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  • 26 Aug 2020
  • Blog Post

Two sides, same coin: How I left the Bay Area as an operator and returned as an investor

keep this in mind whether I was supporting a founder as she was making a first hire or having a difficult feedback conversation with a team that did not receive funding. Having been an operator, I was... View Details
  • February 2005 (Revised March 2006)
  • Case

PCAOB, The (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Kim Bettcher
Members of the Public Co. Accounting Oversight Board--a private-sector, nonprofit body created by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002--must determine the form and content of a new auditing standard on internal control that will fulfill the requirements of Section 404 of the... View Details
Keywords: Law; Financial Reporting; Corporate Governance; Standards; Government Administration; Accounting Audits
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    Supply Chain Finance at Procter & Gamble

    In April 2013, Procter & Gamble (P&G), the world's largest consumer packaged goods (CPG) company, announced that it would extend its payment terms to suppliers by 30 days. At the same time, P&G announced a new supply chain financing (SCF) program giving... View Details
    • February 2010
    • Supplement

    Lending Club case exhibits (CW)

    By: Peter Tufano
    A new entrant in the nascent online peer lending space, Lending Club must decide whether or not to register with the SEC. Lending Club provided a platform through which individual borrowers could receive loans funded by individuals who chose to invest in them. The... View Details
    Keywords: Internet and the Web; Financing and Loans
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    • Blog

    Two-Year Action Plan Update: Q+A with Terrill Drake, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Harvard Business School

    overview of the services, which will give everyone more concrete information and clarity about what we do and where to go for resources. With these foundational pieces in... View Details
    • February 2010 (Revised December 2010)
    • Case

    Lending Club

    By: Peter Tufano
    A new entrant in the nascent online peer lending space, Lending Club must decide whether or not to register with the SEC. Lending Club provided a platform through which individual borrowers could receive loans funded by individuals who chose to invest in them. The... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Instruments; Price; Personal Finance; Financing and Loans; Financial Services Industry
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    • January 2001 (Revised March 2002)
    • Case

    Ford Motor Company's Value Enhancement Plan

    By: Andre F. Perold
    In April 2000, Ford Motor Co. announced a shareholder Value Enhancement Plan (VEP) to significantly recapitalize the firm's ownership structure. Ford had accumulated $23 billion in cash reserves and under the VEP would return as much as $10 billion of this cash to... View Details
    Keywords: Restructuring; Forecasting and Prediction; Capital Structure; Cash; Financial Liquidity; Policy; Business and Shareholder Relations; Value; Auto Industry
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    • 16 Jun 2021
    • Interview

    Harvard Business School: How to Build Fearless Organizations

    By: Amy C. Edmondson and Ron Lovett
    Our guest is Amy Edmondson - Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School. Amy has authored multiple books, including her most recent, The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation and... View Details
    Keywords: Psychological Safety; Organizational Culture; Leadership; Diversity; Communication
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    • October 2008
    • Article

    Evaluating the CEO

    By: Stephen P. Kaufman
    This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. After Kaufman became a CEO, he was struck by how perfunctory the board was in its... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Governing and Advisory Boards; Leadership; Managerial Roles; Performance Evaluation; Motivation and Incentives
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    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    The Luck of the Draw: The Causal Effect of Physicians on Birth Outcomes

    By: Arlen Guarin, Christian Posso, Estefania Saravia and Jorge Tamayo
    Identifying the effect of physicians’ skills on health outcomes is a challenging task due to the nonrandom sorting between physicians and hospitals. We overcome this challenge by exploiting a Colombian government program that randomly assigned 2,126 physicians to 618... View Details
    Keywords: Physicians' Health Skills; Health Birth Outcomes; Birthing Outcomes; Experimental Evidence; Health Care and Treatment; Competency and Skills; Outcome or Result; Health Industry; Colombia
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    • 26 Oct 2018
    • Blog Post

    Making the Switch from Finance to Fitness

    at night, I was so happy doing what I loved. I was also conscious of the fact that my primary responsibility was to my company. I worked to ensure that I was productive and meeting deadlines, and I... View Details
    • 25 Apr 2024
    • Blog Post

    Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #18: Tom Ferguson (MBA 2014) Venture Capitalist and Water Evangelist

    early-stage companies. A ‘seed fund of choice’ was asking to be built in 2020, something that would provide a check, help entrepreneurs with customers and investor introductions, as well as help them through the process of designing their... View Details
    • 28 Nov 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants

    A proposal out of Harvard and MIT to rethink how kidney transplants are allocated could result in a fairer system giving patients longer lives. The new empirical model, which is intensely data driven, would... View Details
    Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Health
    • 07 Sep 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    Mindful Leadership: When East Meets West

    practiced in True North Groups consists of a small number of peers (usually five to eight) willing to share themselves and their lives and support each other through both good View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • January 2024 (Revised June 2024)
    • Case

    School of Rock: Tuning into Structured Empowerment (A)

    By: Tatiana Sandino, Jeffrey Rayport, Samuel Grad and Stacy Straaberg
    In summer 2021, School of Rock was a youth-oriented music education company with 291 franchise- and company-owned schools globally. Before CEO Rob Price’s hire in 2017, School of Rock’s nonconformist rock ‘n’ roll culture led to variability in teaching styles,... View Details
    Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Plan; Change Management; Transformation; Communication Strategy; Decisions; Curriculum and Courses; Teaching; Employee Relationship Management; Knowledge Sharing; Leadership Style; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Style; Marketing Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Franchise Ownership; Performance Expectations; Performance Improvement; Strategic Planning; Attitudes; Conflict Management; Corporate Strategy; Applications and Software; Technology Adoption; Education Industry; Music Industry; Massachusetts; United States
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    • 10 Jul 2007
    • What Do You Think?

    How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?

    theater and control is required to make people feel comfortable when fundamental operating systems change ." Narendar Singh Raj Purohit adds that " when things are getting out of control someone has to take initiative to View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett
    • June 2018
    • Case

    Verona Group

    By: Robert L. Simons and Sarah Abbott
    Are a salesperson's struggles her own fault or the result of a problematic job design? Anna George works as a salesperson at Verona Group, a company that designs and wholesales high-end women's apparel. She had spent nearly 20 years in sales with another fashion label... View Details
    Keywords: Jobs and Positions; Design; Analysis; Performance; Measurement and Metrics; Salesforce Management; Organizational Design
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    • 13 May 2019
    • Blog Post

    The Many Facets of Becoming a Mother at HBS

    compassionate, selfless students and faculty.  Giving birth at the beginning of my EC (second) year while my husband, a military officer, was stationed 3,000 miles away from me was not part of my plan. But... View Details
    • April 2011
    • Article

    What Can We Learn from 'Great Negotiations'?

    By: James K. Sebenius
    What can one legitimately learn-analytically and/or prescriptively-from detailed historical case studies of "great negotiations," chosen more for their salience than their analytic characteristics or comparability? Taking a number of such cases compiled by Stanton... View Details
    Keywords: Learning; International Relations; History; Agreements and Arrangements; Negotiation Process; Conflict and Resolution
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    • 06 Sep 2019
    • Blog Post

    The Business of Medicine: MD/MBA Students Having an Impact

    These Harvard Medical School (HMS) students are already making a difference in the health care community. Now, they are at HBS fine-tuning their leadership skills in preparation of receiving their MD/MBA. Each year, MD/MBA applicants... View Details