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    Rakesh Khurana

    Rakesh Khurana is the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development at the Harvard Business School. He is also Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, co-Master of Cabot House at Harvard College, and the Danoff Dean of Harvard College. 

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    How Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth? Exploring the Effects of Financial Markets on Linkages (with Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Selin Sayek)

    By: Laura Alfaro
    The empirical literature finds mixed evidence on the existence of positive productivity externalities in the host country generated by foreign multinational companies. We propose a novel mechanism, which emphasizes the role of local financial markets in enabling... View Details
    • Working Paper

    Benchmarking Against the Performance of High Profile 'Scandal' Firms

    By: Emre Karaoglu, Tatiana Sandino and Randy Beatty
    In recent years, several high profile firms engaged in accounting fraud that resulted in severe investor losses and erosion of trust in the capital markets. We examine high profile accounting "scandals" prosecuted by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Unlike most... View Details
    Keywords: Earnings Management; Ethics; Executive Compensation; Performance Evaluation; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    • 17 Jan 2023
    • In Practice

    8 Trends to Watch in 2023

    As 2023 begins, businesses and employees face an uncertain economy and labor market, as the twin dilemmas of inflation and interest rates weigh on forecasts. Harvard Business School faculty share the top trends that they believe will shape the workplace and markets... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • April–May 2012
    • Article

    Resources or Power? Implications of Social Networks on Compensation and Firm Performance

    By: Joanne Horton, Yuval Millo and George Serafeim
    Using a sample of 4,278 listed UK firms, we construct a social network of directorship-interlocks that comprises 31,495 directors. We use social capital theory and techniques developed in social network analysis to measure a director's connectedness and investigate... View Details
    Keywords: Power and Influence; Social and Collaborative Networks; Compensation and Benefits; Performance; Relationships; Resource Allocation; United Kingdom
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    MBA Experience - Leadership

    Corporate Governance & Boards of Directors Professor Jay W. Lorsch and Professor and Senior Associate Dean Lynn S. Paine Spring Leadership Execution & Action Planning Senior Lecturer David G. Fubini and Associate Professor Ryan L. Raffaelli Fall & Spring Managing View Details
    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    Venture Capital's 'Me Too' Moment

    By: Sophie Calder-Wang, Paul A. Gompers and Patrick Sweeney
    In this paper, we document the historically low rate of hiring of women in the venture capital sector. We find that the high-profile Ellen Pao v. Kleiner Perkins gender discrimination trial had dramatic treatment effects. In difference-in-differences regressions, we... View Details
    Keywords: Gender Discrimination; Founders; Venture Capital; Selection and Staffing; Gender; Lawsuits and Litigation
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    • October 2018
    • Case

    Zenefits Board of Directors (A)

    By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz
    In early 2018, the time seemed right for Zenefits investor and director Lars Dalgaard to reflect on whether Zenefits had the right board of directors to shepherd the company through its next stages of growth. For the company whose name combined the words “benefits,”... View Details
    Keywords: Ethics; Business Model; Corporate Accountability; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance; Crisis Management; Entrepreneurship; Human Resources; Leadership; Risk Management; Venture Capital; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Information Technology Industry; United States; California
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    • 2008
    • Book

    On Competition

    By: M. E. Porter
    Competition is one of society's most powerful forces for making things better in many fields of human endeavor. The study of competition and the creation of value, in their full richness, have preoccupied me for several decades. Competition is pervasive, whether it... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership; Practice; Competitive Strategy; Theory; Value Creation
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    • February 2007
    • Case

    South African Airways (A)

    By: Joshua D. Margolis, Laura Morgan Roberts and Laura Winig
    Amid efforts to engineer a turnaround at South African Airways (SAA), the CEO confronts an impending strike at the struggling company. How should the company address questions of distributive and procedural justice in post-Apartheid South Africa, and how should the CEO... View Details
    Keywords: Fairness; Crisis Management; Employees; Employment; Growth and Development; Developing Countries and Economies; Air Transportation Industry; South Africa
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    • 26 Mar 2020
    • Blog Post

    The Road Untraveled: VC Perspectives on COVID-19

    these times. Be open with your team and give them ways to reach your executive team that may not have been as readily available in the past. 2) Cut costs wherever you can before letting go of employees. Culture and human View Details
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    The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

    total capitalization of $1.4 billion, inspired the Wall Street Journal to write of its “uneasiness over the magnitude of the affair.” 2 Through its combined subsidiaries, U.S. Steel’s integrated system held control over the mines and... View Details

      Christopher T. Stanton

      Christopher Stanton is Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. Professor Stanton's research streams focus on personnel economics, organizational economics, labor markets, and entrepreneurship. His MBA... View Details

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      French Pension System, The: On the Verge of Retirement?

      By: David A. Moss, Anne Dias and Bertrand O. Stephann
      Surveys the French pension system, its particular institutional characteristics, and some of the critical challenges and opportunities facing French reformers. Like almost every other industrialized country, France has a large pay-as-you-go public pension system that... View Details
      Keywords: Retirement; Compensation and Benefits; Capital Markets; Economic Growth; Labor; Problems and Challenges; Opportunities; Welfare; Investment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Public Administration Industry; France
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      • 30 Nov 2021
      • In Practice

      What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?

      The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details
      Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman
      • 18 Mar 2014
      • First Look

      First Look: March 18

        Publications August 2013 Social Science & Medicine Who Donates Their Bodies to Science? The Combined Role of Gender and Migration Status Among California Whole-body Donors By: Asad, Asad L., Michel Anteby, and Filiz Garip Abstract—The number of View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 27 Jun 2005
      • Research & Ideas

      Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?

      achievement; but it's hard to credit that given the enormous inflation of top executive compensation packages in America in the last decade. Many American firms, especially most of the large ones, are more dependent on capital markets for... View Details
      Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
      • 04 Mar 2014
      • First Look

      First Look: March 4

      so as not to lose themselves, their loved ones, or their foothold on success. Those who do this most effectively involve their families in work decisions and activities. They also vigilantly manage their own human capital, endeavoring to... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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        Brian J. Hall

        Brian J. Hall is the Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He served as the Unit Head for the Negotiation, Organizations and Markets (NOM) Unit for 14 years. Previously, he was an assistant professor of economics in the... View Details

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