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06 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

highlight the pros and cons of each knowledge production model, help identify the scope of the empirical generalization of prior studies... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2005
News

House of Bread on the Rise

the first location, McCann leaves the baking to her staff while she manages a growing enterprise. “I love people, and franchising is basically about relationships with people,” she explains. McCann is well... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Food Services and Drinking Places; Food Services and Drinking Places

November 2000
Background Note

Note on Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs) and Phantom Stock Plans

By: Dwight B. Crane and Indra Reinbergs

Provides a brief overview of employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) and phantom stock plans for owners of closely held companies. ESOPs can be used as a tool of corporate financing, and can provide employees with ownership interests. Phantom stock plans can reward... View Details

Keywords: Financing and Loans; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Motivation and Incentives; Management Teams; Corporate Governance; Ownership Stake; Taxation

27 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

When Rights of First Refusal Are a Bad Deal

Rights of first refusal are contract clauses common in such industries as entertainment. In 2001, Paramount Studios and the National Broadcasting Company negotiated the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Construction; Real Estate; Entertainment & Recreation

15 Jun 2021
News

The Path out of Polarization

true, which sounds a lot like the moment through which we’re living, but they managed to get there without Twitter and Facebook and YouTube. I do have a certain kind View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Telecommunications; Information

11 Jul 2016
HBS Case

Neurodiversity: The Benefits of Recruiting Employees with Cognitive Disabilities

partner group. SAP employees also received autism awareness training in what Pisano calls “a lot of internal selling.” Other companies that either have programs or are starting one include Towers Watson,... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology

04 Sep 2019
Blog Post

A Guided Experience into the World of Entrepreneurship

made an offer. Stan started in June with an official role as Product Manager Intern with responsibilities he describes as “a mix of technology development and business... View Details

Blog

Inside the Learning: The Impact of a Personal Case

of issues and then settle on the one problem they most want to investigate. This could be a challenge their company is facing such as a strategic or financial choice, or it... View Details

04 Mar 2024
Research & Ideas

Want to Make Diversity Stick? Break the Cycle of Sameness

predecessors,” says Chang, who coauthored the study with Erika Kirgios of the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. The findings were recently published in the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

27 Apr 2022
News

Following the Flow of Aid

provide food, shelter, and services to people crossing the border from Ukraine. But the experience also underscored for McKenna some of the “uncomfortable truths of aid work,”... View Details

Keywords: Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 May 2019
What Do You Think?

What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?

littleny Can YouTube’s Users Help the Company Deal With Its “Moral” Problem?* This month’s mini-case described the dilemma faced by Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube: how far to promote “sustainability,”... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting

February 2011 (Revised May 2011)
Case

Utilis: Designing, Producing, and Selling Rapid Deployment Shelters for a Troubled World

By: Herman B. Leonard, Daniela Beyersdorfer and Simon Harrow

How can a company that supplies disaster response and humanitarian agencies best handle the intrinsically unpredictable and highly volatile demand for its products? Utilis is a French supplier of rapid-deploy high-end tent solutions for civilian and military uses (such... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Demand and Consumers; Strategic Planning; Natural Disasters; Competitive Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; Industrial Products Industry; France

November 1996 (Revised April 1999)
Case

United Way of Southeastern New England (UWSENE)

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Ellen L. Kaplan / RA

A regional United Way organization, a nonprofit already active in total quality management, implements a Balanced Scorecard to link its strategic planning objectives with day-to-day operations, and is able to translate its vision and strategy into objectives and... View Details

Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Nonprofit Organizations; Governing and Advisory Boards; Strategy; United States

22 Oct 2008
Working Paper Summaries

Variation in Experience and Team Familiarity: Addressing the Knowledge Acquisition-Application Problem

Keywords: by Robert S. Huckman & Bradley R. Staats; Video Game; Web Services

Web

Course Overview - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

about their companies and experiences. The faculty participates actively in these discussions, while also providing frameworks for thinking about each topic. The peer relationships are an essential component... View Details

14 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

Desktop Search and Revenue Streams

accessible and useful to you,'" he said. Like Yahoo, Google also recently launched a desktop search product. Mark Kroese, general manager of information services View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

Research Summary

Wearing a Red Hat ¨C The Impact of Activist Industrial Policy on Software Development in China

The idea that the government should steer economic development by strategically hand-picking and managing certain industries is controversial but appeals to many developing countries that are eager to upgrade their industries. In this paper, I study China's recent... View Details

February 2017 (Revised June 2017)
Case

ExxonMobil: Business as Usual? (A)

By: George Serafeim, Shiva Rajgopal and David Freiberg

Climate change was becoming an important societal and business issue as more governments were introducing climate change related regulations and investors became increasibly worried about stranded assets within oil and gas firms. In September 2016, the U.S. Securities... View Details

Keywords: Oil ＆ Gas; Oil Prices; Oil Companies; Asset Impairment; Predictive Analytics; Sustainability; Environmental Impact; Innovation; Disclosure; Accounting; Valuation; Climate Change; Renewable Energy; Environmental Sustainability; Financial Reporting; Energy Industry