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  • December 2010
  • Article

Social Preferences and Strategic Uncertainty: An Experiment on Markets and Contracts

This paper reports a three-phase experiment on a stylized labor market. In the first two phases, agents face simple games, which we use to estimate subjects' social and reciprocity concerns. In the last phase, four principals compete by offering agents a contract from... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Risk and Uncertainty; Markets; Contracts; Decisions; Distribution; Labor; Game Theory
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  • August 2009
  • Case

SK Telecom: Pursuing Happiness through Corporate Social Responsibility

By: Christopher Marquis, Kwang Y. Ryu, Philip H. Mirvis and Bobbi Thomason
Since 2006, SK Telecom has worked to develop strategic corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs that are aligned with its business operations and corporate mission. The case tracks the original assessment process the company went through and successive... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Corporate Strategy; Telecommunications Industry; South Korea
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  • October 2007 (Revised February 2008)
  • Module Note

Evaluating M&A Deals: Introduction to the Deal NPV

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
Introduces a framework for evaluating mergers and acquisitions. Assumes that the criterion of a good deal is that it creates value for shareholders; i.e., has a positive deal NPV. Looks at the deal NPV from both the buyer's and seller's point of view. Explains how a... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Value Creation
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  • July 1986 (Revised September 1989)
  • Case

Sedalia Revisited

The Sedalia Engine Plant was one of the first models of socio-technical work designs. This case is an update of the activities in the plant over its eleven-year history. The main problem facing the third plant manager is a change in world competition and a need to... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Mission and Purpose; Change Management; Manufacturing Industry
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  • 10 Aug 2020
  • News

At Home, Workers Seek Alternative Credentials

    Fit In, Stand Out: Mastering the FISO FACTOR - The Key to Leadership Effectiveness in Business and Life

    In Fit In, Stand Out, McGarvie presents her breakthrough program that will help you become a more effective leader. She reveals how integration and transformation function as the yin and yang of business, working together and balancing each other to form... View Details

    • Web

    Business for Social Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

    combine purpose and profit and how businesses can face today's global challenges. Power and Influence for Positive Impact Professor Julie Battilana Understand how power really works and develop your own power to gain influence and make an... View Details
    • 28 Sep 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    The Profit Power of Corporate Culture

    Corporate culture is often thought of as a hard-to-define, or soft concept in management circles. Soft not in the sense that it isn't important—most CEOs will tell you that their ability to inculcate values and mission into the DNA of a firm is among the most important... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 04 Jan 2024
    • News

    Great Heights

    from there. Thus outnumbered, women can find themselves at odds with tech’s “cowboy culture,” Kostova says. She recalls the immature antics of some of the young male engineers she worked with in Silicon Valley, including at the... View Details
    Keywords: Amy Crawford
    • Profile

    Maha Malik

    View Video Born and raised in Islamabad by two parents actively involved in the public sphere—her mother worked at the Ministry of Labor and Manpower, her father at the World Bank—Maha Malik (MPP/MBA 2019) appreciated politics at the most... View Details
    Keywords: Consulting; Financial Services
    • 14 Jun 2021
    • Op-Ed

    When Your Nerves Get the Best of You, Change the Narrative

    is to recall, and steer into, what we’re good at. Think of how coaches work with professional athletes: They might do some work on “weaknesses,” but mostly they are building on areas of tremendous skill. In... View Details
    Keywords: by Francesca Gino
    • 19 Jan 2021
    • Blog Post

    2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Marc Duranteau (MBA 2019)

    In the end, my supervisors bought in and I was allowed to implement my suggestions. I definitely would not have had the courage to take these risks without the 2+2 safety net! Where are you currently working? Can you describe your role? I am back in the aerospace... View Details
    • 27 Jun 2019
    • Blog Post

    My Week at Harvard Business School's Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP)

    from Vanderbilt University and also among three Jackie Robinson Foundation Scholars with the shared conviction to challenge ourselves and work towards a better future. Representing so many different social and cultural backgrounds, we are... View Details
    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    The Microstructure of Work: How Unexpected Breaks Let You Rest, but Not Lose Focus

    By: Pradeep Pendem, Paul Green, Bradley R. Staats and Francesca Gino
    How best to structure the work day is an important operational question for organizations. A key structural consideration is the effective use of breaks from work. Breaks serve the critical purpose of allowing employees to recharge, but in the short term, translate to... View Details
    Keywords: Breaks; Productivity; Attention; Workload; Harvesting; Working Conditions; Behavior; Performance Productivity; Organizations
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    • Web

    Alumni - Business & Environment

    PHDIT PHDOB PHDSTM PHSM SEPME SEPSA SM VC VIS HBS Class* Work with Current MBA Students Student-Alumni Mentorship Program Help guide HBS students toward a career that addresses environmental risks and opportunities. Our Mentorship Program... View Details
    • 29 Mar 2022
    • Book

    5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries

    says Khanna, the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at HBS. “And even in the US, when you look at sources of early-stage capital for new entrepreneurs, it tends to be friends and family.” But making sure families will work well together can be... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 04 Apr 2011
    • HBS Case

    Reinventing the National Geographic Society

    case study in 1994 when Fahey was CEO of Time Life, ironically facing many of the same challenges with earlier generations of media and technology. Fifteen years later it was an opportunity to observe an elite general manager at work in a... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Publishing
    • 12 Aug 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser

    percent of arbitrators previously worked as advisers and they tended to favor brokers. The 8 percent of these arbitrators who were forced to pay clients restitution during their adviser careers were even more biased against consumers.... View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services
    • Profile

    Davida Bynum

    experiences and stretching beyond my comfort zone to develop, learn, and grow. What is the best thing about your hometown? I spent my adolescence in Kokomo, Indiana. In 6th grade, my science teacher built a life sized “space shuttle” with a control room, View Details
    • 17 Apr 2022
    • Book

    How to Avoid the 'Ethical Slide' That Leads Companies Astray

    Good ethical practices don’t just happen; everyone within a corporation has to continuously work on them. “People are not always comfortable talking about ethics,” Nelson says. “Some have been dismissing ethics as, ‘I don’t have to think... View Details
    Keywords: by Lane Lambert