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- 20 Dec 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Using Fintech to Disrupt Eastern Bank from Within
- Research Summary
Secrets of Succession (Financial Times, December 6, 2002, with Nicholas Carr)
By: Rakesh Khurana
Boards often choose a new chief executive in response to outside pressures, skewed perceptions and simple convenience. In this extended essay, we argue for a return to objectivity and rigour in the selection process. View Details
- 24 Aug 2011
- News
Bill George's corporate "Dream Team"
- 01 Nov 2019
- Video
Mavath R. Chandran
Mavath R. Chandran, a veteran executive in the Malaysian palm oil industry and an advisor to the Roundtable of Sustainable Palm Oil, discusses sustainability in the palm oil industry and the challenge of... View Details
- June 2017
- Case
Magellan Boatworks
By: John A. Quelch and James T. Kindley
Magellan Boatworks is a midsize manufacturer of customized, power "cruising yachts." In the face of economic and political uncertainty in late 2016, Magellan's VP of sales and marketing, Walt Robinson, wonders whether he should request a budget increase for 2017.... View Details
Quelch, John A., and James T. Kindley. "Magellan Boatworks." Harvard Business School Brief Case 917-547, June 2017.
- 2004
- Working Paper
Are Perks Purely Managerial Excess?
By: Raghuram G. Rajan and Julie Wulf
Why do some firms tend to offer executives a variety of perks while others offer none at all? A widespread view in the corporate finance literature is that executive perks are a form of agency or private benefit and a way for managers to misappropriate some of the... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Performance Productivity; Executive Compensation; Corporate Finance
Rajan, Raghuram G., and Julie Wulf. "Are Perks Purely Managerial Excess?" NBER Working Paper Series, No. 10494, May 2004. (Published in Journal of Financial Economics 2006.)
- 24 Jan 2024
- Op-Ed
Why Boeing’s Problems with the 737 MAX Began More Than 25 Years Ago
corporate executives from its engineering and product decisions and alienated its Seattle-based engineers. Leader turnover, ethical lapses, and buybacks After Condit resigned in 2003 following an ethics scandal, Boeing’s board convinced... View Details
Michael I. Parzen
Michael Parzen is a Senior Lecturer in the Technology and Operations Management unit at Harvard Business School. He is an applied statistician with extensive experience in data science education and currently teaches Applied Business Analytics as an MBA elective... View Details
- July 1984 (Revised April 1997)
- Case
British Airways
By: John A. Quelch
British Airways (BA) has recently introduced a global advertising campaign. The development of the campaign and its implementation are discussed. BA and advertising agency executives must renew the campaign and resolve issues pertaining to its future direction. View Details
Keywords: Air Transportation; Globalization; Advertising Campaigns; Air Transportation Industry; England
Quelch, John A. "British Airways." Harvard Business School Case 585-014, July 1984. (Revised April 1997.)
- 05 May 2017
- News
Former CFO Paula Price makes her career teaching, serving on boards
- 08 Jul 2021
- Video
Peter Wharton-Hood
Peter Wharton-Hood, a former senior executive at Standard Bank and Deutsche Bank in South Africa, describes how Standard Bank responded to the global financial crisis in 2008/9, and notes the importance of South Africa’s competent regulatory system. View Details
- January 2009
- Article
From Regional Star to Global Leader
By: Nitin Nohria
Yang Jianguo was recently promoted from country manager for China to global head of product development at a staid French perfume maker. He was chosen for his technical smarts and his knowledge of emerging markets—a critical avenue for growth, given that sales in the... View Details
Keywords: Communication Strategy; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Globalized Firms and Management; Leadership Development; Management Teams; Emerging Markets; Product Development; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; China; Paris
Nohria, Nitin. "From Regional Star to Global Leader." Harvard Business Review 87, no. 1 (January 2009).
- 05 Jun 2015
- News
Soccer-FIFA crisis worse than anything in Olympics scandal
- 13 Dec 2016
- News
Global Deals That Made Exxon’s CEO Now Pose Big Test
- Article
Effects of Cultural Ethnicity, Firm Size, and Firm Age on Senior Executives' Trust in Their Overseas Business Partners: Evidence from China
By: Crystal Jiang, Roy Y.J. Chua, Masaaki Kotabe and Janet Murray
We investigate trust relationships between senior business executives and their overseas partners. Drawing on the similarity-attraction paradigm, social-categorization theory, and the distinction between cognition- and affect-based trust, we argue that executives trust... View Details
Keywords: Ethnicity; Culture; Management Teams; Cognition and Thinking; Networks; Globalized Firms and Management; Partners and Partnerships; Business Growth and Maturation; Size; Trust; China
Jiang, Crystal, Roy Y.J. Chua, Masaaki Kotabe, and Janet Murray. "Effects of Cultural Ethnicity, Firm Size, and Firm Age on Senior Executives' Trust in Their Overseas Business Partners: Evidence from China." Journal of International Business Studies 42, no. 9 (December 2011): 1150–1173. (Equal Authorship Among All Authors.)
- 2007
- Chapter
Career Patterns and Organizational Performance
By: Monica C. Higgins and James R. Dillon
Traditional research on careers examines how organizations and individuals affect career outcomes. This chapter reviews several specific ways in which career histories have been found to influence organizational outcomes. While we incorporate both upper echelons... View Details
Higgins, Monica C., and James R. Dillon. "Career Patterns and Organizational Performance." Chap. 21 in Handbook of Career Studies, edited by M. Peiperl and H. Gunz, 422–436. Sage Publications, 2007.
- TeachingInterests
Performance Management for Nonprofit Organizations (Executive Education, Faculty Co-chair)
This Executive Education course —a joint program presented by the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative and Harvard University's Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations—explores the impact of measurement on resource allocation, organizational learning, internal processes,... View Details
- 25 May 2023
- Video
2023 Commencement Welcome Address
- July 2005
- Article
Price Improvement in Dealership Markets
By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
Price improvement refers to the practice whereby dealers order executions that improve on quoted prices. Why are these improvements given? Standard thinking is that competition causes dealers to give better prices to customers with less information. This paper... View Details
Keywords: Price; Markets; Competition; Information; Customers; Negotiation; Mission and Purpose; Practice; Theory; Performance Improvement; Bids and Bidding; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
Rhodes-Kropf, Matthew. "Price Improvement in Dealership Markets." Journal of Business 78, no. 4 (July 2005): 1137–1172.