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  • April 1995
  • Teaching Note

Visionary Design Systems: Are Incentives Enough? TN

By: George P. Baker III and Karin B Monsler
Teaching Note for (9-495-011). View Details
Keywords: San Francisco
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Schedule - Commencement 2025

graduating HBS students the chance to make an impact in nonprofit and public-sector organizations at a competitive salary for one year. Fellows and their guests are invited. 10:30 AM – 1:30 PM George F.... View Details
  • Web

Statement on Supreme Court Decision | About

Meredith Weenick Executive Vice President, Harvard University Claudine Gay Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences President-elect, Harvard University Tomiko Brown-Nagin Dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Nancy Coleman Dean, Division of Continuing Education and... View Details
  • March 1990 (Revised November 2004)
  • Case

O.M. Scott & Sons Co. Leveraged Buyout

By: George P. Baker III and Karen Wruck
Documents the organizational changes that took place at O.M. Scott & Sons Co. in response to their leveraged buyout. Provides the opportunity for students to discuss the effects of high leverage on management decision making, and the differences between operating as a... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Capital Structure; Borrowing and Debt; Organizational Structure; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Management; Business Conglomerates; Cost of Capital; Financial Services Industry
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  • October 1994 (Revised April 1995)
  • Case

Visionary Design Systems: Are Incentives Enough?

By: George P. Baker III and Karin B Monsler
A compensation case about Visionary Design Systems (VDS), a small, high-tech full service systems integration firm based in Silicon Valley with eleven offices throughout the country. All employees, including engineers, administrators, and receptionists, received a... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits; Compensation and Benefits; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; San Francisco
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  • June 1995
  • Teaching Note

San Francisco Bay Consulting TN

By: George P. Baker III and Karin B Monsler
Teaching Note for (9-195-096). View Details
Keywords: Consulting Industry; Computer Industry
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  • June 1991
  • Teaching Note

O.M. Scott & Sons Co. Leveraged Buyout, Teaching Note

By: George P. Baker III and Karen Wruck
Teaching Note for (9-190-148). View Details
Keywords: Financial Services Industry
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  • 01 Dec 1999
  • News

From the Editors

Lowell, and the School's famous benefactor, George F. Baker. "I hope and believe that this school is to be the standard for all others," stated Baker, "but it must be remembered always that the standards of... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 01 Jun 2014
  • News

Feedback

government can do that help businesses prosper, but government needs to stay out of "we-know-best" decision-making. Things always work better when people do the things they do because they want to do them rather than when they are told to do them. —Gordon O. View Details
  • 01 Sep 2007
  • News

Letters to the Editor

outstanding private-sector success story: Professor Kanter. Samuel F. Heffner III (MBA ’70) Ponte Vedra Beach, FL Right Wing, Left Wing, West Wing HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter cites 25 years of... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
  • 01 Jun 2000
  • News

Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette

honor as many of them as we can," says the gracious Jenrette, who also owns the five other historic homes described in his new book -- The George F. Baker House in Manhattan,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
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Burden Park | About

honor.” Accepting the gift, Dean George P. Baker voiced the School’s “profound gratitude,” noting the importance of having a building on campus “capable of seating more than an entire MBA class at one time.”... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2007
  • News

Looking back; looking forward

bringing people around to your point of view. It meant thinking in the broadest possible terms about personal and corporate responsibilities. We’ve come a long way since then. We built a remarkable campus, thanks to George View Details
Keywords: Jay O. Light; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • July 1995 (Revised April 1996)
  • Case

Cambridge Technology Partners (A)

By: Teresa M. Amabile, George P. Baker III and Michael Beer
Cambridge Technology Partners uses a highly innovative product strategy, supported by a human resources strategy, that has been very successful. However, high growth rates jeopardize product quality while tension about relative compensation levels between sales and... View Details
Keywords: Growth Management; Compensation and Benefits; Organizational Culture; Quality; Human Resources; Relationships; Innovation and Invention; Consulting Industry; Massachusetts
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  • 01 Dec 1999
  • News

Christensen and Vernon Remembered

version of the School's Business Policy course. Named a full professor in 1958 and the first George F. Baker, Jr., Professor of Business Administration in 1963, Christensen began the second major phase of... View Details
  • 01 Dec 1999
  • News

Jeff Cruikshank

of McArthur's tenure - trends that continue today and in which the Bulletin played a contributing role. The new Dean was determined to rebuild the faculty's pride in what it did uniquely well - so our magazine published many stories on faculty research and teaching.... View Details
Keywords: Jeff Cruikshank
  • 01 Feb 2001
  • News

Porter Appointed to University Professorship

scholars," commented Porter. Porter will hold the Bishop William Lawrence University Professorship, named after a member of the Harvard Corporation who played a key role in raising the funds from banker George View Details
Keywords: Doug Gavel; University Professorship; C. Roland Christensen; Sumner H. Slichter
  • 13 Nov 2020
  • News

Countdown To Remote Learning

share documents and videos, set up and monitor breakout rooms, and troubleshoot technical issues.” She was paired with Carl Kester, the George Fisher Baker Jr. Professor of Business Administration. “We met... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2004
  • News

New Horizons for Iraq

Lieutenant Commander Kristen B. Fabry (MBA ’02) L. Paul (“Jerry”) Bremer III (MBA ’66) David J. Horgan (MBA ’86) Ali Abdul-Amir Allawi (MBA ’71) Dileep Nair (AMP 114, 1994) HBS professor Benjamin C. Esty (MBA ’91) U.S. President View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; James E. Aisner; Julia Hanna; National Security and International Affairs; Government
  • 01 Dec 1996
  • News

Faculty Symposium Honors McArthur

Management Professor Robert H. Hayes and Associate Professor Marco Iansiti Global Financial Systems Professor Robert C. Merton and Associate Professor Peter Tufano Organizations and Markets Professors George P. View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice