by Paul Healy - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?

for cadavers. Anteby's current research examines the morality of markets by focusing on the U.S. supply and demand of cadavers for medical research and education.) Anyone who has been trained as a physician—or is close to someone who has... View Details

Keywords: by Michel Anteby; Health

15 Feb 2012
News

Professor Rob Kaplan Teaches in Haiti

01 Dec 2019
News

Bridging the Gap

successful,” says one Miami YALPer. Improving education for the city’s poorest populations could change that equation—but the ballot measure to fund the schools didn’t pass by a long shot. What went wrong? A participant from... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

24 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care

back in vogue in Washington D.C. House Republicans will start to fill in the details on a tax proposal ultimately expected to reach a thousand pages. The goal is to get the bill signed into law by President Donald Trump View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

April 2014 (Revised July 2017)
Case

The Park Hotels: Revitalizing an Iconic Indian Brand

By: Jill Avery and Chekitan S. Dev

Priya Paul, chairperson of The Park Hotels, an award-winning portfolio of thirteen boutique hotels scattered across India, was in the midst of a brand revitalization program. Landor Associates, a leading brand consultancy had identified three areas of concern: the... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Product Positioning; Competition; Brands and Branding; Accommodations Industry; India

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06 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Don’t Listen to “Yes”

a series of meetings so as to surface and test a set of core strategic assumptions. Or they might assign someone to play the devil's advocate so as to ensure that a thorough critique and risk assessment of a proposal has been conducted before moving forward. View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

16 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.

environment has resulted in volatility in purchases and productivity across idiosyncratic product categories, resulting in a net economic crisis of a type that has not been witnessed by anyone alive today. Government-imposed quarantines,... View Details

Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim; Retail; Service

06 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

paper called, "Asset Allocation and Asset Location: Household Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances," published by the Journal of Public Economics in August, 2004. Using data from the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF),... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

04 Apr 2005
What Do You Think?

Can an Organization’s “Deep Smarts” Be Preserved?

Summing Up This month's column appears to have struck a chord with those who lament the continuing loss of implicit knowledge buried inside the heads of experienced leaders (termed "deep smarts" by Dorothy Leonard and Walter... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Dec 2015
What Do You Think?

What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?

are totally different. They control access to leadership positions, yet those positions are often filled by those most familiar—that is, those who most resemble men.” She went on to suggest that as male leaders observe their daughters... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Feb 2002
What Do You Think?

Will the Societal Effects of Enron Exceed Those of September 11?

Queda" (Mike Donahue). Among the many commenting on the Enron case, nearly all felt that change was warranted, but few believed that significant change would come from it. The general sense of these comments was that investors, by... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

22 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

funded by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, had spent more than double that to produce the spaceship, but it was worth it, they said, for the bragging rights. “The prizes had a real impact" —Josh Lerner... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

04 Apr 2008
What Do You Think?

Who Owns Intellectual Property?

Summing Up Is intellectual property becoming community property? Is a new generation of users and consumers of intellectual property produced by new technologies bringing totally different assumptions and attitudes to bear on its... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

05 Mar 2008
What Do You Think?

Where Will Management Innovation Take Us?

not clear. Many suggested that the kind of management innovation described by Gary Hamel in his new book, The Future of Management, will more likely occur as a result of forces outside the organization. Tony Gattis described the... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

05 Nov 2014
What Do You Think?

Are We Entering an Era of Neuromanagement?

Summing Up: Where Do We Draw the Line on the Use of Technology in Hiring Practices? The idea of using brain scans in hiring, while it generated limited enthusiasm among respondents to this month's column, nevertheless was rejected by only... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

08 Oct 2010
What Do You Think?

Will Transparency in CEO Compensation Have Unintended Consequences?

among executives that begin to view themselves as 'untouchable.'" Gerald Nanninga added, "If CEOs create a lot of wealth at their company and share it with enough people, they can get away with making themselves extremely wealthy A few silly ratios won't... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

02 May 2022
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December 1990 (Revised November 1992)
Case

Anheuser-Busch and Campbell Taggart

In 1984, the SEC accused Paul Thayer and eight others of insider trading. Some of Thayer's inside information came from his position on the board of Anheuser-Busch, where he had learned about Busch's 1982 merger with Campbell Taggart before the merger was publicly... View Details

Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Ethics; Capital Markets; Manufacturing Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States

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19 Jun 2013
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Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems

Paul R. Lawrence Conference: Connecting Rigor and Relevance in Institutional Analysis honored the memory of a prolific scholar and longtime HBS faculty member who, at the time of his death in 2011, was the Wallace Brent Donham Professor... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino

November 2005 (Revised October 2012)
Case

The Auction for Burger King (A)

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and James Quinn

Paul Walsh, CEO of Diageo, must evaluate bids received in an auction of the Burger King restaurant unit. Describes how Diageo came to own Burger King, the attempts to turn the unit around, the strategic reasons for its sale, the auction process, and various bidders'... View Details

Keywords: Management Teams; Leveraged Buyouts; Bids and Bidding; Valuation; Auctions; Decision Choices and Conditions; Negotiation Tactics; Service Industry; Food and Beverage Industry

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