Publications

June 2007 (Revised July 2008)
Case

Kinder Morgan, Inc. - Management Buyout

Kinder Morgan, Inc., was a leader in the transportation and distribution of energy throughout North America, managing a master limited partnership with over $35 billion in infrastructure assets. In the summer of 2006, Richard Kinder, the founder and chairman of Kinder... View Details

Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Fairness; Governing and Advisory Boards; Privatization; Partners and Partnerships; Conflict of Interests; North America

18 Apr 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018

supplemental, qualitative investigation, we propose some potential interpretations for our findings. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54356 forthcoming Psychological Science The Effect of Graphic Warnings... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 1996
News

Starting Up and Starting Over

in detail in the next issue of the Bulletin.) At HBS, entrepreneurship increasingly came to be viewed as a way of managing, rather than as an exclusively economic activity or a business trait driven by a certain psychological makeup. This... View Details

December 2001
Article

Enforcing Property Rights Through Reputation: Groups in Mexico's Early Industrialization, 1878-1913

By: Noel Maurer and Tridib Sharma

Keywords: History; Rights; Groups and Teams; Reputation; Property; Developing Countries and Economies; Mexico

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12 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Private Sector, Public Good

things, (we) can be a source of ideas in the world." Potential Inquiry Henderson identified two broad areas of inquiry to consider. First, she suggested it might be worth exploring the potential role of "inducement" mechanisms—including regulations,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

September 2023
Article

Corporate Purpose in Public and Private Firms

By: Claudine Gartenberg and George Serafeim

Analyzing data from approximately 1.5 million employees across 1,108 established public and private US companies, we find that the strength of employee beliefs related to purpose is weaker in public companies. Among public companies, those beliefs are stronger for... View Details

Keywords: Purpose; Corporate Purpose; Culture; Corporate Culture; Public And Private Organizations; Hedge Fund; Executive Pay; Corporate Governance; Corporate Strategy; Organizational Culture; Mission and Purpose; Employees; Attitudes; Executive Compensation; Ownership

04 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009

advantages, great employee and customer loyalty, and a smoother on-ramp in leadership succession. A book excerpt from The Ownership Quotient: Putting the Service Profit Chain to Work for Unbeatable Competitive Advantage by HBS professor... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

28 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged

employees’ long-term prospects via continuing education/development or ownership options may allow for a discount in pay. Sharply differentiate good performance from average and poor performance. This should be based on metrics that are... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

08 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged

employees’ long-term prospects via continuing education/development or ownership options may allow for a discount in pay. Sharply differentiate good performance from average and poor performance. This should be based on metrics that are... View Details

14 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

processes of production and distribution. This was a massive innovation over the older model of a single owner who tried to oversee everything. Under managerial capitalism, ownership became dispersed, but control remained concentrated in... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

16 May 2018
Research & Ideas

How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps

researchers found that German companies struggling to maintain long-term survival in India adopted a mix of political risk management strategies: Disguise Some companies used a “cloaking” strategy, altering their organizational structure to camouflage View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Manufacturing

02 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 2

taking in individuals' experiential decisions across different levels of risk. Specifically, we contrast three major views concerning the psychological constructs that underlie risk-taking behavior. The first is the classical economic... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

April 2023
Case

Burning the Sails to Save the Ship: The Pilati Family Dilemma

By: Lauren Cohen, Hao Gao, Jiawei Ye and Grace Headinger

Octavian Graf Pilati, rising generation member of an Austrian princely family, prepared to sell the palace his family had held for over three hundred years. In recent years, the Pilati family lands had been leveraged as loan collateral for an international venture that... View Details

Keywords: Family Office; Family; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Agribusiness; Family Business; Property; Identity; Culture; Ethics; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Governance; Crisis Management; Family and Family Relationships; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Real Estate Industry; Austria

01 Sep 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015

of Total Motivation by Neel Doshi and Lindsay McGregor (MBA 2013) (HarperBusiness) The authors show how to use cutting-edge psychology to unlock people’s innate desire to innovate, experiment, and adapt so as to produce higher sales, more... View Details

February 2009 (Revised October 2012)
Case

Tata Motors in Singur: Public Purpose and Private Property (B)

By: Laura Alfaro, Lakshmi Iyer and Namrata Arora

In October 2008, Tata Motors canceled their car manufacturing plant in West Bengal state, in the face of widespread farmer protests over land acquisition issues. This meant abandoning a project in which the company had invested $300 million and delaying the launch of... View Details

Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Rights; Emerging Markets; Property; Business and Government Relations; Conflict and Resolution; Auto Industry; Manufacturing Industry; West Bengal

01 Dec 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015

innovations that made this possible came from entrepreneurs and iconoclasts who were outside the mainstream—and how the commercialization of the Internet was by no means a foregone conclusion at its outset. MBA Class of 1957 Professor Greenstein traces the evolution of... View Details

September 2019 (Revised August 2020)
Case

Engineering an Inclusive Bioeconomy

By: Tarun Khanna, Raffaella Sadun and Susie L. Ma

In 2019, entrepreneur Juan Carlos Castilla-Rubio was developing a project he hoped could generate and share wealth from the natural resources of the Amazon without destroying those resources. His idea, called Earth Bank of Codes (EBC), would create a library of the... View Details

21 Dec 2010
First Look

First Look: December 21

paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/ffoley/BFSWIPO.pdf Luck or Cheating? A Field Experiment on Honesty with Children Authors:Alessandro Bucciol and Marco Piovesan Publication:Journal of Economic Psychology (forthcoming) Abstract We run an... View Details

January 1990 (Revised June 1995)
Case

Colliers International Property Consultants

By: Nitin Nohria

Describes the origins, organizational structure, management practices, and use of information technology (IT) in Colliers, a real estate network. Colliers provides local firms with a way to maintain local autonomy while gaining national and international coverage.... View Details

Keywords: Property; Organizational Structure; Information Technology; Management Practices and Processes; Partners and Partnerships; Business Model; Mission and Purpose; Business Growth and Maturation; Conflict and Resolution; Quality; Real Estate Industry