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- 13 Feb 2020
- Book
Open Your Organization to Honest Conversations
in GE, spurring the company’s stock price to dive from a high of $55 in 2002 to a dismal $12 in early 2020. “People who are this discouraged stop bothering to collaborate with others to improve the organization." Most companies fail in... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Five Discovery Skills that Distinguish Great Innovators
the Renaissance, one of the most innovative eras in history. Put simply, innovative thinkers connect fields, problems, or ideas that others find unrelated. The other four discovery skills trigger associational thinking by helping innovators increase their View Details
- 06 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
What We Learned from Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents
secretive companies. About the Authors Boris Groysberg is the Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Tricia Gregg is an independent researcher. [Image: Chuck Bigger / Alamy Stock Photo] Related... View Details
- 05 Jul 2022
- What Do You Think?
Have We Seen the Peak of Just-in-Time Inventory Management?
years, information technology contributed to more complete knowledge about inventory status as well as more dependable transport. Both made a strategy with less safety stock more viable. The result, of course, was what came to be known as... View Details
- 09 May 2017
- What Do You Think?
Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?
changing the tax laws to render tax-free those capital gains earned on stock held for ten years or more. Shann Turnbull suggested the need for education in “new organizational forms” such as “Network Governance” that are currently “mostly... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- June 2007 (Revised January 2008)
- Case
The Vanguard Group, Inc. in 2006 and Target Retirement Funds
By: Luis M. Viceira
The Vanguard Group is one of the largest asset managers in the U.S., with over $1 trillion in assets, ninety percent of which are mutual fund assets, and more than 12,000 employees at year-end 2006. Vanguard has built a strong reputation as the manager of reference for... View Details
Keywords: Asset Management; Investment Funds; Personal Finance; Brands and Branding; Retirement; Trust; Financial Services Industry; United States
Viceira, Luis M. "The Vanguard Group, Inc. in 2006 and Target Retirement Funds." Harvard Business School Case 207-129, June 2007. (Revised January 2008.)
- 09 Nov 2023
- Blog Post
The No. 1 Character Trait You Will Need to Succeed in Business
moments when they had to summon their resolve to fight back against, for example, short-term moves that would lift the company’s stock price at the expense or its overall health or that would cause permanent damage to the environment.... View Details
- 04 Aug 2010
- News
A Lonely Crusader
2002, Ackman shorted MBIA’s stock and bought credit default swaps betting that the firm would tank. Then he went public with his bets and a 66-page research report detailing his case. What happened next would have broken a man possessing... View Details
- Web
Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab | About
companies and is adjacent to the Harvard i-lab and Launch Lab. The first floor consists of 50 coworking spaces designed to be family friendly with a fully stocked kitchen, office supply center, conference rooms, lockers, filing cabinets,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Venturing Forth
Illustration by Adam McCauley Venture capital is a heady industry: Big bets mean big checks when the deals hit right. And for most of the last decade, those taking part in the funds were riding high: Capital was abundant, valuations were soaring, and the View Details
- 01 Aug 2022
- What Do You Think?
Does Religious Belief Affect Organizational Performance?
organizational culture has a significant impact on an index comprised of annual net income growth, annual return on invested capital, and annual growth of stock price. We found that strong cultures can have either significantly positive... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 27 Jan 2023
- Op-Ed
Have We Lost Sight of Integrity?
federal indictment. Tesla’s Elon Musk is facing trial for deceptively driving up the price of Tesla stock by falsely claiming to have the “funding secured” to take his company private. Theranos under Elizabeth Holmes and Sunny Balwani... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- Web
Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
services in 1994, it spun off Lehman Brothers through a public stock offering, trading on the New York and Pacific stock exchanges, as Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc. Richard “Dick” Fuld, who had overseen the... View Details
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Hedge Funds
invested in stocks or in a mutual fund, and as stock prices rose so did his or her account, and when they fell, so did his or her account. With hedge funds money is going to be made, and lost, in arcane... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- January 2022 (Revised February 2022)
- Case
Introducing EVA at ISS: A Better Way to Evaluate CEO Performance and Compensation?
By: Jonas Heese, Charles C.Y. Wang and James Weber
In early 2019, Anthony Campagna, the global director of fundamental research at ISS EVA, a unit of the proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), was preparing to release ISS's analyses of public company performance and CEO compensation ahead of Say... View Details
Keywords: Jobs and Positions; Compensation and Benefits; Performance; Performance Productivity; Measurement and Metrics; Analytics and Data Science; Value; Business or Company Management; Performance Evaluation; Business and Shareholder Relations
Heese, Jonas, Charles C.Y. Wang, and James Weber. "Introducing EVA at ISS: A Better Way to Evaluate CEO Performance and Compensation?" Harvard Business School Case 122-061, January 2022. (Revised February 2022.)
- 2015
- Working Paper
Customers and Investors: A Framework for Understanding Financial Institutions
By: Robert C. Merton and Robert T. Thakor
Financial institutions have both investors and customers. Investors, such as those who invest in stocks and bonds or private/public-sector guarantors of institutions, expect an appropriate risk-adjusted return in exchange for the financing and risk-bearing that they... View Details
Keywords: Financial Institutions
Merton, Robert C., and Robert T. Thakor. "Customers and Investors: A Framework for Understanding Financial Institutions." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 21258, June 2015.
- April 2020
- Background Note
U.S. Food Retail During the Pandemic: March 2020
By: José B. Alvarez and Natalie Kindred
This note, written in late March 2020 and mainly U.S. focused, looks at the unfolding impact of the coronavirus pandemic on food retailers and their suppliers. It allows student to consider the challenges facing food retail executives as they navigate urgent supply... View Details
Keywords: Coronavirus Pandemic; Risk and Uncertainty; Risk Management; Food; Supply Chain; Consumer Behavior; Demand and Consumers; Trade; Crisis Management; Health Pandemics; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Retail Industry; United States
Alvarez, José B., and Natalie Kindred. "U.S. Food Retail During the Pandemic: March 2020." Harvard Business School Background Note 520-098, April 2020.
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and the Internet
advantage—its skilled brokers. And many established companies, reacting to misguided investor enthusiasm, have hastily cobbled together Internet units in a mostly futile effort to boost their value in the stock market. It did not have to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter
- 22 Apr 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Competing with Privacy
- 2019
- Working Paper
The Wisdom of Crowds in Operations: Forecasting Using Prediction Markets
By: Achal Bassamboo, Ruomeng Cui and Antonio Moreno
Prediction is an important activity in various business processes, but it becomes difficult when historical information is not available, such as forecasting demand of a new product. One approach that can be applied in such situations is to crowdsource opinions from... View Details
Keywords: Wisdom Of Crowds; Demand Forecasting; Price Forecasting; Forecasting and Prediction; Social and Collaborative Networks; Size; Performance
Bassamboo, Achal, Ruomeng Cui, and Antonio Moreno. "The Wisdom of Crowds in Operations: Forecasting Using Prediction Markets." Working Paper, 2019.