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  • 22 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Master the One-on-One Meeting

if/when anything goes off the rails. Do this with ALL your employees. Otherwise, some may wonder why they’re getting follow up emails and others are not. Consistency in leadership is critical! Remote employees and non-Directs 1:1s with remote employees can be tricky. I... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
  • 13 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 13

by deviating frequently and in predictable ways from the recommendations offered by a centralized capacity planning model. Finally, we document that these discretionary capacity supply decisions exhibit a strong learning effect whereby... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Jun 2024
  • Blog Post

Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)

Before becoming a Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging, Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017) was a prospective lawyer, an investment manager, a nonprofit leader, and a tech program manager. Beyond her professional roles, Ramirez is... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • January 2020 (Revised December 2024)
  • Case

Governing PG&E

By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz
The five commissioners of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) listened intently at a public forum in April 2019 as PG&E Corporation’s out-going chairman Richard Kelly described the company’s proposed new board. PG&E, which provided electricity and natural... View Details
Keywords: Bankruptcy; Board Of Directors; Board Dynamics; Business Ethics; Business Model Innovation; Corporate Boards; Energy Efficiency; Environmental And Social Sustainability; Government And Business; Hedge Funds; Institutional Investors; Legal Aspects Of Business; Regulated Monopolies; Regulation; Shareholders; Stakeholder Management; Strategy And Execution; Utilities; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Governing and Advisory Boards; Ethics; Capital Structure; Climate Change; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Environmental Sustainability; Executive Compensation; Leadership; Management; Safety; Business and Government Relations; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry; California; United States
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  • January 2024 (Revised May 2024)
  • Case

Pioneer Natural Resources: Enhancing the Capital Return Strategy with Variable Dividends

By: Benjamin C. Esty, Elisabeth Kempf and E. Scott Mayfield
In February 2021, Scott Sheffield, the CEO of Pioneer Natural Resources (an independent oil and gas company based in Texas), was considering the possibility of enhancing the firm’s capital return strategy by introducing a variable dividend tied to cash flows in... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Finance; Cash Flow; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Value Creation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Investment Return; Profit; Policy; Business and Shareholder Relations; Energy Industry; United States; North America; Texas
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  • 2017
  • Other Book

Good Work: The Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices

By: Matthew Taylor, Greg Marsh, Diane Nicol and Paul Broadbent
I was not the only person appointed to the Review. My fellow Review team members, Greg Marsh, Diane Nicol and Paul Broadbent have not only been an important source of ideas and wisdom throughout the process but have led in engaging with key groups of... View Details
Keywords: Future Of Work; Labor Relations; Marketplaces; Employment; Labor and Management Relations; Labor; Markets
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  • 30 Apr 2024
  • Book

When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners

corporation ever to declare bankruptcy. Then, a couple of years later, I was asked to advise on a new Defense Industry Initiative on Business Ethics and Conduct being organised by a consortium of U.S. defence contractors in response to View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

components of the bank business model, Juliane and Erik shed light on the bank’s performance over the period 1960-2016. They argue that the very strong investment performance of passive maturity transformation strategies over this period... View Details
  • 03 Oct 2023
  • Research Event

Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

the things that we talk about is that there's a there's a portfolio that the happiest people all maintain. It's an investment portfolio. You can teach it. Yeah. I teach at HBS. So, I can talk this way. There's an View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff
  • 09 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

find legal advice at low prices. Lexoo had recently invested in a new vertical focused on larger companies. The latter had more repeated business and the value of their jobs was higher. Lexoo could become their “go-to” place across a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 07 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 7, 2007

subset of countries. This paper uses a difference-in-difference analysis that compares US equity holdings in affected and unaffected countries. The international investment responses to JGTRRA were substantial and imply an elasticity of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

The Imposter Among Us

inadequacy, in my first week on the job Clayton received a letter from the Nobel Prize Committee asking him to recommend someone for the Nobel Prize in Economics. He handed me the letter, asked me to write a draft, and said, “If you’d... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 09 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 9, 2007

Venture Capital Investment Cycles: The Impact of Public Markets Authors:Paul Gompers, Anna Kovner, Josh Lerner, and David Scharfstein Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming). (Earlier version distributed as National... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Feb 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success

reported that digital transformation takes significant financial investment and time. Of those who reported making significant progress on their journey, 60 percent had been at it for at least five years. In calculating the resources,... View Details
Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards
  • 16 Feb 2024
  • Research & Ideas

As AI Upends Recruiting, Job Seekers Need a Waze App for Careers

experts to paint a picture of the world of career navigation, and to draft recommendations for improving it. The report calls for overhauling the systems now in place under a new umbrella: “career navigation.” For people trying to launch... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology; Technology
  • 12 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

of a U.S. retail chain) to centralized hiring (in this study, by the head office). While centralized hiring can ensure that enough resources are invested in hiring people aligned with company values, it can also neglect the unit managers’... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 31 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018

mobile phone penetration, universal availability of unique ID systems, and evolving privacy and data protection laws. It builds on global best practices and promotes the adoption of human-centered design principles, data minimization, and open standard APIs. The View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 08 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 8, 2008

Paul M. Healy, and Yang Gui Periodical:Journal of Financial Transformation (forthcoming) Abstract Since 1949 Lehman Brothers has used an investment committee to select the top ten recommendations made by its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 9

capabilities" view of business groups-that such groups have done the most to invest in R&D and other skills necessary to combine inputs in ways that lead to greater added value. Moreover, our finding that Indian business groups... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Governing the Family-Run Business

(companies whose ownership is controlled by a single family) and other kinds of family enterprises including family foundations and family investment funds, the lack of effective governance is a major cause of organizational problems. In... View Details