Commissions - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

High Commitment, High Performance Management

last twenty years my colleagues at TruePoint and I have asked leadership teams to define a strategic direction (business strategy and values) and then commission a task force of their best performers one to two levels below them to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Partners & Fellows | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Commission for Investment Promotion, Nicaragua, Richard Lumpkin Service Leadership Fellow Meredith Weenick, City of Boston Mayor's Office, Baker Foundation Service Leadership Fellow Robert Zeaske, Mercy Corps, MBA Class of 1973 Fund... View Details

17 Jun 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Excellence Comes From Saying No

human rights commission of the war-torn African country where he was raised. He systematically used the course material to criticize hypocrisy at the commission-as well as criticize himself for not having high enough standards. "I... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

03 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

significant upfront costs in the form of severance. Pay cuts can be temporary or permanent. The challenge with salary cuts is that your best people, the ones with the most work options, may choose to leave the firm. A study of an inbound call center showed that when... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

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Outdoor Spaces | About

The upkeep and beautification of many outdoor spaces across the HBS campus are due to the generosity of Tom Theobald (MBA 1960). Wall of Recognition of Service to Country The Wall of Recognition of Service to Country was commissioned to... View Details

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Faculty - Race, Gender & Equity

of... Hise O. Gibson Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Hise Gibson graduated from West Point, where he was a member of the Division-1A Army football team. Following graduation, he commissioned in the US Army as an Aviation... View Details

03 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Dealing with the ‘Irrational’ Negotiator

owed $130,000 in sales commissions for the work he had done prior to being fired from the firm a few months earlier. The executive, on the other hand, claimed the employee was owed nothing—in fact, he insisted the employee had been... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman

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1929: The Great Crash - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

securities legislation of 1933–1934 and subsequent founding of the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) have been regarded as a successful chapter in financial regulation. These efforts bear the stamp of Harvard Professor of Law James... View Details

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General Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Healthcare from the Commission on the Accreditation of Health Management Education (CAHME). Hubert Joly : Winner of the 2021 Thinkers50 Leadership Award. Hubert Joly : Included on the 2021 Thinkers50 list—a list of the world's most... View Details

12 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

Pay Workers More So They Steal Less

wages and benefits are linked to a company's low turnover and to happier, more honest workers. What Businesses Can Learn The study has important practical implications for business. For example, the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Retail

2024
Article

Half the Firms, Double the Profits: Public Firms' Transformation, 1996–2022

By: Mark J. Roe and Charles C.Y. Wang

The number of public firms in the United States has halved since the beginning of the twenty-first century, causing consternation among corporate and securities law regulators. The dominant explanations, often advanced by Securities and Exchange commissioners when... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Law; Securities Regulation; Sarbanes-Oxley Act; Concentration Levels; Antitrust; Initial Public Offering; Public Ownership; Private Equity; Venture Capital; Mergers and Acquisitions; Monopoly; United States

28 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It

out of commission by such an event is to identify an alternate supplier. But such steps double back on the very measures implemented to remove supply chain costs. "Because everyone operates more leanly today, the cost of a [supply... View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

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U.S. Steel | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

TV Bibliography From the Director Site Credits Visit & Contact Us Special Collections Baker Library Search Search Search Slide 1 Intro Homepage Section PHOTOGRAPHY and CORPORATE PUBLIC RELATIONS THE CASE of U.S. STEEL | 1930–1960 From 1930 to 1960, the United States... View Details

24 Feb 2022
Op-Ed

Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC

responsibilities—engender the required transparency? In contrast to approaches that rely on HHS, our recommendation for building hospital capacity uses the power of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which for nearly a century... View Details

Keywords: by Regina Herzlinger and Richard Boxer; Health

25 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?

the context matters. Corporate training is most effective when leadership has prepared the organization for change. Source: MonkeyBusinessImages Take the example of Swedish industrial conglomerate Cardo. The CEO commissioned a training... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Education

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Charts & Statistics - Leadership

Breakup of Standard Oil and American Tobacco Clayton Antitrust Act Federal Reserve Act First Federal-Aid Highway Act Federal Trade Commission established Personal income tax reinstituted Influence: Low 20 1920 s 19 U.S. Steel and Alcoa... View Details

02 Oct 2017
What Do You Think?

Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?

statistical trading system; he handled administration and sales. Hedging was an important feature of the fund, since trading in commodities requires frequent short selling of commodities contracts. Registering the fund with the Securities and Exchange View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Financial Services

29 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

How to Succeed in Business (According to a 15th Century Trade Merchant)

write-off debt Extending credit was as much a necessity for trade in Cotrugli’s time as it is today, but charging interest was illegal; instead, debts were compensated through commissions or insurance premiums that skirted the definition... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

22 Feb 2022
News

New Urban Order

its first 15 or 20 years, a landfill produces a fraction of the amount of methane it hits at 30 or 40 years old,” he says. “We’re commissioning two more plants—one in Ontario, one in Iowa—because those two locations finally have enough... View Details

Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

the use of alternative energies—like wind—costs less than, or equal to, the price of using power from conventional fossil fuel. We have just commissioned a 46MW project in Scotland installing just 10 turbines that will produce enough... View Details

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