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  • 04 Sep 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Level II Negotiations: Helping the Other Side Meet Its ‘Behind the Table’ Challenges

Keywords: by James Sebenius
  • 16 Jul 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Selection, Reallocation, and Spillover: Identifying the Sources of Gains from Multinational Production

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Maggie X. Chen
  • November – December 2008
  • Article

Chief Risk Officers at Crunch Time: Compliance Champions or Business Partners?

By: Anette Mikes

Risk management departments in financial institutions have been undergoing major transformations. New regulatory requirements have raised the bar on compliance, and expanded the remit of risk management significantly. The compliance imperative requires banks to... View Details

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Corporate Governance; Governance Compliance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Managerial Roles; Risk Management; Partners and Partnerships
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    George H. Mead

    Mead, who started his career as a chemist and pulp mill foreman, built a paper mill empire. His knowledge of the manufacturing process and the paper market resulted in a steady expansion of the business.... View Details
    Keywords: Wood, Paper & Forestry
    • Research Summary

    Overview

    Having grown up in a developing country, Professor Sikochi’s research focus is driven by a desire to understand how capital flows to firms and entrepreneurs with the ultimate goal to help build capital markets in the developing economies. To this end, he conducts... View Details

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    Current Research

    Ian studies extrinsic rewards -- monetary incentives from formal compensation systems, as well as other formal and informal external rewards-- in order to help businesses understand the tensions and tradeoffs inherent in motivating employees. His research takes a... View Details

      Hugh J. Chisholm

      Chisholm was widely considered to be the most powerful man of his time in the American pulp and paper industry. He was the primary founder of International Paper Company that brought together 30 pulp and... View Details
      Keywords: Wood, Paper & Forestry
      • 06 Jan 2014
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Mechanisms of Technology Re-Emergence and Identity Change in a Mature Field: Swiss Watchmaking, 1970-2008

      Keywords: by Ryan Raffaelli; Consumer Products; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion
      • 2012
      • Discussion Paper

      Labor Productivity and Quality Change in Singapore: Achievements in 1974-2011 and Prospects for the Next Two Decades

      By: Koji Nomura and Tomomichi Amano
      Labor productivity growth in Singapore that has grown at a rate of over 3.0 percent per year since 1970s considerably slowed down to 0.5 percent on average per annum in the latter half of the 2000s. The purpose of this paper is to ask, first, to what extent Singapore’s... View Details
      Keywords: Labor; Performance Productivity; Quality; Economic Growth; Singapore
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        Richard J. Cullen

        Cullen pioneered both the development of Kraft paper, as well as the paper industry as a whole in the South. Cullen was a leader in exploiting the resources of the southern woodlands as the raw material for making Kraft paper. Cullen was... View Details
        Keywords: Wood, Paper & Forestry
        • Article

        Mission-Driven Governance

        By: Raymond Fisman, Rakesh Khurana and Edward Martenson

        The purpose of this paper is to provide a useful, easily applied theory of governance performance. The existing model is fundamentally adversarial, rooted in the paradigm of principal-agent conflict. At its base is an image of governance as a never-ending struggle... View Details

        Keywords: Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Knowledge Management; Standards; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Evaluation
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        • 02 May 2017
        • First Look

        First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017

        April 14, 2017 Harvard Business Review Companies Like United Need to Cultivate Good Judgment, and Free Their Employees to Use It By: Deighton, John A. Abstract—United Airlines has pledged to improve its training programs and empower its employees to put customers first... View Details
        Keywords: Carmen Nobel
        • 2024
        • Working Paper

        Does Private Equity Have Any Business Being in the Health Care Business?

        By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Zirui Song
        Private Equity (“PE”) has come under increased scrutiny by the press, academics, and policymakers, as well as the public, for its investments in health care delivery. This scrutiny has been exacerbated by recent high profile hospital bankruptcies following PE... View Details
        Keywords: Private Equity; Government Administration; Acquisition; Health Industry
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          John R. Kimberly

          After a short political career, Kimberly rejoined the family business as a sales executive and helped grow revenues to $153 million by 1952. His best work, however, came during his tenure as CEO, when he encouraged a wealth of expansion and research that helped... View Details
          Keywords: Wood, Paper & Forestry
          • Research Summary

          Research Summaries

          Sameer's research examines the dynamics of social networks inside organizations and their consequences for individual attainment and organizational success.  His research encompasses three broad streams of activity.


          Social Capital... View Details

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          By: Rohit Deshpande

          Rohit Deshpandé is Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing at Harvard Business Schoolwhere he currently teaches in the Owner/President Management Program and in other executive education offerings. He has also taught global branding, international marketing, and... View Details

          • 06 Feb 2014
          • HBS Seminar

          Karthik Ramanna, Harvard Business School

          • 21 Sep 2016
          • HBS Seminar

          Catherine Tucker, MIT Sloan School of Management

          • Research Summary

          Overview

          By: Vincent Pons
          Professor Pons studies questions in political economy and development with the goal of understanding how democratic systems function, and how they can be improved.

          He decomposes the electoral cycle into four essential steps: the factors affecting voter... View Details

            John A. Kimberly

            Kimberly built one of the largest manufacturers of pulp and paper products in the world. His company introduced two big sellers, which are widely sold today – a sanitary napkin (“Kotex”) and a disposable handkerchief (“Kleenex”). View Details
            Keywords: Wood, Paper & Forestry