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- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
Merrill Lynch the right to specify that its noncompetes signed in California would be governed by the laws of another state (with more stringent enforcement). That said, even the anticipation of a drawn-out court case can have a chilling... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- June 2025
- Case
(Family) Size Matters: Nico Oprée and the Decreasing Power of Family Unity over Time
By: Lauren Cohen, Octavian Graf Pilati, Dominik V. Eynern and Sophia Pan
Nico Oprée, a fourth-generation (G4) member of his family’s heavy manufacturing business, found himself reflecting on how the firm would navigate a deepening shareholder conflict. While the second generation (G2) had managed the business in harmony, dynamics shifted... View Details
Keywords: Ownership; Family Businesses; Family; Family Functioning And Support; Family Business; Family and Family Relationships; Family Ownership; Acquisition; Governance; Resignation and Termination; Leadership Style; Management Succession; Size; Negotiation Offer; Private Ownership; Business and Shareholder Relations; Trust; Conflict of Interests; Conflict Management; Manufacturing Industry; Germany
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
employer-based insurance will return Amitabh Chandra: More demand for insurance exchanges Recessions and pandemics create job losses that highlight the problems of tying health insurance to employment. Cleaving insurance from employment is often viewed as a path to... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
Publications June 2015 Perspectives on Psychological Science Three Principles to REVISE People's Unethical Behavior By: Ayal, S., F. Gino, R. Barkan, and D. Ariely Abstract— Dishonesty and unethical behavior are widespread in the public and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #4: Erika Myers, World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
capita sales. “Europe is a stronger EV market per capita,” she said. And she added that in December, “Europeans bought more EVs than diesels because of well thought out policies. Both public and workplace charging stations along with View Details
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
Fredberg, and Flemming Norrgren. "The world of business has been governed by an implicit leadership model," Beer explains. "With the exception of a minority of CEOs, however—those we interviewed and others like them—the purpose of the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
population of poor, underserved people and a severe shortage of skills and capacity, some resourceful private enterprises have found a way to deliver high-quality health care, at ultra-low prices, to all patients who need it. This book... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
sometimes tragic personal life. “Light and chipper in public,” McCraw writes, the charming and generous Schumpeter “lived an altogether different life in private — a continuing, desperate internal struggle with melancholy.” Excerpts from... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
the time that as far as the Internet was concerned, the government was not involved. That observation intrigued me. Later, I listened to a conversation between two FIBS historians regarding the enclosure movement in England between the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
J. Marinich, and Michael D. Shields Abstract—This study examines the effect of psychological contract breach on budgetary misreporting. Psychological contracts are mental models or schemas that govern how employees understand their... View Details
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
from true private equity operations; the other is a government agency charged with creating a clean energy economy for the United States. Each opportunity will help Iris achieve her long-term goal of a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
design of transnational sustainability governance regimes. Harvard Business School Case 517-090 Kjell and Company: Motivating Salespeople Through the Sales-Force Compensation Plan No abstract available. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 16
reversal of the state's policy towards private business from late 1978, and has grown rapidly since. While insurance as a concept and product has been a big success in post-reform China, the growth of the industry has created strong... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
grassroots community organizations; the increasing tendency of businesses, large and small, to identify the inner city as an untapped market; a drop in urban crime rates; and the "unshackling" of inner cities from the entrenched and outmoded bureaucracies that have... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
federal enforcement. Women demonstrating for voting rights found themselves demonized in government propaganda, beaten and starved while illegally imprisoned, and even confined to the insane asylum. When, in the twilight of his second... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
discovered. The alliance between The Nature Conservancy and Georgia-Pacific involved a dramatic shift from a contentious to a collaborative relationship. Historically, The Nature Conservancy (TNC), an international conservation organization and the largest View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
mechanism that amplifies interest rate volatility. I find strong support for these predictions in the time series of U.S. government bond returns. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/shanson/MBS_Paper_20140104.pdf Working Papers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
students was given four assets to sell to classmates, and I constrained the deal process so that they would have to either auction or negotiate. But despite my efforts to keep the two mechanisms pure, auctions regularly devolved into View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Your Whole Self
that you introduced in the book. It's one of five but it does seem to be the one that governs everything else you think about in the book. Amy Jen Su: I think at the end of the day where we set that compass drives everything else, how we... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
govern the world of atomic and subatomic particles, are inherently probabilistic. Until the state of a qubit is measured, it is neither 0 nor 1, but rather some distribution of probabilities that it could be either, all existing... View Details