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  • 08 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity

example, the media also project solutions: that companies should educate employees about biases and be held legally and reputationally responsible for treating men and women equally. Likewise underrepresentation: When the issue is a lack... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting
  • 11 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Future of Boards

In discussions that continue to swirl in the aftermath of the financial crisis, the question of corporate governance's role is often front and center. In The Future of Boards: Meeting the Governance Challenges of the Twenty-First Century,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • Web

Field Course: Startup Operations - Course Catalog

iteration, metrics that matter and developing a product and operations roadmap. Establishing The Startup Organization: Structuring early teams and the processes by which to operate your business. Topics will include: Who to hire and when... View Details
  • 13 Jun 2012
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants

studied the credit ratings industry in the wake of the financial crisis. In a paper published in the Journal of Financial Economics, he examined the role of competition between raters. One important distinction, in his view, is between View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Banking; Financial Services
  • 15 Aug 2016
  • Blog Post

Prepare for Your Interview with Research

a structure of the corporate family, current news about the company and biographical information on key executives. For public companies, financial information from corporate... View Details

    Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.

    Though he started his career at a roller bearing manufacturer, Sloan eventually sold the company to GM after realizing that the rapid growth of the automobile industry was essentially controlling his business. Sloan’s attention to efficiency spurred his development of... View Details
    Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
    • 22 Jan 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs

    the older worker is shown to the door," said Harvard Business School Associate Professor William R. Kerr, who recently cowrote a working paper called Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of US Firms with Sari Pekkala Kerr of... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Computer; Financial Services
    • 05 Jul 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: July 5, 2006

    predictive and prescriptive implications, this theory contributes to the general notion that pricing might affect as much as capture perceived value. Paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/06-055.pdf Capital Structure with Risky Foreign... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • May 2008 (Revised August 2009)
    • Case

    Intel NBI: Handheld Graphics Organization

    By: Willy C. Shih and Thomas Thurston
    The Handheld Graphics Organization (HGO) was an internal start-up under Intel's New Business Incubator program. The unit designed a graphics co-processor for the handheld PDA market, to be sold with Intel's Xscale processor. Though NBI ventures were designed for a high... View Details
    Keywords: Business Startups; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Resource Allocation; Business Processes; Organizational Structure; Semiconductor Industry; United States
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    • 27 Jun 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

    relating to political legitimacy and legal authority. The module note was written for students in the first-year course Leadership and Corporate Accountability. Purchase this... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Demystifying the Family Enterprise - Course Catalog

    necessary to support it. Module two deep dives into the Operating Company and the Corporate governance structure necessary to support the Family Organization. In Module two, we also study non-Family minority... View Details
    • October 2012 (Revised September 2013)
    • Case

    Creating the First Public Law Firm: The IPO of Slater & Gordon Limited

    By: Benjamin C. Esty and E. Scott Mayfield
    Slater & Gordon (S&G), a midsized Australian law firm with a high-growth consolidation strategy, had an initial public offering (IPO) scheduled for May 2007. Due to a series of regulatory changes in Australia in recent years, the IPO provided an opportunity for S&G to... View Details
    Keywords: IPO; Mergers ＆ Acquisitions; Law Firm; Value Drivers; Growth Strategy; Revenue Recognition; Roll-up; Consolidator; Initial Public Offering; Valuation; Consolidation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Financial Strategy; Growth Management; Corporate Governance; Business Strategy; Legal Services Industry; Legal Services Industry; Australia
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    • 01 Dec 1996
    • News

    Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World

    in the computer industry, while Professor Malcolm S. Salter's work on corporate strategy, organization, and governance looks at how ownership structure affects organizational performance. Asso-ciate... View Details
    Keywords: Susan Young
    • 02 Dec 2009
    • What Do You Think?

    Should Immigration Policies Be More Welcoming to Low-Skilled Workers?

    their employers." Joanna suggested, as an alternative, that "major corporations have solved the problem by going to where the cheap labor lives ." Phil Clark, reminding us that the U.S. is a nation of immigrants, asked,... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett
    • April 2010 (Revised May 2011)
    • Case

    Emerging Nokia?

    By: Juan Alcacer, Tarun Khanna, Mary Furey and Rakeen Mabud
    By late 2009, Nokia was grappling with the decision of whether to recover its leading position in the high-profit developed markets, where they were losing market share to the likes of Apple and Samsung, or defend its market leadership in the low-margin, high-volume... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Emerging Markets; Industry Structures; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Telecommunications Industry; Finland
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    • 05 Nov 2014
    • What Do You Think?

    Are We Entering an Era of Neuromanagement?

    identify and choose career paths been explored Using brain scan results to guide careers and to recommend those who have the requisite neural structure likely to enable them to master the skills necessary for success involving financial... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 26 Jul 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn

    industries like software. “Industry is not destiny.” Take the airline business, for example, which, over its history, has an accumulated net loss in the billions—a classic B-school example of a structurally unattractive industry. A joke... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Consumer Products
    • 16 Apr 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer

    is superior in all attributes. In a world with variance in individuals' needs and valuations, these dimensions are evaluated idiosyncratically, allowing both models to coexist. Legal considerations play an important role as a number of... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music
    • 04 Jun 2024
    • Blog Post

    Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)

    some of the most prominent law firms. Through Boston Lawyers Group, she identified potential firms and legal internships to get exposure to the sector and pressure test her interests. Yet, as she explored undergraduate courses and majors,... View Details
    Keywords: All Industries
    • 09 Feb 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen

    reorganization. Camp could have imposed her solution unilaterally, but she knew that if she did, she'd undermine the senior team's commitment, which was critical to making this complex global structure work. She needed to find a different... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat