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- 04 Jun 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are There Conditions Under Which Directors Should Consider Hiring a CEO Fired Elsewhere for Inappropriate Behavior?
David Wittenberg wrote that a board that would automatically disqualify such fired managers might be playing it too safe. “When a board of directors identifies a candidate with the right skills, personality and track record, it should be...
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by James Heskett
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation
improves, it begins to pull customers away from the incumbent. And the incumbent doesn't have the ability to play in this new game. Managers must be patient for growth but impatient for profitability.—...
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- February 2009
- Case
HP: The Computer is Personal Again
By: Rajiv Lal and Cathy Ross
In September 2008, Todd Bradley, executive vice president of Hewlett-Packard Company's Personal Systems Group (PSG), gathered his thoughts before a meeting with his top executives and managers for product design and marketing. On the agenda was a discussion of...
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Lal, Rajiv, and Cathy Ross. "HP: The Computer is Personal Again." Harvard Business School Case 509-010, February 2009.
- September 19, 2017
- Article
After Equifax Breach, Companies Advised to Review Open-Source Software Code
By: Ben DiPietro and Lou Shipley
It doesn’t make much sense: At a time when high-powered automated trading systems can execute stock sales in real time, some companies that rely on open-source software to help to run their businesses track their open-source use on spread sheets on paper.
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Keywords:
Software;
Open-source;
Security Vulnerabilities;
Data Privacy;
Hack;
Applications and Software;
Safety;
Cybersecurity
DiPietro, Ben, and Lou Shipley. "After Equifax Breach, Companies Advised to Review Open-Source Software Code." Wall Street Journal (September 19, 2017).
- January 2005 (Revised June 2005)
- Case
The Harvard Graduate Student Housing Survey
Harvard Real Estate Services executives need to design the 2005 Graduate Student Housing Survey for maximum impact in anticipation of Harvard's long-term expansion project in Allston. Students are challenged to help executives in charge to (1) draw the lessons from...
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Wathieu, Luc R. "The Harvard Graduate Student Housing Survey." Harvard Business School Case 505-059, January 2005. (Revised June 2005.)
- May 2023
- Article
Where Sales Technology (Really) Helps
Interest in Sales Enablement (SE), the catch-all term for attempts to increase sales productivity with AI and other technologies, is driven by multiple factors. One is the declining costs of the tools. Also, selling is now data-hungry work and not just in tech sectors....
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- 2020
- Working Paper
Short-Termism, Shareholder Payouts, and Investment in the EU
By: Jesse M. Fried and Charles C.Y. Wang
Investor-driven “short-termism” is said to harm EU public firms' ability to invest for the long term, prompting calls for the EU to better insulate managers from shareholder pressure. But the evidence offered—in the form of rising levels of repurchases and dividends—is...
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Keywords:
Short-termism;
Quarterly Capitalism;
EU;
Dividends;
Equity Issuances;
Equity Compensastion;
Capital Flows;
Capital Distribution;
R&D;
Innovation;
Investment;
Corporate Governance;
Investment Return;
Acquisition;
European Union
Fried, Jesse M., and Charles C.Y. Wang. "Short-Termism, Shareholder Payouts, and Investment in the EU." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-054, October 2020.
- Article
The Effects of Media Slant on Firm Behavior
By: Vishal P. Baloria and Jonas Heese
The media can impose reputational costs on firms because of its important role as an information intermediary and its ability to negatively slant coverage. We exploit a quasi-natural experiment that holds constant the information event across firms, but varies the...
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Media Slant;
Reputational Capital;
Strategic Corporate Decisions;
Media;
News;
Communication Strategy;
Reputation
Baloria, Vishal P., and Jonas Heese. "The Effects of Media Slant on Firm Behavior." Journal of Financial Economics 129, no. 1 (July 2018): 184–202.
- September 1997 (Revised October 1997)
- Case
Bayer AG (A)
By: John A. Quelch
Bayer's senior executives convene in Germany to consider submitting a $1 billion bid that would recover the Bayer brand name and trademark cross in North America, both of which were confiscated by the U.S. government after World War I. The group also sets out to assess...
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Keywords:
Management Teams;
Brands and Branding;
War;
Communication;
Trademarks;
Acquisition;
Government and Politics;
Biotechnology Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Germany;
North America;
United States
Quelch, John A., and Robin Root. "Bayer AG (A)." Harvard Business School Case 598-031, September 1997. (Revised October 1997.)
David J. Collis
For the past thirty years David J. Collis has been a professor at the Harvard Business School, where he was only the second ever full-time Adjunct Professor appointed. Previously, he was the Thomas Henry Carroll Ford Foundation Adjunct Professor, the MBA Class... View Details
- 04 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them
Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to...
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- 2021
- Book
Better, Simpler Strategy: A Value-Based Guide to Exceptional Performance
In nearly every business segment and corner of the world economy, the most successful companies dramatically outperform their rivals. What is their secret? In Better, Simpler Strategy, Harvard Business School professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee shows how these...
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Keywords:
Strategy;
Strategic Planning;
Value;
Analysis;
Competitive Advantage;
Performance Effectiveness
Oberholzer-Gee, Felix. Better, Simpler Strategy: A Value-Based Guide to Exceptional Performance. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review Press, 2021.
- November 1994
- Case
Electrical Distributors, Inc.
By: David F. Hawkins
The owner of a small electrical supply firm has grown beyond his ability to fund growth with internally generated funds. He seeks a bank loan, which falls short of his needs.
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Keywords:
Financial Management;
Private Equity;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Financing and Loans;
Borrowing and Debt;
Corporate Finance;
Apparel and Accessories Industry
Hawkins, David F. "Electrical Distributors, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 195-149, November 1994.
- June 2021 (Revised December 2021)
- Case
Suzhou Good-Ark Electronics: Creating and Implementing a Sage Culture
By: Sandra J. Sucher, Nien-he Hsieh, Susan J. Winterberg, Nancy Hua Dai and Shalene Gupta
Suzhou Good-Ark, a Chinese semiconductor implemented "Sage Culture" management based on traditional Chinese philosophy. Productivity doubled, turnover decreased, and employee satisfaction shot up. By 2015, more than 2,000 companies had toured Wu’s factories, and Wu had...
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- July 1987 (Revised October 1995)
- Case
Phillips 66: Controlling a Company Through Crisis
The downstream operations subsidiary of a major U.S. petroleum company is faced with major restructuring decisions and responds by developing an Executive Information System (EIS) which allows for increased responsiveness, wider span of control, and higher levels of...
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Restructuring;
Information Management;
Governance Controls;
Organizational Design;
Crisis Management;
Communication;
Management Teams;
Growth Management;
Mining Industry;
Energy Industry;
United States
Applegate, Lynda M. "Phillips 66: Controlling a Company Through Crisis." Harvard Business School Case 189-006, July 1987. (Revised October 1995.)
- October 2014
- Supplement
Honeywell and the Great Recession: The Economic Recovery (B)
By: Sandra J. Sucher and Susan J. Winterberg
Five years after the Great Recession, Honeywell's CEO Dave Cote and his executive team reflect on the choices they made to manage costs and earnings forecasts during that uncertain time. They discuss which cost cutting measures they decided to take and their personal...
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Keywords:
Layoffs;
Furloughs;
Downsizing;
Work Sharing;
Short Time Work;
Recessions;
Earnings Forecast;
Job Cuts and Outsourcing;
Cost Management;
Executive Compensation;
Crisis Management;
Financial Crisis;
Manufacturing Industry
Sucher, Sandra J., and Susan J. Winterberg. "Honeywell and the Great Recession: The Economic Recovery (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 315-023, October 2014.
- February 2018
- Article
Bank CEO Materialism: Risk Controls, Culture and Tail Risk
By: Robert Bushman, Robert Davidson, Aiyesha Dey and Abbie Smith
We investigate how the prevalence of materialistic bank CEOs has evolved over time and how risk management policies, non-CEO executives’ behavior, and tail risk vary with CEO materialism. We document that the proportion of banks run by materialistic CEOs increased...
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Keywords:
Management;
Personal Characteristics;
Behavior;
Risk Management;
Organizational Culture;
Banks and Banking;
Banking Industry
Bushman, Robert, Robert Davidson, Aiyesha Dey, and Abbie Smith. "Bank CEO Materialism: Risk Controls, Culture and Tail Risk." Journal of Accounting & Economics 65, no. 1 (February 2018): 191–220.
- 2015
- Working Paper
Bottlenecks, Modules and Dynamic Architectural Capabilities
How do firms create and capture value in large technical systems? In this paper, I argue that the points of both value creation and value capture are the system's bottlenecks. Bottlenecks arise first as important technical problems to be solved. Once the problem is...
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Keywords:
Architecture;
Architectural Knowledge;
Dynamic Capabilities;
Bottleneck;
Modularity;
Organization Design;
Organization Boundaries;
Property Rights;
Organizational Design;
Organizational Structure
Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Bottlenecks, Modules and Dynamic Architectural Capabilities." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-028, October 2014. (Revised May 2015.)
- January 2020
- Supplement
Chemours (B)
By: David G. Fubini and David Lane
Supplement to the (A) case, describing actions taken by Chemours CEO Mark Vergnano and members of his executive team to execute a successful turnaround of the company.
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Keywords:
Transformation;
Leading Change;
Crisis Management;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
United States
Fubini, David G., and David Lane. "Chemours (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 420-072, January 2020.