by James Sebenius - Publications - Faculty & Research

December 2015 (Revised May 2017)
Case

Corning, 2002

Corning, with large investments in fiber optic technology, was hit particularly hard by the collapse of the telecommunications industry in 2001. With over $4 billion in debt, the firm's survival appears to rest on raising additional equity capital. James Flaws, the... View Details

Keywords: Financial Strategy; Financial Condition; Financial Instruments; Valuation; Capital; Public Equity; Stock Shares; Business or Company Management; Strategy; Manufacturing Industry; Industrial Products Industry

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Educators

01 Dec 2016
News

The Year in Books 2016

hard-earned knowledge, and the enduring allure of books in the age of Twitter. Read on. Takeaways — Lessons from some of 2016’s business books The Words in Numbers Inside the Bestseller List with Neil Pasricha (MBA 2007) LA Reid’s Song — An excerpt from a life in music... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustrations by Brian Stauffer

20 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

approach to the presidency. Their insights follow. Real estate rarely a zero-sum game John D. Macomber, Senior lecturer of business administration You have to start by distinguishing between a branding operation that’s supported View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese

12 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

shareholders by attracting customers who support this. A sustainable strategy with a multi-stakeholder perspective means that sometimes trade-offs must be made. As Joshua Margolis and James Walsh point out,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

03 Sep 2018
News

Moving Pictures

of the press in a democracy. And next month sees the release of First Man, starring Ryan Gosling as astronaut Neil Armstrong. Singer says the film, based on the biography by James R. Hansen, depicts the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Christina Gandolfo; Arts, Entertainment

07 Nov 2006
First Look

First Look: November 7, 2006

"Washington Crossing the Delaware" in Düsseldorf. The article narrates how by means of various cooperative efforts growing out of a sense of paternal social engagement, which we would today call corporate social responsibility,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Jul 2019
News

Weekend Edition

March 2018 (Revised March 2019)
Case

Gender and Free Speech at Google (A)

By: Nien-hê Hsieh, Martha J. Crawford and Sarah Mehta

In August 2017, Google fired James Damore, a 28-year-old software engineer who had been employed by the company since 2013. The move came after Damore penned an internal company memo titled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber,” which posited that innate biological... View Details

Keywords: Free Speech; Representation; Diversity; Gender; Race; Human Resources; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Labor; Employment; Lawsuits and Litigation; Organizational Culture; Technology Industry; United States; California

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Educators

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01 Mar 2019
News

The Fight Beyond

B-17s instead touched down on the dirt runway at Tri Duby airfield, miles behind German lines. When James Holt Green (MBA 1935) dropped out of the forward crew hatch he was surrounded by a throng of... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustration by Wesley Allsbrook

03 Mar 2017
News

Big Blue’s Big Bet

students began to attack these cases by working together. The goal was threefold, says Dr. James Young, executive dean of the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine: Watson was to help doctors get... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

15 May 2020
News

Innovation Can’t Be Forced, but It Can Be Quashed

07 Mar 2022
News

Putin’s Iron Fist vs. Zelensky’s Moral Clarity

12 May 2003
Research & Ideas

How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?

with the unsexy title, A Nation Transformed by Information: How Information Has Shaped the United States from Colonial Times to the Present. Co-edited by HBS professor emeritus Alfred D. Chandler and View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne & Martha Lagace; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

13 May 2008
First Look

First Look: May 13, 2008

levels of thinking. Purchase this book: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=2115&referral=2342 Do Buy-Side Analysts Earnings Forecasts Out-Perform Those of the Sell-Side? Authors:Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy, and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Jul 2021
Blog Post

A View from the Horizon

response to Georgia’s bill that sought to restrict voting access. One other name on the list stood out to me: Dr. James Cash. Dr. Cash had been a mentor to me a long time ago, though I didn’t fully realize the impact he was making on me... View Details

04 Sep 2019
News

Deep Dive

1911; Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, the first to stand atop Mount Everest, in 1953; and Neil Armstrong, the first on the moon, in 1969. But Vescovo hadn’t gotten there by himself. To send one person to the most remote places on the... View Details

Keywords: April White; photo by Jeff Wilson; Scientific Research and Development Services

30 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 30

Michael W. Toffel Publication:Organization Science (forthcoming) Abstract Governments and other organizations often outsource activities to achieve cost savings from market competition. Yet such benefits are often accompanied by poor... View Details