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  • 21 Dec 2012
  • News

Ray Goldberg honored for contribution to agribusiness

  • February 1994 (Revised September 1995)
  • Case

Leland O'Brien Rubinstein Associates, Inc.: Portfolio Insurance

By: Peter Tufano
Leland O'Brien Rubinstein Associates, a small financial advisory firm founded in 1980, has created a successful business by selling a product commonly known as portfolio insurance. Portfolio insurance is a trading strategy that institutional investors use to establish... View Details
Keywords: Investment Portfolio; Insurance; Product; Financial Services Industry
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  • April 1994 (Revised October 2002)
  • Case

Frito-Lay, Inc.: A Strategic Transition (1990-1992)

By: Lynda M. Applegate
Describes the changes in structure, management systems, people, and processes instituted by the company. Provides students with an opportunity to explore the nature of "IT-enabled" organizational change and the process through which it is implemented. Also enables a... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Information Technology; Business Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • April 2010
  • Case

George Martin at The Boston Consulting Group (A)

By: Leslie A. Perlow and Kerry Herman
George Martin, managing partner at The Boston Consulting Group, is worried as some of his best performers have recently pulled him aside to discuss the challenges they face managing the demands of their work lives with their desire for more predictable time with their... View Details
Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Work-Life Balance; Management Teams; Interpersonal Communication; Jobs and Positions; Employees; Consulting Industry; Boston
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  • April 2003 (Revised December 2003)
  • Background Note

Winning the Influence Game: Corporate Diplomacy and Business Strategy

Provides a framework for influencing key outside players--businesses, governments, and NGOs--in support of business strategy. This could mean negotiating contracts with major customers and suppliers, concluding acquisitions and alliances, and securing financing from... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation; Business Strategy; Power and Influence
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  • 10 Nov 2011
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again

intellectual capital was drained" —Reynold Levy Levy, who was a senior lecturer at HBS before he took the Lincoln Center job, has stayed committed to the institution's funding base—the fiercely dedicated baby boomers who have consistently contributed to the View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 17 Aug 2006
  • Working Paper Summaries

Corporate Governance and Networks: Bankers in the Corporate Networks of Brazil, Mexico, and the United States circa 1910

Keywords: by Aldo Musacchio
  • 22 Feb 2017
  • HBS Seminar

Juliet Schor, Boston College

    Michael Beer

    MICHAEL BEER

    Mike Beer is the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations About Your Company’s... View Details

    • 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 07 May 2015
    • Webinars: Trending@HBS

    The Low Risk Anomaly: Implications for Investment, Asset Allocation, and Corporate Finance

    One of the basic principles of finance is that, in competitive and efficient markets, investors earn higher average returns only by taking greater risks. Asset classes follow this pattern: Stocks have returned more than bonds, and bonds have returned more than cash.... View Details
    • 03 Nov 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Pricing and Efficiency in the Market for IP Addresses

    Keywords: by Benjamin Edelman & Michael Schwarz; Publishing
    • 04 Jun 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Accountability and Inequality in Single-Party Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Vietnam and China

    Keywords: by Regina Abrami, Edmund Malesky & Yu Zheng
    • February 2017
    • Article

    How Much Is a Win Worth? An Application to Intercollegiate Athletics

    By: Doug J. Chung
    Intercollegiate athletics in the United States have become a multibillion-dollar industry over the past several decades. In this study, we investigate the short- and long-term direct monetary effects of operating a winning athletics program for an academic institution... View Details
    Keywords: Dynamic Panel Data; Heterogeneity; Instrumental Variables; Intercollegiate Athletics; Educational Finance; Entertainment Marketing; Higher Education; Marketing; Sports; Revenue; Education Industry; United States
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      How Much Is a Win Worth? An Application to Intercollegiate Athletics

      Intercollegiate athletics in the United States have become a multibillion-dollar industry over the past several decades. In this study, we investigate the short- and long-term direct monetary effects of operating a winning athletics program for an academic institution... View Details
      • November 2019
      • Case

      The Genesis Lab at Novartis

      By: Amy C. Edmondson, Ranjay Gulati, Patrick J. Healy and Kerry Herman
      Novartis' Genesis Labs program, launched in 2016 as part of Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research (NIBR), hosted pitch competitions where teams of NIBR scientists proposed ideas to explore that aimed to revolutionize drug discovery. The goal was to break down... View Details
      Keywords: Drug Discovery; Health Care and Treatment; Research and Development; Innovation and Invention; Programs; Management
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      • 2013
      • Working Paper

      Punctuated Generosity: How Mega-events and Natural Disasters Affect Corporate Philanthropy in U.S. Communities

      By: Andras Tilcsik and Christopher Marquis
      This article focuses on geographic communities as fields in which human-made and natural events occasionally disrupt the lives of organizations. We develop an institutional perspective to unpack how and why major events within communities affect organizations in the... View Details
      Keywords: Natural Disasters; Situation or Environment; Balance and Stability; Organizations; Business and Community Relations; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; United States
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      • Article

      New Interest in Incentive Financing

      By: Samuel Hayes
      The article presents the findings of a study on incentive financings as they apply to institutional investors, particularly life insurance company investors. The author made contact with investment officers in 29 insurance companies, and have collected a considerable... View Details
      Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Financing and Loans; Institutional Investing
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      • June 2008
      • Background Note

      A Note on Limited Partner Advisory Boards

      By: Josh Lerner, G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon
      This note explores the limited partner advisory boards. Based on interviews with seven experienced limited partners who serve on a number of different advisory boards, it presents the roles of the advisory board, the ways it can influence the general partner, and the... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Partners and Partnerships; Power and Influence
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      • June 2003
      • Case

      Peabody Simpson at the Crossroads

      By: Rajiv Lal, Nitin Nohria and Leslie Freeman
      Three managing directors at Peabody Simpson had just returned from a firm-wide recruiting event at Columbia University, which they had covered together, as all were alumni. They were commiserating about having to submit revised forecasts to their division heads by the... View Details
      Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Capital Budgeting; Recruitment; Reports; Organizational Design
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      • 01 Mar 2014
      • News

      Social Enterprise Initiative Marks 20th Anniversary