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  • June 2024
  • Case

Caesars Entertainment: Governance on the Road to Bankruptcy

By: Kristin Mugford
Caesars Entertainment was a large casino operator in the United States that had been purchased in a 2008 leveraged buyout by Apollo and TPG. In January 2015, Caesars Entertainment Operating Company (CEOC), its largest subsidiary, filed for Chapter 11. This set up a... View Details
Keywords: Gaming; Chapter 11; Fraudulent Conveyance; Apollo; TPG; Bankruptcy; Leveraged Buyouts; Restructuring; Capital Structure; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Private Equity; Financial Management; Lawsuits and Litigation; Negotiation; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Borrowing and Debt; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Las Vegas
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  • 09 Jan 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Could Clean Hydrogen Become Affordable at Scale by 2030?

Hydrogen is poised to move from the sidelines of global clean energy as the industry learns to produce it more efficiently and at lower cost, according to newly published research led by Gunther Glenk, a climate fellow with Harvard Business School's Institute for the... View Details
Keywords: by Desmond Dodd; Energy; Green Technology
  • 21 May 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect

of each segment is changing, and how the company's products and services address the needs of each segment. The product was developed by Gail McGovern, a professor of management practice, and John Quelch, the Senior Associate Dean and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

PRIMO Alumni Profiles - Doctoral

labor economics. Read more about Jo here. Stella Jia UC Berkeley, Class of 2025 Stella Jia (she/her) was born in the Bay Area and grew up in California. The unique presence of technology in the Bay Area led her to study statistics and... View Details
  • 10 Dec 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Truth Be Told: Unpacking the Risks of Whistleblowing

In 2018, HBS associate professors Aiyesha Dey and Jonas Heese wrote a case about a whistleblower at a multi-national gambling company who exposed financial misstatements, first to his manager and later to the US Securities and Exchange... View Details
Keywords: by April White
  • 31 Mar 2008
  • HBS Case

JetBlue’s Valentine’s Day Crisis

from taking off.) That day, only seventeen of JetBlue's 156 scheduled departures left JFK, a fact that caused ripple effects throughout the system and displaced crew and aircraft. In subsequent days, JetBlue management canceled more and... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Air Transportation
  • 09 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 9

Publisher's link: http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/political-economy/consumer-lending-france-and-america-credit-and-welfare September 2014 Academy of Management Annals Advancing Research on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Dec 2022
  • Op-Ed

Employee Feedback: The Key to Retention During the Great Resignation

suspect—compensation. To those of us who have studied organizations up close for decades, none of this is surprising. But what can be done about it? “Companies with healthy, high-commitment, high-performance cultures have had... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer
  • 20 Sep 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Power Posing: Fake It Until You Make It

it's how they perform in a job interview or how they participate in class." Cuddy acknowledges that there are moderating factors in how easily some groups can use traditional power poses. It would run counter to social norms, for example, if a woman wearing a... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 10 Jan 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Technology and COVID Upended Tipping Norms. Will Consumers Keep Paying?

brought along by the pandemic have ushered in changes to the informal customs around who gets tips and how much, according to Jill Avery, senior lecturer of business administration and the Christensen Distinguished Management Educator at... View Details
Keywords: by Anna Lamb, Harvard Gazette
  • 31 Jul 2023
  • News

Striving for Imperfection

which fish you should put over the side safely and which ones it was okay to keep. They knew they didn’t have a bunch of artificial intelligence engineers in-house. So they did a competition on Kaggle, which is one of these crowdsourcing competition sites. They only... View Details
Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • What Do You Think?

How Much Does 'Deep Purpose' Matter to the Bottom Line?

culture, shifting its mission from a product-oriented “computer on every desk and in every home” to “empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.” The assumption is that “to be the best” just doesn’t measure View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

The Job Market for New Economists: A Market Design Perspective

By: Peter A. Coles, John Cawley, Phillip B. Levine, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth and John J. Siegfried
This paper provides an overview of the market for new Ph.D. economists. It describes the role of the American Economic Association (AEA) in the market and focuses in particular on two mechanisms adopted in recent years at the suggestion of our committee. First, job... View Details
Keywords: Cost Management; Information; Surveys; Jobs and Positions; Job Interviews; Job Search; Emerging Markets; Digital Platforms; Service Operations; Internet and the Web
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Interviewing - Alumni

professional. Dressing up for the interview even though the interviewer cannot see you can help you get into a professional state of mind. Before a Video Interview Ensure that you have a quiet space, proper lighting, and a neutral... View Details
  • 20 Apr 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Blind Spots: We’re Not as Ethical as We Think

work presentation or exams, may help you focus on concrete details of the future situation that you might otherwise overlook. In her book Giving Voice to Values, Mary Gentile offers a framework to help managers prepare for difficult... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Apr 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Swiping Right: How Data Helped This Online Dating Site Make More Matches

Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment. McFowland coauthored the paper with Jui Ramaprasad of the University of Maryland, Ravi Bapna of the University of Minnesota, Probal Mojumdar of Indian Institute of Management Udaipur, and... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 01 May 2009
  • What Do You Think?

Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?

Summing Up Where are the leaders that can help elephants avoid a stall? Like a good case study, this month's question divided respondents nearly down the middle on the question of whether or not organizations naturally "stall"... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 31 Mar 2022
  • Op-Ed

Navigating the ‘Bermuda Triangle’ in Professional Services

But leaders should be cautious about ending up somewhere in between, suffering the costs of not formalizing appropriately without gaining from scale advantages. These are the firms that risk sinking in the “Bermuda Triangle.” A version of... View Details
Keywords: by Ashish Nanda
  • April 2021
  • Article

The Effects of Quota Frequency: Sales Performance and Product Focus

By: Doug J. Chung, Das Narayandas and Dongkyu Chang
This study investigates the comprehensive and multidimensional effects of quota (goal) frequency on sales force performance. We develop a theory of salespeople’s behavior—aggregate effort and the product type focus—in response to the temporal length of a sales-quota... View Details
Keywords: Sales Force Compensation; Field Experiment; Quotas; Quota Frequency; Commissions; Bonuses; Goals; Salesforce Management; Compensation and Benefits; Goals and Objectives; Behavior; Performance
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  • 25 Jun 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Collaborating Across Cultures

researchers found that affective trust was much more likely to stem from having high cultural metacognition than cognitive trust. This time, 60 managers attending another executive MBA course were asked to complete a network survey... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding