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    Ranjay Gulati

    Ranjay Gulati is the Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration and the former Unit Head of the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. His pathbreaking research, which focuses on unlocking organizational and unleashing... View Details

    Keywords: biotechnology; computer; financial services; industrial goods; information technology industry; pharmaceuticals; professional services; retailing
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    Laws versus Contracts: Legal Origins, Shareholder Protections, and Ownership Concentration in Brazil, 1890–1950

    By: Aldo Musacchio
    This article examines some of the institutional conditions that facilitated the development of equity markets in Brazil. A critical factor was the addition of protections for investors to corporate bylaws, which enabled relatively large corporations in Brazil to... View Details
    Keywords: Voting; Equity; Financial Markets; Investment; Governance Controls; Business History; Ownership Stake; Brazil
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    • July 1995 (Revised October 1995)
    • Background Note

    Electronic Commerce: Trends and Opportunities

    By: Lynda M. Applegate and Janis Lee Gogan
    In a 1966 Harvard Business Review article, Felix Kaufman implored general managers to think beyond their own organizational boundaries to the possibilities of interorganizational systems (IOS)--networked computers that enable companies to share information and... View Details
    Keywords: Internet and the Web; Trends; Opportunities
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    • 10 Apr 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing

    shorter read times did not appear to come at the expense of clinical quality; the rates of "discrepancies" reported by customers was low. The researchers point to prior research to explain why. Repeated experience helps the service provider learn the customer's... View Details
    Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health
    • 08 Apr 2019
    • Blog Post

    Second Life: Reflections on Complementing Success with an Encore Career

    In 2015, Steve Kloeblen retired and thought he was done with the corporate world. A graduate of HBS Executive Education’s General Management Program, Kloeblen had more than 30 years of experience with IBM, culminating with his transition... View Details
    Keywords: Technology
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    The Growing Problem of Patent Trolling

    By: Lauren Cohen, Umit Gurun and Scott Duke Kominers
    The last decade has seen a sharp rise in patent litigation in the U.S., with 2015 having one of the highest patent lawsuit counts on record. In theory, this could be a consequence of growth in the commercialization of technology and innovation—patent lawsuits increase... View Details
    Keywords: Patent Aggregators; Patent Litigation; Patent Pools; Patent Trolls; Patents; Lawsuits and Litigation; United States
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    • Case

    Merloni Group

    By: Christopher A. Bartlett
    The general manager of the recently-established French subsidiary of an Italian appliance company is in conflict with headquarters about unexpectedly poor financial performance. Headquarters management believes it should be able to exert more control over the... View Details
    Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Trade; Organizational Structure; Performance Evaluation; Power and Influence; France; Italy
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    • 12 Jan 2018
    • Cold Call Podcast

    Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.

    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered those remarks in a now famous speech in Memphis on April 3, 1968. Everyone present felt the power of his words, but no one could have known just how prescient they were. The following evening, at... View Details
    • 22 Jun 2011
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    Sharpening Your Skills: Motivation

    Dynamic Structural Analysis of Bonus-Based Compensation Plans Companies generally pay their sales staff with some combination of salary, commissions, and bonuses for meeting quotas—with sales force costs averaging about 10 percent of... View Details
    Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
    • 24 Feb 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: February 24

      Publications February 2015 University of Chicago Press Political Standards By: Ramanna, Karthik Abstract—There are certain institutions underlying our modern market-capitalist system that are largely outside the interest and understanding of the View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

      Michael E. Porter

      Michael Porter is an economist, researcher, author, advisor, speaker and teacher. Throughout his career at Harvard Business School, he has brought economic theory and strategy concepts to bear on many of the most challenging problems facing corporations, economies... View Details

      Keywords: biotechnology; e-commerce industry; health care; information; information technology industry; internet; nonprofit industry; service industry; state government
      • January 2019 (Revised December 2019)
      • Case

      CrossBoundary Energy

      By: John Macomber
      Almost 500 million people are without electricity in sub-Saharan Africa. Governments and public utilities are challenged to bring generation and distribution to most of them. Considerable promise exists in “off-grid” or “mini-grid” technologies, notably using renewable... View Details
      Keywords: Energy Investing; Economic Development; Renewable Energy; Business Growth and Maturation; Developing Countries and Economies; Project Finance; Emerging Markets; Industry Structures; Infrastructure; Segmentation; Private Equity; Decision Choices and Conditions; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry; Africa; Tanzania; Ghana
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      • 22 Oct 2007
      • Research & Ideas

      Bringing ‘Lean’ Principles to Service Industries

      Wipro Technologies, an Indian outsource provider of software services, launches its own lean initiative. "In terms of operations and improvements, the service industries in general are a long way behind manufacturing," Upton... View Details
      Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer
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      the careers of indie artists Forward Thinking Saving Giraffes from Silent Extinction Keeping the Faith A new course investigates the powerful connections between belief, spirituality, and leadership Mothers of Invention How three HBS... View Details
      • 13 Feb 2007
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Electronic Hierarchies and Electronic Heterarchies: Relationship-Specific Assets and the Governance of Interfirm IT

      Keywords: by Andrew McAfee, Marco Bettiol & Maria Chiarvesio; Technology
      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      How to Fix ESG Reporting

      By: Robert S. Kaplan and Karthik Ramanna
      Investors, advocacy groups, academics, and the 200 CEOs of the US Business Roundtable have asked corporations to take on an added purpose beyond a narrow pursuit of shareholder value. In response, many companies now issue ESG (Environmental, Societal, and Governance)... View Details
      Keywords: ESG Reporting; Sustainability; Corporate Purpose; Greenhouse Gas; Activity-Based Costing; Environmental Sustainability; Environmental Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Measurement and Metrics; Goals and Objectives; Agreements and Arrangements; Corporate Accountability
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      • 25 Mar 2013
      • Research & Ideas

      How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy

      More recently, Section 363 sales played a key role in some of the largest and most complex bankruptcies of the financial crisis, including General Motors and Lehman Brothers. “The amount of debt that needed to be restructured posed a... View Details
      Keywords: by Kim Girard; Financial Services
      • 02 Feb 2007
      • What Do You Think?

      Is There Too Little “Know Why” In Business?

      man who also knows Why will always be his boss," before concluding that it's a "balance of 'Know Why' and 'Know How' that will generate results." Wisdom Chitedze, however, put purpose in a somewhat different perspective:... View Details
      Keywords: by Jim Heskett
      • 22 Oct 2013
      • First Look

      First Look: October 22

      Journal of International Business Studies Language as a Lightning Rod: Power Contests, Emotion Regulation, and Subgroup Dynamics in Global Teams By: Hinds, Pamela J., Tsedal Neeley, and Catherine Durnell Cramton Abstract—Through an... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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      Bargaining with Imperfect Enforcement

      Joint work with Mark Williams, formerly of Exeter College, Oxford.

      The game-theoretic bargaining literature insists on non-cooperative bargaining procedure but allows cooperative implementation of agreements. The effect of this is to allow free-reign of bargaining... View Details