Publications

24 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class

Soo Current role: Chief People Officer, Stitch Fix Jevan Soo came to HBS and HKS with a goal of using his degree to build a career in human capital. As the Chief People Officer at Stitch Fix, a company with over 8,000 employees, he is... View Details

23 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 23, 2007

Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707030 Lion Capital and the Blackstone Group: The Orangina Deal Harvard Business School Case 807-005 The managing partners... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Oct 2011
First Look

First Look: October 4

PublicationsCollective Memory Meets Organizational Identity: Remembering to Forget in a Firm's Rhetorical History Authors:Michel Anteby and Virag Molnar Publication:Academy of Management Journal (in press) Abstract Much organizational... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: January 4

not be taken into account or even noticed-as a strategy for managing diversity and intergroup relations. Despite research demonstrating that race is perceived automatically (and thus, the seeming improbability of actual colorblindness),... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

November 2011 (Revised June 2013)
Case

Allied Electronics Corporation Ltd: Linking Compensation to Sustainability Metrics

Robert Venter, second-generation Chief Executive (CE) of family-owned Allied Electronics Corporation Ltd (Altron), considered the pros and cons of more clearly linking the firm's compensation system to sustainability performance. In June 2011, Altron, a conglomerate... View Details

Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Motivation and Incentives; Environmental Sustainability

October 2021 (Revised October 2022)
Case

The Opioid Settlement and Controversy Over CEO Pay at AmerisourceBergen

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan Ni

In 2020, AmerisourceBergen Corporation, a Fortune 50 company in the drug distribution industry, agreed to settle thousands of lawsuits filed nationwide against the company for its opioid distribution practices that critics alleged had contributed to the nationwide... View Details

21 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

What's Missing from the Racial Equity Dialogue?

pools. At one point, America was the world’s capital when it came to beautiful, free-to-the-public pools. But during the civil rights era, local governments decided to fill the pools in with concrete instead of sharing them with their... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

April 2002
Case

Contingent Workforce Planning at Motorola, Inc.

Details the rationale for and design of a unique organizational response by Motorola to the challenges of contingent staffing at its semiconductor facility in Austin, Texas. The new outsourcing strategy is built on principles of supply chain management and business... View Details

Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Semiconductor Industry; Texas

March 2021 (Revised September 2021)
Case

Applied: Using Behavioral Science to Debias Hiring

By: Ashley Whillans and Jeff Polzer

The UK government’s Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) needed to hire a new associate and were trying to increase the diversity of their job candidates. This decision was based on academic research showing that recruiters and managers often fell into common traps like... View Details

Keywords: Hiring; Bias; Behavioral Science; Selection and Staffing; Diversity; Prejudice and Bias; Information Technology; Recruitment

30 Jul 2001
What Do You Think?

What’s the Future of Corporate Governance?

adaptability of the organization over time. As he put it, "By focusing too strongly on financial records (and audit committee work), we lose sight of the fact that departments like operations and human resources are very important... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

June 2022
Teaching Plan

GreenLight Fund

By: Brian Trelstad and Mel Martin

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 320-053. As Tara Noland, the Executive Director (ED) of GreenLight Cincinnati, reflected on her first few years on the job. Noland had delivered on what she had been hired to do in the city: work with leading philanthropists and nonprofit... View Details

Keywords: Philanthropy; Venture Philanthropy; Replication; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Venture Capital; Social Issues; Decision Making; Cincinnati

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Governance Controls; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Governing and Advisory Boards; Executive Compensation; Lawsuits and Litigation; Crisis Management; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Design; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Crime and Corruption; Business Organization; Business Model; Ethics; Corporate Accountability; Governance Compliance; Policy; Compensation and Benefits; Resignation and Termination; Laws and Statutes; Legal Liability; Business or Company Management; Risk Management; Business Processes; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Failure; Agency Theory; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Salesforce Management; Public Opinion; Banking Industry; North and Central America

03 Dec 2021
Blog Post

Physicians Off the Beaten Path

(Physician, Entrepreneur, Co-founder and CEO of Arctoris) Recalling my experience at university, I asked them how they manage the tension between a strong lack of exposure to the outside world and their mission to expand that exposure.... View Details

Portrait Project

Aman Kumar

for those who don't. There are two options: forge ahead, or pause and rest. Life is a fragile balance of both, managing energy as well as time, drawing inward in order to dispense outward. I wish for myself equanimity and peace alongside... View Details

Profile

Brandon Lovell

youth in corporate internships. In 2009, Brandon earned a position at a New York investment bank; after six months of training, he obtained his formal internship where he "learned about investment banking and management consulting: I... View Details

Keywords: Tech; Financial Services

01 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

productive firms and entrepreneurs. The challenges of catching up were sufficiently great in the Rest that initially, minorities held significant advantages in raising capital and trust levels, which enabled them to flourish as... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

June 2017 (Revised September 2021)
Case

Sales Misconduct at Wells Fargo Community Bank

By: Suraj Srinivasan, Dennis W. Campbell, Susanna Gallani and Amram Migdal

Set in early 2017, this case examines widespread sales misconduct at Wells Fargo Community Bank. Wells Fargo's governance and controls are described in the lead up to the September 2016 announcement that Wells Fargo had settled with regulators for $185 million in... View Details