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Lucky Ones Coffee: Employing People with Disabilities | Information Technology

with these disabilities to perform meaningful work which also benefits their employer, and the ways in which the two cofounders of Lucky Ones Coffee are working to build a business that challenges these beliefs. I think [this case] shows... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2010
  • News

M.I.A. Boards

incompetence, and negligence by a corporate board. The board at Merrill Lynch was so disconnected from the company that when shareholders met in December 2008 to approve the company’s sale to Bank of America — after five straight... View Details
Keywords: John Gillespie;David Zweig; Finance
  • 31 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 31

Strömberg Publication:The Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming) Abstract We use an important legal event as a natural experiment to examine the effect of management fiduciary duties on equity-debt conflicts. A 1991 Delaware bankruptcy ruling changed the nature of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 15, 2015

compensation incentives for CSR. We test our predictions using novel executive compensation contract data and find that firms with more shareholder friendly corporate governance are more likely to provide compensation to executives linked... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

A bold experiment in education

A former corporate financier with Boeing, Ben Kleban (MBA 2005) planned to open a charter school in New York after HBS, but in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, he was inspired to found New Orleans College Prep (NOCP). NOCP now operates... View Details
  • 06 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Winners and Losers at the Olympics

she's back in top form at the World Championships, she may be able to generate a fresh set of endorsement interest. Sasha Cohen has a lot of potential. If she performs well in the Worlds, she can leverage her Olympic silver medal into... View Details
Keywords: Re: Stephen A. Greyser; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Sports
  • 01 Dec 2010
  • News

Additional alumni books for your consideration.

The Corporate Lattice: Achieving High Performance in the Changing World of Work by Cathleen Benko (MBA ’89) and Molly Anderson (Harvard Business Review Press) The authors argue that a lattice model rather... View Details
Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • 06 Feb 2006
  • What Do You Think?

Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?

it may become part of a larger debate in 2006 about added pressures on managers to produce short-term earnings regardless of the impact on the long-term health of the business. In his annual year-end letter to directors, Martin Lipton, a long-time student of View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services
  • 01 Oct 1996
  • News

Creating Miracles — Charles A. Coverdale (MBA 1971)

assistant, Cynthia Liggon, puts it, "believes adversity is a breeding ground for miracles." "I'm in the hope business," affirms Coverdale, who himself rose from the poor, rough-and-tumble world of the South Bronx as a youth to become one of the first African Americans... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • First Look

First Look -- September 1, 2015

strategy beyond markets. Very few studies have shown that a firm’s strategy increases policy performance; almost none have demonstrated a link between policy and firm profitability. Third, the topical areas of analysis appear to be limited. Environmental issues and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2011
  • News

Reimagining the MBA

Elective Curriculum (Second Year) Authentic Leadership Development Leading Professional Service Firms Leading Teams Leading and Governing High Performing Nonprofit Organizations Managing Human Capital Power and Influence The Moral Leader... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; FIELD program; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 29 Sep 2015
  • First Look

September 29, 2015

as early as possible during EHR optimization. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49754 2015 Journal of Product & Brand Management The Nobel Prize: The Identity of a Corporate Heritage Brand By: Urde,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 6

were making decisions that made them more acceptable to customers given the particular social, cultural, and economic contexts within which they were embedded. Ownership Structure and the Cost of Corporate Borrowing Authors: Chen Lin, Yue... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Feb 1998
  • News

Kicking Off a Startup: Jennifer Rottenberg (MBA '96)

way, the league is planning to debut in 2000. "The gold medal performance of the U.S. women's soccer team at the 1996 Olympics showcased our talented players to the nation and the world," says the NSA's development consultant, Jennifer... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
  • April 2002 (Revised May 2005)
  • Case

GE's Digital Revolution: Redefining the E in GE

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Meg Glinska
This case details the implementation of the e-business initiative--the last of Jack Welch's four company-wide strategic thrusts. First, it summarizes the 20-year change process that Welch led, detailing the initiatives he put in place. It then traces how Gerry Podesta,... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Leadership Style; Business or Company Management; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Performance Effectiveness; Corporate Strategy; Internet and the Web
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  • September–October 2013
  • Article

The Role of Organizational Scope and Governance in Strengthening Private Monitoring

By: Lamar Pierce and Michael W. Toffel
Governments and other organizations often outsource activities to achieve cost savings from market competition. Yet such benefits are often accompanied by poor quality resulting from moral hazard, which can be particularly onerous when outsourcing the monitoring and... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Decision Choices and Conditions; Corporate Accountability; Governance Compliance; Policy; Management Practices and Processes; Demand and Consumers; Market Design; Market Entry and Exit; Market Transactions; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Business Processes; Organizational Structure; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Expectations; Practice; Transportation; Transportation Industry; Service Industry; United States; New York (state, US)
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  • 06 May 2014
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First Look: May 6

August 2013 Management Science The Impact of Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Processes and Performance By: Eccles, Robert G., Ioannis Ioannou, and George Serafeim Abstract—We investigate the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 16

innovation performance such as firm productivity and profitability, (d) mergers, and (e) divestments as providing context or "shocks" to an activity system and their value as an empirical source of exogenous variation.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 25

  Publications 2006 pub Leviathan Evolving: New Varieties of State Capitalism in Brazil and Beyond By: Musacchio, Aldo, and Sergio G. Lazzarini Abstract—In this book we describe the transformation of state capitalism from a model in which governments owned and ran... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 19 Apr 2016
  • Blog Post

First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

focuses solely on corporate culture and identity of the new workplace. There's a lecture about the firm's history and another about standard operating procedures. There's a packet of information from human resources, emblazoned with the... View Details
Keywords: All Industries