Enterprise Risk Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2002
News

Straddling Two Worlds

was one of Tierney's first lessons in compartmentalizing his dual interests — that of running a highly profitable enterprise and that of helping those less fortunate than himself. After some experimentation with combining the two, he... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

April 2025
Case

Japan Industrial Partners Powers the Leveraged Buyout of Toshiba

By: Brian K. Baik, Joseph Pacelli and James Barnett

The case explores Japan Industrial Partners (JIP) $14 billion takeover of Toshiba Corporation (Toshiba). JIP was a private equity firm that took over the troubled electronics corporation in late 2023. The deal, which had been labeled one of the largest leveraged... View Details

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28 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

The Importance of ‘Don’t’ in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior

the issue in a new research paper, "Bringing Ethics into Focus: How Regulatory Focus and Risk Preferences Influence (Un)ethical Behavior," in which they distinguish between two ways a company can encourage ethical conduct among... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Sep 2011
News

Breaking Free from Fear of Change

understand the executives I talk about in this book very well because I share their predicament,” notes Tom DeLong, the Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Management Practice at HBS and the author of Flying without a Net: Turn Fear of Change... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

24 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care

question, which is what are the risks involved in this framework if it's passed in the form that we know it as of now? Desai: Well, the first is the one we just mentioned, which is the fiscal consequence of the reforms. The second is, the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2003
News

Up Against The Firewall

to hearing his executive participants vow to review cyber security safeguards and procedures once they return to their companies. As Austin tells his students, only senior management has the authority necessary to implement the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Robert Austin; Corporate Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

01 Mar 2010
News

Sole Mates

siblings, get to work every day on time, work toward a degree at night (paying their own tuition), and manage to save enough to slowly build a house. While generally excited by democracy, Liberians are understandably impatient for roads... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Forestry and Logging; Agriculture; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government

17 Jun 2010
News

The Most Emerging of Emerging Markets

Keywords: Professor Tarun Khanna; Corporate Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

06 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 6

double the company's size and take it to new geographies, he wonders if the right capabilities are in place for what should be changed to manage the integration process effectively. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Feb 2000
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

alumni and their spouses who are moving into a new career phase). This committee is looking at possible additions to these programs and how best to manage them given existing faculty and space resources. It is particularly interested in... View Details

Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)

31 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?

David Blumenthal, professor at Harvard Medical School and a member of the Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital; Michael Newman, a senior research manager at Harris Interactive; Kinga Zapert, vice president for... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

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Key Metrics | Annual Report 2024

and managers in the 60–64 salary grades. US Race/Ethnicity is only collected for US citizens and permanent residents. Per federal guidelines, people who identify as Hispanic, Latino, or Latinx and any other race are represented as... View Details

27 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work

Two years ago, the World Management Survey on organizational leadership reported that firms led by family CEOs (managers related to the family owning the business) are often managed badly, particularly those... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 1999
News

Christensen and Vernon Remembered

the Iran Center for Management (Tehran). He was part of a team of HBS professors whose advice to the top executives of Nestlé S.A. led to the creation of IMEDE, the European management school in Switzerland.... View Details

29 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy

sector. There was a big boom, a few years ago, in these private space enterprises trying to go public through special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs). In a SPAC, somebody would start a company with the sole idea of acquiring a... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Aerospace

08 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Women Negotiating in the New Millenium

hand, while being told by her boss, "I'm taking a risk on you," with the implication that she needs more experience to capably handle it. (See Jane's Dilemma below for more). "People put you in that gendered position,"... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

18 Dec 2019
News

Thinking Smart About Numbers

brought into society. It also touched upon Desai’s earlier book, The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return. Professor Mihir Desai talks about finance and his new book in New Delhi. Professor Mihir Desai... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2020
News

Two Truths and a Lie About 5G

enterprise side, the deployment of 5G is creating an influx of companies that are eager to explore products and services on a 5G playground—like Teale, a smart-building management company, and the AR/VR... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

17 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5

focus on what they are doing completely avoids exploring the why. The hopelessness and desperation that one must have to walk through a broken glass window, risking their lives and freedom in an already intensified moment, to get some... View Details

May 2024
Supplement

gWorks (B)

By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff

In January of 2019, Joe Heieck, CEO of gWorks, was deciding whether to proceed with his acquisition of Data Tech, that was a business roughly the same size as gWorks. gWorks, which provided geospatial software to small city and rural county governments, was acquired by... View Details