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    Vikram Gandhi

    Vikram S. Gandhi is the Gerald P. Kaminsky Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the General Management Unit. He has developed and teaches two new courses in the Elective Curriculum of the MBA Program. The first is a finance and investing course, Sustainable... View Details

    Keywords: financial services
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    Why Do Pro Forma and Street Earnings Not Reflect Changes in GAAP? Evidence from SFAS 123R

    By: Ian D. Gow, Mary E. Barth and Daniel Taylor
    This study examines how key market participants—managers and analysts—responded to SFAS 123R's controversial requirement that firms recognize stock-based compensation expense. Despite mandated recognition of the expense, some firms' managers exclude it from pro forma... View Details
    Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Employee Stock Ownership Plan
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    Gow, Ian D., Mary E. Barth, and Daniel Taylor. "Why Do Pro Forma and Street Earnings Not Reflect Changes in GAAP? Evidence from SFAS 123R." Review of Accounting Studies 17, no. 3 (September 2012): 526–562.
    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    Status and Mortality: Is There a Whitehall Effect in the United States?

    By: Tom Nicholas
    Do white collar workers with lower social status in the occupational hierarchy die younger? The influential Whitehall studies of British civil servants identified a strong inverse relationship between employment rank and mortality, but we do not know if this effect... View Details
    Keywords: Mortality; Status; Socioeconomic Determinants Of Health
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    Nicholas, Tom. "Status and Mortality: Is There a Whitehall Effect in the United States?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-080, January 2021.
    • January 2016
    • Teaching Note

    Groom Energy Solutions: Selling Efficiency

    By: Michael W. Toffel, Kira Fabrizio and Stephanie van Sice
    This case examines a start-up service provider that helps clients improve the energy efficiency of their factories, warehouses, and commercial and office spaces by integrating and installing lighting, heating, and cooling technologies. The company seeks to double... View Details
    Keywords: Energy Efficiency; Energy Efficiency Paradox; Environment; Environmental Strategy; Growth; Energy; Energy Conservation; Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Energy Industry
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    Toffel, Michael W., Kira Fabrizio, and Stephanie van Sice. "Groom Energy Solutions: Selling Efficiency." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 616-023, January 2016.
    • 07 Aug 2012
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    experiment to measure the value of shareholder proxy access. We find that firms that would have been most vulnerable to proxy access, as measured by institutional ownership and activist institutional... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2014
    • Working Paper

    The Unfairness Trap: A Key Missing Factor in the Economic Theory of Discrimination

    By: Jordan I. Siegel, Naomi Kodama and Hanna Halaburda
    Prior evidence linking increased female representation in management to corporate performance has been surprisingly mixed, due in part to data limitations and methodological difficulties, and possibly to omission of a fairness factor in the economic theory of... View Details
    Keywords: Managerial Roles; Fairness; Performance Productivity; Gender; Japan
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    Siegel, Jordan I., Naomi Kodama, and Hanna Halaburda. "The Unfairness Trap: A Key Missing Factor in the Economic Theory of Discrimination." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-082, March 2013. (Revised January 2014, June 2014.)
    • March 1998 (Revised July 1998)
    • Case

    United Way Community Services

    By: V. Kasturi Rangan
    Describes in detail the fund development and distribution system of United Way Community Services. A key question is how to measure the outcome/impact of the work done by the agencies that receive United Way funding. A follow-on question is how to reinvent the... View Details
    Keywords: Capital; Management Systems; Measurement and Metrics; Distribution Channels; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Outcome or Result; Nonprofit Organizations
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    Rangan, V. Kasturi. "United Way Community Services." Harvard Business School Case 598-138, March 1998. (Revised July 1998.)
    • 02 Aug 2016
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    August 2, 2016

    forthcoming Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Don't Stop Believing: Rituals Improve Performance by Decreasing Anxiety By: Brooks, Alison Wood, Julianna Schroeder, Jane Risen, Francesca Gino, Adam D. Galinsky, Michael I.... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 02 Jul 2010
    • What Do You Think?

    Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?

    illustration of that point; BP is very profitable, but there is official evidence that it continues to compromise safety.) Gerald Nanninga, on the other hand, argued that profit is a default measure, commenting that "It is easier to View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett
    • 08 Feb 2017
    • HBS Seminar

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    • November 2024 (Revised January 2025)
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    Balancing Impact: Modeling the Future at British International Investment

    By: Shawn Cole and Jonah Zahnd
    In 2022, British International Investment (BII), the £8.1 billion development finance arm of the British government, implemented a new impact measurement system called the Impact Score to align its financial and impact objectives systematically. The tool was designed... View Details
    Keywords: Investment Portfolio; Measurement and Metrics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Alignment; United Kingdom
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    Cole, Shawn, and Jonah Zahnd. "Balancing Impact: Modeling the Future at British International Investment." Harvard Business School Case 225-047, November 2024. (Revised January 2025.)
    • 20 Aug 2019
    • News

    Should a Pension Fund Try to Change the World?

      Brian J. Hall

      Brian J. Hall is the Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He served as the Unit Head for the Negotiation, Organizations and Markets (NOM) Unit for 14 years. Previously, he was an assistant professor of economics in the... View Details

      Keywords: accounting industry; consulting; consumer products; executive search; financial services; high technology; investment banking industry; management consulting; private equity (LBO funds); restaurant; sports; venture capital industry
      • June 2023
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      The Effect of Firms' Information Exposure on Safeguarding Employee Health: Evidence from COVID-19

      By: Lisa Yao Liu and Shirley Lu
      We show that information exposure through international business networks enables firms to take proactive measures that benefit employees and potentially the local community. Specifically, in the early days of COVID-19, firms that have business networks with China and... View Details
      Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Networks; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Health Pandemics; Decision Choices and Conditions; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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      Liu, Lisa Yao, and Shirley Lu. "The Effect of Firms' Information Exposure on Safeguarding Employee Health: Evidence from COVID-19." Journal of Accounting Research 61, no. 3 (June 2023): 891–933.
      • April 2011
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      Strategic Foresight: An Exercise

      The exercise asks students to perform a strategic analysis of the consulting industry in order to identify untapped strategic opportunities. View Details
      Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Supply and Industry; Strategic Planning; Opportunities; Cognition and Thinking; Strategy; Consulting Industry
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      Gavetti, Giovanni M. "Strategic Foresight: An Exercise." Harvard Business School Exercise 711-516, April 2011.
      • August 1981 (Revised September 1985)
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      How to Avoid Getting Lost in the Numbers

      Provides some hints and tips to students who encounter difficulty in performing quantitative analyses of case studies. Describes how to approach the numbers and suggests devices they can use to overcome their problems. View Details
      Keywords: Measurement and Metrics; Cases
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      Maister, David H. "How to Avoid Getting Lost in the Numbers." Harvard Business School Background Note 682-010, August 1981. (Revised September 1985.)
      • Forthcoming
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      On the Limits of Anonymization for Promoting Diversity in Organizations

      By: Linda W. Chang and Edward H. Chang
      Anonymization of job applicant resumes is a recommended strategy to increase diversity in organizations, but large-scale tests have shown mixed results. We consider decision-makers’ social dominance orientation (SDO), a measure of anti-egalitarianism/endorsement of... View Details
      Keywords: Diversity; Selection and Staffing; Rank and Position
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      Chang, Linda W., and Edward H. Chang. "On the Limits of Anonymization for Promoting Diversity in Organizations." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (forthcoming). (Pre-published online January 3, 2025.)
      • 2017
      • Working Paper

      Cross-Boundary Teaming for Innovation: Integrating Research on Teams and Knowledge in Organizations

      By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey
      Cross-boundary teaming, within and across organizations, is an increasingly popular strategy for innovation. Knowledge diversity is seen to expand the range of views and ideas that teams can draw upon to innovate. Yet, case studies of practice reveal that teaming... View Details
      Keywords: Teams; Knowledge; Innovation; Groups and Teams; Collaborative Innovation and Invention
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      Edmondson, Amy C., and Jean-François Harvey. "Cross-Boundary Teaming for Innovation: Integrating Research on Teams and Knowledge in Organizations." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-013, August 2016. (Revised February 2017.)
      • 2025
      • Working Paper

      Choosing and Using Information in Evaluation Decisions

      By: Katherine Baldiga Coffman, Scott Kostyshak and Perihan O. Saygin
      We use a controlled experiment to study how information acquisition impacts candidate evaluations. We provide evaluators with group-level information on performance and the opportunity to acquire additional, individual-level performance information before making a... View Details
      Keywords: Discrimination; Beliefs; Stereotypes; Gender; Prejudice and Bias; Selection and Staffing; Performance Evaluation
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      Coffman, Katherine Baldiga, Scott Kostyshak, and Perihan O. Saygin. "Choosing and Using Information in Evaluation Decisions." Working Paper, February 2025.
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      Mastering Strategy Execution

      By: Robert Simons

      Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details

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