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  • Research Summary

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The founding and expansion of new firms is central to innovation and economic growth, but the determinants of a new idea’s success are difficult to ascertain. The decision to form a new firm and its ultimate outcome are impacted by ownership structure, financing... View Details

  • 21 Feb 2005
  • Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

scientific reasoning and method appear to be applicable to business, thus helping to legitimate the study of business as an activity within the university. Yet what exactly a "science" of management should study would be puzzled... View Details
Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice
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Finance & Investing - Business & Environment

Change in 2020: Implications for Business BlackRock: Linking Purpose to Profit Governing PG&E Indigo Agriculture: Harnessing Nature Shareholder Activism and Firms' Voluntary Disclosure of Climate Change... View Details
  • 26 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Office of Strategy Management

ones." While they would seem to create the risk of more top-down management, the opposite effect happens. Could you give some examples of positive effects in companies you've seen? What activities should OSMs not be involved in? A:... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online

returns to incorporating ESG as an asset owner or manager. Highlights Non-Traditional Investment Criteria like ESG Introduction: California State Teachers' Retirement System CalSTRS: Effects of Shareholder Engagement Show Hide Details... View Details
  • 21 Aug 2019
  • Research & Ideas

What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style

merger and acquisition activity in the year following the interview. Also, the communication styles that emerged from jointly utilizing text and image data had more statistical power in explaining variability in the data, as compared to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 11 May 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

Students are invited to walk in the shoes of the CIO and become active participants in making these decisions and creating new knowledge about IT leadership through classroom discussion and debate. We want to send the signal that this is... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 20 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 20, 2016

induces U.S. manufacturing firms to contract their operations along multiple margins of activity goes a long way toward explaining the response of U.S. innovation to the China trade shock. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Apr 2022
  • What Do You Think?

As Disney Board Chair, What Would You Advise CEO Bob Chapek Regarding 'Don’t Say Gay'?

150 other companies in signing a Human Rights Campaign letter opposing the legislation. He decided to make no public statements to support or reject the governor’s expected signature of the bill—that is, until Disney’s annual meeting with View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 20 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

How Partisan Politics Play Out in American Boardrooms

Republican—are 3.2 percent more likely to leave their companies when they are “politically misaligned” with their colleagues. Shareholders collectively lose $238 million, on average, after their departure is announced, the research shows.... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • 22 Feb 2021
  • Book

Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy

them, do them differently, and supplement them with other activities that I discuss in the book. Also, required competencies are changing. Omnichannel buying makes the selling company more transparent to customers, who can “touch” that... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 12 Nov 2021
  • News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

That is why we introduced pep+ (PepsiCo Positive), our strategic end-to-end transformation, with sustainability at the center of how we will create value for our shareholders and all our stakeholders. Climate action across our supply... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

Singing to the Corn

Corn likes people. It benefits from human contact, when it’s thinned out and hand-pollinated, explains Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997). Corn thrives when sung to and spoken to—something Keen does in the language of his mother’s Omaha Tribe, where he is known as Bison... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture
  • 11 Mar 2021
  • News

Leading with Heart

think I have a very simple philosophy. My philosophy is, listen, we all come to work to do three things: shareholder value, help unlock the dreams of people that we work with, and serve the community in which we operate. Those are the... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

behavior of others. In his book Complicit, Professor Max Bazerman offers strategies for recognizing and avoiding the psychological and other traps that lead us to ignore, condone, or actively support wrongdoing in our businesses,... View Details
  • 16 Feb 2022
  • News

Holding Business to Account

important to their bottom line: gender equity. “I suddenly realized the power, the reach we had as shareholders,” Aiyer recalls with some amazement. After that experience, “the idea of being a passive investor, along for the ride, no longer appealed to me,” Aiyer says.... View Details
  • 29 Jan 2021
  • News

Holding Business to Account

idea of being a passive investor, along for the ride, no longer appealed to me,” Aiyer says. Shareholders were owners, she realized, and they had a say in how a company ran as well as the ability to influence everything from labor... View Details
  • June 13, 2021
  • Guest Column

Big Oil Gets Clean and the World Stays Dirty: Public Pressure on Fossil Fuel Companies Can Only Do So Much

By: John Mulliken
Keywords: Climate Change; Business and Shareholder Relations; Public Opinion; Investment Activism; Energy Industry
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  • January 2008 (Revised July 2008)
  • Case

Opportunity Partners

By: Robin Greenwood and James Quinn
Philip Goldstein, the principal in a growing hedge fund and prominent activist investor, has taken a position in a Mexico-based closed-end fund. Following a hard-fought proxy contest in which he advocated for management to eliminate the fund's substantial discount,... View Details
Keywords: Investment Activism; Investment Funds; Business and Shareholder Relations; Value; Financial Services Industry; Mexico
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  • 24 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How To Be an Angel Investor

the investors might get stuck as minority shareholders if it became difficult to sell. In this case, a deal structure with a note convertible to common would allow the investors to convert if the company sold or went public, thus getting... View Details
Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson