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    Howard H. Stevenson

    Howard H. Stevenson is Sarofim-Rock Baker Foundation Professor emeritus, former Senior Associate Dean, Director of Publishing, and Chair of the Harvard Business Publishing Company board. The Sarofim-Rock Chair was established in 1982 to provide a continuing base for... View Details

    Keywords: broadcasting; communications; computer; construction; financial services; forest products; health care; high technology; industrial goods; insurance industry; investment banking industry; manufacturing; paper; professional services; real estate; service industry; software; venture capital industry
    • 12 Jan 2010
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    First Look: Jan. 12

    http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-043.pdf An Investigation of Earnings Management through Marketing Actions (revised) Authors:Craig J. Chapman and Thomas J. Steenburgh Abstract Prior research hypothesizes... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 01 Feb 1997
    • News

    Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS

    New Ventures, developed and taught by Professor Frank L. Tucker and doctoral candidate Patrick R. Liles (MBA '64, DBA '70). At about the same time, then Associate Professor Howard Stevenson and then Lecturer William View Details
    Keywords: Nancy O. Perry and Susan Young; profiles by Garry Emmons
    • 11 Feb 2014
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    First Look: February 11

    its effect was quantitatively dominated by inequality-raising effects of population growth. The land distribution program lowered landlessness, but this was partly offset by targeting failures and induced... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • June 2022
    • Teaching Plan

    Pacesetters

    By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Mel Martin
    Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 322-019. City Sealcoating CEO Keith Chaney had just publicly called out the Boston Chamber of Commerce for their slow progress on their supplier diversity program, Pacesetters. Established in 2018 by regional business leaders,... View Details
    Keywords: Minority-owned Businesses; Procurement; Racial Wealth Gap; Diversity; Small Business; Restructuring; Contracts; Goals and Objectives; Performance Improvement; Performance Evaluation; United States; Massachusetts
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    • November 2021 (Revised March 2022)
    • Case

    Pacesetters

    By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Mel Martin
    City Sealcoating CEO Keith Chaney had just publicly called out the Boston Chamber of Commerce for their slow progress on their supplier diversity program, Pacesetters. Established in 2018 by regional business leaders, Pacesetters was supposed to facilitate... View Details
    Keywords: Racial Wealth Gap; Procurement; Suppliers; Diversity; Programs; Small Business; Restructuring; Contracts; United States; Boston
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    • 16 Dec 2008
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    First Look: December 16, 2008

    with pro-organizational suggestions, is pervasive and is driven by a set of common implicit theories about speaking up in organizations. Our second study used scenarios about speaking up to validate and extend these findings through... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 03 Mar 2017
    • News

    Big Blue’s Big Bet

    students began to attack these cases by working together. The goal was threefold, says Dr. James Young, executive dean of the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine: Watson was to help doctors get... View Details
    Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
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    Organizational Behavior - Doctoral

    John Jillian J. Jordan Rakesh Khurana Hyunjin Kim Shirley Lu Joshua D. Margolis Edward McFowland III Kathleen L. McGinn Tsedal Neeley Michael I. Norton Leslie A. Perlow Jeffrey T. Polzer Ryan L. Raffaelli Lakshmi Ramarajan View Details
    • 15 Jul 2008
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    First Look: July 15, 2008

    environments. Reduce the Risk of Failed Financial Judgments Authors:Robert G. Eccles, Jr., and Edward J. Riedl Publication:HBS Centennial Issue. Harvard Business Review 86, nos. 7/8 (July - August 2008). Abstract When crucial financial... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 14 Jan 2014
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    First Look: January 14

    help-friendly organization has to be actively nurtured, however, because helpfulness among colleagues does not arise automatically: competition, pride, or distrust may get in the way. The trickiness of this management challenge-to increase a discretionary behavior that... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 02 Aug 2011
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    First Look: August 2

    exercise:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/311111-PDF-ENG BP's Macondo: Spill and Response Julio J. RotembergHarvard Business School Case 711-021 This case starts by reporting various factors that may... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 12 Feb 2008
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    First Look: February 12, 2007

      Working PapersColonial Land Tenure, Electoral Competition and Public Goods in India Authors:Abhijit Banerjee and Lakshmi Iyer No abstract is available at this time. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-062.pdf Rewriting History Authors:Alexander... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 28 Sep 2010
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    First Look: September 28, 2010

    Review (forthcoming) Abstract Companies in Victorian Britain operated in a laissez-faire legal environment from the perspective of outside investors, implying that such investors were not protected by the legal system. This article seeks... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 13 Jul 2010
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    First Look: July 13

    Ramanna, and Douglas J. Skinner Abstract Based on extant literature, we review the positive theory of GAAP. The theory predicts that GAAP's principal focus is on control (performance measurement and stewardship) and that verifiability and... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 04 Jun 2013
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    First Look: June 4

    predicted by the theory. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mrhodeskropf/VCRiskReturn59.pdf 2006 Harvard Business Review Health Care's Service Fanatics: How the Cleveland Clinic Leaped to the Top of the Patient-satisfaction... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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    Business Economics - Doctoral

    lens of business. Jointly administered by HBS and the Department of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the program combines theoretical analysis with in-depth, interdisciplinary research rooted in real-world applications.... View Details
    • 01 Nov 2011
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    First Look: Nov. 1

    C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines Jr. Publication:National Tax Journal (forthcoming) Abstract Deferral of U.S. taxes on foreign source income is commonly characterized as a subsidy to foreign investment, as reflected in its inclusion... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • April 2018
    • Case

    The Bayer - Monsanto Merger: GMOs and 'Science for a Better Life'

    By: Martha J. Crawford and James Barnett
    This case allows students to explore the economic, ethical and legal challenges faced by agri-business companies, after several decades of promoting and selling Genetically Modified (GM) crops. Starting in the 1980s, the widespread introduction of GM crops was... View Details
    Keywords: Merger; Acquisition; GMO; Genetically Modified Crops; Neonics; Pesticides; Crop Seeds; EU; Mergers and Acquisitions; Agribusiness; Genetics; Natural Environment; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Consolidation; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Europe; United States
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    • 04 Nov 2008
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    First Look: November 4, 2008

    trends in the market, the case prompts students to examine the future adoption of drug-eluting stents as well as to consider the potential marketing actions to be taken by Medtronic for ENDEAVOR—a newly approved stent that will hit the... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace