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Leadership - Faculty & Research
of caring for not only the corporation and shareholders but also the patients and medical professionals. How should leaders of health-related businesses weigh the demand for efficiency and profit alongside the care of patients and the... View Details
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
business leader, a facility in talking about complex social issues, and a greater understanding of the merits of reparations. A New Way to Measure Shareholder Returns / End to Magical Thinking Professor Mihir Desai (MBA 1993) + More Info... View Details
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About - Business & Environment
joining BlackRock, Carolyn created structured derivatives solutions for corporations at Citibank, where she was Head of the North America Corporate Solutions Group. Previously, she was Deutsche Bank's Head of Risk Solutions Structuring, a... View Details
- 14 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Amazon vs. Whole Foods: When Cultures Collide
from that.” The new inventory system was actually something Whole Foods had started to implement before the Amazon deal, pressured by activist shareholders who had seen the grocer’s stock and sales margins slipping for two years. “This is... View Details
- 07 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron
defraud shareholders had already entered guilty pleas. Skilling and Lay argued that these 15 plea bargainers were all honest men who had been bullied into false confessions by the "witch hunt" tactics of the Justice Department.... View Details
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
implementation of radical routines and resource configuration. Structural arrangements, pre-set change routines, and existing decisional priorities are insufficient to fashion relevant capabilities into new core activities. Ad-hoc problem... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Three Components of Family Governance
of statement. The rare family in business may have a more elaborate family governance structure, with a separate meeting for family-owner-managers or a separate council for family shareholders or periodic meetings between shareholders,... View Details
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HBR Classics - Alumni
Landscape Cause Your Firms Decline CSR or Share Holder Value How to Uncover Hidden Shareholder Value , Brian Hagen, Raymond L. Manganelli Shareholder Value Must Top CEOs Agenda , Gregory T. Carrott, Stuart... View Details
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A Campus Built on Philanthropy | About
twelve HBS buildings between 1925 and 1927. Facing the banks of the Charles River in a pattern that follows its graceful curve, the original structures represented a continuation of the stately, Georgian Revival style that dominated the... View Details
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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge
Model (23) Business Offices (4) Business Plan (2) Business Processes (4) Business Startups (39) Business Strategy (31) Business Units (1) Business Ventures (153) Business and Community Relations (8) Business and Government Relations (44) Business and View Details
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
tranches. Overall, a one standard deviation reduction in average time on the market decreases the interest rate for institutional loans by over 30 basis points per annum. While this effect is significantly larger for loan tranches bought by View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research
Organizational Change and Adaptation ; Organizational Culture ; Organizational Design ; Strategic Planning ; Business and Shareholder Relations ; Business and Stakeholder Relations ; Research and Development ; Business Strategy ;... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Organizing the Family-Run Business
subsystems influences the direction and operations of the family company, as well as of the family. It is essential, therefore, that each subsystem has a defined role and a clear voice in the governance of the overall system. These three subsystems and their governance... View Details
- 18 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Your Best Employees Are Burning Out: A Framework for Retaining Talent
the 1970s and enjoyed the roaring ‘90s, only to experience the dot.com bust, followed by the financial crisis in 2008. The need for employees to job-hop, along with the corporation’s requirement to increase value for shareholders by... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and MaShon Wilson
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
equity that are nonetheless considered public by virtue of having publicly traded debt. We develop and test two hypotheses. The "demand" hypothesis holds that earnings of public equity firms are of higher quality than earnings of private equity firms due to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research
Finance Using a sample of 3083 firms from 62 countries over 18 years, we analyze how the structure and identity of firms' material owners influence their Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance. We find that firms with... View Details
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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research
Innovation Leadership ; Leadership ; Leadership Style ; Leading Change ; Management ; Product Design ; Product Development ; Organizational Change and Adaptation ; Organizational Culture ; Organizational Design ; Strategic Planning ; Business and View Details
- 22 Nov 2023
- News
So You Want to Join a Startup
Number one. Number two is, am I willing to live with the uncertainty that startup may not work? Am I willing to go into a company that doesn't provide me training? Doesn't provide me a really structured path, necessarily, for my career... View Details
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
4+2 = Sustained Business Success
winning companies saw their money multiply nearly tenfold, with total returns to shareholders of 945 percent. By contrast, the average loser produced only 62 percent in total returns to shareholders over the... View Details
- 11 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
A Day in the Life: Ben Hsieh
active debate on whether companies have primary responsibility to their shareholders (as in the U.S.) or a multi-faceted responsibility to employees, customers, the broader community (as written into the law to varying degrees in the UK... View Details