by John Deighton - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Mar 2015
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Confronting greater media scrutiny and an ever-increasing number of shareholder resolutions focusing on executive pay, Corporate America continues to support current pay practices as a product of "the market." Not too long ago, former Treasury Secretary View Details

Keywords: by Lucian Bebchuk & Rakesh Khurana

16 Apr 2019
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Would You Live in a Smart City Where Government Controls Privacy?

22 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

New Challenges in Leading Professional Services

past, the work of PSFs was a gentleman's game—and now it's blood sport." Adding to the problem is the fact that many current leaders are overwhelmed trying to balance their dual roles of producer and manager. What's needed, DeLong and coauthors HBS professor... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Consulting; Accounting; Legal Services

August 1992 (Revised September 2002)
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Star Distributors, Inc. (A)

By: David A. Thomas

Depicts the conflict and organizational problems that emerged in a franchise operation owned by Paul Logan, an African American, and John Heyman, a white American. Provides the opportunity to examine the ways in which race influences managerial behavior and... View Details

Keywords: Conflict Management; Performance Effectiveness; Franchise Ownership; Race; Management Style; Conflict and Resolution; Business and Stakeholder Relations

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15 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise

Jim Austin, picked by Dean John McArthur to lead the new initiative, saw the potential for research, curriculum, and career development around the challenges of social enterprises, including both nonprofit... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson

01 Jun 2023
News

Curb Appeal

produce daily. Tisch held a conference call with her operations chiefs at 5 a.m., and by 8 a.m. she was on the phone with Mayor Eric Adams while parked outside a DSNY facility. Striding into a garage the size of a football field to... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photography by Vance Jacobs; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

02 Jun 2012
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Free Exchange: Silicon Sally

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Construction Bidding Simulation

19 Nov 2020
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Music, Medicine, and Happiness

17 Mar 2022
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Websites’ Privacy Notices Are Supposed to Be Reassuring. They Often Aren’t.

13 Apr 2015
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Sizing up climate change

18 Dec 2013
News

A Sticky Situation

01 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making

Technology on Firm Organization," a paper she cowrote with Nicholas Bloom of Stanford University and Luis Garicano and John Van Reenen of the Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics. "Technologies that make... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

07 Apr 2016
Cold Call Podcast

The Key to Keeping Resolutions? Betting Against Yourself

Keywords: Re: Leslie K. John

06 Feb 2018
News

Harvard makes climate pledge to end fossil fuel use

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

Presentation Round-Up

John F. Kennedy School of Government, presented the second scenario, a view of a world where "the demands of networks in houses are as different as their floor plans" and where "there are a range of options depending on where you live,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Kenneth Liss; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

05 Jan 2009
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008

Here are the 20 most popular stories published by HBS Working Knowledge in 2008, and the five most-read working papers authored by HBS faculty. Most Popular Articles 1. Creating a Positive Professional Image... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

June 2013
Case

Hess Corporation

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Kathleen Durante

On January 29, 2013, Elliott Management, a hedge fund run by Paul E. Singer, which owned 4.5% of Hess Corporation stock, put forward a slate of five independent directors it wanted elected to improve the company's performance. Elliott argued that Hess lacked focus and... View Details

Keywords: Takeover Attempt; Board; Hess; Governing and Advisory Boards; Organizational Structure; Acquisition; Financial Services Industry; Energy Industry

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