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- December 2008 (Revised January 2011)
- Case
Arcadia Biosciences: Seeds of Change
By: Arthur A. Daemmrich, Forest L. Reinhardt and Mary Louise Shelman
Arcadia Biosciences is an entrepreneurial California agricultural biotech company seeking to earn carbon credits by modifying commodity crops for use in China and India. Eric Rey, Arcadia's CEO, faced a strategic inflection point in early September 2008. The company...
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Business Startups;
Entrepreneurship;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Environmental Sustainability;
Science-Based Business;
Climate Change;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Biotechnology Industry;
China;
India;
California
Daemmrich, Arthur A., Forest L. Reinhardt, and Mary Louise Shelman. "Arcadia Biosciences: Seeds of Change." Harvard Business School Case 709-019, December 2008. (Revised January 2011.)
- 17 Apr 2022
- Book
How to Avoid the 'Ethical Slide' That Leads Companies Astray
Company managers have likely heard the old quip: Business ethics is a contradiction in terms. That’s because too often, business is viewed as a hard-hearted enterprise, driven by getting ahead at all costs, even if that means cutting...
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by Lane Lambert
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
economists—had foreseen. The crisis raises questions about how competently financial institutions, such as mutual funds, managed their global capital investments. It raises questions about how effective the International Monetary Fund's...
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Martha Lagace
- November 2019 (Revised September 2022)
- Case
TripAdvisor: An Itinerary for Growth
By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Spencer Rascoff and Susie L. Ma
In 2019, TripAdvisor was one of the best-known and most-trafficked online travel sites. For nearly 20 years, its founder and CEO Steve Kaufer had steered TripAdvisor through many phases of growth and profitability, but recently the company’s growth had started to slow....
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Business Growth and Maturation;
Decision Making;
Business or Company Management;
Growth Management;
Innovation and Invention;
Brands and Branding;
Operations;
Customer Value and Value Chain;
Information Technology;
Travel Industry;
Massachusetts
Rayport, Jeffrey F., Spencer Rascoff, and Susie L. Ma. "TripAdvisor: An Itinerary for Growth." Harvard Business School Case 820-039, November 2019. (Revised September 2022.)
- Web
Speeding Up the Trade: Clippers and Steamships - A Chronicle of the China Trade
Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA Summer Venture in...
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Diversity and Inclusion - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
sufficient time to discuss them.) The ability to discuss sensitive topics is critical to building students' leadership capabilities. To provide a foundation for these topics in class, instructors can set discussion expectations at the...
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- 25 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway
new research paper demonstrates that the fundamental attribution error is so deeply rooted in our decision making that not even highly trained people-evaluators, such as hiring managers and school admissions officers, can defeat its...
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- 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...
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Business Ventures;
Motivation and Incentives;
Executive Compensation;
Size;
Management Systems
Hall, Brian, and George P. Baker. "CEO Incentives and Firm Size." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 6868, December 1998.
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising
lead users to purchase points. Managing in this realm requires a new set of skills. "Advertising executives in the online marketspace must have different analytical competencies than their counterparts...
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by Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
and political challenge facing the country,” he says. “This was back in 2011 and 2012, when that was still a fairly novel point of view.” Participants in YALP are chosen by a senior city leader, based on their placement and ability to...
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- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
change. Thus, for a capitalist system to evolve in an effective developmental sense through time, it must have two hands and not one: an invisible hand that is implicit in the pricing mechanism and a visible hand that is explicitly View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?
causal relationship between diversity and profitability, then management can safely argue that managing for diversity is a way to increase shareholder value. If, however, the relationship is negative, then...
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by James Heskett
- 14 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
How to Support Your Employees’ Career Development
Kristen Fitzpatrick (MBA 2003), Managing Director, HBS Career & Professional Development, has been a leader in the career development field for 18 years and countless HBS students and alumni have benefited from her coaching and...
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All Industries
- 14 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
How to Support Your Employees' Career Development
Kristen Fitzpatrick (MBA 2003), Managing Director, HBS Career & Professional Development, has been a leader in the career development field for 18 years and countless HBS students and alumni have benefited from her coaching and...
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- 21 Sep 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: How Can I Gain Power and Influence?
seeks to democratize and demystify power. In their new book, Power, for All, Battilana and co-author Tiziana Casciaro, a professor at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, outline the fundamentals of power and the...
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by Kristen Senz
- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
Chapman Wood, George Westerman, and Charles A. O'Reilly III Publication:Industrial and Corporate Change (forthcoming) Abstract This article empirically explores the relations between alternative organizational designs and a firm's ability...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 May 2023
- News
Class of 2024 Embarks on Global Immersion
and ends with the immersion, is designed to enhance students’ ability to manage differences and operate effectively across cultures and business contexts. Drawing upon the “knowing by doing” pedagogical...
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- 12 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment
When evaluating whether to invest in a new idea, senior executives often rely on experts. But these advisers often favor ideas that are easy to execute over tough-to-pull-off but potentially groundbreaking...
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- 10 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Top Scholars Say About Leadership
leadership, be it leadership in business or politics. This changing context may have spurred an interest in, and help legitimate, the study of leadership. Q: What key learnings can managers and executives...
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- 19 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Brand Manager’s Guide to Losing Control
Thanks (or no thanks) to social media, brand managers have lost the power to control the perception of their products through carefully orchestrated advertising campaigns. These days, consumers are in command. With an angry tweet, a happy...
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