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  • 22 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 22, 2016

returns. Collectively, these findings provide new evidence on the explicit practice of RPE and their implications for corporate governance and firm performance. Harvard Business School Case 617-011 Breakfast... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 May 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Distance Still Matters in Business, Despite the Internet

many firms located in New York and Los Angeles. That said, it is not mentioned in our chapter, but the biggest near-term certain change on the horizon is demographic—Baby Boomers will reach old age. That... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Transportation; Telecommunications; Shipping; Publishing; Technology
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After the Opium War: Treaty Ports and Compradors - A Chronicle of the China Trade

and later founded their own enterprises. 25 Augustine Heard retired from his role as active head of the company in 1844. He would never return to China. In June 1844, the firm announced its new partners:... View Details
  • 26 Jan 2022
  • News

Making Peace with Anger

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Willy Walker (MBA 1995) is the chairman and CEO of Walker and Dunlop, a commercial real estate finance firm founded in 1937 by his grandfather and his great... View Details
  • 13 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 13, 2009

Business School Case 409-060 This case illustrates the leadership and management challenges of starting a new firm based on a new business model and how success creates... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jan 2011
  • News

Seth Klarman, MBA 1982

President, The Baupost Group Download Klarman profile (pdf) Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1957 Born, New York City 1979 Joins Mutual Shares full time 1982 Baupost is launched 1990 Creates Klarman Family Foundation... View Details
  • 15 Jun 2021
  • News

Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock

society, but that alterations to the regulation and taxation of ESOPs had made them less beneficial. When he became head of industrials for the global investment firm KKR in 2010, Stavros began experimenting with View Details
Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • August 2005 (Revised August 2007)
  • Background Note

Why Study Emerging Markets

By: Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu and Kjell Ke-Li Carlsson
Emerging markets have attracted considerable attention and are likely to become an increasingly important political and economic force. They represent an enormous opportunity for entrepreneurs, multinationals, and investors but also pose a threat for products, jobs,... View Details
Keywords: Profit; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Governance; Emerging Markets; Problems and Challenges; Opportunities
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  • 13 Dec 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams

Employees often feel stressed when their firms are bought by other companies, fearing they could face layoffs, demotions, or lousy working conditions. While it’s true that organizations tend to restructure their workforce following... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 18 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 18

elastically supplied inputs, free entry may lead to an inefficiently high number of firms in equilibrium. Under input scarcity, however, the welfare loss from free entry is reduced. Further, free entry may increase use of high-quality... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

Banking on Success

Kennedy Stephen M. Waters James A. Stern William J. Kneisel Donald H. Layton Kevin W. Kennedy A managing director at Goldman Sachs, where he has spent his entire career, Kevin Kennedy has served the firm in a number of positions,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
  • 04 Nov 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Multi-Sided Platforms

Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & Julian Wright
  • 01 Dec 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation

Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin & Eric von Hippel
  • 2008
  • Other Unpublished Work

Accounting, Risk Management and the Aftermath of a Control Debacle

By: Anette Mikes
Despite the widespread adoption of risk management systems in the financial services industry, recent control debacles highlight the apparent lack of top managerial attention to risk controls. Yet in order to understand the workings and uses of risk controls (or any... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Governance Controls; Management Systems; Accounting; Conflict and Resolution; Trends; Financial Services Industry
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By: Andy Wu
How can technology entrepreneurs build competitive advantage from the ground up? Professor Andy Wu conducts scholarly research and develops course materials that document how technology entrepreneurs can (1) organize for innovation to create new market opportunities... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Growth Management; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Technology Platform; Technological Innovation; Information Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Video Game Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States; China; Southeast Asia; South Asia
  • July 2003 (Revised August 2003)
  • Case

Lamoiyan Corporation of the Philippines: Challenging Multinational Giants

A local Philippine toothpaste manufacturer, Lamoiyan Corp., faces the challenge of staying competitive against entrenched multinational giants. The company has managed to capture, at its peak, 20% of the Philippine toothpaste market and has become the number three... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Competitive Strategy; Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products Industry; Philippines
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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

Courses & Case Studies Case Studies Middlebury College: Energy2028 (320029) by Brian Trelstad , Michael Norris and John McKinley APRIL 2020 (REVISED MAY 2021) Not all social change happens with new organizations. Middlebury College is one... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later &mdash Easy Payments: The Rise of Installment Selling

credit. Pianos and elegant furniture, though not new products, represented gentility and social aspiration: for many American families, going without a piano meant forfeiting membership in the middle class. Farm machinery could be... View Details
  • 07 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 7

the lab and into the field, analyzing companies' sales and pay data, and conducting experiments involving actual salespeople. The findings from this new wave of research support some current compensation practices but call others into... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Nov 2022
  • Research & Ideas

A Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure Matters

Want employees to think outside the box? Start by taking a good, hard look at how you’re paying them. That’s the implication of new research examining the impact of different compensation structures on employee innovation. While there is... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis