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  • 08 Dec 2021
  • News

The Big Question: Is the World of Work Forever Changed?

  • 29 Jul 2021
  • News

Governance Reform and Shared Value

  • 02 Nov 2019
  • News

American Business Schools Are Reinventing the MBA

  • 08 Feb 2017
  • News

In Trump’s America, the Price of Speech and Silence

  • 22 Jan 2018
  • News

Bonuses Aside, Tax Law’s Trickle-Down Impact Not Yet Clear

  • August 1988 (Revised August 1989)
  • Case

Poletown Dilemma, The

By: Thomas R. Piper
Senior management of General Motors must select a site for a new assembly plant to replace two plants located in Detroit. The economics strongly favor a site in an adjacent state. However, a relocation would have substantial, negative impact on the existing work force,... View Details
Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Business and Government Relations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business Offices; Management Teams; Restructuring; Economics; Auto Industry; Michigan
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  • Web

Latin America - Global

the admissions team invited newly admitted students from Brazil to join an event with the HBS Club of Brazil on readiness to transition from the corporate world to boards. As part of the program, Roberto Rittes—an accomplished executive... View Details

    William A. Sahlman

    William Sahlman is a Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

    Mr. Sahlman received an A.B. degree in Economics from Princeton University (1972), an M.B.A. from Harvard University (1975), and a Ph.D. in Business... View Details

    Keywords: airline; beverage; biotechnology; broadcasting; clothing; communications; computer; consumer products; e-commerce industry; education industry; electronics; energy; entertainment; fiber optics; financial services; food processing; furniture; grocery; health care; high technology; hotels ＆ motels; information; information technology industry; internet; investment banking industry; management consulting; manufacturing; marketing industry; medical supplies; motorcycles; nonprofit industry; pharmaceuticals; professional services; publishing industry; real estate; recreation; restaurant; retailing; semiconductor; service industry; soft drink; software; telecommunications; toy; transportation; travel; venture capital industry; video games
    • April 1991 (Revised December 1997)
    • Case

    Southland Corp. (A)

    By: Richard S. Ruback
    Examines the Thompson's $4.9 billion leveraged buyout of the Southland Corp. in 1987. As the original founders of Southland, the Thompsons were concerned about losing control over the company upon learning of the Belzberg family's acquiring interest. The teaching... View Details
    Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Governance Controls; Corporate Governance; Bids and Bidding; Valuation; Forecasting and Prediction; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Strategy; Cash Flow
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    • April 2007
    • Case

    ABN AMRO Bank N.V.: Global Change Agents

    By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Lance P. Pierce and Ryan Leo Raffaelli
    ABN AMRO Global Banking Group developed its risk management function in response to expansion, and increasingly focused on environmental and social risks. The head of the function needed to influence policies and business decisions in a highly decentralized context in... View Details
    Keywords: Risk Management; Banks and Banking; Expansion; Change; Governing and Advisory Boards; Social Enterprise; Leadership Development; History; Banking Industry; Service Industry; Brazil; India; United States
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    • July 2002 (Revised October 2002)
    • Case

    Bradley Marquez: Reduction in Force (A)

    By: Thomas J. DeLong and Vineeta Vijayaraghavan
    The Bradley Marquez advertising agency had created a successful niche delivering ethnic markets to their clients, corporate giants like Compaq, Sprint, Texaco, and British Airways. The company was operating in aggressive growth mode when, in 2000, the stock market... View Details
    Keywords: Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Financial Crisis; Price Bubble; Human Resources; Employees; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Advertising Industry
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    • 26 Aug 2013
    • News

    Activists Seek Short-Term Gain, Not Long-Term Value

    • 20 Nov 2019
    • News

    HBS Examines Alumni Social Impact in the World

    • 22 Dec 2016
    • News

    Target's Expensive Cybersecurity Mistake

    • 03 Oct 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Why a Failed Startup Might Be Good for Your Career After All

    of university around the same time held jobs that have the same seniority level that also belonged to the same industry as the entrepreneurs before they started their VC-backed companies. Leapfrogging on the corporate ladder The results... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • Research Summary

    Non-Financial Incentives

    My research shows how firms combine many facets of internal governance to motivate managers. A perspective that underlies much of my research is that managers are not motivated by financial rewards alone: “it’s not just about the... View Details

    • Web

    Founders & Investors - Entrepreneurship

    Corporation MBA 1970 Raymond T. Dalio Bridgewater Associates MBA 1973 William Davis Able Lending MBA 2011 Clifton Dawson Fitzeal MBA 2013 Edson D. de Castro Data General Corporation MBA 1963 Roger... View Details
    • February 2010 (Revised December 2010)
    • Case

    Google Inc. (Abridged)

    By: Benjamin Edelman and Thomas R. Eisenmann
    Describes Google's history, business model, governance structure, corporate culture, and processes for managing innovation. Reviews Google's recent strategic initiatives and the threats it poses to Yahoo, Microsoft, and others. Asks what Google should do next. One... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Corporate Governance; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Competitive Strategy; Search Technology; Web Services Industry
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    • 04 Mar 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Dirty Laundry of Employee Award Programs: Evidence from the Field

    Keywords: by Timothy Gubler, Ian Larkin & Lamar Pierce; Service
    • Teaching Interest

    Deals

    By: Kevin P. Mohan

    This advanced negotiation course includes both negotiation simulations and analysis of actual corporate deals. In the first part of the course, students will participate in complex negotiation simulations and debrief their results in class. In the second part of the... View Details