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  • January 2015
  • Case

Monte-Carlo Weddings

By: Anat Keinan and Sandrine Crener
Monte-Carlo Weddings, established by Frank Damgaard in 2005, is the most respectable and exclusive wedding planning business in the South of France. Frank has organized the largest, most expensive and luxurious weddings in Europe, serving celebrities, CEOs, and other... View Details
Keywords: Luxury Brand; Luxury Service; Luxury Consumers; Exceeding Consumer Expectations; Wedding Planner; Destination Wedding; Event Planner; Event Management; Entrepreneurship; Growth Strategy; Monaco; Monte-Carlo; Brand Building; Reputation Management; Word Of Mouth; Customer Satisfaction; Client Acquisition; Diversification; Wealth; Marketing Strategy; Business Growth and Maturation; Service Delivery; Luxury; Brands and Branding; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Industry; France
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  • 14 Dec 2010
  • News

Five Doctoral Students Win Research Awards

  • November 2016 (Revised December 2016)
  • Module Note

Strategy Execution Module 14: Managing Strategic Risk

By: Robert Simons
This module reading provides an overview of the business conduct boundaries, strategic boundaries, and internal control systems used to manage risk. Boundary systems—linked to clear, enforceable sanctions—are essential whenever demanding performance goals are set and... View Details
Keywords: Management Control Systems; Implementing Strategy; Strategy Execution; Boundary Systems; Innovation; Internal Controls; Fraud; Human Behavior; Staff Experts; Strategy; Risk Management; Behavior; Governance Controls; Management Practices and Processes; Boundaries; Employees; Business Strategy; Innovation and Invention
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    Jennifer Zou

    I am a fourth year doctoral candidate in the Business Economics program. My research interests are primarily in industrial organization and innovation, with a particular focus on the economics of artificial intelligence/machine learning and digital technology markets.... View Details
    • April 2017
    • Teaching Note

    Sesame Workshop: Bringing Big Bird Back to Health (Abridged)

    By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Ryan Raffaelli, Ai-Ling Jamila Malone and Jonathan Cohen
    Sesame Workshop was in the middle of a turnaround in 2016. CEO Jeff Dunn had reorganized and shifted the iconic institution to respond to digital disruption and a consensus culture. This Teaching Note helps instructors teach the abridged and full-length versions of... View Details
    Keywords: Turnaround; NGO; Non-profit; Organization Alignment; Managing Change; Philanthropy; Media; Television; Reorganization; Talent; Innovation; Risk Aversion; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Restructuring; Identity; Transformation; Education Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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      Unexploited Efficiencies in Higher Education

      This paper provides an economic model of a university for use in sensitivity and scenario analyses to enhance efficiency. Such modeling contributes to efforts to lower costs and increase college attainment. Executives at BYU-Idaho, identified as one of the most... View Details

        Reshmaan N. Hussam

        Reshmaan Hussam is an associate professor of business administration in the Business, Government and International Economy Unit, a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and a faculty affiliate at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty... View Details

        • 01 Nov 2022
        • Research & Ideas

        A Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure Matters

        to focus employees on a particular task and base their pay on the workers’ performance need to be aware of the potential tradeoff when it comes to the willingness of workers to develop View Details
        Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
        • 27 Nov 2013
        • News

        Six Doctoral Students Win Annual Research Awards

        • 2012
        • Chapter

        The Confederacy of Heterogeneous Software Organizations and Heterogeneous Developers: Field Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Worker Effort

        By: Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani
        Software development occurs in a patchwork or "confederacy" of different types of institutions (universities, small start-ups, multinational enterprises, government agencies, etc.) utilizing varied work approaches. Here we speculate on one possible explanation for this... View Details
        Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Applications and Software; Product Development; Organizations; Employees; Behavior; Competition; Cooperation; Creativity; Information Technology Industry
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          Gunnar Trumbull

          Gunnar Trumbull is the Phillip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

          Professor Trumbull’s primary area of expertise in political economy, with a focus on consumer and regulatory politics. His book Strength in... View Details

          Keywords: agribusiness; consumer products; credit card; financial services; food; food processing; grocery; microfinance; retail financial services; retailing

            Ryann Noe

            Ryann Noe is a doctoral candidate in the Organizational Behavior program jointly offered by Harvard Business School and the Department of Sociology at Harvard University.

            Her research examines how industries and technologies emerge and evolve, with a focus... View Details

              Renata Gaineddenova

              Renata Gaineddenova is an Assistant Professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. Her research focuses on industrial organization and the market design of digital platforms. Prior to joining HBS, Professor Gaineddenova was a Postdoctoral Associate at... View Details
              • 15 Apr 2016
              • News

              How America Grew

              • January – February 2011
              • Article

              Creating Shared Value

              By: Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer
              The capitalist system is under siege. In recent years business has been criticized as a major cause of social, environmental, and economic problems. Companies are widely thought to be prospering at the expense of their communities. Trust in business has fallen to new... View Details
              Keywords: Customer Value and Value Chain; Economic Growth; Economic Systems; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Trust; Human Needs; Welfare; Competitive Advantage; Value Creation
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                Shlok Goyal

                Shlok Goyal is a doctoral student in the Business Economics program. Prior to coming to HBS, he studied economics and statistics-machine learning at Carnegie Mellon University and worked as a research analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. His main... View Details
                • 2020
                • Working Paper

                Short-Termism, Shareholder Payouts, and Investment in the EU

                By: Jesse M. Fried and Charles C.Y. Wang
                Investor-driven “short-termism” is said to harm EU public firms' ability to invest for the long term, prompting calls for the EU to better insulate managers from shareholder pressure. But the evidence offered—in the form of rising levels of repurchases and dividends—is... View Details
                Keywords: Short-termism; Quarterly Capitalism; EU; Dividends; Equity Issuances; Equity Compensastion; Capital Flows; Capital Distribution; R＆D; Innovation; Investment; Corporate Governance; Investment Return; Acquisition; European Union
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                • 06 Dec 2011
                • News

                Annual Research Awards Presented to Five Doctoral Students

                • Web

                Research Links: Secondary Sources - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

                Associations in the United States and Prussia," Business and Economic History , Second Series, vol. 19 (1990): 133-142. - Politics and Industrialization: Early Railroads in the United States and Prussia . Princeton, N.J.: Princeton... View Details

                  Raffaella Sadun

                  Raffaella Sadun is Charles E. Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and is a Co-Chair of Harvard Business School’s Project on Managing the Future of Work and co-PI of the Digital Reskilling Lab. Sadun received her PhD in Economics... View Details