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  • 28 Aug 2017
  • News

Basic Competence Can Be a Strategy

    W. Earl Sasser

    Earl Sasser is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and has been a member of the faculty there since 1969. He received a B.A. in Mathematics from Duke University in 1965, an MBA from the University of North Carolina in 1967, and a Ph.D. in... View Details

    Keywords: airline; automotive; banking; broadcasting; communications; construction; credit card; education industry; entertainment; fast food; hotels ＆ motels; insurance industry; marketing industry; oil ＆ gas; restaurant; retailing; service industry; sports; tourism; transportation

      Brian L. Trelstad

       

      Brian Trelstad is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School in the General Management Unit and the Faculty Chair of the Advanced Leadership Initiative. He teaches elective courses on Social Entrepreneurship and Systems... View Details

      Keywords: education industry; health care; service industry; emerging market private equity; private equity (other); venture capital industry
      • July 2019
      • Article

      Market Reaction to Mandatory Nonfinancial Disclosure

      By: Jody Grewal, Edward J. Riedl and George Serafeim
      We examine the equity market reaction to events associated with the passage of a directive in the European Union (EU) mandating increased nonfinancial disclosure. These disclosures relate to firms’ environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance and would be... View Details
      Keywords: Nonfinancial Information; Nonfinancial Performance; ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Investor Behavior; Disclosure; Disclosure Regulation; Regulation; Sustainability; Corporate Performance; Information; Corporate Disclosure; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Performance; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Governance; Outcome or Result
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      • 09 Apr 2014
      • News

      Power suits

      • Research Summary

      Corporate Diplomacy

      Michael Watkins is defining a top management function of increasing importance: the conduct of corporate diplomacy. Senior executives conduct the business equivalent of international diplomacy when they negotiate to sustain or transform relationships with influential... View Details
      • Fall 2013
      • Article

      Sustainable Operations Management: An Enduring Stream or a Passing Fancy?

      By: David Drake and Stefan Spinler
      Paul Kleindorfer was among the first to weigh in on and nurture the stream of Sustainable Operations Management. The thoughts laid out here are based on conversations we had with Paul relating to the drivers underlying sustainability as a management issue: population... View Details
      Keywords: Sustainable Operations; Sustainability; Environment; Paul Kleindorfer; Management; Environmental Sustainability
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      • 2016
      • Working Paper

      The Reference Wars: Encyclopedia Britannica's Decline and Encarta's Emergence

      By: Shane Greenstein
      The experience of Encyclopædia Britannica provides the canonical example of the decline of an established firm at the outset of the digital age. Competition from Microsoft's Encarta in 1993 led to sharp declines in the sales of books, which led to the distressed sale... View Details
      Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Service Operations; Emerging Markets; Applications and Software; Books; Information Technology Industry; Information Industry
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      • 05 Sep 2018
      • Research & Ideas

      The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software

      managers with more information to guide decision-making toward increasing social welfare in areas where it makes sense for the firm and in the context of the new tech-driven business ecosystem. “More and... View Details
      Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Computer
      • 2016
      • Article

      Scandal and Stigma: Does Corporate Misconduct Affect the Future Compensation of Bystander Managers?

      By: Boris Groysberg, Eric Lin and George Serafeim
      This paper explores whether a firm’s misconduct can affect the compensation of former managers who were neither at the firm at the time of misdeeds nor involved in the scandal. Results suggest that stigma may influence compensation of former managers, even in cases... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Misconduct; Stigma; Executive Compensation
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      • August 2011 (Revised October 2015)
      • Case

      Boardroom Battle Behind Bars: Gome Electrical Appliances Holdings—A Corporate Governance Drama

      By: William C. Kirby and Tracy Yuen Manty
      Despite widespread news of the incarceration of Gome Electronics' CEO, Huang Guangyu, Bain Capital felt they carefully undertook due diligence before making a significant investment in the company. The venture capital firm was confident that it and the current... View Details
      Keywords: China; Legal Aspects Of Business; Corruption; Risk; Corporate Governance; Crime and Corruption; Power and Influence; Risk Management; Business and Shareholder Relations; Venture Capital; Ethics; Governing and Advisory Boards; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Values and Beliefs; Private Equity; China
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      • 11 Sep 2018
      • Working Paper Summaries

      IQ from IP: Simplifying Search in Portfolio Choice

      Keywords: by Huaizhi Chen, Lauren Cohen, Umit Gurun, Dong Lou, and Christopher J. Malloy
      • 20 Aug 2010
      • News

      Global diversification: Anathema a decade ago, now a great strategy

      • February 1990
      • Case

      Wood Structures, Inc.

      Ostensibly a case about employee turnover in a small construction component company, Wood Structures, Inc. is actually a snapshot of the whole company. In particular it addresses issues of leadership, morale, and teamwork (or the lack thereof) in a company dependent on... View Details
      Keywords: Leadership; Retention; Business Strategy
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      • Article

      Is This the Right C-Suite Role?

      By: Anne Donnellon, Joshua D. Margolis and Amy Gallo
      A Harvard Business School Case Study is presented which asks "Is This the Right C-Suite Role?" Experts Rakefet Russak Aminoach, managing partner at venture capital firm TeamB, and Nadia Rawlinson, chief people officer at Slack and a board director at Vail Resorts and... View Details
      Keywords: Executives; Women Executives; Office Politics; Management Teams; Personal Development and Career
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      • 2016
      • Working Paper

      The Attenuating Effect of Banking Relationships on Credit Market Disruption

      By: Stefan Dimitriadis and Mike Horia Teodorescu
      This article examines how the relationship between banks and corporations moderates the effect of credit market disruptions. The 2008-09 financial crisis led to a dramatic restriction in the supply of credit to corporations via the syndicated loan market... View Details
      Keywords: Banks and Banking; Relationships; Financial Markets; System Shocks; Banking Industry; United States
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      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      Once Bitten, Twice Shy: Learning from Corporate Fraud and Corporate Governance Spillovers

      By: Trung Nguyen
      This paper finds that investors learn from their experience with corporate fraud and financial misconduct and modify their investment behavior to avoid suspicious firms and increase corporate governance efforts. More specially, mutual funds that experienced corporate... View Details
      Keywords: Institutional Investors; Investor Experience; Shareholder Voting; Corporate Fraud; Corporate Governance; Institutional Investing; Behavior; Change; Learning
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      • October 1991 (Revised June 1996)
      • Case

      Lotus MarketPlace: Households

      By: Lynn S. Paine
      Managers at Lotus and Equifax must decide what to do about their new jointly developed database and software product Lotus MarketPlace which has been criticized as a threat to individual privacy. The Product, which would allow small businesses to buy targeting mail... View Details
      Keywords: Information; Business or Company Management; Rights; Ethics; Marketing Communications; Applications and Software; Product Marketing; Information Technology Industry
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      • August 2018 (Revised September 2018)
      • Case

      LendingClub (A): Data Analytic Thinking (Abridged)

      By: Srikant M. Datar and Caitlin N. Bowler
      LendingClub was founded in 2006 as an alternative, peer-to-peer lending model to connect individual borrowers to individual investor-lenders through an online platform. Since 2014 the company has worked with institutional investors at scale. While the company assigns... View Details
      Keywords: Data Science; Data Analytics; Investing; Loans; Investment; Financing and Loans; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Model
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      • March 2020 (Revised February 2021)
      • Module Note

      Corporate Strategy

      By: Ashish Nanda
      As a strategist, you must decide for your firm what products to produce, what customers to serve, what geographies to operate in, and what activities to perform. This note on Corporate Strategy, which introduces the fifth module of the RC Strategy course, offers a... View Details
      Keywords: Scope; Corporate Strategy; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration
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