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- 24 Feb 2016
- News
Did William Alden Invent the Car of the Future in the 1960s?
William Alden (MBA 1952) was sorting mail when he had the thought: The concept behind the automated conveyer system he was perfecting for routing letters could be used to move people. It was the 1950s, a time of great investment in...
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- January 2003 (Revised April 2004)
- Case
Cat is out of the Bag, The: KANA and the Layoff Gone Awry (A)
By: Leslie A. Perlow and David Ager
Vicki Amon-Higa, vice president of KANA, a publicly traded, midsize development company, was working with Bryan Kettle, KANA's CFO, to plan a layoff in which KANA would reduce the size of its workforce by nearly 40%. Despite the best of intentions, news of the layoff...
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Keywords:
Crisis Management;
Employees;
Job Cuts and Outsourcing;
Problems and Challenges;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Conflict Management
Perlow, Leslie A., and David Ager. "Cat is out of the Bag, The: KANA and the Layoff Gone Awry (A)." Harvard Business School Case 403-117, January 2003. (Revised April 2004.)
- January 1992 (Revised August 1992)
- Case
Lexon Corp. (A)
By: Lynn S. Paine
A general manager at Lexon Computer Corp. must decide whether interception and surveillance of employees' e-mail is acceptable company practice, and whether to follow the advice of his computer operations manager who wants to fire the person who complained that the...
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Keywords:
Information;
Rights;
Managerial Roles;
Interpersonal Communication;
Employee Relationship Management;
Ethics;
Computer Industry
Paine, Lynn S. "Lexon Corp. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 392-071, January 1992. (Revised August 1992.)
- December 2010
- Article
Organizing the In-between: The Population Dynamics of Network-weaving Organizations in the Global Interstate Network
By: Paul Ingram and Magnus Thor Torfason
This article examines the population dynamics and viability of network weavers, which are organizations that provide network relations for others. An analysis of the population dynamics of the intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) that are the basis of the interstate...
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Keywords:
Networks;
Organizations;
Demographics;
Relationships;
Globalization;
Economics;
Conflict and Resolution;
Value;
Lawfulness;
Competition
Ingram, Paul, and Magnus Thor Torfason. "Organizing the In-between: The Population Dynamics of Network-weaving Organizations in the Global Interstate Network." Administrative Science Quarterly 55, no. 4 (December 2010): 577–605.
- 19 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
From Retail to HBS: How I’m Building a Career Path at the Intersection of Arts, Culture, and Business
business. I had often felt that my interests were non-traditional and I had sometimes doubted how I could carve out a path that would fit these disparate parts together, but HBS showed me how much opportunity is out there. For one,...
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- Web
Attract additional Black talent to all parts of the HBS community. - Advancing Racial Equity
racial equity. We hope that implementation of this action plan will rebuild the interest and faith of Black alumni in HBS. As described here, this action plan benefited greatly...
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- September 2011
- Article
The Empire Struck Back: Sanctions and Compensation in the Mexican Oil Expropriation of 1938
By: Noel Maurer
The Mexican expropriation of 1938 was the first large-scale non-Communist expropriation of foreign-owned natural resource assets. The literature makes three assertions: the U.S. did not fully back the companies, Mexico did not fully compensate them for the value of...
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Keywords:
Natural Environment;
Assets;
Value;
Motivation and Incentives;
Government and Politics;
Strategy;
Interests;
Revenue;
Non-Renewable Energy;
Energy Industry;
Mexico;
United States
Maurer, Noel. "The Empire Struck Back: Sanctions and Compensation in the Mexican Oil Expropriation of 1938." Journal of Economic History 71, no. 3 (September 2011): 590 – 615.
- Teaching Interest
Overview
Paul is primarily interested in teaching data science to management students through the case method. This includes technical topics (programming and statistics) as well as higher-level management issues (digital transformation, data governance, etc.) As a research...
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Keywords:
A/B Testing;
AI;
AI Algorithms;
AI Creativity;
Algorithm;
Algorithm Bias;
Algorithmic Bias;
Algorithmic Fairness;
Algorithms;
Analytics;
Application Program Interface;
Artificial Intelligence;
Causality;
Causal Inference;
Computing;
Computers;
Data Analysis;
Data Analytics;
Data Architecture;
Data As A Service;
Data Centers;
Data Governance;
Data Labeling;
Data Management;
Data Manipulation;
Data Mining;
Data Ownership;
Data Privacy;
Data Protection;
Data Science;
Data Science And Analytics Management;
Data Scientists;
Data Security;
Data Sharing;
Data Strategy;
Data Visualization;
Database;
Data-driven Decision-making;
Data-driven Management;
Data-driven Operations;
Datathon;
Economics Of AI;
Economics Of Innovation;
Economics Of Information System;
Economics Of Science;
Forecast;
Forecast Accuracy;
Forecasting;
Forecasting And Prediction;
Information Technology;
Machine Learning;
Machine Learning Models;
Prediction;
Prediction Error;
Predictive Analytics;
Predictive Models;
Analysis;
AI and Machine Learning;
Analytics and Data Science;
Applications and Software;
Digital Transformation;
Information Management;
Digital Strategy;
Technology Adoption
- 05 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: iPads, Kindles, and the Close of a Chapter in Book Publishing
Two days ago, the first buyers of Apple's iPad began putting it through its paces, playing games, navigating the Internet, and downloading electronic books. That groan you heard was from dozens of book...
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- January 2004 (Revised April 2005)
- Background Note
Personal Values and Professional Responsibilities
Describes some of the classic conflicts managers face in trying to live and work by their personal values and uses Hirschman's "exit, loyalty, and voice" framework to suggest ways for resolving these conflicts.
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Keywords:
Values and Beliefs;
Personal Development and Career;
Conflict of Interests;
Conflict and Resolution
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr. "Personal Values and Professional Responsibilities." Harvard Business School Background Note 304-070, January 2004. (Revised April 2005.)
- Web
A Broad Spectrum of Opportunities | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
planning. One thing that I've learned in the past year is that social enterprise offers a broad spectrum of opportunities, and that an interest in marketing or even investment management is not mutually...
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- 21 Jul 2020
Life at HBS Chat Series: MBA Students in the Business of Sports
Hear straight from current HBS students regarding their MBA experience. Students will share their backgrounds and how they have cultivated their personal and professional interests while at HBS through club associations.
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- Article
Conversational Receptiveness: Expressing Engagement with Opposing Views
By: M. Yeomans, J. Minson, H. Collins, H. Chen and F. Gino
We examine “conversational receptiveness”—the use of language to communicate one’s willingness to thoughtfully engage with opposing views. We develop an interpretable machine-learning algorithm to identify the linguistic profile of receptiveness (Studies 1A-B). We then...
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Keywords:
Receptiveness;
Natural Language Processing;
Disagreement;
Interpersonal Communication;
Relationships;
Conflict Management
Yeomans, M., J. Minson, H. Collins, H. Chen, and F. Gino. "Conversational Receptiveness: Expressing Engagement with Opposing Views." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 160 (September 2020): 131–148.
- Web
The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
opinion by hiring public-relations consultants and eventually founding corporate publicity departments.”14The economic strife brought about by the Great Depression in the 1930s instilled a sense of public misgivings about large...
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- November 1994 (Revised January 1995)
- Background Note
A Note on Capital Cash Flow Valuation
Presents the capital cash flow method for valuing risky cash flows. In this method cash flows are calculated to include the benefits of interest tax shields. In a capital structure, with just ordinary debt and common equity, capital cash flows equal the flows available...
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Ruback, Richard S. "A Note on Capital Cash Flow Valuation." Harvard Business School Background Note 295-069, November 1994. (Revised January 1995.)
- 11 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #17: Leni Peterson Redondo (HBS MS/MBA 2023), Founder & CEO of Celeste
the United States. “Because many companies are decoupling their supply chains from China post-Covid and moving them to North America in the phenomenon known as ‘nearshoring,’ Leni observed, “banks and investors have become interested in...
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- April 2003 (Revised December 2003)
- Background Note
Intervention Strategy
Develops a framework linking the diagnosis of conflict dynamics to the design of intervention strategies. To intervene effectively, managers must determine whether they are dealing with an acute or chronic conflict. Using this analysis as a foundation, they can define...
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Watkins, Michael D. "Intervention Strategy." Harvard Business School Background Note 903-095, April 2003. (Revised December 2003.)
- 2011
- Working Paper
How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools
By: Rakesh Khurana, Kenneth Kimura and Marion Fourcade
The question of institutional change has become central to organizational research (Powell, 2008). Recent scholarship has demonstrated, often through carefully researched cases, that institutions can and sometimes do change. According to this research, there are two...
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Keywords:
Change;
Business Education;
Business History;
Organizations;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Structure;
Relationships;
Behavior
Khurana, Rakesh, Kenneth Kimura, and Marion Fourcade. "How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-070, January 2011.
- Research Summary
Overview
By: Ayelet Israeli
Professor Israeli utilizes econometric methods and field experiments to study data driven decision making in marketing context. Her research focuses on data-driven marketing, with an emphasis on how businesses can leverage their own data, customer data, and market data...
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- 16 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
The Rise of The Sixes: Interview with CEO and Founder Franci Girard
pressure test her interest instead of wondering “what if?”, Girard followed her instincts to jump into learning more about the fashion industry. After full days at Goldman, Girard attended Parson’s School...
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