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  • 30 May 2000
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship’s Wild Ride

the evolution of the field at HBS. In March, Mike Roberts, executive director of Entrepreneurial Studies at HBS, spoke with Stevenson about entrepreneurship's remarkable rise in importance and popularity. Q: Howard, I'd like to talk about... View Details
Keywords: by William Mahoney
  • October 2022
  • Case

Colette Phillips and GetKonnected!: Creating Inclusive Ecosystems

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Amy Chiu and Joyce Kim
Colette Phillips’ marketing firm had just won the City of Boston’s 2nd largest contract in history to a Black-owned company. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Get Konnected!, the networking organization for people of color that she founded 15 years earlier and led to... View Details
Keywords: Diversity; Ecosystem; Inclusion; People Of Color; Network; Racial Bias; Gender Bias; Entrepreneurial Ecosystem; Entrepreneur; Change; Change Barriers; Change Leadership; Community; Innovation; Pandemic; Impact; Systemic Racism; Minority-owned Businesses; Social and Collaborative Networks; Equity; Race; Small Business; Prejudice and Bias; Boston
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    Managing Human Assets

    The time has come for American managers to rethink the traditional relationship between management and workers. The personnel practices of the past are an obstacle today, blocking the higher productivity and quality levels your firm will need to succeed in the... View Details

    • 12 Jun 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: June 12

    seek and how firms could deliver it. The result can be new revenue, increased customer satisfaction and loyalty, positive word of mouth, and cost savings. The multiyear process to price the 8 million tickets to the upcoming London 2012... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 13 Mar 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: March 13

    Publication:MIS Quarterly Executive 11, no. 1 (March 2012) Abstract The Chinese management software and IT services industry has grown dramatically over the past two decades and today is about the size of the Indian industry a decade ago.... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • February 2024
    • Case

    Chime Solutions

    By: Shai Bernstein, William R. Kerr, Christopher Stanton, Raymond Kluender and Mel Martin
    Just two years after launching its 10k by 2020 initiative to hire 10,000 employees by 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic forced Chief Executive Officer Mark Wilson to send nearly all of his staff at Chime Solutions (Chime) to work from home. Chime was a customer contact firm... View Details
    Keywords: Working Capital; Service Operations; Recruitment; Performance; Change Management; Retention; Financial Institutions; Employee Relationship Management; Talent and Talent Management; Growth Management; Mission and Purpose; Communications Industry; Service Industry; United States
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    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Innovation Adoption and Organizational Identity: Identity Dynamism as a Strategic Resource for Top Management Team Decision Making

    By: Ryan Raffaelli, Mary Ann Glynn and Michael Tushman
    Organizations continuously face decisions about whether to adopt radical innovations. We examine the relationship between innovation adoption and identity, linking identity with firm strategy to explain innovation adoption over time. We conceptualize identity as... View Details
    Keywords: Dynamic Managerial Capabilities; Organizational Identity; Innovation Adoption; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Innovation and Invention; Adoption
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    • 02 Sep 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    First-Party Content, Commitment and Coordination in Two-Sided Markets

    Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & Daniel Spulber
    • January 2013
    • Case

    Say on Pay at The Walt Disney Company

    By: Ian D. Gow and Gaizka Ormazabal
    This case focuses on the lead-up to Disney's 2012 annual meeting where Disney would face a vote on the compensation package of its CEO, Robert Iger. Leading proxy advisory firms were recommending that shareholders reject the proposed compensation. View Details
    Keywords: Shareholder Votes; Executive Compensation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States
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    • February 2000 (Revised April 2004)
    • Case

    Butler Capital Partners and Autodistribution: Putting Private Equity to Work in France

    Describes a proposed buyout transaction of Autodistribution, an entrepreneurial firm that is the leading car-parts distributor in France. The deal became feasible because of a failed takeover battle for Autodistribution's parent company. Private equity investor Butler... View Details
    Keywords: Private Equity; Leveraged Buyouts; Valuation; Executive Compensation; Entrepreneurship; Distribution Industry; Auto Industry; France
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    • December 1997
    • Case

    Intercontinental Breweries (Abridged)

    By: Thomas R. Piper
    A senior executive of a U.S. multinational is attempting to develop a set of financial, operating, and ownership arrangements that will be acceptable to the management and employees of a major Polish company and to the Ministry of Privatization. The arrangements must... View Details
    Keywords: Agreements and Arrangements; Multinational Firms and Management; Joint Ventures; Food and Beverage Industry; Poland; United States
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    • 17 Sep 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: September 17

    Exchange Commission Electronic Data-Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (EDGAR) website, we show that firms appearing in chronologically adjacent searches by the same individual are fundamentally similar on... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2012
    • Article

    Hiring Cheerleaders: Board Appointments of 'Independent' Directors

    By: Lauren Cohen, Andrea Frazzini and Christopher Malloy
    We provide evidence that firms appoint independent directors who are overly sympathetic to management, while still technically independent according to regulatory definitions. We explore a subset of independent directors for whom we have detailed, micro-level data on... View Details
    Keywords: Recruitment; Management; Corporate Governance; Performance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Executive Compensation; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Prejudice and Bias
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      James L. Heskett

      James L. Heskett is UPS Foundation Professor Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author of his latest book, With From Within: Build Organizational Culture for Competitive... View Details

      • Web

      Placement - Doctoral

      studies, are uniquely individualized. Factors like departmental fit, location preferences, dual career choices, and family needs shape these decisions. We celebrate when students secure a position that brings them joy! Students are supported throughout their job View Details
      • 17 Dec 2020
      • Working Paper Summaries

      How Do CEOs Make Strategy?

      Keywords: by Mu-Jeung Yang, Michael Christensen, Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, and Jan Rivkin
      • July 2020
      • Supplement

      PeopleAnswers (B): The Infor Acquisition

      By: Daniel P. Gross
      In the fall of 2009, founder and CEO Gab Goncalves has turned PeopleAnswers, Inc. from a fledgling startup to a steadily growing company of nearly 50 employees and $10 million recurring revenue. PeopleAnswers provides people analytics software which its clients use to... View Details
      Keywords: People Analytics; Entrepreneurship; Strategy; Growth and Development; Human Resources; Selection and Staffing; Mergers and Acquisitions
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      • 2008
      • Working Paper

      Communication (and Coordination?) in a Modern, Complex Organization

      By: Adam M. Kleinbaum, Toby E. Stuart and Michael L. Tushman
      This is a descriptive study of the structure of communications in a modern organization. We analyze a dataset with millions of electronic mail messages, calendar meetings and teleconferences for many thousands of employees of a single, multidivisional firm during a... View Details
      Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Interpersonal Communication; Organizational Structure; Social Issues; Boundaries
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      • 18 Jul 2023
      • Interview

      Jeffrey Rayport on Product Market Fit, Profit Market Fit and Whiplash, and More

      By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Doug Levin
      This episode of "Lessons from Startup Life" podcast features Jeffrey Rayport, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Jeffrey specializes in teaching and researching growth-stage technology ventures and their scalability. Prior to... View Details
      Keywords: Scaling And Growth; Start-up; Diversity; Equity; Inclusion; Technology; Business Startups; Product Marketing; Business Growth and Maturation
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      • 09 Jan 2024
      • In Practice

      Harnessing AI: What Businesses Need to Know in ChatGPT’s Second Year

      high-value ideas that blend human ingenuity with AI’s efficiency and analytical power. As we look ahead, it is clear that the competitive edge belongs to those firms that embrace this partnership. Picture a scenario where AI serves as the... View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology