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  • Program

The Women's Leadership Forum

and leadership skills to the next level. By focusing on your leadership potential, sharing experiences and insights with peers, and trying out new ideas in a supportive environment, you'll prepare to confront the key challenges in your... View Details
  • 29 Dec 2021
  • News

How to Keep Learning At Every Stage of Your Life

  • 10 Feb 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Women at Work

"Work/Life Balance: Are We Comfortable with the Choices We Make?" moderated by HBS professor Robin Ely, discussed their work/life decisions and the repercussions of those decisions at the 12th... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild
  • January 2000 (Revised May 2007)
  • Case

Dressen

By: Thomas R. Piper and Jeremy Cott
Divisional management must decide whether to support a leveraged buyout by a private equity group and, if so, what percent of ownership should go to the various partners involved. The appropriateness of the financing structure and the value of the equity depend on the... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Capital Structure; Valuation; Ownership Stake; Forecasting and Prediction
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  • 2012
  • Other Unpublished Work

The Efficacy of Shareholder Voting: Evidence from Equity Compensation Plans

By: Ian D. Gow, Christopher S. Armstrong and David F. Larcker
This study examines the effects of shareholder support for equity compensation plans on subsequent chief executive officer (CEO) compensation. Using cross-sectional regression, instrumental variable, and regression discontinuity research designs, we find little... View Details
Keywords: Voting; Equity; Executive Compensation; Rights; Performance Effectiveness; Business and Shareholder Relations; Mathematical Methods; Motivation and Incentives
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  • May 2006
  • Case

Esterline Technologies: Lean Manufacturing

By: Richard L. Nolan, Karen A. Brown and Subodha Kumar
Raises the issue of the appropriate role of IT in lean manufacturing. Most large manufacturing companies have implemented ERP IT systems to support lean manufacturing practices. The Kerry plant of Esterline Technologies attempted an ERP implementation and then... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Technological Innovation; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Management Systems; Production; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Manufacturing Industry
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  • October 2011 (Revised March 2012)
  • Case

Cottle-Taylor: Expanding the Oral Care Group in India

By: John A. Quelch and Alisa Zalosh
Brinda Patel, director of oral care products for the India division of a consumer home-care product company, develops a data-driven marketing plan for toothbrushes. She believes her plan can support a 20% increase in unit sales based on rising demand for modern... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting; Budgeting; International Marketing; Product Planning ＆ Policy; Sales Promotions; Marketing Plans; Products; Marketing Strategy; Consumer Behavior; Emerging Markets; Forecasting and Prediction; Advertising; Product Launch; Budgets and Budgeting; Product Development; Consumer Products Industry; Health Industry; India
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  • 07 Jun 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

How Short-Termism Invites Corruption--And What to Do About It

Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter
  • 2008
  • Working Paper

From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America

By: Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana
As the main producers of managerial elites, business schools represent strategic research sites for understanding the formation of economic practices and representations. This article draws on historical material to analyze the changing place of economics in American... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Business Education; Finance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business History; Chicago
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  • 07 Apr 2022
  • HBS Seminar

Hummy Song, Wharton

  • 2008
  • Other Unpublished Work

From Public Purpose to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America

By: Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana
As the main producers of managerial elites, business schools represent strategic research sites for understanding the formation of economic practices and representations. This article draws on historical material to analyze the changing place of economics in American... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Business Education; Finance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business History; Chicago
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    Michael A. Wheeler

    Mike Wheeler joined the HBS faculty in 1993 and has taught extensively in its MBA, Executive, and distance learning programs. His highly interactive 8-week/40-hour HBS Online Negotiation... View Details

    Keywords: arts; construction; e-commerce industry; energy; federal government; green technology; internet; legal services; nonprofit industry; petroleum; pharmaceuticals; publishing industry; real estate; service industry; sports; state government; utilities
    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    Task Selection and Workload: A Focus on Completing Easy Tasks Hurts Long-Term Performance

    By: Diwas S. KC, Bradley R. Staats, Maryam Kouchaki and Francesca Gino
    How individuals manage, organize, and complete their tasks is central to operations management. Recent research in operations focuses on how under conditions of increasing workload, individuals can increase their service time, up to a point, to complete work more... View Details
    Keywords: Employees; Decision Making; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Productivity
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    • February 2001
    • Case

    PlanetFeedback: The Voice of One ... The Power of Many (A)

    By: James L. Heskett
    The management of PlanetFeedback in proposes a merger with Intelliseek. Their goal is to create a comprehensive C2B and B2B business focused on the generation and analysis for business clients of consumer feedback data via the Internet, Planet Feedback's board of... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Decisions; Information Management; Analytics and Data Science; Business Strategy; Internet and the Web; Information Technology Industry
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    • November 2023
    • Case

    Open Source Machine Learning at Google

    By: Shane Greenstein, Martin Wattenberg, Fernanda B. Viégas, Daniel Yue and James Barnett
    Set in early 2023, the case exposes students to the challenges of managing open source software at Google. The case focuses on the challenges for Alex Spinelli, Vice President of Product Management for Core Machine Learning. He must set priorities for Google’s efforts... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Technological Innovation; Open Source Distribution; Strategy; AI and Machine Learning; Applications and Software; Technology Industry; United States
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    • April 2025
    • Case

    Techint: Strategic Choices for Community Impact

    By: Lauren Cohen, Virak Prum, Kenneth Charman, Pedro Levindo and Mariana Cal
    In early 2024 Erika Bienek, Chief Community Relations Officer at Techint, had to decide whether to invest in a new company-owned and operated technical school in Veracruz, Mexico, or invest instead in strengthening the city’s public education system. Techint, a global... View Details
    Keywords: Technical Institutes; Community Relations; Social Impact; Argentina; Mexico; Brazil; Conglomerate; Stakeholder Management; Government And Business; Community Impact; Philanthropy; Business Conglomerates; Business Subsidiaries; Business Headquarters; Family Business; Decision Making; Private Sector; Public Sector; Education; Curriculum and Courses; Middle School Education; Secondary Education; Teaching; Training; Learning; Energy; Engineering; Construction; Values and Beliefs; Geography; Global Range; Local Range; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Globalized Firms and Management; Government Legislation; Recruitment; Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Knowledge; Resource Allocation; Industry Clusters; Infrastructure; Family Ownership; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Business and Community Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business and Government Relations; Creativity; Reputation; Social and Collaborative Networks; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Poverty; Strategy; Construction Industry; Education Industry; Energy Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Steel Industry; Europe; Italy; Latin America; North and Central America; Mexico; North America; United States; South America; Argentina; Buenos Aires; Brazil
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    • 16 Apr 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Auditing Oligopoly and Lobbying on Accounting Standards

    Keywords: by Abigail M. Allen, Karthik Ramanna & Sugata Roychowdhury; Accounting; Banking
    • Program

    Authentic Leader Development

    Summary Companies need to be developing leaders who exhibit high standards of integrity, take responsibility for their actions, and make decisions based on enduring principles rather than short-term expedience. The best leaders are... View Details
    • Article

    Populism and the Return of the 'Paranoid Style': Some Evidence and a Simple Model of Demand for Incompetence as Insurance against Elite Betrayal

    By: Rafael Di Tella and Julio J. Rotemberg
    We present a simple model of populism as the rejection of “disloyal” leaders. We show that adding the assumption that people are worse off when they experience low income as a result of leader betrayal (than when it is the result of bad luck) to a simple voter choice... View Details
    Keywords: Populism; Corruption; Betrayal; Incompetence; Voting; Attitudes
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    • September 1991 (Revised December 1991)
    • Case

    USA Today Decision, The: Making Headlines Across the Nation (A)

    This two-part case series describes how the option of launching USA Today was defined and evaluated by the Gannett Corp. This case supports a broad discussion of whether the concept of a national, general interest daily fits with the changing external environment and... View Details
    Keywords: Strategic Planning; Decision Making; Product Launch; Product Development; Journalism and News Industry; Publishing Industry; United States
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