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  • November 2001 (Revised December 2002)
  • Case

Tracking Stocks at Genzyme (A)

By: Malcolm S. Salter
Genzyme, a tracking stock pioneer, has used its innovative capital structure as a way to frame and grow its R&D-intensive business. Facing the question of how best to integrate a new acquisition into its tracking stock structure, Genzyme's top management is forced to... View Details
Keywords: Integration; Value Creation; Motivation and Incentives; Conflict of Interests; Stocks; Capital Structure; Research and Development; Corporate Governance; Biotechnology Industry
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    Can Wages Buy Honesty? The Relationship between Relative Wages and Employee Theft

    In this study we examine whether, for a sample of retail chains, high levels of employee compensation can deter employee theft, an increasingly common type of fraudulent behavior. Specifically, we examine the extent to which relative wages (i.e., employee wages... View Details
    • 18 Oct 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light

    convinced him that he needed more management skills. By his own recollection, he was virtually "clueless" about the very special place to which he was heading. His application to the MBA Program caught the attention of... View Details
    Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education
    • Teaching Interest

    Overview

    Matthew has served as a Teaching Fellow for Harvard Business School's first-year required-curriculum acounting course Financial Reporting and Control (FRC), and the second-year elective Business Analysis and Valuation (BAV), where he taught technical sections on... View Details
    Keywords: Accounting; Finance; Valuation
    • September 1998 (Revised July 1999)
    • Case

    Integral Capital Partners

    By: Andre F. Perold and Markus Mullarkey
    Integral Capital Partners is a small firm with a very distinctive approach to investing in high-technology stocks. The firm invests privately in small start-ups as well as in publicly traded companies, and it develops important financial and advisory relationships with... View Details
    Keywords: Technology; Value Creation; Venture Capital; Asset Management; Partners and Partnerships; Public Sector; Private Sector; Business Startups; Corporate Finance; Financial Services Industry
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    • March 2010
    • Article

    Interpersonal Authority in a Theory of the Firm

    By: Eric J. Van den Steen
    This paper develops a theory of the firm in which a firm's centralized asset ownership and low-powered incentives give the manager, as an equilibrium outcome, interpersonal authority over employees (in a world with open disagreement). The paper thus provides... View Details
    Keywords: Theory; Assets; Ownership; Motivation and Incentives; Governance Controls; Power and Influence; Projects; Perspective; Employees
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    • June 1994 (Revised December 1997)
    • Case

    Safeway, Inc.'s Leveraged Buyout (A)

    After years of deteriorating financial performance and eroding market position, Safeway, Inc., the largest public grocery store chain in the United States, found itself the target of a hostile takeover offer. Management decided to take the company private in a $4.3... View Details
    Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Restructuring; Retail Industry; United States
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    • 29 Nov 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Is There a Method to Musk’s Madness on Twitter?

    and even foolhardy. Some in tech suggest there’s more of a “move fast, break things” strategy to it than perhaps meets the eye. How does it look to you? Wu: We shouldn’t be surprised by the management style that Musk is taking to Twitter.... View Details
    Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Technology

      Roy D. Shapiro

      Roy D. Shapiro is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.  He is currently the faculty co-chair of the School's Technology and Operations Management Unit... View Details

      • 2007
      • Working Paper

      Interpersonal Authority in a Theory of the Firm

      By: Eric J. Van den Steen
      This paper develops a theory of the firm in which a firm's centralized asset ownership and low-powered incentives give a manager 'interpersonal authority' over employees (in a world with differing priors). The paper derives such interpersonal authority as... View Details
      Keywords: Governance Controls; Employee Relationship Management; Managerial Roles; Motivation and Incentives; Boundaries; Theory
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      • Article

      Moment-to-moment Optimal Branding in TV Commercials: Preventing Avoidance by Pulsing

      By: Thales S. Teixeira, Michel Wedel and Rik Pieters
      We develop a conceptual framework for understanding the impact that branding activity (the audio-visual representation of brands) and consumers' dispersion of attention have on their moment-to-moment avoidance decisions during television advertising. It formalizes this... View Details
      Keywords: Advertising; Decision Choices and Conditions; Television Entertainment; Brands and Branding; Consumer Behavior; Mathematical Methods
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      • Article

      Enfranchisement of Service Workers

      By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and James Heskett
      Enfranchisement is achieved through an integration of empowerment with methods of pay for performance. Evidence from Ito Yokado Group in Japan and Nordstrom in the US demonstrates the positive effects of enfranchisement. Successful efforts to enfranchise employees: 1.... View Details
      Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Franchise Ownership; Employees; Compensation and Benefits; Service Industry; Japan; United States
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      • 2008
      • Working Paper

      Traveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India

      By: Lakshmi Iyer and Anandi Mani
      We develop a framework to empirically examine how politicians with electoral pressures control bureaucrats with career concerns as well as the consequences for bureaucrats' career investments. Unique micro-level data on Indian bureaucrats support our key predictions.... View Details
      Keywords: Governance Controls; Political Elections; Management Skills; Managerial Roles; Personal Development and Career; Societal Protocols; India
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      • July 2002 (Revised August 2003)
      • Case

      EXP Systems

      By: Malcolm S. Salter and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
      Discusses selecting investors and avoiding board-level conflicts of interest in start-ups. Using the "term sheet" in third-round financing as a negotiation over future governance and control rights. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details
      Keywords: Conflict of Interests; Governance Controls; Governing and Advisory Boards; Business Startups; Management Teams
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      • 18 Mar 2013
      • HBS Case

      HBS Cases: LEGO

      managing a balanced business system," says Thomke. "Complexity is something you need to watch very closely." Controlling complexity, clarifying the core of its business, and engaging the... View Details
      Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Entertainment & Recreation
      • 09 Mar 2003
      • Research & Ideas

      Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation

      Managers today have a problem. They know their companies must grow. But growth is hard, especially given today's economic environment where investment capital is difficult to come by and firms are reluctant to take risks. View Details
      Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor & Scott D. Anthony
      • 02 Nov 2017
      • HBS Seminar

      Florian Ederer, Yale University

      • January 2023 (Revised June 2024)
      • Case

      Adams + Beasley Associates

      By: Dennis Campbell and Iuliana Mogosanu
      This case illustrates how a strong culture, founder-led SME designed and used a unique performance metric—the job security index—to manage through periods of economic uncertainty. The case centers specifically on how the job security index was used in an interactive... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Crisis; Measurement and Metrics; Employee Ownership; Risk and Uncertainty; Small Business; Leadership; Organizational Culture
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      • January 2004 (Revised October 2006)
      • Case

      Electronic Arts in Online Gaming

      By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Justin Wong
      Electronic Arts (EA), the world's largest independent video-game publisher, must decide whether to support Microsoft's initiatives in online gaming. Historically, EA has been platform-agnostic, releasing versions of its titles for all major console platforms. However,... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Digital Platforms; Network Effects; Policy; Customer Focus and Relationships; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Revenue; Segmentation; Sales; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Electronics Industry
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      • January 2008
      • Article

      Nonemployment Stigma as Rational Herding: A Field Experiment

      By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee
      Long spells of unemployment are known to reduce the likelihood of re-employment, but it is difficult to discern the reasons for this observation. Using an experimental method that controls for search intensity and possible discouragement of job applicants, I document... View Details
      Keywords: Job Search; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Employment; Cognition and Thinking; Perception; Creativity; Human Needs; Job Interviews; Selection and Staffing; Recruitment; Managerial Roles; Judgments; Employment Industry
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