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    Malcolm S. Salter

    Malcolm Salter has been a member of the Harvard Business School faculty since 1967. His teaching and research focus on issues of corporate strategy, organization, and governance.

    In addition to teaching at HBS, he has held faculty positions at the Harvard... View Details

    Keywords: arts; automobiles; energy; investment banking industry; retailing; venture capital industry
    • January 1997 (Revised December 1999)
    • Case

    OXO International

    By: H. Kent Bowen, Marilyn Matis and Sylvie Ryckebusch
    OXO, a kitchen tools and gadgets company, was started by a businessman who had 30 years of experience in the housewares industry. With his wife and son as founders, he creates a new niche in the gadgets industry for high-end gourmet stores. The company has headquarters... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Supply Chain Management; Production; Design; Ownership; Business Startups; Acquisition; Consumer Products Industry; Asia; New York (city, NY); Connecticut
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    • 26 Apr 2022
    • Blog Post

    How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Vasilis Mornto

    your 2+2 admission? I deferred for a total of three academic years. What job(s) did you have during your deferral? I spent the first two years working in consulting in Greece and other countries in Europe. And I loved it! I was fortunate... View Details
    • 01 Sep 2015
    • First Look

    First Look -- September 1, 2015

    across firms. Using information disclosed in proxy statements of publicly traded companies, I predict and find that firms connected through board interlocks or common compensation consultants display a... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

      Paul W. Marshall

      MBA Class of 1960 Professor of Management, Paul W. Marshall, is affiliated with the Entrepreneurial Management Unit and teaches The Entrepreneurial Manager in the Turnaround Environment. This Elective Curriculum course focuses on the role of... View Details

      Keywords: consulting; consulting; consulting; consulting; consulting; consulting; consulting; consulting; consulting; consulting; consulting; consulting; consulting
      • August 1993 (Revised December 1993)
      • Case

      Scudder, Stevens & Clark

      By: Jay O. Light and James O. Sailer
      A large multi-product investment counseling firm considers its positioning in the mutual fund business. View Details
      Keywords: Investment; Investment Funds; Product Positioning; Consulting Industry; Consulting Industry
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        Hacking Heroin

        “Hacking Heroin” was the first hackathon that Annie Rittgers, founder of Cincinnati-based consultancy firm 17a, had organized or even attended. “There will continue to be a lot of preventable overdose deaths and wasted potential if the opioid crisis continues... View Details

          James L. Heskett

          James L. Heskett is UPS Foundation Professor Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author of his latest book, With From Within: Build Organizational Culture for Competitive... View Details

          • Research Summary

          Overview

          I am an ethnographer and field researcher studying how people experience and interpret their work and cultural contexts, as well as how this shapes inequality and organizational outcomes like normative control. I specialize in utilizing in-depth, inductive field... View Details
          • November 2009 (Revised March 2013)
          • Case

          Miles Everson at PricewaterhouseCoopers

          By: Robert G. Eccles and David Lane
          Miles Everson, a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), is the Global Engagement Partner (GEP) for a large U.S. financial institution and about to take over this role for a much larger global financial institution. The GEP role is a critical one at PwC. GEPs have... View Details
          Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Customer Relationship Management; Globalized Firms and Management; Managerial Roles; Consulting Industry
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          • 20 Jan 2010
          • First Look

          First Look: Jan. 20

          benefits from outsourcing the use of intellectual property increases. We also examine how the variability of payoffs to effort affects the optimal way the owner of the intellectual property uses it. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-100.pdf Does... View Details
          Keywords: Martha Lagace
          • March 2012
          • Article

          Performance Pressure as a Double-edged Sword: Enhancing Team Motivation but Undermining the Use of Team Knowledge

          By: Heidi K. Gardner
          In this paper, I develop and empirically test the proposition that performance pressure acts as a double-edged sword for teams, providing positive effects by enhancing the team's motivation to achieve good results while simultaneously triggering process losses. I... View Details
          Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Behavior; Groups and Teams; Performance
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          • November 1999
          • Case

          Interactive Minds (B)

          By: Ashish Nanda, Thomas J. DeLong, Christina L. Darwall and Scot H. Landry
          Two recent Harvard Business School graduates start a venture capital/consulting firm focused on opportunities related to the Internet. View Details
          Keywords: History; Venture Capital; Internet and the Web; Capital Structure; Entrepreneurship; Consulting Industry
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            Performance Pressure as a Double-edged Sword: Enhancing Team Motivation but Undermining the Use of Team Knowledge

            In this paper, I develop and empirically test the proposition that performance pressure acts as a double-edged sword for teams, providing positive effects by enhancing the team’s motivation to achieve good results while simultaneously triggering process losses. I... View Details

            • 08 Oct 2013
            • First Look

            First Look: October 8

            opacity and agility. Clients find it very difficult to judge a firm's performance in advance, because they are usually hiring it for specialized knowledge and capability that they themselves lack. Price becomes a proxy for quality. And the top View Details
            Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
            • October 2024
            • Supplement

            Hakluyt: from Corporate Intelligence to Trusted Advisors (B)

            By: Joseph B. Fuller and Lena Duchene
            This case is a continuation of an earlier study chronicling Hakluyt & Company (Hakluyt)’s transformation from an obscure boutique to a global corporate advisory firm with an outsized reputation. In August 2024, the firm faced a pivotal moment as managing partner Varun... View Details
            Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Talent and Talent Management; Capital Structure; Cash Flow; Corporate Finance; Equity; Stock Shares; Corporate Governance; Business History; Compensation and Benefits; Recruitment; Leadership Style; Growth Management; Management Succession; Management Teams; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Networks; Partners and Partnerships; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Consulting Industry; Europe; United Kingdom; England; London
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            • 31 Oct 2023
            • HBS Case

            Checking Your Ethics: Would You Speak Up in These 3 Sticky Situations?

            Imagine you’re a consultant and you notice a few eyebrow-raising behaviors, such as a colleague who misuses a client’s meal stipend or an executive who screams inappropriately at his staff. Should you step in and speak up? For... View Details
            Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consulting
            • Web

            Curriculum | MBA

            Strategy Harvard Business School Social Purpose of the Firm (SPF) Harvard Business School Life Science, Ethics, and Management Seminar More on the MBA Required Curriculum SUMMER Students are free to pursue an internship of their choosing... View Details
            • July 2024
            • Case

            Roja Garimella: Developing a Founder's Judgment

            By: Reza Satchu and Patrick Sanguineti
            Roja Garimella’s path to becoming a founder was anything but straight. Setting her sights on a career in medicine since childhood, she committed to medical school with her acceptance to college. And yet, throughout her studies, she continually explored alternative... View Details
            Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Entrepreneurial Finance; Business Startups; Judgments; Financial Services Industry; Health Industry
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            • March 2000 (Revised August 2000)
            • Case

            Ethan Berman at RiskMetrics Group (A)

            Ethan Berman, CEO of J.P. Morgan's risk management spinoff, has grown RiskMetrics Group (RMG) from a small team of 30 to a 70-person firm contemplating an IPO. Along the way, the consensus-based decision-making process that he espoused started to prove unwieldy; his... View Details
            Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Management Style; Business Growth and Maturation; Decision Making; Consulting Industry; Consulting Industry
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