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  • 02 Apr 2019
  • News

The Right Way to Get Your First 1,000 Customers

  • 27 Mar 2018
  • News

Why CEOs Are Taking a Stand

    International Strategy: Context, Concepts and Implications

    The comprehensive guide to managing and leading companies that compete internationally

    Drawing on the course material developed at the Harvard Business School and Yale School of Management by David Collis, International Strategy... View Details

    • 10 Dec 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    Truth Be Told: Unpacking the Risks of Whistleblowing

    In 2018, HBS associate professors Aiyesha Dey and Jonas Heese wrote a case about a whistleblower at a multi-national gambling company who exposed financial misstatements, first to his manager and later to the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The case focused on... View Details
    Keywords: by April White
    • 20 Apr 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Why Every Company Needs a CSR Strategy and How to Build It

    Keywords: by Kash Rangan, Lisa A. Chase & Sohel Karim
    • 01 Nov 2017
    • What Do You Think?

    What Are the Real Lessons of the Wells Fargo Case?

    control, questionable organizational (particularly human resource management) practices, and human behavior traits in general. As “Former Employee” put it, “much of the language in the Visions and Values about caring for team members and... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Banking
    • Web

    Interviews - Creating Emerging Markets

    and business for a fair amount of time, that you could so much with management, but not enough unless you added value to what the country is producing.” Download Transcript Mexico Alberto Baillères CEO, Grupo Bal (Diversified) “One of the... View Details
    • Web

    About | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

    A Catalyst for Creating Social Value The Social Enterprise Initiative applies innovative business practices and managerial disciplines to drive sustained, high-impact social change. It's grounded in the mission of Harvard Business School... View Details
    • 16 Mar 2015
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Higher-Ambition CEOs Need Higher-Ambition Boards

    Keywords: by Edward J. Ludwig, Anna Elise Walton & Michael Beer
    • TeachingInterests

    Senior Executive Leadership Program—Middle East

    By: Andy Wu

    Change is everywhere in the Middle East today, as many countries seek to diversify their economies and encourage new industries. The region's complex business environment includes distinct political and economic conditions in each country—and... View Details

    • TeachingInterests

    Senior Executive Leadership Program - China (SELPC)

    By: Stefan H. Thomke

    Today's global business environment offers many exciting prospects for talented executives and ambitious organizations. To take full advantage of emerging opportunities in Greater China and beyond, businesses... View Details

    • Research Summary

    The Talent at the Table: Business Expertise and Share Ownership in Fortune 500 Boardrooms

    This paper examines the relationship between corporate value and "vestige" directors, defined as directors who own sizeable shareholdings but lack salient business experience relative to their peers on Fortune 500 boards.  These people come to serve on... View Details
    • December 2024
    • Article

    Proxy Advisory Firms and Corporate Shareholder Engagement

    By: Aiyesha Dey, Austin Starkweather and Joshua White
    We study how Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) affect firms’ engagement with shareholders. Our analyses exploit a quasi-natural experiment using say-on-pay voting outcomes near a threshold that triggers ISS to review engagement activities. Firms receiving ISS... View Details
    Keywords: Business and Shareholder Relations; Governing and Advisory Boards; Policy; Voting
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    • March 2024
    • Case

    Negotiating the Gift of Life (A)

    By: Alex Chan
    Describes a negotiation where lives are truly at stake, where key lessons on persuasion and the role that identity might play in a negotiation are on display through an effort by a frontline negotiator from OneLegacy, the US's largest organ procurement organization. As... View Details
    Keywords: Economics; Negotiation; Communication; Diversity; Nonprofit Organizations; Emotions; Health Industry
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    • October 2023
    • Article

    Improving Regulatory Effectiveness Through Better Targeting: Evidence from OSHA

    By: Matthew S. Johnson, David I. Levine and Michael W. Toffel
    We study how a regulator can best target inspections. Our case study is a U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) program that randomly allocated some inspections. On average, each inspection averted 2.4 serious injuries (9%) over the next five years.... View Details
    Keywords: Safety Regulations; Regulations; Regulatory Enforcement; Machine Learning Models; Safety; Operations; Service Operations; Production; Forecasting and Prediction; Decisions; United States
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    • March 2021
    • Supplement

    Sky Deutschland - Bidding for Sports Rights (B)

    By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Sascha L. Schmidt and Sebastian Koppers
    Carsten Schmidt, CEO of Sky Deutschland, needs to prepare for the auction of German soccer rights. Much was at stake. Not only was soccer the most widely watched sport in Germany, the company had long advertised that only Sky showed “every game, every goal.” In... View Details
    Keywords: Sports; Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Intellectual Property; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Sports Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Germany
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    • May 2020
    • Article

    Measuring Collaboration in Modern Organizations

    By: Stephen Michael Impink, Andrea Prat and Raffaella Sadun
    Internal communication has been a central theme in organizational economics, as employee collaboration provides insight into the structure of firms. Use of electronic communications data can be transformational for organizational economics, as these data provide a... View Details
    Keywords: Collaboration; Employees; Interactive Communication; Measurement and Metrics; Organizations; Performance
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    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Internal Models, Make Believe Prices, and Bond Market Cornering

    By: Ishita Sen and Varun Sharma
    Exploiting position-level heterogeneity in regulatory incentives to misreport and novel data on regulators, we document that U.S. life insurers inflate the values of corporate bonds using internal models. We estimate an additional $9-$18 billion decline in regulatory... View Details
    Keywords: Life Insurers; Capital Regulation; Internal Models; Corporate Bonds; Regulatory Supervision; Concentrated Ownership; Bonds; Capital; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Insurance; Investment Portfolio
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    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Improving Regulatory Effectiveness Through Better Targeting: Evidence from OSHA

    By: Matthew S. Johnson, David I. Levine and Michael W. Toffel
    We study how a regulator can best target inspections. Our case study is a US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) program that randomly allocated some inspections. On average, each inspection averted 2.4 serious injuries (9%) over the next five years.... View Details
    Keywords: Government Administration; Working Conditions; Safety; Quality; Production; Analysis; Resource Allocation; Manufacturing Industry; United States
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    • 2015
    • Working Paper

    Banks' Risk Exposures

    By: Juliane Begenau, Monika Piazzesi and Martin Schneider
    This paper studies U.S. banks' exposure to interest rate and credit risk. We exploit the factor structure in interest rates to represent many bank positions in terms of simple factor portfolios. This approach delivers time varying measures of exposure that are... View Details
    Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Interest Rates; Credit; Banks and Banking; United States
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