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    HBS Case: FX Risk Hedging at EADS

    In 2008, EADS, the European aerospace group that owns Airbus, was faced with the decision of how best to hedge a large and growing mismatch between its dollar revenues and its euro manufacturing costs. Specifically, the company needed to decide if it would continue... View Details

    • 08 Aug 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

    subsumed by the other three. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53024 August 2017 Obstetrics & Gynecology Relationship Between Labor and Delivery Unit Management Practices and Maternal Outcomes By:... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 29 Aug 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Unraveling Yields Inefficient Matchings: Evidence from Post-Season College Football Bowls

    Keywords: by Guillaume R. Fréchette, Alvin E. Roth & M. Utku Ünver; Sports; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting

      Open Innovation – How can I use the crowd?

      Innovation has become an urgent imperative for entrepreneurial and established organizations. Over the last decade, in industries as diverse as fashion design, media software, life sciences, pharmaceuticals and automotive, the most cutting edge organizations have... View Details
      • 2025
      • Book

      The World Is Your Office: How Work from Anywhere Boosts Talent, Productivity, and Innovation

      By: Prithwiraj Choudhury
      A research-based look at a growing phenomenon—companies allowing their employees to work from anywhere in the world—and how those who adopt this model can boost talent, innovation, and productivity.
      In recent years, companies in a wide range of industries have... View Details
      Keywords: Remote Work; Telecommuting; Employees; Business Offices; Organizational Culture; Retention; Recruitment; Policy; Competitive Advantage
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      • 2008
      • Working Paper

      The Future of Social Enterprise

      By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Herman B. Leonard and Susan McDonald

      The Future of Social Enterprise considers the confluence of forces that is shaping the field of social enterprise, changing the way that funders, practitioners, scholars, and organizations measure performance. We trace a growing pool of potential funding sources to... View Details

      Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Investment; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Performance Effectiveness; Social Enterprise; Consolidation; Value
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        Michael A. Wheeler

        Mike Wheeler joined the HBS faculty in 1993 and has taught extensively in its MBA, Executive, and distance learning programs. His highly interactive 8-week/40-hour HBS Online Negotiation... View Details

        Keywords: arts; construction; e-commerce industry; energy; federal government; green technology; internet; legal services; nonprofit industry; petroleum; pharmaceuticals; publishing industry; real estate; service industry; sports; state government; utilities
        • January 2013 (Revised January 2015)
        • Case

        FX Risk Hedging at EADS

        By: W. Carl Kester, Vincent Dessain and Karol Misztal
        In 2008, EADS, the European aerospace group that owns Airbus, was faced with the decision of how best to hedge a large and growing mismatch between its dollar revenues and its euro manufacturing costs. Specifically, the company needed to decide if it would continue... View Details
        Keywords: Derivatives; Foreign Exchange; Options; Forward Contract; Aerospace; Europe; Risk Management; Futures and Commodity Futures; Aerospace Industry; Europe
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        The Decreasing Value of Our Research to Management Education

        By: Jone L. Pearce and Laura Huang
        For centuries we have expected the best teachers also to be scholars. The practice of scholarship should do more than make scholars more humble teachers; scholarship is expected to be more than an activity done for its own sake. Here we present evidence that our... View Details
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        • 9 Jul 2021
        • Interview

        Matthew Barzun and Amy Edmondson

        By: Amy C. Edmondson and Matthew Barzun
        Writer Matthew Barzun speaks with Harvard Professor and author Amy Edmondson about Barzun's book, "The Power of Giving Away Power: How the Best Leaders Learn to Let Go". Matthew Barzun has served as U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom and Sweden. He served as... View Details
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        • 05 Jul 2006
        • Working Paper Summaries

        The Cycles of Theory Building in Management Research

        Keywords: by Paul R. Carlile & Clayton M. Christensen
        • 2022
        • Book

        Corporate Explorer: How Corporations Beat Startups at the Innovation Game

        By: Andrew Binns, Charles A. O'Reilly III and Michael Tushman
        Innovation used to be seen as a game best left to entrepreneurs, but now a new breed of corporate managers is flipping this logic on its head. These Corporate Explorers have the insight, resilience, and discipline to overcome the obstacles and build new ventures from... View Details
        Keywords: Organization Change And Adaptation; Disruptive Innovation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Innovation and Management; Leading Change
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        How to Tackle Your Toughest Decisions

        By: Joseph L. Badaracco
        The toughest calls managers have to make come in situations when they have worked hard to gather the facts and have done the best analysis they can, but they still don’t know what to do. Then judgment—a fusion of thinking, feelings, experience, imagination, and... View Details
        Keywords: Management; Judgments
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        • August 2013 (Revised October 2013)
        • Case

        Modern Family Planning: The Business of Circle Surrogacy

        By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Blake Landro
        The business of surrogacy, a boutique practice with client costs upwards of $100,000, allowed couples and individuals from a variety of backgrounds, ages, and sexual orientations to build families. This case examines Circle Surrogacy (CS), one of the premier surrogacy... View Details
        Keywords: Family Planning; Platform; Competitive Advantage; Law; Globalization; Competitive Strategy; Digital Platforms; United States; Ukraine
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        • 26 Nov 2013
        • News

        Managing People on a Sinking Ship

          Christopher A. Bartlett

          Professor Christopher A. Bartlett received an economics degree from the University of Queensland, Australia (1964), and both the masters and doctorate degrees in business administration from Harvard University (1971 and 1979). 

          As a practicing manager prior... View Details

          Keywords: consulting; health care; management consulting; manufacturing; medical supplies; wine
          • 2008
          • Chapter

          Knowledge Work, Craft Work, and Calling

          Social critics have often complained that industrial revolution management transfers control of a job away from workers, encourages human exploitation in pursuit of cost minimization, and alienates workers from their labor. But the arrangements of work that have been... View Details
          Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Working Conditions; Production; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Management Practices and Processes; Employees
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          • 30 Jan 2012
          • Research & Ideas

          Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers

          organizational management practices all over the world. The project was borne of a widely perceived gap in economic research. In business academia, there is an optimistic tendency to assume that managers generally make decisions in the... View Details
          Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
          • 03 Jun 2024
          • Blog Post

          Five Ways to Rethink Your Job Description

          Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging practices Is this role in-person, remote, or hybrid? Evaluate what qualifications are essential Some roles need a specific degree or require years of experience in a particular function or... View Details
          Keywords: All Industries
          • 01 Aug 2017
          • First Look

          First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

          alluring qualities of a brand without committing to it. We propose that brand flirting is exciting and that when consumers flirt with a brand other than their typically preferred brand in the same product category, they can transfer this... View Details
          Keywords: Sean Silverthorne