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  • December 2009
  • Article

Hiding the Evidence of Valid Theories: How Coupled Search Processes Obscure Performance Differences Among Organizations

By: Nicolaj Siggelkow and Jan Rivkin
Theorists argue that an organization's high-level choices, such as its organizational design or the attributes of its top management team, should influence its performance, yet empirical researchers have struggled to detect such influence. The impact of high-level... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Management Teams; Organizational Design; Performance Effectiveness; Power and Influence; Balance and Stability
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Siggelkow, Nicolaj, and Jan Rivkin. "Hiding the Evidence of Valid Theories: How Coupled Search Processes Obscure Performance Differences Among Organizations." Administrative Science Quarterly 54, no. 4 (December 2009): 602 – 634.
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Field Course: Social Innovation Lab

This course provides students an opportunity to address a social enterprise topic with the discipline of business tools and techniques. Students will work in teams, choosing among three types of projects: a) developing a business plan for your own social enterprise;... View Details

  • 2019
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VC: An American History

By: Tom Nicholas
An exploration of venture financing in America, from its origins in the whaling industry to the rise of Silicon Valley, that shows how venture capital (VC) created an epicenter for the development of high-tech innovation. The VC industry arose from the United States’... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Venture Capital; Innovation and Invention; Entrepreneurship; History; United States
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Nicholas, Tom. VC: An American History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. (Chinese Edition: 风投 看懂巨头的投资倾向 汤姆·尼古拉斯 著 中信出版社, Beijing: CITIC Press, 2020; Japanese Edition: ベンチャーキャピタル全史 トム・ニコラス, Shinchosha Publishing, 2022.)
  • 15 Mar 2024
  • HBS Case

Let's Talk: Why It's Time to Stop Avoiding Taboo Topics at Work

comes to discussing geopolitical issues that might impact the business, Wing says. She suggests keeping the conversations professional, but also not avoiding topics that are relevant. In this case, in particular, management can model... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman

    Carliss Y. Baldwin

    Carliss Y. Baldwin is the William L. White Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. She studies the process of design and its impact of design architecture on firm strategy, platforms, and business ecosystems. With Kim Clark, she authored... View Details

    Keywords: computer; electronics; software
    • January 2020
    • Case

    Sunset Limited or Full Speed Ahead? Amtrak Talks to Congress

    By: John D. Macomber
    Richard Anderson took the helm of Amtrak in 2017 after leading a successful turnaround at Delta Airlines. Amtrak is a US state owned enterprise with about $3.5 bn in annual revenue (and a large operating loss) that is responsible for substantial segments of passenger... View Details
    Keywords: Railroad; Passenger Transportation; Urbanization; Cities; U.S. Congress; Infrastructure; Transition; Transportation; Rail Transportation; Climate Change; Urban Scope; Strategic Planning; Business and Government Relations; Rail Industry; United States
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    Macomber, John D. "Sunset Limited or Full Speed Ahead? Amtrak Talks to Congress." Harvard Business School Case 220-052, January 2020.
    • 14 Nov 2012
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    Can Huge CEO Golden Parachutes Hurt You?

    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    How Much Should We Trust Staggered Difference-In-Differences Estimates?

    By: Andrew C. Baker, David F. Larcker and Charles C.Y. Wang
    Difference-in-differences analysis with staggered treatment timing is frequently used to assess the impact of policy changes on corporate outcomes in academic research. However, recent advances in econometric theory show that such designs are likely to be biased in the... View Details
    Keywords: Difference In Differences; Staggered Difference-in-differences Designs; Generalized Difference-in-differences; Dynamic Treatment Effects; Mathematical Methods
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    Baker, Andrew C., David F. Larcker, and Charles C.Y. Wang. "How Much Should We Trust Staggered Difference-In-Differences Estimates?" European Corporate Governance Institute Finance Working Paper, No. 736/2021, February 2021. (Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-112, April 2021.)
    • 2017
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    Organizational Behavior Reading: Leading Organizational Change

    By: Ryan Raffaelli
    This reading combines conceptual frameworks and research-based knowledge to provide practical guidance about how to lead organization change. The essential reading outlines key choices leaders must make when managing a change and the common traps that can cause a... View Details
    Keywords: Leading Change; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management
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    Raffaelli, Ryan. "Organizational Behavior Reading: Leading Organizational Change." Core Curriculum Readings Series. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Publishing 8324, 2017.
    • March 2022
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    Contractual Restrictions and Debt Traps

    By: Ernest Liu and Benjamin N. Roth
    Microcredit and other forms of small-scale finance have failed to catalyze entrepreneurship in developing countries. In these credit markets, borrowers and lenders often bargain over not only the interest rate but also implicit restrictions on types of investment. We... View Details
    Keywords: Microfinance; Entrepreneurship; Developing Countries and Economies; Financing and Loans
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    Liu, Ernest, and Benjamin N. Roth. "Contractual Restrictions and Debt Traps." Review of Financial Studies 35, no. 3 (March 2022): 1141–1182.
    • 15 Aug 2024
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    Learning from Mistakes and Leveraging Personal Experiences: Tiffany Kent (MBA 2001)

    I graduated from Harvard Business School at the tail end of the dot-com bubble and was fortunate to join Goldman Sach’s high-tech investment banking group after graduation. However, the bubble burst got me, and I was laid off View Details
    Keywords: All Industries
    • July–August 2018
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    How CEOs Manage Time

    By: Michael E. Porter and Nitin Nohria
    In 2006 Harvard Business School’s Michael E. Porter and Nitin Nohria launched a study tracking how large companies’ CEOs spent their time, 24/7, for 13 weeks: where they were, with whom, what they did, and what they were focusing on. To date, Porter and Nohria have... View Details
    Keywords: CEOs; Executives; Time Management; Attitudes; Managerial Roles; Leadership; Performance Effectiveness; Strategy; Decision Making; Organizational Culture
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    Porter, Michael E., and Nitin Nohria. "How CEOs Manage Time." Harvard Business Review 96, no. 4 (July–August 2018): 42–51.
    • January 2019 (Revised March 2020)
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    Blackstone Alternative Asset Management in 2018

    By: Emil Siriwardane, Luis M. Viceira and Shawn O'Brien
    In early 2018, Blackstone announced that John McCormick would succeed Tom Hill as President and Chief Executive Officer of Blackstone Alternative Asset Management (BAAM), the largest fund-of-hedge funds in the world by a sizeable margin. As new CEO, McCormick must... View Details
    Keywords: Asset Management; Expansion; Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Services Industry
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    Siriwardane, Emil, Luis M. Viceira, and Shawn O'Brien. "Blackstone Alternative Asset Management in 2018." Harvard Business School Case 219-063, January 2019. (Revised March 2020.)
    • August 2018
    • Case

    BlackBuck (A)

    By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
    The case presents the challenges of scaling an asset-heavy company (that relies on its operations). It highlights how decisions on the early team impact a company’s ability to scale, linkage between growth and cash flows, as well the organizational impact of high... View Details
    Keywords: Founders; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Delivery; Cash Flow; Growth Management; Truck Transportation; Online Technology; India
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    Ghosh, Shikhar, and Shweta Bagai. "BlackBuck (A)." Harvard Business School Case 819-031, August 2018.
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    The Unprecedented Stock Market Reaction to COVID-19

    By: Scott Baker, Nicholas Bloom, Steven J. Davis, Kyle Kost, Marco Sammon and Tasaneeya Viratyosin
    No previous infectious disease outbreak, including the Spanish Flu, has impacted the stock market as forcefully as the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, previous pandemics left only mild traces on the U.S. stock market. We use text-based methods to develop these points with... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19; Stock Market; Health Pandemics; Governance; Policy; Financial Markets
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    Baker, Scott, Nicholas Bloom, Steven J. Davis, Kyle Kost, Marco Sammon, and Tasaneeya Viratyosin. "The Unprecedented Stock Market Reaction to COVID-19." Review of Asset Pricing Studies 10, no. 4 (December 2020): 742–758.
    • April 2023
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    The Stock Market Valuation of Human Capital Creation

    By: Ethan Rouen and Matthias Regier
    We develop a measure of firm-year-specific human capital investment from publicly disclosed personnel expenses (PE) and examine the stock market valuation of this investment. Measuring the future value of PE (PEFV) based on the relation between... View Details
    Keywords: Intangibles; Valuation; Human Capital; Investment Return
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    Rouen, Ethan, and Matthias Regier. "The Stock Market Valuation of Human Capital Creation." Art. 102384. Journal of Corporate Finance 79 (April 2023).
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    We Need Better Carbon Accounting. Here's How to Get There.

    By: Robert S. Kaplan and Karthik Ramanna
    Any effective system of greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting needs to measure each company’s supply-chain carbon impacts accurately. Such information would provide visibility and incentives for the company to make more climate-friendly product-specification and purchasing... View Details
    Keywords: Accounting; Greenhouse Gas Emissions; GHG; Carbon Accounting; Environmental Accounting; Environmental Management; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Supply Chain
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    Kaplan, Robert S., and Karthik Ramanna. "We Need Better Carbon Accounting. Here's How to Get There." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (April 12, 2022).
    • October 2009
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    Influence and Inefficiency in the Internal Capital Market

    By: Julie Wulf
    I model inefficient resource allocations in M-form organizations due to influence activities by division managers that skew capital budgets in their favor. Corporate headquarters receives two types of signals about investment opportunities: private signals that can be... View Details
    Keywords: Capital Markets; Resource Allocation; Business Processes; Capital Budgeting; Business Headquarters; Investment; Opportunities; Cost; Value; Motivation and Incentives; Equity
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    Wulf, Julie. "Influence and Inefficiency in the Internal Capital Market." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 72, no. 1 (October 2009): 305–321.
    • January 2011
    • Supplement

    Matrix Capital Management (C)

    By: Malcolm P. Baker and David Lane
    Ben Balbale, a partner at hedge fund Matrix Capital, must decide whether to exit their investment in Rovi Corporation, a company with a diverse portfolio of patents used primarily for digital interactive guides. Rovi's shares are up over 50% from the time Balbale... View Details
    Keywords: Public Ownership; Cash Flow; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Investment Funds; Financial Strategy; Valuation; Partners and Partnerships; Markets; Performance Efficiency; Patents; Stock Shares; Decisions; Financial Services Industry
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    Baker, Malcolm P., and David Lane. "Matrix Capital Management (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 211-060, January 2011.
    • February 2016 (Revised February 2017)
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    Alvogen

    By: Daniel Isenberg and William Kerr
    Alvogen is a young Icelandic generic pharmaceutical company, whose CEO believes that his global strategy will give them an edge in this competitive industry.
    Robert Wessman, Alvogen’s CEO, was also previously the CEO of Actavis, another Icelandic generics... View Details
    Keywords: Pharmaceutical Companies; Generic Drugs; Entrepreneurship; Globalization; Risk and Uncertainty; Pharmaceutical Industry; Iceland
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    Isenberg, Daniel, and William Kerr. "Alvogen." Harvard Business School Case 816-064, February 2016. (Revised February 2017.)
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