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  • 10 Oct 2023
  • Research & Ideas

In Empowering Black Voters, Did a Landmark Law Stir White Angst?

As another election season approaches, American politics feels more polarized than ever, with racial tensions flaring in an uncertain economy. And a recent study parsing newly available data shows how a landmark Civil Rights-era law may... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 13 Mar 2023
  • Research & Ideas

What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?

the sector’s success, but to what extent have the loans meaningfully improved livelihoods? That question has been more difficult to track, say Natalia Rigol and Ben Roth. Both development economists and... View Details
Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint; Financial Services
  • Web

The Women in the Relay Assembly Test Room – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us A New Vision An Essay by Professors Michel Anteby and Rakesh Khurana Introduction The Hawthorne Plant Employee Welfare Illumination Studies and Relay Assembly Test Room Enter... View Details
  • April 2019 (Revised December 2021)
  • Case

Sears: The Demise of an American Icon

By: Kristin Mugford and Sarah L. Abbott
In 2019, ESL Investments’ $5.2 billion offer to purchase Sears Holdings out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy, was accepted, despite opposition from the company's unsecured creditors and other parties. ESL, which was led by Eddie Lampert, had acquired a stake in Sears following... View Details
Keywords: Bankruptcy; Reorganization; Bonds; Restructuring; Business Divisions; Transformation; Fairness; Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Corporate Governance; Motivation and Incentives; Retail Industry; United States
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  • 26 Sep 2023
  • Book

Digital Strategy: A Handbook for Managing a Moving Target

information may be low and declining (Menz et al., 2021). Accordingly, in the digital age, firms and organizations of all kinds face an extremely strong incentive to increase... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Information Technology; Technology
  • March 2020
  • Article

Gender Differences in Communicative Abstraction

By: Priyanka D. Joshi, Cheryl J. Wakslak, Gil Appel and Laura Huang
Drawing on construal level theory, which suggests that experiencing a communicative audience as proximal rather than distal leads speakers to frame messages more concretely, we examine gender difference in linguistic abstraction. In a meta-analysis of prior studies... View Details
Keywords: Construal Level Theory; Psychological Distance; Gender; Communication; Leadership
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  • 2012
  • Working Paper

The First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures

By: Thomas F. Hellmann and Noam Wasserman
This paper examines the division of founder shares in entrepreneurial ventures, focusing on the decision of whether or not to divide the shares equally among all founders. To motivate the empirical analysis we develop a simple theory of costly bargaining, where... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Equity
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    Walter A. Friedman

    Walter A. Friedman is Director of the Business History Initiative and Lecturer.  He edits Business History Review with Geoff Jones. He specializes in business, labor, and economic history. He is author of Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First... View Details

    Keywords: advertising; automobiles; automotive; electrical equipment; electronics; information technology industry; marketing industry; railroad; retailing; soft drink
    • 28 Dec 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Psychological Costs of Pay-for-Performance: Implications for Strategic Compensation

    Keywords: by Ian Larkin, Lamar Pierce & Francesca Gino
    • 14 Nov 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    What Shapes the Gatekeepers? Evidence from Global Supply Chain Auditors

    Keywords: by Jodi L. Short, Michael W. Toffel & Andrea Hugill; Financial Services; Legal Services
    • Web

    Health Care - Faculty & Research

    motivation and, contrary to existing laboratory evidence, financial incentives do not appear to crowd it out. Third, the responses to both types of incentives are stronger when... View Details
    • December 2016
    • Article

    Deal Process Design in Management Buyouts

    By: Guhan Subramanian
    Management buyouts (MBOs) are an economically and legally significant class of transaction: not only do they account for more than $10 billion in deal volume per year, on average, but they also play an important role in defining the relationship between inside and... View Details
    Keywords: Management Buyout; Deal Structuring; Acquisition; Design; Fairness
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    • 25 Mar 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Demographics, Career Concerns or Social Comparison: Who Games SSRN Download Counts?

    Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman & Ian I. Larkin; Education
    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Working (From Home) During a Crisis: Online Social Contributions by Workers During the Coronavirus Shock

    By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Wesley W. Koo and Xina Li
    Prior research has documented that during mortality-related crises workers face psychic costs and are motivated to make social contributions. In addition, management practices that encourage workers to make social contributions during a crisis create value for firms.... View Details
    Keywords: Crisis; Social Contributions; Work From Home (WFH); Cannot Work From Home (CWFH); Social Distancing; Online Communities; Coronavirus; COVID-19; Health Pandemics; Employees; Working Conditions; Internet and the Web; Crisis Management
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    • September 2019
    • Case

    Teaming Up to Win the Rail Deal at GE (A)

    By: Amy Edmondson, Ranjay Gulati and Rachna Tahilyani
    In 2012, Nalin Jain, then head of GE aviation for South Asia, was given the added responsibility for GE’s transportation business in India, including bidding for a $2.5 billion contract to manufacture, service and maintain 1,000 diesel locomotives for state owned... View Details
    Keywords: Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Human Capital; Groups and Teams; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Industrial Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Rail Industry; Transportation Industry; United States; India
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    • April 2019
    • Case

    Barber Cardiosystems

    By: Ranjay Gulati and Paul S. Myers
    Barber Cardiosystems, based in Melbourne, Australia, designs and manufactures therapeutic devices used for treatment of coronary conditions. Over four decades, it has grown to be among the top 200 medical device companies in the world. It competes against much larger... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Strategic Alignment; Cost Management; Performance Productivity; Organizational Culture; Motivation and Incentives; Organizational Design; Strategy; Leadership; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Australia
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    • 07 Jul 2021
    • Book

    Good News for Disgraced Companies: You Can Regain Trust

    talk about health, given how dangerous their products are to public and personal health. However, most people don’t have a clear view into the internal motivations of a company. Instead our relationship with... View Details
    Keywords: by Lane Lambert
    • 18 Nov 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    Who Really Determines CEO Salary Packages?

    compensation package added up to $15.2 million in 2013, according to the Economic Policy Institute. That compensation includes a vast array of factors, such as salary, bonuses, stock options, and long-term View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consulting
    • Teaching Interest

    Managing Global Health: Applying Behavioral Economics to Create Impact (MBA)

    Health, and development more broadly, is not something we give to people: it is something they produce themselves, interacting with supply-side and institutional factors. This course trains students to see through the lens of the end-user and to use the levers of... View Details

      Caleb Kealoha

      Caleb completed his BA in Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he did research in the Social Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, the Computational... View Details