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  • September 2024
  • Case

Topaz: Navigating Governance, Legacy, and Change

By: Christina R. Wing and Carla Larangeira
Since its founding in 2011, the Garza Sada brothers and their father positioned Topaz among leading family offices in Monterrey, Mexico, with several assets under management. Topaz aspired to have a transformative impact across multiple Mexican industries. An industry... View Details
Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Family Business; Governing and Advisory Boards; Managerial Roles; Management Succession; Family Ownership; Corporate Governance; Organizational Structure; Adoption; Financial Services Industry; Real Estate Industry; Education Industry; Energy Industry; Latin America; Mexico
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  • March 2016 (Revised April 2019)
  • Technical Note

ESG Metrics: Reshaping Capitalism?

By: George Serafeim
In the past twenty-five years, the world had seen an exponential growth in the number of companies reporting environmental, social and governance (ESG) data. Investor interest in ESG data also grew rapidly. A growing belief that increasing levels of social inequality... View Details
Keywords: Capitalism; Sustainability; Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility; Responsibilities To Society; Environment; Social Impact Investment; ESG; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Measurement and Metrics; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Corporate Accountability; Accounting; Economic Systems
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  • Article

More-Experienced Entrepreneurs Have Bigger Deadline Problems

By: Andy Wu, Aticus Peterson and Amy Meeker
Professor Andy Wu and doctoral candidate Aticus Peterson of Harvard Business School tracked 314 entrepreneurs who launched multiple technology hardware products on the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter from September 2010 to June 2019. The more projects the founders... View Details
Keywords: Deadlines; Entrepreneurship; Projects; Time Management
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    The Discipline of Business Experimentation

    The data you already have can't tell you how customers will react to innovations. To discover if a truly novel concept will succeed, you must subject it to a rigorous experiment. In most companies, tests do not adhere to scientific and statistical principles. As... View Details
    • 19 Jun 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Wisdom or Madness? Comparing Crowds with Expert Evaluation in Funding the Arts

    Keywords: by Ethan R. Mollick & Ramana Nanda
    • December 2014
    • Article

    The Discipline of Business Experimentation

    By: Stefan Thomke and Jim Manzi
    The data you already have can't tell you how customers will react to innovations. To discover if a truly novel concept will succeed, you must subject it to a rigorous experiment. In most companies, tests do not adhere to scientific and statistical principles. As a... View Details
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    • 18 Feb 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: February 18

    Fruitful avenues for future research are suggested. February 2015 Journal of Management Accounting Research Testing Strategy with Multiple Performance Measures: Evidence from a Balanced Scorecard at Store24... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Research Summary

    The Evolution of Corporate Structure, Internal Governance, and Leadership

    My research documents the evolution of the internal governance of senior management in large US firms over a 20-year period and explores, via multiple methods, the causes and consequences of these changes. My findings suggest that... View Details

    • 16 Jun 2021
    • Interview

    Harvard Business School: How to Build Fearless Organizations

    By: Amy C. Edmondson and Ron Lovett
    Our guest is Amy Edmondson - Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School. Amy has authored multiple books, including her most recent, The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation and... View Details
    Keywords: Psychological Safety; Organizational Culture; Leadership; Diversity; Communication
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    • July 2018
    • Teaching Note

    The Perfect Storm: What Happens When the Market Moves Four Standard Deviations?

    By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Sayiddah Fatima McCree
    Adam Carter was the portfolio manager for Tate Modern Finance III, L.P. (“Tate” or the “Fund”), the third in a series of U.S. commercial real estate debt funds sponsored by the London-based Tate Partners. The Fund was capitalized with $700 million of equity... View Details
    Keywords: CMBS; CLO; Repo Financing; Real Estate; Financial Strategy; Investment Funds; Financing and Loans
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    • August 2021
    • Case

    Danone S.A.: Becoming a Mission-Driven Company (A)

    By: Benjamin C. Esty and Emilie Billaud
    Emmanuel Faber became CEO of Danone SA, the French food and beverage company, in 2014. Right from the start, he ran the company with a dual commitment to both profit and purpose (i.e., ESG objectives). In fact, in 2018, he said, “It’s time to make sustainable business... View Details
    Keywords: Business and Stakeholder Relations; Corporate Governance; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Environmental Sustainability; Goals and Objectives; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; France; Europe
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    • June 2004
    • Article

    Market Liquidity as a Sentiment Indicator

    By: Malcolm Baker and Jeremy Stein
    We build a model that helps to explain why increases in liquidity-such as lower bid-ask spreads, a lower price impact of trade, or higher turnover-predict lower subsequent returns in both firm-level and aggregate data. The model features a class of irrational... View Details
    Keywords: Markets; Financial Liquidity; Price; Trade; Sales; Equity; Information; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Accounting Industry
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    • November 1990 (Revised July 1996)
    • Background Note

    Note on the Recipients of Change

    Examines the experiences of being a "recipient" of change and how to help individuals cope with change. The first part describes how people typically respond to changes likening it to a loss experience. The second part describes what organizations can do to help... View Details
    Keywords: Change Management
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    • April 1991 (Revised October 1993)
    • Case

    Cat Fight in the Pet Food Industry (A)

    By: David J. Collis
    Describes the pet food industry in the mid-eighties prior to the breakout of a major competitive battle as manufacturers fight for share. Illustrates how when there are benefits to play in multiple markets, competitors will take action in one market to preserve their... View Details
    Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Forecasting and Prediction; Financial Markets; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Ownership Stake; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry
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    • February 2003 (Revised July 2005)
    • Case

    British Broadcasting Corporation (A): One BBC

    By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Douglas A Raymond
    Greg Dyke, the new director general of the British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) must decide whether to extend an already ambitious change effort at the world's largest public service broadcaster. The initial results of the effort are very positive: audience numbers are up,... View Details
    Keywords: Change Management; Media; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Leadership Development; Competition; Creativity; Relationships; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United Kingdom
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    • October 2008
    • Article

    Evaluating the CEO

    By: Stephen P. Kaufman
    This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. After Kaufman became a CEO, he was struck by how perfunctory the board was in its... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Governing and Advisory Boards; Leadership; Managerial Roles; Performance Evaluation; Motivation and Incentives
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    • 07 Jun 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?

    To err is human, but most research on supply chain management doesn't take psychological, functional, incentive-related, and other biases into account. HBS professors Rogelio Oliva and Noel Watson have devised their latest research to... View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
    • 2010
    • Chapter

    Understanding and Coping with the Increasing Risk of System-Level Accidents

    By: Dutch Leonard and Arnold M. Howitt
    The world has seen a number of recent events in which major systems came to a standstill, not from one cause alone but from the interaction of a combination of causes. System-level accidents occur when anomalies or errors in different parts of an interconnected system... View Details
    Keywords: Economics; Globalization; Risk Management; Boundaries; System Shocks
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    • 2025
    • Working Paper

    Centralized Governance in Decentralized Organizations

    By: Lin William Cong, Daniel Rabetti, Charles C.Y. Wang and Yu Yan
    We systematically document governance centralization in decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) and study its drivers and economic implications. Using multiple data sources and granular on-chain transactional data, we compare our findings to those in corporate... View Details
    Keywords: Blockchain; Governance; Voting; Organizations; Financial Services Industry
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    • 2002
    • Other Unpublished Work

    Market Liquidity as a Sentiment Indicator

    By: Malcolm Baker and Jeremy Stein
    We build a model that helps to explain why increases in liquidity—such as lower bid–ask spreads, a lower price impact of trade, or higher turnover—predict lower subsequent returns in both firm-level and aggregate data. The model features a class of irrational... View Details
    Keywords: Price; Financial Liquidity; Trade; Valuation; Markets; Forecasting and Prediction; Equity; Stock Shares; Investment Return
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