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  • 2013
  • Chapter

Who Chooses Board Members?

By: Ali Akyol and Lauren Cohen
We exploit a recent regulation passed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to explore the nomination of board members to US publicly traded firms. In particular, we focus on firms’ use of executive search firms versus allowing internal members (often... View Details
Keywords: Boards; Boards Of Directors; Executive Search Firms; Governance; SEC Regulation; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Succession; Executive Compensation
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    Louis E. Caldera

    Louis Caldera is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He teaches Leadership and Corporate Accountability, a required first-year course in the MBA program. He has previously taught law school courses on corporate... View Details

    • January 2020
    • Case

    Sunset Limited or Full Speed Ahead? Amtrak Talks to Congress

    By: John D. Macomber
    Richard Anderson took the helm of Amtrak in 2017 after leading a successful turnaround at Delta Airlines. Amtrak is a US state owned enterprise with about $3.5 bn in annual revenue (and a large operating loss) that is responsible for substantial segments of passenger... View Details
    Keywords: Railroad; Passenger Transportation; Urbanization; Cities; U.S. Congress; Infrastructure; Transition; Transportation; Rail Transportation; Climate Change; Urban Scope; Strategic Planning; Business and Government Relations; Rail Industry; United States
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    • 01 Apr 2025
    • HBS Seminar

    Eric Bradlow, University of Pennsylvania

    • 08 Feb 2024
    • Blog Post

    African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees

    as joint degree students, sharing insights from their time before and during the MBA program. Swanee Golden (MBA/MPP 2025) Where is your hometown? My hometown is Princeton, New Jersey. What was your pre-MBA... View Details

      Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar Criminal

      "A spectacular achievement" - Library Journal

      From the financial fraudsters of Enron, to the embezzlers at Tyco, to the Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff, the failings of corporate titans are regular fixtures in the news. But what drives wealthy and... View Details

      • July–August 2017
      • Article

      Why Outlet Stores Exist: Averting Cannibalization in Product Line Extensions

      By: Donald Ngwe
      Outlet stores are a large and growing component of many firms' retailing strategies, particularly in the fashion industry. Outlet stores offer attractive prices in locations far from central shopping districts. The main perspectives on why outlet stores exist can be... View Details
      Keywords: Fashion; Industrial Organization; Outlet Stores; Price Discrimination; Retail; Channel Management; Luxury; Product Marketing; Price; Retail Industry; Fashion Industry
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      • 2014
      • Working Paper

      The Triumph of the Humble Chief Risk Officer

      By: Anette Mikes
      This paper tracks the evolution of the role of two chief risk officers (CROs), and the tools and processes they have implemented in their respective organizations. While the companies are from very different industries (one is a power company, the other is a toy... View Details
      Keywords: Risk Management; Managerial Roles
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      • 09 Mar 2023
      • Blog Post

      African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees

      The HBS African American Student Union (AASU) strives to be an extended family for its members from the moment they decide to attend HBS, through the transition to second year, and beyond graduation. Here we profile two AASU members who... View Details
      • 03 Jun 2014
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Eliciting Taxpayer Preferences Increases Tax Compliance

      Keywords: by Cait Lamberton, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve & Michael I. Norton
      • 01 May 2020
      • What Do You Think?

      Does Remote Work Mix with Organizational Culture?

      distancing with our colleagues from our work teams.” On the other hand, Melanie Roberts reminds us that, “Charles Handy refers to culture as the soup we all swim about in, and that soup is thin when the... View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett
      • 03 Jun 2022
      • Research & Ideas

      In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?

      like. “It’s presumably making workers happier and more productive, and helping their communities and their organizations,” he says. Related reading from the Working Knowledge Archives Marissa Mayer Should Bridge View Details
      Keywords: by Kara Baskin
      • 06 Feb 2023
      • Blog Post

      African American Student Union Spotlight on HBCUs

      The HBS African American Student Union (AASU) strives to be an extended family for its members from the moment they decide to attend HBS, through the transition to second year, and beyond graduation. Here we profile two AASU members who... View Details
      • 12 May 2020
      • Research & Ideas

      It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team

      Office, But Slack Could (Vanity Fair) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge Teams also need to be deliberate about how to stay connected with one another while working from home. New team norms can... View Details
      Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley
      • July 2020 (Revised September 2021)
      • Case

      Mr. Five Percent: Calouste Gulbenkian and the Origins of Global Oil

      By: Geoffrey Jones and Yazeed Al-Rashed
      This case describes the business career of Calouste Gulbenkian, a skilled intermediary who was able to secure 5 percent of a vast oil concession covering much of the Middle East that was signed in 1928. Gulbenkian was an ethnic Armenian born in the Ottoman Empire,... View Details
      Keywords: Oil; Globalization; Energy Sources; History; Biography; Energy Industry; Turkey; Central Asia; Middle East
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      Overview

      By: Joshua Lev Krieger
      In examining the competitive dynamics of R&D strategy, Josh has become particularly interested in how the introduction of new knowledge generated by rivals impacts the direction of R&D efforts. Understanding how new information alters project portfolio decisions is... View Details
      • 14 Feb 2019
      • Blog Post

      LOVE At HBS

      Love at HBS is a celebration of the diverse expressions of love that exist on our campus and in the world around us. This portrait project showcases stories of love from students at Harvard Business School. Alli Iglehart, Class of 2020 As... View Details
      • 2014
      • Working Paper

      The Organizational and Geographic Drivers of Absorptive Capacity: An Empirical Analysis of Pharmaceutical R&D Laboratories

      By: Francesca Lazzeri and Gary P. Pisano
      Scholars and practitioners alike now recognize that a firm's capacity to assimilate and use know-how from external sources—what Cohen and Levinthal (1990) called "absorptive capacity"—plays a central role in innovation performance. In recent years, a common strategy... View Details
      Keywords: Geographic Location; Industry Clusters; Knowledge Acquisition; Pharmaceutical Industry; San Francisco; San Diego; Massachusetts
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      • 30 Nov 2018
      • Blog Post

      8 Reasons the Section Experience is the Best Part About HBS

      culture and met hometown friends. What’s on your travel bucket list? Chances are that students from those countries will be in your section. #6: Community Values / MyTakes We all come to HBS with unique... View Details
      • Web

      Marketing - Faculty & Research

      experiment. Featured Case Hometown Foods: Changing Price Amid Inflation Case By: Julian De Freitas, Jeremy Yang, and Das Narayandas During the early part of the 2021 Covid-19 pandemic, Hometown Foods, a... View Details