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  • 21 Aug 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Faculty Research Looks to Latin America

discuss research possibilities in more depth. Below are snapshot summaries of their presentations. Globalization And Fdi A native of Costa Rica, Professor Laura Alfaro teaches the Business, Government and the International Economy... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 2021
  • Article

How Top Managers Use the Entrepreneurial Gap to Drive Strategic Change

By: Robert L. Simons and Antonio Davila
Prior research provides strong evidence for the association between business strategy and the design and use of management control systems. We complement this research by examining the role of management control systems in situations of strategic change. We report the... View Details
Keywords: Management Control Systems; Accountability; Strategic Change; Organization Change And Adaptation; Organizational Performance; Management Systems; Organizational Structure; Corporate Accountability; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance
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  • 31 Oct 2017
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: In Tackling #MeToo, Don’t Ignore Micro-Insults That Harm Women’s Careers

unfortunately common, especially in settings where women (or minorities) are unusual, few in numbers, uncertain of their future opportunities, and not yet firmly in power. Without changing these underlying structural circumstances, we are... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • 05 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 5, 2006

predictive and prescriptive implications, this theory contributes to the general notion that pricing might affect as much as capture perceived value. Paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/06-055.pdf Capital Structure with Risky Foreign... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • December 2019
  • Case

WeWork Files for an IPO

By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz
For the board of The We Company—better known as WeWork—August 14, 2019, promised to be a pivotal day. It was then that WeWork’s IPO prospectus, known as an S-1 filing, would be made public, giving potential investors, the media, and the general public a window into the... View Details
Keywords: Capital Structure; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Going Public; Leadership; Management; Private Equity; Valuation; Venture Capital; Real Estate Industry; Technology Industry; United States
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  • 05 Nov 2014
  • What Do You Think?

Are We Entering an Era of Neuromanagement?

identify and choose career paths been explored Using brain scan results to guide careers and to recommend those who have the requisite neural structure likely to enable them to master the skills necessary for success involving financial... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 24 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 24

may benefit from limited developer access. Second, an open platform may lead to higher investment than a proprietary platform. Third, opening one side of a proprietary platform may lower incentives to invest in platform quality. Fourth, the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jan 2008
  • Research & Ideas

If Marketing Experts Ran Elections

voters" of U.S. politics. There are 5 structural reasons why this is the case. In U.S. general elections, voters usually see only 2 viable candidates on the ballot. That's one reason turnout is low. In any other product category,... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch
  • 01 Dec 2014
  • News

Instilling Production with Principles

dyeing, knitting, and weaving cotton and manufacturing garments and accessories. Every step is governed by Yang’s E-Culture—ethics, environment, exploration, excellence, and education—which has earned the company the accolades of its... View Details
Keywords: April White; fashion; Manufacturing
  • June 2014 (Revised March 2017)
  • Teaching Note

Chorus and Telecom: Building the Boards

By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott
In 2011, Telecom, the largest telecom provider in New Zealand, was being divided into two publicly traded companies. In connection with this split, Sarah Naudé and Matt Stanley worked with the chairman of Telecom New Zealand, Wayne Boyd, to create two new boards of... View Details
Keywords: Board Of Directors; Women's Empowerment; Governance; Leadership; Selection and Staffing; Organizational Structure; Decision Making; Human Resources; Diversity; Telecommunications Industry; New Zealand
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  • 30 Apr 2024
  • Blog Post

IFC India: Urban Adaptation in a Changing World

expand urban green spaces, such as the Marol Park project that we visited with WRI, can help mitigate urban heat island effects and build resiliency for vulnerable populations living in informal settlements. Governance View Details
  • 29 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

run we've got to have a system that substantially readdresses leverage, transparency, and liquidity. "It will be in fact a whole new ballgame that takes many years to play out. It will be years before we figure out where the crucial financial functions lie, in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 01 Sep 2016
  • News

Pricing Paradise

The Daniel Patrick Moynihan Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School, Bilmes began her career at the Boston Consulting Group, focusing on cost structures in large-scale industries where fractional commodity fluctuations result in... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 01 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 1

primarily on substitutes but copied from rivals. Next, they actively tested their assumptions and made major resource commitments to the business model they identified as the most lucrative. Finally, they deliberately maintained a loosely View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • June 2022
  • Case

Business Implications from Regulating Carbon Emissions in the EU

By: George Serafeim and Benjamin Maletta
In the beginning of the 21st century, the European Union (the EU) had led the global fight against climate change with a wide array of policy measures. The EU’s primary approach to climate policy had been taxation via the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU... View Details
Keywords: Regulation; Carbon Emissions; Trade; Sustainability; Decarbonization; Performance; Climate Change; Analysis; Strategy; Taxation; Policy; Environmental Regulation; Industry Structures; European Union
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  • 27 Sep 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Report From Egypt: Studying Global Influences

group of managers heading every function but also spoke with a cross-section of employees (with translators) and even several customers and partners. Since one of the companies—an IT giant—has been partnering with a major government... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Group Therapy

of several South American nations. Its operations in numerous energy-related industries have done much to improve the economic infrastructure of that continent's emerging countries. On the other hand, the close connections of some groups to a nation's power View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
  • 30 Nov 2018
  • What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?

Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Energy
  • 02 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 2

years. It analyzes the effects of patent laws and innovation prizes that were designed to promote technical progress. It explores the challenge associated with the changing organizational structure of innovation and the shift from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

incumbent Assad regime. Our results show, first, that refugees are far more likely to agree to a ceasefire proposed by a civilian as opposed to one proposed by armed actors from either the Syrian government or the opposition. Second,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman