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Browse All topics Accounting Audits (3) Accounting (119) Acquisition (20) Activity Based Costing and Management (2) Adaptation (7) Adoption (3) Advertising Campaigns (6) Advertising (77) Agency Theory (3)... View Details
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21st Century Energy — Dr Crawford teaches this EC course, which exposes students to business models and management diilemmas, all along the energy value chain — from oil sands and pipelines, to coal and natural gas, hydro and nuclear, wind and solar, to biofuels. The... View Details
Keywords: Energy; Energy Efficiency; Energy Storage; Governance; Energy Generation; Renewable Energy; Energy Sources; Resource Allocation; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Ethics; Competitive Strategy; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; Europe; Asia; United States
  • 26 Aug 2002
  • Research & Ideas

High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest

mountain, Everest has never been a cakewalk: 148 people have lost their lives attempting to reach the summit since 1922. Newspaper and magazine articles and books—most famously, Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael A. Roberto

    William A. Sahlman

    William Sahlman is a Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

    Mr. Sahlman received an A.B. degree in Economics from Princeton University (1972), an M.B.A. from Harvard University (1975), and a Ph.D. in Business... View Details

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    • 16 Apr 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Gray Markets and Multinational Transfer Pricing

    Keywords: by Romana L. Autrey & Francesco Bova
    • 01 Oct 2019
    • News

    Today’s venture capitalists owe something to 19th-century whalers

    • 08 Oct 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: October 8

      Publications August 2013 The Industrial Policy Revolution I: The Role of Government Beyond Ideology Growth and the Quality of Foreign Direct Investment: Is All FDI Equal By: Alfaro, Laura, and Andrew Charlton Abstract—In this paper we... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    The International Price of Remote Work

    By: Agostina Brinatti, Alberto Cavallo, Javier Cravino and Andres Drenik
    We study how the price of remote work is determined in a globalized labor market using data from a large web-based job platform, where workers from around the world compete for remote jobs. Despite the global nature of the platform, we find that remote wages are higher... View Details
    Keywords: Remote Work; Exchange Rates; Purchasing Power Parity; Offshoring And Outsourcing; Macroeconomics; Developing Countries and Economies; Wages; Trade; Globalization; Marketplace Matching; Currency Exchange Rate; Service Industry; Service Industry; Service Industry
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    • January 2019
    • Case

    Data.gov (Abridged)

    By: Karim R. Lakhani, Robert D. Austin and Yumi Yi
    This case presents the logic and execution underlying the launch of Data.gov, an instantiation of President Obama's initiative for transparency and open government. The process used by Vivek Kundra, the federal CIO, and his team to rapidly develop the website and to... View Details
    Keywords: Safety; Rights; Analytics and Data Science; Internet and the Web; Ethics; Cost vs Benefits; Innovation and Management; Information Management; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry; United States
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    • January 2017
    • Case

    T. Rowe Price and the Dell Inc. MBO (A)

    By: Lena G. Goldberg
    T. Rowe Price’s mutual funds, separate accounts, institutional investors, and retirement accounts were, in the aggregate, Dell Inc.’s third largest shareholder in 2013 when Dell announced a management-led buyout, or MBO, structured as a merger. In considering whether... View Details
    Keywords: Fiduciary Duties; Management Buy-out; Mergers and Acquisitions; Valuation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Delaware
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    DENIAL reviews

    By: Richard S. Tedlow

    "A wake-up call to be sure that we dont allow ourselves to confuse our maps with the actual territory."

    strategy+business "2010 Best Business Books," Winter 2010

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    • January 2025
    • Case

    Constitutional Fiction: John Miller & the Legitimacy of Family Constitutions

    By: Lauren Cohen, Octavian Graf Pilati and Sophia Pan
    John Miller sat reviewing his family’s Constitution, grappling with how best to implement and enforce its provisions. Designed to prevent ambiguity in governance, the Family Constitution set out core values and guidelines to promote harmony and cohesion among family... View Details
    Keywords: Conflict Resolution; Perspective Taking; Liabilities; Family Business; Family Ownership; Business Growth and Maturation; Alignment; Cooperation; Attitudes; Behavior; Cognition and Thinking; Conflict Management; Conflict of Interests; Power and Influence; Perception; Trust; Perspective; Motivation and Incentives; Happiness; Identity; Goals and Objectives; Legal Liability; Contracts; Fairness; Values and Beliefs; Governance Controls; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Family and Family Relationships; Manufacturing Industry; Germany
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    • September 2020
    • Supplement

    Commonwealth Joe: January 2020 Update from CEO Robert Peck

    By: Alexander J. MacKay
    At the end of 2016, the leadership team of Commonwealth Joe Coffee Roasters—Robert Peck, Chase Damiano, and Jeremy Martin—had begun an ambitious retail expansion strategy in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area for their specialty coffee business. That October, they... View Details
    Keywords: Cold Brew Coffee; Specialty Coffee; On-premise Coffee Market; Retail Expansion Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Business Model; Brands and Branding; Expansion; Strategy; Decision Making; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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    • January 2014
    • Case

    Steven Carpenter at Cake Financial (Abridged)

    By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Joseph B. Fuller and Shikhar Ghosh
    Steven Carpenter reflects on the successes and failures of his recent venture, Cake Financial. Carpenter had just sold the four-year-old startup and was at work on a new business plan. But first, he wanted to understand why Cake Financial, a service that allowed users... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business or Company Management; Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Internet; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry
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    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Estimating Productivity in the Presence of Spillovers: Firm-Level Evidence from the U.S. Production Network

    By: Ebehi Iyoha
    This paper examines the extent to which productivity gains are transmitted across U.S. firms through buyer-supplier relationships. Many empirical studies measure firm-to-firm spillovers using firm-level productivity estimates derived from control function approaches.... View Details
    Keywords: Supply and Industry; Partners and Partnerships; Production
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    • March 2008
    • Case

    Patel Food and Chemicals Private Limited (A)

    By: Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon
    Alok Patel, the founder and chairman of a Gujarat-based, privately held edible oils processor, must decide whether to hire a CFO candidate. Previously, his company's book-keeping has been done by an uncle, who has mentioned that he may retire soon. Patel could hire his... View Details
    Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Family Business; Managerial Roles; Emerging Markets; Diversity; Finance; Food and Beverage Industry; Gujarat
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    Courses | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

    Accountability (LCA) In this course, students learn about the complex responsibilities facing business leaders today. Through cases about difficult managerial decisions, the course examines the legal, ethical, and economic... View Details
    • March 8, 2016
    • Article

    Cognitive Fatigue Influences Students' Performance on Standardized Tests

    By: Hans Henrik Sievertsen, F. Gino and Marco Piovesan
    Using test data for all children attending Danish public schools between school years 2009–2010 and 2012–2013, we examine how the time of the test affects performance. Test time is determined by the weekly class schedule and computer availability at the school. We find... View Details
    Keywords: Time Management; Education; Performance Evaluation; Education Industry; Denmark
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    Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

    Social Media ; Banks and Banking ; Financing and Loans ; Investment Portfolio ; Interest Rates ; Debt Securities ; Risk and Uncertainty ; Financial Statements ; Risk Management ; Failure ; Fair Value Accounting ; Credit ; Corporate... View Details
    • September 2012 (Revised July 2014)
    • Case

    Blackstone's Investment in Intelenet

    By: Josh Lerner, Sandeep Bapat and Rachna Tahilyani
    Three years had passed since Blackstone's investment in Intelenet Global Services, their third largest investment in India. Great progress had been made, but now a new challenge loomed. Globank, a large global bank, was Intelenet's largest customer. Intelenet's... View Details
    Keywords: India; Blackstone; Private Equity; Financial Services Industry; India
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