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- 02 Nov 2017
- HBS Seminar
Florian Ederer, Yale University
- TeachingInterests
Financial Reporting and Control
Throughout their careers, business leaders are required to measure and evaluate their organization's economic performance, improve resource allocation and strategy implementation within their organizations, and build accountability for performance through effective...
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Consumers, Corporations and Public Health (Oxford University Press, 2016)
The public health footprint associated with corporate behavior has come under increased scrutiny in the last decade, with an increased expectation that private profit not come at the expense of consumer welfare.
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December Drug Approvals
Absent explicit quotas, incentives, reporting, or fiscal year-end motives, drugapprovals around the world surge in December, at month-ends, and before respectivemajor national holidays. Drugs approved before these informal deadlines areassociated with significantly... View Details
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Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online
More detailed information on course requirements will be communicated at the start of the course. No grades are assigned for Power and Influence for Positive Impact. Participants will either be evaluated as complete or not complete. What...
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- April 2020
- Supplement
Cisco Systems and OpenDNS: Strategic Integration (B)
By: Andy Wu and David Wang
With more than 72,000 employees and revenues approaching the $50B mark, Cisco Systems is one of the largest information technology and networking firms globally. As the company grew and expanded into different lines of businesses, Cisco consistently looked outwards for...
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Keywords:
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Integration;
Corporate Strategy;
Change Management;
Entrepreneurship;
Organizational Culture;
Information Technology Industry
Wu, Andy, and David Wang. "Cisco Systems and OpenDNS: Strategic Integration (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 720-466, April 2020.
- Program
Compensation Committees
application information in strict confidentiality. We acknowledge receipt of applications via email. In the unlikely event that you do not receive an acknowledgment, please email us at exed_admissions@hbs.edu or call us at...
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Program FAQs - Summer Venture in Management
management degree can have on their professional and personal lives, and we want this experience to be used as a personal and career planning tool. If I am employed, how will taking time off to attend SVMP be regarded by my employer? It is the responsibility of the...
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- 2021
- Working Paper
Studying the U.S.-Based Portfolio Companies of U.S. Impact Investors
By: M. Diane Burton, Gurveen Chadha, Shawn A. Cole, Abhishek Dev, Christina Jarymowycz, Leslie Jeng, Laura Kelley, Josh Lerner, Jaime R. Diaz Palacios, Yue (Cynthia) Xu and T. Robert Zochowski
Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in the reliance on market-based solutions to social and environmental problems around the world (Barman 2016; Horvath and Powell 2020). The growth of impact investing is a vivid example of this trend and, although there have...
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Keywords:
Impact Investing;
Impact Portfolio Companies;
Investment;
Social Issues;
Environmental Sustainability;
Investment Portfolio;
Business Ventures;
Analytics and Data Science;
Performance;
United States
Burton, M. Diane, Gurveen Chadha, Shawn A. Cole, Abhishek Dev, Christina Jarymowycz, Leslie Jeng, Laura Kelley, Josh Lerner, Jaime R. Diaz Palacios, Yue (Cynthia) Xu, and T. Robert Zochowski. "Studying the U.S.-Based Portfolio Companies of U.S. Impact Investors." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-130, June 2021.
- 17 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Entrepreneurs Can Find the Right Problem to Solve
the problem you wish to solve that they’ll provide insight into who they are. Surveys. Surveys are difficult to design and often capture random and subjective information instead of getting real data to View Details
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by Julia Austin
- 18 Apr 2017
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: CRC Companies LLC
students and/or alumni at HBS? We have found that partnering with the HBS Real Estate Club for on-campus information sessions and presentations ahead of first-round interviews has proven both mutually beneficial and successful. Generally...
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Real Estate
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School Leadership | About
Business Administration; Senior Associate Dean, Business in Global Society; Unit Head, General Management Matthew C. Weinzierl Joseph and Jacqueline Elbling Professor of Business Administration; Senior Associate Dean, Chair, MBA Program Administrative Leadership Beth...
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- 2013
- Working Paper
Span of Control and Span of Attention
By: Oriana Bandiera, Andrea Prat, Raffaella Sadun and Julie Wulf
Using novel data on CEO time use, we document the relationship between the size and composition of the executive team and the attention of the CEO. We combine information about CEO span of control for a sample of 65 companies with detailed data on how CEOs allocate...
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Keywords:
Conferences;
Analytics and Data Science;
Leadership Style;
Management Style;
Managerial Roles;
Time Management;
Planning
Bandiera, Oriana, Andrea Prat, Raffaella Sadun, and Julie Wulf. "Span of Control and Span of Attention." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-053, December 2011. (Revised April 2014.)
- Program
Ascending the Peak: Finding the Leader Within—Virtual
+1.617.495.6555). Application Submission We recommend that you apply at least four weeks before the program start date. You may use our online form or download an application. HBS maintains all application information in strict...
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- June 2007
- Article
Merchant or Two-Sided Platform?
By: Andrei Hagiu
This paper provides a first pass at clarifying the economic tradeoffs between two polar strategies for market intermediation: the "merchant" mode, in which the intermediary buys from sellers and resells to buyers; and the "two-sided platform" mode, under which the...
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Hagiu, Andrei. "Merchant or Two-Sided Platform?" Review of Network Economics 6, no. 2 (June 2007): 115–133.
- February 2010 (Revised October 2010)
- Case
YouTube: Time to Charge Users?
By: Anita Elberse and Sunil Gupta
In January 2010, YouTube, the world's largest online video aggregator, was still seeking to become profitable. Was the time right for Google, YouTube's parent company, to charge users seeking to upload content, as some analysts had suggested—and if so, who should be...
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Keywords:
Digital Marketing;
Business Model;
Cost;
Profit;
Revenue;
Consumer Behavior;
Internet and the Web;
Motion Pictures and Video Industry
Elberse, Anita, and Sunil Gupta. "YouTube: Time to Charge Users?" Harvard Business School Case 510-053, February 2010. (Revised October 2010.)
- 17 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
If Marketing Experts Ran Elections
solutions, informing interested citizens about them, and making them easily accessible. I remember Leonard Marsh, 1 of the 3 founders of Snapple, explaining the brand's success: "We never thought of ourselves as any better than our...
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by John A. Quelch
- Research Summary
New Technologies and the Future of Food and Nutrition
By: Ray A. Goldberg
Ray A. Goldberg has been investigating the impact of new technologies
on, and the functioning of, the global agribusiness system in the
twenty-first century. He is currently developing a seminar to bring
scientists, business leaders, academics, and consumer...
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- December 2017 (Revised January 2020)
- Supplement
The Campbell Home (C)
By: Leslie K. John and Matthew G. Preble
Email mking@hbs.edu for a courtesy copy.
Campbell siblings Thomas and Sally are faced with selling their childhood home. They need to make several difficult consequential decisions, all the while navigating their... View Details
Campbell siblings Thomas and Sally are faced with selling their childhood home. They need to make several difficult consequential decisions, all the while navigating their... View Details
John, Leslie K., and Matthew G. Preble. "The Campbell Home (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 918-019, December 2017. (Revised January 2020.) (Email mking@hbs.edu for a courtesy copy.)
- March 1997
- Background Note
Asymmetric Information: Market Failures, Market Distortions, and Market Solutions
Presents a conceptual framework for thinking about markets characterized by asymmetric information. Presents the standard economic analysis of "the lemons problem," and demonstrates how asymmetric information may lead to market inefficiencies and alter the distribution...
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Keywords:
Competitive Strategy
Corts, Kenneth S. "Asymmetric Information: Market Failures, Market Distortions, and Market Solutions." Harvard Business School Background Note 797-100, March 1997.