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  • 2014
  • Article

Delaware's Choice

By: Guhan Subramanian
This article first documents the shift to annual elections of all directors at most U.S. corporations and argues that the alternative of "ineffective" staggered boards would have been more desirable, as a policy matter, but is now a missed opportunity. Using this... View Details
Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Laws and Statutes; Policy; Delaware
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  • 31 May 2023
  • HBS Case

Why Business Leaders Need to Hear Larry Miller's Story

for business leaders to rethink their hiring practices and start giving the formerly incarcerated more opportunities to prove themselves, say Hise Gibson and coauthors of a Harvard Business School case study... View Details
Keywords: by Jamal Meneide; Entertainment & Recreation; Consumer Products
  • 03 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Transforming Manufacturing Waste into Profit

It's been said that "one man's trash is another man's treasure." HBS Assistant Professor Deishin Lee, however, has taken that old adage a step further in her recent working paper Turning Waste into By-Product by showing how it's possible for companies to turn... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing
  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

Game On

themselves immediately but also aspire to advance. By offering an optimal club experience, McCarthy aims to establish a long-term membership base that functions as an annuity stream. That, in turn, affords him View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Edward Linsmier; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 05 May 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Connecting with Consumers Using Deep Metaphors

Think of famous brands you know: Hallmark cards and Coca-Cola soft drinks, for example. What do these products have in common for consumers? An emotional meaning that taps into thoughts and feelings related to View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products
  • 02 Aug 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Summing Up: Why Can’t Organizations Engage Their Employees?

change.” In the opinion of davidfinaz, employees walk through the door of their new employer with hidden skepticism View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 30 Jan 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Modularity and Intellectual Property Protection

Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin & Joachim Henkel
  • 07 Aug 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Financial vs. Strategic Buyers

Keywords: by Marc Martos-Vila, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf & Jarrad Harford
  • Web

Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online

This course is part of the Finance & Accounting track. Introduction to Financial Accounting LIMITED TIME ONLY Extra learning at no extra cost. Enroll now and unlock a GenAI Bonus Bundle featuring... View Details
  • February 2006 (Revised September 2006)
  • Case

Sippican Corporation (A)

By: Robert S. Kaplan
Presents a time-driven version of the Wilkerson Co. activity-based costing case (101092). Faced with declining profits, Sippican Corp. is struggling to understand why it is encountering severe price competition on one product line. The controller collects data that... View Details
Keywords: History; Business Model; Strategic Planning; Cost Accounting; Motivation and Incentives; Resource Allocation; Activity Based Costing and Management; Profit; Business Strategy; Budgets and Budgeting
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  • Web

Next-generation Strategy

The future of work is here, and leaders must embrace the opportunities presented by shifting demographics and new employment models. See past generational stereotypes Leaders... View Details
  • Research Summary

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The Information Age has introduced well recieved opportunities to track performance. Fitbits and Fuelbands show individuals their own performance; service companies including Uber and leading hospitals help pick from drivers or doctors based on how others rate them;... View Details
Keywords: Management Accounting; Performance Measurement; Incentives; Control; Healthcare Industry; Education; Education Industry; Health Industry; Transportation Industry; Energy Industry; Auto Industry; United States; Japan; India
  • January 2025
  • Case

Netflix: Takedown Troubles

By: Clayton S. Rose, Tom Quinn and Maxim Pike Harrell
In October 2021, Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos sent an all-staff email addressing backlash to comedian Dave Chappelle’s new stand-up special, The Closer. Released on October 5, the comedian’s depiction of the transgender community and other LGBTQ+ groups prompted... View Details
Keywords: Disruption; Talent and Talent Management; Customer Satisfaction; Cost vs Benefits; Demographics; Ethics; Corporate Accountability; Employees; Recruitment; Retention; Leadership; Crisis Management; Risk Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Strategic Planning; Adaptation; Decisions; Motion Pictures and Video Industry
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  • Web

Economic Development in Inner Cities - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Shared Value Almost all big companies have active charitable programs and give to social service organizations. But they rarely grasp that helping revitalize their local communities can enhance their competitiveness. Such strategies should be View Details
  • Article

Values, Purpose, Meaning, and Expectations: Why Culture and Context Matter

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
The "rational person" standard, based on assumptions of economic self-interest, has long prevailed in legal reasoning. But understanding of decision making, behavioral choices, and possibilities for action must be enlarged to include a variety of factors that give... View Details
Keywords: Standards; Interests; Decision Making; Behavior; Value; Groups and Teams; Performance Expectations; Organizational Culture; Leadership; Business Cycles; Forecasting and Prediction; Motivation and Incentives
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  • 20 Apr 2020
  • Blog Post

Introducing LivelyHood, A Volunteer Nonprofit Founded in Response to COVID-19

volunteer designers and engineers from across the globe. Where We Started Friday, March 13th, 2020. It’s one of the last “normal” days I vividly remember. It was View Details
  • 12 Oct 2021
  • Research & Ideas

What Actually Draws Sports Fans to Games? It's Not Star Athletes.

After COVID-19 shut down most professional sports leagues last year, fans have been eagerly returning to games and matches. But what will keep them coming back after the pandemic? Leagues might assume that their star athletes and... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Sports
  • 2013
  • Book

Flourishing: A Frank Conversation About Sustainability

By: John Ehrenfeld and Andrew J. Hoffman
Flourishing: A Frank Conversation about Sustainability invites you into a conversation between a teacher, John R. Ehrenfeld, and his former student now professor, Andrew J. Hoffman, as they discuss how to create a sustainable world. Unlike virtually all other... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Culture; Behavior; Society
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  • Web

Independent Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

student demand and funds available. We expect that you will receive a percentage of your request, based on student demand and funds available. Organizations can find more information about posting an... View Details
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Preventing Fairness Gerrymandering: Auditing and Learning for Subgroup Fairness

By: Michael J Kearns, Seth Neel, Aaron Leon Roth and Zhiwei Steven Wu
The most prevalent notions of fairness in machine learning are statistical definitions: they fix a small collection of pre-defined groups, and then ask for parity of some statistic of the classifier (like classification rate or false positive rate) across these groups.... View Details
Keywords: Machine Learning; Algorithms; Fairness; Mathematical Methods
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