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  • 06 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

management of the pace of technological substitution by providing insights on complementarities between technologies and horizontally differentiated human capital Download working paper:... View Details
  • November – December 2008
  • Article

Chief Risk Officers at Crunch Time: Compliance Champions or Business Partners?

By: Anette Mikes

Risk management departments in financial institutions have been undergoing major transformations. New regulatory requirements have raised the bar on compliance, and expanded the remit of risk management significantly. The compliance imperative requires banks to... View Details

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Corporate Governance; Governance Compliance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Managerial Roles; Risk Management; Partners and Partnerships
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  • January 2022
  • Background Note

Residual Income Valuation Model

By: Charles C.Y. Wang and Albert Shin
This note explains the residual income valuation model (RIM), how it relates to "traditional" valuation models, the intuition behind its use, and empirical research related to its value relevance. RIM is theoretically equivalent to the dividend discount model and the... View Details
Keywords: Residual Income Valuation; Valuation; Research; Theory; Measurement and Metrics; Performance; Financial Management; Business Strategy
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  • November – December 2007
  • Article

Fundamentally Flawed Indexing

By: Andre F. Perold
A new theory of finance is being advanced as providing definitive proof that holding stocks in proportion to their market capitalizations is an inferior investment strategy. The claim is that capitalization weighting necessarily invests more in overvalued stocks and... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Capital Markets; Financial Strategy; Stocks; Financial Management; Valuation
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    Rakesh Khurana

    Rakesh Khurana is the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development at the Harvard Business School. He is also Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, co-Master of Cabot House at Harvard College, and the Danoff Dean of Harvard College. 

    Professor... View Details

    Keywords: executive search
    • October 1995
    • Case

    Singapore TradeNet: Beyond TradeNet to the Intelligent Island

    By: Lynda M. Applegate, John L. King and Soon-Siong Neo
    Describes the actions taken by the government of Singapore to enable the country to survive and prosper after it achieved independence in the late 1960s. Recognizing that its small size, limited natural resources, but excellent location placed it in a vulnerable... View Details
    Keywords: Transition; Communication Technology; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Digital Platforms; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Information Technology Industry; Singapore
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    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Data Governance, Interoperability and Standardization: Organizational Adaptation to Privacy Regulation

    By: Sam (Ruiqing) Cao and Marco Iansiti
    The increasing availability of data can afford dynamic competitive advantages among data-intensive corporations, but governance bottlenecks hinder data-driven value creation and increase regulatory risks. We analyze the role of two technological features of data... View Details
    Keywords: Organizations; Information Technology; Performance Productivity; Growth and Development; Transformation
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    • 04 May 2017
    • HBS Seminar

    Nicholas G. Hall, The Ohio State University

      Robert C. Merton

      Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

      Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

      Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
      • 28 Nov 2012
      • What Do You Think?

      Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?

      compensation from financial performance is not an answer. At issue is the short-term/long-term balance of stockholder interests." Srinivasan suggested that a program should contain both. Phillip Gelman added, "If View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett
      • 29 Jun 2010
      • First Look

      First Look: June 29

        Working PapersSurviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Direct Investment and Establishment Performance Authors:Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen Abstract We examine in this paper the differential response of establishments to the... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 22 Feb 2021
      • Book

      Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy

      you want an engineer, accountant, finance person, or programmer, you can find people who majored in those subjects, but few schools have sales programs or even a sales course. Also, research consistently shows that managers overestimate... View Details
      Keywords: by Kristen Senz
      • March 8, 2023
      • Article

      How to Help Superstar Employees Fulfill Their Potential

      By: Anthony J. Mayo
      To better understand the leadership challenges and development opportunities facing high-potential employees, researchers analyzed more than 3,000 applications to Harvard Business School’s High Potentials Leadership Program over a nearly 20-year period. The... View Details
      Keywords: Personal Characteristics; Leadership Development; Personal Development and Career; Management Skills; Business Education
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      • 05 Jul 2022
      • What Do You Think?

      Have We Seen the Peak of Just-in-Time Inventory Management?

      distribution channel on overall inventory levels and costs. One thing that may have helped generate the HBS offer was an experiment I performed using my own crude version of what would become known as the “beer game.” In my approach, my... View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation
      • October 2013 (Revised November 2021)
      • Case

      Cynthia Carroll at Anglo American (A)

      By: Gautam Mukunda, Lisa Mazzanti and Aldo Sesia
      In 2007, Cynthia Carroll, the newly-appointed chief executive of mining giant Anglo American, was considering shutting down mines in South Africa for safety reasons, namely worker fatalities. No company had ever done so before. Carroll felt that operating a company... View Details
      Keywords: Culture; Leadership; Gender; Safety; Working Conditions; Business Exit or Shutdown; Organizational Culture; Change Management; Mining; Mining Industry; South Africa
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      • December 2005 (Revised December 2008)
      • Case

      SchoolNet: Pursuing Opportunity beyond Federal Mandates

      Settling into his seat on the train bound for New York, CEO Jonathan Harber reflected on the evolution of SchoolNet's position in the educational technology market and its important relationship with Philadelphia. Specifically, how could it transition from a project to... View Details
      Keywords: Customers; Education; Performance Improvement; Partners and Partnerships; Expansion; Technology Adoption; Philadelphia
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      • 16 Nov 2010
      • Lessons from the Classroom

      Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation

      Innovation happens fast and slowly. The GPS applications so prevalent today to guide us from Point A to Point B took their first baby steps nearly three decades ago when President Ronald Reagan encouraged the release of military GPS... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology

        Christopher T. Stanton

        Christopher Stanton is Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. Professor Stanton's research streams focus on personnel economics, organizational economics, labor markets, and entrepreneurship. His MBA... View Details

        • April 2011
        • Exercise

        Strategic Foresight: An Exercise

        The exercise asks students to perform a strategic analysis of the consulting industry in order to identify untapped strategic opportunities. View Details
        Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Supply and Industry; Strategic Planning; Opportunities; Cognition and Thinking; Strategy; Consulting Industry
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        • January 1990 (Revised September 1994)
        • Case

        Cray Research, Inc.: Preparing for the 1990s

        By: Francis Aguilar
        Describes the major changes Cray Research faced from 1985 (the time of the original case) to 1990. The dramatic decision to divide the company into two separate firms sets the stage for an analysis of the major strategic and organizational challenges facing senior... View Details
        Keywords: Policy; Management Systems; Change Management; Technology Adoption; Business Units; Organizational Structure; Business Strategy; Management Teams; Growth and Development Strategy; Information Technology
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