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  • 28 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Profit Power of Corporate Culture

creating effective cultures. A 2010 Conference Board study revealed that only 45 percent of US workers were satisfied with their jobs—the lowest level in the history of the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

    Jay W. Lorsch

    Jay W. Lorsch is the Louis Kirstein Professor of Human Relations at the Harvard Business School. He is editor of View Details

    • 30 Jul 2001
    • What Do You Think?

    What’s the Future of Corporate Governance?

    pays for it? Should there be an independent firm that is appointed by the SEC?" What do you think? Original Article Observers such as Jay Lorsch, in his book Pawns and Potentates, has argued that boards View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 26 Aug 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest

    confidence to act decisively in the face of considerable ambiguity by seeking the advice of one or more "expert counselors," i.e. highly experienced executives who can serve as a confidante and a... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael A. Roberto
    • 18 Sep 2016
    • News

    Rush to Take Advantage of a Dull iPhone Started Samsung's Battery Crisis

    • 2009
    • Article

    Placing the Normative Logics of Accountability in 'Thick' Perspective

    By: Alnoor Ebrahim
    This article provides a critical reflection on the heavily normative nature of current accountability debates. In particular, it explores three streams of normative discourse on nonprofit accountability: improving board governance, improving performance-based... View Details
    Keywords: Fair Value Accounting; Accounting; Governance; Performance Evaluation; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Goals and Objectives; Management Practices and Processes; Power and Influence; Social and Collaborative Networks; Organizational Structure; Relationships; Accounting Industry
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    • 25 Mar 2015
    • News

    The Greening of Houston

    and mostly overlooked by outsiders. Gilbane is just one of several HBS alumni working with other Houstonians to expand and improve the treasured parks, which they see as key to the continued growth of... View Details
    Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development
    • July 2012
    • Case

    Barclays Capital and the Sale of Del Monte Foods

    By: John Coates, Clayton Rose and David Lane
    This case explores the reputational and legal issues that arise as Barclays Capital attempted to manage client conflicts by following established industry practice in the face of changing legal norms. In February 2011, Judge Travis Laster granted a preliminary... View Details
    Keywords: Client Management; Fiduciary Duty; Mergers ＆ Acquisitions; Investment Banking; Private Equity; Ethics; Finance; Reputation; Banking Industry; United States
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    Overview

    By: Lynn S. Paine
    My work focuses on boards of directors and corporate governance. I am currently developing new cases and materials for our MBA and Executive offerings in this area and working on a project entitled The Future of Corporate Governance. In addition, I am currently... View Details
    • November 2004 (Revised November 2005)
    • Case

    Musimundo

    By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez and James Robert Dillon
    Mario Quintana, managing partner of Pegasus Capital, was preparing for the upcoming Musimundo board of directors meeting. He was satisfied with the investment decisions of the entertainment retailer, as actual performance surpassed the initial budget. However, given a... View Details
    Keywords: Decisions; Governing and Advisory Boards; Partners and Partnerships; Performance Evaluation; Budgets and Budgeting; Retail Industry; Spain
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    • October 2013
    • Case

    Oaktree and the Restructuring of CIT Group (A)

    By: Victoria Ivashina and David Scharfstein
    CIT's prepackaged bankruptcy marked the first time a major financial institution was able to successfully restructure and emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy, challenging conventional views that a financial firm could not survive bankruptcy proceedings as a going... View Details
    Keywords: Debt Securities; Restructuring; Financial Services Industry
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    • 07 Aug 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    The Business of Biotech

    New Year's Eve 1999 gave revelers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for celebration—the exhilarating thrill of ringing in a year that's always had an aura of science fiction mystery. When the champagne corks... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Biotechnology; Health; Technology
    • 12 Apr 2018
    • News

    Carla Harris, Vice Chairman of Morgan Stanley, to be Harvard Business School’s Class Day Keynote Speaker

    • 09 May 2008
    • News

    New Book Looks at Deep Metaphors and the Minds of Consumers

      John D. Dionne

      John D. Dionne has been a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School since 2014 and is a recently retired Senior Managing Director and Senior Advisor to Blackstone. He is also Managing Partner of Franconia Capital, a... View Details

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      Does Financial Misconduct Affect the Future Compensation of Alumni Managers?

      By: Boris Groysberg, Eric Lin and George Serafeim
      We explore how an organization’s financial misconduct may affect pay for former employees not implicated in wrongdoing. Drawing on stigma theory we hypothesize that although such alumni did not participate in the financial misconduct, and they had left the organization... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Misconduct; Stigma; Finance; Crime and Corruption; Executive Compensation; Employees; Compensation and Benefits
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      • 10 Dec 2009
      • Working Paper Summaries

      State Owned Entity Reform in Absence of Privatization: Reforming Indian National Laboratories and Role of Leadership

      Keywords: by Prithwiraj Choudhury & Tarun Khanna
      • 05 Feb 2009
      • Research & Ideas

      In Praise of Marketing

      much of our attention on material consumption. More recently, Benjamin Barber, in his 2007 book Consumed, claims that marketing is "sucking up the air from every other domain to sustain the sector devoted to consumption." He is... View Details
      Keywords: by John Quelch; Advertising
      • 01 Dec 2000
      • News

      The Rites of Autumn

      records. The Class of 1960, for example, raised $3 million in honor of its 40th Reunion, while those celebrating their 30th Reunion, the Class of 1970, had raised close to $5.4... View Details
      Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
      • 01 Mar 2008
      • News

      A History of Women at HBS

      Edith G. Stedman, director of Radcliffe’s career services department, was unswerving in her dedication to the need for women’s professional training and education. She developed and served as View Details
      Keywords: Fritz J. Roethlisberger; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services