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15 Aug 2016
Working Paper Summaries

Liquidity Transformation in Asset Management: Evidence from the Cash Holdings of Mutual Funds

Keywords: by Sergey Chernenko and Adi Sunderam; Financial Services

Web

Finding Job Opportunities - Alumni

market. LinkedIn Jobs LinkedIn is not just for networking. It offers its own job board that allows you to see if you have any mutual connections with anyone at your target company. The Ladders The Ladders is a job board that focuses primarily on View Details

Program

Audit Committees in a New Era of Governance

for the Corporate Director Certificate. Learn More Key Benefits This audit committee training program prepares you to manage the creative tension between the compliance and strategic roles of the audit committee. While improving your... View Details

22 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Forgiving Student Loan Debt Leads to Better Jobs, Stronger Consumers

able to manage their finances. Borrowers whose loans were forgiven reduced their total debts by about $5,000, or 26 percent, which was partly due to people increasing repayment amounts on credit cards, as well as auto and mortgage loans,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

17 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?

who has studied how companies make organizational decisions in industries such as health care and education. “They are figuring out how to use the information of managers and combine it with this new technology.” Testing the testers To... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Employment

May 2003
Supplement

Morgan Stanley Japan - Eric Best

By: Tarun Khanna

Eric Best, managing director of Morgan Stanley, lectures on markets. View Details

Keywords: Markets; Financial Services Industry

24 May 2022
News

Professor J S Nelson on What Everyone Needs To Know About Business Ethics

Organizational Ambidexterity: Past, Present, and Future

(with C. O’Reilly), 2013, Academy of Management Perspectives, 27: 324-338. View Details

August 2010 (Revised January 2012)
Supplement

Leaders Who Make a Difference: Sam Palmisano's Smarter IBM: Day 2

By: Joseph L. Bower and Sonja Ellingson Hout

Sam Palmisano became CEO of IBM in 2002. He dramatically energized the organization through portfolio changes and a values driven approach to managing the company. View Details

Keywords: Transformation; Leadership; Leadership Style; Business or Company Management; Emerging Markets; Value

Robin is the George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking at Harvard Business School. He is past Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research (2021-2025), faculty director of the Behavioral Finance and Financial Stability project, chair of the Business... View Details

Keywords: banking; financial services

December 2017 (Revised July 2020)
Case

Opportunity Growth at Grupo Torre Médica

By: Juan Alcácer, J. Ramon Lecuona-Torras and Katherine Grozier

Senior management must make a decision for how to grow their search fund to reach the final margins for investors. View Details

Keywords: Investment Funds; Growth Management; Decision Making; Strategy; Mexico; Latin America

June 1993 (Revised April 1998)
Case

COMCO Holding AG (B): COMCO Martech

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter

COMCO Martech was a new breed of joint venture for COMCO Holding, a mid-sized Swiss-German company that had grown over a five-year period through tie-ups with small, start-up companies. Whereas a typical COMCO venture provided services to a large German retailer, was... View Details

Keywords: Joint Ventures; Business Startups; Trade; Operations; Environmental Sustainability; Business or Company Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Partners and Partnerships; Switzerland; United States; Europe

January 1989
Supplement

Suzanne de Passe at Motown Productions, Video

By: Linda A. Hill

Updates events in the case and draws a tighter focus on managing a start-up and women in leadership. View Details

Keywords: Management; Leadership; Gender; Business Startups

2007
Chapter

Process Management, Technological Innovation, and Organizational Adaptation

By: Mary Benner and M. Tushman

The promise of process management practices is that as organizations focus on variance reduction and increased process control, they will drive both speed and organizational efficiency. However, this promise also accentuates the dark side of process management. These... View Details

Keywords: Competency and Skills; Innovation and Management; Technological Innovation; Management Practices and Processes; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design

April 1996 (Revised May 2008)
Exercise

Adam Baxter Company/Local 190: 1985 Negotiation, Local 190 Confidential Information

By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Victoria Medvec

Includes a series of three negotiation exercises portraying management/labor relations at ABC over a period of seven years. ABC, initially a family-owned business, had prided itself on its cooperative relationship with its union, Local 190. With the skyrocketing... View Details

Keywords: Inflation and Deflation; Compensation and Benefits; Labor Unions; Wages; Working Conditions; Negotiation Process; Labor and Management Relations

April 1996 (Revised May 2008)
Exercise

Adam Baxter Company/Local 190: 1978 Negotiation, Local 190 Confidential Information

By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Victoria Medvec

Includes a series of three negotiation exercises portraying management/labor relations at ABC over a period of seven years. ABC, initially a family-owned business, had prided itself on its cooperative relationship with its union, Local 190. With the skyrocketing... View Details

Keywords: Inflation and Deflation; Compensation and Benefits; Labor Unions; Wages; Working Conditions; Negotiation Process; Labor and Management Relations

02 Jan 2013
What Do You Think?

Should We Rethink the Promise of Teams?

accommodates contributions from both extroverts and introverts and reduces the influence of the former. Teams comprising both extroverts and introverts, particularly those with diverse backgrounds, have been shown to have a lot of creative potential if View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

December 1993 (Revised November 2009)
Case

Manville Corporation Fiber Glass Group (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Sarah Gant

Manville Corp.'s senior managers must decide how to respond to a new scientific study suggesting that fiberglass, the source of 75% of the company's profits, may be another asbestos and must act under conditions of great uncertainty. In particular, when should a... View Details

Keywords: Communication Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Ethics; Health Disorders; Risk Management; Marketing Communications; Product; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Safety; Consumer Products Industry; Industrial Products Industry

December 2012 (Revised August 2020)
Case

Rodan + Fields Dermatologists

By: Das Narayandas, Michael Roberts and Liz Kind

The case focuses on issues involved in managing the direct multilevel marketing sales consultants who sell R+F skin care products. The company is trying to better manage the inconsistent and highly variable recruitment behavior of the sales force i.e., the degree to... View Details

Keywords: Marketing; Salesforce Management; Recruitment; Compensation and Benefits; Consumer Products Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; California