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    Jay W. Lorsch

    Jay W. Lorsch is the Louis Kirstein Professor of Human Relations at the Harvard Business School. He is editor of View Details

    • 13 Dec 2012
    • HBS Seminar

    Raffaella Sadun, Harvard Business School

    • Web

    HBS Recruiting Homepage

    Discover HBS Talent HBS students and alumni are diverse, talented leaders aiming to make a positive impact in the world. Discover ways to meet and recruit this pool of talent. Recruit Now Insights & Advice 05 Feb 2025 Leadership with... View Details
    • Program

    Private Equity and Venture Capital

    venture capital fields, our foundational investment program, Foundations of Private Equity and Venture Capital, may be more appropriate. The programs are not intended to be taken consecutively and are designed to meet the needs of two... View Details
    Keywords: Finance; Finance
    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Iterative Coordination and Innovation

    By: Sourobh Ghosh and Andy Wu
    Agile management practices from the software industry continue to transform the way organizations innovate across industries, yet they remain understudied in the organizations literature. We investigate the widespread Agile practice of iterative coordination: frequent... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation; Goals; Specialization; Coordination; Field Experiment; Software Development; Organizations; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Goals and Objectives; Integration; Software
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    • September 2008 (Revised October 2008)
    • Case

    Shareholder Activists at Friendly Ice Cream (A1)

    By: Fabrizio Ferri, V.G. Narayanan and James Weber
    Two activist investors, one a founder and one a hedge fund manager, seek to improve board oversight at a chain restaurant company. Prestley Blake founded Friendly Ice Cream in 1935 with his brother, and the two created a chain of full-service restaurants. In 1979, they... View Details
    Keywords: Investment Activism; Governing and Advisory Boards; Lawsuits and Litigation; Business or Company Management; Business and Shareholder Relations; Conflict of Interests; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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    • December 2013
    • Case

    Bruce Allyn: Negotiating with the KGB (A)

    By: James K. Sebenius
    Isolated by the KGB in Moscow, Harvard graduate student Bruce Allyn faces high-pressure negotiation tactics to recruit him for the Soviet spy agency. At the tense height of the Cold War, with CIA agents systematically being exposed and executed in Russia, Allyn was... View Details
    Keywords: Negotiation; Bargaining; Hard Bargaining; KGB; Espionage; Spying; War; National Security; Alliances; Ethics; Negotiation Tactics; Decision Choices and Conditions; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Offer; Cambridge; Moscow; Soviet Union
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    • Article

    How to Get the Most Out of Peer Support Groups: A Guide to the Benefits and Best Practices

    By: Boris Groysberg and Robert Russman Halperin
    For years business leaders have turned to peer forums—groups of four to 10 people with similar interests who meet regularly for confidential conversations—to share their problems, find support and insights, and learn and grow. But because such forums are small and... View Details
    Keywords: Peer Comparison; Support; Workplace; Peer Relationships; Personal Development and Career
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    • 2014
    • Working Paper

    The Federal Reserve's Abandonment of Its 1923 Principles

    By: Julio J. Rotemberg
    This paper studies the persistence and some of the consequences of the eventual abandonment by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) of the principles embedded in the Federal Reserve’s Tenth Annual Report of 1923. The three principles I focus on are 1) the... View Details
    Keywords: Central Banking; Policy; United States
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    • July 1994 (Revised March 1996)
    • Case

    Baxter International: OnCall as Soon as Possible?

    Baxter Healthcare is heir to the fabled ASAP ordering system, one of the best-known examples of the use of technology to provide strategic marketing advantage. By 1994, the proprietary ASAP system is well established. Baxter is beginning to launch On-Call EDI, which is... View Details
    Keywords: Information Technology; Competitive Advantage; Business Strategy; Information Technology Industry; Health Industry
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    • April 2011 (Revised April 2012)
    • Case

    Angels in British Columbia

    By: Josh Lerner, Thomas Hellmann and Ilkin Ilyaszade
    The case study provides an overview of the angel investment practices and describes government policies towards angel and venture capital investing in British Columbia, Canada. It focuses in particular on the Equity Capital Program (BCECP henceforth), which provides... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital; Private Equity; Investment; Policy; Taxation; Performance Improvement; Programs; British Columbia
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    • November 2000
    • Case

    WARDA: Leading a Rice Revolution in West Africa

    By: Ray A. Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Cate Reavis
    The West Africa Rice Development Association, along with various national and international partners, was developing and transferring new rice technologies to farmers throughout West and Central Africa. While production in West Africa was growing faster than any other... View Details
    Keywords: Private Sector; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Government and Politics; Technological Innovation; Leadership; Performance Effectiveness; Problems and Challenges; Research and Development; Nonprofit Organizations; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Africa
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    • 12 Jun 2014
    • News

    Second Wind

    • 19 Dec 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    $15 Billion in Five Years: What Data Tells Us About MacKenzie Scott’s Philanthropy

    Alaska and Nebraska, and to states where incomes tend to be lower, like Georgia and New Mexico. Aligning with affiliates meeting the moment About one-third of the organizations receiving Scott’s grants were organizations affiliated with... View Details
    Keywords: by Matthew Lee, Brian Trelstad, and Ethan Tran
    • April 2021
    • Supplement

    Buy Online, Pickup in Store: Vice President of E-Commerce Supplement

    By: Antonio Moreno, Santiago Gallino and Amy Klopfenstein
    In April 2019, Sylvarella VP of E-Commerce Charla Limont must review an analysis of her department’s sales data to determine the impact of the company’s Buy Online, Pickup in Store (BOPS) program. The program implementation created significant problems for the... View Details
    Keywords: Operations; Service Delivery; Logistics; Infrastructure; Distribution Channels; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Analysis; Retail Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; United States; Canada
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    • 2014
    • Chapter

    Can For-Profit Corporations Be Good Citizens? Perspectives from Four Business Leaders

    By: Nien-he Hsieh
    This chapter serves an epilogue, turning to ask practitioners how they would answer the question, "Can for-profit corporations be good citizens?" In reflecting on their answers, the chapter puts forward an account that grounds the purpose and responsibilities of... View Details
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    • December 1992 (Revised March 1997)
    • Case

    Peoria Engine Plant (A)

    By: Robert S. Kaplan and Amy P. Hutton
    Describes the cost control system used at an automobile engine plant for labor and overhead costs. The finance staff prepares daily, weekly, and monthly variance reports against budgets. Department supervisors, finance staff, and the plant manager discuss the use and... View Details
    Keywords: Cost Management; Cost Accounting; Budgets and Budgeting; Earnings Management; Reports; Financial Reporting; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Performance Improvement; Performance Productivity; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Auto Industry
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    • February 2007 (Revised March 2007)
    • Case

    UBS and Climate Change--Warming Up to Global Action?

    By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Forest L. Reinhardt and Elizabeth Raabe
    Marco Suter, Executive Vice-Chairman, UBS Board of Directors, carefully studied the chart on his desk. It showed the public commitment of major financial institutions to help mitigate global warming. Evidently, UBS lagged behind its competitors. The graph was part of a... View Details
    Keywords: Climate Change; Energy Conservation; Cost vs Benefits; Law; Financial Institutions; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Accountability; Financial Services Industry
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    • 30 Mar 2010
    • News

    Good Housekeeping's 125 "Women Who Changed Our Lives"

    • 26 Aug 2009
    • Op-Ed

    Where Cash for Clunkers Ran Off the Road

    Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. Today, let us celebrate the end of an unjustifiable drain on the U.S.... View Details
    Keywords: by John Quelch; Auto