. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54957 Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Dec 2016
  • Research & Ideas

How To Deceive Others With Truthful Statements (It's Called 'Paltering,' And It's Risky)

Business executives regularly use sly tactics to get a better deal during negotiations—often making statements that are technically true, but are purposely skewed to mislead the other side. It’s a distinct form of deception called paltering: the active use of truthful... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Jul 2020
  • Blog Post

How SVMP Helped Me Take My Next Steps (2+2) and Find Myself

I am becoming. The power of that memoir title never really hit me until I sat to write this blog post. I don’t mean to quote Michelle Obama in making that statement (I mean there are definitely worse people to quote), but it’s a View Details
  • July 2017
  • Article

What Do Measures of Real-Time Corporate Sales Tell Us About Earnings Surprises and Post-announcement Returns?

By: Kenneth A. Froot, Namho Kang, Gideon Ozik and Ronnie Sadka
We develop real-time proxies of retail corporate sales from multiple sources, including approximately 50 million mobile devices. These measures contain information from both the earnings quarter (within quarter) and the period between that quarter's end and the... View Details
Keywords: Announcements; Business Earnings; Sales; Retail Industry
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  • 30 Sep 2021

HBS Perspectives in Health: Healthy Buildings and Productivity – Organizational Imperatives Pre, During, and Post Covid

HBS Professor John Macomber will lead a discussion with Joseph Joe Allen, Director of the Healthy Buildings program and an Associate Professor at Harvard’s T. H. Chan School of Public Health. They will share their insights into what makes... View Details
  • 30 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

traction in these adjacent markets has been to pursue a tying strategy. For example, Microsoft pre-installed Internet Explorer into Windows, and Apple set Apple Maps as the iOS default. Policymakers have raised concerns that dominant... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman