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, Cofounder & Managing Partner, Impactive Capital This panel will highlight how we can effectively build the governance mechanisms for climate action. Thousands of companies have publicly announced targets for carbon reductions, aligned... View Details
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resort operator. In his letter, and the 88-slide presentation that accompanied his letter, the activist investor criticized the firm’s strategy, leadership, and financial performance. In fact, he was calling for fundamental change: replacing the CEO, CFO, and board... 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
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    Technology & Operations Management - Faculty & Research

    beliefs in settings where output quantities and input prices are unobservable, and we use it to evaluate allocative efficiency in the market for science. Our model of researchers’ labor supply shows that their willingness to pay for their... View Details
    • 14 Jul 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: July 14, 2015

    Case 315-109 Pearson Affordable Learning Fund An in-house venture capital fund for affordable private schools at the base of the pyramid established by Pearson, the world's largest education company, PALF sought to invest in business... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 16 Aug 2016
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    August 16, 2016

    these streams and offers human resource management researchers and professionals insights and approaches for helping diverse teams tackle complex problems. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51467 Venture View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 31 Aug 2010
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    First Look: August 31

    various disciplines. Recent work has begun to focus on a previously overlooked factor predicting dishonest behavior: the beneficiary or victim of dishonest acts. In two laboratory experiments, we manipulate the level of resources View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2008
    • Working Paper

    The Strength of Peripheral Ties: Maintaining Status When Firms Lose Resources

    By: Mikolaj J. Piskorski and Bharat N. Anand
    This paper examines conditions under which high-status firms can retain their positions, even if they lose resources. Firms are considered high status when they obtain ties from other high-status firms. Among high-status firms, we distinguish between those that also... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital; Resource Allocation; Rank and Position; Status and Position; Financial Services Industry; United States
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      Srikant M. Datar

      Srikant M. Datar became the eleventh dean of Harvard Business School on 1 January 2021. During his tenure as a faculty member, he served as Senior Associate Dean for University Affairs (including Faculty Chair of the Harvard Innovation Lab), for Research, for... View Details

      Keywords: venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry
      • 14 May 2013
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      First Look: May 14

      literature on information and control in interfirm agreements using a sample of over 100 Internet portal alliance contracts. The literature on information and control in alliances suggests that the use of verifiable performance measures to View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • September 1991
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      All American Pipeline

      By: Timothy A. Luehrman
      Goodyear is nearing its first major capital commitments for the largest investment project in its history, the All American Pipeline. The pipeline will transport heavy crude oil from California to Texas. It is the centerpiece of a major program by Goodyear to diversify... View Details
      Keywords: Capital; Financial Strategy; Business Startups; Diversification; Valuation; Standards; Supply Chain; Resource Allocation; Cash Flow; Mining Industry; California; Texas
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      • 30 Jun 2015
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      First Look: June 30, 2015

      Case 815-124 Yale University Investments Office: February 2015 David Swensen and the Investments Office staff must decide whether to continue to allocate the bulk of the university's endowment to illiquid investments-hedge funds, private... View Details
      Keywords: Carmen Nobel
      • April–May 2012
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      Resources or Power? Implications of Social Networks on Compensation and Firm Performance

      By: Joanne Horton, Yuval Millo and George Serafeim
      Using a sample of 4,278 listed UK firms, we construct a social network of directorship-interlocks that comprises 31,495 directors. We use social capital theory and techniques developed in social network analysis to measure a director's connectedness and investigate... View Details
      Keywords: Power and Influence; Social and Collaborative Networks; Compensation and Benefits; Performance; Relationships; Resource Allocation; United Kingdom
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      • 08 Nov 2013
      • HBS Seminar

      Laura Diaz Anadon, Harvard Kennedy School

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      Accounting & Management - Faculty & Research

      measurement systems to: Communicate with external investors to ensure that their firms' securities are fairly priced and that they are able to access capital, Measure and evaluate their firms' economic performance, Improve resource View Details
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      Strategy - Faculty & Research

      that Mitsui look like?” June 2025 Case AI Wars in 2025 By: Andy Wu and Anna Yang In June 2025, Google leaders in Mountain View, CA convened after its parent company Alphabet shed a quarter-trillion in market capitalization in a matter of... View Details
      • 17 Aug 2010
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      First Look: August 17

      explore the consequences of scientific publication-an instance of public disclosure-for a core set of activities within the firm. Specifically, we link publications to human capital management practices, showing that scientists' bonuses... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 18 Mar 2014
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      First Look: March 18

      un‐cited or self-cited, suggesting that incumbents are more likely to engage in incremental innovation compared to VC-backed startups. Third, we document a rising share of patenting by startups that coincided with the surge in venture View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 11 Aug 2003
      • Research & Ideas

      Why Budgeting Kills Your Company

      decoupling of the company's resource allocation process from the highest-value strategic opportunities. The answer, some experts say, is to dispense with budgets entirely. The answer, some experts say, is to dispense with budgets... View Details
      Keywords: by Loren Gary
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      Asia Pacific - Global

      changing the firm’s capital allocation strategy; and focusing more attention on customers and employees to fix the company’s damaged reputation. On the day the letter became public, Vail’s stock price jumped... View Details