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Leadership - Health Care
Health Care Initiative Leadership 1ms Robert S. Huckman Howard Cox Health Care Initiative Faculty Chair Professor Huckman teaches the second-year course in Operations Strategy and has taught HBS Executive Education programs and the...
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- 11 Oct 2023
- News
Soldier On
sort of our first decision point. And actually about three days later, something happened that I will never forget. We're about to give the first press conference after the events, and I get a call from my executive assistant and she...
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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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- 01 May 2023
- News
Yahoo Acquires Alumni Startup Wagr
connect fandom to social gaming while elevating our ability to execute through expanded resources, new partnerships, and technological capabilities." In a June 2022 Bulletin article, the cofounders shared...
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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.
- 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.)
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
requires a spirit of inquiry and openness, patience, and a tolerance for ambiguity. However, most managers admire and are rewarded for decisiveness, efficiency, and action rather than for deep reflection and painstaking analysis. Third,...
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by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Organizing the Family-Run Business
Figure 1. Senior management is the organizing mechanism and voice of the employees. The family council and family assembly are the organizing mechanisms and voice of the family. The board of directors is the principal organizing mechanism...
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- 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
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
instant availability of funds invested in liquid assets overseas, thereby limiting firms’ ability to rapidly and/or aggressively respond to competitive market conditions. More specifically, we show that the effects of cash holdings on...
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Carmen Nobel
- 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
- 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
- March 1992 (Revised October 1994)
- Case
AT&T Consumer Products
Describes the factors AT&T Consumer Products managers considered in deciding whether to locate a new plant for telephone answering machines in the United States, Asia, or Mexico. Describes in depth the restructuring of AT&T during the 1980s, the competition facing its...
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Restructuring;
Competitive Strategy;
Trade;
Management;
Operations;
Crime and Corruption;
Executive Compensation;
Selection and Staffing;
Demand and Consumers;
Asia;
Mexico
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr. "AT&T Consumer Products." Harvard Business School Case 392-108, March 1992. (Revised October 1994.)
- 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.)
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
empirical results provide strong support for the view that output prices are a key determinant of vertical integration. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49893 forthcoming Production and Operations View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
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Increasing Value in Care Delivery - Health Care
focus of Professor Robert Kaplan’s research and Executive Education teaching. He focuses on two topics: measuring and managing organizational risk and, in a joint project with Michael Porter , measuring the...
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- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
markets? Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708443 Canyon Johnson Urban Fund Harvard Business School Case 706-442 Basketball star Earvin "Magic" Johnson and K. Robert Turner, View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Benchmarks Don’t Work
counterproductive. Companies should save the benchmarking surveys for commoditized processes or services. Benchmarking became popular several decades ago as part of the total quality management movement. An IBM View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Honoring a legacy
Having joined her family’s international shipping, trading, and finance business, Foremost Group, in 2001, Angela A. Chao (AB 1995, MBA 2001) began her career focusing on the company’s safety management system and vessel security...
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- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Allison Hughes
International Student Committee, she helped increase representation of women and U.S. executives at the committee's annual symposium on management in Switzerland. Graduating magna cum laude in economics with...
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Charlie Hogg