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Loan Assistance | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Program is a financial aid award for loan repayment assistance, and is given to alumni who meet certain eligibility requirements. The loan assistance award is not a formal support or endorsement of an organization, and should not be... View Details
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Creating Leaders: An Ontological Model

By: Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen and Kari L. Granger
The sole objective of our ontological approach to creating leaders is to leave students actually being leaders and exercising leadership effectively as their natural self-expression. By "natural self-expression" we mean a way of being and acting in any leadership... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Development; Goals and Objectives; Science; Attitudes; Perspective
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  • 01 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

from Chapter 11, it had $1.4 billion of these carryforwards. However, to finance the reorganization, the company sold a majority of its stock to a group of investors—virtually guaranteeing a large ownership change. Companies that try to restructure out of court to... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
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Organizational Behavior Curriculum - Faculty & Research

The first modules examine teams, individuals, and networks in the context of: The determinants of group culture. Managing the performance of individual subordinates. Establishing productive relationships with peers and seniors over whom the manager has no View Details
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Kenneth Kimura & Marion Fourcad; Education
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The Exercise and Development of Leadership

My research in this stream contributes to three recent trends in leadership scholarship. The first is the resurgence of a perspective less preoccupied with leaders' impact on organizational performance and more with their function as sources and symbols of the... View Details

    Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World

    A historical account of ideology in the Global South as the postwar laboratory of socialism, its legacy following the Cold War, and the continuing influence of socialist ideas worldwide.

    In the first decades after World War II, many newly... View Details
    • 25 Aug 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Agglomeration and Innovation

    Keywords: by Gerald A. Carlino & William R. Kerr
    • 2025
    • Working Paper

    Incentive-Compatible Recovery from Manipulated Signals, with Applications to Decentralized Physical Infrastructure

    By: Jason Milionis, Jens Ernstberger, Joseph Bonneau, Scott Duke Kominers and Tim Roughgarden
    We introduce the first formal model capturing the elicitation of unverifiable information from a party (the "source") with implicit signals derived by other players (the "observers"). Our model is motivated in part by applications in decentralized physical... View Details
    Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Infrastructure; Information Infrastructure
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    • August 15, 2014
    • Article

    Can an Outside CEO Run a Family-Owned Business?

    By: Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer
    This article explores the intricate dynamics that often characterize family-owned businesses, shedding light on key archetypes that play prominent roles within these organizations. Using a narrative approach, the article illustrates the challenges faced by leaders... View Details
    Keywords: Family Ownership; Personal Characteristics; Family and Family Relationships; Management Practices and Processes
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    • October 2017
    • Article

    Toward a Prescriptive Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategic Choice, Learning, and Competition

    By: Gary P. Pisano
    The field of strategy has mounted an enormous effort to understand, define, predict, and measure how organizational capabilities shape competitive advantage. While the notion that capabilities influence strategy dates back to the work of Andrews (1971, The Concept... View Details
    Keywords: Business Admnistration; Market Structure; Firm Structure; Market Efficiency; Competency and Skills; Organizational Structure; Strategy
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    • 2014
    • Working Paper

    The Triumph of the Humble Chief Risk Officer

    By: Anette Mikes
    This paper tracks the evolution of the role of two chief risk officers (CROs), and the tools and processes they have implemented in their respective organizations. While the companies are from very different industries (one is a power company, the other is a toy... View Details
    Keywords: Risk Management; Managerial Roles
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    • 01 Nov 1999
    • Research & Ideas

    John H. Patterson and the Sales Strategy of the National Cash Register Company, 1884 to 1922

    to frequently asked questions. In January 1894, N.C.R. produced a more formal Sales Manual that combined the two.  The Manual reached its maximum size in the edition of 1904, with nearly two hundred pages. After that it was condensed so... View Details
    Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
    • 15 Oct 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    Shaky Business: How Handshakes Win Negotiations

    handshake today seen as a mere formality or does it still serve an important purpose in modern society? He joined with HBS Professor Francesca Gino, Juliana Schroeder of Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, and Jane Risen of Chicago’s... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 05 May 2022
    • HBS Case

    College Degrees: The Job Requirement Companies Seek, but Don't Really Need

    more emphasis on capabilities than formal education are called “new collar” jobs, as outlined in a forthcoming case study. Indeed, hundreds of private companies are now working with OneTen and other business entities to provide training... View Details
    Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
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    Institutional influences on the firm: cross-country comparisons

    A third stream of work examines the influence of country institutions on firms in a cross-country comparative context.  In a paper co-authored with Jordan Siegel (published in Management Science in 2009), we employed a quasi-natural experiment:  a... View Details
    • October 2023
    • Teaching Note

    Timnit Gebru: 'SILENCED No More' on AI Bias and The Harms of Large Language Models

    By: Tsedal Neeley and Tim Englehart
    Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 422-085. Dr. Timnit Gebru—a leading artificial intelligence (AI) computer scientist and co-lead of Google’s Ethical AI team—was messaging with one of her colleagues when she saw the words: “Did you resign?? Megan sent an email saying that... View Details
    Keywords: Ethics; Employment; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Technological Innovation; AI and Machine Learning; Diversity; Prejudice and Bias; Technology Industry
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    • 16 Apr 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Breaking the Code of Change

    expressed as shareholder value. Its focus is on formal structure and systems. It is driven from the top with extensive help from consultants and financial incentives. Change is planned and programmatic. Theory O has as its purpose the... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria
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    What Can You Do to Foster Gender Equity?

    benefit greatly from these connections. Find opportunities to help others grow. Whether or not you're a manager, you should understand that everyone needs sponsors, coaches, and mentors. You can mentor newer or younger employees formally... View Details
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    Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online

    Equation Accounting Principles and Rules Formal Definitions of Accounting Terms Featured Exercise Demonstrate how different transactions impact the accounting equation 8.5 hrs Module 2 Recording Transactions Understand where financial... View Details