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- 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
- 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
Roe, Mark J., and Charles C.Y. Wang. "Half the Firms, Double the Profits: Public Firms' Transformation, 1996–2022." Journal of Law, Finance, and Accounting 8, no. 2 (2024): 211–264.
- 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
- 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
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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
- 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