by Michael C. Moldoveanu - Publications - Faculty & Research

April 2025
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#FutureFresenius: Implementing a New Strategy to Transform the Company and Advance Patient Care

By: David J. Collis, Benjamin C. Esty and Haisley Wert

In February 2024, Fresenius CEO Michael Sen reflected on the company’s transformation journey from his office in Bad Homburg, Germany. With revenues of €22 billion and a mission to advance patient care, Fresenius had built a strong reputation through decades of... View Details

Keywords: Strategic Planning; Corporate Strategy; Transformation; Finance; Leading Change; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Alignment; Health Industry; Germany; United States

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02 Aug 2011
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workday events can make or break employees' inner work lives. But it's forward momentum in meaningful work—progress that creates the best inner work lives. Through rigorous analysis of nearly 12,000 diary entries provided by 238 employees... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

2012
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Putting Integrity into Finance: A Purely Positive Approach

By: Werner Erhard and Michael C. Jensen

We summarize our new positive theory of integrity that has no normative content, and argue that there are large gains from putting integrity into finance—into both the theory and practice of finance. We define integrity as being whole and complete and unbroken. We... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Ethics; Theory; Practice; Change

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03 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

assumptions that countries can accumulate reserves and borrow internationally using their own currency. As opposed to traditional sovereign-debt models, asset-valuation effects occasioned by currency fluctuations act to absorb global... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Technology & Operations Management - Faculty & Research

Faculty News HBS Working Knowledge 01 Nov 2024 Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times by Rachel Layne 11 Oct 2024 How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses Re: Elisabeth... View Details

10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

the sources of value in education programs—on the future of executive education. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54353 Executive Development Programs Enter the Digital Matrix: I. Disrupting the Demand Landscape By: Narayandas,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Managing the Future of Work

Managing the challenges posed by the changing nature of work Managing the challenges posed by the changing nature of work Multiple forces of change – demographics, technology, automation, globalization – are... View Details

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Lifelong Learning - Alumni

free coaching sessions per year, including self-assessment, interviewing prep, and offer negotiation tips. Keep Learning with Alumni Virtual Programs Expand your knowledge and skills with online programs led by HBS faculty and other... View Details

12 Feb 2008
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Hassell, and Michael D. Kimbrough Periodical:Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting (forthcoming) Abstract The 1990s were characterized by substantial increases in the performance of an investor... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Jan 2011
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Organizational Learning from Error Authors:Lucy H. MacPhail and Amy C. Edmondson Publication:In Errors in Organizations, edited by D. Hoffman and M. Frese. Routledge, forthcoming An abstract is not available... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Publications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Areas of Innovation that Should be Embraced by Health Care Leaders by Michael E. Porter, Junaid Nabi, and Thomas H Lee Health care organizations must learn from what has worked... View Details

11 Jan 2011
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painful, difficult journey. It's trial and error, endless effort, and slowly acquired personal insight. Many managers never complete the journey. At best, they just learn to get by. At worst, they become terrible bosses. This new book explains how to avoid that fate... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Dec 2012
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novel proposals. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2184791 IP Modularity: Profiting from Innovation by Aligning Product Architecture with Intellectual Property Authors:Henkel, Joachim, Carliss Y. Baldwin, and Willy View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

12 Jul 2011
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PublicationsBlending Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Organizational Research Authors:Amy C. Edmondson and Tiona Zuzul Publication:In Encyclopedia of Strategic Management, edited by D. Teece and M.... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

09 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 9

Working PapersSocial Influence Given (Partially) Deliberate Matching: Career Imprints in the Creation of Academic Entrepreneurs Authors:Pierre Azoulay, Christopher C. Liu, and Toby E. Stuart Abstract Actors often match with associates... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Faculty & Research - Business & Environment

Faculty & Research Faculty & Research June 2025 Teaching Material Vail Resorts: Responding to Activist Pressure (B) By: Benjamin C. Esty and Edward A. Meyer Supplement to the (A) case, 225-082. June 2025 Teaching Material Vail Resorts:... View Details

03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015

these models, the demand curve alone can be used to make welfare statements, a fact relied on by much empirical work. There is ample evidence, though, that people misuse care for a different reason: mistakes or "behavioral... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 14, 2007

Working PapersHedge Fund Investor Activism and Takeovers Authors:Robin Greenwood and Michael Schor Abstract We examine long-horizon stock returns around hedge fund activism in a comprehensive sample of 13D filings View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Aug 2013
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attaining quotas; and (3) quarterly bonuses help improve performance of the weak performers by serving as pacers to keep the sales force on track to achieve their annual sales quotas. The paper also introduces two main methodological... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

February 2023 (Revised March 2025)
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Graphic Packaging: Project Cowboy (A)

By: Benjamin C. Esty and E. Scott Mayfield

In July 2019, Graphic Packaging CEO Michael Doss was proposing a $600 million investment in a new machine to produce coated recycled board (CRB), a type of paper packaging used for consumer products (cups, cereal boxes, beverage boxes, etc.) that utilized recycled... View Details