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- December 2016
- Article
Deal Process Design in Management Buyouts
Management buyouts (MBOs) are an economically and legally significant class of transaction: not only do they account for more than $10 billion in deal volume per year, on average, but they also play an important role in defining the relationship between inside and... View Details
Subramanian, Guhan. "Deal Process Design in Management Buyouts." Harvard Law Review 130, no. 2 (December 2016): 590–658.
- 01 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?
The controversial topic of offshoring U.S. jobs may have been shoved out of the headlines by recent events, but it remains front and center for senior business leaders operating in an increasingly global,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
school,” she recalls. She soon advanced to the head of the class as chief of design. Over the next two decades, the phone rang frequently, each time bringing yet another irresistible job offer. Ross moved through executive-level View Details
- June 2005 (Revised March 2017)
- Teaching Note
Siebel Systems: Organizing for the Customer
By: Robert Simons
Teaching Note to (103-014). The Siebel Systems case describes the unusual accountability and organizing choices made by managers of a successful, rapidly growing software development company. The case is set in 2002, but details the critical decisions made by founder... View Details
- August 2006 (Revised June 2007)
- Supplement
Management Levels at Staples (C): District Manager
By: David A. Garvin and Lynne Levesque
Garvin, David A., and Lynne Levesque. "Management Levels at Staples (C): District Manager." Harvard Business School Supplement 307-039, August 2006. (Revised June 2007.)
- Mar 2012
- Report
A Jobs Compact for America's Future
What's good for individual U.S. companies is no longer automatically good for business nationwide, for U.S. workers, or for the economy. That, coupled with the failure of business, government, and other institutions to engage in... View Details
- August 2006 (Revised May 2007)
- Supplement
Management Levels at Staples (F): President, U.S. Stores
By: David A. Garvin and Lynne Levesque
Garvin, David A., and Lynne Levesque. "Management Levels at Staples (F): President, U.S. Stores." Harvard Business School Supplement 307-042, August 2006. (Revised May 2007.)
- August 2006 (Revised June 2007)
- Supplement
Management Levels at Staples (E): Senior Vice President
By: David A. Garvin and Lynne Levesque
Garvin, David A., and Lynne Levesque. "Management Levels at Staples (E): Senior Vice President." Harvard Business School Supplement 307-041, August 2006. (Revised June 2007.)
- 28 Mar 2012
- What Do You Think?
Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?
too-commonly used term, not mine) are tradable on international labor markets. They especially follow the migration of manufacturing activity involving jobs requiring lower skills and compensation. Efforts... View Details
- 11 Jun 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Gender in Job Negotiations: A Two-Level Game
- Teaching Interest
Design of Field Research Methods (DFRM)
Field research involves collecting original data (qualitative and/or quantitative) in field sites. This course combines informal lecture and discussion with practical exercises to build specific skills for conducting field research in organizations. Readings include... View Details
Design Rules, Vol. 1: The Power of Modularity
We live in a dynamic economic and commercial world, surrounded by objects of remarkable complexity and power. In many industries, changes in products and technologies have brought with them new kinds of firms and forms of organization. We are... View Details
- Web
Research Design - Impact Investments
Research Design Research Design The Project on Impact Investments uses multi-method research to build insight that is both expansive in its focus and detailed in its analysis.... View Details
- April 2020
- Article
A Theory of Experimenters: Robustness, Randomization, and Balance
By: Abhijit Banerjee, Sylvain Chassang, Sergio Montero and Erik Snowberg
This paper studies the problem of experiment design by an ambiguity-averse decisionmaker who trades off subjective expected performance against robust performance guarantees. This framework accounts for real-world experimenters’ preference for randomization. It also... View Details
Banerjee, Abhijit, Sylvain Chassang, Sergio Montero, and Erik Snowberg. "A Theory of Experimenters: Robustness, Randomization, and Balance." American Economic Review 110, no. 4 (April 2020): 1206–1230.
- August 2006 (Revised May 2007)
- Supplement
Management Levels at Staples (D): Regional Vice President
By: David A. Garvin and Lynne Levesque
Garvin, David A., and Lynne Levesque. "Management Levels at Staples (D): Regional Vice President." Harvard Business School Supplement 307-040, August 2006. (Revised May 2007.)
- 08 May 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Organizational Design and Control across Multiple Markets: The Case of Franchising in the Convenience Store Industry
- 01 Feb 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is the Next Jobs Crisis Just Ahead?
for how to deal with it. Deaver Brown saw the future (and the jobs crisis) most succinctly: “Better quicker results due to fewer people between a customer and the solution.” Fizzinnf said, “Robotics View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
A Former Buyer Turns Designer
“You go to the contemporary floors, and there’s great stuff to buy, but everything is skewed very young. You could go to the designer area, but you may not want to pay $2,000 for a dress.” So she has View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Where the Jobs Are
agreement on a key goal: Technology-based manufacturing has to be a catalyst for job creation and competitive renewal. But is that a realistic expectation? Seeking an answer, we explore the current View Details
- 22 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs
period between 1995 and 2008. In jobs closely linked to innovation and technology, the share of immigrants was even higher, closer to 24 percent. "Skilled immigration is... View Details