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01 Dec 1997
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Multimedia Martha: Sharon Patrick Cooks Up A Winner

interested me. The timing was right. You've been credited with turning Martha Stewart Living into a multimedia corporation. What was it like when you first arrived in 1993? When I met Martha she had various fragmented businesses and... View Details

06 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

The Problem with Hedge Funds

the failure of Long Term Capital Management, then in the late 1990s became major drivers of the market, having grown enormously. They are often close partners to the investment banks, because the funds are small money-management units with no View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

05 Jun 2009
What Do You Think?

What Does Slower Economic Growth Really Mean?

modest increases in both productivity and jobs.) It also means, even without a change in tax rates, a larger tax base. This is important to the extent that it is a major component of a government's plan to manage its capital accounts, which in turn has important... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate

April 2022 (Revised May 2022)
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Mastercard Labs (A)

By: Linda A. Hill, Sunil Gupta, Emily Tedards and Julia Kelley

When Ajaypal (Ajay) Banga became the CEO of Mastercard in 2010, he shifted the company’s competitive focus from card networks to cash itself. Mastercard’s new vision of a “World Beyond Cash” distilled into a three-pronged framework: Grow the core business, Diversify... View Details

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02 Mar 2009
Research & Ideas

When Goal Setting Goes Bad

sexist behavior without knowing that they are doing so. Or they claim credit based on the false belief that their role on the team was more important than reality would dictate. And they are affected by conflicts of interest without... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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HBS Cases | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Skip to Main Content Lehman Brothers Collection Resources Baker Library Collections Corporate Reports Collection R. G. Dun & Co. Credit Reports HBS Cases Baker Old Class Collection Related Archival Collections Bibliography Site View Details

01 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

A Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure Matters

consider some different incentives, Gallani says. The manufacturer in the study rewarded employees for their ideas with fairly small monetary awards. Increasing the size of the award—whether it’s more money or some other benefit—could help increase participation, she... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

10 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business

explicitly and frequently," to Clayton Christensen's insights about how poorly companies handle the technological discontinuities inherent in a faster moving world. Kotter also credits recent work by Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman, who... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

30 Jan 2019
Blog Post

The Life and Role of a CEO

internal and external context, lay out the right course of actions, and interact with internal and external stakeholders to translate strategy into results. One CEO said, “The role of CEO is to define reality and give hope” and “to share View Details

September 2004 (Revised February 2007)
Case

Hedging Currency Risks at AIFS

By: Mihir A. Desai, Vincent Dessain and Anders Sjoman

The American Institute for Foreign Studies (AIFS) organizes study abroad programs and cultural exchanges for American students. The firm's revenues are mainly in U.S. dollars, but most of its costs are in eurodollars and British pounds. The company's controllers review... View Details

Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Investment Funds; Financial Strategy; Forecasting and Prediction; Revenue; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Currency; Currency Exchange Rate; Education Industry; North and Central America

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Bibliography – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

ID required). Websites The History of AT&T www.corp.att.com/history Hawthorne Works Museum www.morton.edu/museum/index.html BBC Radio 4: Mind Changers, Series 4: The Hawthorne Effect, August 2009 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lv0wx Baker Library | Historical... View Details

31 Oct 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Do Measures of Financial Constraints Measure Financial Constraints?

Keywords: by Joan Farre-Mensa & Alexander Ljungqvist

01 Jun 2002
News

Up to the Challenge: Ipsita Dasgupta - Global Perspective, Local Results

summer, and in the fall she will be working in Boston as a strategy consultant for IBM Strategy and Change. “I think I will always be involved in economic development in some way,” she remarks, crediting her mother as a major source of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; development; leadership; social issues; management; technology; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Finance for "Financial Repression in the European Sovereign Debt Crisis" (February 2018) with Bo Becker. Elisabeth Kempf : Winner of the 2018 Best Paper Award at the Financial Research Association Annual Conference for “Partisan Professionals: Evidence from View Details

01 Sep 2023
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History Matters

today from the Panic of 1907? It demonstrates at least six regularities of financial crises. First, crises tend to afflict vulnerable financial systems. Vulnerability often follows an economic boom, a period of real growth that morphs into excessive optimism and View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

06 Nov 2008
Op-Ed

Selling Out The American Dream

zero. Consumer confidence has plummeted with the value of 401(k) plans and retirement nest eggs. Retail sales fell 1.2 percent in September, double the expected decline. Car sales are at a fifteen-year low. And credit card defaults look... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

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Commodities, Currencies, and Balancing of the Trade Deficit - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Related Collections Site Credits From the earliest days of trade between the United States and China, the major obstacle to this commerce had been the lack of American commodities that could be sold in China. — Thomas Layton, The Voyage... View Details

01 Jun 2012
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Catherine Kuehn Price (MBA 1986) and Malcolm Price (MBA 1987)

Malcolm, who was a practicing attorney in Australia when he decided to shift his focus to business. Now heading the Financial Sponsors Group at Credit Suisse in New York City, he views the case method as “an incredibly powerful way of... View Details

01 Jun 2015
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing

guessing a higher-quality rating than the actual quality rating." That would explain why information doesn't "unravel" according to game theory predictions, and why companies don't voluntarily release information even when it is not the worst it could... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Documenting the Wartime Effort | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

the Corporate Image Gary Works Photograph Album Resources Research Links Films & TV Bibliography From the Director Site Credits Special Collections Search Exhibition Introduction The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion... View Details

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