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  • 21 Dec 2016
  • Blog Post

Why We Recruit: CPP Investment Board

2006 to diversity investments by asset class and geography. Shortly after, in 2010, our organization started recruiting through the on-campus recruiting process at Harvard Business School. We recruit for full-time opportunities at the... View Details
  • Program

Rising Generation in the Family Enterprise

designed to facilitate your growth. Your learning will take place on your own, in your living group, and in the larger classroom, driven by the renowned HBS case method. Review Our Campus Health & Safety Protocols Admissions Criteria and View Details
  • Web

Employment | Harvard Business School

unmatched opportunity to work closely with world-renowned faculty on the research, case studies, and coursework that shape the world's leaders. Working at HBS Benefits & Compensation Hiring Process Departments Diversity Affinity Groups... View Details
  • October 2011
  • Supplement

An Interview with Ganesh Natarajan, CEO of Zensar

By: David A. Garvin
Zensar is a rapidly growing, mid-sized Indian IT services company with a collaborative management philosophy and innovative HR policies. One of its practices, Vision Communities, is an inclusive forum for innovation and strategy formulation. As the company grows,... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Human Resources; Employees; Leadership Style; Management; Organizational Culture; Information Technology Industry; India
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  • 13 Feb 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Breaking Through the Self-Doubt That Keeps Talented Women from Leading

platform. Similar to the UpWork experiment, some participants received only generic information about parameters for the expert job, while others received more specific details, including the desired test score. The controlled setting... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • June 2012
  • Case

Microsoft IT India

By: Willy C. Shih, Margaret Pierson, Alexander Down, William Gustave Jair-Shemuel Jurist, Diego Medicina and Helen Wang
Raj Biyani faced tough challenges managing Microsoft IT India: leading a remote development organization in which key decisions were made in Redmond, and managing an organization that was perceived as less strategic than its sister Microsoft India Development Center... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Development; Cross-functional Management; Foreign Subsidiaries; Strategy Alignment; Organizational Behavior; Indian Software Development; Global Distributed R＆D; Software Industry; Organizational Structure; Research and Development; Operations; Leadership; Globalized Firms and Management; Business Subsidiaries; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Technology Industry; India
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  • 29 Feb 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Whence IT Value?

During the past few years inventory turns among U.S. manufacturers have climbed steadily, and it appears as if productivity has improved nicely. One explanation for these happy trends is that the massive investments we've been making in View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
  • 2016
  • Working Paper

More Effective Sports Sponsorship—Combining and Integrating Key Resources and Capabilities of International Sports Events and Their Major Sponsors

By: Ragnar Lund and Stephen A. Greyser
Organizations in the field of sports are becoming increasingly dependent on sponsors for their value creation and growth. Studies suggest that sports organizations (rights-holders) often fail to exploit the full potential of such sponsorship partnerships. The aim of... View Details
Keywords: Sponsorship; ＂Sports Organizations,; Case Study; Europe; Business Relationships; Collaborative Marketing; Value Co-creation; Relationship Portfolio Management; Value Creation; Cases; Marketing; Sports; Sports Industry; Europe
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  • Research Summary

Financial Markets and Corporate Governance

By: Dwight B. Crane
Corporate scandals beginning in the late 1990s focused renewed attention on corporate governance, but significant cracks in the governance system also contributed to recent problems. Deregulation and growth of financial markets, as well as changes in the competitive... View Details
  • November 2024
  • Article

Preference Externality Estimators: A Comparison of Border Approaches and IVs

By: Xi Ling, Wesley R. Hartmann and Tomomichi Amano
This paper compares two estimators—the Border Approach and an Instrumental Variable (IV) estimator—using a unified framework where identifying variation arises from “preference externalities,” following the intuition in Waldfogel (2003). We highlight two dimensions in... View Details
Keywords: Econometrics; Casual Inference; Marketing; Economics; Advertising; Mathematical Methods
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  • February 2016
  • Article

Unearned Status Gain: Evidence from a Global Language Mandate

By: Tsedal Neeley and Tracy Dumas
Theories of status rarely address unearned status gain—an unexpected and unsolicited increase in relative standing, prestige, or worth, attained not through individual effort or achievement, but from a shift in organizationally valued characteristics. We build theory... View Details
Keywords: Status and Position; Equality and Inequality; Spoken Communication; Organizations; Japan; United States
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  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Just Say No to Wall Street: Putting A Stop to the Earnings Game

By: Joseph Fuller and Michael C. Jensen

Putting an end to the "earnings game" requires that CEOs reclaim the initiative by avoiding earnings guidance and managing expectations in such a way that their stocks trade reasonably close to their intrinsic value. In place of earnings forecasts, management should... View Details

Keywords: Stocks; Performance Expectations; Goals and Objectives; Risk and Uncertainty; Growth and Development Strategy; Decisions; Risk Management; Budgets and Budgeting; Earnings Management; Value; Projects
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  • 21 Nov 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Employee Negativity Is Like Wildfire. Manage It Before It Spreads.

spreading, Goldenberg says. Prior research has shown that people tend to express stronger emotions when they know other people are watching. And seeing people express intense emotions also tends to amplify the emotions of the watchers. Emotions also can spread through... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • Program

Foundations of Private Equity and Venture Capital

knowledge of industry processes and terminology Assess the implications of different deal structures and terms Establish a successful private equity/venture capital partnership structure Expand your personal and professional network... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Finance
  • May 2003 (Revised October 2003)
  • Case

BEA Systems, Inc.: Constant Reinvention to Cope with Market Waves

Developed in 1995 as a specialist software vendor, BEA Systems, Inc. had already transformed itself twice from a transaction processing product company to a server application provider. By July 2002, it had become the fastest company in history to reach $1 billion in... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Digital Platforms; Business Growth and Maturation; Management Practices and Processes; Applications and Software; Entrepreneurship; Organizational Culture; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry
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  • April 2021
  • Case

Glass-Shattering Leaders: Ros Atkins

By: Boris Groysberg and Colleen Ammerman
Ros Atkins launched the 50:50 Project on a BBC news program he anchored, deciding with his team to start tracking the gender of the contributors and experts featured on the show. Before long, it was clear that monitoring the data led to increased awareness of a gender... View Details
Keywords: Gender Equality; Allyship; Representation; Leadership; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Media; Analytics and Data Science
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  • October 2021 (Revised December 2021)
  • Case

Customer-Centric Design with Artificial Intelligence: Commonwealth Bank

By: Karim R. Lakhani, Yael Grushka-Cockayne, Jin Hyun Paik and Steven Randazzo
As Commonwealth Bank (CommBank) CEO Matt Comyn delivered the full financial year results in August 2021 over videoconference, it took less than two minutes for him to make his first mention of the organization's Customer Engagement Engine (CEE), the AI-driven customer... View Details
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Customer-centricity; Banks and Banking; Customer Focus and Relationships; Technological Innovation; Transformation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance; AI and Machine Learning; Financial Services Industry; Australia
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Driving Digital Strategy

by the renowned HBS case method. Review Our Campus Health & Safety Protocols Admissions Criteria and Process We admit candidates to specific sessions on a rolling, space-available basis, and encourage you to apply as early as possible.... View Details
  • 12 Mar 2024
  • HBS Case

How Used Products Can Unlock New Markets: Lessons from Apple's Refurbished iPhones

Some of Apple’s most loyal customers think nothing of upgrading to the latest iPhone every time one comes out. But what about consumers who can’t splurge on a $1,000 iPhone 15 Pro? And what about the electronic waste that would accrue if people threw away functional... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Electronics; Information Technology
  • 2013
  • Case

The COFCO Group

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Zheng Xiaoming and Ziqian Zhao
COFCO was China's sole legitimate window for agricultural foreign trade before 1987. The reform of China's foreign trade system beginning in 1987 cost COFCO its monopoly position. Subsequently, the SOE giant capitalized on its foreign trade expertise to strategically... View Details
Keywords: China; Food; China
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