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  • August 2019
  • Case

The Allstate Corporation, 2019

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In July 2019, Allstate, the United States’ number-three property and casualty (P/C) insurer, released its second-quarter earnings, which reported first-half revenues of $22.1 billion, up 11.4% year-over-year. Shareholders cheered the top-line growth, but P/C premiums... View Details
Keywords: Insurance Companies; Strategic Analysis; Strategic Change; Insurance; Strategy; Strategic Planning; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Competitive Strategy; Insurance Industry; North America
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  • 27 Jul 2023
  • Blog Post

Buy Big, Sell Small

cofounder of ApnaKlub, a wholesale digital platform that helps kirana owners aggregate their buying power and access credit tools and other services. “These are micro businesses that run on tight margins. If shopkeepers run out of something, they have to travel to a... View Details
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Business History - Faculty & Research

Related Shih, Willy. "U.S. Steel: Proposed Acquisition by Nippon Steel." Harvard Business School Case 625-090, January 2025. (Revised June 2025.) ZEISS: Commercializing Science By: Maria P. Roche , Carlota Moniz and Daniela Beyersdorfer... View Details
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Organizational Behavior Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Organizational Behavior Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students MBA Required Curriculum (FIRST YEAR) Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD) This course focuses on how managers become effective leaders View Details
  • 2012
  • Working Paper

Earnings Management from the Bottom Up: An Analysis of Managerial Incentives Below the CEO

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Julie Wulf
Performance-based pay is an important instrument to align the interests of managers with the interests of shareholders. However, recent evidence suggests that high-powered incentives also provide managers with incentives to manipulate the firm's reported earnings. The... View Details
Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Interests; Business and Shareholder Relations; Motivation and Incentives; Earnings Management; Performance Evaluation; Stock Options
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  • April 2014
  • Article

Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management

By: Maria Guadalupe, Hongyi Li and Julie Wulf
Top management structures in large U.S. firms have changed significantly since the mid-1980s. While the size of the executive team—the group of managers reporting directly to the CEO—doubled during this period, this growth was driven primarily by an increase in... View Details
Keywords: Communication; Functions; Centralization; M-form; Hierarchy; Top Management Team; C-Suite; Activities; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Diversification; Managerial Roles; Organizational Design; Information Technology; Organizational Structure; Management Teams; United States
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Press / Media

By: Karim R. Lakhani

Can America Invent Its Way Back?

BusinessWeek, by Michael Mandel, 12 Sept. 2008

Today, researchers are focusing on ways to make those... View Details

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Finance - Faculty & Research

in MBS duration function as large-scale shocks to the quantity of interest rate risk that must be borne by professional bond investors. I develop a simple model in which the risk tolerance of bond investors is limited in the short run, so... View Details
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HBS - The year in Review

Scholarships Press Release New Faculty Welcomed Thirteen faculty members, including new tenure-track professors, visitors, and practitioners, participated in START, a deep-dive orientation to the School, that took place in person on campus over three days in View Details
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

Business & Environment Business & Environment July 2015 Article BYOB: How Bringing Your Own Shopping Bags Leads to Treating Yourself, and the Environment By: Uma R. Karmarkar and Bryan Bollinger As concerns about pollution and climate... View Details
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Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online

Professor Bharat Anand Gain economic insights and learn how markets work and firms compete to craft successful business strategies. 8 weeks, 6-8 hrs/week Pay by July 31 $1,850 Certificate View Details
  • 23 Dec 2019
  • Blog Post

Taking the Risk to Start a Company at Business School

After attending Wharton for her undergraduate studies, she worked at Lehman Brothers & Barclays. She had been promoted to vice president at PIMCO only six years out of college. But one day, Julie woke up and felt she was failing to... View Details
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Faculty & Research - Race, Gender & Equity

of the post-MBA paths of Harvard Business School alumni. Study findings have been published in the New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Poets & Quants, and covered in other print, digital, and broadcast media outlets. Life & Leadership examines the role played... View Details
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Events - Health Care

Events Events Jul 16 16 Jul 2025 Other Open to the Harvard community The Founder Mindset by Fifty Years TMEC - TMEC 209 Mini amphitheater. Tosteson Medical Education Center. 260 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115 The Founder Mindset will be... View Details
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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Workforce and the Boston Foundation, July 2021. With Rachel Lipson and Dorsey Eden. Working to Learn: Despite a growing set of innovators, America struggles to connect education and career , White Paper, Harvard Project on Workforce,... View Details
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Faculty & Research - Business History

political science. 23 Jul 2024 News The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities Re: Jeremy Friedman, Meg Rithmire, Jaya Wen, William Kirby & Ebehi Iyoha July 2024 (Revised October 2024) Case Knowledge... View Details
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Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

informed decision-making. 8 weeks, 5 hrs/week Pay by July 31 $1,850 Certificate Economics for Managers Professor Bharat Anand Gain economic insights and learn how markets work and firms compete to craft... View Details
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Online Business Strategy Courses | HBS Online

Certificate Strategy Execution Professor Robert Simons Gain the tools, skills, and frameworks to successfully implement strategy within your organization and drive impactful results. 8 weeks, 5-8 hrs/week Pay by View Details
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Leadership - Faculty & Research

and sustainability. That's the central and animating theme of "The Rise of HR: Wisdom from 73 Thought Leaders," a new anthology published by the HR Certification Institute. Professor Hill's essay addresses the question of how to develop... View Details
  • 11 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 11

corporate center and how to incentivize subsidiary executives. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710436-PDF-ENG Corporate Strategy at Berkshire Partners Julie M. Wulf and Scott... View Details
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