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- 2023
- Working Paper
Passive Ownership and Price Informativeness
By: Marco Sammon
I show that passive ownership negatively affects the degree to which stock prices anticipate earnings announcements. Estimates across several research designs imply that the rise in passive ownership over the last 30 years has caused the amount of information...
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Keywords:
Passive Ownership;
ETFs;
Market Efficiency;
Ownership;
Price;
Theory;
Measurement and Metrics
Sammon, Marco. "Passive Ownership and Price Informativeness." Working Paper, March 2023.
- October 2011 (Revised July 2012)
- Supplement
Mike Mayo Takes on Citigroup (B)
By: Suraj Srinivasan and Amy Kaser
Mike Mayo takes on Citigroup (B) is a supplementary exercise to go along with Mike Mayo takes on Citigroup (A) case and is designed to give students an opportunity to understand the creation of deferred tax liabilities (DTLs) and the life cycle of a DTL using an...
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Srinivasan, Suraj, and Amy Kaser. "Mike Mayo Takes on Citigroup (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 112-051, October 2011. (Revised July 2012.)
- 2005
- Chapter
Fundamentals for a World-Class Leadership Programme
Meaningful leadership development needs to incorporate emotional and often unconscious aspects of human behavior. This chapter describes a leadership program designed to provide opportunities to learn, in-depth and through personal experience, about the exercise of...
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Keywords:
Learning;
Leadership Development;
Personal Development and Career;
Groups and Teams;
Behavior;
Emotions
Wood, Jack D., and Gianpiero Petriglieri. "Fundamentals for a World-Class Leadership Programme." In Mastering Executive Education: How to Combine Content with Context and Emotion, edited by Paul J. Strebel and Tracy Keys, 364–380. London: Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2005.
- 05 Mar 2019
- News
Make Customers Happier with Operational Transparency
- November, 2016
- Article
Fixing Discrimination in Online Marketplaces
By: Ray Fisman and Michael Luca
Online marketplaces such as eBay, Uber, and Airbnb have the potential to reduce racial, gender, and other forms of bias that affect the off-line world. And in the early days of Internet commerce, the relative anonymity of transactions did make it harder for...
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Fisman, Ray, and Michael Luca. "Fixing Discrimination in Online Marketplaces." Harvard Business Review 94, no. 12 (November, 2016): 88–95.
- Web
College Students - MBA
undergraduate students who are interested in learning about the value of an MBA for their personal and professional development. Learn More SUMMER VENTURE IN MANAGEMENT PROGRAM June 9-12, 2024 The Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP) is an educational program...
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For Guests - Commencement 2024
because they pose a danger in case of emergency. Strollers are not permitted in the guest seating areas and will need to be left in a designated area near the gates leading out of Harvard Yard. HBS Diploma Ceremony Children of HBS...
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- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
http://icc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/dtq013?ijkey=WB7zzaO3bsqcw4t&keytype=ref Pension Fund Design in Developing Economies Author: Luis M. Viceira Publication: In Evaluating the Financial Performance of Pension Funds,...
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Martha Lagace
- Research Summary
Energy Strategy
Forest L. Reinhardt is writing cases and other materials on the strategic problems and opportunitites faced by firms in the energy industry. Significant economies of scale and scope, combined with rapid technological change, present firms in the industry with a...
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Physician-Induced Demand for Medical Care
By: Jerry R. Green
This paper addresses the theoretical models designed to ascertain the existence of a variable level of physicians' activity in shifting the demand of their patients. Two basic approaches are followed: equilibrium models of the demand for health care, and disequilibrium...
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Keywords:
Physicians;
Economic Equilibrium;
Monopolistic Competition;
Economic Competition;
Medical Care
Green, Jerry R. "Physician-Induced Demand for Medical Care." Special Issue on National Bureau of Economic Research Conference on the Economics of Physician and Patient Behavior. Journal of Human Resources 13, Suppl. (1978).
- August 1995 (Revised September 1995)
- Background Note
Managing in an Information Age: Organizational Challenges and Opportunities
Managers and management theorists spent the majority of this century building and perfecting the hierarchy; however, if we believe the press, they now appear to be engaged in destroying it. While many proclaim the dawning of the "Information Age" organization and the...
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Applegate, Lynda M. "Managing in an Information Age: Organizational Challenges and Opportunities." Harvard Business School Background Note 196-002, August 1995. (Revised September 1995.)
- June 2013 (Revised August 2013)
- Background Note
Note on Pension Guarantee Funds
By: Robert C. Pozen and Patricia Bissett Higgins
The United States and the United Kingdom both had quasi-government agencies that provided back-up insurance for individuals participating in defined benefit ("DB") pension plans. This note compares and contrasts the United Kingdom's Pension Protection Fund ("PPF") with...
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Keywords:
Pensions;
Pension Guarantee Funds;
Pension Protection Fund;
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation;
Employee Retirement Income Security Act;
PBGC;
ERISA;
MAP-21;
Legislation;
Insurance;
Saving;
Retirement;
Labor;
Labor and Management Relations;
Employees;
Insurance Industry;
United States;
United Kingdom
Pozen, Robert C., and Patricia Bissett Higgins. "Note on Pension Guarantee Funds." Harvard Business School Background Note 313-139, June 2013. (Revised August 2013.)
- September 2011 (Revised August 2015)
- Case
ScoreBig
By: William A. Sahlman, Jeffrey Glass and Evan W. Richardson
The founding team at ScoreBig, an event ticketing company, is on the verge of a public launch of their product. The company has made great progress in negotiating access to tickets, designing its interface, and building a proprietary architecture. For consumers,...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Marketing Strategy;
Product Launch;
Business Startups;
Business Strategy;
Corporate Finance;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry
Sahlman, William A., Jeffrey Glass, and Evan W. Richardson. "ScoreBig." Harvard Business School Case 812-043, September 2011. (Revised August 2015.)
- 2010
- Chapter
Identity-Based Leader Development
By: Scott Snook, Herminia Ibarra and Laura Ramo
Despite the wealth of managerial and scholarly attention paid to leadership development, only recently has a new perspective emerged that explicitly links leadership and identity. Research and theorizing on leadership development have yet to specify the processes that...
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Keywords:
Leadership Development;
Identity;
Transition;
Transformation;
Perspective;
Managerial Roles;
Business Processes;
Personal Development and Career
Snook, Scott, Herminia Ibarra, and Laura Ramo. "Identity-Based Leader Development." Chap. 22 in Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, edited by Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana, 657–678. Harvard Business Press, 2010.
- April 2003 (Revised December 2003)
- Background Note
Analyzing Complex Negotiations
Develops a framework linking structural diagnosis and strategy design in complicated (complex and ambiguous) negotiations. To develop good strategies, negotiators must rigorously diagnose the structure of their negotiating situations. Equivalently, strategy follows...
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Watkins, Michael D. "Analyzing Complex Negotiations." Harvard Business School Background Note 903-088, April 2003. (Revised December 2003.)
- September 1993 (Revised July 1995)
- Background Note
Public Policy and the Manager: Conceptual Framework
Government intervention in markets may have significant effects--both positive and negative--on a firm's strategic options and its performance outcomes. Thus the ability to analyze the origins, implications, and dynamics of public policy is a critical managerial skill...
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Keywords:
Policy;
Management Skills;
Government and Politics;
Adoption;
Business Strategy;
Performance Evaluation;
Economic Systems
Emmons, Willis M., III. "Public Policy and the Manager: Conceptual Framework." Harvard Business School Background Note 794-028, September 1993. (Revised July 1995.)
- 2003
- Article
BMW Group's Sustainability Management System: Preliminary Results, Ongoing Challenges, and the UN Global Compact
By: Michael W. Toffel, Natalie Hill and Kellie McElhaney
This article describes preliminary results and ongoing challenges faced by Designworks/USA, an industrial design subsidiary of BMW Group, in its sustainability management efforts since it implemented the world's first certified Sustainability Management System (SMS)....
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Keywords:
Environmental Sustainability;
Management Systems;
Standards;
Social Issues;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Outcome or Result;
Auto Industry
Toffel, Michael W., Natalie Hill, and Kellie McElhaney. "BMW Group's Sustainability Management System: Preliminary Results, Ongoing Challenges, and the UN Global Compact." Corporate Environmental Strategy 10, no. 3 (2003).
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Overview
Michael has experience in both lecture-based and experiential education teaching methods.
He designed and teaches a 2-day professional development course at Harvard titled “Collaborative Leadership: Building the Organization of the Future” that provides... View Details
He designed and teaches a 2-day professional development course at Harvard titled “Collaborative Leadership: Building the Organization of the Future” that provides... View Details