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  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Determinants of Top-Down Sabotage

By: Hashim Zaman and Karim R. Lakhani
We investigate the conditions that motivate managers to impede the growth of talented subordinates due to fears of future competition for their own positions. Our research expands on existing tournament and contest theory literature that considers peer-to-peer sabotage... View Details
Keywords: Succession Planning; Organizational Hierarchy; Compensation; Promotions; Tournaments; Talent and Talent Management; Organizational Structure; Employee Relationship Management; Performance Evaluation; Organizational Culture; Management Skills
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Zaman, Hashim, and Karim R. Lakhani. "Determinants of Top-Down Sabotage." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-007, August 2024. (Revised December 2024.)
  • 13 Dec 2016
  • News

Eye Appeal Is Buy Appeal: Business Creates the Color of Foods

    Ryan L. Raffaelli

    Ryan Raffaelli is the Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He created and teaches the MBA course "Leadership: Execution and Action Planning" (LEAP) and serves... View Details

    Keywords: publishing industry; advertising; consulting; information technology industry; grocery; nonprofit industry; retailing; consumer products; federal government
    • 24 Oct 2008
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    Platform Rules: Multi-Sided Platforms as Regulators

    Keywords: by Kevin J. Boudreau & Andrei Hagiu; Technology
    • 2012
    • Article

    Conflict Policy and Advertising Agency-Client Relations: The Problem of Competing Clients Sharing a Common Agency

    By: Alvin J. Silk
    What restrictions should be placed on advertising agencies with respect to serving accounts or clients that are competitors of one another in order to avoid conflicts of interest? In recent decades, the advertising and marketing services industry has undergone a number... View Details
    Keywords: Advertising Agency; Competitors; Marketing Services Industry; Structural Changes; Agency-client Relationships; Hybrid Conflict Policies; Safeguards; Advertising; Advertising Industry; Europe; Latin America; North and Central America
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    Silk, Alvin J. "Conflict Policy and Advertising Agency-Client Relations: The Problem of Competing Clients Sharing a Common Agency." Foundations and Trends® in Marketing 6, no. 2 (2012): 63–149.
    • February 2018
    • Case

    Infrastructure in Nigeria: Unlocking Pension Fund Investments

    By: John Macomber and Pippa Tubman Armerding
    The so-called “infrastructure finance gap” was a problem in Nigeria as in many parts of the world. Infrastructure projects like power plants and dams were very large capital investments that could generate long-term consistent cash flows, but their financing and... View Details
    Keywords: Pension Fund Investing; Infrastucture; Power/Energy; Credit Enhancement; Infrastructure; Project Finance; Investment Funds; Emerging Markets; Nigeria; Africa
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    Macomber, John, and Pippa Tubman Armerding. "Infrastructure in Nigeria: Unlocking Pension Fund Investments." Harvard Business School Case 218-071, February 2018.
    • 03 May 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    What Is the Future of MBA Education?

    with team projects and experiential learning. Training might come initially through the collective work of multiple business schools, with cohorts of alumni who receive a short dose of either functional knowledge or research skills or... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
    • 11 May 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure

    Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation
    • 24 Sep 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Do We Tax?

    fixing this gap. For 40 years, economists have drawn from the well of Utilitarian theory—which has the goal of maximizing overall well-being in society—to help design tax systems in the United States and around the world. Although the... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Legal Services
    • 05 Aug 2002
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    Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?

    The health insurance system in the United States is broken, and business is paying the price. Employers' insurance premiums reached an estimated $450 billion in 2000, and then shot up again, at three times the rate of inflation, in 2001.... View Details
    Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger
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    Big Other: Surveillance Capitalism and the Prospects of an Information Civilization

    By: Shoshana Zuboff
    This article describes an emergent logic of accumulation in the networked sphere, 'surveillance capitalism,' and considers its implications for 'information civilization.' The institutionalizing practices and operational assumptions of Google Inc. are the... View Details
    Keywords: Surveillance Capitalism; Big Data; Google; Information Society; Privacy; Internet Of Everything; Rights; Economic Systems; Analytics and Data Science; Internet and the Web; Ethics
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    Zuboff, Shoshana. "Big Other: Surveillance Capitalism and the Prospects of an Information Civilization." Journal of Information Technology 30, no. 1 (March 2015): 75–89.
    • September 1974 (Revised January 1988)
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    Midwest Ice Cream Co.

    Midwest Ice Cream (a disguised name) serves as an example to examine a planning and control system. Useful management information, which otherwise would not be apparent, is derived by preparing a basic profit variance analysis. This illustrates how the company is doing... View Details
    Keywords: Small Business; Management Systems; Food and Beverage Industry
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    Shank, John K., and Wm J. Rauwerdink. "Midwest Ice Cream Co." Harvard Business School Case 175-070, September 1974. (Revised January 1988.)
    • January 2009 (Revised December 2017)
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    Who Broke the Bank of England?

    By: Niall Ferguson and Jonathan Schlefer
    In the summer of 1992, hedge fund manager George Soros was contemplating the possibility that the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) would break down. Designed to pave the way for a full-scale European Monetary Union, the ERM was a system of fixed exchange rates... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Currency Exchange Rate; Investment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Financial Services Industry; European Union
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    Ferguson, Niall, and Jonathan Schlefer. "Who Broke the Bank of England?" Harvard Business School Case 709-026, January 2009. (Revised December 2017.)

      Using the Crowd as an Innovation Partner

      From Apple to Merck to Wikipedia, more and more organizations are turning to crowds for help in solving their most vexing innovation and research questions, but managers remain understandably cautious. It seems risky and even unnatural to push problems out to vast... View Details

        Robert S. Kaplan

        Robert S. Kaplan is Senior Fellow and Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. He joined the HBS faculty in 1984 after spending 16 years on the faculty of the business school at Carnegie-Mellon University, where he... View Details

        Keywords: health care; nonprofit industry
        • 03 Feb 2014
        • Research & Ideas

        The Tricky Business of Managing Web Advertising Affiliates

        more fraud than programs handled by in-house managers. Some big affiliates were better than others at controlling fraud. The now-defunct GAN merchants suffered, on average, less than half as much adware and cookie-stuffing as the... View Details
        Keywords: by Kim Girard; Advertising; Publishing
        • 29 Sep 2009
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        http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1471435 Systemic Risk and the Refinancing Ratchet Effect Authors:Amir E. Khandani, Andrew W. Lo, and Robert C. Merton Abstract The confluence of three trends in the U.S. residential... View Details
        Keywords: Martha Lagace
        • 17 Aug 2020
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Of Learning and Forgetting: Centrism, Populism, and the Legitimacy Crisis of Globalization

        Keywords: by Rawi Abdelal
        • April 2019 (Revised March 2020)
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        Handy: The Future of Work? (A)

        By: Nien-hê Hsieh and Kieron Stopforth
        Witnessing numerous lawsuits alleging that online platform companies misclassified workers as contractors when they were actually employees, Handy’s founders faced a series of decisions. Handy was an online platform business that enabled customers to book appointments... View Details
        Keywords: Employment; Working Conditions; Entrepreneurship; Compensation and Benefits; Internet and the Web; Ethics; Fairness; Service Industry; United States
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        Hsieh, Nien-hê, and Kieron Stopforth. "Handy: The Future of Work? (A)." Harvard Business School Case 319-103, April 2019. (Revised March 2020.)

          F. Warren McFarlan

          Professor McFarlan earned his AB from Harvard University in 1959, and his MBA and DBA from the Harvard Business School in 1961 and 1965 respectively. He has had a significant role in introducing materials on Management Information Systems to all major programs at... View Details

          Keywords: communications; computer; e-commerce industry; health care; information; information technology industry; nonprofit industry
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