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  • 02 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Managing the Open Source vs. Proprietary Decision

implications. In this excerpt, they discuss how corporate managers should consider the interaction of open source and proprietary on software they develop and use. Implications For Corporate Managers Be... View Details
Keywords: by Josh Lerner & Mark Schankerman; Technology
  • Fall 2013
  • Article

The Role of Performance Measures in the Intertemporal Decisions of Business Unit Managers

Accounting performance measures are often argued to lead to short-sighted behavior by managers facing intertemporal decisions. We assess the association between different types of performance measures and the time horizon of business unit managers who have profit... View Details
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Performance Evaluation
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  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Pay Harmony: Peer Comparison and Executive Compensation

By: Claudine Gartenberg and Julie Wulf
This study suggests that peer comparison affects both wage setting and productivity within firms. We report three changes in division manager compensation following a 1991–1992 controversy over executive pay. We argue that this controversy increased wage comparisons... View Details
Keywords: Pay-for-Performance; Internal Labor Markets; Peer Comparison; Firm Geography; Behavior; Executive Compensation; Policy
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  • 2010
  • Article

Zwischen Familienerbe und globalem Markt. Eigentum und Management von großen westdeutschen Familienunternehmen im Wandel (1960-2008)

"Between Family Heritage and Global Market. Changes in Ownership and Management of Large West-German Family Firms (1960-2008)" Large family firms fall between two theoretical accounts. They neither follow the development path described by Alfred D. Chandler nor do they... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Family Ownership; Germany
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  • 14 Oct 2021
  • In Practice

Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return

masks. We recently asked Harvard Business School professors whose research and expertise traverse topics related to remote work what advice they would offer managers and executives actively seeking to navigate these points of friction.... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 14 Sep 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

What Do Managers Do? Exploring Persistent Performance Differences among Seemingly Similar Enterprises

An abstract is unavailable at this time. View Details
Keywords: by Robert Gibbons & Rebecca Henderson
  • March 2013 (Revised May 2013)
  • Case

Building Innovation at Terrapin Bright Green

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Sydney Ribot and Mary Saunders
Describes Terrapin Bright Green, an environmental consulting and strategic planning firm, and its approach for creating integrative, systematic solutions to green-building conundrums through consulting, research, and policy-related activities. Emphasis is placed on the... View Details
Keywords: Integrated Design; Entrepreneurs; Creative Industries; CONSULTING Firms; Energy; Design; Governance; Growth and Development; Innovation and Invention; Knowledge; Labor; Organizations; Problems and Challenges; Research; Strategy; Value; Consulting Industry; New York (city, NY)
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  • 10 Jun 2021
  • Blog Post

Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Cofounders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke

Anne-Marie Schoonbeek (MBA 2017) and Heleen van Poecke (MBA 2017), grew up in small towns in the Netherlands fifteen minutes apart from one another. Yet in all those years, their paths never crossed. Instead, over 3,000 miles away from... View Details
  • 13 Dec 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams

Employees often feel stressed when their firms are bought by other companies, fearing they could face layoffs, demotions, or lousy working conditions. While it’s true that organizations tend to restructure their workforce following... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • August 2007 (Revised September 2008)
  • Case

Baker & McKenzie (A): A New Framework for Talent Management

By: Boris Groysberg and Eliot Sherman
Describes the process by which the largest law firm in the world developed a unique framework for personnel management. In 2004, John Conroy is about to take the reigns as the leader of Baker and McKenzie, the largest law firm in the world by employees, with offices in... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Framework; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Retention; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Adoption; Legal Services Industry
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  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Management and the Financial Crisis (We have met the enemy and he is us...)

By: William A. Sahlman
The financial crisis of 2008-9 has revealed that our broad model of corporate governance is broken, independent of the shortcomings in the regulatory system. Managers and boards of directors in scores of systemically important firms failed to protect employees,... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Governing and Advisory Boards; Ethics; Corporate Governance; Financial Crisis
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  • 02 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Stuck in Gear: Why Managers Don’t Act

that a success formula may frequently go stale or, as he puts it, "harden," for a complex set of reasons that are, in fact, surprisingly predictable—though not easy to avoid. "To succeed in business, every manager must make... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • April 2025
  • Case

Pouring Oil on Troubled Waters: Vickers Oils and Resolving Family Conflict over Generations

By: Lauren Cohen, Octavian Graf Pilati and Sophia Pan
Will Vickers, a seventh-generation (G7) member of the Vickers Family, grappled with a pressing challenge: how to re-integrate family members into the firm to recover lost talent. His father, Peter Vickers, was the lone leader of the Vickers Oils—despite having stepped... View Details
Keywords: Shareholder; Involvement; Family Office; Family Firms; Family Business; Business Growth and Maturation; Experience and Expertise; Retention; Leadership Development; Business or Company Management; Management Succession; Organizational Structure; Family Ownership; Family and Family Relationships; Diversification; Conflict and Resolution; Consumer Products Industry; United Kingdom
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  • Web

Managing Customers for Growth - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Managing Customers for Growth Course Number 1965 Professor Eva Ascarza Fall; Q2; 1.5 credits 14 Sessions Project Overview: Without customers, there is no business! Managing Customers for... View Details
  • Web

Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

the 2014 Crowell Memorial Prize for Best Paper on Quantitative Investing from PanAgora Asset Management for "Playing Favorites: How Firms Prevent the Revelation of Bad News" (with Dong Lou and Christopher J.... View Details
  • Article

Discontinuities and Senior Management: Assessing the Role of Recognition in Pharmaceutical Firm Response to Biotechnology

By: Rebecca M. Henderson, Sarah Kaplan and Fiona Murray
Keywords: Management; Science; Technology; Biotechnology Industry
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  • February 2015
  • Article

Location Choices under Strategic Interactions

By: Juan Alcacer, Cristian Dezso and Minyuan Zhao
The literature on location choices has mostly emphasized the impact of location and firm characteristics. However, most industries with a significant presence of multi-location firms are oligopolistic in nature, which suggests that strategic interaction among firms... View Details
Keywords: Location Strategies; Multinational Strategy; Oligopolistic Competition; Firm Heterogeneity; Geographic Location; Multinational Firms and Management; Balance and Stability; Decision Choices and Conditions; Game Theory
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  • Web

Hidden Workers, Untapped Talent - Managing the Future of Work

retirement—limit their hours. By learning about and accommodating the needs of these workers, firms can encourage part-time employees to take on more hours—helping ease the talent shortage and raise productivity. Read the report Hidden... View Details

    Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management

    Top management structures in large US firms have changed significantly since the mid-1980s. While the size of the executive team—the group of managers reporting directly to the CEO—doubled during this period, this growth was driven primarily by an... View Details

    • Web

    General Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

    Strategic Management Society for her paper with Ian Cockburn, "Measuring Competence? Exploring Firm Effects in Pharmaceutical Research" ( Strategic Management Journal , 1994).... View Details