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  • December 2018
  • Case

Corporate Transformation at Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany

By: Joseph B. Fuller, Amy C. Edmondson, Daniela Beyersdorfer and Tonia Labruyere
When Stefan Oschmann became CEO and chairman of the executive board of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, in 2016, the company had started its transformation from a mid-tier traditional German industry player to a global modern science and technology player. The... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance With Family Ownership; Transformation; Change Management; Restructuring; Corporate Governance; Family Ownership
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  • 2009
  • Chapter

Evaluating the Impact of SA8000 Certification

By: Michael J. Hiscox, Claire Schwartz and Michael W. Toffel
SA 8000, along with other types of certification standards and corporate codes of conduct, represents a new form of private governance of working conditions, initiated and implemented by companies, labor unions, and non-governmental activist groups. Whether these codes... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Working Conditions; Standards; Performance Evaluation
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  • 06 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 6, 2016

Leisure Time Become a Status Symbol By: Bellezza, Silvia, Neeru Paharia, and Anat Keinan Abstract—While research on conspicuous consumption has typically analyzed how people spend money on products that signal status, we investigate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Aug 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Globalization of Corporate Environmental Disclosure: Accountability or Greenwashing?

Keywords: by Christopher Marquis & Michael W. Toffel
  • 2018
  • Book

American Capitalism: New Histories

By: Sven Beckert and Christine Desan
The United States has long epitomized capitalism. From its enterprising shopkeepers, wildcat banks, violent slave plantations, huge industrial working class, and raucous commodities trade to its world-spanning multinationals, its massive factories, and the centripetal... View Details
Keywords: Economic Systems; History; Finance; Trade; Economy; Policy; United States
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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 6 The Value Structure of Technologies, Part 1: Mapping Functional Relationships

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
Organizations are formed in a free economy because an individual or group perceives value in carrying out a technical recipe that is beyond the capacity of a single person. Technology specifies what must be done, what resources must be assembled, what actions taken in... View Details
Keywords: Modularity; Information Technology; Organizations; Value Creation
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Placement - Doctoral

Advisors: Michael I. Norton (Chair), Leslie K. John , Ryan W. Buell , Rebecca Ratner , and John T. Gourville 2020 Dafna Goor Marketing, 2020 Placement: London Business School Dissertation: Branding in the New World: How Accessible Information, Social Media, and... View Details
  • Research Summary

The Exercise and Development of Leadership

My research in this stream contributes to three recent trends in leadership scholarship. The first is the resurgence of a perspective less preoccupied with leaders' impact on organizational performance and more with their function as sources and symbols of the... View Details

  • 22 Aug 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Key Drivers of Successful Implementation of an Employee Suggestion-Driven Improvement Program

Keywords: by Anita L. Tucker & Sara J. Singer.; Health
  • Research Summary

Vicarious Learning in Organizations

To advance the study of how individuals learn through their interactions with others, Professor Myers has adopted a vicarious learning theory lens. Vicarious learning allows individuals to learn from the outcomes of others’ experiences, rather than solely their own... View Details

Keywords: Learning And Development; Learning; Health Industry
  • 26 Aug 2002
  • Research & Ideas

High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest

symbolic power of their actions and the strength of the signals they send when they make decisions about the formation and structure of work teams in their organizations. Learning From Failure Often, when an organization suffers a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael A. Roberto
  • 06 Jun 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Why Leaders Lose Their Way

of relying on external gratification for fulfillment. There is nothing wrong with desiring these outward symbols as long as they are combined with a deeper desire to serve something greater than oneself. Leaders whose goal is the quest... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 26 Dec 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Reinforcing Regulatory Regimes: How States, Civil Society, and Codes of Conduct Promote Adherence to Global Labor Standards

Keywords: by Michael W. Toffel, Jodi L. Short & Melissa Ouellet
  • 30 Nov 2016
  • HBS Seminar

Melissa Valentine and Michael Bernstein, Stanford University

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Investment analyst reports (equity research reports)

Workspace access (e.g. Goldman Sachs, BOFA Merrill Lynch, etc.)  How to locate COMPANY analyst reports: Use LSEG Workspace Enter the ticker symbol or company name On the company overview page, click on the Research tab and select... View Details
  • 27 Sep 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Religion in the Workplace: What Managers Need to Know

hired. The reason: He said the headscarf she wore as a symbol of modesty in her Muslim faith clashed with the store’s dress code. “No one had ever told me that I could not wear a headscarf and sell clothing,” Elauf is quoted as saying in... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage; Apparel & Accessories
  • 24 Mar 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Rituals at Work: Teams That Play Together Stay Together

that we're all doing it together at the same time,” explains Norton. “The psychological element is where it gets that symbolic feeling. It feels good to do this in the specific way that we do it. And if we don't do it the way we do it, we... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 22 Jun 2022
  • Book

Four Elements for Finding the Right Career Path

individuals, and my writing on this topic, is my model of implicit and symbolic intelligence. Each of us, at any given moment, has the capacity to experience the whole of our life. Right now, as you sit here, you have what psychologist... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

HBS - The year in Review

innovation and action through activities such as the popular Climate Rising podcast, reaching thousands of listeners around the world. Campus Sustainability Metrics 16 projects have earned LEED certification, the globally recognized View Details
  • 07 Nov 2023
  • News

Love and Money

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Which is the best dating app? Can money actually buy love? When do you talk about money in a new relationship and how do you broach the topic? How can well-meaning parents actually help their... View Details