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Family Unity over Time By: Lauren Cohen , Octavian Graf Pilati, Dominik V. Eynern and Sophia Pan Nico Oprée, a fourth-generation (G4) member of his family’s heavy manufacturing business, found himself reflecting on how the firm would navigate a deepening View Details

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Breaking the Code of Change

want to develop business organizations that satisfy shareholders and yet have the capacity to adapt and survive as viable institutions in the long run. Theory E In 1994 Al Dunlap became CEO of troubled Scott... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria

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Leadership - Faculty & Research

Leadership Leadership 2015 Chapter Leave No Slice of Genius Behind: Selecting and Developing Tomorrow's Leaders of Innovation By: Linda A. Hill More than ever, leaders of nearly every kind of organization view their human resources teams as essential to View Details

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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

business leader, a facility in talking about complex social issues, and a greater understanding of the merits of reparations. A New Way to Measure Shareholder Returns / End to Magical Thinking Professor Mihir Desai (MBA 1993) + More Info... View Details

07 Jul 2008
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Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

were many opportunities for enormous personal gain that distracted top executives from the essential tasks of maintaining institutional integrity and building stable relationships with shareholders and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

01 Oct 2001
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Organizing the Family-Run Business

Figure 1. Senior management is the organizing mechanism and voice of the employees. The family council and family assembly are the organizing mechanisms and voice of the family. The board of directors is the principal organizing mechanism and voice of the owners. The... View Details

2010
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Why Takeover Vulnerability Matters to Debtholders

By: Joan Farre-Mensa

Recent work documents that firms that are more vulnerable to takeover have higher borrowing costs. This paper investigates the reasons behind this stylized fact. My results show that firms with few antitakeover defenses face a higher cost of debt because lenders are... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Borrowing and Debt; Cost; Equity; Banks and Banking; Investment Portfolio; Risk Management; Agreements and Arrangements; Business and Shareholder Relations; Conflict and Resolution

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February 2016 (Revised July 2017)
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Leadership and Independence at the Federal Reserve

By: David Moss and Marc Campasano

“From the Great Depression, to the stagflation of the seventies, to the current economic crisis caused by the housing bubble, every economic downturn suffered by this country over the past century can be traced to Federal Reserve policy.” Ron Paul, a Republican from... View Details

Keywords: Government Legislation; Central Banking; Policy; Financial Crisis; Business and Government Relations; Banking Industry; Public Administration Industry; United States

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24 Oct 2023
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When Tech Platforms Identify Black-Owned Businesses, White Customers Buy

businesses,” the study says. White people are supporting Black businesses To determine the source of the demand for Black-owned restaurants on Yelp, the team studied data from sources including: The US Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. The Massachusetts View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Food & Beverage

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A Campus Built on Philanthropy | About

force in US finance and industry. At the age of 23, he invested $3,000 to become an original shareholder in the First National Bank, where he worked as a teller. Just 14 years later, he became the bank’s president. Under his conservative... View Details

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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Vote for "Short-Termism, Shareholder Payouts, and Investment in the EU" (June 2021) with Jesse M. Fried. Charles C.Y. Wang : Received the Wyss Award for Excellence in Doctoral Student Mentoring in 2022. Yuan... View Details

04 May 2021
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Best Buy: How Human Connection Saved a Failing Retailer

shareholders and is a money-making machine,” he says. “But no, a company is a human organization made up of individuals working together in pursuit of a goal.” Leading with purpose and humanity Based on his own track record in... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail

06 Jul 2016
What Do You Think?

How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?

to do it. What do you think? Original Column The Brexit vote by citizens of the United Kingdom to leave the European Union was neither the beginning nor the end of the anti-globalization, anti-establishment movement. But it grabbed the... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Manufacturing

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Doctoral 100 Years - Doctoral

Commercial Science after completing his dissertation, “A Classification of Marketing for Business Administration.” Gragg went on to become a professor at HBS. 1930 Change in Requirements HBS Faculty vote to radically change the... View Details

12 Apr 2022
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Swiping Right: How Data Helped This Online Dating Site Make More Matches

Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment. McFowland coauthored the paper with Jui Ramaprasad of the University of Maryland, Ravi Bapna of the University of Minnesota, Probal Mojumdar of Indian Institute of Management Udaipur, and... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

21 Jul 2010
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HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation

institutions that did not contribute to the recent crisis? Whatever the impact, regulators also have to be careful not to be "fighting the last war." Today, we face a new battle. The household and government sectors are... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

29 Jan 2024
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Do Disasters Rally Support for Climate Action? It's Complicated.

Environmental disasters like wildfires can ignite awareness of climate change and boost eco-friendly politicians’ careers. But do voters perceive a tradeoff between environmental policies and local economic growth? In Brazil, home to a majority of the Amazon tropical... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

strategically respond to government signals regarding appropriate corporate activity. We integrate institutional theory and research on corporate political strategy to develop a political dependence model that explains (a) how different... View Details

01 Oct 2001
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How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

objective. Combining the two banks created opportunities to eliminate overlaps in such areas as back-office staff, branch offices, and computing infrastructure. Management of both banks also believed that larger and more diversified financial View Details

Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson

17 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: January 17

exceeds a peak price. Conversely, bidder shareholders react more negatively as the offer price is influenced upward toward a peak. Merger waves occur when high returns on the market and likely targets make it easier for bidders to offer a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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