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    Stephen P. Bradley

    Professor Bradley is the William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. In addition to teaching Management and Strategy in the Owner President Management Program and leading an... View Details

    Keywords: e-commerce industry; financial services; health care; high technology; internet; pharmaceuticals; telecommunications
    • 20 Oct 2015
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    October 20, 2015

    forthcoming NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2015 Networks and the Macroeconomy: An Empirical Exploration By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, and Kerr, William R. Abstract—The propagation of macroeconomic shocks through input-output and... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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    Publications - Faculty & Research

    Study: Do We Reskill or Replace Our Workforce? By: William Kerr To remain competitive in the internet-of-things era, should the CEO of SolidTech Innovations, a fictional elevator company, invest a lot of money in reskilling its entire... View Details
    • 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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    • 18 Nov 2014
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    First Look: November 18

    television advertising influences online shopping. We construct a massive dataset spanning $3.4 billion in spending by 20 brands, including measures of brands' website traffic and transactions as well as ad content measures for 1,224... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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    Faculty & Research

    field of negotiation, shows you how to negotiate successfully today by adapting proven negotiation principles and strategies to the challenging new contexts you face—from negotiating across cultural and political differences to trying to... View Details

      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

      • 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
      • 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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      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
      • 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
      • 14 May 2013
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      First Look: May 14

      of investing at home than those where external managers are involved. At the same time, SWFs with external managers tend to invest in lower P/E industries, which see an increase in the P/E ratios in the year after the investment. By way... 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
      • 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
      • October 2009
      • Article

      Managing Risk in the New World

      By: Robert S. Kaplan, Anette Mikes, Robert Simons, Peter Tufano and Michael Hofmann Jr.
      Five experts gathered recently to discuss the future of enterprise risk management: Kaplan, the Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School, who with his colleague David Norton developed the balanced scorecard; Mikes, an assistant professor at HBS who studies... View Details
      Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Financial Crisis; Capital Structure; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Risk Management
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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
      • 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
      • 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
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      Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

      society today. Friday, June 13 Video Recording Dean’s Welcome Address 8:30–9:30 a.m. ET Speaker: Srikant Datar , Dean of the Faculty, George F. Baker Professor of Administration Dean Srikant Datar kicks off Reunion Weekend by sharing... View Details