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    Tsedal Neeley

    Tsedal Neeley is the Senior Associate Dean and Chair of the MBA program at Harvard Business School, where she is the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration, Faculty Chair of the... View Details

    • 06 Aug 2019
    • Cold Call Podcast

    Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?

    The signature song in the show is “Advertising Ruins Everything”, the tongue and cheek nature of it. This was all on social media, and then coupled with the actual live performance was one of the most interesting and creative strokes of... View Details
    Keywords: Advertising; Sports; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting
    • 2019
    • White Paper

    Impact-Weighted Financial Accounts: The Missing Piece for an Impact Economy

    By: George Serafeim, T. Robert Zochowski and Jennifer Downing
    Reimagining capitalism is an imperative. We need to create a more inclusive and sustainable form of capitalism that works for every person and the planet. Massive environmental damage, growing income and wealth disparity, stress, and depression within developed... View Details
    Keywords: Impact-Weighted Accounts; IWAI; Background; Economic Systems; Economy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Measurement and Metrics; Financial Statements
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    • September 2016
    • Case

    Partners Group: Ain't No Mountain High Enough

    By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Ricardo Andrade
    Partners Group (PG), a Swiss-based PE manager, initiated a series of strategic shifts and evolved from a predominately fund-of-funds manager into a large, multi-asset class PE firm focused on direct investments. PG was the first PE firm to go public in 2006. A number... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Management Practices and Processes; Entrepreneurship
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    • 07 Oct 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence

    At the beginning of the year, corporate skullduggery seemed limited to one or two egregious examples. A couple of bad apples won't spoil the whole bunch, we said to ourselves. But in the past several months, rottenness may have achieved a... View Details
    Keywords: by Harvard Management Update
    • Research Summary

    Overview

    By: Ethan C. Rouen
    Relying on empirical archival methodologies—as well as techniques in data science—to develop and structure new sources of data by which to approach questions of looming disclosure changes, Professor Rouen has focused on one of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s... View Details
    • 21 May 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect

    Similarly, Kinko's was measuring on-time performance for copying large batch jobs for their corporate accounts. Their staff was thus engaged in back office activities to generate these copies. However in... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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    Overview

    Professor Sherman's research has long focused on financial reporting, performance measurement/management, and financial literacy issues facing corporate management and Boards of Directors in global businesses. He also actively studies methods to improve productivity in... View Details
    • 11 Oct 2007
    • Working Paper Summaries

    How Firms Respond to Being Rated

    Keywords: by Aaron K. Chatterji & Michael W. Toffel
    • 03 Sep 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Supply Chain Screening Without Certification: The Critical Role of Stakeholder Pressure

    Keywords: by Susan A. Kayser, John W. Maxwell & Michael W. Toffel
    • February 2016
    • Supplement

    Alibaba Goes Public (B)

    By: Krishna Palepu, Suraj Srinivasan, Charles C. Y. Wang and David Lane
    Update on Alibaba Group's share price performance and related events in the year following its September 2014 IPO. View Details
    Keywords: Dual-class Share Structure; Alibaba; IPOs; VIE; Initial Public Offering; Corporate Governance; Performance; Stock Shares; United States
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    • 12 Mar 2018
    • Op-Ed

    Op-Ed: Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Is Not a Socialist

    companies must serve a social purpose. “Society is demanding that companies, both public and private, serve a social purpose,” Fink wrote. “To prosper over time, every company must not only deliver financial performance but also show how... View Details
    Keywords: by Bill George; Banking

      Malcolm S. Salter

      Malcolm Salter has been a member of the Harvard Business School faculty since 1967. His teaching and research focus on issues of corporate strategy, organization, and governance.

      In addition to teaching at HBS, he has held faculty positions at the Harvard... View Details

      Keywords: arts; automobiles; energy; investment banking industry; retailing; venture capital industry

        Broadening Focus: Spillovers, Complementarities and Specialization in the Hospital Industry

        The long-standing argument that focused operations outperform others stands in contrast to claims about the benefits of broader operational scope. Within the literature on corporate strategy, this tension between focus and breadth is reconciled by the concept of... View Details

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        Executive Education: Finance for Senior Executives

        By: Malcolm P. Baker

        Finance for Senior Executives provides the frameworks to strategically use financial resources and position your company for future success. By examining corporate finance from both internal and external perspectives, this HBS Executive Education View Details

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        By: Rohit Deshpande
        Customer Centricity Rohit Deshpandé's research program focuses on Customer-Centricity. A stream of projects examines the interaction between corporate and national culture as they influence the development and implementation of global marketing strategies in high... View Details

          Frances X. Frei

          Frances Frei is a Professor of Technology and Operations Management at Harvard Business School. Her research investigates how leaders accelerate performance and design for excellence in leadership, strategy, and operations. She regularly advises senior executives... View Details

          Keywords: airline; banking; fast food; financial services; health care; hotels ＆ motels; management consulting; media; nonprofit industry; professional services; retail financial services; service industry; sports; telecommunications; tourism; travel
          • March–April 2024
          • Article

          Case Study: Navigating Labor Unrest

          By: Jorge Tamayo
          Paulo Ferreira, the president of Luna Brazil, has an ambitious plan to turn around the dismal performance of the plant he oversees in Campinas. The wrinkle is, he needs the buy-in of the powerful local union, which is still smarting from a 10-year-old labor conflict... View Details
          Keywords: Strategy And Execution; Layoffs; Manufacturing; Labor and Management Relations; Labor Unions; Negotiation Tactics; Conflict and Resolution; Performance Improvement; Corporate Strategy; Manufacturing Industry; Brazil
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            John D. Dionne

            John D. Dionne has been a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School since 2014 and is a recently retired Senior Managing Director and Senior Advisor to Blackstone. He is also Managing Partner of Franconia Capital, a... View Details

            • 25 Oct 2011
            • Research & Ideas

            Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out

            performance decline when they move from one team to another; they operate fairly independently. (In the corporate world, the somewhat autonomous position of the chief financial officer is analogous to that... View Details
            Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports; Banking