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  • October 2000 (Revised January 2002)
  • Case

Individual and the Corporation, The: Kathy Levinson and E*TRADE (A)

By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Susan Harmeling
Kathy Levinson, the president and COO of ETRADE and a lesbian mother of two children, must decide whether and how to participate in the "No on Knight" campaign. The campaign opposes California ballot proposition 22, which requires California to recognize only marriages... View Details
Keywords: Conflict of Interests; Leadership; Managerial Roles; Values and Beliefs; Decision Choices and Conditions; Gender; Diversity; Financial Services Industry
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  • 12 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

how personal taxes affect CEOs' decision to sell their vested equity and compare it against diversification, managerial overconfidence and other determinants of CEOs' sale of equity. While CEOs frequently sell large amounts of their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

especially small- and medium-sized domestic companies. They provide the jobs, the income, and the motivation for individuals to become educated and move up in the world. For local business to flourish, however, it often needs access to world markets, technology,... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 16 Jan 2019
  • Research & Ideas

What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant

league’s salary cap is meant to create an equal playing field. Some teams, including the Patriots, have been able to use the salary cap’s restrictive nature as a source of competitive advantage. According to SB Nation, the Patriots “kept right on diving into dumpsters... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Abhijit Naik; Sports
  • 15 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 15, 2008

the technology bubble to examine the hypothesis that inexperienced investors play a role in the formation of asset price bubbles. Using age as a proxy for managers' investment experience, we find that around the peak of the technology... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • June 2000
  • Case

Lifeline Systems, Inc. (A)

By: H. Kent Bowen and Marilyn Matis
Lifeline Systems provides emergency response equipment to the elderly who live at home. The company uses local hospitals to market, sell, and install these units in homes, while the hospital monitors and calls for aid to respond to emergency calls from the elderly... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Product Marketing; Sales; Problems and Challenges; Growth and Development Strategy; Managerial Roles; Service Operations; Information Infrastructure; Age; Service Delivery; Restructuring; Crisis Management; Health Industry; Service Industry
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  • 10 Sep 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later

inequality in the workplace. In particular, the book makes clear how organizational roles and structures shape unequal access to opportunities, resources, and advancement. In a wide-ranging conversation, Robin Ely, the Diane Doerge Wilson... View Details
Keywords: by Robin J. Ely
  • 23 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS

if not, what is the role of business history in your primary research interests? A: I do consider myself a business historian, though my research also ventures deeply into the realms of political and social history. A significant portion... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard; Banking; Financial Services
  • 07 Nov 2006
  • First Look

First Look: November 7, 2006

cost estimating, contracting, implementation, project control, and evaluation managerial performance. Too Hot to Handle? How to Manage Relationship Conflict Authors:A. C. Edmondson and D. M. Smith Periodical:California Management Review... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

learning capabilities intertwine with managerial cognitive capabilities to support the processes of sensing, seizing, and reconfiguring. We draw from the literature on team learning to develop four categories based on the orientation... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Oct 2016
  • First Look

October 11, 2016

to old ways of doing things, and company performance doesn't improve. To fix these problems, senior executives and their HR departments should change the way they think about learning and development, and because context is crucial, needed fixes in organizational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 1991 (Revised March 1992)
  • Case

USA Today

By: Robert L. Simons
USA Today is a national newspaper struggling to achieve profitability. This case focuses on the use of management control systems to identify emerging opportunities and the formulation of new strategies. The interactive system used by top managers--the Friday... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Managerial Roles; Forecasting and Prediction; Growth and Development Strategy; Risk Management; Labor and Management Relations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Risk and Uncertainty; Journalism and News Industry; United States
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  • 2013
  • Working Paper

Who Is Governing Whom? Executives, Governance and the Structure of Generosity in Large U.S. Firms

By: Christopher Marquis and Matthew Lee
We examine how organizational structure influences strategies over which corporate leaders have significant discretion. Corporate philanthropy is our setting to study how a differentiated structural element—the corporate foundation—constrains the influence of... View Details
Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Leadership; Managerial Roles; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Structure; Corporate Strategy; United States
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  • August 1992 (Revised December 1994)
  • Case

Sexual Harassment, Free Speech or ...?

By: Lynn S. Paine
Presents two brief vignettes about female employees who object to gender discrimination in their work environment. In one case, the manager of a convenience store removes "adult" magazines from the store's shelves because she sees them as damaging to women. In the... View Details
Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Working Conditions; Law; Behavior; Managerial Roles; Crime and Corruption; Groups and Teams; Organizational Culture; Problems and Challenges; Gender
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  • 13 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 13

finds that academic commentary on the BSC often ignores its role in strategy execution. The paper discusses how the BSC can be used in public sector applications, as well as for companies that want to internalize environmental, social,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

startup organization for the thousands of employees who join a fledgling company and do the day-to-day work required to grow it into something of value. Entering StartUpLand is a practical, step-by-step guide that provides an insider's analysis of various startup View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

larger class of financial and managerial consultants who sought to refine business decision-making through the introduction of statistical data and scientific analysis. The failure of most forecasting agencies to predict the stock market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 5, 2008

Nokia, H&M), we find that instead of choosing between conflicting outcomes such as long-term strategy or short-term performance drivers, top-tier managers argue that their role is to embrace such paradoxes to make both things happen... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Nov 1999
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Leading Change and Organizational Renewal

managerial challenge is how to design agile organizations able to leap from strength to strength to strength. How is evolution in the global economy affecting managerial roles... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 21 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 21

practices related to those tools. Our study contributes to the accounting and management literature on influence-gathering, underlining that toolmaking plays a vital role in explaining how functional experts may compete in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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