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  • November 2019
  • Supplement

United Technologies Corp.: Are the Parts Worth More Than the Whole?

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
After spending more than 50 years creating a diversified industrial conglomerate that Fortune Magazine described as “arguably the most profitable conglomerate in America” in 2014, UTC’s CEO Greg Hayes was under pressure from activist investors (Dan Loeb and Bill... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Business Conglomerates; Financial Management; Corporate Governance; Organizational Structure; Diversification; Valuation; Investment Activism; Financial Strategy; Investment Funds; Value Creation; Aerospace Industry; Electronics Industry; Industrial Products Industry; United States
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  • 07 Apr 2011
  • What Do You Think?

When Should the Public Sector Take Over in a Meltdown?

meltdown is. As Philippe Gouamba puts it, "Is it a partial collapse or a total collapse? What is at risk in this collapse; is it human lives, corporate capital or national pride?" Having asked these questions, he opts for... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities
  • 30 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds

corporate governance. “When you think of the factors that have made capitalism such a successful model for economic growth, the separation between management and ownership, with the ability to disperse ownership and risk over many... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 2021
  • Article

How Top Managers Use the Entrepreneurial Gap to Drive Strategic Change

By: Robert L. Simons and Antonio Davila
Prior research provides strong evidence for the association between business strategy and the design and use of management control systems. We complement this research by examining the role of management control systems in situations of strategic change. We report the... View Details
Keywords: Management Control Systems; Accountability; Strategic Change; Organization Change And Adaptation; Organizational Performance; Management Systems; Organizational Structure; Corporate Accountability; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance
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  • Profile

Alex Roth

thinking I'd learn models and techniques — like a cash-flow analysis. I didn't realize I'd get a structure for thinking about the moral dilemmas in business and leadership. I just finished the Leadership and View Details
  • 31 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 31

  PublicationsFinancial Development, Fixed Costs and International Trade Authors:Bo Becker, David Greenberg, and Jinzhu Chen Publication:Review of Corporate Finance Studies (forthcoming) Abstract Exporting firms face significant up-front... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 4, 2008

How should he handle other issues like the architectural designs, the construction process, and the legal process? How should he balance all the competing demands on his time? This case serves as an introduction to the multifamily... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Jun 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients

absent in the “2020-2021 Class of Lift Outs.” The lack of cultural integration may even be a short-term plus, freeing new recruits to devote their energies entirely to the tasks at hand, without the cognitive burden and social stress of learning new names or navigating... View Details
Keywords: by Robin Abrahams, Boris Groysberg, and Steven L. Manchel
  • Web

Morse and Polaroid’s Creative Ethos | Baker Library

text Victor McElheny, personal communication with Melissa Banta, June 21, 2024. back to text Paul Caponigro, Interview with Jennifer Quick, June 14, 2019. Polaroid Corporation Oral History Interview Collection. Caponigro remembers that... View Details
  • 08 Dec 2015
  • News

Living the Legacy

kinship, which fostered a strong professional relationship. Cera, the Kusisto’s youngest daughter, is a J.D. candidate at University of Michigan Law School. She is looking forward to a summer job at a large legal firm in Chicago. Because... View Details
  • 14 Oct 2009
  • First Look

First Look: October 14

capitalize on its innovation: strengthening antitrust and intellectual property rights enforcement; improving the legal infrastructure (e.g., producing more corporate lawyers); lowering barriers to entry for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 May 2013
  • News

Lynn Thoman, MBA 1979

For Lynn Thoman, co-president of the Leon Lowenstein Foundation and managing partner of Corporate Perspectives, choosing an MBA program was easy. “Harvard Business School was the only one I applied to,” she says. “I was attracted by the... View Details
  • 24 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 24, 2009

card networks, the decline of checks, the rise of stored value cards, and the growth of new payment methods such as PayPal, Bill Me Later, and decoupled debit. This case presents the structure of these payment methods, focusing on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

intended to help address that imbalance. This note provides a roadmap for managers and employees to follow when instituting or facing layoffs. It aims to help managers consider the broader implications that should be taken into account when conducting layoffs,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 14

Rhodes-Kropf, and Soojin Yim Abstract—We study how corporate governance affects firm value through the decision of whether to fire or retain the CEO. We present a model in which weak governance-which prevents shareholders from controlling... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Apr 2009
  • First Look

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
  • 08 Apr 2016
  • Research & Ideas

How to Hire a Millennial

young talent. For starters, companies would be smart to revisit how they structure work, especially when it comes to jobs in areas where competition for talent is especially fierce, such as coding, analytics, and life sciences. Survey... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Fuller
  • 27 Aug 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Guts, Gall, and Good Luck: What It Takes To Be An Entrepreneur

become staples of our modern country and economy: beauty products, national sales forces, and corporate social responsibility. Who Owns Space? Entrepreneurs like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are tapping into their vast personal wealth to make... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • July 2009 (Revised January 2014)
  • Case

Sustainability at Millipore

By: Michael W. Toffel and Katharine Lee
This case describes Millipore Corporation's approach to becoming a more environmentally sustainable company. As he prepared for his quarterly meeting with the CEO, the Director of Sustainability needed to develop positions on several issues. Tactically, he needed to... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Corporate Disclosure; Operations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Structure; Natural Environment; Environmental Sustainability; Pollutants
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  • 17 Jan 2007
  • Op-Ed

Learning from Private-Equity Boards

for corporate boards. The yes answer reflects the fact that many productive aspects of corporate governance and control that have proven effective in the private-equity industry were noticeably absent at... View Details
Keywords: by Malcolm Salter; Financial Services