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- Fall 2024
- Article
Redemption Mechanisms in Poison Pills: Evidence on Pill Design and Law Firm Effects
By: Olivier Baum and Guhan Subramanian
We present the first evidence on the incidence of “trip wire” versus “last look” poison pills. Using a hand-collected data set of 130 poison pills implemented and/or amended between January 1, 2020 and March 31, 2023, we find that pills are almost evenly divided... View Details
Baum, Olivier, and Guhan Subramanian. "Redemption Mechanisms in Poison Pills: Evidence on Pill Design and Law Firm Effects." Business Lawyer 79, no. 4 (Fall 2024).
- April 2023 (Revised July 2023)
- Case
Dena Almansoori at e&: Fostering Culture Change at a UAE Telco Transforming to a Global Techco
By: Emily Truelove, Michelle Zhang and Alpana Thapar
Dena Almansoori, the first female and one of the youngest members of the United Arab Emirates-based e&’s leadership team, joined in 2020 just before e& began a strategic transition from being a regional telecommunications company to becoming a global technology... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Culture; Transformation; Technology; Telecommunications; Employee Mobility; Talent; Leading Change; Human Resources; Telecommunications Industry; Technology Industry; Middle East; United Arab Emirates
Truelove, Emily, Michelle Zhang, and Alpana Thapar. "Dena Almansoori at e&: Fostering Culture Change at a UAE Telco Transforming to a Global Techco." Harvard Business School Case 423-040, April 2023. (Revised July 2023.)
- February 2024
- Supplement
Dena Almansoori at e&: Fostering Culture Change at a UAE Telco Transforming to a Global Techco
By: Emily Truelove, Michelle Zhang and Alpana Thapar
Dena Almansoori, the first female and one of the youngest members of the United Arab Emirates-based e&’s leadership team, joined in 2020 just before e& began a strategic transition from being a regional telecommunications company to becoming a global technology... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Telecommunications; Employee Mobility; Leading Change; Human Resources; Organizational Culture; Transformation; Talent and Talent Management; Change Management; Employee Relationship Management; Telecommunications Industry; Technology Industry; Middle East; United Arab Emirates
Truelove, Emily, Michelle Zhang, and Alpana Thapar. "Dena Almansoori at e&: Fostering Culture Change at a UAE Telco Transforming to a Global Techco." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 424-701, February 2024.
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
sense that we didn't even have an income tax until 1913. It was viewed as unconstitutional and we needed an amendment to allow us to have a direct income tax. Around the same time, the corporate income tax was introduced. So, some of the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Curriculum - Case Method Project
inflation; debt; paper money Battle Over a Bank: Defining the Limits of Federal Power Under a New Constitution (1791) This case covers the first term of George Washington’s presidency and the push to ratify the Bill of Rights. It focuses... View Details
- Web
Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership
9 million (largest number since first decade) Baby boomers age Hispanics become fastest-growing minority Population grows from 250 million to 281 million Influence: Medium-High 1900 19 Model T Plastic Safety razor Widespread use of steam... View Details
- 27 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Religion in the Workplace: What Managers Need to Know
orientation. The Colorado Civil Rights Commission joined the lawsuit. Phillips claimed a First Amendment right to free expression, saying he considered himself more of a cake artist than a baker. The... View Details
- 08 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Who Rises to Power in American Business?
research tells us about who makes it to the top of the American business ladder, how access to power appears to be widening today, and how the face of leadership might change in the future. Sean Silverthorne: Your research suggests that for the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
professor Noel Maurer and economic historian Carlos Yu discuss the canal's complicated economic and political history—including the first proposals dating back to 1529, the massive cost overruns associated with digging the canal in the... View Details
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The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership
West and Southwest Influence: High 90 1990 s Immigration tops 9 million (largest number since first decade) Baby boomers age Hispanics become fastest-growing minority Population grows from 250 million to 281 million Influence: Medium-High... View Details
- 30 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way
don't. In principle one can say, absolutely, there's a slippery slope, let's be very careful not to fall down it, let's write the laws carefully and amend them when we discover abuses. You can negotiate how to write the laws. The... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Charts & Statistics - Leadership
Influence: Medium-High 70 1970 s 19 Urban blight Rust Belt Influence: Medium-High 80 1980 s 19 Population migrates to West and Southwest Influence: High 90 1990 s Immigration tops 9 million (largest number since first decade) Baby boomers... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
bond is practical, based on sustenance, but also spiritual: In Native American cosmology, Mother Corn—Selu in Cherokee—is the first woman. After well over a decade in business, Keen found a new calling. It’s an epic history that has its... View Details
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Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity
on strike and with as many as 20,000 on the picket line Bill creating Department of Labor passes at the end of congressional session 1920 19th Amendment to the Constitution adopted; the right to vote may not be abrogated by sex 1921 View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
thing in common: Harvard MBAs. Visitors to Crawford, Texas, get presidential treatment. A billboard with the town’s most famous part-time resident, President George W. Bush (MBA ’75), gives the “thumbs-up” while First Lady Laura Bush... View Details
- 06 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
Henry McGee: From HBO to HBS
to get an MBA. HBS was my first choice because of the intellectual rigor of the program and the ability to tap into the university’s vast resources. For example, in my second year I was able to take two courses at Harvard Law School... View Details
- 26 Oct 2017
- Research Event
In an Era of 'Fake News,' What is the Future of Advertising and Publishing?
States, the First Amendment is central to nearly every debate on regulating the internet, along with questions about who owns the content we create, and even what can be defined as content we create in the... View Details
- 21 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?
(Editor's note: This first in a series of articles based on a Harvard Business School working paper by Karen Mills that analyzes the current state of availability of bank capital for small business.) Small businesses are core to America's... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
publications and meeting minutes of pharmacist groups. “She was known as Mrs. Thomas Gleason until about 1934, when she begins to get introduced by her first name. In the story of California ‘fair trade’ I found this exceptional state... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
they don't contribute. My support for young people cuts across a broad spectrum - from supporting a balanced budget amendment so we won't pass our debt on to them, to things more traditionally thought of as kids' issues: Head Start,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young