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    Elon Kohlberg

    Elon Kohlberg is the Royal Little Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. His research is mainly in Game Theory, in particular the study of non-cooperative equilibrium.

    Professor Kohlberg has taught many courses in the MBA,... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; education industry; energy; pharmaceuticals; real estate
    • February 2023 (Revised March 2023)
    • Case

    Twitter Turnaround and Elon Musk

    By: Andy Wu and Goran Calic
    Late afternoon on Friday, October 27th, 2022, Elon Musk was the center of attention at Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters. The night before, Musk officially took the company private and became Twitter’s majority shareholder, finally ending a months-long acquisition... View Details
    Keywords: Elon Musk; Twitter; Acquisition; Revenue; Advertising; Social Media; Business or Company Management; Public Opinion; Job Cuts and Outsourcing
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    • Editorial

    Elon Musk's Unusual Compensation Plan Isn't Really About Compensation at All

    By: George Serafeim
    Earlier this year, Tesla shareholders approved likely the largest compensation package ever awarded to a CEO—for a CEO who clearly doesn’t need the money. Elon Musk is already incredibly rich and also doesn’t seem particularly motivated by further wealth. So why do it?... View Details
    Keywords: Tesla; Elon Musk; Innovation; Investor Communication; Investor Relations; Short-termism; Long-termism; Disruption; Executive Compensation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Communication Intention and Meaning; Mission and Purpose
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    • 31 May 2020
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Demystifying the Math of the Coronavirus

    Keywords: by Elon Kohlberg and Abraham Neyman; Health
    • 19 Oct 2017
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Games of Threats

    Keywords: by Elon Kohlberg and Abraham Neyman; Education
    • 03 Mar 2017
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Cooperative Strategic Games

    Keywords: by Elon Kohlberg and Abraham Neyman; Education
    • 08 Apr 2015
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Cooperative Solution of Stochastic Games

    Keywords: by Elon Kohlberg & Abraham Neyman
    • October 2016
    • Case

    Elon Musk: Balancing Purpose and Risk

    By: Shikhar Ghosh and Sarah Mehta
    The case is used to illustrate the place of ‘Purpose’ versus financial risk and returns in a founder’s objectives. It also addresses personal risk profile of different founders, and when paired with the Risk Tolerance Exercise, it enables evaluating one’s own appetite... View Details
    Keywords: Electric Vehicle; Solar Power; Vision; Trade-offs; Leadership; Mission and Purpose; Risk and Uncertainty; Entrepreneurship; Failure; United States; North America
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    • 01 May 2018
    • News

    Elon Musk’s Unusual Compensation Plan Isn’t Really About Compensation at All

    • 30 Nov 2019
    • News

    Elon Musk and the Dying Art of the Big Bet

    • 27 Dec 2022
    • News

    Elon Musk Is Surrounded by Yes-Men, and It’s a Recipe for Disaster: ‘The Emperor Has No Clothes, but Everybody’s Too Afraid to Tell Him'

    • 12 May 2016
    • News

    What Ernest Shackleton has in common with Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk

    Dean Nitin Nohria penned a piece for the Boston Globe magazine that draws parallels between famed Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton and modern space entrepreneurs like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. Reflecting on a recent family trip to... View Details
    • 06 Aug 2021
    • Book

    Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO

    and services inextricably linked to bosses with outsized personalities. Think Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Steve Jobs of Apple, and Elon Musk of Tesla. All these leaders have one thing in common: charisma—and in fact, today it’s a quality that... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • Research Summary

    The Equilibrium Concept in Game Theory

    By: Elon Kohlberg
    Elon Kohlberg is studying the foundations of the equilibrium concept in game theory, which is to the study of economic systems what the notion of "equilibrium of forces" is to the study of mechanical systems. Although much of economic theory can be viewed in... View Details
    • 29 Nov 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Is There a Method to Musk’s Madness on Twitter?

    Since Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, purchased Twitter for $44 billion last month, the company has undergone a series of abrupt shifts. Some changes, like Musk’s firing of 50 percent of the firm’s 7,000 employees, were deliberate.... View Details
    Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Technology
    • June 1990 (Revised August 1995)
    • Case

    RJR Nabisco--1990

    By: Andre F. Perold
    Describes the situation facing RJR Nabisco one year after the leveraged buyout by Kohlberg Kravis and Roberts. A vehicle for analyzing the financial restructuring of a highly leveraged, but operationally healthy, company. View Details
    Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Restructuring; Financial Strategy; Problems and Challenges
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    • April 1991 (Revised July 1991)
    • Supplement

    RJR Nabisco Board: Guardians of the Gate? (B)

    By: Jay W. Lorsch
    The special committee of the RJR Nabisco board has extended the bidding deadline for the company by 10 days. The case explains the process by which Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and the management group bid against one another for ownership of RJR Nabisco. The board of... View Details
    Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Situation or Environment; Bids and Bidding; Decision Making; Managerial Roles; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Teams; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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    • 14 Feb 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    When a Vacation Isn’t Enough, a Sabbatical Can Recharge Your Life—and Your Career

    time when some companies are pushing employees to think of themselves as little more than a cog in a wheel. “Americans see business as very much like Elon Musk sleeping under his desk, not Steve Jobs learning calligraphy,” DiDonna says.... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 06 Jun 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful

    understanding of the entrepreneurial leader. The program combines self-assessments of their skills and behaviors by entrepreneurs themselves with evaluations of them by peers, friends, and employees. Along... View Details
    Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge
    • 07 Mar 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research, March 7

    these dynamics has been constrained by fragmentation within relevant management research. In this paper, we clarify and describe two narratives that have emerged within past and current research on growth and the internal organization.... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne