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  • Mar 2012
  • Article

The Incentive Bubble

The past three decades have seen American capitalism quietly transformed by a single, powerful idea--that financial markets are a suitable tool for measuring performance and structuring compensation. Stock instruments for managers,... View Details
  • Web

2015 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Addressing Structural Inequality Panel: Lunch and panel discussion: Communicating through Media Sarah Cliffe , Harvard Business Review Maria Konnikova , The New Yorker Amy Cuddy , Harvard Business School Flash Talks: Approaches &... View Details
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Determinants of Top-Down Sabotage

By: Hashim Zaman and Karim R. Lakhani
We investigate the conditions that motivate managers to impede the growth of talented subordinates due to fears of future competition for their own positions. Our research expands on existing tournament and contest theory literature that considers peer-to-peer sabotage... View Details
Keywords: Succession Planning; Organizational Hierarchy; Compensation; Promotions; Tournaments; Talent and Talent Management; Organizational Structure; Employee Relationship Management; Performance Evaluation; Organizational Culture; Management Skills
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  • October 1998 (Revised September 1999)
  • Case

Mercedes-Benz in Alabama: Lessons from the Field

By: William J. Bruns Jr., Carin-Isabel Knoop and Anthony St. George
Details the establishment of the Mercedes Benz M-Class plant in Vance, AL. The plant was established as an independent "teaching field" for parent company Daimler Benz. The case reviews the different lessons from the plant and looks at issues going forward,... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Banks and Banking; Integration; Horizontal Integration; Business Ventures; Teaching; Organizational Structure; Auto Industry; Alabama
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  • January 2018 (Revised February 2025)
  • Teaching Note

Collage.com: Scaling a Distributed Organization

By: Christopher Stanton and Shikhar Ghosh
Teaching Note for HBS No. 817-038. View Details
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Organizational Structure; Competitive Strategy; Employees; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy
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  • February 2010
  • Case

Corporate Strategy at Berkshire Partners

By: Julie M. Wulf and Scott Waggoner
The managing directors of Berkshire Partners, a mid-sized private equity firm, address strategic and organizational challenges in response to turbulent market conditions, rapid firm growth, and the transition of leadership from its founding partners to the next... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Management Teams; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Boston
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  • 06 Oct 2003
  • What Do You Think?

Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?

forms of innovation: process innovations ... innovations in the way we think ... innovations in organization structure ... and so on." These comments pose the question of whether too many elements, many of them counter to human... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Making the Most of Government Upheaval

Beginning with Chile more than twenty years ago, Latin America has experienced a wrenching yet exciting transformation of its predominantly inward-looking, state-driven economies to a robust acceptance and practice of open-market principles. View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
  • 02 Apr 2024
  • Blog Post

IFC India: A Circular Journey Through JSW Cement - From Steel Slag to Stronger Shores

coastal regions. Structures built with these cements can withstand saltwater erosion and extreme weather conditions better, leading to longer lifespans and reduced maintenance costs. As typical with many green industrial products,... View Details
  • Web

Lessons from the 2025 Race, Gender & Equity at Work Symposium - Blog: RGE Report

The nefarious wielding of hope to maintain normative structures can be broken down into various buckets, a few of which panelists explored, as follows: The exploitation of hope and its effects on well-being There are many ways in which... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2017
  • News

Case Study: Something New

creating the best cost structure in the market. But the company wanted to compete primarily on quality not price. To that end, it struck exclusive deals with suppliers and marketing partners. Where they are today: The company continues to... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

New Releases

business, obtaining venture capital, managing growth, handling bankruptcy, and starting a nonprofit venture. The pieces focus on the skills and abilities one must master to fill the entrepreneurial role, from creativity and innovation to building the View Details
  • December 2023 (Revised April 2025)
  • Case

Yellow Corporation: On the Verge of Bankruptcy

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Edward A. Meyer
Yellow Corporation, one of the country’s oldest and largest less-than-truckload (LTL) carriers, was nearing its 100th anniversary in 2024. Whether it would reach that milestone, however, was uncertain as the company was attempting to restructure its operations to... View Details
Keywords: Labor Unions; Labor and Management Relations; Capital Structure; Restructuring; Financial Management; Ethics; Borrowing and Debt; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Strategy; Truck Transportation; Change Management; Transportation Industry; Shipping Industry; United States
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Eric Li | MBA

of technology and business: Bringing Harvard Tech for Social Good from 0 to 1 has taught me how to thoughtfully apply technology to social causes, how leading organizations think about this work, and how different incentive structures can... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

HBS Moves Ahead with Curriculum Innovations

configurations. A section of 90 students, for example, can easily be divided into 15 groups of 6. What curriculum innovations are second-year students experiencing this year? Historically, we have structured the first and second years... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • Student-Profile

Alexandra C. Feldberg

across groups in organizations? How does access to knowledge affect the inclusion of subgroups in organizational processes? In what ways does knowledge transfer impact the success of programs intended to promote equity in organizations? Organizational Behavior Program... View Details
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The Campus Emerges - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

the river from the Anderson Bridge, would supply a foundation to carry the pipes and also allow easy access to and maintain a connection with the Cambridge campus. Work crews laid pipes in trenches dug out along Cambridge streets, incorporated them into the View Details
  • Web

Special Assistant to the CEO | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

oriented should include some aspect of social equity and community engagement. And still be a profitable business.” “We’re still deciding what projects I’ll work on,” Michael says. But his formal title is, Special Assistant to the CEO, and the general View Details
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Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator - Health Care

leading to more advancements. The issue they discovered was that the structure of the cure ecosystem wasn’t built around business efficiencies. Organizations, which are often solely research-focused, could achieve so much more by building... View Details
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Real Estate Private Equity - Course Catalog

final module consists of a focus on private investment firms, their compensation structures and how they impact behavior. For the final project students will be asked to develop an investment concept and present it via a paper and... View Details