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  • 2025
  • Working Paper

Private Equity and Workers: Modeling and Measuring Monopsony, Implicit Contracts, and Efficient Reallocation

By: Kyle Herkenhoff, Josh Lerner, Gordon M. Phillips, Francisca Rebelo and Benjamin Sampson
We measure the real effects of private equity buyouts on worker outcomes by building a new database that links transactions to matched employer-employee data in the United States. To guide our empirical analysis, we derive testable implications from three theories in... View Details
Keywords: Monopsony; Market Power; Productivity; Private Equity; Employment; Wages; Employees
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  • 22–23 Sep 2020
  • Virtual Programming

Driving Impact: A Dialogue on Capitalism, Climate, and Social Change

Join Professor Rebecca Henderson and Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA 1969) as they debate the theories of change. The conversation will compare and contrast the authors groundbreaking approaches to rethinking the role of business in driving impactone through the lens of... View Details
  • September 2014
  • Article

The New Heretics: Hybrid Organizations and the Challenges they Present to Corporate Sustainability

By: Nardia Haigh and Andrew J. Hoffman
Corporate sustainability has become mainstream; reaching into all areas of business management. Yet despite this progress, large-scale social and ecological issues continue to worsen. In this article, we examine how corporate sustainability has been enacted as a... View Details
Keywords: Social Issues; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Mission and Purpose
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  • 07 Oct 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Specific Knowledge and Divisional Performance Measurement

Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen & William H. Meckling

    Srikant M. Datar

    Srikant M. Datar became the eleventh dean of Harvard Business School on 1 January 2021. During his tenure as a faculty member, he served as Senior Associate Dean for University Affairs (including Faculty Chair of the Harvard Innovation Lab), for Research, for... View Details

    Keywords: management consulting; management consulting; management consulting; management consulting; management consulting; management consulting; management consulting; management consulting; management consulting; management consulting; management consulting; management consulting; management consulting; management consulting; management consulting
    • 2008
    • Working Paper

    Structural Closure and Exposure: Formation of Structural Inequality in Managerial Labor Markets

    By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski
    Positional advantages arise when actors obtain rewards attached to positions they occupy, but these rewards are not merited by their performance. Existing theory suggests that in competitive markets there should be no positional advantages. This paper proposes a model... View Details
    Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Jobs and Positions; Managerial Roles; Performance Improvement; Alignment; Competitive Advantage; Equality and Inequality
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    • February 1989 (Revised August 1989)
    • Case

    Portman Hotel Co.

    A brand new hotel has opened with a new service strategy: import to America Asian-style service using a butler-like employee group called the personal valets. To achieve this high level of service, the hotel has paid great attention to its human resource policies,... View Details
    Keywords: Business or Company Management; Service Delivery; Employees; Accommodations Industry; Asia; North America
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    • Research Summary

    Creativity and Innovation

    By: Teresa M. Amabile

    Starting in 2016, I undertook several new projects on creativity and innovation. The first, a revision of my 1988 componential theory of creativity and innovation, was coauthored with Michael Pratt (Boston College) and published in Research in Organizational... View Details

    Keywords: Creativity; Innovation
    • 2012
    • Book

    The Rise of the Modern Firm

    By: Geoffrey Jones and Walter A. Friedman
    This authoritative volume focuses on the rise of modern firms, from their early history to the present day. It considers the role of laws and contracts in shaping the growth and influence of business enterprises. It presents entrepreneurs, executives and the firms they... View Details
    Keywords: Business Ventures; Economy; Business History; Archives; Contracts; Theory
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    • 14 Apr 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Facts and Figuring: An Experimental Investigation of Network Structure and Performance in Information and Solution Spaces

    Keywords: by Jesse Shore, Ethan Bernstein & David Lazer
    • June 2011
    • Article

    Implicit Voice Theories: Taken-for-granted Rules of Self-censorship at Work

    By: J. R. Detert and Amy C. Edmondson
    This article examines, in a series of four studies, the nature and impact of implicit voice theories-largely taken-for-granted beliefs about when and why speaking up at work is risky or inappropriate. In Study 1, qualitative data from 190 interviews conducted in a... View Details
    Keywords: Spoken Communication; Interpersonal Communication; Employees; Managerial Roles; Organizational Culture; Risk and Uncertainty; Behavior
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    • 09 Mar 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation

    in what situation—to guide their decision making around innovation. Managers typically grow impatient when we tell them this. "Theory?" they say. "That sounds like theoretical. That sounds like impractical." But View Details
    Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor & Scott D. Anthony

      Tomomichi Amano

      Tomomichi Amano is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Marketing Unit at HBS. He teaches the Marketing course in the MBA required curriculum.

      Professor Amano draws on economic theories to understand novel mechanisms by which new... View Details
      • 18 Mar 2014
      • News

      Success Outside the Dress Code

        Dennis A. Yao

        Dennis Yao is the Lawrence E. Fouraker Professor of Business Administration and Chair of the Doctoral Programs at Harvard Business School. He joined the faculty in 2004 after having been at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. From 1991-1994 he served as... View Details

        Keywords: automotive; defense; federal government; high technology
        • June 1991
        • Background Note

        Corporate Advantage: Identifying and Exploiting Resources

        By: David J. Collis
        Describes the economic theory that was behind the view that resources are central to the creation of value in multibusiness corporations and identifies tests that resources must pass to become part of a firm's "distinctive competence". Describes how those resources can... View Details
        Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Business or Company Management; Resource Allocation; Competitive Strategy; Theory; Value Creation
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        • 16 Dec 2008
        • First Look

        First Look: December 16, 2008

          Working PapersSilent Saboteurs: How Implicit Theories of Voice Inhibit the Upward Flow of Knowledge in Organizations Authors:James R. Detert and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract This article examines, in a series of three studies, how people... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • 2017
        • Working Paper

        The Effects of Media Slant on Firm Behavior

        By: Vishal P. Baloria and Jonas Heese
        The media can impose reputational costs on firms because of its important role as an information intermediary and its ability to negatively slant coverage. We exploit a quasi-natural experiment that holds constant the information event across firms, but varies the... View Details
        Keywords: Media Slant; Reputational Capital; Strategic Corporate Decisions
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        • Article

        The Effects of Media Slant on Firm Behavior

        By: Vishal P. Baloria and Jonas Heese
        The media can impose reputational costs on firms because of its important role as an information intermediary and its ability to negatively slant coverage. We exploit a quasi-natural experiment that holds constant the information event across firms, but varies the... View Details
        Keywords: Media Slant; Reputational Capital; Strategic Corporate Decisions; Media; News; Communication Strategy; Reputation
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        • 27 Sep 2012
        • News

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