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  • 02 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017

April 14, 2017 Harvard Business Review Companies Like United Need to Cultivate Good Judgment, and Free Their Employees to Use It By: Deighton, John A. Abstract—United Airlines has pledged to improve its training programs and empower its... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • March 2000 (Revised May 2000)
  • Case

Spec's Music (A)

By: John A. Davis and Susan Harmeling
Presents the story of a music retailer in Miami which started in the late 1940s, grew throughout the 1960s and 1970s, and went public in 1985 before experiencing a deep industry crisis in the mid-1990s. At issue in 1996 is whether the company should attempt to sell... View Details
Keywords: History; Family Business; Business Exit or Shutdown; Decision Choices and Conditions; Management Succession; Entrepreneurship; Crisis Management; Performance Improvement; Music Industry; Miami
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  • 01 Sep 2003
  • What Do You Think?

To Whom Should Boards be Accountable?

corporate managers and directors must first be accountable to and for the satisfaction of customers, the loyalty and opportunities for growth of employees [and others] ..." How does this play out in the consideration of bids for a View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • January 2021
  • Supplement

A Half-Deal

By: Marco Di Maggio, Pedro Levindo and Carla Larangeira
In June 2020, XP and Itaú faced intensified competition and tension in their partnership, with the latter owning a minority stake at XP. Two years earlier, in May 2017, Itaú had announced it would acquire 49.9% of XP for $1.8 billion, followed by three additional... View Details
Keywords: Fintech; Financing Strategy; Competition; Partners and Partnerships; Financing and Loans; Strategy; Latin America; Brazil
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    Myra M. Hart

    Myra Hart's research focus is high potential entrepreneurship.  She has taught MBA and executive programs, co-chaired the entrepreneurship unit, and led several HBS initiatives. As a founding memberView Details

    Keywords: consumer products; e-commerce industry; education industry; real estate; retailing
    • 19 Apr 2019
    • HBS Seminar

    Nicholas Short, Harvard University

    • 04 Mar 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    How Schmoozing with the Boss Helps Men Get Promoted

    has,” says Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Zoe B. Cullen, who coauthored the paper with Ricardo Perez-Truglia of the University of California, Anderson. Some companies have taken steps to break down barriers for women in the... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 02 Feb 2016
    • First Look

    February 2, 2016

    three options regarding the exit strategy to be deployed to ensure sustainability. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/616040-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 216-019 Whirlpool Corp.: Structuring the Deal to Acquire Hefei Rongshida Sanyo... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 21 May 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?

    With an election looming and the economy continuing to struggle, the effectiveness of government regulation has become a political football. While advocates hold regulations up as necessary to protect public health and safety, critics see... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • January 2022 (Revised February 2022)
    • Case

    Introducing EVA at ISS: A Better Way to Evaluate CEO Performance and Compensation?

    By: Jonas Heese, Charles C.Y. Wang and James Weber
    In early 2019, Anthony Campagna, the global director of fundamental research at ISS EVA, a unit of the proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), was preparing to release ISS's analyses of public company performance and CEO compensation ahead of Say... View Details
    Keywords: Jobs and Positions; Compensation and Benefits; Performance; Performance Productivity; Measurement and Metrics; Analytics and Data Science; Value; Business or Company Management; Performance Evaluation; Business and Shareholder Relations
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    • 06 Sep 2005
    • What Do You Think?

    What are the Lessons of New Orleans?

    Summing Up Management is a complex process. Good plans executed poorly may be worse than poor plans executed well. This is never truer than at times of disaster, in which plans made from afar have to be implemented by those on the scene first, often with limited... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 25 Jul 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?

    training typically doesn’t yield the return on investment in improved organizational effectiveness and performance that companies expect. “Individual development has to take place in the context of a larger change process motivated by the... View Details
    Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Education
    • November 2014 (Revised March 2015)
    • Case

    Disrupting the Meat Industry: Tissue Culture Beef

    By: Jose B. Alvarez and Matthew G. Preble
    Dr. Mark Post and his team at Maastricht University were perfecting their tissue culture beef product—made entirely from muscle grown in his lab—to give it the same taste, texture and appearance of a traditional beef hamburger. A previous iteration of this product had... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation; Beef Production; Environmental Impacts Of Food Production; Agribusiness; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation and Invention; Environmental Sustainability; Food; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Netherlands; United States; United Kingdom
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    • June 2015
    • Article

    The Organization of Enterprise in Japan

    By: Tom Nicholas
    Recent research reveals that the joint stock corporation was not a superior form of business organization in many countries historically. In Japan, however, it played a more fundamental role. Between 1896 and 1939 joint stock enterprises accounted for 44 percent of... View Details
    Keywords: Japan; Legal Form; Enterprise; Modernization; Business Organization; Entrepreneurship; Japan
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    • October 1997
    • Background Note

    Family Firms in the Newspaper Industry

    Changes in newspaper publishing, specifically the introduction of new technology and concurrent changes in tax policy, which led to a consolidation of the industry are described. Also describes the transformation of family firms into public corporations in response to... View Details
    Keywords: Business or Company Management; Family Business; Journalism and News Industry
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    • 09 Apr 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

    business owners to understand their own cash flow and prospects. Now the fintech innovation cycle is at an inflection point—new streams of data have the power to illuminate the opaque nature of a small business’s finances. The playing field is wide open, with... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 13 Apr 2021
    • Book

    How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations

    managers about the gender biases that influence hiring decisions. Companies should also anonymize resumes, diversify interview panels, and evaluate candidates as a group against a set of defined criteria. Integration. Create opportunities... View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz
    • Research Summary

    The Role of the Media in Corporate Governance and Finance

    Dyck studies the role played by media in financial markets: in transmitting information about a company, in shaping the market response to the information they communicate, in exposing mis-governance problems, and in forcing companies to behave in "politically correct"... View Details
    • 06 Nov 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

    environment. Using a unique longitudinal sample of 1,069 leading public firms in 35 countries and 24 industries, I find that the effect of gender diversity on performance varies significantly across countries and industries due to... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

      Richard G. Hamermesh

      Richard Hamermesh was the MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School. While at HBS Richard served as co-chair of the HBS Healthcare... View Details

      Keywords: health care