Corporate Performance - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

schools are teaching ethics and corporate social responsibility, but they do not teach these subjects in the context of building a higher-ambition or a high commitment, high performance firm. Students learn... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

16 Aug 2016
First Look

August 16, 2016

forthcoming PublicAffairs Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar Criminal By: Soltes, Eugene F. Abstract—From the financial fraudsters of Enron, to the embezzlers at Tyco, to the Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff, the failings of View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Jan 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018

separate studies by the type of entrepreneurial behavior considered: entry into entrepreneurship, performance outcomes, and exit from entrepreneurship. This literature shows common results and many points of disagreement, reflective of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 1996
News

Creating Miracles — Charles A. Coverdale (MBA 1971)

assistant, Cynthia Liggon, puts it, "believes adversity is a breeding ground for miracles." "I'm in the hope business," affirms Coverdale, who himself rose from the poor, rough-and-tumble world of the South Bronx as a youth to become one of the first African Americans... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

19 Jan 2022
In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

performance and health outcomes will mean that 2022 will be a year of learning and reflection. Digitization in health care should be seen as a means to an end—improving the quality, patient-centricity, equity, and convenience of the... View Details

Keywords: by HBS News

01 Dec 2011
News

Making the Case for Leadership

plant in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, to introduce a new pilot project designed to enhance the motivation and performance of a group of 200 employees. A rare female manager at Frito-Lay, Johnson finds that her youth, inexperience, and... View Details

05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

Limits of Peer Effects on Startup Team Performance By: Hasan, Sharique, and Rembrand Koning Abstract— We conduct a field experiment at an entrepreneurship bootcamp to investigate whether interaction with proximate peers shapes a nascent... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

02 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 2

the parties. Thus, even after controlling for various attributes of the exchange relationship and the dispute, the choice of contracting structure has important strategic implications. The Globe: The China Rules: A Practical Guide for CEOs Managing Multinational View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

September 2024
Supplement

Allbirds: Decarbonizing Fashion (B)

By: Michael W. Toffel, Kenneth P. Pucker and Stacy Straaberg

The Allbirds: Decarbonizing Fashion (B) case encourages students to assess Allbirds’ product development and go-to-market strategies now that Allbirds is a publicly listed company. The (B) case provides a 2024 update on Allbirds including its initial public offering,... View Details

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11 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time

and approved, but when minority loan officers shepherd those applications, approval rates increase significantly, says Adi Sunderam, the Willard Prescott Smith Professor of Corporate Finance at Harvard Business School, in the working... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

01 Dec 2003
News

An Authentic Leader

to share ideas with MBA students next semester when he joins the HBS faculty to teach the new required first-year course Leadership, Governance, and Accountability. Did the recent parade of corporate scandals inspire your book? No, I had... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Scaling Technology Ventures - Course Catalog

social media, two-sided platforms, robotics, and cybersecurity. Educational Objectives The course exists to address a gap in management scholarship between two fundamental stages of corporate development – exploration and exploitation .... View Details

31 Oct 2019
News

Business Success Means Community Success in Wisconsin; GNN Roundup

his story of turning around the Bucks organization, which includes a major focus on supporting the broader Milwaukee community. “He never called the Bucks a basketball team,” says Hung. “He called them a service organization or a View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

11 Jul 2012
News

A Man, and a Plan, in Africa

smiling these days. Despite Washington’s contentious political environment, he’s employed at a US government foreign-aid organization, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), that actually enjoys broad bipartisan support. Everybody,... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Government

15 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise

sector. In a way they become the catalysts for internal change. Q: Many alumni get involved with corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives. Critics of CSR often cite Milton Friedman, who famously said that "the social... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson

06 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 6

were making decisions that made them more acceptable to customers given the particular social, cultural, and economic contexts within which they were embedded. Ownership Structure and the Cost of Corporate Borrowing Authors: Chen Lin, Yue... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

The Lessons of New-Market Disruption

performance. That initially led managers inside both companies to resist devoting scarce resources to developing those technologies because their lead customers were saying they wanted additional performance features, not fewer. But... View Details

Keywords: by Clark Gilbert; Technology

06 Dec 2011
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First Look: Dec. 6

corporate environmental performance data and analysis to institutional investors and corporate managers but after operating for a decade had yet to achieve profitability.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

2 (spring 1965): 13-31. * Available at another Harvard University Library, check HOLLIS . The Formula Black, Fischer, and Myron S. Scholes. "Capital Market Equilibrium and the Pricing of Corporate Liabilities." Financial Note No. 16C... View Details

01 Mar 2019
News

Building a Movement

Business schools also have to think carefully about their curriculum. We’ve been talking about the need for corporations to adjust to a changing environment, increasing pressures to dial down the single-minded pursuit of profit and to... View Details

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High Ambition Leadership

August 16, 2016

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018

Creating Miracles — Charles A. Coverdale (MBA 1971)

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

Making the Case for Leadership

New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

First Look: June 2

Allbirds: Decarbonizing Fashion (B)

Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time

An Authentic Leader

Scaling Technology Ventures - Course Catalog

Business Success Means Community Success in Wisconsin; GNN Roundup

A Man, and a Plan, in Africa

The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise

First Look: April 6

The Lessons of New-Market Disruption

First Look: Dec. 6

Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

Building a Movement