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- 03 May 2016
- First Look
First Look, May 3, 2016
the results provide new evidence of the impact of rank and file employees on firms' financial reporting choices. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49026 forthcoming Strategy Beyond Markets Navigating Natural... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
As AI Upends Recruiting, Job Seekers Need a Waze App for Careers
Artificial intelligence is changing the nature of work on a scale some predict will be as transformative as the Industrial Revolution. It’s also exposing the yawning gaps in a fractured US employment system that many companies and workers... View Details
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research
dataset of firms from the U.S. and seven European countries we study the impact of ICT on worker autonomy, plant manager autonomy, and span of control. Consistent with the theory, we find that better information technologies (Enterprise View Details
- January 2020 (Revised December 2024)
- Case
Governing PG&E
By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz
The five commissioners of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) listened intently at a public forum in April 2019 as PG&E Corporation’s out-going chairman Richard Kelly described the company’s proposed new board. PG&E, which provided electricity and natural... View Details
Keywords: Bankruptcy; Board Of Directors; Board Dynamics; Business Ethics; Business Model Innovation; Corporate Boards; Energy Efficiency; Environmental And Social Sustainability; Government And Business; Hedge Funds; Institutional Investors; Legal Aspects Of Business; Regulated Monopolies; Regulation; Shareholders; Stakeholder Management; Strategy And Execution; Utilities; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Governing and Advisory Boards; Ethics; Capital Structure; Climate Change; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Environmental Sustainability; Executive Compensation; Leadership; Management; Safety; Business and Government Relations; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry; California; United States
Paine, Lynn S., and Will Hurwitz. "Governing PG&E." Harvard Business School Case 320-024, January 2020. (Revised December 2024.)
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
Managing such a firm in the era of globalization posed enormous challenges. The book covers the company's strategies and provides compelling evidence of its decision making, marketing, brand management, innovation, acquisition strategies, corporate culture, and human... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
+ More Info – Less Info 2021 saw an unprecedented explosion of venture capital activity worldwide, far eclipsing 2000 and earlier venture peaks. What was behind this dramatic surge of activity? How severe will be the inevitable downturn that followed? How will these... View Details
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HBS - The year in Review
priority for HBS that cuts across all aspects of our work from teaching and scholarship to day-to-day operations. The School’s sustainability framework focuses on emissions and energy; campus operations; nature and ecosystems; health and... View Details
- July 2018 (Revised July 2018)
- Teaching Note
Argentina Power—Don’t Cry for Me Argentina
By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Sayiddah Fatima McCree
Teaching Note for HBS No. 218-041. This case concerns a complex potential energy infrastructure investment in Argentina by a global conglomerate shortly after Mauricio Macri (“Macri”) became President of Argentina in 2015. The central issues are (i) why was a country... View Details
- 08 Mar 2021
- In Practice
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?
A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Profiles - MBA
boundaries and shape our world for the better. With the mentorship, resources, space, and exciting exchange of ideas facilitated by the Roberts Family Fellowship, I have no doubt each of us will find the spark to turn dream to reality. ” Tech areas of interest:... View Details
- 06 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Cut Salaries or Cut People? The Best Way to Survive a Downturn
rehire when sales naturally increase. Another option is to examine who is less likely to leave and cut commissions for the best-performing salespeople at a lower percentage than others, or “make the rewards more convex,” Stanton says.... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
Working PapersProduct Development and Learning in Project Teams: The Challenges Are the Benefits Authors:Amy C. Edmondson and Ingrid M. Nembhard Abstract The value of teams in new product development (NPD) is undeniable. Both the interdisciplinary View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2013
- What Do You Think?
How Relevant is Long-Range Strategic Planning?
have to be applied more selectively, depending on such things as the industry, the nature of competition, and the speed with which a particular organization's environment is changing. And there is a question about whether a sufficient... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- March 2012
- Article
The Incentive Bubble
By: Mihir Desai
The past three decades have seen American capitalism quietly transformed by a single, powerful idea—that financial markets are a suitable tool for measuring performance and structuring compensation. Stock instruments for managers, high-powered incentive contracts for... View Details
Keywords: Economic Systems; Financial Markets; Executive Compensation; Motivation and Incentives; Corporate Governance; Equality and Inequality; Human Capital; United States
Desai, Mihir. "The Incentive Bubble." Harvard Business Review 90, no. 3 (March 2012).
- 2021
- Working Paper
Multi-location Workers in Multinational Firms? Tradeoffs in Contextual Specialization of Employees and Organizational Outcomes
We study how “contextual specialization,” the act of focusing workers’ organizational tasks within a particular locational context, and “contextual non-specialization,” the practice of diversifying workers’ organizational tasks among multiple locational contexts,... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Performance; Experience and Expertise; Selection and Staffing; Strength and Weakness; Personal Development and Career
Gibson, Hise O., Ryan W. Buell, and Prithwiraj Choudhury. "Multi-location Workers in Multinational Firms? Tradeoffs in Contextual Specialization of Employees and Organizational Outcomes." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-007, August 2021.
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Horizontal Integration (1) Housing (4) Human Capital (27) Human Needs (14) Human Resources (292) Identity (6) Immigration (37) Income (7) Independent Innovation and Invention (5) Industry Clusters (8) Industry Growth (3) Inflation and... View Details
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Business History - Faculty & Research
considerable wealth was created from the exploitation of natural resources for primarily the land-owning elite in Latin America, at the cost of large-scale destruction of the View Details
- 20 Aug 2020
- Book
From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives
For centuries, the creation of innovative technology—from steam engines and automobiles to computers and smartphones—has dramatically changed the nature of our work. Less deeply understood has been the impact of technology on the inner currents of our personal lives,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Futures Investor
In the half-century since his graduation, Theodore Roosevelt IV (MBA 1972) has earned widespread respect as both a forward-thinking investment banker and an influential activist through his efforts to address climate change and preserve public lands. For much of that... View Details
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Cold Calling - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
cold call, depending on pedagogical objectives and the nature of the case. Options include: Non-expert: An instructor may call on a student with less expertise in the subject matter to prevent the discussion from moving ahead too quickly... View Details