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- March 1996 (Revised February 1997)
- Case
Change Agent Program at Siemens Nixdorf, The
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, John F. McGuire and Afroze A Mohammed
To change its culture, the German computer giant Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems launched a program to train 21 "change agents" who would lead entrepreneurial projects designed to get results and to serve as models of a new style.
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Keywords:
Change Management;
Organizational Culture;
Training;
Leadership Development;
Programs;
Human Resources;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Business Model;
Computer Industry;
Germany
Kanter, Rosabeth M., John F. McGuire, and Afroze A Mohammed. "Change Agent Program at Siemens Nixdorf, The." Harvard Business School Case 396-203, March 1996. (Revised February 1997.)
- 18 Apr 2016
- News
Embracing Agile
- 11 Nov 2016
- Video
India Prospective Student Webinar
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Bless this Stress
National Geographic for Disney+/Craig Parry In the first episode of the National Geographic docuseries Limitless with Chris Hemsworth, Modupe Akinola (MBA 2001/PhDOB 2009) and the Australian actor gaze across downtown Sydney to a skyscraper in the distance, teetering...
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- Research Summary
Markets, Information, and Efficiency
Professor Meulbroeks market efficiency research focuses on the closely related questions of whether markets properly reflect information that affects a firm's value, and in turn how stock prices influence managerial behavior. In this area, she studies why some firms...
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- December 2013
- Article
Legislating Stock Prices
By: Lauren Cohen, Karl Diether and Christopher Malloy
We demonstrate that legislation has a simple, yet previously undetected impact on stock prices. Exploiting the voting record of legislators whose constituents are the affected industries, we show that the votes of these "interested" legislators capture important...
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Keywords:
Legislator Incentives;
Voting;
Return Predictability;
Lobbying;
Motivation and Incentives;
Government Legislation;
Stocks
Cohen, Lauren, Karl Diether, and Christopher Malloy. "Legislating Stock Prices." Journal of Financial Economics 110, no. 3 (December 2013): 574–595. (Winner of Fama-DFA Prize for the Best Paper Published in the Journal of Financial Economics in Asset Pricing (Distinguished Paper) 2013.)
- Web
Placement - Doctoral
Management, 2018 Placement: Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, Accounting Department Dissertation: Essays on the Role of Accounting Information and Governance in Emerging Institutions Advisors: Paul M. Healy...
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- September 2005 (Revised August 2006)
- Case
Bain & Company's IT Practice (A)
In late 2001, the consultancy Bain must decide whether to launch information technology as a practice area within the firm. The senior executives who are Bain's clients have been asking more and more IT-related questions of the firm's partners, who find themselves...
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McAfee, Andrew P. "Bain & Company's IT Practice (A)." Harvard Business School Case 606-010, September 2005. (Revised August 2006.)
- 2021
- Article
Consumer Disclosure
By: Tami Kim, Kate Barasz and Leslie John
As technological advances enable consumers to share more information in unprecedented ways, today’s disclosure takes on a variety of new forms, triggering a paradigm shift in what “disclosure” entails. This review introduces two factors to conceptualize consumer...
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Keywords:
Disclosure;
Passive Disclosure;
Information;
Internet and the Web;
Consumer Behavior;
Situation or Environment
Kim, Tami, Kate Barasz, and Leslie John. "Consumer Disclosure." Consumer Psychology Review 4 (2021): 59–69.
Lynda M. Applegate
Lynda M. Applegate is a Baker Foundation Professor at HBS and is Chair of the Advisory Committee for Harvard University’s Masters Degree of Liberal Arts in Finance and Management at the Harvard University Extension School. She has also played a... View Details
- 2020
- Working Paper
Socioeconomic Network Heterogeneity and Pandemic Policy Response
By: Abhishek Nagaraj, Mohammad Akbarpour, Cody Cook, Aude Marzuoli, Simon Mongey, Matteo Saccarola, Pietro Tebaldi, Shoshana Vasserman and Hanbin Yang
We develop and implement a heterogeneous-agents network-based empirical model to analyze alternative policies during a pandemic outbreak. We combine several data sources, including information on individuals’ mobility and encounters across metropolitan areas,...
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Nagaraj, Abhishek, Mohammad Akbarpour, Cody Cook, Aude Marzuoli, Simon Mongey, Matteo Saccarola, Pietro Tebaldi, Shoshana Vasserman, and Hanbin Yang. "Socioeconomic Network Heterogeneity and Pandemic Policy Response." Working Paper, June 2020.
- May 2021 (Revised August 2021)
- Case
Airbnb During the Pandemic: Stakeholder Capitalism Faces a Critical Test
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Allison Ciechanover
As the COVID pandemic spread in early 2020, global travel ground to a halt. For Airbnb, the San Francisco-based platform for renting accommodations, the impact was both swift and severe as revenues plummeted more than 70% over the prior year. Responding to the sudden...
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Keywords:
COVID-19 Pandemic;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Corporate Governance;
Crisis Management;
Leadership;
Digital Platforms;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Mission and Purpose;
Value Creation;
Decision Making;
Goals and Objectives;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Travel Industry;
Tourism Industry;
Service Industry;
United States
Esty, Benjamin C., and Allison Ciechanover. "Airbnb During the Pandemic: Stakeholder Capitalism Faces a Critical Test." Harvard Business School Case 221-050, May 2021. (Revised August 2021.)
- July 2002 (Revised August 2002)
- Case
Washington Hospital Center (B): The Power of Insight
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Michelle Heskett
Dr. Craig Feied considers how to take a major technical innovation beyond his own department into a large hospital system. Reviews how proprietary information systems became indispensable in the department of emergency medicine and what it took to introduce the change...
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- 04 Jul 2014
- News
Want to Brainstorm New Ideas? Then Limit Your Online Connections
- 21 Mar 2011
- News
Are We Thinking Too Little, or Too Much?
- 16 Feb 2012
- News
Bank stocks rally despite Moody's gloom
- 18 Nov 2019
- Video
Alberto Grimoldi
Alberto Grimold, President of the Argentina-based apparel and footwear company Grimoldi, discusses the challenges of competing with the many companies in the informal economy which pay no tax, and explains how this impacts decisions to compete in channels such as...
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- December 1990
- Case
Allen-Bradley's ICCG: Repositioning for the 1990s
By: Nitin Nohria
Allen-Bradley's Industrial Computer and Communication Group (ICCG) underwent a period of rapid transformation in the 1980s, instituting a wide array of innovations from product development to information systems. In 1990 the Ohio-based group announced a major...
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Technological Innovation;
Information Technology;
Organizational Culture;
Business Organization;
Problems and Challenges;
Information Technology Industry
Nohria, Nitin. "Allen-Bradley's ICCG: Repositioning for the 1990s." Harvard Business School Case 491-066, December 1990.
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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online
requirements will not receive a certificate and will not be eligible to retake the course. More detailed information on individual course requirements will be communicated at the start of the course. No grades are assigned for Economics...
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- July 1987 (Revised October 1995)
- Case
Phillips 66: Controlling a Company Through Crisis
The downstream operations subsidiary of a major U.S. petroleum company is faced with major restructuring decisions and responds by developing an Executive Information System (EIS) which allows for increased responsiveness, wider span of control, and higher levels of...
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Keywords:
Restructuring;
Information Management;
Governance Controls;
Organizational Design;
Crisis Management;
Communication;
Management Teams;
Growth Management;
Mining Industry;
Energy Industry;
United States
Applegate, Lynda M. "Phillips 66: Controlling a Company Through Crisis." Harvard Business School Case 189-006, July 1987. (Revised October 1995.)