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  • October 2012 (Revised September 2013)
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Creating the First Public Law Firm: The IPO of Slater & Gordon Limited

By: Benjamin C. Esty and E. Scott Mayfield
Slater & Gordon (S&G), a midsized Australian law firm with a high-growth consolidation strategy, had an initial public offering (IPO) scheduled for May 2007. Due to a series of regulatory changes in Australia in recent years, the IPO provided an opportunity for S&G to... View Details
Keywords: IPO; Mergers & Acquisitions; Law Firm; Value Drivers; Growth Strategy; Revenue Recognition; Roll-up; Consolidator; Initial Public Offering; Valuation; Consolidation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Financial Strategy; Growth Management; Corporate Governance; Business Strategy; Legal Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Australia
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Esty, Benjamin C., and E. Scott Mayfield. "Creating the First Public Law Firm: The IPO of Slater & Gordon Limited." Harvard Business School Case 213-019, October 2012. (Revised September 2013.)

    Managing School Districts for High Performance

    Managing School Districts for High Performance brings together more than twenty case studies and other readings that offer a powerful and... View Details
    • June 2010
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    Quality Management and Job Quality: How the ISO 9001 Standard for Quality Management Systems Affects Employees and Employers

    By: David I. Levine and Michael W. Toffel
    Several studies have examined how the ISO 9001 Quality Management System standard predicts changes in organizational outcomes such as profits. This is the first large-scale study to explore how employee outcomes such as employment, earnings, and health and safety... View Details
    Keywords: Quality; Management; Standards; Employees; Wages; Organizations; Profit; Safety; Health; Policy
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    Levine, David I., and Michael W. Toffel. "Quality Management and Job Quality: How the ISO 9001 Standard for Quality Management Systems Affects Employees and Employers." Management Science 56, no. 6 (June 2010): 978–996. (Appendix. Profiled by industry practitioners in Quality Digest, Quality Progress, ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board (ANAB).)
    • 16 Mar 2021
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    The Management Case for Inclusionary Corporate Purpose

    • 2018
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    What Can Managers Privately Disclose to Investors?

    By: Eugene F. Soltes
    Regulators have long been aware that differential access to information can undermine the efficiency and fairness of financial markets. In an effort to place investors on equal footing, the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2000 created Regulation Fair Disclosure... View Details
    Keywords: Disclosure Regulation; Information; Communication; Business and Shareholder Relations; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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    Soltes, Eugene F. "What Can Managers Privately Disclose to Investors?" Yale Journal on Regulation Bulletin 36 (2018): 148–169.
    • September 2011 (Revised January 2012)
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    Gerson Lehrman Group: Managing Risks

    By: Boris Groysberg, Paul Healy and Sarah L. Abbott
    It was June 2011 and Alexander Saint-Amand, President and CEO of Gerson Lehrman Group, the largest expert network firm globally, has found his firm once again in the midst of controversy. This controversy centered around a number of insider trading cases that had been... View Details
    Keywords: Risk Management
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    Groysberg, Boris, Paul Healy, and Sarah L. Abbott. "Gerson Lehrman Group: Managing Risks." Harvard Business School Case 412-004, September 2011. (Revised January 2012.)
    • March 2014
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    Private Interaction Between Firm Management and Sell-Side Analysts

    By: Eugene F. Soltes
    Although sell-side analysts often privately interact with managers of publicly traded firms, the private nature of this contact has historically obscured direction examination. By examining a set of proprietary records compiled by a large-cap NYSE traded firm, I offer... View Details
    Keywords: Sell-side Analysts; Management; Interpersonal Communication
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    Soltes, Eugene F. "Private Interaction Between Firm Management and Sell-Side Analysts." Journal of Accounting Research 52, no. 1 (March 2014): 245–272.
    • 1999
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    Executive Ownership and Control in Newly Public Firms: The Role of Venture Capitalists

    By: Malcolm Baker and Paul Gompers
    We study the implications of CEO equity ownership for incentives and control in a sample of 1,011 newly public firms. Before an initial public offering, equity investments by venture capitalists reduce CEO ownership by about half, from an average of 35 percent to 19... View Details
    Keywords: Equity; Ownership; Motivation and Incentives; Initial Public Offering; Investment; Venture Capital; Managerial Roles; Cost Management; Governance Controls; Executive Compensation
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    Baker, Malcolm, and Paul Gompers. "Executive Ownership and Control in Newly Public Firms: The Role of Venture Capitalists." November 1999. (First draft in 1998.)
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    Risk Management as a Function of Government

    By: David A. Moss
    Professor Moss's academic work in this area explores how and why governments manage private-sector risks. Based on historical and institutional research, he argues that risk management constitutes a critical function of government with far-reaching implications. ... View Details
    • 17 Dec 2015
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    Examining Global Workforce Management

    downturn and recovery. She hopes that American companies will become more open to this approach. Sucher’s goal is to change the way practitioners—and MBA students—think about workforce management by synthesizing existing... View Details
    • August 2018
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    Christine Lagarde (C): Managing the IMF

    By: Julie Battilana and Carin-Isabel Knoop
    This case covers the career of Christine Lagarde from 2011 to 2018 as she takes the helm of a troubled multilateral organization during a time of deepening economic turmoil. As the first female leader of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and as a non-economist,... View Details
    Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Power and Influence; Change Management; Global Range; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Climate Change
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    Battilana, Julie, and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "Christine Lagarde (C): Managing the IMF." Harvard Business School Case 419-019, August 2018.
    • May 2018 (Revised October 2019)
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    Managing the Future of Work

    By: William R. Kerr, Allison Ciechanover and Jeff Huizinga
    By 2019, leaders from the public and private sector had become increasingly anxious about how advanced technologies and aging global populations could affect labor markets, workplaces, and workers’ lives. Some analysts forecasted that hundreds of millions of workers... View Details
    Keywords: Labor Markets; Workplace; Employment; Technological Innovation; Demographics; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Problems and Challenges; Opportunities
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    Kerr, William R., Allison Ciechanover, and Jeff Huizinga. "Managing the Future of Work." Harvard Business School Case 818-128, May 2018. (Revised October 2019.)
    • September 2002
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    Seattle Public Schools, 1995-2002 (C2): Race, Class, and School Choice

    Presents the decision by the Federal Court of Appeals for the ninth Circuit in the spring of 2002 to invalidate Seattle's use of race as a factor in allocating space in Seattle's oversubscribed schools. Summarizes the posture and content of the litigation, including... View Details
    Keywords: Management; Leadership; Income; Social Entrepreneurship; Race; Lawsuits and Litigation; Education; Education Industry; Seattle
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    Leschly, Stig. "Seattle Public Schools, 1995-2002 (C2): Race, Class, and School Choice." Harvard Business School Case 803-040, September 2002.
    • 01 Apr 2009
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    The Contingent Nature of Public Policy and Growth Strategies in the Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Banking Industry

    Keywords: by Christopher Marquis & Zhi Huang; Banking
    • 2011
    • Working Paper

    Management Practices Across Firms and Countries

    By: Nicholas Bloom, Christos Genakos, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
    For the last decade we have been using double-blind survey techniques and randomized sampling to construct management data on over 10,000 organizations across 20 countries. On average, we find that in manufacturing, American, Japanese, and German firms are the best... View Details
    Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Business Ventures; Public Sector; Private Sector; Country; Performance; Motivation and Incentives
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    Bloom, Nicholas, Christos Genakos, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "Management Practices Across Firms and Countries." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-052, December 2011.
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    A Hippocratic Oath for Management

    By: Nitin Nohria

    The conduct of doctors is guided by the Hippocratic Oath, which provides a normative framework that shapes their identity and orientation towards society.  In light of the diminished public trust in business managers, is it time for management to embrace its... View Details

    • October 1998 (Revised December 1998)
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    CRA Managed Care, Inc. (B)

    By: Myra M. Hart and Susan Harmeling
    An entrepreneur's transition from chairman/CEO of a large privately held company, to chairman of a public company, to leadership in several large nonprofit organizations is chronicled. View Details
    Keywords: Leadership; Nonprofit Organizations; Governing and Advisory Boards; Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career
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    Hart, Myra M., and Susan Harmeling. "CRA Managed Care, Inc. (B)." Harvard Business School Case 899-069, October 1998. (Revised December 1998.)
    • June 2010
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    Enterprise Risk Management at Hydro One (Multimedia)

    By: Anette Mikes
    An early adopter of Enterprise Risk Management, energy giant Hydro One anticipated new threats and opportunities in an industry that faced climate change and carbon legislation, the deregulation of electricity markets, and the greater adoption of renewable... View Details
    Keywords: Risk Management; Energy; Energy Industry; Canada
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    Mikes, Anette. "Enterprise Risk Management at Hydro One (Multimedia)." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 110-707, June 2010.
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    The Contingent Nature of Public Policy and the Growth of U.S. Commercial Banking

    By: Christopher Marquis and Zhi Huang
    That public policy affects organizational behaviors is well accepted, but less explored is how these effects may depend on other external environmental factors. We investigate how policy is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition to understand the growth of... View Details
    Keywords: Policy; Organizational Culture; Strategy; Commercial Banking; Growth and Development Strategy; United States
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    Marquis, Christopher, and Zhi Huang. "The Contingent Nature of Public Policy and the Growth of U.S. Commercial Banking." Academy of Management Journal 52, no. 6 (December 2009): 1222–1246. (Runner-up, Academy of Management's Best Published Paper in Organization and Management Theory in 2009. Earlier version distributed as Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 09-025.)
    • January 2011
    • Supplement

    Matrix Capital Management (B)

    By: Malcolm P. Baker and David Lane
    Ben Balbale, a partner at hedge fund Matrix Capital, must decide whether to exit their investment in Rovi Corporation, a company with a diverse portfolio of patents used primarily for digital interactive guides. Rovi's shares are up over 50% from the time Balbale... View Details
    Keywords: Public Ownership; Cash Flow; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Investment Funds; Financial Strategy; Valuation; Partners and Partnerships; Markets; Performance Efficiency; Patents; Stock Shares; Decisions; Financial Services Industry
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    Baker, Malcolm P., and David Lane. "Matrix Capital Management (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 211-048, January 2011.
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