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- January 2004 (Revised February 2006)
- Case
Raymond James Financial
Raymond James Financial (RJF) currently sells financial services through two channels. It is considering adding a third in the "middle" of the other two. The current strategy has one channel with employees and another with independent contractors. These attract very... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Salesforce Management; Marketing; Distribution Channels; Human Resources; Financial Services Industry; Service Industry
Godes, David B. "Raymond James Financial." Harvard Business School Case 504-027, January 2004. (Revised February 2006.)
- December 2001 (Revised April 2003)
- Case
Financing PPL Corporation's Growth Strategy
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Carrie Ferman
PPL Corp., an electric utility in Pennsylvania, needs to finance $1 billion of peaking plants as part of its new growth strategy. In February 2001, Steve May, director of finance for PPL's Global Division, is responsible for recommending a finance plan. After... View Details
Keywords: Financial Management; Financial Instruments; Project Finance; Financial Strategy; Corporate Finance; Leasing
Esty, Benjamin C., and Carrie Ferman. "Financing PPL Corporation's Growth Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 202-045, December 2001. (Revised April 2003.)
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Activity-Based Costing
excessive delays, poor quality, overtime, or stressed employees. Whichever approach you prefer, it's important not to be overly sensitive to small errors. The objective is to be approximately right, say... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson
Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Can Make You Sick - Or Keep You Well
For too long we’ve designed buildings that haven’t focused on the people inside—their health, their ability to work effectively, and what that means for the bottom line. An authoritative introduction to a movement whose vital importance is now all too... View Details
- 08 Feb 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Psychological Influence in Negotiation: An Introduction Long Overdue
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman
- 2006
- Working Paper
Too Motivated?
I show that an agent's motivation to do well (objectively) may be unambiguously bad in a world with differing priors, i.e., when people openly disagree on the optimal course of action. The reason is that an agent who is strongly motivated is more likely to follow... View Details
Keywords: Governance Controls; Employees; Wages; Measurement and Metrics; Outcome or Result; Performance; Agency Theory; Motivation and Incentives
Van den Steen, Eric J. "Too Motivated?" Sloan School of Management Working Paper, No. 4547-05, April 2006. (Available at SSRN.)
- 10 Nov 2015
- Op-Ed
Authentic Leadership Rediscovered
organizations who have a deep sense of purpose and are true to their core values who have the courage to build their companies to meet the needs View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Career Change
When Wakana Tanaka (MBA 2003) was 13 years old, her father’s new job took the family from their home in Tokyo to Jakarta. It was a big change, not just geographically but also culturally. Tanaka enrolled in an international school where she was encouraged to have her... View Details
- 20 Feb 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
When Does Domestic Saving Matter for Economic Growth?
- Research Summary
Financing New Business Formation
By: Paul A. Gompers
New business creation has become a potent force for economicdevelopment in the United States. Prior to 1980, large firms created the majority of new jobs in the American economy. While considerable debate rages over whether small firms are the source of recent job... View Details
- Research Summary
Competing on a Common Platform
Why have over 100 firms joined the Eclipse Foundation to collectively produce an open source platform and tools for software application development? What are they trying to accomplish? This research analyzes IBMs divestment of the Eclipse Java Integrated Development... View Details
- 12 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Design Enables Discrimination: Learning from Anti-Asian Bias on Airbnb
they may inadvertently exacerbate. While Airbnb has addressed bias concerns with site changes in the past, further steps could be taken to bring more anonymity to the site, Luca says. Platform design and... View Details
- 14 Aug 2006
- HBS Case
On Managing with Bobby Knight and “Coach K”
because of it." The story also illustrates the importance of matching management style with View Details
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HBS Fund - Alumni
Program Enable the School to attract the most talented students, regardless of their financial means, and to continually innovate to prepare future leaders for an ever-changing... View Details
- 12 Nov 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Walking Through Jelly: Language Proficiency, Emotions, and Disrupted Collaboration in Global Work
- October 2008
- Article
It's Time to Make Management a True Profession
By: Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana
In the face of the recent institutional breakdown of trust in business, managers are losing legitimacy. To regain public trust, management needs to become a true profession in much the way medicine and law have, argue Khurana and Nohria of Harvard Business School. True... View Details
Keywords: Competency and Skills; Education; Ethics; Corporate Accountability; Management; Trust; Value Creation
Nohria, Nitin, and Rakesh Khurana. "It's Time to Make Management a True Profession." Harvard Business Review 86, no. 10 (October 2008).
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Venturing Forth
the rager happening around us,” she jokes. The slowdown in deal flow is felt by everyone now. “Almost all of our companies have needed more runway,” Rupp says. “Partly that’s... View Details
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research
to the letter and, if so, how. What made this decision difficult was that several relatively small and unknown activist investors had won important victories against large corporations in recent years.... View Details
- February 2017 (Revised June 2017)
- Case
ExxonMobil: Business as Usual? (A)
By: George Serafeim, Shiva Rajgopal and David Freiberg
Climate change was becoming an important societal and business issue as more governments were introducing climate change related regulations and investors became increasibly worried about stranded assets within oil and gas firms. In September 2016, the U.S. Securities... View Details
Keywords: Oil & Gas; Oil Prices; Oil Companies; Asset Impairment; Predictive Analytics; Sustainability; Environmental Impact; Innovation; Disclosure; Accounting; Valuation; Climate Change; Renewable Energy; Environmental Sustainability; Financial Reporting; Energy Industry
Serafeim, George, Shiva Rajgopal, and David Freiberg. "ExxonMobil: Business as Usual? (A)." Harvard Business School Case 117-046, February 2017. (Revised June 2017.)
- 02 Oct 2017
- What Do You Think?
Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?
technology underpinning Bitcoin is the important part of the story. This technology will transform many aspects of... View Details