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Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise Q4 - Course Catalog
(where unknowns vastly outweigh knowns)? Whose investment capital will help us, and whose money might undermine our chances of success? To what extent do commonly used performance metrics kill innovation,...
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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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Keywords:
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.)
- April 2014
- Article
Who Donates Their Bodies to Science? The Combined Role of Gender and Migration Status Among California Whole-body Donors
By: Asad L. Asad, Michel Anteby and Filiz Garip
The number of human cadavers available for medical research and training, as well as organ transplantation, is limited. Researchers disagree about how to increase the number of whole-body bequeathals, citing a shortage of donations from the one group perceived as most...
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Asad, Asad L., Michel Anteby, and Filiz Garip. "Who Donates Their Bodies to Science? The Combined Role of Gender and Migration Status Among California Whole-body Donors." Social Science & Medicine 106 (April 2014): 53–58.
- June 2016
- Teaching Note
HubSpot: Lower Churn through Greater CHI
By: Jill Avery, Asis Martinez Jerez and Thomas Steenburgh
HubSpot, a web marketing startup selling inbound marketing software to small- and medium-sized businesses, is under pressure from its venture capital partners to rapidly acquire new customers and to maintain a low level of customer churn. The B2B SaaS company is in the...
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- 13 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk
As chairman and CEO of the leading vaccine producer in the world, pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co., Ken Frazier has one of the highest-profile positions in global business. But Frazier, who is leading one of the firms on a charge to...
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- 2015
- Working Paper
Discretion in Hiring
By: Mitchell Hoffman, Lisa B. Kahn and Danielle Li
Who should make hiring decisions? We propose an empirical test for assessing whether firms should rely on hard metrics such as job test scores or grant managers discretion in making hiring decisions. We implement our test in the context of the introduction of a...
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Hoffman, Mitchell, Lisa B. Kahn, and Danielle Li. "Discretion in Hiring." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-055, October 2015.
- March – April 2008
- Article
Revisiting the Strategy, Structure, and Performance Paradigm: The Case of Venture Capital
By: Noam Wasserman
Wasserman, Noam. "Revisiting the Strategy, Structure, and Performance Paradigm: The Case of Venture Capital." Organization Science 19, no. 2 (March–April 2008).
- October 2001 (Revised April 2002)
- Case
America Online, Inc.: Disclosure Strategy
By: Amy P. Hutton and David Lane
Since going public, AOL had disclosed on a quarterly basis supplemental metrics meant to give analysts and investors a way of tracking growth in its subscriber base and the value created through its marketing efforts. These metrics gave management's conversations with...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Internet and the Web;
Change Management;
Internet and the Web;
Corporate Disclosure;
Media;
Digital Marketing;
Media and Broadcasting Industry;
Media and Broadcasting Industry
Hutton, Amy P., and David Lane. "America Online, Inc.: Disclosure Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 102-004, October 2001. (Revised April 2002.)
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Transforming the way the social sector innovates, learns, and improves
nonprofit conducts field research, oversees data collection and processing, and presents clients with key findings, program implications, and implementation recommendations...
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Shared Value & Investors - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
increase economic performance and create tangible societal benefits. This means the return to their investors can be measured in two ways—in profits as well as in societal impact. Shared value investing...
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Residents & Fellows Course - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Redefining Health Care, by Michael Porter and Elizabeth Teisberg, value for patients can be measured by the health outcomes achieved per dollar spent. Value-based health care delivery concepts start with...
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- 14 Oct 2014
- News
Sailing lessons give disabled children and adults greater life skills
wonder of the open seas. “Ninety-one percent of the people who go through our program say they have an easier time conquering life’s other challenges,” he says. A competitive sailor who raced in the Paralympic Games in Sydney in 2000 and...
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- 24 Jul 2018
- News
How Amy Hood Won Back Wall Street and Helped Reboot Microsoft
At an executive retreat in 2015, Hood lectured senior leaders on the need for more internal and external metrics to keep employees on a measurable path View Details
- June 2005 (Revised January 2007)
- Case
Equator Principles, The: An Industry Approach to Managing Environmental and Social Risks
By: Benjamin C. Esty, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Aldo Sesia
In June 2003, 10 leading international banks adopted new voluntary guidelines, called the Equator Principles, to promote sustainable development in project finance. In recent years, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) had raised issues about the lenders'...
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Keywords:
Risk and Uncertainty;
Competition;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Social Issues;
Environmental Sustainability;
Policy;
Project Finance;
Standards;
Projects;
Commercial Banking;
Non-Governmental Organizations
Esty, Benjamin C., Carin-Isabel Knoop, and Aldo Sesia. "Equator Principles, The: An Industry Approach to Managing Environmental and Social Risks." Harvard Business School Case 205-114, June 2005. (Revised January 2007.)
- 12 Mar 2024
- Research & Ideas
Publish or Perish: What the Research Says About Productivity in Academia
participated represented the largest research institutions in the US in 2019, accounting for nearly $500 million in state, federal, and private-sector grants, according to the National Science Foundation. One thing became clear, Myers...
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Actions Organizations Can Take to Communicate Their Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging - Recruiting
Inclusion, and Belonging at Harvard Business School, offered the following guidance to help organizations understand the metrics that serve as a baseline for diversity and...
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- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
waters, with asymmetric and unpredictable shocks hitting throughout the value chain. In such an interconnected and uncertain world, entire production networks are at risk of disappearing. Many companies...
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- 2011
- Article
Group Size and Incentives to Contribute: A Natural Experiment at Chinese Wikipedia
By: Michael Zhang and Feng Zhu
In this paper, we examine the causal relationship between group size and incentives to contribute in the setting of Chinese Wikipedia, the Chinese language version of an online encyclopedia that relies entirely on voluntary contributions. The group at Chinese Wikipedia...
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Keywords:
Rights;
Motivation and Incentives;
Internet and the Web;
Valuation;
Groups and Teams;
Knowledge Sharing;
Behavior;
Satisfaction;
Size;
Government and Politics;
Economics;
Information Technology Industry;
Hong Kong;
Taiwan;
Singapore
Zhang, Michael, and Feng Zhu. "Group Size and Incentives to Contribute: A Natural Experiment at Chinese Wikipedia." American Economic Review 101, no. 4 (June 2011): 1601–1615.
- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
reputational benefits by integrating community, employee, consumer, and environmental health efforts into a single health impact strategy and appointing a chief health officer to oversee all four. Firms with...
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