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How to Onboard Recently Graduated MBAs - Recruiting

believes that these same stars, by virtue of their own mastery of the corporate culture, can be an excellent resource for uncovering hidden codes. Actually have an onboarding plan The most obvious answer should not be overlooked. Brennan... View Details
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Managing and Innovating in Financial Services - Course Catalog

and help firms and households save and manage risk. These financial services are provided in an array of organizations and structures – from fintech startups to private credit funds to multi-trillion-dollar global banks and large... View Details
  • 17 Apr 2019
  • Blog Post

Making Sabbaticals Mainstream Series: Marty

outstanding personal memories. Second, Marty would enforce shutting off sabbatical-goers access to work. This is as simple as shutting down their company phone number and voicemail, restricting corporate email access, and providing their... View Details
  • 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

Cheng, J. Yo-Jud, and Boris Groysberg Abstract—: Corporate directors and executives alike recognize that today’s pace of change continues to accelerate and that firms need to innovate to stay ahead. But are boards doing enough to support... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007

countries between 1985 and 2000, we find that the growth effects of FDI increase when we account for the quality of FDI. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-072.pdf How Well Do Social Ratings Actually Measure Corporate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • January 1998 (Revised February 1998)
  • Case

Sideco Americana S.A. (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Harold F. Hogan Jr
This case focuses on a decision the Sideco management team faces when customers of its newly acquired and privatized water and sewer company neglect to pay its bills. Describes the effort to transform an old-style Argentine construction and engineering company into a... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations; Transformation; Business or Company Management; Values and Beliefs; Argentina
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  • 10 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 10

examines the evolution of corporate environmentalism in the West German chemical industry between the 1950s and the 1980s. It focuses on two companies, Bayer and Henkel, that have been identified as "green giants," and traces... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 14

the preference list they will submit to the mechanism). We focus in this paper on better-reply dynamics. To this end, we first provide a characterization of better-replies and a comprehensive description of the dominance relation between strategies. Better-replies are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 10, 2007

of directors of Medtronic, Inc., a company known for its commitment to effective corporate governance, must prepare for the departure of Chairman & CEO Bill George and the retirement of four long-time directors. The company had... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 3

by the financial sector, a possible housing bubble, and an approaching referendum on Scotland's independence. Moreover, many claimed the UK was at risk of secular stagnation, a slowdown in economic growth caused by a structural deficiency... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Dec 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Public Education Goes to School

achieving results across the entire system, moving from planning to action and ensuring fidelity of implementation on such an enormous scale is very difficult. Redesigning the structures and systems of a district so that they are coherent... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education
  • 07 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

adding new settings to explore established core debates. The discipline of business history evolved around the corporate strategies and structures of developed economies. The growing literature on the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18

insolvency in 2008, many experts laid the blame at the feet of corporate boards. But insufficient board oversight is a problem that had supposedly been solved in 2002. As the United States reeled from the blatant failures of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

Waves No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/816063-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 410-139 Managing the Client Portfolio The German country managing partner of a global law firm must decide how to respond to a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Nov 2010
  • Research & Ideas

GM’s IPO: Back to the Future

requires careful structuring of the transaction, cautious pricing of the shares, and wide diversification of the pockets of demand by the underwriters. These elements explain the concurrent convertible preferred stock offering, the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto
  • 24 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 24, 2008

(Winner of the Barclays Global Investors Award, Best Paper in Asset Pricing, European Finance Association 2007) Abstract This paper uses social networks to identify information transfer in security markets. We focus on connections between mutual fund managers and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Aug 2017
  • News

Unlocking Potential

Vocational and academic education programs in US correctional institutions have been around for more than a century. They have also achieved some success. In fact, a 2013 study by the Rand Corporation found that prison education helped... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Community Partners; Legal Services; Professional Services
  • 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11

suggests that the effect of distance should vanish over time, a hypothesis that we confirm in the data and that distinguishes technology from other flows like goods or investments. We then structurally estimate the model. The parameter... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

rated. We hypothesize that ratings are particularly likely to spur responses from firms that receive poor ratings, and especially those that face lower-cost opportunities to improve or that anticipate greater benefits from doing so. We test our hypotheses in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jul 2016
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July 19, 2016

chains have engaged in private political strategies prompting transnational corporations (TNCs) to adopt codes of conduct and monitor their suppliers for compliance, but it is not clear whether organizational View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne