Publications

01 Dec 2012
News

Faculty Research Online

Why Do We Tax? With the next President set to take office, it's time to ask how the income tax system could be improved. Assistant Professor Matthew Weinzierl suggests how. US Competitiveness at Risk America's declining global competitiveness—it View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

Lew R. Wasserman

When Wasserman joined MCA, it was a talent agency, and he rose to the rank of president by attracting and being a strong advocate for a growing list of clients. Seeing the potential of the television industry, however, Wasserman set MCA... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media

January 2020 (Revised November 2020)
Case

Crisis at the 11th Hour

By: David G. Fubini, Rebecca Henderson, Sarah Gulick and Trevor Fetter

A successful lawyer describes an important decision she had to make as a young attorney about whether to disclose information in a contract. View Details

Keywords: Contracts; Agreements and Arrangements; Attorney and Client Relationships; Rank and Position; Trust; Decisions; Legal Services Industry; New York (city, NY)

08 Jul 2002
What Do You Think?

Have We Carried the Concept of Alignment Too Far?

Article In the past several weeks we have been treated to vastly restated earnings, the conviction of an entire accounting firm, and the baiting by congressional committees of witnesses drawn from the ranks of corporate managers. We are... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 Sep 2018
News

HBS Named Top School for Producing Entrepreneurs

Sarah Leary (MBA 1998) Sarah Leary (MBA 1998) Poets & Quants recently reported on PitchBook’s annual ranking of MBA programs that have “produced the most entrepreneurs, the most companies, the most female founders, and more—including, of... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

November 2007
Supplement

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd.

By: Tarun Khanna and Krishna G. Palepu

How do companies develop a strategy that is both low-cost and differentiated without becoming squeezed in the middle? Describes how Teva, Israel's largest and first multinational, achieved its globally dominant position in generic pharmaceuticals, an industry that has... View Details

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Emerging Markets; Rank and Position; Competitive Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry; Israel; India

24 Apr 2014
News

Employees crave meaningful progress in their work and find joy in making an impact

of hundreds of managers around the world, Amabile found “progress” ranked dead last as a perceived source of employee motivation. Her book, The Progress Principle, details the research and addresses important questions about how our inner... View Details

September 1994
Case

Leadership Problems at Salomon (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Michael Santoro

Deryck Maughan, a vice chairman and co-head of investment banking at Salomon Brothers, learns that his superiors have been less than candid about their knowledge of bidding improprieties by the firm's government trading desk. He must decide what, if anything, he should... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Decision Choices and Conditions; Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Crime and Corruption; Rank and Position; Financial Services Industry

25 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

policy sovereignty for the UK and adherence to the “four freedoms” at the heart of the EUs Single Market. A “no deal” Brexit by default remains an option, despite the costs to UK businesses and the wider UK economy. Download working paper:... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

Forthcoming
Article

Human Capital and the Managerial Revolution in the United States: Evidence from General Electric

By: Tom Nicholas

This paper estimates the returns to human capital accumulation during the first era of mega-firms in the United States by linking employees at General Electric—a canonical enterprise associated with the “visible hand” of managerial hierarchies—to the 1940 census. I... View Details

Keywords: Returns To Education; Management Practices; Hierarchies; Management Practices and Processes; Rank and Position; Human Capital; Talent and Talent Management; Business History; United States

March 2015
Case

Tim Keller at Katzenbach Partners LLC (A) (Abridged)

By: Boris Groysberg and James Weber

Tracks the first six months of a recent MBA grad, Tim Keller, at Katzenbach Partners, a boutique consulting firm focused on organizational change and strategy. Covers how Keller initially struggles with his assignment and ends with a question of whether or not he... View Details

Keywords: Interpersonal Relations; Organization Behavior; Superior ＆ Subordinate; Managing Projects; Informal Organization; Consulting; Professional Services; Leadership; Work-Life Balance; Decision Choices and Conditions; Organizations; Rank and Position; Product Development; Service Industry; Consulting Industry