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- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
March 2019 Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Thin Slices of Workgroups By: Satterstrom, Patricia, Jeffrey T. Polzer, Lisa Kwan, Oliver P. Hauser, Wannawiruch Wiruchnipawan, and Marina Burke Abstract—In this paper, we...
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Dina Gerdeman
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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online
concerned with cash flow versus profits and why that matters for your business and budget Identify ways to create and measure value in order to evaluate and pitch potential projects Examine how capital markets work and how they affect...
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- October 2023 (Revised November 2023)
- Case
Sprout Solutions
By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Bonnie Yining Cao and Dawn H. Lau
Husband-and-wife co-founders Patrick and Alexandria Gentry had built Sprout Solutions to be one of the biggest Software-as-a-Service human resources management platforms in the Philippines, guided by the mission to "impact the life of every Filipino by improving...
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- Research Summary
Overview
Professor Begenau’s research agenda is directed at better understanding how financial markets work and how they affect the real economy. She uses quantitative analysis to build both prescriptive and descriptive models concerning financial risk in banking, and she also...
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Deepak Malhotra
Deepak Malhotra's teaching, research and advisory work is focused on negotiation, deal-making and conflict resolution. In 2020, Deepak was named MBA Professor of the Year by Poets & Quants. He has won... View Details
- September 2015 (Revised February 2017)
- Case
MOD Pizza: A Winning Recipe?
By: Boris Groysberg, John D. Vaughan and Matthew Preble
Scott and Ally Svenson, the founders of MOD Pizza, had to make a number of decisions in planning how to scale their small company. They wanted to grow MOD from 45 stores as of May 2015 to 200 stores by the end of 2016, and while the two believed that MOD could manage...
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Entrepreneurship;
Employees;
Employee Relationship Management;
Selection and Staffing;
Leadership;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Marketing;
Service Delivery;
Organizational Culture;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Mission and Purpose;
Service Industry;
United States
Groysberg, Boris, John D. Vaughan, and Matthew Preble. "MOD Pizza: A Winning Recipe?" Harvard Business School Case 416-004, September 2015. (Revised February 2017.)
- December 2013
- Article
Land Politics and Local State Capacities: The Political Economy of Urban Change in China
By: Meg Rithmire
Despite common national institutions and incentives to remake urban landscapes to anchor growth, generate land-lease revenues, and display a capacious administration, Chinese urban governments exhibit varying levels of control over land. This article uses a paired...
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China;
Land Politics;
Urban Planning;
Local Government;
Northeast China;
Property Rights;
Urban Development;
Property;
Government and Politics;
China
Rithmire, Meg. "Land Politics and Local State Capacities: The Political Economy of Urban Change in China." China Quarterly, no. 216 (December 2013): 872–895.
- February 2019
- Teaching Note
Talent@Tencent
By: Tarun Khanna
Late in 2016, two senior human resources (HR) executives at Tencent Holdings (Tencent), China’s leading Internet services firm, are assessing the effectiveness of the company’s talent management practices in responding to Tencent’s sustained hypergrowth. Over the...
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- October 2022
- Case
Lyra Health: Transforming Mental Health
By: Rembrand Koning and Nicole Keller
In January 2022, Lyra Health was deciding between several different alternatives to grow the business. Founded in 2015, Lyra Health, was a digital mental health platform that combined technology with human therapists and coaches to deliver high quality mental health...
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- 06 Feb 2009
- News
Tasting the fruits of effective innovation
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
Working PapersCorporate Social Entrepreneurship Authors:James Austin and Ezequiel Reficco Abstract Corporate Social Entrepreneurship (CSE) is a process aimed at enabling business to develop more advanced and powerful forms of Corporate...
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Martha Lagace
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Required Curriculum - MBA
investment Portfolio capital Global environmental issues Strategy The objective of this course is to help students develop the skills for formulating strategy. It provides an understanding of: A firm's...
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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online
investments so that you can better communicate and collaborate with your colleagues and customers Evaluate alternative investments—including private equity, private debt, hedge funds, and real estate—and identify their defining elements, such as size, risk, and...
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- January 2022 (Revised November 2023)
- Case
Expanding the Culture of Learning at Kraft Heinz
By: Ashley V. Whillans and Carolyn Watson
The Kraft Heinz Company (KHC) was an American food company formed in 2015 by the merger of Kraft Foods Group, Inc and the H.J. Heinz Company. The company sold food products like Heinz Ketchup, Kraft Mac & Cheese, Kool-Aid, and Philadelphia cream cheese to supermarkets,...
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Learning;
Culture;
Work Culture;
Workplace Practices;
Mergers;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Competitive Advantage;
Human Capital;
Training;
Performance Evaluation;
Growth and Development;
Personal Development and Career;
Employee Relationship Management;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Food and Beverage Industry
- February 2023 (Revised May 2023)
- Case
CalPERS Private Equity 2.0
By: Josh Lerner, John D. Dionne and Alys Ferragamo
Yup Kim, the Head of Investments, Private Equity at the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), reflected on the pension fund’s private equity strategy. In July of 2022, the fund was in the midst of a multi-year turnaround strategy with the goal to...
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Lerner, Josh, John D. Dionne, and Alys Ferragamo. "CalPERS Private Equity 2.0." Harvard Business School Case 223-048, February 2023. (Revised May 2023.)
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Be an Angel Investor
interact is also crucial. For example, in one opportunity at Capitalyst 3, a Web developer with $5 million in sales was raising its first round of capital on a $10 million valuation. Two comparable companies...
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Srikant M. Datar
Srikant M. Datar became the eleventh dean of Harvard Business School on 1 January 2021. During his tenure as a faculty member, he served as Senior Associate Dean for University Affairs (including Faculty Chair of the Harvard Innovation Lab), for Research, for... View Details
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- 2010
- Working Paper
Does Product Market Competition Lead Firms To Decentralize?
By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
There is a widespread sense that over the last two decades firms have been decentralizing decisions to employees further down the managerial hierarchy. Economists have developed a range of theories to account for delegation, but there is less empirical evidence,...
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Decision Making;
Employees;
Managerial Roles;
Organizational Structure;
Competitive Strategy;
Asia;
Europe;
North America
Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "Does Product Market Competition Lead Firms To Decentralize?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-052, January 2010. (forthcoming in: American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings.)
- 04 Nov 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Making the Numbers? ‘Short Termism’ & the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster
- 24 Feb 2016
- HBS Seminar