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- 13 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Life of Leaders
was Eisenhower's difficulty during World War II in confronting Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, much to the exasperation of Generals George S. Patton and Omar Bradley. Montgomery fought hard to convince Eisenhower that Eisenhower... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- July 1994 (Revised April 1995)
- Case
San Francisco Bay Consulting
By: George P. Baker III and Karin B Monsler
San Francisco Bay Consulting leads the field of economic consulting and litigation support in the application of powerful computers and cutting edge software to manipulate and analyze large data sets. The transfer pricing system, used to facilitate the purchasing and... View Details
Keywords: Fair Value Accounting; Profit; Marketing; Fluctuation; Consulting Industry; Computer Industry
Baker, George P., III, and Karin B Monsler. "San Francisco Bay Consulting." Harvard Business School Case 195-096, July 1994. (Revised April 1995.)
- April 1995
- Teaching Note
Visionary Design Systems: Are Incentives Enough? TN
By: George P. Baker III and Karin B Monsler
Teaching Note for (9-495-011). View Details
Keywords: San Francisco
- summer 2003
- Article
Leveraging the Incumbent's Advantage
By: Marco Iansiti, F. Warren McFarlan and George Westerman
Iansiti, Marco, F. Warren McFarlan, and George Westerman. "Leveraging the Incumbent's Advantage." MIT Sloan Management Review 44, no. 4 (summer 2003): 58–64.
- 1993
- Chapter
Lessons from a Middle-Market LBO: The Case of O.M. Scott
By: George P. Baker and Karen H. Wruck
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts
- April 2018
- Article
Compromised Ethics in Hiring Processes? How Referrers' Power Affects Employees' Reactions to Referral Practices
By: Rellie Derfler-Rozin, Bradford Baker and F. Gino
In this paper, we explore referral-based hiring practices and show how a referrer’s power (relative to the hiring manager) influences other organizational members’ support (or lack thereof) for who is hired through perceptions of the hiring manager’s motives and... View Details
Derfler-Rozin, Rellie, Bradford Baker, and F. Gino. "Compromised Ethics in Hiring Processes? How Referrers' Power Affects Employees' Reactions to Referral Practices." Academy of Management Journal 61, no. 2 (April 2018): 615–636.
- 2002
- Working Paper
The Tortoise and the Hare: An Empirical Investigation of the Dynamics of Integration, Differentiation and Incumbent Adaptation
By: George Westerman, Marco Iansiti and F. Warren McFarlan
- 2002
- Working Paper
The Incumbent's Advantage
By: Marco Iansiti, F. Warren McFarlan and George Westerman
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
PublicationsTrue North Groups: A Powerful Path to Personal and Leadership Development Authors:Bill George and Doug Baker Publication:Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2011 Abstract All too often, we find... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Article
Organization Design and Effectiveness over the Innovation Life Cycle
By: George Westerman, F. Warren McFarlan and Marco Iansiti
Westerman, George, F. Warren McFarlan, and Marco Iansiti. "Organization Design and Effectiveness over the Innovation Life Cycle." Organization Science 17, no. 2 (March–April 2006): 230–238.
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
years later and was named the School's first George F. Baker, Jr. Professor of Business Administration in 1963. One of Christensen's greatest strengths in research and case development was his ability to... View Details
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
F. Ward, and Michael I. Norton Publication:Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (forthcoming) Abstract When people are the victims of greed or recipients of generosity, their first impulse is often to pay back that behavior in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- June 1995
- Teaching Note
San Francisco Bay Consulting TN
By: George P. Baker III and Karin B Monsler
Teaching Note for (9-195-096). View Details
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
advice on how the social enterprise can restructure or redeploy its staff to be more effective. Preserving cash is the dominant issue. F. Warren McFarlan is the T.J. Dermot Dunphy Baker Foundation Professor... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 1996
- Working Paper
Global Friction Among Information Infrastructures
By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, George C. Lodge and Afroze Mohammed
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
believe that such acquisitions are overpriced. In fact, however, those are the ones that can pay off spectacularly. Read the paper: http://hbr.org/2011/03/the-big-idea-the-new-ma-playbook/ar/1 Mindful Leadership Author:William W. George... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2014
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Choose Your Boss?
necessarily the best team leader, because a lot of board members don't value the team leadership aspect of the position." Clifford F. Baker put it this way: "Having worked for a living in a corner... View Details
- November 1994 (Revised May 2002)
- Case
K-III: A Leveraged Build-Up
By: George P. Baker III, Nicola Bamford and Nicolas Greenspan
Explores the strategy, financing, and governance of a new type of organizational form, dubbed the Leveraged Build-Up by its inventor, Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Co. The company makes leveraged acquisitions of small publishing companies, managing them in a very... View Details
Keywords: Debt Securities; Financial Management; Leveraged Buyouts; Cash Flow; Organizational Structure; Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Governance; Financial Strategy; Corporate Finance; Publishing Industry
Baker, George P., III, Nicola Bamford, and Nicolas Greenspan. "K-III: A Leveraged Build-Up." Harvard Business School Case 295-067, November 1994. (Revised May 2002.)
- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
or sell. Payatas and the orderly, verdant Harvard Business School campus—nearly equals, as it happens, in terms of the acreage they occupy—are separated by a gulf far greater than any measure of miles or statistics. Yet as HBS professor Kash Rangan hurries past View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons