Publications

13 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?

make the first move. Health care institutions must lead the charge by updating technologies and internal incentive structures to protect providers and patients now and in the... View Details

Keywords: by Susanna Gallani, Lidia Moura, and Katie Sonnefeldt; Health

18 Apr 2022
News

Elon Musk’s Twitter Bid Reflects His Outrageous and Brash Leadership Style. Here’s What Leaders Can Take Away from It.

30 Oct 2021
News

How Men and Women Treat Deadlines in the Workplace Differently

Keywords: Deadlines

03 May 2013
News

Big Deal: Reflections on the American and US Airways Megamerger

September 2012
Article

The Size and Composition of Corporate Headquarters in Multinational Companies: Empirical Evidence

By: David J. Collis, David Young and Michael Goold

Based on a six-country survey of nearly 250 multinationals (MNCs), this paper is the first empirical analysis to describe the size and composition of MNC headquarters and to account for differences among them. Findings are as follows: MNC corporate headquarters are... View Details

Keywords: Headquarters; Subsidiaries; Multinational Corporations; Organization Design; Administrative Heritage; International Strategy; Business Subsidiaries; Organizational Design; Multinational Firms and Management; Size; Business Headquarters; Global Strategy

January 1998 (Revised November 2003)
Case

Morgan Stanley and S.G. Warburg: Investment Bank of the Future (A)

By: James K. Sebenius and David T. Kotchen

Describes secretive negotiations that took place between the top executives of Morgan Stanley and S.G. Warburg in the fall of 1994, when the two firms were contemplating a merger that would create one of the world's most powerful investment banks. By December, in order... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation; Investment Banking; Mergers and Acquisitions; Consolidation; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry

19 Mar 2021
Blog Post

Celebrating Black History: Elevating the Voices of Our Student and Alumni Communities

Melcolm Ruffin (MBA 2020) is among one of four HBS alumni named to this year's Forbes 30 Under 30 List. Melcolm is co-founder of the nonprofit Sports & Entertainment Equity Network (SEEN), which aims to "close the diversity, equity, View Details

28 Jul 2021
News

Veeva’s Distributed Approach to Building Institutional Knowledge and Shared Culture

October 2006
Article

Stewards, Agents, and the Founder Discount: Executive Compensation in New Ventures

By: Noam Wasserman

Keywords: Management; Compensation and Benefits; Business Ventures

28 Oct 2024
Op-Ed

Latino Voters Have Grown More Politically Divided. That’s Not Surprising.

a doctoral student in economics at University of California, Berkeley; Vincent Pons, is the Byron Wein Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School; and... View Details

Keywords: by Richard Calvo, Vincent Pons, and Jesse M. Shapiro

01 May 2009
What Do You Think?

Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?

R&D spending; premature diversification from "core" activities; and a "talent bench shortfall." In the stalled companies, innovation suffered from a concentration on smaller and... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

April 1987
Article

Joint Ventures, Technology Transfer and Technocratic Organization in Nationalist China

By: William C. Kirby

Keywords: Joint Ventures; Information Technology; Organizations; China

28 Apr 2016
Other Presentation

Unlocking the Potential of Geothermal Energy: Strategic Implications for Iceland, Other Nations and the International Community

By: Michael E. Porter and Christian H.M. Ketels

Professor Porter initiated the mapping of Iceland Geothermal Cluster Initiative in cooperation with the consulting company Gekon. He and his colleaque Dr. Christian Ketels introduced their findings in November 2010 at the first Iceland Geothermal Conference held in... View Details

Keywords: Iceland; Geothermal; Renewable; Competitiveness; Competition; Renewable Energy; Energy Industry; Iceland

30 Sep 2014
News

There Are Always a Million Distractions. Here's How to Silence the Noise and Pay Attention.

May 2006
Article

How Do Family Ownership, Control, and Management Affect Firm Value?

Keywords: Family Ownership; Business Ventures; Value

Summer 2015
Article

The Effect of Delaware Doctrine on Freezeout Structure and Outcomes: Evidence on the Unified Approach

By: Fernan Restrepo and Guhan Subramanian

Historically, Delaware corporate law provided different standards of judicial review for buyouts by controlling shareholders (also known as "freezeouts") based on what transactional form was used: deferential business judgment review for freezeouts executed as tender... View Details

Keywords: Laws and Statutes; Business and Shareholder Relations; Delaware

2011
Teaching Note

Beyondsoft Co., Ltd. (A) (TN)

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donghong Li and Hong Zhang

In the past two decades, along with China's rapidly growing economy and its integration into the world economic system, the Chinese software outsourcing industry has also risen from zero to being fairly significant in the world IT market. It is currently growing much... View Details

Keywords: Business Models; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Computer Software; Emerging Markets; Outsourcing; Strategy; China; Applications and Software; China

Purchase

Web

Commodities, Currencies, and Balancing of the Trade Deficit - A Chronicle of the China Trade

University Press, 1997, p. 27. John Heard, Diary, 1891. HC: FP-4, p. 37. Lockwood, p. 22. Geoffrey Jones, Elisabeth Köll, and Alexis Gendron, “Opium and Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth-Century,” HBS No.... View Details

March 1985 (Revised June 1985)
Teaching Note

Conglomerates and the Merger Movement of the 1960s, Teaching Note

By: Richard S. Tedlow

Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Mergers and Acquisitions