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Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

an asset or a liability in driving future growth. Raffaelli’s research introduces three reinvention traps—rooted in organizational identity, architecture, and collaboration norms—that can hinder adaptation. Drawing from studies of Moleskine, Corning, Amazon, View Details
  • 25 Sep 2006
  • Research & Ideas

How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business

independent developers to build new features. The cell phone has become a lucrative platform for more than handset makers—also in on the party are makers of digital cameras, music services, and organizer software. Not only are existing... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services
  • 28 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Accountability at the World Bank

House of Representatives on September 10, 2009. The subject of the hearing: "The World Bank's Disclosure Policy Review, and the Role of Democratic Participatory Processes in Achieving Successful Development Outcomes." [Webcast] "The challenges of... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
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Rock Summer Fellows - Entrepreneurship

encourage you to apply to the General Summer Fellows Joiner track. Student founders have the opportunity to select from two tracks: 1) Rock Summer Fellows – Independent track Engage in a peer exchange network of students committed to... View Details
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Curriculum - Case Method Project

Alabama on March 9, 1965. Coverage: 1865 – 1965; racial segregation; Jim Crow; black disenfranchisement; poll taxes; literacy tests; white primaries; grandfather clauses; NAACP; Plessy v. Ferguson; Brown v. Board of Education; Martin... View Details
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Podcast - Business & Environment

unpack how Calyx Global evaluates carbon credit quality, how the company maintains independence in a space vulnerable to conflicts of interest, and how data and technology—from satellite sensing to AI—are transforming how carbon credits... View Details
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Asia Pacific - Global

Nancy Hua Dai and Independent Researcher Mary C. Sauer (2022 Senior Fellow, Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative). Prof. Kim led a discussion about how leaders/entrepreneurs can apply the disciplines of entrepreneurship, management and... View Details
  • 05 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 5

independent predictor of mental and physical health-such as decreased depression and doctor's visits-over and above mean levels of positive and negative emotion. These results remained robust after controlling for gender, age, and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Systemic Risk and the Refinancing Ratchet Effect

Keywords: by Amir E. Khandani, Andrew W. Lo & Robert C. Merton; Construction; Real Estate
  • 08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8

priorities. Many years ago labor conditions in Asian contract factories prompted Nike board member Jill Ker Conway to lobby for a board-level corporate responsibility committee, which the company created in 2001. In the years since, the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29

Brookings, 2009) Abstract Energy policy is on everyone's mind these days. The U.S. presidential campaign focused on energy independence and exploration (drill, baby, drill), climate change, alternative fuels, even nuclear energy. But... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Unilever—A Case Study

Organization Unilever was an organizational curiosity in that, since 1929, it has been headed by two separate British and Dutch companies—Unilever Ltd. (PLC after 1981), and Unilever N.V.—with different sets of shareholders but identical View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Manufacturing; Retail
  • 09 Nov 2023
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From the Brink

Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994), Adam Chepenik (MBA 2010), Sebastián Negrón-Reichard (JD/MBA 2024) As the senior top official in the US Treasury Department on domestic finance issues, Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994) could see Puerto Rico’s financial meltdown coming, like watching a... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
  • 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3

These changes relate to: advisory notes by shareholders, refinements to board structure, non-disclosure on compensation and tightening up of certain enforcement provisions. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015

prominent feature of the corporate landscape, escaping some of their earlier approbation as corporate raiders or, even worse, "greenmailers." Activism covered a range of approaches—from proxy votes and demands for Board seats,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2015
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BOLT: Seed Venture Capital Firm

By: William A. Sahlman and Robert F. White
BOLT is a different kind of seed venture capital firm built to serve the needs of early-stage startups at the intersection of hardware and software.

In the past decade, the cost of entrepreneurial experimentation has dropped dramatically, particularly in web... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Accelerator; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Venture Capital; Applications and Software; Information Infrastructure; Strategy
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

should we evaluate the risks and benefits it creates for patients, employers, and investors? Emerging Strategic Priorities for Corporate Boards Professor Linda Hill ; Cheryl Beninga (MBA 1988); Shyam Gidumal (MBA 1983); Lisa Skeete Tatum... View Details
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Resources - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

skills including clarifying objectives, questioning and listening, and board work 1976 Use of Cases in Management Education by E. Raymond Corey Directed toward students; valuable for professors as well. Briefly describes the process of... View Details
  • 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008

which can be large in some cases. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-054.pdf The Small World of Investing: Board Connections and Mutual Fund Returns Authors:Lauren Cohen, Andrea Frazzini, and Christopher Malloy... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Nov 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Who Really Determines CEO Salary Packages?

ask? And more specifically, what are the sources of influence on the decisions that they make?” At large public companies, boards of directors are usually in charge of how and what to pay their CEOs. It’s an expensive decision. Among the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consulting