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- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
valuations of the company. Since the restructuring plan proposed to give creditors a substantial amount of new common stock, their relative financial recoveries depended materially on what the firm, and this stock, was ultimately worth. To bridge such View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
- 13 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
Are Companies Actually Greener—or Are They All Talk?
Most companies now account for social good in their financial reports in some way, but with regulation scattershot and evolving, it’s complicated for investors to assess so-called ESG reports. The disclosures, known as Environmental, Social, and Governance reports,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 16 Feb 2023
- HBS Case
ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?
The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details
- 21 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
You Don’t Have to Quit Your Job to Find More Meaning in Life
insights in particular: Employees and managers can disagree on impact. Although employees and managers may both think the impact of a person’s work is important, this does not mean they will agree about when an employee is doing meaningful work. “This is because in an... View Details
Keywords: by Shalene Gupta
- 01 Dec 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?
Summing Up Among responses to this month's column, there was little disagreement with the premise that attitude trumps skills in the selection of new employees. C. J. Cullinane commented: "Attitude is all! I have worked with a group... View Details
Keywords: by by Jim Heskett
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?
rush because important details can and will be lost in haste. Develop clear measures of achievement for each objective. Specify precisely what "performance" means. Enumerate an explicit formula to relate payment price to performance outcomes. Specify a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Organizing the Family-Run Business
sibling dominated boards accomplish much. Siblings, who are typically quite sensitive to one another, often either avoid confrontations or quickly escalate disagreements into disruptive conflicts. Siblings also often see their board... View Details
- 30 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way
don't. In principle one can say, absolutely, there's a slippery slope, let's be very careful not to fall down it, let's write the laws carefully and amend them when we discover abuses. You can negotiate how to write the laws. The essential View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Survival’s Secret Sauce
keeping people together when there are fundamental disagreements over a company's direction. But even these rifts must be managed in a respectful and careful way, ultimately with a commitment to preserve family unity and assets. The... View Details
- 22 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Side Effects: The Case of Propecia
physician. But there was disagreement with that tactic. The goal should be to create brand awareness with men and get them into a doctor's office. "Seventy to 80 percent of physicians will write a prescription if a drug is requested... View Details
- 04 Feb 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has Listening Become a Lost Art?
that, among other things, managers need to have more "adult conversations" —conversations needed to work through "inevitable disagreements and misunderstandings" —with our direct reports. Such conversations require careful listening. In... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
When Silence Spells Trouble at Work
discuss different perspectives. But one speaker after another just echoed what the previous speaker had said. When any manager did dare to dissent, a colleague would quickly dismiss his idea. Having effectively tabled every discussion in which View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
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My academic research centers on uncovering and closing gaps between the theory and reality of tax policy. My main contribution has been to identify and address a mismatch between the goals for taxation typically assumed in theory and the goals the public and... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
disciplines from which such a model could be produced—foundered for many years on disagreements about the nature of business firms and the ultimate purpose of business. The decision (made very early in the history of university-based... View Details
- 12 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Crowds and Experts Kickstart the Arts
recent study, which compared funding decisions of startup theater productions made by art-loving masses on crowdfunding website Kickstarter with evaluations by experts in the field. “Most of the disagreements were on projects that the... View Details
- 07 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 7
from new entrants. We further provide evidence that these effects are due to increased competition for local resources. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-112.pdf Disagreement about the Team's Status Hierarchy: An... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Experimental Researcher Helps Improve Health Care in Zambia
received nothing. To uncover the effect of disagreements between spouses about the number of children to have—women generally want fewer than men—half of the women chosen to receive vouchers got them without their husbands present, and... View Details
- 07 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 7, 2006
is not always possible and suggests an alternative approach. First, when teams discuss what we call "hot topics," substantive disagreements (task conflict) tend to trigger negative attributions about others' motives or abilities... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
When Protestors Knock at Your Door
are, and often to differentiate among different groups—examining, for example, which are more reasonable, which might want to work with the firm, and so on. Then, it's useful to plot out lines of complete disagreement and possible... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
market is in its infancy, there is already disagreement over the appropriate level of regulation” The growth is also driven by ways in which alternative lenders are innovating in small business lending, particularly in terms of simplicity... View Details