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  • 09 May 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?

align managers’ interests with those of shareholders), a reduction in the defenses against hostile takeovers (that typically increase short-term value for owners of the acquired company), increased merger... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

School Case 313-036 This case explores the reputational and legal issues that arise as Barclays Capital attempted to manage client conflicts by following established industry practice View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Business History - Faculty & Research

Contested Meanings of Freedom: Workingmen's Wages, the Company Store System and the Godcharles v. Wigeman Decision By: Laura Phillips Sawyer In 1886, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down a law that... View Details
  • 06 Sep 2016
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September 6, 2016

Final-Offer Arbitration Challenge Gives Negotiators a Valuable New Tool By: Bazerman, Max H., and Daniel Kahneman Abstract—In legal disputes, contested insurance claims, and similarly adversarial... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 25 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 25

while broadening its ability to fulfill its mission of “alleviating pain, restoring health, and extending life” for millions more patients every year. The acquisition plan might change when, in September 2014, U.S. Secretary Jacob Lew... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

inference about an individual but provides population estimates. The veiled method increased self-reports of anti-gay sentiment, particularly in the workplace: respondents were 67% more likely to disapprove of an openly gay manager when... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

of the Harvard Project on the Workforce and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He studies issues related to employment and income polarization and the relationship between talent and economic... View Details
  • 18 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017

corporate leaders speaking out on social and environmental policy issues not directly related to their core business. In the first study of this phenomenon, we investigate how CEO activism can influence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2011
  • News

Show Me The Money — Or Not

Issue Focus: Entrepreneurship Related Links The Best-Laid Plans A Growing Drumbeat With a total of $150,000 in cash awards and in-kind legal and accounting services up for... View Details
  • 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

find legal advice at low prices. Lexoo had recently invested in a new vertical focused on larger companies. The latter had more repeated business and the value of their jobs was higher. Lexoo could become... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

The House Wants to Squelch Voices of ‘Small’ Shareholders. Research Shows Those Voices Matter.

statement, in which case shareholders can vote on whether the company should adopt the change; negotiate with the shareholder to come up with a mutually acceptable solution to the beef; or formally contest... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 3, 2007

and the Medici String Quartet Harvard Business School Case 607-083 Describes the approach to creative collaboration and leadership adopted by Paul Robertson as leader of one of the most highly regarded string quartets in recent history.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

2018 New York: Cambridge University Press American Fair Trade: Proprietary Capitalism, Corporatism, and the 'New Competition', 1890–1940 By: Phillips Sawyer, Laura Abstract—American Fair Trade explores the contested political and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

they overcame huge obstacles to execute their strategies in industries as diverse as renewable energy, organic food, natural beauty, eco-tourism, recycling, architecture, and finance. The pioneering efforts to build certification schemes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jun 2016
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June 28, 2016

social issues continued across the world, especially in Indonesia and Malaysia, which produced 80% of palm oil. The case discusses the sustainability strategy implemented by Unilever across time with regards... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1

marketing and sales in Business-to-Business (B2B) organizations. It provides an historical overview, indicating that this is not a new issue facing firms, that the business press has outlined a recurring set... View Details
  • 01 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 1, 2008

from within the organization and from without and summarizes the strategic issues facing Allstate in early 2007. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006

complex culture of the HMS neurological research community as well as the HMS academic culture. Demonstrates Ivinson's efforts to develop HCNR as a catalyst for aligning scientific researchers in the HMS community by creating incentives... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

workers; and the production of knowledge, including the idea of the economy, among other topics. Together, the essays suggest emerging themes in the field: a fascination with capitalism as it is made by political authority, how it is... View Details
  • 03 Apr 2006
  • What Do You Think?

Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?

annual contest among budding entrepreneurs here at HBS, were awaiting the arrival of software being designed in India that would allow them to demonstrate smoothly-functioning Web sites important to their... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett