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- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
companies that are owned by private equity. They are composed of the CEO and six directors, all of whom have relevant industry expertise. The directors make the time commitment, spending several days each... View Details
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Law, Management and Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
transactions. The course will also explore legal issues involved in starting, joining or investing in start-ups and decision making from the time an entrepreneur conceives, starts to build View Details
- 01 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
CEOs and Coaches: How Important is Organizational 'Fit?'
laboratory to study coach-team matching effects. Clear-cut measures of team performance and precise employment records are publicly available, and the set of teams vying for coaches’ services is... View Details
- December 2020 (Revised February 2021)
- Teaching Note
The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations
By: Mihir A. Desai and Suzanne Antoniou
How should historic social injustices be addressed? Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and their descendants, including Representative Regina Goodwin of Tulsa, believe they should be addressed through reparations and have consequently continued to push the government... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Judgments; Race; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Policy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government Legislation; Government and Politics; Government Administration; Lawsuits and Litigation; Legal Liability; Leading Change; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Conflict and Resolution; Conflict Management; Loss; Motivation and Incentives; Perspective; Prejudice and Bias; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Welfare; Tulsa; Oklahoma; United States
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
that cost him his adopted children, his colleagues, and the career of Xi Zhongxun, father of President Xi Jinping. When Zhou left Huai’an, another group came to his birthplace to serve society through... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
Among the classes Christenson taught at HBS were Managerial Economics and Control in the MBA Program's required curriculum, Management Control in the Owner/President Management... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- October 2020 (Revised February 2021)
- Case
The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations
By: Mihir A. Desai, Suzanne Antoniou and Leanne Fan
How should historic social injustices be addressed? Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and their descendants, including Representative Regina Goodwin of Tulsa, believe they should be addressed through reparations and have consequently continued to push the government... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Judgments; Race; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Policy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government Legislation; Government and Politics; Government Administration; Lawsuits and Litigation; Legal Liability; Leading Change; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Conflict and Resolution; Conflict Management; Loss; Motivation and Incentives; Perspective; Prejudice and Bias; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Tulsa; Oklahoma; United States
Desai, Mihir A., Suzanne Antoniou, and Leanne Fan. "The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations." Harvard Business School Case 221-039, October 2020. (Revised February 2021.)
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
structure, social history, and educational system, companies developed under a system of family management that emphasized personal relationships more than formal structures, and relied more on broad-gauged... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
works. The book is available at no cost to climate outreach and education organizations. Unfettered Journey By Gary F. Bengier (MBA 1981) Chiliagon Press Unfettered Journey is the story of Joe Denkensmith,... View Details
- March 2001 (Revised August 2003)
- Case
Wilkerson Company
By: Robert S. Kaplan
The president of Wilkerson, faced with declining profits, is struggling to understand why the company is encountering severe price competition on one product line while able to raise prices without competitive response on another product line. The controller proposes... View Details
Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Competition; Profit; Product; Consumer Products Industry
Kaplan, Robert S. "Wilkerson Company." Harvard Business School Case 101-092, March 2001. (Revised August 2003.)
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
effects of sleep deprivation are the same as drunkenness: Sleep-deprived people have a hard time controlling their emotions, learning new information, remembering known facts or performing already-mastered... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
rising leaders in 120 companies and how they dealt with them. The challenges included handling rising pressure and recovering from mistakes; dealing with office villains; taking uncomfortable risks; View Details
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
diversification. In terms of opportunities, the exploitation of primary commodities in countries located far away from the main European markets became far more practical. At the same time new markets were opened by steamships, new ports,... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
forces of natural selection and enable us to take control of our genes. We will be able to alter our own species and many others—a good thing, the authors suggest, given that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI
contributions. “Similarly to how the internet and web browsers dramatically reduced the marginal cost of information sharing,” they write, “AI may also be lowering the costs... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 07 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
3 Ways to Gain a Competitive Advantage Now: Lessons from Amazon, Chipotle, and Facebook
fees that other brands pay department stores and other distributors. While it doesn’t charge the premium prices of competitors, its lower costs help it maintain an advantage. Perhaps recognizing that threat,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Involved Videos Books News Coverage VBHCD in the News Finding Value in the Cost of BPH Care MEDPAGE TODAY Charles Bankhead (March 2015) Fast-Track Process Cuts Time in PACU and... View Details
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
drive up the cost of capital and curb investment. This paper evaluates the effects of capital controls on firm-level stock returns and real... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
video, and it completely democratized mobile data,” Menard observes. The jury is still out on 5G. Experts agree that it will bring massive improvements: speeds 100 times faster than 4G, View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Short Takes
some of the latest computer-aided tools, managers can dramatically lower the time and cost of changes. Second, they should review management processes. Many companies cannot... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey