Deal Structuring - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Apr 2020
Book

Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism

Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Energy

05 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat

of whether someone will behave unethically. Two, among those who do cheat, cheating reduces levels of the hormone associated with psychological stress. In other words, people may use cheating as a means of relieving stress. The good news is that corporate cultures and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising

"People who went for those deals recognized that they valued a computer more than their privacy," says Deighton. Still, everyone agrees that there must be some regulation. "Privacy has to be protected," says Russell... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

12 Mar 2021
News

My Favorite Case

raised in the case are how to raise the necessary capital and structure the deal and whether or not to buy the company. This case inspired me to think about small business and manufacturing in a more... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

With COVID-19 cases growing worldwide, business leaders are scrambling to deal with a wide variety of problems, from slumping sales and stalling supply chains to keeping employees healthy and making sure they can continue working. We... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

empirical analysis to be more than sketched in this paper. It is also a field that has not yet taken management as a central subject of empirical study. We shall therefore deal only with some of the central problems of the View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

30 Oct 2017
Blog Post

How My Engineering and Manufacturing Background Prepared Me for an MBA

crucial skills that prepared me for the MBA experience: A structured and practical approach to problem solving The discipline I acquired to methodically think through problems has proved to be valuable. Breaking down complex problems... View Details

25 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Feeling Stuck? Getting Past Impasse

psychotherapist, and career development counselor for over 25 years, is also a researcher on career decision making generally and the relationship between personality structure and work satisfaction in particular. He met recently with HBS... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Jul 2019
Book

Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence

it’s a forward-looking, subjective, creative exercise that requires a lot of imagination. Think about valuing Facebook today. It requires predicting the future of privacy policies around the world, the actions of Google and Amazon in the advertising market, the future... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Sep 2006
What Do You Think?

Are We Ready for Self-Management?

as to skills in selecting people. Next, as Debbie Lee suggests, " there has to be a great deal of training." Again, high-performance organizations train for skills, not attitude. Nari Kannan points out two other critical... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

09 Jun 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge

incentives among pool members. This seems to have greatly facilitated the adoption of the MPEG-2 standard. A number of firms have taken the radical step of adopting a code release strategy, where companies release some existing proprietary code and then create a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

Web

Entrepreneurship Course Online | HBS Online

proficient in English, and committed to learning and engaging with fellow participants throughout the course. Learn about bringing this course to your organization . Learner Stories 94% improved knowledge to grow or start a business The People, Opportunity, Context,... View Details

23 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings

savings, because few organizations seemed interested in savings by the poor. Credit was fairly well available in their communities, and payment services (such as check cashing, money orders, and debit cards), while costly, were also available. Savings was the "missing... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

Web

Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

finance ventures. This course also introduces participants to the idea that entrepreneurs run structured experiments to validate ideas and refine business strategy. Participants work through real-world challenges faced by entrepreneurs... View Details

07 Nov 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Sir Alex Ferguson--Managing Manchester United

Alex, I jumped at the chance. I figured I would undoubtedly learn a great deal about what it takes to lead and manage a sports team, and that indeed proved to be the case. Q: The case reads as if you were able to attend some matches in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports; Entertainment & Recreation

09 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent

this at IBM for almost eight years,” she explained on CBS This Morning. “We’re a great proof point of this. Now, after working hard and adjusting our job requisitions, which is one of the structural barriers to address, we no longer... View Details

Keywords: by Rawi E. Abdelal, Katherine Connolly Baden, and Boris Groysberg

10 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

top executive. Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, we are all taking in vast amounts of new information every day and adjusting to an entirely new set of behavioral habits. In addition, most of us are dealing with unprecedented tasks and... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

resulting in more consumers and market share, or both. And, for companies that provide these technologies mentioned above to other companies that consume products, they too must deal with the basic economics, utility, and acceptability.... View Details

18 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask

enjoy and which would you prefer not to do yourself? What you delegate, how you structure your job, whether or not you are in the right job-all of this should flow from and be influenced by a realistic understanding of your likes and... View Details