Corporate Political Activity - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Mar 2021
Blog Post

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace

corporate America into the world of remote work was that the cultural and technological accommodations would usher in a new era of efficiency and prosperity. After all, necessity is the mother of invention. And indeed, in a matter or mere... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

Wall Street goes shopping. Wall Street surveyed the mountain of defaulted S&L loans taken over by the federal Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) and saw an opportunity to get into real estate investing in a big way. Morgan Stanley's... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate

May 2017
Case

Vicki Fuller: Chief Investment Officer of New York State's $150+ Billion Employee Pension Fund

By: Steven Rogers and Valerie Mosley

Vicki Fuller traveled from a four-room tenement bordering Chicago’s infamous Cabrini-Green housing projects to speaking at conferences around the world and typically holding court wherever she went. As a teenager, she helped raise her siblings. As a Wall Street... View Details

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18 Feb 2009
First Look

First Look: February 18, 2009

the firm to shift from a "product and waste" mentality to a "product and product" mentality, and thereby actively manage the quantities of both products to maximize profit. Conditions in the two markets determine... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet

ensemble for, give or take, close to 40 years, but this past summer was their final concert tour as a group. "The Medici String Quartet is one of the very best such ensembles, probably one of the very best ever. One of my favorite research strategies is to find... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music

23 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 23

Working PapersCatering to Characteristics (revised) Authors:Greenwood, Robin, and Samuel Hanson Abstract When investors overvalue a particular firm characteristic, corporations endowed with that characteristic can absorb some of the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jan 2003
News

Greylock

1969 (After active duty, rose to rank of Lt. Colonel in Reserves) "No matter what business you're in, there is nothing more important than integrity and the reputation of your company. The post-bubble economy notwithstanding, there is... View Details

01 Mar 2019
News

The One That Got Away

wants to open a chain of retail shops selling a commodity product you can get anywhere for 25 cents, but he will charge 2 dollars. Of course, you listen politely and then fall off your chair laughing when he leaves. [Starbucks founder]... View Details

15 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

Martha Lagace: What is missing in leadership models today? Michael Beer: Most formal leadership models do not incorporate institution-building in their definition of leadership. Leadership is thought of as a means for activating change,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2009
News

The Fab Four

large corporation to buy and run a business, as well as the questions of working with your spouse and maintaining a balance between traveling and having time for family. “Entrepreneurial,” for me, meant running my own company. It wasn’t a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

29 Aug 2018
News

The Value of Valleys

almost any job and then that very rapidly declines and your career is subsequently path dependent, so I certainly didn't appreciate how much it impacts the overall trajectory of your life if you have a failure earlier on. I am one of the few VCs who View Details

01 Sep 2010
News

Dean Nohria Looks Ahead

economy, we’re living in a world where other spheres of economic activity are also becoming important. Emerging markets are certainly a key piece of it. But the unified European market has also become more important. And it would be a... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson

11 Jan 2011
First Look

First Look: Jan. 11

complex political environment; and 3) Manage a team: Forge a high-performing "we" out of all the "I"s who report to you. Packed with compelling stories and practical guidance, Being the Boss is an indispensable guide... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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From the Chief Financial Officer | Annual Report 2024

noteworthy considering the challenges that confronted HBS and other academic institutions this year, from an economic landscape marked by higher operating costs to an increasingly complex global political climate that created pressure on... View Details

29 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater

that groups create by thinking, talking, and collaborating. Artful Making Any activity that involves creating something entirely new requires artful making. Whenever you have no blueprint to tell you in detail what to do, you must work... View Details

Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin

01 Jun 1998
News

Diversity and Community

first annual Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership to IBM CEO Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. (MBA '65) and Levi Strauss CEO Robert D. Haas (MBA '68). The two chief executives received the newly established award on behalf of their companies'... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

19 Aug 2024
News

Quantum Leap

computing has exploded. Amit Kumar (MBA 2008), a managing director and senior partner at Boston Consulting Group, estimates that more than 300 companies are currently active in the quantum space and that more than $3 billion in investment... View Details

01 Jun 2016
News

How Do We Win the Cyberwar?

talent shortages. Anne Bonaparte sees it firsthand in her corporate customers: a lack of frontline security workers. “They’re not developers or data scientists,” she says. The workers they need range from entry level to managerial... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai

19 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy

disclosed, reducing consumer privacy. Consumers benefit from intense competition, but often through lower prices or subsidies, rather than through reduced disclosure of their information. Consumers are more in tune than ever with View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products

April 2025
Case

Lisa Su and AMD (A)

By: Joshua D. Margolis, Matthew Preble and Dave Habeeb

This multimedia case study focuses on CEO Lisa Su’s turnaround and subsequent transformation of the technology company Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD). When Su accepted the top position in 2014, AMD was on the verge of collapse. Su focused on the company’s culture,... View Details