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characterizations can be correct, depending on the context. When Democracy Breaks aims to deepen our understanding of what separates democratic resilience from democratic fragility by focusing on the latter. The volume’s... View Details
  • 18 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018

investigated how an organization’s heightened focus on political ideology impacts employees. We address this gap by exploring how an individual’s political ideological misfit with an organization’s prevailing ideology impacts mobility.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • May 2017 (Revised February 2024)
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Battle for the Soul of Capitalism: Unilever and the Kraft Heinz Takeover Bid (A)

By: William W. George and Amram Migdal
This case describes Kraft Heinz Company’s (KHC) February 2017 unsolicited $143 billion takeover offer to acquire Unilever. The offer was made to Unilever CEO Paul Polman by KHC chairman Alexandre Behring, who was also co-founder and CEO of Brazilian-based 3G Capital... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Value Creation; Decision Choices and Conditions
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    Robert J. Dolan

    Robert J. Dolan is the Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester and began his academic career in 1976 as a faculty member at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago. He joined... View Details

    • January 2006 (Revised April 2007)
    • Case

    General Electric Healthcare, 2006

    By: Tarun Khanna and Elizabeth Raabe
    In January 2006, Joe Hogan, head of General Electric (GE) Healthcare Technologies, prepared to step into William Castell's shoes as CEO of GE Healthcare, the world's leading manufacturer of diagnostic imaging equipment. In 2004, former CEO Jeff Immelt acquired Amersham... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Cost vs Benefits; Growth and Development Strategy; Mergers and Acquisitions; Machinery and Machining; Global Range; Multinational Firms and Management; Product Design; Technological Innovation; Expansion; Value Creation; Business Subsidiaries; Health Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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    • 23 Dec 2014
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    First Look: December 23

      Publications December 2014 Journal of Political Economy Transition to Clean Technology By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, Douglas Hanley, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We develop a microeconomic model of endogenous growth where clean and... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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    Summer Venture in Management

    was so enriched by the exchange of perspectives and ideas.” AMIR WILLIAMS (SVMP 2017) WHAT DID YOU LEARN AT SVMP? “SVMP taught me that HBS is a place that cultivates leaders who are already doing amazing... View Details
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    Strategy - Doctoral

    first year typically by working with a faculty member. By their third and fourth years, most students are launched on a solid research and publication stream. The dissertation may take the form of three... View Details
    • July 2019 (Revised May 2020)
    • Case

    AT&T, Retraining, and the Workforce of Tomorrow

    By: William R. Kerr, Joseph B. Fuller and Carl Kreitzberg
    By the late 2000s, rapid changes in the telecommunications industry forced AT&T’s management team to take on a task that CEO Randall Stephenson called the “biggest logistical challenge” they had ever seen: retraining 100,000 workers by 2020. In 2012, internal company... View Details
    Keywords: AT＆T; Workforce; Skills; Future Of Work; Telecommunications; Unions; Technological Change; Layoffs; MOOCS; Strategic Planning; Employees; Training; Competency and Skills; Labor; Learning; Labor Unions; Technology Adoption; Talent and Talent Management; Telecommunications Industry; Communications Industry; United States
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    • 22 Jan 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China

    Assistant Professor William R. Kerr teaches the required first-year MBA course, The Entrepreneurial Manager, in addition to Executive Education courses at Harvard Business School. One of his core research areas is the role of immigrant... View Details
    Keywords: Re: William R. Kerr; Technology; Computer
    • 02 Aug 2011
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    First Look: August 2

    workday events can make or break employees' inner work lives. But it's forward momentum in meaningful work—progress that creates the best inner work lives. Through rigorous analysis of nearly 12,000 diary entries provided by 238 employees... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 16 Aug 2011
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    First Look: August 16

      PublicationsThe World Bank and Democratic Accountability: The Role of Civil Society Authors:Alnoor Ebrahim and Steve Herz Publication:Chap. 3 in Building Global Democracy? Civil Society and Accountable Global Governance, edited by Jan... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 20 Feb 2018
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    First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

    market regulation. New Deal partnerships in planning borrowed from those efforts to manage competitive markets, yet ultimately discredited the fair trade model by mandating economy-wide trade rules that sharply reduced competition. Laura... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 27 May 2014
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    First Look: May 27

    argues Mikołaj Piskorski, one of the world's leading experts on the business of social media. In A Social Strategy, he provides the most convincing answer yet, one backed by original research, data, and case studies from companies such as... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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    Business Economics - Doctoral

    lens of business. Jointly administered by HBS and the Department of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the program combines theoretical analysis with in-depth, interdisciplinary research rooted in real-world applications.... View Details
    • 23 Oct 2012
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    First Look: October 23

    employing our method, one case study designs a point system that has the same form, uses the same criteria, and satisfies the same fairness constraints as the point system that was recently proposed by U.S. policymakers. In addition, the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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    Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

    , Dean of the Faculty, George F. Baker Professor of Administration Dean Srikant Datar kicks off Reunion Weekend by sharing his key priorities, which will strengthen and accelerate the School’s impact in the world. Video Recording... View Details
    • 08 Mar 2016
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    March 8, 2016

    approaches can be reconciled through the Lean Strategy process, which ensures that startups innovate in a disciplined fashion and make the most of their limited resources by knowing "what not to do." Deliberate strategy sets the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 12 Dec 2017
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    New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

    in common? Why do their extraordinary stories continue to amaze and inspire? In delivering the answers to those questions, I offer a remarkable template by which to judge those in our own time to whom the public has given its trust. The... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 22 Nov 2011
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    First Look: November 22

      PublicationsCompeting through Business Models Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Joan E. Ricart Publication:In Handbook of Research on Competitive Strategy, edited by Giovanni Battista Dagnino. Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming An... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne