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- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
structures, we adopt a process perspective and find that integration was achieved despite an incentive structure that did not support it. By drawing a distinction between the incentive landscape and the planning process, we identify... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
different ownership structure and managers with different risk aversion and talent match endogenously through incentive contracts. The model predicts and the data support that, compared to widely held firms, family firms use contracts... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Group Therapy
of several South American nations. Its operations in numerous energy-related industries have done much to improve the economic infrastructure of that continent's emerging countries. On the other hand, the close connections of some groups to a nation's power View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- Portrait Project
Anmol Gupta
later, only the classrooms have changed. The learning never stops. The operating room is my favorite playground, the human body my most challenging puzzle, and my patients a humbling reminder: people won’t ever care how much you know, until they know how much you care.... View Details
- 26 Oct 2015
- News
Sal Khan Goes Back to School
the classroom, in the form of Khan Lab School, an educational “R&D lab” in Mountain View, California. The fact that the school goes year-round – meaning there’s no summer vacation, kids – is just the beginning of how different the program is here. In addition to... View Details
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
a host of issues related to how contracts between financial intermediaries and their customers are structured and how risks are shared between them, as well as the consequences of (unexpected) deviations from the ex-ante optimal... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
resources to meeting that customer's needs. This article will show you how to identify the best primary customer for your business by analyzing perspective, capabilities, and profit potential; allocate resources through structural... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- October 2013 (Revised September 2014)
- Case
The TELUS Share Conversion Proposal
By: Lucy White, Benjamin C. Esty and Lisa Mazzanti
On February 21, 2013, TELUS announced a proposal to convert the firm's non-voting shares into voting shares on a one-to-one basis, thereby eliminating the firm's dual class structure. Shareholders were scheduled to vote on the proposal at the firm's annual general... View Details
Keywords: Proxy Contest; Proxy Battle; Proxy Advisor; ISS; Glass Lewis ＆ Co.; Hedge Fund; Short Selling; Share Lending; Telecommunications; Voting Rights; Empty Voting; Equity Decoupling; Share Unification; Dual Class Shares; Canada; Exchange Ratio; Shareholder Activism; Shareholder Votes; Investment Activism; Public Equity; Capital Structure; Investment Return; Corporate Governance; Corporate Finance; Ownership Stake; Business and Shareholder Relations; Valuation; Telecommunications Industry; Canada; British Columbia; United States; New York (city, NY)
White, Lucy, Benjamin C. Esty, and Lisa Mazzanti. "The TELUS Share Conversion Proposal." Harvard Business School Case 214-001, October 2013. (Revised September 2014.)
- July 1991 (Revised June 1993)
- Background Note
Conflicting Responsibilities
Presents a framework for resolving issues in which managers' responsibilities--to shareholders, employees, other stakeholder groups, and to their own values and commitments in life--conflict with each other. The framework analyzes these issues in terms of duties,... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Employees; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Structure; Personal Development and Career; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations
Badaracco, Joseph L. "Conflicting Responsibilities." Harvard Business School Background Note 392-002, July 1991. (Revised June 1993.)
- May 2016 (Revised August 2019)
- Teaching Note
Project Deutschland: Unpeeling the Onion of a Distressed Real Estate Portfolio
By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Ricardo Andrade
James Tallest analyzed the opportunity to invest in a distressed portfolio of high quality properties in Germany by acquiring one or more non-performing loans from Deutschland Bank. While he considers the many aspects of the deal that is about to unfold, he must decide... View Details
- September 2011
- Teaching Note
Growing Pains at Stroz Friedberg (TN)
By: David A. Garvin
Teaching Note for 311008. View Details
- 2010
- Other Unpublished Work
Fashioning an Industry: Cognitive Processes and the Construction of Worth in the Institutionalization of a New Industry
By: Mukti Khaire
This inductive study of the high-end fashion industry in India explores how the worth of a new industry is constructed. Interviews with entrepreneurs and constituents of the field revealed that the worth of the industry was constructed through framing by early... View Details
- July 2008 (Revised January 2013)
- Teaching Note
eHarmony (TN)
By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski and Hanna Halaburda
Teaching Note for eHarmony [709424]. View Details
- April 2003
- Teaching Note
Energis (A) (TN)
By: John R. Wells
Teaching Note for (9-703-505). View Details
- June 2002
- Background Note
Note on the Equivalency of Methods for Discounting Cash Flows
Uses a numerical example to demonstrate that when you discount the cash flows to capital from a project at the weighted average cost of capital, you get same net present value result as you obtain when discounting the cash flows to equity at the cost of equity. Also... View Details
Fruhan, William E., Jr. "Note on the Equivalency of Methods for Discounting Cash Flows." Harvard Business School Background Note 202-128, June 2002.
- October 1995 (Revised March 1996)
- Case
Booz.Allen & Hamilton: Vision 2000
In 1993, Booz.Allen & Hamilton forsook its previous, highly local organizational structure. It was motivated by a desire to serve multinational clients more effectively and to provide greater value to clients with more localized business by collecting best practices... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Service Operations; Service Delivery; Organizational Structure; Global Strategy; Service Industry
Loveman, Gary W., and Jamie O'Connell. "Booz.Allen & Hamilton: Vision 2000." Harvard Business School Case 396-031, October 1995. (Revised March 1996.)
- December 1993 (Revised November 1995)
- Case
Wetherill Associates, Inc.
By: Lynn S. Paine
Top managers of Wetherill Associates, Inc., a small, privately held distributor of electrical parts to the automotive aftermarket, are considering whether to modify the company's compensation system for its salesforce. The management wants a compensation system that... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Business or Company Management; Organizational Structure; Compensation and Benefits; Salesforce Management
Paine, Lynn S. "Wetherill Associates, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 394-113, December 1993. (Revised November 1995.)
- March 1992 (Revised March 1998)
- Case
Adam Opel AG (B)
By: Hugo Uyterhoeven
Should General Motors make a strategic manufacturing investment in East Germany after becoming number one in this market through an aggressive marketing strategy? The proposal, dependent on government assistance and based on a number of uncertain economic assumptions,... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Investment; Government and Politics; Leadership; Marketing Strategy; Production; Organizational Structure; Strategy; Germany
Uyterhoeven, Hugo. "Adam Opel AG (B)." Harvard Business School Case 392-101, March 1992. (Revised March 1998.)
- 24 Mar 2020
- News
Stopgap Schooling
offered for free. In response to the anticipated surge, Bank of America has pledged $1 million to keep the site up and running. Khan is also running webinars for parents and teachers with guidance about how to incorporate the site’s lessons in home schooling. Their... View Details
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
that allocates capacity efficiently. Although downstream firms have symmetric production technologies, we show that industry structure is symmetric only if capacity is sufficiently scarce. Otherwise it is asymmetric, with one large,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne