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Top Executive Background and Corporate M&A: The Case of Former Investment Bankers
By: Francois Brochet and Kyle Welch
We study the M&A activity of firms with top executives whose employment history includes experience in a Wall Street firm, especially those with investment banking background ("IB executives"). In terms of strategy, controlling for firm-level effects, we document that...
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- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: I’m Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Welcome to the second episode of our Skydeck mini-series “Out...
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- 18 Nov 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Standardized Color in the Food Industry: The Co-Creation of the Food Coloring Business in the United States, 1870–1940
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
have to have great management to continually rethink and reprioritize. Kerr: Jim, we began with the long research history of Gallup and moving to what’s next in View Details
- 2014
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Can China Lead? Reaching the Limits of Power and Growth
By: Regina M. Abrami, William C. Kirby and F. Warren McFarlan
At the time of the American Revolution, China was the strongest, richest, and most powerful civilization in the world. The Great Qing Empire ruled China and dominated East Asia by a combination of power and cultural prestige. China's economy was the world's largest....
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Abrami, Regina M., William C. Kirby, and F. Warren McFarlan. Can China Lead? Reaching the Limits of Power and Growth. Harvard Business Review Press, 2014.
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school. My parents had Peace Corps volunteers in their classrooms and kind of what changed life for them and from really the course of my family is they got golden tickets to...
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Podcast Podcast Harvard Business School Professors Bill Kerr and Joe Fuller talk to leaders grappling with the forces reshaping the nature of work. Apple Podcasts Spotify...
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- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
company: I read a story that early on an engineer wanted to institute happy hour Fridays and a decision was made not to do that for reasons having to do with culture. Can you tell us what happened and the decision making that went into...
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- December 2014 (Revised March 2018)
- Case
John D. Rockefeller: The Richest Man in the World
By: Tom Nicholas and Vasiliki Fouka
By the late nineteenth century scale and managerial hierarchies had extended to several major industrial sectors of the U.S. economy. Although the precise mechanisms often varied, this process mainly involved horizontal integration, some form of legal or administrative...
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Horizontal Integration;
Wealth;
Business History;
Vertical Integration;
Consolidation;
Personal Development and Career;
Energy Industry;
United States
Nicholas, Tom, and Vasiliki Fouka. "John D. Rockefeller: The Richest Man in the World." Harvard Business School Case 815-088, December 2014. (Revised March 2018.)
- 2007
- Article
The Norwegian Aluminium Industry, 1908-1940: Swing Producers in the Hands of the International Oligopoly?
Storli, Espen. "The Norwegian Aluminium Industry, 1908-1940: Swing Producers in the Hands of the International Oligopoly?" Cahiers d'histoire de l'aluminium, no. 2 (2007): 11–26.
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affected by that. And it made us look inward and ask ourselves, “Are we doing enough?” And that caused us to really reevaluate how we were doing. And we’ve put a lot of new systems in place. We have a chief diversity officer for View Details
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how the report brings those pieces together for employers.Fuller: When we think about whether or not we want to invest in a worker and advance a worker, it strikes me that it’s always easier to make a confident decision there if you’re...
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handling everything from hiring to retirement benefits. OPM traces its history to the Civil Service Act of 1883, which took aim at the spoils...
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- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
need their help on the way down. Ruthlessness in pursuit of success might work for a while. But when there is the merest hint of a problem, a...
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that really were, gee, you know, “I’m Jonathan. I noticed that you’ve always got your nose in a book that you’ve been writing for the school newspaper. Would you ever think about, you know, going to school...
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- 03 May 2017
- HBS Seminar
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, The New York Times and Wharton, University of Pennsylvania
- 06 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism - Discovering the Business of Storytelling
picked up the pen with one hand and the gold coin with another. Even as a baby, I wanted to have it all. The pen prophecy quickly played out. I was a huge nerd. I would...
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