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  • March 2018 (Revised March 2019)
  • Case

Gender and Free Speech at Google (A)

By: Nien-hê Hsieh, Martha J. Crawford and Sarah Mehta
In August 2017, Google fired James Damore, a 28-year-old software engineer who had been employed by the company since 2013. The move came after Damore penned an internal company memo titled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber,” which posited that innate biological... View Details
Keywords: Free Speech; Representation; Diversity; Gender; Race; Human Resources; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Labor; Employment; Lawsuits and Litigation; Organizational Culture; Technology Industry; United States; California
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  • 04 Jun 2018
  • What Do You Think?

Are There Conditions Under Which Directors Should Consider Hiring a CEO Fired Elsewhere for Inappropriate Behavior?

team, judge and jury, and exercise the wisdom of Solomon.” David McConnell said, “Maybe the answer lies in the question, ‘What is the offender doing to be sure that it does not happen again?’ How long does that take? Bottom line, a board... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • November 2013 (Revised May 2023)
  • Case

Valuing Yahoo! in 2013

By: Luis M. Viceira and Atul Khosla
In late July 2013, Danielle Engle, Managing Director of Clairemont Capital, was contemplating what to do about a large investment her fund had in the stock of Yahoo! Inc. In mid-2012, Clairemont had invested nearly $75M in Yahoo! after the tech company settled a highly... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Decision Making; Investment Activism; Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Valuation
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  • Research Summary

Entrepreneurship, Value-construction, and Market-creation

Changing Landscapes: Creating a Market for Modern Indian Art

In this project on the creation and consolidation of a market for modern and contemporary Indian art, Mukti and her co-author Daniel Wadhwani study the role of entrepreneurs and incumbent firms... View Details

  • May 2022
  • Supplement

Third Point in 2020: Growth Is Where the Value Is? (B)

By: Robin Greenwood and Denise Han
In early May 2020, Daniel Loeb’s team at Third Point was evaluating a potential growth opportunity in the Walt Disney Company and whether investor activism might play a role. Battered by the effects of COVID-19, the company’s stock had initially tumbled to $86 and then... View Details
Keywords: Growth; Equity; Disney; Value; Economics; Finance; Investment; Strategy; Management; Investment Activism; Investment Return; Growth and Development; North America
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  • 28 Oct 2019
  • News

Will a CEO Change Reignite Under Armour Stock?

  • 03 Jul 2013
  • What Do You Think?

What Are the Limits of Transparency?

apparently includes transparency. The question of course is, "How much is too much?" There were those who would set what might be regarded as relatively narrow limits on the practice. For example, Traci Li said,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 04 Jul 2005
  • What Do You Think?

How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant?

of the graduates." Lisa Marks Dolan, a business school dean, feels that much of the problem lies in the way teachers are trained. She writes, "We're being asked to produce graduates who can integrate, adapt, manage global... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 20 Sep 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Solving the Riddle of How Companies Grow Over Time

companies grow and others stagnate. “In spite of all of the emphasis on growth, in fact most firms don’t grow much at all.” In addition to Pisano, the co-authors were Giovanni Dosi, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna; Marco Grazzi, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore; View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing
  • 10 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink

declined or held flat, and return on invested capital (ROIC) has suffered dramatically. This decline in ROIC has been exacerbated by the significant growth in store square footage before the recession. Retail store count exploded through... View Details
Keywords: by Rajiv Lal & Jose B. Alvarez; Retail
  • 04 Aug 2011
  • What Do You Think?

How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?

Summing Up Does Common Sense Impede Change? Common sense is the decision-maker's friend when the decision has to be made rapidly, with a minimum of research or formal theory, with no more than moderate risk or consequences, and by... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 12 Mar 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager

Business School and Hongyi Li (HBS PhDBE '11) of the MIT Sloan School. (An article in the forthcoming April issue of Harvard Business Review, cowritten by Wulf and Booz & Company Senior Vice President... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Nov 2001
  • Op-Ed

Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed

international heavy-equipment manufacturer, managers were so set on hitting their quarterly revenue target that they shipped unfinished products from their plant in England all the way to a warehouse in the Netherlands, near the customer, for final assembly. View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
  • 02 Oct 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?

controlled basis by governments) through an innovative, supposedly secure, and secretive system of digital codes that enables owners of the currency to complete transactions off the books and out of the sight of government regulators? The... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Financial Services
  • 15 Oct 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat

Thomas Friedman, author of "The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century", opines that a number of events ranging from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the rise of the Internet have flattened the competitive landscape worldwide View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • February 2020
  • Case

Seso Global: Building a Blockchain-enabled Property Marketplace in Nigeria

By: Boris Vallee and Yang (Dolly) Yu
The mutual aspiration of addressing the housing shortage and improving real estate market efficiency led Daniel and Phillip to co-found Seso Global in 2017. Seso Global developed a unique integrated platform to streamline and rationalize the process of acquiring and... View Details
Keywords: Fintech; Blockchain; Developing Markets; Entrepreneurial Management; Financing and Loans; Internet and the Web; Business Model; Property; Growth and Development Strategy; Developing Countries and Economies; Real Estate Industry; Africa; Nigeria
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  • 04 Feb 2010
  • What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?

comparability and therefore no best practice, only "it all depends." Worse yet, we are often not conscious of these influences. Mauboussin maintains that we too often underestimate the importance of luck in the outcomes of our decisions, employing Nobel... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 13 Apr 2015
  • News

Sizing up climate change

  • 13 Oct 2009
  • Research & Ideas

7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm

It is tough to think positively in a crisis. Yet one overarching lesson in a new book by HBS professor Bill George, 7 Lessons for Leading in Crisis (Jossey-Bass), is exactly that: See crisis as a chance to develop and enhance your... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 30 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax

foreign direct investment and for sustainable economic growth? These questions and more are explored in a forthcoming business case coauthored by Alfaro along with HBS professor Rafael M. Di Tella, Executive Director of the HBS Europe... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace