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  • Research Summary

Firm and aggregate volatility

US publicly traded companies have become more volatile over the postwar period. This trend has been the result of increased competition in product markets through deregulation, through more intensive innovation activity, and through easier access to capital markets.... View Details

  • January 2009
  • Supplement

KPMG (B): Risk and Reform

By: Robert G. Eccles and Eliot Sherman
Under the leadership of Tim Flynn, Chairman and CEO of KPMG, the firm made a number of changes in compensation, governance, and culture in order to address the underlying reasons for actions that occurred prior to him becoming CEO that led to the accounting giant... View Details
Keywords: Communication Strategy; Ethics; Corporate Governance; Governance Compliance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Governing and Advisory Boards; Compensation and Benefits; Employee Relationship Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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  • 28 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 28

  Publications April 2015 HarperBusiness Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs By: Yoffie, David B., and Michael A. Cusumano Abstract—The authors of the bestselling Competing on Internet Time (a Business Week top 10 book)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 2018 (Revised October 2024)
  • Case

Hikma Pharmaceuticals Governance Journey

By: Lynn Paine, Suraj Srinivasan and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens with Said Darwazah, chairman and CEO of Hikma Pharmaceuticals, the multinational generics company, anticipating the company’s 2017 AGM and reflecting on changes made over the previous year to address concerns expressed by proxy advisors and some... View Details
Keywords: Boards Of Directors; Pharmaceuticals; Remuneration; Shareholder Engagement; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Business and Shareholder Relations; Executive Compensation; Business Growth and Maturation; Emerging Markets; Private Sector; For-Profit Firms; Pharmaceutical Industry; Jordan
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    Managing Know-How

    For many firms, the ability to create, organize, and disseminate know-how is a key factor in their ability to succeed. But should all companies engage in formal knowledge management? If not, which companies derive most value from a formal knowledge system?... View Details

    • April 2015
    • Case

    Accor: Designing an Asset-Right Business and Disclosure Strategy

    By: Mozaffar Khan and George Serafeim
    Sebastien Bazin was now in charge of Accor, the world's largest French hotelier, a CAC 40 company with 3,600 hotels in 92 countries and a market cap of €10 billion. Previously as the European head of Colony Capital, one of the largest private equity groups and the... View Details
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    • April 2009
    • Case

    Invest Early: Early Childhood Development in a Rural Community

    By: Stacey M. Childress and Geoff Eckman Marietta
    Invest Early was an early childhood development partnership in rural northern Minnesota between 14 different organizations, which worked together through an advisory board, governing board, and leadership team in order to deliver coordinated early childhood services to... View Details
    Keywords: Early Childhood Education; Rural Scope; Management Teams; Managerial Roles; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business and Community Relations; Partners and Partnerships; Social and Collaborative Networks
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    • 23 Jan 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    How to Keep Employees Productive: Support Caregivers

    report guides organizations in supporting work-life balance for caregivers. Fuller finds that there are strong incentives to support these employees with benefits; payoffs include lower turnover and less absenteeism. Instead of urging... View Details
    Keywords: by Kara Baskin
    • 2009
    • Chapter

    Evaluating the Impact of SA8000 Certification

    By: Michael J. Hiscox, Claire Schwartz and Michael W. Toffel
    SA 8000, along with other types of certification standards and corporate codes of conduct, represents a new form of private governance of working conditions, initiated and implemented by companies, labor unions, and non-governmental activist groups. Whether these codes... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Governance; Working Conditions; Standards; Performance Evaluation
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    • 10 Feb 2016
    • HBS Seminar

    Chris Blattman, Associate Professor, Columbia SIPA

    • 08 Oct 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: October 8

    the democratization of data. The vast turnover at consultancies means armies of experienced strategists are available for hire by former clients, whose increasing sophistication allows them to allocate work instead of relying on one-stop... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

      Task Segregation as a Mechanism for Within-job Inequality

      In this article, we examine a case of task segregation—when a group of workers is disproportionately allocated, relative to other groups, to spend more time on specific tasks in a given job—and argue that such segregation is a potential mechanism for generating... View Details
      • 04 Mar 2024
      • What Do You Think?

      Do People Want to Work Anymore?

      selection is less important, training is reduced, along with compensation, and as a result, there is a high rate of turnover with more time spent on recruiting (but not necessarily training). Within weeks of the publication of the... View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett
      • October 2013
      • Article

      Consulting on the Cusp of Disruption

      By: Clayton M. Christensen, Dina Wang and Derek C. M. van Bever
      Consulting fundamental business model has not changed in more than 100 years: very smart outsiders go into organizations for a finite period of time and recommend solutions for the most difficult problems confronting their clients. But at traditional... View Details
      Keywords: Disruptive Innovation; Consulting Industry
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      • 23 Feb 2010
      • First Look

      First Look: Feb. 23

      individual and community perspectives as they relate to knowledge creation, reuse, and recombination for innovation. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-065.pdf Will I Stay or Will I Go? Cooperative and Competitive Effects of Workgroup Sex and Race... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 16 Nov 2011
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Private Equity and Employment

      Keywords: by Steven J. Davis, John C. Haltiwanger, Ron S. Jarmin, Josh Lerner & Javier Miranda
      • Web

      General Management - Faculty & Research

      General Management Overview Faculty Curriculum Awards & Honors Doctoral Students February 13, 2025 Article How to Build a Life: How to Realize Your Own Love Supreme By: Arthur C. Brooks 2025 Article Sale of Private Equity–Owned Physician Practices and Physician View Details

        The Big Ditch

        On August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal officially opened for business, forever changing the face of global trade and military power, as well as the role of the United States on the world stage. The Canal's creation is often seen as an example of U.S. triumphalism, but... View Details

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        Podcasts - Managing the Future of Work

        detailed analysis of worker motivations, frustrations, and long-term goals, which can reduce costly turnover and make career development a collaborative process. Harvard Business School professor Ethan Bernstein and Michael Horn,... View Details
        • 28 Nov 2018
        • HBS Seminar

        Jon Jachimowicz, Columbia University