Publications

September 2005
Case

Martha Goldberg Aronson: Leadership Decisions at Mid-Career

By: William W. George and Andrew N. McLean

In 2005, Martha Goldberg Aronson must decide whether to accept an overseas posting in a functional role with Medtronic Corp. The move would be a professional stretch, but would entail leaving a position with a plan half completed and moving her young family overseas.... View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Work-Life Balance; Personal Development and Career; Motivation and Incentives; Opportunities; Leadership

December 2003
Case

Manville Corporation Fiber Glass Group (C) (Abridged)

By: Lynn S. Paine

Manville Corp.'s senior managers are surprised when Japanese government officials advise them not to go forward with their plan to add a cancer warning label to diatomaceous earth (DE) products sold in Japan. The International Agency for Research on Cancer has ruled... View Details

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Moral Sensibility; Safety; Government Administration; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Decision Choices and Conditions; Ethics; Announcements; Industrial Products Industry; Japan

March 1994
Article

Expropriation and Inventions: Appropriable Rents in the Absence of Property Rights

By: J. Anton and Dennis Yao

We analyze the problem faced by a financially weak independent inventor when selling a valuable, but easily imitated, invention for which no property rights exist. The inventor can protect his or her intellectual property by negotiating a contingent contract (with a... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Intellectual Property; Rights; Sales; Contracts; Negotiation

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12 Jun 2014
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The Brazil World Cup: Big Money for Billions of Eyeballs

17 Jun 2020
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Harvard Business School Introduces 2020-2021 Blavatnik Fellows in Life Science Entrepreneurship

10 Dec 2018
News

Did Free Pens Cause the Opioid Crisis?

29 Jul 2017
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Fund managers challenged to confront lack of ethnic diversity

18 Jun 2013
News

Why Girls Get Better Discounts On Car Repairs

08 Nov 2019
HBS Seminar

Galit Eizman (Research Associate, Harvard Kennedy School) (paper joint with Alice Ruichen Wang, Renmin Univ, China), Harvard Kennedy School

Jaxon Wu

Jaxon Wu earned his Bachelor of Arts with Honors from Johns Hopkins University where he studied History of Science, Medicine, and Technology and Mathematics. In college, Jaxon worked at both the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins... View Details

September 2014 (Revised July 2018)
Case

adidas Group: IT Multi-Sourcing

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Martin Wiener, Carol Saunders and Grandon Gill

This case describes the design and implementation of an IT-multi-sourcing strategy at a large global sportswear company, the adidas Group, which is headquartered in Germany. To help increase the benefits and reduce the risks of its sourcing arrangements, adidas... View Details

Keywords: IT Strategy; Outsourcing; Organizational Structure; Information Technology; Strategy; Sports Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Germany

05 Aug 2022
Research & Ideas

Why People Crave Feedback—and Why We’re Afraid to Give It

Workplace surveys consistently show that employees crave better information about how they could improve their performance. But most say they don’t get it. A recent Gallup poll, for example, found only 26 percent of employees strongly... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

April 2020
Supplement

Cisco Systems and OpenDNS: Strategic Integration (B)

By: Andy Wu and David Wang

With more than 72,000 employees and revenues approaching the $50B mark, Cisco Systems is one of the largest information technology and networking firms globally. As the company grew and expanded into different lines of businesses, Cisco consistently looked outwards for... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Integration; Corporate Strategy; Change Management; Entrepreneurship; Organizational Culture; Information Technology Industry

13 Sep 2006
Op-Ed

Rising CEO Pay: What Directors Should Do

attention to greater disclosure, while producing more information for shareholders, is unlikely to resolve these problems. In fact, clearer data may give CEOs a basis to insist on higher pay, putting even greater pressure on compensation... View Details

Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch

11 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change

delegate would have been better positioned to see the big picture. Friction was high in each of those domains. Confidential information about contract talks was sometimes leaked to the press. Key players who seemed ready to sign with one... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler; Sports

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Finance Curriculum - Faculty & Research

doctoral program. Detailed curriculum information for this program can be found on the doctoral programs website: PhD in Business Economics Executive Education View Details

2013
Working Paper

Span of Control and Span of Attention

By: Oriana Bandiera, Andrea Prat, Raffaella Sadun and Julie Wulf

Using novel data on CEO time use, we document the relationship between the size and composition of the executive team and the attention of the CEO. We combine information about CEO span of control for a sample of 65 companies with detailed data on how CEOs allocate... View Details

Keywords: Conferences; Analytics and Data Science; Leadership Style; Management Style; Managerial Roles; Time Management; Planning

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October 2005
Case

Wipro Technologies: The Factory Model

Based in Bangalore, Wipro Technologies is a rapidly growing software services company. Wipro is experimenting with a new software service delivery model that draws on the principles of the Toyota production system and "lean" manufacturing. Addresses the advantages and... View Details

Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Service Operations; Applications and Software; Standards; Information Technology Industry; Bangalore