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    Nitin Nohria

    Nitin Nohria served as the tenth dean of Harvard Business School from 2010-2020. He previously served as co-chair of the Leadership Initiative, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development, and Head of the Organizational Behavior unit.

    As Dean, building on... View Details

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    • April 2019 (Revised October 2020)
    • Case

    Kraft Heinz: The $8 Billion Brand Write-Down

    By: Jill Avery
    On Friday, February 22, 2019, following an unexpected and disappointing earnings report, The Kraft Heinz Company’s stock price fell 27%, wiping out $16 billion in market value. CEO Bernardo Hees had announced that the company had taken a $15.4 billion asset write-down,... View Details
    Keywords: Brand Management; Brand Value; Brand Equity; Marketing ROI; Brand Storytelling; Intangible Assets; Brand Valuation; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Brands and Branding; Management; Corporate Strategy; Consumer Behavior; Food; Marketing Communications; Advertising; Private Equity; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States; North America
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    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Contributing to Growth? The Role of Open Source Software for Global Startups

    By: Nataliya Langburd Wright, Frank Nagle and Shane Greenstein
    How does participating in open source software (OSS) communities spur entrepreneurial growth? To address this question, we analyze novel data matching accounts from GitHub—the largest OSS hosting platform—to the universe of global software venture-backed firms... View Details
    Keywords: Applications and Software; Open Source Distribution; Entrepreneurship; Business Growth and Maturation; Human Capital; Valuation; Corporate Strategy
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    • 12 Nov 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    One Report: Integrated Reporting for a Sustainable Strategy

    What a company externally reports shapes how it behaves internally. The key question is, "What should companies report?" A new reporting practice--"integrated reporting," which integrates measures of financial and non-financial performance in a... View Details
    Keywords: by Robert Eccles; Accounting
    • March 2009
    • Article

    The Impact of Shareholder Activism on Financial Reporting and Compensation: The Case of Employee Stock Options Expensing

    By: F. Ferri and Tatiana Sandino
    We examine the economic consequences of more than 150 shareholder proposals to expense employee stock options (ESO) submitted during the proxy seasons of 2003 and 2004, the first case in which the SEC allowed a shareholder vote on an accounting matter. Our results... View Details
    Keywords: Shareholder Activism; Shareholder Votes; Stock Option Expensing; Executive Compensation; Financial Reporting; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Corporate Governance; Business and Shareholder Relations; Investment Activism
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    • 24 Apr 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: April 24

    minds of those responsible for governance. When a business is profitable and paying healthy dividends to its stockholders, fraudulent activities and accounting irregularities can go unnoticed. However, when revenue and cash flow decline,... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel

      Social Strategies That Work

      Over a billion people use social platforms on the Internet, making them the most frequently visited category of sites. Some platforms, such as eHarmony, MeetUp, and Twitter, allow us to connect to strangers. eHarmony alone is estimated to account for one in six new... View Details
      • 01 Aug 2005
      • What Do You Think?

      Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?

      extent and how should boards be held accountable for failing to foster "bench strength" that would obviate the need for hiring CEOs from the outside? To what extent, if at all, can markets for CEOs be made more efficient? What... View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett
      • 22 Jul 2014
      • News

      Senate Panel Takes On Tax Inversions

      • 26 Apr 2017
      • News

      A Better Way to Tax U.S. Businesses

      • 03 Jan 2018
      • News

      Stock buyback harmful investment?

      • Research Summary

      Reinventing State Capitalism: Leviathan in Business, Brazil and Beyond

      Part of the fear and misunderstanding of state capitalism in the post-Berlin Wall era stems from the fact that most observers see state-owned enterprises (SOEs) as inefficient soviet companies. In Reinventing State Capitalism: Leviathan in Business, Brazil and... View Details

      Keywords: State Capitalism; State-owned Enterprises; Development Banks; State Ownership; Development Economics; Management; Energy Industry; Banking Industry; Brazil; China; Europe; Latin America; Asia
      • 03 Jan 2019
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Financing the Response to Climate Change: The Pricing and Ownership of US Green Bonds

      Keywords: by Malcolm Baker, Daniel Bergstresser, George Serafeim, and Jeffrey Wurgler
      • February 2008 (Revised September 2008)
      • Case

      Apple Inc., 2008

      By: David B. Yoffie and Michael Slind
      In January 2007, three decades after its incorporation, Apple Computer shed the second word in its name and became Apple Inc. With that move, the company signaled a fundamental shift away from its historic status as a vendor of the Macintosh personal computer (PC)... View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Leadership; Industry Growth; Corporate Strategy; Information Infrastructure; Internet and the Web; Consumer Products Industry; Electronics Industry; Technology Industry
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      • 10 Jan 2019
      • News

      How Companies Like Apple Sprinkle Secrets in Earnings Reports

      • June 2013
      • Teaching Note

      A Politician in a Leather Suit and the Paradox of Japanese Capitalism

      By: Karthik Ramanna
      Two lost decades later, capitalism in Japan embodies peculiar contradictions—preserving wealth and social stability in the face of declining economic power. Scant transparency in Japanese corporate practices plays an important role in this phenomenon. Sometimes... View Details
      Keywords: Japan; Tokyo; Economic Systems; Corporate Accountability; Values and Beliefs; Fairness; Crime and Corruption; Civil Society or Community; Corporate Governance; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Tokyo
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      • 04 Dec 2012
      • First Look

      First Look: December 4

      http://www.people.hbs.edu/jsebenius/articles_scans/12_IS_NuclearDealWithIran.pdf Punctuated Generosity: Events, Communities, and Corporate Philanthropy Authors:Andras Tilcsik and Christopher Marquis Publication:Administrative Science... View Details
      Keywords: Carmen Nobel
      • May 2022
      • Case

      Timnit Gebru: 'SILENCED No More' on AI Bias and The Harms of Large Language Models

      By: Tsedal Neeley and Stefani Ruper
      Dr. Timnit Gebru—a leading artificial intelligence (AI) computer scientist and co-lead of Google’s Ethical AI team—was messaging with one of her colleagues when she saw the words: “Did you resign?? Megan sent an email saying that she accepted your resignation.” Heart... View Details
      Keywords: Ethics; Employment; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Technological Innovation
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      • March 2003 (Revised July 2004)
      • Case

      Sustainable Development at Shell (A)

      Describes the complex and challenging process by which social and environmental concerns are integrated into the existing strategy of a large, multinational firm. Details the circumstances leading up to a large-scale effort to transform Shell's strategy to take into... View Details
      Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Strategy; Environmental Sustainability; Growth and Development Strategy; Energy Industry
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      • April 30, 2020
      • Article

      Leading Your Team Past the Peak of a Crisis

      By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
      In the middle of a crisis, everything looks like a failure. But it’s possible to come out the other end with a strong company—and often with a plan for growth. Companies with a people-first culture can succeed by paying attention to three things: establishing clear... View Details
      Keywords: Crisis Management; Organizational Culture; Corporate Accountability; Collaborative Innovation and Invention
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