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  • 08 Apr 2013
  • News

Ray Lane, Hewlett-Packard, and the State of Corporate Governance

  • 27 Feb 2020
  • News

Psychological Safety Will Win You The Best Business Ideas

  • 29 Dec 2019
  • News

Microfinance Spurs Sustained Growth—but Not for Everyone

  • 13 May 2019
  • News

Reading the Market

  • 21 Apr 2016
  • News

Harvard Business School Breaks Ground on Large-Scale Convening Center

    A Global Leader's Guide to Managing Business Conduct

    An extensive global survey by three Harvard Business School professors finds that employees agree on core standards of corporate behavior; but meeting those standards will require new approaches to managing business conduct. The compliance and ethics programs of... View Details

      High Commitment High Performance: How to Build A Resilient Organization for Sustained Advantage

      How to create the high-performance, high-commitment organization.

      Integrating knowledge from strategic management, performance management, and organization design, strategic human resource expert and Harvard Business School Professor Michael Beer outlines... View Details

      • May–June 2018
      • Article

      Structure That's Not Stifling: How to Give Your People Essential Direction—Without Shutting Them Down

      By: Ranjay Gulati
      Most leaders view employee freedoms and operational controls as antagonists in a tug-of-war. They tend to focus on regulating workers’ behavior, often putting a damper on commitment, innovation, and performance without realizing it. But freedom and control aren’t zero... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Structure; Mission and Purpose; Framework; Employee Relationship Management; Performance Effectiveness
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      • 2017
      • Chapter

      Are Founder CEOs Good Managers?

      By: Victor Manuel Bennett, Megan Lawrence and Raffaella Sadun
      We investigate the management practices adopted by firms where the founders are also the CEOs using data from the World Management Survey. We find that founder CEO firms have the lowest management scores of any owner-manager pair type and that this difference is... View Details
      Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Performance
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      • 09 Aug 2016
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Shareholder Activism on Sustainability Issues

      Keywords: by Jody Grewal, George Serafeim, and Aaron Yoon
      • Research Summary

      Family Business Management

      John Davis is developing cases and other course materials on family business management for the Executive Education program Families in Business: From Generation to Generation, Families in Business/China, the Owner/President Management... View Details
      • Article

      Discouraging Opportunistic Behavior in Collaborative R&D: A New Role for Government

      The traditional role attributed to government in collaborative R&D has been one of funding. This paper explores a new role for government in facilitating collaborative R&D, one of discouraging opportunistic behavior. Given the nature of R&D, concerns about... View Details
      Keywords: Behavior; Government and Politics; Managerial Roles; Research and Development; Framework; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Opportunities; Italy
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      • 2025
      • Working Paper

      Healthcare Provider Bankruptcies

      By: Samuel Antill, Ashvin Gandhi, Jessica Bai and Adrienne Sabety
      Healthcare firms are filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy at record rates. We find that bankruptcies increase healthcare staff turnover, worsen care, and harm patients. Using a difference-in-differences design, we estimate that a bankruptcy filing immediately increases... View Details
      Keywords: Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Health Care and Treatment; Outcome or Result; Retention; Health Industry
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      • January 2023 (Revised June 2024)
      • Case

      Adams + Beasley Associates

      By: Dennis Campbell and Iuliana Mogosanu
      This case illustrates how a strong culture, founder-led SME designed and used a unique performance metric—the job security index—to manage through periods of economic uncertainty. The case centers specifically on how the job security index was used in an interactive... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Crisis; Measurement and Metrics; Employee Ownership; Risk and Uncertainty; Small Business; Leadership; Organizational Culture
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      • July 2019
      • Teaching Note

      AT&T, Retraining, and the Workforce of Tomorrow

      By: William R. Kerr and Carl Kreitzberg
      A Teaching Note for the "AT&T, Retraining, and the Workforce of Tomorrow" case study (HBS#820-017). The case describes how AT&T designed and implemented a program to retrain 100,000 of its workers. The case first reviews the technological forces that compelled AT&T to... View Details
      Keywords: AT＆T; Workforce; Future Of Work; Telecommunications; Unions; Technological Change; Layoffs; MOOCS; Strategic Planning; Employees; Training; Labor; Learning; Labor Unions; Technology Adoption; Talent and Talent Management; Transformation; Telecommunications Industry; Communications Industry; United States
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      • April 2018
      • Article

      Consumers Avoid Buying from Firms with Higher CEO-to-Worker Pay Ratios

      By: Bhavya Mohan, Tobias Schlager, Rohit Deshpandé and Michael I. Norton
      We document a novel driver of consumer behavior: pay ratio disclosure. Swiss corporation performance data gathered during a legally mandated pay ratio referendum reveals that salient high pay ratios are associated with decreased firm sales (Pilot Study). An... View Details
      Keywords: Pay Ratio; Wage Fairness; Purchase Intention; Customers; Wages; Fairness; Consumer Behavior
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      • May 2016
      • Supplement

      2016 Update: Argentina Turns the Page

      By: David E. Bell, Forest Reinhardt and Natalie Kindred
      This brief case is a supplement to “Cresud and Argentina” (515-043) and “Note on Agriculture in Argentina” (515-069). Set in early 2016, it describes developments in Argentina under newly elected President Mauricio Macri, including the country’s return to international... View Details
      Keywords: Argentina; ＂ Cresud; Agriculture; Economic Reform; Economic Policy; Land Investment; Macri; Currency; Agribusiness; Diversification; Economy; Emerging Markets; Credit; Currency Exchange Rate; Investment; Business and Government Relations; Government and Politics; Inflation and Deflation; Trade; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Argentina; Buenos Aires; South America
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      • Article

      Investing in What You Know: The Case of Individual Investors and Local Stocks

      By: Mark Seasholes and Ning Zhu
      This paper tests the performance of individuals' equity investments. We study over 40,000 accounts and 950,000 trades from a large discount broker. Individuals invest heavily in local stocks and put 14% more into these stocks than a market-neutral portfolio... View Details
      Keywords: Stocks; Local Range; Investment; Equity
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      • March 2011
      • Supplement

      BioPasteur: Instructions for the group discussion

      By: Giovanni Gavetti and Francesca Gino
      The purpose of this exercise is to let students experience a few biases that can be deleterious to strategic decision-making. In particular, students are induced to fall into a confirmatory trap, and to experience other biases such as anchoring and sampling bias.... View Details
      Keywords: Decision Making; Groups and Teams; Prejudice and Bias; Strategy
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      • October 2002 (Revised February 2011)
      • Case

      Union Corrugating Company (A)

      By: Paul W. Marshall and Julia Stevens
      Lauri Union graduates from Harvard Business School and takes over her family's steel-corrugated roofing and siding manufacturing firm, which her mother has most recently run. The industry is mature, entry barriers to competitors are low, and the company is over 50... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leading Change; Family Business; Entrepreneurship; Organizational Culture; Family Ownership; Gender; Manufacturing Industry; Steel Industry; Industrial Products Industry
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