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- 12 Apr 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Productivity Suffers When Employees Are Allowed to Schedule Their Own Tasks
an associate professor at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School. The study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Management Science. The researchers set out to answer two questions: One, what drives workers... View Details
- Mar 2012
- Article
The Looming Challenge to U.S. Competitiveness
education and entrepreneurship—those strengths are increasingly threatened by weaknesses in areas such as the tax code, basic education, macroeconomic policies, and regulation. Steps to reverse the loss will require a new focus by... View Details
- 14 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
How to Support Your Employees’ Career Development
will ultimately help further the career development of your whole team. Another option is a customized executive education program held on-site or at a university, like the programs offered through Harvard Business School. Or encourage... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 14 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
How to Support Your Employees' Career Development
ultimately help further the career development of your whole team. Another option is a customized executive education program held on-site or at a university, like the programs offered through Harvard Business School. Or encourage... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Key to Innovation: Flexible Funding
business and other sectors so that we continue to produce and disseminate research and teaching materials with power in practice. To fulfill the School's enormous potential, a... View Details
Keywords: Robert Steven Kaplan
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Health-Care Initiative to Leverage Ongoing Efforts
industry,” said Hamermesh. One immediate outcome of the initiative’s activities, he noted, will be an increase in the number of summer internships in the health-care industry offered to MBA students. “This is a huge opportunity for us... View Details
- 07 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Supervisor of Sandwiches? More Companies Inflate Titles to Avoid Extra Pay
research out of Harvard Business School. In fact, these are just a handful of suspect titles companies are using to classify hourly workers as supervisors and avoid paying an estimated $4 billion in overtime... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 25 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
Why I Almost Didn’t Apply to HBS
conference room and said the following: “Terrance. I think you’re scared. After knowing you for all these years, I think you’ve had top business school qualifications for a while now. There is no such thing as the perfect application.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Christine Fairchild to Head External Relations
the School. It’s a very exciting time at HBS.” In announcing Fairchild’s new position, Dean Kim B. Clark praised her leadership and extensive knowledge of the Harvard Business School community: “I am confident Christine will bring her... View Details
- 20 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks
business history. They have the information at their fingertips, they know exactly what they want, and they know when and how they want it. Competition. The behavior of customers has changed the way we view competition. Companies are... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 09 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
How to Create a Psychologically Safe Workplace
Candidates consider many factors when seeking new job opportunities – location, role, benefits, and compensation to name just a few. Yet there is another element that may be more difficult to explain on... View Details
- 2015
- Working Paper
Staggered Boards and Shareholder Value: A Reply to Amihud and Stoyanov
By: Alma Cohen and Charles C.Y. Wang
In a paper published in the Journal of Financial Economics in 2013, we provided evidence that market participants perceive staggered boards to be on average value-reducing. In a recent response paper, Amihud and Stoyanov (2015) “contest” our results. They... View Details
Keywords: Staggered Boards; Takeover Defense; Antitakeover Provision; Firm Value; Agency Costs; Delaware; Chancery Court; Airgas; Governing and Advisory Boards; Acquisition; Corporate Governance; Business and Shareholder Relations; Delaware
Cohen, Alma, and Charles C.Y. Wang. "Staggered Boards and Shareholder Value: A Reply to Amihud and Stoyanov." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-097, February 2016.
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
A Student Plan Goes to Washington
no longer be a liability. The college also solves a second problem. Many directors work full-time as CEOs or academics, and many serve on multiple boards, leaving little time for them to master the complexities of the View Details
- 22 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Moving to the Lower 48 from Alaska for my MS/MBA
like your parents will live forever; as an adult, I’m much more aware that with busy schedules and long distances - time together is precious. To do some math: when I was a kid, my family ate dinner together... View Details
- January 1994 (Revised April 1995)
- Case
EMC Corporation: Response to Shareholder Litigation (A)
By: Josh Lerner
EMC Corp. is the target of a shareholder class-action lawsuit for the second time. CEO, Richard Egan, must decide whether to settle the case, as is done in 96% of such cases and as EMC itself did previously, or fight the action. View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Lawsuits and Litigation; Going Public; Management Teams; Business and Shareholder Relations; Technology Industry; United States
Lerner, Josh. "EMC Corporation: Response to Shareholder Litigation (A)." Harvard Business School Case 294-070, January 1994. (Revised April 1995.)