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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Of Myth and Merlin: T.A. (Tom) Barron's Literary Odyssey
monthlong hike in the Colorado wilderness. Musing on the connections between his business and writing careers, Barron observes: "The people I know who have done best in View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- Web
Managing and Innovating in Financial Services - Course Catalog
in which competition, technology and regulation are constantly changing. We will look at a variety of financial institutions and financial service providers including banks, nonbank financial intermediaries,... View Details
- 12 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis
specifically about COVID-19 impacts and responses, we spoke with several Harvard Business School alumni committed to reducing the impact of mental illness and addiction on... View Details
- 2008
- Working Paper
Do Legal Origins Have Persistent Effects Over Time? A Look at Law and Finance around the World c. 1900
By: Aldo Musacchio
How persistent are the effects of legal institutions adopted or inherited in the distant past? A substantial literature argues that legal origins have persistent effects that explain clear differences in investor protections and financial development around the world... View Details
Keywords: History; Law; Development Economics; Investment; Corporate Governance; Finance; Business and Government Relations
Musacchio, Aldo. "Do Legal Origins Have Persistent Effects Over Time? A Look at Law and Finance around the World c. 1900." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-030, January 2008.
- 2016
- Working Paper
What Factors Drive Director Perceptions of Their Board's Effectiveness?
By: Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy and Richard Ellis Crum
We use a survey of directors to collect data on their ratings of board effectiveness as well as board internal dynamics and key processes. Controlling for many of the governance metrics examined by prior research, we find that directors’ ratings of their boards’... View Details
Keywords: Board Of Directors; Corporate Governance; Performance Effectiveness; Perception; Risk Management
Groysberg, Boris, Paul M. Healy, and Richard Ellis Crum. "What Factors Drive Director Perceptions of Their Board's Effectiveness?" Working Paper, February 2016.
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
governments that a door-to-door transportation agreement between the two countries was signed. Such "bottom-up" policy changes, initiated by the business people and encouraged... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA: Maura Corby Sullivan (MBA/MPA 2009)
unlike anyone else who went to Harvard Business School with me—but my words, as I recall, to her were, “I’m not the military type. I’m not at all what they’re looking for.” To which she, being a lot wiser than 17-year-old me, sort of... View Details
- 14 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Connection between 1930s Weather and Today's Labor Unions
unionized while others do not? “It turns out there was something that happened in the 1930s that set the rank of unionization in place across states in the United States, and that rank has stayed roughly the same ever since,” says Lauren... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- May 1982 (Revised February 1983)
- Case
Ford Motor Co. (B): The Automobile Crisis and Ford's Political Strategy--1980
Keywords: Strategy; Crisis Management; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations; Auto Industry; United States
Salter, Malcolm S. "Ford Motor Co. (B): The Automobile Crisis and Ford's Political Strategy--1980." Harvard Business School Case 382-162, May 1982. (Revised February 1983.)
- Web
Social Media Guidelines for Faculty and Staff | About
Social Media Guidelines for Faculty and Staff Faculty and staff members at the School use social media in a variety of capacities, including: related to their roles as member... View Details
- Web
Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) - Course Catalog
urgency and importance. Successful execution also requires making tradeoffs given constraints of time, capital, talent, and political capital. LEAP will introduce students to several general tactics, common... View Details
- Web
Polaroid: At The Intersection of Science & Art: Edwin H. Land and the Polaroid Corporation
Baker Library Special Collections Baker Library | Bloomberg Center Harvard Business School Soldiers Field Boston , MA 02163 Phone: 617.495.6411 Email: histcollref@hbs.edu Map/Directions Related Links Alumni... View Details
- 16 May 2017
- Blog Post
Making the Move into Digital Health and Software Engineering
companies are transitioning into tech-enabled companies and effective operators need to have deeper technical skills. In a similar vein, HBS’s student-run newspaper, The Harbus, published a piece on why coding is the new View Details
- February 6, 2021
- Editorial
The Chinese Debt Trap Is a Myth: The Narrative Wrongfully Portrays Both Beijing and the Developing Countries It Deals With.
By: Deborah Brautigam and Meg Rithmire
Our research shows that Chinese banks are willing to restructure the terms of existing loans and have never actually seized an asset from any country, much less the port of Hambantota. A Chinese company’s acquisition of a majority stake in the port was a cautionary... View Details
Brautigam, Deborah, and Meg Rithmire. "The Chinese Debt Trap Is a Myth: The Narrative Wrongfully Portrays Both Beijing and the Developing Countries It Deals With." The Atlantic (website) (February 6, 2021).
- January 2017
- Case
The Six CEOs of Tyco International Ltd.
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
In September 2016, Johnson Controls, Inc. completed the acquisition of Tyco International PLC, a $9.9 billion business with operating profits of $884 million. The purchase consideration was $14.4 billion. Although the deal was billed as a merger, Ireland-based Tyco... View Details
Keywords: Tyco; Dennis Kozlowski; Edward Breen; Fire Safety; Fire Protection; Security; Packaging; Securities And Exchange Commission; Fraud; Accounting; Accounting Audits; Earnings Management; Financial Statements; Goodwill Accounting; Acquisition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Conglomerates; Business Divisions; Business Exit or Shutdown; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Headquarters; Business Model; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Restructuring; Crime and Corruption; Engineering; Applied Optics; Chemicals; Construction; Metals and Minerals; Ethics; Finance; Cash Flow; Public Equity; Stock Options; Financing and Loans; Initial Public Offering; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Location; Geographic Scope; Global Range; Globalized Firms and Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Health Care and Treatment; Business History; Executive Compensation; Selection and Staffing; Courts and Trials; Lawfulness; Lawsuits and Litigation; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Strategy; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Consolidation; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Expansion; Horizontal Integration; Value; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Republic of Ireland; Switzerland; Bermuda; United States; New Hampshire
Wells, John R., and Gabriel Ellsworth. "The Six CEOs of Tyco International Ltd." Harvard Business School Case 717-459, January 2017.
- 15 Sep 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
Materiality in Corporate Governance: The Statement of Significant Audiences and Materiality
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & Tim Youmans
- October 2007
- Article
The Influence of Financial Statement Recognition and Analyst Coverage on the Market's Valuation of R&D Capital
By: Michael D. Kimbrough
Statement of Financial Accounting Standards 141 (SFAS No. 141)'s requirement that an acquirer in a business combination estimate the fair value of the target's separately identifiable assets and liabilities (including research and development capital) provides a rare... View Details
- Web
Commodities, Currencies, and Balancing of the Trade Deficit - A Chronicle of the China Trade
Related Collections Site Credits From the earliest days of trade between the United States and China, the major obstacle to this commerce had been the lack of American commodities that could be sold in... View Details