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Management Practices, Relational Contracts and the Decline of General Motors
By: Susan Helper and Rebecca Henderson
General Motors was once regarded as one of the best managed and most successful firms in the world, but between 1980 and 2009 its share of the U.S. market fell from 62.6% to 19.8%, and in 2009 the firm went bankrupt. In this paper we argue that the conventional... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Design; Management Practices and Processes; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; United States
Helper, Susan, and Rebecca Henderson. "Management Practices, Relational Contracts and the Decline of General Motors." Journal of Economic Perspectives 28, no. 1 (Winter 2014): 49–72.
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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets - Faculty & Research
modern capitalism—the separation of ownership and control in large corporations—first empirically documented by Berle and Means (1932). Such separation entails several agency problems reflecting conflicts between managers and... View Details
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Private Capital Project
the strategic use of private capital is inextricably tied to Harvard Business School. The first modern PE fund, American Research and Development, was designed and led by Professor Georges Doriot in the years after World War II at HBS.... View Details
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Japan - Global
companies and explore cutting-edge innovations. Beyond these academic and professional activities, the students also experienced both traditional and modern Japanese culture through various immersive activities. The program provided an... View Details
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Accounting & Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research
statements and accounting reports. Familiarity with how modern accounting and control theory is used in evaluating economic conditions and making organizational decisions. MBA Elective Curriculum (SECOND YEAR) Course Title Faculty Name... View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 18, 2016
2016 New York: HarperBusiness Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice By: Christensen, Clayton M., Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon, and David S. Duncan Abstract—The foremost authority on innovation and growth presents a path-breaking book every... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Summer 2011
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Context, Agency, and Identity: The Indian Fashion Industry and Traditional Indian Crafts
By: Mukti Khaire
Identity is an important resource for firms, since it is a critical precursor of an important strategic resource-legitimacy. However, identities of new firms in new industries are typically inchoate, since they cannot be classified within pre-existing cognitive... View Details
Keywords: History; Decision Making; Identity; Entrepreneurship; Outcome or Result; Fashion Industry; France; Italy; United Kingdom; India
Khaire, Mukti. "Context, Agency, and Identity: The Indian Fashion Industry and Traditional Indian Crafts." Business History Review 85, no. 2 (Summer 2011).
- 2009
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Nordic Globalization Barometer 2009: Global Pressure—Nordic Solutions?
By: Christian H.M. Ketels
Less than a year after the first Nordic Globalization Barometer has been launched, the state of the world economy has changed dramatically. A deep financial crisis is taking its toll on investors, borrowers, and the financial institutions that serve them. A deep... View Details
Keywords: Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Financial Crisis; Financial Markets; Globalized Economies and Regions; Competitive Strategy; Scandinavia
Ketels, Christian H.M. "Nordic Globalization Barometer 2009: Global Pressure—Nordic Solutions?" Report Series, Nordic Council of Ministers, 2009.
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About the Institute - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
books on strategy and competitiveness, is widely considered the father of the modern strategy field. More about Michael Porter See all research areas Affiliated organizations View Details
- 12 Dec 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Bottlenecks, Modules and Dynamic Architectural Capabilities
Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin
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The Political Power of Weak Interests
By: Gunnar Trumbull
One of the most broadly accepted theoretical claims of public policy is the proposal that interests shared by a large set of actors tend to be under-represented in public policy. From Mancur Olson to George Stigler to James Q. Wilson, our most influential theorists... View Details
Real Growth in Space Manufacturing Output Substantially Exceeds Growth in the Overall Space Economy
Accurately measuring real economic output in the space economy is made difficult by the rapid increase in capabilities and decrease in prices of launch and satellite technologies achieved over the past two decades. Nominal measures of output in space will tend to... View Details
- 2014
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Waste, Recycling and Entrepreneurship in Central and Northern Europe, 1870–1940
By: Geoffrey Jones and Andrew Spadafora
This working paper examines the role of entrepreneurs in the municipal solid waste industry in industrialized central and northern Europe from the late nineteenth century to the 1940s. It explores the emergence of numerous German, Danish, and other European... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Entrepreneurship; Business History; Entrepreneurship; Health; History; Green Technology Industry; Germany; Denmark; Hungary; United Kingdom
Jones, Geoffrey, and Andrew Spadafora. "Waste, Recycling and Entrepreneurship in Central and Northern Europe, 1870–1940." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-084, March 2014.
- 2012
- Working Paper
Putting Integrity into Finance: A Purely Positive Approach
By: Werner Erhard and Michael C. Jensen
We summarize our new positive theory of integrity that has no normative content, and argue that there are large gains from putting integrity into finance—into both the theory and practice of finance. We define integrity as being whole and complete and unbroken. We... View Details
Erhard, Werner, and Michael C. Jensen. "Putting Integrity into Finance: A Purely Positive Approach." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-074, April 2012. (NBER Working Paper Series, No. 19986, April 2014.)
- 06 Mar 2025
- HBS Seminar
Vivek Farias, MIT Sloan
- 01 Sep 2023
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Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
For 17 years, Andre Kearns (MBA 1999) has been tracing his family tree. One by one, he has added branches, grounding himself in a long and sometimes complicated lineage. Through family stories, forgotten heirlooms, and vital records, Kearns has traveled back through... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
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In My Humble Opinion: Career Change
When Wakana Tanaka (MBA 2003) was 13 years old, her father’s new job took the family from their home in Tokyo to Jakarta. It was a big change, not just geographically but also culturally. Tanaka enrolled in an international school where she was encouraged to have her... View Details
- 25 Jan 2021
- Book
In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded
How did the United States become the world’s center of business growth following its founding in 1776? Surely a number of nations had powerful natural resources, stable financial and legal institutions, and dynamic entrepreneurs over that same span. Why was American... View Details
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Frameworks & Key Concepts - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Strategy Frameworks & Key Concepts Michael Porter & Competitiveness In 1990, Michael Porter published The Competitive Advantage of Nations , an examination of how prosperity is created and sustained in the modern global economy. The... View Details
- 02 Jul 2009
- Working Paper Summaries