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  • 26 Sep 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Dangerous Expectations: Breaking Rules to Resolve Cognitive Dissonance

Keywords: by Celia Moore, S. Wiley Wakeman & Francesca Gino
  • Program

Family Office Wealth Management—Virtual

mid-career professionals who face new investments or major life decisions. In this virtual program, you will gain an in-depth understanding of best practices in family wealth management; explore the governance, structure, and investment... View Details
  • Program

Building a Legacy

mid-career professionals who face new investments or major life decisions. In this program, you will gain an in-depth understanding of best practices in family wealth management; explore the governance, structure, and investment... View Details
  • 20 Nov 2017
  • Blog Post

A Summer Internship with the International Rescue Committee

professionals network of the International Rescue Committee, dubbed “GenR”. I joined the community on a whim, but as I learned more about the work that the IRC did, including visiting their field station in Cote D’Ivoire, I grew more... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
  • November 2023
  • Article

When Executives Pledge Integrity: The Effect of the Accountant's Oath on Firms' Financial Reporting

By: Jonas Heese, Gerardo Pérez Cavazos and Caspar David Peter
We study the effect of executives’ pledges of integrity on firms’ financial reporting outcomes by exploiting a 2016 regulation that requires holders of Dutch professional accounting degrees to pledge an integrity oath. We identify chief executive officers (CEOs) and... View Details
Keywords: Integrity; Financial Reporting; Accounting; Earnings Management
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  • June 2012 (Revised October 2018)
  • Case

Home Nursing of North Carolina

By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
Ari Medoff's (HBS '11) goal was to control his own professional destiny by owning his own company. His search identified a suitable acquisition in Home Nursing of North Carolina, and he had negotiated a purchase price of $3.5 million, or 4.2x trailing EBITDA. Medoff... View Details
Keywords: Search Funds; Small Companies; Acquisitions; Negotiation; Medical Services; Negotiation Process; Valuation; Investment; Acquisition; Health Industry
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  • October 2010
  • Case

CDG: Managing in China's Economic Transformation

By: Roy Y.J. Chua, Shaohui Chen and Lisa Kwan
China Data Group (CDG) is a leading business processes outsourcing company based in Beijing, China. Roc Yang, chairman of CDG, had to confront a dilemma when he discovered that one of his senior managers gave a gift to a potential client in an effort to win a large... View Details
Keywords: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Management Practices and Processes; Emerging Markets; Negotiation Deal; Relationships; Networks; Societal Protocols; China
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  • 24 May 2010
  • News

Doctoral Awards for Excellence in Mentoring

    Towards an Understanding of the Role of Standard Setters in Standard Setting

    Journal of Accounting and Economics Vol. 55, No. 1 (February 2013), pp. 66–90.

    We investigate the effect of standard setters in standard setting. We examine how certain professional and political characteristics of FASB members and SEC commissioners... View Details
    • 26 Jun 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: June 26

    influential. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-068.pdf Looking Up and Looking Out: Career Mobility Effects of Demographic Similarity among Professionals Authors:Kathleen L. McGinn and Katherine L. Milkman Abstract We... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Employment | Harvard Business School

    Employment Join our diverse team of inspiring professionals whose work is centered around our commitment to educate future leaders. View Jobs 1,761 Staff Positions 233 Faculty Positions (Full-Time Equivalent) Staff Positions Over 15... View Details

      Jay W. Lorsch

      Jay W. Lorsch is the Louis Kirstein Professor of Human Relations at the Harvard Business School. He is editor of View Details

      • January 2025
      • Case

      Transforming Talent at Teach For Taiwan

      By: Juan Alcácer and Chi Kuan
      The Teach For Taiwan (TFT) case follows founder Anting Liu as she considers how to scale the nonprofit’s talent strategy after a decade of impact in rural education. TFT recruits high-potential young professionals into a 2-year teaching fellowship, aiming to address... View Details
      Keywords: Teaching; Talent and Talent Management; Leadership Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Nonprofit Organizations; Education Industry; Taiwan
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      • September 2023
      • Article

      Consuming Contests: The Effect of Outcome Uncertainty on Spectator Attendance in the Australian Football League

      By: Patrick Ferguson and Karim R. Lakhani
      Contests that non-contestants consume for entertainment are a fixture of economic, cultural and political life. We exploit injury-induced changes to teams' line-ups in a professional sports setting to examine whether individuals prefer to consume contests that have... View Details
      Keywords: Sports; Entertainment; Consumer Behavior
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      • February 2019
      • Case

      Lisa Thomas at LaMont Engineering

      By: Boris Groysberg and Carrie A. Blair
      The case details the challenges faced by Lisa Thomas of LaMont Engineering after the company is acquired by Munday Consultants, Inc. Thomas, who supported the acquisition, was asked to chair a team charged with implementing the changes necessary to make the acquisition... View Details
      Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Integration; Leadership; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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      • 2016
      • Working Paper

      Controlling Versus Enabling

      By: Andrei Hagiu and Julian Wright
      Revenue sharing between principals and agents is commonly used to balance double-sided moral hazard. We provide a theory of how, when such revenue-sharing is optimal, a principal allocates control rights over decisions that either party could make. We show that the... View Details
      Keywords: Control Rights; Decision Authority; Employment; Independent Contractors; Organizational Theory; Digital Platforms; Governance Controls; Ethics; Vertical Integration
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      • April 2015
      • Article

      Incentivizing Calculated Risk-Taking: Evidence from an Experiment with Commercial Bank Loan Officers

      By: Shawn Cole, Martin Kanz and Leora Klapper
      This paper uses a series of experiments with commercial bank loan officers to test the effect of performance incentives on risk assessment and lending decisions. We first show that while high-powered incentives lead to greater screening effort and more profitable... View Details
      Keywords: Banking; Management Processes; Credit Products; Experimental Economics; Risk Management; Motivation and Incentives; Management Practices and Processes; Financing and Loans; Banking Industry
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      • March 2012
      • Case

      Schuberg Philis

      By: Thomas J. DeLong and Daniela Beyersdorfer
      The Dutch professional service firm Schuberg Philis has within a few years grown into a well-known player in the Dutch IT outsourcing market and regularly wins high customer- satisfaction marks. The growing workload and 100% promise to customers have increased the... View Details
      Keywords: Growth Management; Organizational Culture; Management Style; Alignment; Information Technology Industry; Netherlands
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      Specialization and Success: Evidence from Venture Capital

      By: Paul A. Gompers, Anna Kovner and Josh Lerner
      This paper examines how organizational structure affects behavior and outcomes, studying the performance of different types of venture capital organizations. We find a strong positive relationship between the degree of specialization by individual venture capitalists... View Details
      Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Venture Capital; Organizational Structure; Outcome or Result; Performance Effectiveness; Behavior; Financial Services Industry
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      • 2008
      • Chapter

      Matching and Market Design

      By: Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth and Tayfun Sonmez
      Matching is the part of economics concerned with who transacts with whom and how. Models of matching, starting with the Gale-Shapley deferred acceptance algorithm, have been particularly useful in studying labour markets and in helping design clearinghouses to fix... View Details
      Keywords: Market Design; Marketplace Matching; Outcome or Result; Mathematical Methods
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