Shareholder Value Maximization - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

maximizing productivity? How do we help employees with work/life balance?” “How to keep people engaged and connected and OPTIMISTIC in appropriate measure while so many have so many competing personal and business and health and family... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

02 Apr 2021
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Salary Negotiations: A Catch-22 for Women

affect negotiation outcomes. Putting guardrails on negotiations Some companies, such as Reddit, have eliminated salary negotiations from the hiring process in an effort to quash gender bias and pay gaps, but doing so also eliminates opportunities to View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

Strategy is a 6-week, 30-35 hour online certificate program from Harvard Business School. Business Strategy equips professionals with a simplified framework they can immediately apply to create value for customers, employees, and... View Details

18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007

no. 5 (May 2007): 760-776 Abstract Given the importance of proximity for knowledge spillovers, we examine firms' location choices expecting differences in firms' strategies. Firms will locate to maximize their net spillovers as a function... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21

competitive system. April 2015 Strategic Management Journal The Throne vs. the Kingdom: Founder Control and Value Creation in Startups By: Wasserman, Noam Abstract—Does the degree to which founders keep control of their startups affect... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne

March 2016
Article

Environmental Demands and the Emergence of Social Structure: Technological Dynamism and Interorganizational Network Forms

By: Adam Tatarynowicz, Maxim Sytch and Ranjay Gulati

This study investigates the origins of variation in the structures of interorganizational networks across industries. We combine empirical analyses of existing interorganizational networks in six industries with an agent-based simulation model of network emergence.... View Details

Keywords: Interorganizatonal Relationships; Social Networks; Network Emergence; Interorganizational Networks; Information Technology; Networks; Organizational Structure; Social and Collaborative Networks; Social Media

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Philanthropy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Research Areas Research Areas Antitrust & Competition Policy CEO Leadership Environmental Quality Innovation & Innovative Capacity Philanthropy Social Progress Index Philanthropy Philanthropy Beyond charity and corporate responsibility, Creating Shared View Details

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Health Care Curriculum - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

curriculum is based on the Value-Based Health Care Delivery framework introduced by Professors Michael Porter and Elizabeth Teisberg in Redefining Health Care (HBS Press, 2006). In the framework, the central goal of health care is to View Details

07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009

Effects of Using Unverifiable Estimates in Financial Reporting Authors:Karthik Ramanna and Ross L. Watts Abstract SFAS 142 requires managers to estimate reporting unit values to determine goodwill write-offs. Those estimates often use... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Apr 2023
Blog Post

How Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) Transform Your MBA Learning Journey

your one time to have an understanding of your value to a firm. 2) You can use Donor-Advised Funds to maximize your donation amount through asset appreciation that is not taxed. 3) Budgets and targets... View Details

11 Apr 2012
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The High Risks of Short-Term Management

profits (or worse, the short-term benefits come at the expense of long-term value creation). This phenomenon does not come out of the blue, but is attributable to fundamental frictions in capital markets related to the uncertainty of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19

and value of specific interstate relations. Results indicate that network-weaving organizations are easier to operate when they encompass proximate and similar actors, yet they also reap rewards for bringing together otherwise... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Feb 2020
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What We Learned from Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents

us. As Amazon has grown in scale and complexity, we would have anticipated that Bezos found less and less time to directly contribute to patents. However, our findings suggest that Bezos has found more value in patenting over the years,... View Details

Keywords: by Tricia Gregg and Boris Groysberg; Retail

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

Investing. Dan Levitan (MBA 1983), Maveron, LLC Dan Levitan and his partner Howard Schultz co-founded Maveron in 1998. Levitan and Schultz, who shared the same philosophies about what makes a great company and powerful consumer brand, wanted to bring to fruition their... View Details

22 Apr 2002
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Does Spirituality Drive Success?

said, "I'd rather use the word fulfillment. Success is a metric; you never have enough. But only you can define fulfillment. We as individuals are the only judges." HBS senior research fellow Laura Nash moderated the session. Entrepreneurship And View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace, Sean Silverthorne & Wendy Guild

31 Aug 2021
Book

Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate

authors say. The book explains how power can be shared more evenly among citizens, employees, top executives, and shareholders for the betterment of individuals, organizations, and institutions around the world. "The motive for the book... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

16 Feb 2010
Research & Ideas

The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service

According to a new book by Harvard Business School's Ranjay Gulati, it is customer-centric firms—those with a so-called outside-in perspective—that are most resilient during turbulent markets. An outside-in perspective means that companies aim to creatively deliver... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Consumer Products

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Negotiation Course Online | HBS Online

company, and Negotiation Mastery has given me additional skills that I have put into practice and have resulted in much more successful agreements. Jacqueline Ryan Integrated Marketing Manager at YumEarth Develop the negotiation skills needed to View Details

06 Jul 2020
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The Right Way to Manage Customer Churn for Maximum Profit

offering them incentives or deals to stay before they leave. “Focusing on retaining higher-spending customers, even if they aren’t as likely to leave, can increase the total profit a company can reap.” As Gupta describes in Managing Churn to View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail; Service; Financial Services

04 Mar 2019
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What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?

Henry Ford, their creation of profits and firm value employs relatively few, very well-paid people, exacerbating income inequality in our economy. They have relatively few expenditures for control over the quality of the information... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Advertising; Consumer Products

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