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  • October 2022
  • Case

An Heir with No Spare: The Deitch Family Office

By: Lauren Cohen and Grace Headinger
Joe and Matt Deitch, father and son, knew it was time to start their own family office. Matthew had recently joined his father at the family’s three enterprises, and they both realized that their family’s needs had grown increasingly complex over the years. In search... View Details
Keywords: Family Office; Philanthropy; Charitable Giving; Family; Family Business; Talent and Talent Management; Entrepreneurship; Governance; Values and Beliefs; Job Search; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Family Ownership; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Family and Family Relationships; Financial Services Industry; Real Estate Industry; Technology Industry; United States; Massachusetts; Boston; Florida; Miami
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  • 26 Oct 2009
  • Lessons from the Classroom

The New Deal: Negotiauctions

backed away from the idea. But the case study illustrates how deal process design matters a lot, and has to be thought through very carefully. Currently, Treasury officials are trying to design a View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 04 Feb 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Unravelling in Two-Sided Matching Markets and Similarity of Preferences

Keywords: by Hanna Halaburda
  • June 2020
  • Case

RBC: Transforming Transformation (A)

By: Ethan Bernstein, Francesca Gino and Aldo Sesia
In 2017, the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), a Canadian financial icon, mandated a swat team of “enablers of collaboration” (their job description) to support the personal and commercial bank in the enterprise-wide RBC Cultural Transformation initiative. Historically,... View Details
Keywords: Service Delivery; Information Technology; Transformation; Change Management; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Decision Making; Human Resources; Management Systems; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Groups and Teams; Management Teams; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Canada
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People Are Experience Goods: Improving Online Dating with Virtual Dates

Because internet search mechanisms are designed for finding searchable items, we tend to conceptualize the things we seek online in terms of their objective characteristics. For some pursuits, however, this illuminates a mismatch between processes and goals. In online... View Details

    Jerry R. Green

    Jerry R. Green

    David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy

    John Leverett Professor in the University

    Harvard University

     

    Jerry Green is the John Leverett Professor in the University and the David A. Wells... View Details

    Keywords: aerospace; education industry; insurance industry; professional services
    • October 2015
    • Article

    Managing the Performance Tradeoffs from Partner Integration: Implications of Contract Choice in R&D Projects

    By: Alan MacCormack and Anant Mishra
    Formal contracts represent an important governance instrument with which firms exercise control of and compensate partners in R&D projects. The specific type of contract used, however, can vary significantly across projects. In some, firms govern partnering... View Details
    Keywords: ＂＂Partner Integration; Contract Choice; R＆D Project Management; Relational Contracts; Partnering Performance; Research and Development; Projects; Partners and Partnerships; Performance; Contracts
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    Overview

    By: Reshmaan N. Hussam

    Engaged with field work in South Asia and East Africa, Professor Hussam places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the economics literature as well as relevant downstream policy implications. Her research spans four broad interests.... View Details

    • 07 Oct 2015
    • HBS Seminar

    Florian Ederer, Assistant Professor of Economics, Yale School of Management

    • 17 Feb 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Breaking Them In or Revealing Their Best? Reframing Socialization around Newcomer Self-Expression

    Keywords: by Dan Cable, Francesca Gino & Brad Staats
    • 28 Jun 2010
    • HBS Case

    Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

    percentile. "A key takeaway for students is the power of transparency as a mechanism for change," says Tucker. "Another is the motivational value of benchmarking themselves to an internal standard of zero accidents instead... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health
    • Program

    Competing in the Age of AI—Virtual

    organizations and drive an AI-first culture. Leaders in Virtual Learning When you participate in a virtual HBS Executive Education program, you benefit from a powerful learning experience carefully designed with a virtual setting in mind.... View Details
    • July 2000 (Revised September 2005)
    • Case

    Madison Avenue: Digital Media Services (A)

    Introduces a "new-economy" company, Madison Avenue, facing challenges of mega-success. In the two years since its founding, the company's revenues have grown from zero to nearly $30 million, head count has swollen from the start-up handful to more than 200, and the... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Online Advertising; Advertising Industry
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    • 2008
    • Working Paper

    Performance and Control across Multiple Markets

    By: Tatiana Sandino, Dennis Campbell and Shelby Yu
    Chain organizations typically operate units across different types of markets, with significantly diverging customer bases. Such market-type dispersion potentially influences performance through two channels: it makes performance a noisier indicator of store manager... View Details
    Keywords: Governance Controls; Organizational Design; Markets; Franchise Ownership; Performance; Retail Industry
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    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Distributionally Robust Causal Inference with Observational Data

    By: Dimitris Bertsimas, Kosuke Imai and Michael Lingzhi Li
    We consider the estimation of average treatment effects in observational studies and propose a new framework of robust causal inference with unobserved confounders. Our approach is based on distributionally robust optimization and proceeds in two steps. We first... View Details
    Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Mathematical Methods
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    • 14 May 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: May 14

    http://www.people.hbs.edu/mrhodeskropf/GovernanceCEOTurnoverMS.pdf 2006 Journal of Law, Economics & Organization Contractual Incompleteness, Contingent Control Rights, and the Design of Internet Portal Alliances By: Lerner, Josh, and... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 19 Sep 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

    increased by 0.75 percentage points, increasing sales dispersion. Calibrating conventional inventory-ordering models, we show that to respond optimally to the observed increase in dispersion, the retailer would need to increase its cycle... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 17 Oct 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: October 17, 2006

    find support for these hypotheses. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-022.pdf Resolving Information Asymmetries in Markets: The Role of Certified Management Programs Author: Michael W. Toffel Abstract Firms and regulators are increasingly... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 15 Oct 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Mixed Source

    Keywords: by Ramon Casadesus-Masanell & Gastón Llanes; Technology
    • Research Summary

    Research Summary

    By: Ranjay Gulati

    My research focuses on how to unlock organizational potential and unleash human potential.

    Unlocking organizational potential involves a deep dive into how enterprises can achieve enduring success. This includes applying strategic frameworks to drive... View Details