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  • September 2013 (Revised June 2016)
  • Case

The Morning Star Company: Self-Management at Work

By: Francesca Gino, Bradley R. Staats, Brian J. Hall and Tiffany Y. Chang

Morning Star, a collection of affiliated companies, had grown steadily since 1970 when Chris Rufer, president and founder, started the business hauling tomatoes to processing plants in a truck. The company's main products continued to be tomato-based, including a... View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Motivation and Incentives; Working Conditions; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Food; Management Practices and Processes; Compensation and Benefits; Manufacturing Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

the probabilities of success are low, extremely skewed, and unknowable until an investment is made. At a macro level, experimentation by new firms underlies the Schumpeterian notion of creative destruction. However, at a micro level,... View Details
  • 15 Dec 2023
  • News

The Musts of 2023

1988. The book is called The Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne, and it's all about the Indian Wars and how it aligns with the Civil War and that time period. While it's about the Comanche and the settlers and all that was going on... View Details
  • 13 Feb 2014
  • Blog Post

We pulled it off: The Inaugural LGBTQ Conference at Harvard

facilitated by the Harvard Graduate School Leadership Institute, as well as an optional queer yoga session. Saturday’s programming culminated with a fundraising dinner benefiting BAGLY and HBGC, and featured keynote speeches from Ash... View Details
  • 26 Aug 2024
  • Blog Post

HBS Lingo 101

Chances are if you come to visit us on campus (or chat with a student or alum) you’ll hear a lot of HBS terms and acronyms being thrown around. So what do they all mean? Here’s a quick guide to some key HBS lingo. ALDRICH: Aldrich Hall is... View Details
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Doctoral 100 Years - Doctoral

Overview Doctoral 100 Years 1922 Training Men for Teaching Business HBS is authorized by the Harvard University Governing Boards to grant the degree of Doctorate of Commercial Science. 1928 Gragg Awarded First Doctorate of Commercial... View Details
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Events - Business & Environment

plenty of time for Q&A. Download to Calendar Keywords: MBA Program; Sep 23 Career Days: Careers in Impact Investing Organizers: Career & Professional Development 23 SEP 2024 | HBS Campus Open to HBS Students Interested in Impact Investing? Jump start your search View Details
  • 1998
  • Working Paper

CEO Incentives and Firm Size

By: Brian Hall and George P. Baker
What determines CEO incentives? A confusion exists among both academics and practitioners about how to measure the strength of CEO incentives, and how to reconcile the enormous differences in pay sensitivities between executives in large and small firms. We show that... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Motivation and Incentives; Executive Compensation; Size; Management Systems
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  • June 2000 (Revised December 2000)
  • Case

Compensation and Performance Evaluation at Arrow Electronics

By: Brian J. Hall and Carleen Madigan
Describes a company's struggles in implementing a subjective performance rating system for its employees. In particular, it describes the difficulties faced by the CEO in getting managers to combat "ratings inflation"--that is, to produce numerical ratings that are... View Details
Keywords: Behavior; Performance Evaluation; Compensation and Benefits; Electronics Industry
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Investing for Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

capital for entrepreneurs seeking to build businesses and make a difference in their communities. The fund has dual goals of creating social change and the pursuit of reasonable investment returns, allowing for those funds to be redeployed to new opportunities in the... View Details
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

production workers) are associated with more autonomy and a wider span of control. By contrast, communication technologies (like data networks) decrease autonomy for both workers and plant managers. Treating technology as endogenous using... View Details
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Partners - Case Method Project

Adler-Ivanbrook Novato High School Novato, CA CA 2 of 65 Randy Baker Terra Linda High School San Rafael, CA Subjects: American Government CA 3 of 65 Leslie Bartlett Chaparral High School El Cajon, CA CA 4 of 65 Brian Bezner Rancho... View Details
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Runner-Up A tool built by the trans community that addresses clinicians’ barriers around learning and advocacy. SeaCycle Hande Ilhan (MBA 2025) Jakob Spiess (MBA 2025) Social Enterprise Track Crowd Favorite Pioneering sustainable... View Details
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HBR Classics - Alumni

HBR CLASSICS Through the years, a number of Harvard Business Review articles written by Harvard Business School faculty and others have risen to “classics” status – articles that are so groundbreaking in their scope or elemental in their... View Details
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Indoor Spaces | About

of Nathaniel de Rothschild (MBA 1971) and is named in honor of his classmate Franklin R. Anderson (MBA 1971). Bricklin Classroom The Dan Bricklin Classroom, located inside Aldrich Hall, was named by the School in honor of alumnus and... View Details
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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

that implicitly activating the construct of time, rather than money, leads individuals to behave more ethically by cheating less. We further found that priming time reduces cheating by making people reflect... View Details
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Faculty & Advisors - MBA

(acquired by Walmart), Rebag, Major League Hacking, and Workflow (acquired by Apple). In addition to his work at GC, Peter also co-founded & leads Rough Draft Ventures: a program to support technology... View Details
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Private Equity Fund Valuation Management during Fundraising

By: Brian K. Baik
I investigate whether and how private equity fund managers (GPs) inflate their interim fund valuations (net asset values or NAVs) during fundraising periods. Specifically, I study the extent to which the GPs inflate NAVs by managing valuation assumptions (e.g.,... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Institutional Investors; Valuation Multiples; Earnings Management; Private Firms; Valuation; Investment Funds
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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project

Prep/Honors U.S. History MD Ross Adelson Seneca Valley High School Germantown, MD CA Cas Adler-Ivanbrook Novato High School Novato, CA MA Tracy Ainsworth Phillips Academy Andover, MA Subjects: College Prep/Honors U.S. History CT Jonas Akins Choate Rosemary View Details
  • 25 May 2021
  • Blog Post

Aisha Fatima Dozie is Igniting Confidence as the Founder of Bossy Cosmetics

by a single mother living in the projects in Cambridge, Harvard seemed untouchable,” she explained. However, years later, Dozie surprised herself by walking into an Aldrich View Details