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  • January–February 2014
  • Article

The New Patterns of Innovation

By: Rashik Parmar, Ian Mackenzie, David Cohn and David Gann
The search for new business ideas—and models—is hit-or-miss at most firms. Tackling the problem systematically, of course, will improve the odds of success. Traditional ways of framing this search examine competencies, customer needs, and shifts in the landscape. This... View Details
Keywords: Value Creation; Information Technology; Innovation and Invention
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  • April 2014
  • Article

Golden Parachutes and the Wealth of Shareholders

By: Lucian A. Bebchuk, Alma Cohen and Charles C.Y. Wang
Golden parachutes (GPs) have attracted substantial attention from investors and public officials for more than two decades. We find that GPs are associated with higher expected acquisition premiums and that this association is at least partly due to the effect of GPs... View Details
Keywords: Golden Parachute; Acquisitions; Takeovers; Acquisition Takeover; Acquisition Likelihood; Acquisition Premiums; Agency Costs; Managerial Slack; Dodd-Frank; Executive Compensation; Acquisition; Corporate Governance; Business and Shareholder Relations
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  • 2012
  • Working Paper

Prominent Job Advertisements, Group Learning and Wage Dispersion

By: Julio J. Rotemberg
A model is presented in which people base their labor search strategy on the average wage and the average unemployment duration of people who belong to their peer group. It is shown that, if the distribution of wage offers is not stationary so lower wage offers tend to... View Details
Keywords: Wages; Job Offer; Job Search; Advertising
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  • May 2011 (Revised March 2012)
  • Case

Nanda Home: Preparing for Life after Clocky

By: Elie Ofek and Jill Avery
Gauri Nanda, the inventor of Clocky, the alarm clock that rolls off the bed stand and forces its owner to find it, has to make critical decisions regarding the future of her nascent company. As sales of Clocky show signs of declining, she must decide whether to... View Details
Keywords: Brands and Branding; Management; Electronics Industry
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  • 2007
  • Chapter

Career Patterns and Organizational Performance

By: Monica C. Higgins and James R. Dillon
Traditional research on careers examines how organizations and individuals affect career outcomes. This chapter reviews several specific ways in which career histories have been found to influence organizational outcomes. While we incorporate both upper echelons... View Details
Keywords: Organizations; Personal Development and Career; Performance
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  • 14 Dec 2017
  • HBS Seminar

Andrew Davis, Johnson, Cornell University

    Creative Construction: The DNA of Sustained Innovation

    Every company wants to grow, and the most proven way is through innovation. The conventional wisdom is that only disruptive, nimble startups can innovate; once a business gets bigger and more complex corporate arteriosclerosis sets in. Gary Pisano's remarkable research... View Details
    • 01 Sep 2023
    • News

    Turning Point: Listen to the Music

    Marnie Tattersall: (MBA 1972) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Marnie Tattersall: (MBA 1972) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) I was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and came to the United States in 1958 with my parents and my brother because my parents thought it was... View Details
    Keywords: music; film; purpose; career
    • 09 Nov 2021
    • News

    The Simple Secret of Effective Mentoring Programs

    Keywords: Mentoring; mentorship
    • TeachingInterests

    Investing for Impact

    By: Archie L. Jones

    The Field Course: Investing for Impact was born out of the efforts of HBS students and faculty in the spring of 2020 and offered for the first time in fall semester of 2021.

    This course seeks to help students understand why certain... View Details

    • Research Summary

    Overview

    Ms. Fedyk's main research interests lie at the intersection of asset pricing and behavioral finance, with a particular focus on information and belief formation. Her job market paper is part of a broader research agenda on the way in which information is incorporated... View Details
    • Research Summary

    Optimal Decision Making Under Uncertainty

    Inventory control problems in supply chains.  In this stream of theoretical research, Professor Goh has investigated how inventory should be optimally managed in supply chains. Specifically, he has studied how supply chains can make decisions to operate... View Details

    • Forthcoming
    • Article

    The Effect of a System for Sharing Best Practices Within Pre-existing Peer Networks

    By: Shelley Xin Li and Tatiana Sandino
    Peer networks, such as enterprise social networks (ESNs), can facilitate knowledge transfer across employees. However, such systems can also lead to information overload or difficulty in finding useful information. We examine data from a natural field experiment where... View Details
    Keywords: Retail; Best Practices; Enterprise Social Media; Management Accounting And Control Systems; Social and Collaborative Networks; Communication Technology; Knowledge Sharing; Sales; Social Media; Retail Industry
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    • May 2024
    • Teaching Note

    AI Wars

    By: Andy Wu and Matt Higgins
    Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 723-434. In 2024, the world was looking to Google to see what the search giant and long-time putative technical leader in artificial intelligence (AI) would do to compete in the massively hyped technology of generative AI popularized over... View Details
    Keywords: AI; Trends; AI and Machine Learning; Public Opinion; Technological Innovation; Competitive Advantage; Technology Industry
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    • May 11, 2020
    • Article

    Steer Your Family Businesses Through an Unplanned Transition

    By: Josh Baron and Nick Di Loreto
    In a perfect world, family businesses will transition leadership from one generation to the next along a predictable and well-planned process — whether that’s determined within the business, the ownership group, or the family itself — passing the baton after years of... View Details
    Keywords: Transition; Planning; Family Business; Management Succession
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    • January 23, 2023
    • Article

    Digital Public Health Interventions at Scale: The Impact of Social Media Advertising on Beliefs and Outcomes Related to COVID Vaccines

    By: Susan Athey, Kristen Grabarz, Michael Luca and Nils Wernerfelt
    Public health organizations increasingly use social media advertising campaigns in pursuit of public health goals. In this paper, we evaluate the impact of about $40 million of social media advertisements that were run and experimentally tested on Facebook and... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Public Health; Vaccines; Social Media; Advertising; Power and Influence; Health Care and Treatment
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    • December 2021
    • Case

    Whistleblowing at Veolia: A Technology Solution

    By: Aiyesha Dey, Jonas Heese, Christian Godwin and James Weber
    In 2019, Bruno Masson, the vice chairman of Veolia’s Ethics Committee, was preparing for a meeting on a rollout plan for a new whistleblowing system to more countries. Veolia, a global supplier of water, waste, and energy services, had recently gone through several... View Details
    Keywords: Whistleblowing; Corporate Misconduct; Corporate Governance; Ethics; Crime and Corruption; Values and Beliefs; Trust; Employee Relationship Management; Utilities Industry
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    • August 2021
    • Article

    Hoping for the Worst? A Paradoxical Preference for Bad News

    By: Kate Barasz and Serena Hagerty
    Nine studies investigate when and why people may paradoxically prefer bad news—e.g., hoping for an objectively worse injury or a higher-risk diagnosis over explicitly better alternatives. Using a combination of field surveys and randomized experiments, the research... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Avoidance; Difficult Decisions; Judgment And Decision Making; Medical Decision-making; Decision Making; Behavior
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    • February 2021 (Revised June 2021)
    • Case

    Barbarians at the Gate or Turnaround Gurus? Private Equity and the Rise of the LBO

    By: Tom Nicholas and John Masko
    During the 1980s, leveraged buyouts (LBOs) and the private equity (PE) firms responsible for carrying them out revolutionized both investment and management in the U.S. Between 1980 and 1989, buyout activity in the U.S. surged from $1 billion per year to $60 billion.... View Details
    Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Conglomerates; Restructuring; Borrowing and Debt; Private Equity; Bonds; Investment Return; Institutional Investing; Profit Sharing; Business History; Management Style; Private Ownership; Performance Effectiveness; Value Creation; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    • December 2020 (Revised April 2021)
    • Teaching Note

    Women Entrepreneurs and Tech Ecosystems: One City, Two Realities, and Four Diverse Women

    By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Joyce J. Kim
    Four diverse women entrepreneurs launched their ventures in a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem that was part of a shift to a creative technology-driven economy for Miami. Although Miami was rated the #1 U.S. city for startups in 2017, the region contained structural... View Details
    Keywords: Women; Racism; Black Entrepreneurs; Entrepreneurship; Diversity; Gender; Race; Prejudice and Bias; Innovation and Invention; City; Culture; Miami
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