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  • 09 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 9

Bazerman Publication:Academy of Management Perspectives (in press) Abstract In this article, we define good scholarship, highlight our points of disagreement with Locke and Latham (2009), and call for further academic research to examine... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 29, 2016

answering one key question: How are leaders successfully managing competitive companies in the 21st century? Today's constantly changing business environment presents challenges and opportunities that are more dynamic and complex than... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • October 1997
  • Background Note

Family Firms in the Newspaper Industry

Changes in newspaper publishing, specifically the introduction of new technology and concurrent changes in tax policy, which led to a consolidation of the industry are described. Also describes the transformation of family firms into public corporations in response to... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Family Business; Journalism and News Industry
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  • 2016
  • Book

Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 17

By: Shane Greenstein, Josh Lerner and Scott Stern
The seventeenth volume of the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Innovation Policy and the Economy provides an accessible forum for bringing the work of leading academic researchers to an audience of policymakers and those interested in the interaction... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Governance; Policy; Economy
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  • 2016
  • Chapter

Nudging as a Tool for Leaders

By: Max Bazerman
BOOK ABSTRACT: Jewish organizational life is inundated with publications on organizational change and effective leadership, but from mutually exclusive sources: business and organizational studies, on the one hand, and Jewish studies, on the other. One addresses... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategy; Leadership; Civil Society or Community; Religion; Business and Community Relations
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  • October 2013
  • Case

Oaktree and the Restructuring of CIT Group (A)

By: Victoria Ivashina and David Scharfstein
CIT's prepackaged bankruptcy marked the first time a major financial institution was able to successfully restructure and emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy, challenging conventional views that a financial firm could not survive bankruptcy proceedings as a going... View Details
Keywords: Debt Securities; Restructuring; Financial Services Industry
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    When Do Firms Greenwash? Corporate Visibility, Civil Society Scrutiny, and Environmental Disclosure

    Under increased pressure to report environmental impacts, some firms selectively disclose relatively benign impacts, creating an impression of transparency while masking their true performance; other firms’ disclosures, in contrast, are more representative of their... View Details

    • February 2003 (Revised March 2007)
    • Case

    Safe to Say at Prudential Financial

    By: Amy C. Edmondson and Corey B. Hajim
    The CEO initiated a cultural change process at Prudential Financial to support a major business reorientation. Prudential, historically a privately held ("mutual") insurance company, went public in 2001. The cultural change was intended to prepare the organization to... View Details
    Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Risk and Uncertainty; Private Ownership; Going Public; Transformation; Organizational Culture
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    • September 2017 (Revised July 2021)
    • Case

    Asset Allocation at the Cook County Pension Fund

    By: Emil Siriwardane, Juliane Begenau and Yuval Gonczarowski
    Nickol Hackett, chief investment officer of the Cook County Pension Fund, is responsible for investing the fund’s $9 billion worth of assets on behalf of the employees of Cook County, Illinois. Like many other defined-benefit pensions at the time, the Cook County... View Details
    Keywords: Asset Management; Investment Funds; Financial Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions
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      Michael A. Wheeler

      Mike Wheeler joined the HBS faculty in 1993 and has taught extensively in its MBA, Executive, and distance learning programs. His highly interactive 8-week/40-hour HBS Online Negotiation... View Details

      Keywords: arts; construction; e-commerce industry; energy; federal government; green technology; internet; legal services; nonprofit industry; petroleum; pharmaceuticals; publishing industry; real estate; service industry; sports; state government; utilities
      • October 2020
      • Case

      Michael Phelps: 'It's Okay to Not Be Okay'

      By: Boris Groysberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Michael Norris
      In 2020, Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, with 28 medals in various swimming events, was now retired. As he looked back on his 20+ year athletic career, he considered what had gone into making him the greatest of all time—the highs and lows,... View Details
      Keywords: Mental Health; Talent and Talent Management; Training; Health; Success; Performance Improvement; Personal Development and Career; Family and Family Relationships; Sports; Competition; Sports Industry; United States; Baltimore; Arizona; Sydney; Athens; Beijing; London
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      • 09 Nov 2010
      • First Look

      First Look: November 9, 2010

      selling direct to consumers; and managing the social impact of negative public perceptions on the business once the company turns profitable. Purchase this... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • February 2001 (Revised December 2010)
      • Case

      Kenan Systems

      By: Joseph L. Bower, James Weber and Sonja Ellingson Hout
      Kenan Sahin has built a very successful company using a unique business model and a unique organization and culture. Success has brought important risks, but logical options such as sale, partnering, or going public threaten the culture and hence the business. View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Innovation and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Risk Management; Organizational Culture
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      • 2024
      • Working Paper

      Hidden Alpha

      By: Manuel Amman, Alexander Cochardt, Lauren Cohen and Stephan Heller
      This paper documents the central role of hidden connections between fund managers and firm officers in financial markets, drawing on an extensive dataset of over 100 thousand manually identified Facebook profiles and their 35 million Facebook friends. Our findings... View Details
      Keywords: Returns; Investment Return; Networks
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      • June 2021 (Revised November 2021)
      • Case

      Asian Corporate Governance Association: Stemming a 'Race to the Bottom' by Stock Exchanges?

      By: Charles C.Y. Wang and Billy Chan
      This case describes the movement towards dual-class listings on Asian stock exchanges and the efforts of the Asian Corporate Governance Association (ACGA), a not-for-profit shareholder advocacy group, to discourage this trend. As a not-for-profit organization with no... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Governance; Governance Controls; Nonprofit Organizations; Stocks; Financial Markets; Financial Services Industry; Hong Kong; China; Asia
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      • January 2013
      • Article

      Level Two Negotiations: Helping the Other Side Meet Its 'Behind-the-Table' Challenges

      By: James K. Sebenius
      A long analytic tradition has explored the challenge of productively synchronizing "internal" with "external" negotiations, with a special focus on how each side can best manage internal opposition to agreements negotiated "at the table." Implicit in much of this work... View Details
      Keywords: James Baker; Internal Negotiation; Dispute Resolution; Bargaining; Two-level Games; Negotiation; Germany; United States
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      • Web

      Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

      Data Science Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Nicolò Fusi General Manager Microsoft Research Sham Kakade Co-Director Harvard University Kempner Institute Armen Mkrtchyan Origination Partner Flagship... View Details
      • 10 Jul 2023
      • In Practice

      The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023

      to save himself from his inner turmoil. Arthur Brooks is the William Henry Bloomberg Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School, and Professor of Management Practice at HBS. He... View Details
      Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
      • 2025
      • Working Paper

      The Invention of Corporate Governance

      By: Yueran Ma and Andrei Shleifer
      The analysis of corporate governance begins with a central feature of modern capitalism—the separation of ownership and control in large corporations—first empirically documented by Berle and Means (1932). Such separation entails several agency problems reflecting... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Governance; Law; Business and Shareholder Relations
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      • 15 Apr 2015
      • News

      2015 Best 40 Under 40 Professors: Francesca Gino, Harvard Business School