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    Robert S. Huckman

    Robert Huckman is the Albert J. Weatherhead III Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, the Howard Cox Faculty Chair of the HBS Healthcare Initiative, and the Senior Associate Dean for External... View Details

    Keywords: biotechnology; health care; manufacturing; pharmaceuticals
    • April 2025
    • Case

    Japan Industrial Partners Powers the Leveraged Buyout of Toshiba

    By: Brian K. Baik, Joseph Pacelli and James Barnett
    The case explores Japan Industrial Partners (JIP) $14 billion takeover of Toshiba Corporation (Toshiba). JIP was a private equity firm that took over the troubled electronics corporation in late 2023. The deal, which had been labeled one of the largest leveraged... View Details
    Keywords: International Accounting; Borrowing and Debt; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Ownership; Risk and Uncertainty; Strategy; Valuation; Leveraged Buyouts; Restructuring; Capital Structure; Cost of Capital; Private Equity; Bids and Bidding; Accounting Industry; Electronics Industry; Energy Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Semiconductor Industry; Asia; Japan
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    • March 2010 (Revised February 2011)
    • Case

    Cognizant 2.0: Embedding Community and Knowledge Into Work Processes

    By: Robert G. Eccles and Thomas H. Davenport
    Knowledge management has been a high priority for Cognizant Technology Solutions since its inception since its global delivery model requires the global sharing of knowledge. Its first major tool was called the Knowledge Management Appliance but as Web 2.0 tools came... View Details
    Keywords: Knowledge Management; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Product Development; Service Delivery; Business Processes; Organizational Structure; Cooperation; Information Technology Industry
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    Entrepreneurial Management - Faculty & Research

    Labor Unions ; Negotiation Citation Find at Harvard Register to Read Related Biasi, Barbara, Zoë B. Cullen, Julia H. Gilman, and Nina Roussille. "How Does Wage Inequality Affect the Labor Movement." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 33978, July 2025. Ava Labs: View Details
    • October 2010 (Revised July 2013)
    • Case

    ActionAid International: Globalizing Governance, Localizing Accountability

    By: Alnoor Ebrahim and Rachel Gordon
    As a global NGO working in 45 countries, ActionAid International aims to eradicate poverty by addressing its underlying causes such as injustice and inequality. This case follows a series of radical transformations implemented by the organization's CEO, Ramesh Singh—a... View Details
    Keywords: Local Range; Globalized Firms and Management; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Leading Change; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Nonprofit Organizations; Power and Influence; Johannesburg; London
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    • 29 Oct 2024
    • Cold Call Podcast

    Can a Coffee Shop in Utah Help Solve Underemployment for People with Disabilities?

    Keywords: Re: Richard S. Ruback
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    Optimal Contracting with Reciprocal Agents

    (with Florian Englmaier) (Job Market Paper)

     Abstract: Empirically, compensation systems often seem to generate substantial effort despite weak incentives. We consider reciprocal motivations as a source of incentives. We solve for the optimal... View Details

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    Interfirm Alliances as Mechanisms to Access and Exploit Technological Capabilities

    How do firms choose alliance partners, and how do alliances affect the subsequent evolution of partners' technological capabilities? Silverman is examining how pre-alliance 'technological overlap' between firms influences partner selection. He is also examining... View Details
    • March 1986 (Revised December 1986)
    • Case

    British Telecommunications, PLC

    Presents a description of international equity markets, including comparisons of the U.S., Japanese, and British markets and recent trends toward deregulation of these markets. The decision focus of the case is on the initial public offerings of British... View Details
    Keywords: International Finance; Initial Public Offering; Capital Markets; Canada; London; Tokyo
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    • July 9, 2019
    • Article

    Common Knowledge, Coordination, and Strategic Mentalizing in Human Social Life

    By: Julian De Freitas, Kyle A. Thomas, Peter DiScioli and Steven Pinker
    People often coordinate for mutual gain, such as keeping to opposite sides of a stairway, dubbing an object or place with a name, or assembling en masse to protest a regime. Because successful coordination requires complementary choices, these opportunities raise the... View Details
    Keywords: Coordination; Common Knowledge; Theory Of Mind; Bystander Effect; Knowledge; Cooperation
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    • July 2019 (Revised May 2020)
    • Supplement

    Piramal e-Swasthya (B): Considering Change

    By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Joyce J. Kim
    From 2008 to 2010 Anand Piramal ran a series of pilots for his digital healthcare startup, Piramal e-Swasthya (PeS) to “democratize healthcare” in rural areas of India. PeS ran into difficulties so Anand Piramal had to decide whether to continue the organization and,... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneur; Healthcare; Innovation; Emerging Economies; Decision Choices and Conditions; Health Industry; India
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    • 12 Aug 2018 - 14 Aug 2018
    • Conference Presentation

    Abstraction, Knowledge Flows, and the Rapid Dissemination of Emerging Technologies

    By: Willy C. Shih
    Many emerging technologies are remarkably complex and embody high levels of technological sophistication, and they often are key enablers for new products and services. Yet the speed of dispersal of the know-how required to employ these technologies and foster... View Details
    Keywords: Emerging Technologies; Technological Innovation; Knowledge Dissemination
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    • July 2014
    • Case

    Venture Capital at the Harvard Management Company in Historical Perspective

    By: Felda Hardymon, Tom Nicholas and Vasiliki Fouka
    The compromise between capital preservation and growth has always been central to the performance of the Harvard endowment. Setting an institutional structure for effectively governing this compromise became especially important when the Harvard Management Company... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital; Financial Management; Asset Management; Higher Education; Investment; Financial Services Industry; Education Industry; Cambridge
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    • July 2010
    • Supplement

    Marketing Analysis Toolkit: Customer Lifetime Value Analysis (CW)

    By: Thomas J. Steenburgh and Jill Avery
    Customers are increasingly being viewed as assets that bring value to the firm. Customer lifetime value is a metric which allows managers to understand the overall value of their customer base and relate it to three customer strategies firms employ: asset acquisition -... View Details
    Keywords: Competency and Skills; Customer Relationship Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Decisions; Framework; Management Practices and Processes; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Strategic Planning; Mathematical Methods; Value
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    Overview

    Yusaku's interests lie in the dynamics of shared beliefs, shared values, and organizational capabilities, as well as the role of leadership in them. Of particular approach is to understand the ways in which beliefs become justified, socially, so as to become "justified... View Details
    • 07 Jul 2022
    • HBS Case

    How a Multimillion-Dollar Ice Cream Startup Melted Down (and Bounced Back)

    They planned flavors like “Oh Captain, My Captain,” a reference to a Walt Whitman poem; another Whitman poem had originally inspired the Ample Hills name. This time, however, they resolved to avoid the pitfalls of their last venture. “They undertook a very View Details
    Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

      Anthony Mayo

      Tony Mayo is the Thomas S. Murphy Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator in the Organizational Behavior Unit of Harvard Business School (HBS).  He currently teaches and serves as the course head for... View Details

      Keywords: advertising; airline; education industry; nonprofit industry; publishing industry; service industry
      • 2008
      • Working Paper

      Collaborative Architectures for Innovation

      By: Gary P. Pisano and Roberto Verganti
      Collaborative innovation has become a hot topic in innovation today. Scholars, consultants, and the business press all urge companies seeking to boost innovative performance to become more "collaborative." Too often, however, companies fail to distinguish among the... View Details
      Keywords: Competency and Skills; Governance Controls; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Social and Collaborative Networks
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      Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

      here and Victoria’s other research here . More Info A Quantity-Driven Theory of Term Premia and Exchange Rates By: Robin Greenwood , Samuel G. Hanson , Jeremy C. Stein & Adi Sunderam JULY 2020 The authors provide a framework for understanding how the detailed View Details

        Edward B. Berk

        Ted Berk is the Barry and Teri Volpert Fellow and a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches Private Equity Finance in the elective curriculum and Finance I & II in the required curriculum.

        Ted... View Details