Publications

September 2007
Supplement

Corning: Convertible Preferred Stock (CW)

By: Malcolm P. Baker and James Quinn

Keywords: Stocks; Consumer Products Industry

September 2007
Supplement

The MCI Takeover Battle: Verizon versus Qwest (CW)

By: Malcolm P. Baker and James Quinn

Keywords: Integration; Communications Industry

March 2006
Case

Wells Fargo Convertible Bonds

By: Malcolm P. Baker and Elizabeth Kind

Howard Atkins, the chief financial officer of Wells Fargo, is considering issuing $3 billion in convertible debt. With an investment-grade credit rating, Wells Fargo is not the typical issuer of convertible securities, but the market conditions in 2003 are unusual.... View Details

Keywords: Capital Structure; Financial Institutions; Banks and Banking; Debt Securities; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Strategy; Banking Industry

March 1999
Article

Informal Authority in Organizations

By: George P. Baker, Robert Gibbons and Kevin J. Murphy

Keywords: Organizations

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July 1995 (Revised April 1996)
Supplement

Cambridge Technology Partners (B)

By: George P. Baker III, Teresa M. Amabile and Michael Beer

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Technology Industry

July 1995 (Revised April 1996)
Case

Cambridge Technology Partners (A)

By: Teresa M. Amabile, George P. Baker III and Michael Beer

Cambridge Technology Partners uses a highly innovative product strategy, supported by a human resources strategy, that has been very successful. However, high growth rates jeopardize product quality while tension about relative compensation levels between sales and... View Details

Keywords: Growth Management; Compensation and Benefits; Organizational Culture; Quality; Human Resources; Relationships; Innovation and Invention; Consulting Industry; Massachusetts

2022
Working Paper

Responding Strategically to Competitors' Failures: Evidence from Medical Device Recalls & New Product Submissions

By: George P. Ball, Jeffrey T. Macher and Ariel Dora Stern

Medical device firms operate at the frontiers of innovation. When functioning properly, innovative medical devices can prolong and improve lives; when malfunctioning, the same devices may harm patients and lead to product recalls. Product recalls create significant... View Details

Keywords: New Product Development; Recalls; Product Failures; Medical Devices; FDA; Health Care; Product Development; Product; Failure; Competition; Opportunities; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry

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04 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter

moment of crisis the delegates could have chosen either of two of the most accomplished politicians in America, William Henry Seward or Salmon P. Chase. Both had been United States senators and governors of major states. Both were... View Details

04 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business of Global Poverty

or sell. Payatas and the orderly, verdant Harvard Business School campus—nearly equals, as it happens, in terms of the acreage they occupy—are separated by a gulf far greater than any measure of miles or statistics. Yet as HBS professor Kash Rangan hurries past View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

02 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

Dominique Strauss-Kahn is just the latest in a string of high-profile leaders making the perp walk. What went wrong, and how can we learn from it? Professor Bill George discusses how powerful people lose their moral bearings. To stay... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

June 2007
Case

Howard Schultz: Building Starbucks Community (B)

By: William W. George and Lance P. Pierce

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

December 2005 (Revised November 2006)
Case

Corning, 2002

By: Malcolm P. Baker and James Quinn

Corning, with large investments in fiber optic technology, was hit particularly hard by the collapse of the telecommunications industry in 2001. With over $4 billion in debt, the firm's survival appears to rest on raising additional equity capital. The protagonist is... View Details

Keywords: Financial Strategy; Financial Condition; Financial Instruments; Valuation; Capital; Public Equity; Stock Shares; Business or Company Management; Strategy; Manufacturing Industry; Industrial Products Industry

1999
Chapter

Organizations and Markets at Harvard Business School, 1984-1996

By: George P. Baker, Michael C. Jensen, Carliss Y. Baldwin and Karen H. Wruck

Keywords: Higher Education; Markets; Organizations

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03 Mar 2010
What Do You Think?

To What Degree Does “Identity” Affect Economic Performance?

economic success of countries like the U.S.? What do you think? To read more: George A. Akerlof and Rachel E. Kranton, Identity Economics: How Our Identities Shape Our Work, Wages, and Well-Being (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

Article

The Internal Economics of the Firm: Evidence from Personnel Data

By: George P. Baker, Michael Gibbs and Bengt Holmstrom

Keywords: Economics; Business Ventures

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08 May 2020
In Practice

Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On

advice on how the social enterprise can restructure or redeploy its staff to be more effective. Preserving cash is the dominant issue. F. Warren McFarlan is the T.J. Dermot Dunphy Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration,... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

2002
Other Unpublished Work

Relational Contracts in Strategic Alliances

By: George P. Baker, Robert Gibbons and Kevin J. Murphy

Keywords: Contracts; Alliances

Article

Relational Contracts and the Theory of the Firm

By: George P. Baker, Robert Gibbons and Kevin J. Murphy

Keywords: Contracts; Theory; Business Ventures