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General Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

All Star Paper Award from the Journal of Financial Economics for "Does Corporate Performance Improve after Mergers?" (April 1992) with Paul M. Healy and Richard S. Ruback. 2000 Regina E. Herzlinger : Winner of the 2000 Articles of Merit... View Details

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Future Positive - Managing the Future of Work

Research Research Future Positive: How Companies Can Tap Into Employee Optimism to Navigate Tomorrow’s Workplace By: By: Joseph B. Fuller Joseph B. Fuller , , Judith Wallenstein Judith Wallenstein , , Manjari Raman Manjari Raman & & Alice... View Details

January 2019 (Revised February 2020)
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Should a Pension Fund Try to Change the World? Inside GPIF's Embrace of ESG

By: George Serafeim

In the fall of 2018, Hiro Mizuno, the Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of GPIF, the Japanese Government Pension Fund, was reflecting on his efforts to integrate Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues into every aspect of GPIF’s portfolio. His efforts ranged... View Details

Keywords: Pension Funds; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Investment Funds; Environmental Sustainability; Social Issues; Governance; Leading Change; Economy; Performance Improvement; Japan

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Porcini's Pronto: "Great Italian cuisine without the wait!"

By: James L. Heskett and Richard Luecke

Porcini's Inc. operates a chain of 23 full-service restaurants located near shopping malls and downtown areas in the northeastern United States. Known for providing excellent service, Porcini's serves high-quality Italian cuisine made from fresh ingredients. Looking... View Details

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5 Behavioral Biases That Trip Up Remote Managers

November 1990 (Revised November 1991)
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Apple Computer (B): Managing Morale and Corporate Culture

Explores how the human resource function at Apple Computer can best support the company's strategy. Analyzes the culture and morale at Apple. Apple has a very unique culture. Moreover, morale within the company is at a low. The culture is powerful in aiding the company... View Details

Keywords: Attitudes; Organizational Culture; Employees; Business Strategy; Computer Industry; United States

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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Entrepreneurial Management Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students 2024 Jeffrey J. Bussgang : Named one of the Boston Globe 's Tech Power Players 2024. Zoe B. Cullen : Recipient of a 2024 Sloan... View Details

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Building the On-Demand Workforce - Managing the Future of Work

accelerating the rise of the gig economy. Companies are using these platforms to bridge high-skills gaps opportunistically. Now, in the post-COVID era, business leaders will need a strategic approach to managing a blended workforce of... View Details

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Financial Management of Smaller Firms - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Financial Management of Smaller Firms Course Number 1452 Baker Foundation Professor Richard Ruback Professor of Management Practice Royce Yudkoff Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 28 Sessions Exam... View Details

November 1987 (Revised April 2017)
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Polysar Limited

By: Robert Simons

Teaching Note for (9-187-098). View Details

Keywords: Management Control Systems; Strategy And Execution; Performance Measurement; Variance Analysis; Profit Management; Canada

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Using Life Stage Theory to Manage Work Relationships

By: J. A. Davis and R. Taguiri

Keywords: Employee Relationship Management; Labor and Management Relations

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New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World

management make sound strategic choices and ensure efficient implementation of those decisions. They do this by allocating scarce capital resources to the best opportunities, then measuring and controlling View Details

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March 2020
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Do Managers Matter? A Natural Experiment from 42 R&D Labs in India

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Tarun Khanna and Christos A. Makridis

We exploit plausibly exogenous variation in the staggered entry of new managers into India’s 42 public R&D labs between 1994 and 2006 to study how alignment between the CEO and middle-level managers affect research productivity. We show that the introduction of new lab... View Details

Keywords: Incentives; Innovation; Productivity; Management; Alignment; Research and Development; Innovation and Invention; Performance Productivity; India

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Hidden Workers, Part-Time Potential - Managing the Future of Work

are more loyal and perform better on several key metrics compared to traditional sources of talent. With many companies facing a talent shortage, hiring these hidden workers may be the solution. Read the report Media Coverage ‘Misfits’ in... View Details

July 1995
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Managing Conflict in a Diverse Workplace TN

By: Mary C. Gentile and James I. Cash Jr.

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Keywords: Management Style; Conflict Management; Spoken Communication; Employees; Culture; Diversity

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Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management

Keywords: by Maria Guadalupe, Hongyi Li & Julie Wulf

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How Companies Can Ease the Strain on Employees Taking Care of Elderly Parents or Ill Family Members

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Data Can Do for Change Management What It Did for Marketing

July 2016 (Revised June 2019)
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Hamilton: An American Musical

By: Anita Elberse and Jennifer Schoppe

In July 2013, composer, writer, actor and rapper Lin-Manuel Miranda, director Tommy Kail, and producer Jeffrey Seller met to discuss how to launch Hamilton, a new musical based on the life of the first Treasury Secretary of the United States, Alexander Hamilton.... View Details