Publications

March 2001 (Revised December 2003)
Case

Circon (A)

By: Brian J. Hall, Guhan Subramanian and Christopher A Rose

In 1996, U.S. Surgical launched a hostile takeover bid against Circon Corp. After building the company for 20 years, CEO Richard Auhll takes a defensive stand that includes inviting an old HBS friend (George Cloutier) to join the fight as a director of Circon. A... View Details

Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Corporate Governance; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States

14 Jan 2019
Op-Ed

These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership

created sustained success. The Visionary: PepsiCo’s Indra Nooyi India-born Indra Nooyi immigrated to the United States in 1978 to study at Yale University. She joined PepsiCo in 1994 and rose rapidly through its ranks. When she was named... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Health; Banking; Food & Beverage; Consumer Products

01 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 1

companies in times of trouble. In this paper, we test the view that CSR provides protection from public ire by analyzing the media's response to corporate crises. Our application is spills in the oil industry. We find the media far more... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Nov 2011
First Look

First Look: Nov. 1

received from abroad exceeded 160% of net investments, implying that foreign investment over these periods was dynamically efficient. Read the article: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1875750 How Great Companies Think... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018

through an industry’s vertical chain. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54706 The Creative Consulting Company By: Kaplan, Robert S., Richard Nolan, and David P. Norton Abstract—During the past 50... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

July 2002 (Revised April 2003)
Case

QuickMedx Inc.

By: Richard M.J. Bohmer and Jonathan P Groberg

QuickMedx has created a chain of small kiosks, located in drugstores and shopping malls in the Minneapolis area, that cater to patients with a limited range of very simple primary care conditions. Service is rapid and cheap and patients wait only a few minutes to be... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Decision Making; Disruptive Innovation; Expansion; Service Delivery; Business Processes; Design; Management; Health Industry

January 2010 (Revised April 2013)
Case

Aubrey McClendon's Special Incentive Compensation at Chesapeake Energy (A)

By: Paul Healy, Clayton S. Rose and Aldo Sesia

Aubrey McClendon, founder and CEO of Chesapeake Energy, was, according to Fortune Magazine, the highest paid U.S. CEO in 2008 receiving over $100 million in total compensation. McClendon received this compensation despite a significant drop in the company's stock price... View Details

Keywords: Financial Statements; Financial Reporting; Price; Stock Options; Valuation; Joint Ventures; Business Growth and Maturation; Economic Growth; Growth and Development Strategy; Change Management; Energy Industry; United States

07 Oct 2014
First Look

First Look: October 7

company has decided to pivot from operating biomass gasification plants towards developing solar microgrids in India and East Africa. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/Husk-Power/an/815023-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 11

Moreover, we find that relatively higher wages also promote social norms such that coworkers are less (more) likely to collude to steal inventory from their company when relative wages are higher (lower). Our research contributes to an... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Being the Boss

until her people rose up and expressed, through an intermediary, that they hated how she treated them. They wanted a real human connection with her, even if she was "the boss." The Limits of Formal Authority Most managers soon... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

10 Apr 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54331 forthcoming American Economic Journal: Economic Policy Physician Beliefs and Patient Preferences: A New Look at Regional Variation in Health Care Spending By: Cutler, David, Jonathan... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Aug 2016
First Look

August 23, 2016

methods. Myth Number 1: Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) programs reduce returns on capital and long-run shareholder value. Reality: Companies committed to ESG are finding competitive advantages in product, labor, and capital... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Knowing What Your Boss Earns Can Make You Work Harder

percent fewer hours, the researchers found. In a global environment where companies are scrambling to find qualified workers to fill vacancies, another important finding emerged. When an employee learned a co-worker’s salary was 1 percent... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

12 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

Corporate Innovation Increasingly Benefits from Government Research

Business Administration and co-head of the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. Consider that between the 1950s and 1980s, Uncle Sam’s spending on research and development (R&D) rose fivefold from less than $20 billion to more... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

04 Jun 2001
What Do You Think?

What’s the Future of the Subscription Model?

Jonathan Robertson, who went on to say, "The model isn't working for phone and cable companies, not because the model is bad, and not because they aren't providing value ... but ... the implementation at the phone View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

09 Nov 2010
First Look

First Look: November 9, 2010

belief is sound, but the authors' analysis of the performance of 45 companies led by CEOs with military experience revealed differences in how the branches (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps) prepare leaders for business. Those... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

June 2004 (Revised September 2005)
Case

Cox Communications, Inc.

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Jonathan Gibbons

Cox Communications, the third largest U.S. cable television system operator, is confronting strategy decisions in mid-2004. Cox managers must decide whether to speed its deployment of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), which offers capital and operating costs savings... View Details

Keywords: Customers; Information Technology; Competition; Product Development; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Telecommunications Industry; United States