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The Learning Effects of Monitoring

By: Dennis Campbell, Marc Epstein and F. Asis Martinez-Jerez

This paper investigates the relationship between monitoring, decision making, and learning among lower-level employees. We exploit a field-research setting in which business units vary in the "tightness" with which they monitor employee decisions. We find that tighter... View Details

Keywords: Learning; Business or Company Management; Decision Making; Employees; Research; Resignation and Termination; Rights; Business Units; Governance Controls; Performance; Motivation and Incentives

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How Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth? Exploring the Effects of Financial Markets on Linkages (with Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Selin Sayek)

By: Laura Alfaro

The empirical literature finds mixed evidence on the existence of positive productivity externalities in the host country generated by foreign multinational companies. We propose a novel mechanism, which emphasizes the role of local financial markets in enabling... View Details

2018
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New Perspectives on the History of Political Economy

By: Robert Fredona and Sophus A. Reinert

This volume offers a snapshot of the resurgent historiography of political economy in the wake of the ongoing global financial crisis and suggests fruitful new agendas for research on the political-economic nexus as it has developed in the Western world since the end... View Details

Keywords: Economics; Government and Politics; History

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05 Sep 2023
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Thriving After Failing: How to Turn Your Setbacks Into Triumphs

letting you off the hook, it’s about putting you on the hook to do the very best you can,” Edmondson says. “If you are going to do anything hard or new, you are not necessarily going to get it right the View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

15 Mar 2021
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Be Unapologetically Yourself: Interview with Singer-Songwriter and Banking Strategist Andrea Mendoza

reality by recording and releasing her first single, March Eleven, on all music streaming platforms and she also launched the next phase of her career in banking. You may be surprised to see someone both recording music and working in... View Details

January 2014 (Revised January 2014)
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Henry Schein: Doing Well by Doing Good?

By: Rebecca Henderson, Raffaella Sadun, Aldo Sesia and Russell Eisenstat

Henry Schein Inc., a distributor of supplies to dentist, physician, and veterinary practices, had sales approaching $9 billion and employed nearly 16,000 people. The company had experienced impressive growth under the leadership of Stanley Bergman and his executive... View Details

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03 Jun 2022
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HiHome Sweet HiHome

The story of HiHome is really the story of all the resources available to students at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering (SEAS). Co-founders James Parker and Tony Shu met at a SEAS event in 2019. Parker was in his first... View Details

11 Oct 2011
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US Healthcare Reform and the Pharmaceutical Industry

Keywords: by Arthur Daemmrich; Pharmaceutical; Health

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Foundations of Private Equity and Venture Capital

and fundraising process. You will return to your company with the skills, strategies, and confidence to target the right investors, find the best deals, and raise the capital for your first-time fund. Read More Understand industry... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Finance

17 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership

survival. However, the pattern of human response to disasters has been shown to be remarkably consistent across cultures, and for disasters of many different causes, effects, and durations, from earthquakes to shipwrecks to kidnapping.... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

22 Aug 2016
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Master the One-on-One Meeting

digest it before our Product group meeting. Love the training deck! Let me know if you want to practice with me before you present next week. You’re going to crush it. Sounds like those budget tweaks aren’t cutting it for your team’s needs. I’ll try to adjust next... View Details

Keywords: by Julia B. Austin

28 Feb 2007
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Capital Rules: The Tensions of Global Finance

right to freedom applied always and everywhere. Policymakers understand the international financial system very differently, however, in the first decade of a new century. Caution toward full capital... View Details

Keywords: by Rawi Abdelal

01 Sep 2016
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Reflecting on the HKS/HBS Joint Degree Program

I am currently a joint degree student at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Harvard Business School (HBS), and attending Harvard has been a fantastic experience so far. I spent my first year here studying the Master in Public Administration... View Details

June 1991 (Revised April 1993)
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Acer, Inc.

By: Robert H. Hayes

Acer is undergoing two major transitions at the time of this case: from a small, entrepreneurially-run company to a large professionally-run one; and from a largely domestic company to a multinational one. After a decade of phenomenal growth, it is now facing a major... View Details

Keywords: Transition; Motivation and Incentives; Multinational Firms and Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Employees; Resignation and Termination; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Diversity; Computer Industry; Taiwan

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07 Jul 2022
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How a Multimillion-Dollar Ice Cream Startup Melted Down (and Bounced Back)

frosting, and lemon-ginger ice cream. When the Brooklyn-based screenwriter first met his future wife and business partner, he wooed her by hosting ice cream socials with homemade concoctions that guests raved about. Flying high on these... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

09 May 2012
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Clayton Christensen’s “How Will You Measure Your Life?”

investment decision, there are two alternatives on the menu. The first is the full cost of making something completely new. The second is to leverage what already exists. Almost always, the marginal-cost argument overwhelms the full-cost.... View Details

May 1996 (Revised November 2018)
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Ecolab, Inc.

By: Ashish Nanda

By 1993, Ecolab has established a dominant market position in the institutional cleaning industry. As the company’s principal competitor, Diversify, drives sales aggressively, Ecolab president Al Schuman faces a choice about how best to market Ecolab’s offerings.... View Details

Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Employees; Retention; Marketing Strategy; Risk Management; Service Industry

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12 Sep 2023
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Successful, But Still Feel Empty? A Happiness Scholar and Oprah Have Advice for You

human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” Big idea 1: Don’t be a caveman Brain science indicates that many of our knee-jerk emotions evolved to protect us from predators but might... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

2004
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Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital

By: Amar Bhidé

Academics and practitioners readily admit the importance of entrepreneurs for the wealth of nations. However, the relationship between the economic and social environment, entrepreneurship and value creation is not yet well understood. Moreover, at the micro-level, the... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneur; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Corporate Finance

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