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- 2016
- Article
Do External Labor Market Job Switches Affect the Gender Compensation Gap?
By: Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy and Eric Lin
This paper investigates how external mobility influences the gender compensation gap for job switching executives. Using proprietary data for 2,034 executive placements from a global search firm, we find job switching narrows the gender gap by 45%, from 11% to 6%. We... View Details
Groysberg, Boris, Paul M. Healy, and Eric Lin. "Do External Labor Market Job Switches Affect the Gender Compensation Gap?" Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings (2016).
- Blog
Two-Year Action Plan Update: Q+A with Terrill Drake, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Harvard Business School
numbers, but the work within equity and inclusion can be less structured, and makes us all a little uncomfortable. Often, people just want to be given direction, but DEI doesn’t tend to be that easy. Getting to where we are today has been progress and we should feel... View Details
- 10 Mar 2008
- News
New Harvard Business School Website Showcases Centennial Celebration
- December 2010
- Article
Social Preferences and Strategic Uncertainty: An Experiment on Markets and Contracts
This paper reports a three-phase experiment on a stylized labor market. In the first two phases, agents face simple games, which we use to estimate subjects' social and reciprocity concerns. In the last phase, four principals compete by offering agents a contract from... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Risk and Uncertainty; Markets; Contracts; Decisions; Distribution; Labor; Game Theory
Cabrales, Antonio, Raffaele Miniaci, Marco Piovesan, and Giovanni Ponti. "Social Preferences and Strategic Uncertainty: An Experiment on Markets and Contracts." American Economic Review 100, no. 5 (December 2010): 2261–2278.
- 24 Mar 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Case Study: A Lesson in Private Venture Financing
growth. Being listed on the stock exchange does mark a company's value but in this case it was a low mark.— Walter Kuemmerle Kuemmerle fired questions at conference participants on Gray's available options. Should they go public? Doing so... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- July 2005 (Revised June 2006)
- Case
Narayana Murthy and Compassionate Capitalism
By: William W. George, Shailendra Jit Singh and Andrew N. McLean
Narayana Murthy's roles at Infosys Technologies--as a co-founder, longtime CEO, and nonexecutive chairman and chief mentor--has been marked by explosive growth, demanding management challenges, and widely lauded company leadership. His personal leadership philosophy... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Economic Systems; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Biography; Leadership; Business or Company Management; Information Technology Industry; India
George, William W., Shailendra Jit Singh, and Andrew N. McLean. "Narayana Murthy and Compassionate Capitalism." Harvard Business School Case 406-015, July 2005. (Revised June 2006.)
- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
MNCs in Asia: Investing in the Future
investment, and how do corporations keep their bearings in a bureaucratic maze of regulations? Does the promise of payoff exceed the challenges of doing business in countries that are in the midst of reform? Those questions were considered View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
self-proclaimed "infrastructure guy," panelist Steve Papa (HBS MBA '99) of Optigrab.com speculated that the future of e-business services will be marked by the same pull toward uniformity that took place in... View Details
- 08 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Europe Lags in Pharmaceuticals and Biotech
worldwide pharmaceuticals spending, according to Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Mark McClellan.) One problem, several panelists noted, is that European healthcare systems do not reimburse the high prices charged for new drugs,... View Details
- 02 Apr 2010
- What Do You Think?
Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?
over their own needs)." Mark Isaac pointed out that "Succession plans, open communication, and knowing that the company cares, create a learning environment." Gerald Nanninga's reference to findings of the biennial Global... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 08 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
You Won't Make It If You Fake It
quickly, until Theranos was challenged by a Wall Street Journal investigation. On the surface, Holmes’ story seemed to be the perfect narrative. The would-be Silicon Valley entrepreneur dropped out of Stanford at the age of 19 to found... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 21 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The New Math of Customer Relationships
banks. The ideas are reflected in remarks by managers, whether or not the actual terms are used. In many respects, they have become generic, which I suppose is the ultimate mark of usefulness. In all... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women
While many characteristics that mark a successful entrepreneur are gender blind, being a woman does make a difference, and recognizing and utilizing those differences is an equally important quality to cultivate when building a new... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- December 2021 (Revised January 2023)
- Supplement
Katerra (B)
By: Lindsay N. Hyde, Thomas R. Eisenmann and Tom Quinn
In May 2020, SoftBank executives, having invested nearly $2 billion in Katerra, decided the vision of an end-to-end, vertically-integrated construction process was worth saving—with some major changes to company structure. The SoftBank Vision Fund invested $200 million... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Failure; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Entrepreneurship; Construction; Real Estate Industry; Construction Industry; Technology Industry; United States
Hyde, Lindsay N., Thomas R. Eisenmann, and Tom Quinn. "Katerra (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 822-025, December 2021. (Revised January 2023.)
- March 2015
- Case
West Coast Chill
By: William A. Sahlman, Robert F. White and Stephanie Puzio
The fall of 2010 marked the 20th year that Mitchell Joseph, a fourth generation beverage executive, serial entrepreneur, and the founder of the Joseph Company (the "Company"), had been working on developing the technology for a self-chilling can. Mitchell was at an... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
Sahlman, William A., Robert F. White, and Stephanie Puzio. "West Coast Chill." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 815-704, March 2015.
- January 2024
- Case
Fusion Industry Association: Igniting the Future of Clean Energy
Fusion energy is evolving from a scientific idea to a commercial possibility, drawing large investments and regulatory discussions; how should the FIA navigate this evolution?
The Fusion Industry Association (FIA) is at the forefront of transforming fusion... View Details
The Fusion Industry Association (FIA) is at the forefront of transforming fusion... View Details
Keywords: Science-Based Business; Engineering; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Government and Politics; Government Legislation; Industry Clusters; Industry Growth; Industry Structures; Technological Innovation; Energy Industry; United States
Krieger, Joshua Lev, Jim Matheson, Kyle R. Myers, and Henry Tao. "Fusion Industry Association: Igniting the Future of Clean Energy." Harvard Business School Case 624-064, January 2024.
- September 2022
- Article
A Spanner in the Works: Category-Spanning Entrants and Audience Valuation of Incumbents
By: Rory M. McDonald and Ryan T. Allen
Previous work has examined how audiences evaluate category-spanning organizations, but little is known about how their entrance affects evaluations of other, proximate organizations. We posit that the emergence of category-spanning entrants signals the advent of an... View Details
Keywords: Emerging Industries; Industry Dynamics; Organization And Management Theory; Technology Strategy; Technology And Innovation Management; Entrepreneurship; Information Technology; Strategy; Management; Theory; Innovation and Management
McDonald, Rory M., and Ryan T. Allen. "A Spanner in the Works: Category-Spanning Entrants and Audience Valuation of Incumbents." Strategy Science 7, no. 6 (September 2022): 190–209.
- 2019
- Chapter
The Republic of Turkey
By: Kristin Fabbe
Situated between Europe and Asia, Turkey occupies a critical geostrategic position in the world. This unique geography, no doubt, has much to do with the complexities and continuities that have characterized the country’s political development. Turkey is anchored to... View Details
Fabbe, Kristin. "The Republic of Turkey." Chap. 14 in Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa: Development, Democracy, and Dictatorship. 9th ed. Edited by Sean Yom. New York: Routledge, 2019.
- 03 Mar 2003
- What Do You Think?
Are Conditions Right for the Next Accounting Scandal?
proposal that "a non-Big Four auditor should be retained to [perform tasks such as] ... due diligence." Until these kinds of things happen, C.J. Cullinane believes that the "deterrent of getting caught is the biggest threat to the present... View Details
- 03 Jun 2002
- What Do You Think?
Are We Entering an Era of European Management Leadership?
Summing Up Readers of this month's column agree that there are marked differences in the social environment for management in Europe and the United States. In some parts of Europe, at least, they foster management policies that may... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett