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- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
Kominers, and Alexander Westkamp Abstract—We introduce a framework of matching with flexible allotments that can be used to model firms with cross-division hiring restrictions. Our framework also allows us to nest some prior models of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
functional specialists, not general managers responsible for cross-functional integration. Three decades ago, COOs outnumbered CFOs in Fortune 500 and S&P 500 companies, but the proportions have flipped. Many CFOs are now charged with driving strategic planning in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
respond to a revised proposal from two private equity firms to take the company private. In November of 2006, the Board had unanimously approved an offer of $37.60 per share after going through intense negotiations with numerous firms,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2008
- What Do You Think?
Where Will Management Innovation Take Us?
extraordinary amount of information at all levels and devote a great deal of resources to making sure that all employees are connected. All "herald a future in which the work of managers is performed less and less by... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 12 Jan 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.
Paul Polman, the CEO of Unilever, was attacked by the Brazilian firm 3G--tried to take him over. He has been the great advocate for sustainability. I read his posts every day, he has not backed off one bit because he knows how important... View Details
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
relative importance of public agencies such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and different types of private firms in developing precision medicines. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53560... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/510053-PDF-ENG Family Corporate Governance: A Brief Literature Review Lena G. Goldberg and David KironHarvard Business School Note 311-055 This note discusses competing theories of governance in family owned View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
and the de facto regulator became the credit rating agencies," said Retsinas, arguing that regulation became essentially outsourced and privatized. The credit rating agencies weren't able to perform their function whether due to the... View Details
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
consolidated into a single constraint. This helps to avoid a distortionary situation where different constraints bind for different banks performing the same activity. Second, while a regulatory framework that relies primarily on minimum... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
depended on a more dynamic development of the entire regional economy. On his own initiative, in 1997, Groot launched a private sector-driven effort to enhance the economic development in central Germany, the region located around Halle-Leipzig. Bundling together 50... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Who Sways the USDA on GMO Approvals?
Soybean Association or the Kansas Corn Growers Association, which have the power to judge whether the GMOs are performing as intended without side effects. While these groups might have some industry members, they are separate from the... View Details
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
analysts' forecasts of firm performance actually reflect any of these factors and which are considered most important. We use survey data from 967 analysts ranking 837 companies to judge how their forecasts... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair
struggled to get twenty-five people to the conference. At that conference the academics and consultants came together and created a professional society called the Family Firm Institute (FFI) to develop professionals in the field. Now,... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman
- January 2017 (Revised March 2017)
- Case
Royal DSM: From Continuous Transformation to Organic Growth
By: William W. George, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Amram Migdal
Royal DSM CEO Feike Sijbesma was pondering the challenges of shifting DSM’s global organization from the constant transformations of the past 100 years to creating organic growth. When Sijbesma took the helm as CEO in 2007, he further pushed and completed the company’s... View Details
Keywords: Organic Growth; Organizational Change; M＆A; Mergers And Acquisitions; Divestment; Business Ventures; Business Divisions; Business Growth and Maturation; Restructuring; Change; Change Management; Transformation; Transition; Engineering; Chemicals; Mining; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Finance; Capital Markets; Financial Markets; Food; Globalization; Global Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Health; Nutrition; History; Leadership; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Management; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Practices and Processes; Management Style; Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Ownership; Public Ownership; Performance; Strategy; Adaptation; Consolidation; Corporate Strategy; Value; Value Creation; Biotechnology Industry; Chemical Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Mining Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Europe; Netherlands
George, William W., Carin-Isabel Knoop, and Amram Migdal. "Royal DSM: From Continuous Transformation to Organic Growth." Harvard Business School Case 317-063, January 2017. (Revised March 2017.)
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pride Goeth Before a Profit
the New York City-based consulting firm Katzenbach Partners and author of Why Pride Matters More Than Money (Crown, 2003), likes the story of the Wilmington plant because it communicates what he calls "institution-building... View Details
Keywords: by Theodore Kinni
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
concrete level, given that p2p file sharing networks are likely to improve in performance as Internet infrastructure develops, the content industry must make tough choices regarding their revenue models. Moves towards monetizing products... View Details
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
year deeply disturbing. I am appalled at the instances of greed and corporate wrongdoing uncovered at firms and organizations once held up as paragons of success, and I am dismayed to see the destructive effect these instances of... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark