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15 Jun 2021
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Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy

brown-led nonprofits closely tied to the people and problems in under-resourced Massachusetts communities. Shell, a managing director at Bain Capital, says George Floyd’s brutal killing, the Black Lives Matter movement, and a pandemic... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

18 May 2017
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Pioneer Spirit

programming for a life insurance company, and once he finished his law degree he stuck around and rose to become the firm’s secretary and general counsel. Along the way, however, Freeman realized he was more interested in general View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Jun 2022
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June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

offering occasional remote workdays—they will redesign every aspect of how work gets done, from defining how they measure organizational success to training their managers to make it happen. How the Future Works offers a blueprint for... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

19 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy

maintained his control in part by creating a banking system that functioned more as a kind of investment club, Maurer says. Local businessmen would agree to lend each other money to finance one another's companies, while also selling... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

20 Dec 2011
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for firms to capture value in a modular system. This paper brings together the theory of modularity from the engineering and management literatures with the modern economic theory of property rights and relational contracts to address the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

20 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

and compensation committees didn't do their jobs responsibly. But boards can only do so much — their members, after all, are part-timers. And while they're expected to be independent, they have to rely heavily on managers and auditors for... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

01 Sep 2009
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Over the Top

leadership at some of the nation’s most renowned companies took too many risks and too much in salary, while their shareholders had too little say,” said Schumer. “This legislation will give stockholders the ability to apply the emergency brakes the next time the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Government

26 Sep 2005
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What Perceived Power Brings to Negotiations

And so the manipulation of the alternatives was really straightforward. Q: What can managers and other professionals learn from this research when they find themselves in negotiations? A: I think the critical piece here is the distinction... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS

Rohit Daniel Wadhwani's research and teaching interests lie in business and financial history and public policy. He received his B.A. with honors from Yale College in 1991. From 1991 to 1995 he worked as a management consultant with APM... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard; Banking; Financial Services

March 2011
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Cheaper Patents

By: Tom Nicholas

The 1883 Patents Act in Britain provides perspective for modern patent policy reforms because it radically changed incentives for inventors by reducing filing fees by 84 percent. Patents increased 2.5 fold after the reform, which was evenly distributed across the... View Details

Keywords: Patents; Global Range; Distribution; Demand and Consumers; Organizational Structure; Business Processes; Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Policy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Fluctuation; Motivation and Incentives; Distribution Industry; United States; Great Britain

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20 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

handles that. And can he use those negotiating skills and those communication skills and create shared value skills in a situation where there’s no walk-away option and he doesn’t have the leverage. Command and control View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese

March 2023 (Revised June 2023)
Teaching Note

Ransomware Attack at Springhill Medical Center

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan (Jason) Ni

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 123-065. In July, 2019, Springhill Medical Center (“SMC”) in Mobile, Alabama fell prey to a malicious ransomware attack that crippled the hospital’s internal network systems and public-facing web page. While the hospital rushed to... View Details

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B. Does a CEO prioritize employee needs or shareholder returns? Does a manager rely on empowerment or control? And Thinking urges a leader to first think innovatively and creatively about ways to support both employees and shareholders,... View Details

01 Dec 2002
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Bad Times for Business

members, after all, are part-timers. And while they're expected to be independent, they have to rely heavily on managers and auditors for information. One problem in all this was that the boards weren't getting appropriate information and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

corporate profitability, Japan introduced the JPX-Nikkei400 in 2014. The index highlighted the country's “best-run” companies by annually selecting the 400 most profitable among Japan's large and liquid firms. We find that managers... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

06 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

choice of non-pension assets or capital structure. In the late 1990s, as the focus of tax-deferred investing drifted away from defined benefit plans and toward individually managed retirement accounts, a number of people, including John... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

01 Mar 2013
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Sizing Up Social Impact

nonprofit leaders today," says Associate Professor Alnoor Ebrahim, a member of the School's General Management Unit and Social Enterprise Initiative who focuses on the challenges of performance management, accountability, and governance... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities

12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009

with open disagreement). The paper thus provides micro-foundations for the idea that bringing a project inside the firm gives the manager control over that project, while explaining concentrated asset... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria

roughly the size of a rugby field. The 50-year-old has been farming this small-scale way all his life, and he's been taken advantage of just about as long. The Nigerian government, long considered one of the most corrupt on the African continent, had View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; John H. Davis; Michael Halse; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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