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  • 22 Jul 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Corporate Social Responsibility and Access to Finance

Keywords: by Beiting Cheng, Ioannis Ioannou & George Serafeim
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Firm Performance, Senior Management, and Managerial Representation

While my work on strategic human capital studies how the characteristics of management shape performance, this work in effect focuses on the reverse: how performance shapes a key characteristic of the firm's management

Working with Professor David Thomas,... View Details

  • 03 Mar 2022
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Can Workers Climb the Career Ladder From Outside the Office?

  • October 1993 (Revised September 1996)
  • Case

BANC ONE - 1993

By: Hugo Uyterhoeven and Myra M. Hart
From a small local bank, Banc One has grown to one of the largest and most profitable banks in the United States under the leadership of its CEO, John B. McCoy. It has an impressive track record of improving the performance of its acquisitions while retaining the... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Acquisition; Organizational Culture; Policy; Adaptation; Business Growth and Maturation; Strategy; Performance Improvement; Industry Structures; Banking Industry; United States
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Uyterhoeven, Hugo, and Myra M. Hart. "BANC ONE - 1993." Harvard Business School Case 394-043, October 1993. (Revised September 1996.)
  • 22 Aug 2012
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A Randomized Field Study of a Leadership WalkRounds™-Based Intervention

Background: Leadership WalkRounds have been widely adopted as a technique for improving patient safety and safety climate. WalkRounds involve senior managers directly observing frontline work and soliciting employees' ideas about... View Details
Keywords: by Anita L. Tucker & Sara J. Singer; Health
  • June 1994 (Revised December 1997)
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Safeway, Inc.'s Leveraged Buyout (A)

After years of deteriorating financial performance and eroding market position, Safeway, Inc., the largest public grocery store chain in the United States, found itself the target of a hostile takeover offer. Management decided to take the company private in a $4.3... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Restructuring; Retail Industry; United States
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Wruck, Karen, and Steve-Anna Stephens. "Safeway, Inc.'s Leveraged Buyout (A)." Harvard Business School Case 294-139, June 1994. (Revised December 1997.)

    Cognizant 2.0: Embedding Community and Knowledge Into Work Processes

    Knowledge management has been a high priority for Cognizant Technology Solutions since its inception since its global delivery model requires the global sharing of knowledge. Its first major tool was called the Knowledge Management Appliance but as Web 2.0 tools came... View Details
    • 2011
    • Working Paper

    Collaborating across Cultures: Cultural Metacognition & Affect-Based Trust in Creative Collaboration

    By: Roy Y.J. Chua, Michael W. Morris and Shira Mor
    We propose that managers' awareness of their own and others' cultural assumptions (cultural metacognition) enables them to develop affect-based trust with associates from different cultures, promoting creative collaboration. Study 1, a multi-rater assessment of... View Details
    Keywords: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Knowledge Sharing; Managerial Roles; Creativity; Prejudice and Bias; Social and Collaborative Networks; Trust; Cooperation
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    Chua, Roy Y.J., Michael W. Morris, and Shira Mor. "Collaborating across Cultures: Cultural Metacognition & Affect-Based Trust in Creative Collaboration." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-127, June 2011.
    • 11 Oct 2016
    • First Look

    October 11, 2016

    case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717001-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 117-104 Management Control Systems Module 4: Organizing for Performance This module explores the implications of... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 04 Mar 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Dirty Laundry of Employee Award Programs: Evidence from the Field

    Keywords: by Timothy Gubler, Ian Larkin & Lamar Pierce; Service
    • 20 Apr 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Why Every Company Needs a CSR Strategy and How to Build It

    Keywords: by Kash Rangan, Lisa A. Chase & Sohel Karim
    • 13 Feb 2018
    • Working Paper Summaries

    In Search of Organizational Alignment Using a 360° Assessment System: Evidence from a Retail Chain

    Keywords: by Carolyn Deller, Susanna Gallani, and Tatiana Sandino; Retail
    • March 2025
    • Article

    Global Talent and Economic Success

    By: William R. Kerr
    Access to top performers sets an upper bound on a country’s aspirations. View Details
    Keywords: Immigration; Talent and Talent Management
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    Kerr, William R. "Global Talent and Economic Success." Finance & Development 62, no. 1 (March 2025): 30–33.
    • December 2004 (Revised May 2005)
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    Nestle: Sustainable Agriculture Initiative

    By: Forest L. Reinhardt
    Swiss food giant Nestle attempts to improve the performance of its suppliers of agricultural commodities to raise quality, lower costs, and contribute to sustainable development. Its initiatives focus first on coffee, cocoa, and milk. Nestle managers assert that the... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Social Issues; Business and Community Relations; Corporate Strategy; Agribusiness; Supply Chain Management; Marketing Strategy; Value Creation; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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    Reinhardt, Forest L. "Nestle: Sustainable Agriculture Initiative." Harvard Business School Case 705-018, December 2004. (Revised May 2005.)
    • July 2018
    • Article

    Personality Traits of Entrepreneurs: A Review of Recent Literature

    By: Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr and Tina Xu
    We review the extensive literature since 2000 on the personality traits of entrepreneurs. We first consider baseline personality traits like the Big-5 model, self-efficacy and innovativeness, locus of control, and the need for achievement. We then consider risk... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurs; Venturing; Personality Traits; Characteristics; Big-5; Risk Attitudes; Goals; Skills; Entrepreneurship; Personal Characteristics; Goals and Objectives; Competency and Skills; Success; Demographics; Research
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    Kerr, Sari Pekkala, William R. Kerr, and Tina Xu. "Personality Traits of Entrepreneurs: A Review of Recent Literature." Foundations and Trends® in Entrepreneurship 14, no. 3 (July 2018): 279–356.
    • October 2004 (Revised October 2005)
    • Case

    ORIX KK: Incentives in Japan

    In the context of Japan's struggling economy of the 1990s, ORIX, a leading Japanese financial services company, implemented a new performance evaluation and compensation system. At the time, many higher-paying western firms were entering the Japanese market and... View Details
    Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Compensation and Benefits; Financial Services Industry; Japan
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    Beaulieu, Nancy D., and Aaron Zimmerman. "ORIX KK: Incentives in Japan." Harvard Business School Case 905-013, October 2004. (Revised October 2005.)
    • 04 Nov 2014
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    Making the Numbers? ‘Short Termism’ & the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster

    Keywords: by Hazhir Rahmandad, Nelson P. Repenning & Rebecca Henderson
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    How to Really Motivate Salespeople

    By: Doug J. Chung
    Much of what we believe about the best ways to compensate and motivate the sales force is based on theory and lab experiments. But in the past decade, researchers have been moving out of the lab and into the field, analyzing companies' sales and pay data, and... View Details
    Keywords: Compensation; Motivating People; Motivation and Incentives; Compensation and Benefits; Sales
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    Chung, Doug J. "How to Really Motivate Salespeople." Harvard Business Review 93, no. 4 (April 2015): 54–61.
    • March 2020
    • Technical Note

    Influencer Marketing

    By: Jill Avery and Ayelet Israeli
    Despite a heavy barrage of advertising, most consumers declare that their purchases are most influenced by the experiences, advice, and recommendations of others, and not by marketers. Interpersonal communication between and among consumers serves as a potent path for... View Details
    Keywords: Influencers; Marketing; Marketing Communications; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Advertising Industry; Consumer Products Industry
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    Avery, Jill, and Ayelet Israeli. "Influencer Marketing." Harvard Business School Technical Note 520-075, March 2020.
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    Overview

    By: Tatiana Sandino
    In studying management control systems, Professor Sandino aims to understand how different control mechanisms can help lead employees within an organization to achieve common goals. Her work builds on contingency theory by exploring environmental, strategic, and... View Details
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