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- 2010
- Chapter
Advancing Leadership Theory and Practice
By: Rakesh Khurana and Nitin Nohria
More than a means of getting ahead and gaining power, leadership must be understood as a serious professional and personal responsibility. In this introductory chapter, editors Nitin Nohria, the dean of Harvard Business School, and Rakesh Khurana, a professor of... View Details
Khurana, Rakesh, and Nitin Nohria. "Advancing Leadership Theory and Practice." Chap. 1 in Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, edited by Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana. Harvard Business Press, 2010.
- May 2007
- Article
Corporate Financing Decisions When Investors Take the Path of Least Resistance
By: Malcolm Baker, Joshua Coval and Jeremy Stein
We explore the consequences for corporate financial policy that arise when investors exhibit inertial behavior. One implication of investor inertia is that, all else equal, a firm pursuing a strategy of equity-financed growth will prefer a stock-for-stock merger to... View Details
Baker, Malcolm, Joshua Coval, and Jeremy Stein. "Corporate Financing Decisions When Investors Take the Path of Least Resistance." Journal of Financial Economics 84, no. 2 (May 2007): 266–298.
- March 1996 (Revised February 1999)
- Case
Vistakon: 1 Day Acuvue Disposable Contact Lenses
By: Alvin J. Silk, Bruce Issacson and Marie Bell
Vistakon, an independent and entrepreneurial subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, pioneered the production and marketing of disposable contact lenses with the 1987 launch of Acuvue, the first disposable extended-wear lens--a soft contact lens that patients wear for a... View Details
Keywords: Advertising Campaigns; Business Subsidiaries; Business Startups; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Price; Risk Management; Marketing; Product Positioning; Production; Performance Effectiveness; Consumer Products Industry; United States
Silk, Alvin J., Bruce Issacson, and Marie Bell. "Vistakon: 1 Day Acuvue Disposable Contact Lenses." Harvard Business School Case 596-087, March 1996. (Revised February 1999.)
- 2005
- Other Unpublished Work
Corporate Financing Decisions When Investors Take the Path of Least Resistance
By: Malcolm Baker, Joshua Coval and Jeremy Stein
We explore the consequences for corporate financial policy that arise when investors exhibit inertial behavior. One implication of investor inertia is that, all else equal, a firm pursuing a strategy of equity-financed growth will prefer a stock-for-stock merger to... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Behavior; Stocks; Mergers and Acquisitions; Policy; Investment; Financial Institutions; Equity; Corporate Finance
Baker, Malcolm, Joshua Coval, and Jeremy Stein. "Corporate Financing Decisions When Investors Take the Path of Least Resistance." NBER Working Paper Series, April 2005. (First Draft in 2004.)
- 14 May 2019
- HBS Seminar
Patti Williams, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania
- Web
Projects - Business History
activities of seven generations of one branch of the Medici family engaged in the manufacture and export of wool, and they remain unique in the annals of business history. Renaissance Medici wool firms present an important early case of... View Details
- 04 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
HBS Startup Bootcamp and Founders Unfiltered
on data while exploring market fit. Faculty presented central themes of renowned HBS courses like Founders’ Journey and Entrepreneurial Finance. Industry experts offered their insights on how to effectively manage public relations, what... View Details
- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
influencing the cost and availability of money, goods, and services. Macroeconomic forces can conspire to make business more difficult, but they can also present opportunities to executives who know how to, for example, read a country's... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2023
Q&A with Admissions
This virtual session will be hosted by a member of the MBA Admissions Office Team and will include a short presentation on the MBA program as well as information on financial aid and admissions. This event is primarily Q&A based, so we... View Details
- 03 Oct 2023
Q&A with Admissions
This virtual session will be hosted by a member of the MBA Admissions Office Team and will include a short presentation on the MBA program as well as information on financial aid and admissions. This event is primarily Q&A based, so we... View Details
- 08 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders
Association presented their “Guidelines for Avoiding Discrimination against Women in Written Materials” to top HBS administrators, and have been elevating the issue of gender in cases ever since. Although applying a gender lens to case... View Details
Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg
- 25 May 2011
- HBS Case
QuikTrip’s Investment in Retail Employees Pays Off
year visiting stores and employees and personally responds to any e-mail they send him." All of these factors have made QuikTrip a regular on Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For. Yet the company's focus on promoting from within View Details
- 02 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top
challenges. The first is in recognizing the threats (and opportunities) presented by newly emerging technologies. The second is in mounting an effective response to these threats. Microsoft appears to have solved these problems, giving it... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
the owner. And, of course, on the personal side, having a wife and family sets up a whole new list of priorities that weren't present at graduation. Is there anything that you've missed out on because of the demands of your career? Owning... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 29 Aug 2023
HBS Information Session in Houston
Join us for an in-person information session about the Harvard Business School MBA Program. This event is designed for prospective applicants to learn more about the MBA Program and life at HBS. The event will include an admissions View Details
- 30 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
Recruiters: Highlight Your Company’s Diversity, Not Just Perks and Pay
particularly young people: the diverse, inclusive workplaces they’ve worked hard to develop. “Job seekers are more likely to click on job ads for firms with high diversity scores when presented with this information.” “Job seekers are... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Art of Haggling
present opportunity for mutual gain. But while Wheeler supports the interest-based approach, he cautions that the approach has its limits. "It's unrealistic to imagine that pies can be infinitely expanded," he says. "At... View Details
Keywords: by Katie Johnston
- 01 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation
presented us with the problem of figuring out whether there was anything we could do to reduce turnover," Gino says. "We thought it was the perfect environment to test whether we could make a difference just by changing something minor in... View Details
- 04 Mar 2019
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?
Future at the New Frontier of Power, author Shoshana Zuboff identifies surveillance capitalism as the danger in our midst—not totalitarian government or even business institutions that practice surveillance capitalism. She presents... View Details
- 18 Jul 2023
HBS Information Session in Chicago
Join us for an in-person information session about the Harvard Business School MBA Program. This event is designed for prospective applicants to learn more about the MBA Program and life at HBS. The event will include an admissions View Details