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  • November 2020
  • Article

When the Boss Comes to Town: The Effects of Headquarters' Visits on Facility-Level Misconduct

By: Jonas Heese and Gerardo Pérez Cavazos
We study the effects of headquarters’ visits on facility-level misconduct. We use the staggered introduction of airline routes to identify exogenous travel-time reductions between headquarters and facilities and test whether such reductions affect facility-level... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Misconduct; Visits By Management; Flight Routes; Control Systems; Compliance Programs; Performance Pressure; Business or Company Management; Management Systems; Governance Controls; Governance Compliance; Performance Expectations
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Corporate Misconduct and Manager Visits

By: Jonas Heese and Gerardo Pérez Cavazos
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  • September–October 1993
  • Article

Managing by Wire

By: S. H. Haeckel and R. L. Nolan
Keywords: Management
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  • 06 Jun 2016
  • News

Shareholder Proposals Contested by Firm Management

  • Article

Management by Accounting is Not Management Accounting

By: Robert S. Kaplan
Keywords: Management; Accounting
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  • 10 Apr 2023

MBA Class Visit

The excitement, energy, and unexpected insights generated by case method make it a hallmark of the HBS distinctive learning environment. We invite you to experience our stimulating academic environment by observing an MBA class in session. View Details
  • 17 Feb 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep

Many tools for rating the performance of mutual funds and their managers rely heavily on past performance. But what about the future? Now comes a system devised by Randolph B. Cohen and Joshua D. Coval of... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • Article

Managing Information Systems by Committee

By: R. L. Nolan
Keywords: Information; System; Groups and Teams
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  • 27 Mar 2009
  • News

Management by heart, not by mind: Shehnaz Husain

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Price and Quality Decisions by Self-Serving Managers

By: Marco Bertini, Daniel Halbheer and Oded Koenigsberg
We present a theory of price and quality decisions by managers who are self-serving. In the theory, firms stress the price or quality of their products, but not both. Accounting for this, managers exploit any uncertainty about the cause of market outcomes to credit... View Details
Keywords: Causal Reasoning; Self-serving Bias; Strategic Orientation; Managerial Decision-making; Price; Quality; Decision Making; Theory
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    The Emergence of Charismatic Business Leadership

    The Emergence of Charismatic Business Leadership is an examination of how the role of the  business leader in the U.S. has changed from World War II to the present.  A small number of high-profile individuals have transformed the face of modern-day... View Details

    • September 16, 2022
    • Article

    Bored at Work? Learn to Manage It by Putting It to Work

    By: Katherine Connolly Baden, Boris Groysberg and Heather Poco
    Do you often feel bored at work or in life? Do you want to feel less bored? If so, what can you do to make that happen? Boredom has a bad rap, but is it really so bad? View Details
    Keywords: Time Management; Emotions; Motivation and Incentives; Jobs and Positions
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    • 25 Feb 2022
    • News

    Managing By Walking Around — Digitally

    • 18 Oct 2019

    LGBTQ+ Visit Day

    Jointly sponsored by HBS MBA Admissions and PRIDE, this event is designed for prospective applicants to experience the MBA program at Harvard Business School. Over the course of the day, participants will have the opportunity to interact... View Details
    • 15 Apr 2024
    • News

    Struggling With a Big Management Decision? Start by Asking What Really Matters

    • Web

    Visit | MBA

    Visit By virtue of its immersion in the case method, the richness of its section life, and the depth and breadth of its extracurricular activities, the MBA Program is best appreciated through direct... View Details
    • 20 Jun 2016
    • Working Paper Summaries

    What Else Do Shareholders Want? Shareholder Proposals Contested by Firm Management

    Keywords: by Eugene F. Soltes, Suraj Srinivasan, and Rajesh Vijayaraghavan
    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    Learning by Doing: The Value of Experience and the Origins of Skill for Mutual Fund Managers

    By: Elisabeth Kempf, Alberto Manconi and Oliver Spalt
    Learning by doing matters for professional investors. We develop a new methodology to show that mutual fund managers outperform in industries where they have obtained experience on the job. The key to our identification strategy is that we look "inside" funds and... View Details
    Keywords: Fund Managers; Experience and Expertise; Performance; Forecasting and Prediction
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    • 28 Feb 2020

    Diversity Visit Day

    Jointly sponsored by HBS MBA Admissions and the African American Student Union (AASU), Latino American Student Organization (LASO) and the Harvard University Native American Program (HUNAP), this event is designed for prospective... View Details
    • 21 Oct 2019

    Women's Visit Day

    Sponsored by HBS MBA Admissions and the Women's Student Association (WSA), this event is designed for prospective female applicants to experience the MBA program at Harvard Business School. Over the course of the day, participants will... View Details