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Corporate Governance
The characteristics and structure of boards of directors have important implications for firm performance. Professor Wang has found that firms with well-connected boards whose members have strong network connections provide economic benefits that are not immediately... View Details
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Non-Financial Incentives
My research shows how firms combine many facets of internal governance to motivate managers. A perspective that underlies much of my research is that managers are not motivated by financial rewards alone: “it’s not just about the... View Details
- 2014
- Working Paper
The Nobel Prize: A 'Heritage-based' Brand-oriented Network
By: Mats Urde and Stephen A. Greyser
Purpose — Understanding the Nobel Prize as a 'true' heritage brand in a networked situation and its management challenges, especially regarding identity and reputation.
Methodology — The Nobel Prize serves as an in-depth case study and is analysed within... View Details
Methodology — The Nobel Prize serves as an in-depth case study and is analysed within... View Details
Keywords: Nobel Prize; Heritage Brand; Brand Network; Networked Brand; Brand Within A Network; Brand Orientation; Brand Stewardship; Corporate Brand Identity; Reputation; Networks; Organizations; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Brands and Branding
Urde, Mats, and Stephen A. Greyser. "The Nobel Prize: A 'Heritage-based' Brand-oriented Network." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-010, August 2014.
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Sebastian Velasco
offers: an incredible group of peers with diverse backgrounds, interactions with experienced faculty and world leaders, and the ability to further develop a network of friendships that will be very important in my future." The most... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
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example, you may not opt out of certain operational or transactional emails, such as those reflecting our relationship or transactions with you, or important notifications regarding the Services we are providing to you. Most browsers and... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017
leaders. These deliver worse material outcomes in general, but they reduce the feelings of betrayal during bad times. Some evidence consistent with our model is gathered from the Trump-Clinton 2016 election: on average, subjects primed with the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Mar 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Firing the CEO
alternatives-at least for emergency situations. But they rarely do. In a fast-growth economy like Brazil's, with a scarcity of available top management talent, companies are reluctant to fire any senior executive, let alone their chief executive. In these circumstances... View Details
- 17 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’
understanding what is important to the individual when he or she makes a purchasing decision." What Business Are You Really In? Levitt's influence reached well beyond the classroom. "Ted Levitt was the most influential and... View Details
- 27 Sep 2021
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Working to Change the Food System
important next step for us is finding strong product market fit – among all the different capabilities we can engineer within our microalgae, which ones are most important? And to whom is it important? If you’re reading this and have... View Details
- 30 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides
having a better experience, which is good for the customer,” Buell says. “But obviously, that's also really, really important for the organization.” Buell and Choi detailed their findings in the working paper Improving Customer... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
as the School’s first Goldman Sachs Fellow, and was elected copresident of the African American Student Union (AASU). “I had never taken an accounting or finance class before I went to HBS,” he notes. “The AASU study groups and community activities were really View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 13 Apr 2021
- Book
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
color on its staff and failed to live up to its equity and inclusion rhetoric. Writing in Fast Company, she explained that by failing to listen to employees, Wing had missed important information about problems that worsened as they went... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 12 Jun 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
The Triumph of the Humble Chief Risk Officer
Keywords: by Anette Mikes
- June 2015 (Revised October 2015)
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High Liner Foods, 2015
By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
In 2015, Canadian-based High Liner Foods Ltd was one of North America's largest frozen fish processors with extensive shares of both the food service and retail channels in Canada, the USA and Mexico. With over C$1 billion in revenues, the company had grown four fold... View Details
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The de Gaspé Beaubien Reading Room | About
research papers, rare books, ephemera, and visual materials—provide the documentary evidence that allows scholars to investigate firsthand the important business theories, organizations, movements, and individuals that have shaped our... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
multinational chemical and materials company based in Belgium with 24,500 employees. While the company kept most plants operating during the COVID-19 crisis, it also started reflecting early on about the importance of supporting the... View Details
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Helping and harnessing business to address society’s greatest challenges. | Institute for Business in Global Society
Initiative With global health care spending greater than $8.5 trillion, there is no shortage of opportunities to make an impact in this demanding sector. Leadership Initiative Leaders have always faced the job of inspiring others while making View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
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Generation Next
Industries, also studied in America. Nisa has accelerated the ties. "It helps expose the Group to a significant corpus of international thinking," says Khanna. And Nisa still counts Bharat Anand, Henry R. Byers Professor of Business Administration, as an View Details