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- 09 Oct 2014
- News
One in four Americans think poor people don’t work hard enough
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Amazon’s $15 Minimum Wage Might Cost Some Workers
- October 2007 (Revised February 2008)
- Background Note
Evaluating M&A Deals: Accretion vs. Dilution of Earnings-per-share
When discussing the pros and cons of an acquisition, practitioners often talk about the impact of the deal on the buyer's earnings-per-share (eps). An acquisition is said to be "accretive" if the buyer's eps goes up post-deal; it is "dilutive" if the buyer's eps goes...
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Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Evaluating M&A Deals: Accretion vs. Dilution of Earnings-per-share." Harvard Business School Background Note 208-059, October 2007. (Revised February 2008.)
- January 2009
- Supplement
Live Nation Faces the Music (B)
By: Stephen P. Bradley, Frank V. Cespedes and Kerry Herman
In 2008, concert producer and promoter Live Nation, faces a decision about its strategy in light of the tumultuous changes in the music industry and the increasing power of the major artists. As the music business once again recreates itself in response to new...
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- Awards
American Accounting Association. Financial Accounting and Reporting Section. Best Dissertation Award
By: Ethan C. Rouen
Winner of the 2018 Best Dissertation Award from the Financial Accounting and Reporting Section of the American Accounting Association for "Rethinking Measurement of Pay Disparity and Its Relation to Firm Performance" (Ph.D. diss., Columbia Business School, 2017).
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- 14 May 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Quantity vs. Quality and Exclusion by Two-Sided Platforms
- August 2017
- Supplement
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation in Motion: Video Supplement
By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott
Evan Siddall, newly appointed CEO of Canada Mortgage Housing Corporation, a governmental organization focused on the residential housing market, is charged with leading change at the organization. The case follows this process of change step by step and looks at the...
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Keywords:
Leading Change;
Organization Behavior;
Government;
Performance;
Leadership;
Change;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Government Administration;
Restructuring;
Risk Management;
Financial Services Industry;
Canada
Groysberg, Boris, and Sarah L. Abbott. "Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation in Motion: Video Supplement." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 418-701, August 2017.
- 2014
- Chapter
Clusters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
By: Aaron Chatterji, Edward Glaeser and William R. Kerr
This chapter reviews recent academic work on the spatial concentration of entrepreneurship and innovation in the United States. We discuss rationales for the agglomeration of these activities and the economic consequences of clusters. We identify and discuss policies...
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Keywords:
Innovation;
Agglomeration;
Clusters;
Place Making;
Industry Clusters;
Entrepreneurship;
Innovation and Invention;
United States
Chatterji, Aaron, Edward Glaeser, and William R. Kerr. "Clusters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation." In Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 14, edited by Josh Lerner and Scott Stern, 129–166. University of Chicago Press, 2014.
- October 2012 (Revised July 2013)
- Case
Olympus (A)
By: Jay W. Lorsch, Suraj Srinivasan and Kathleen Durante
As 2012 approached, the woes of the financial crisis seemed to be fading, companies were resuming business as usual, and some of the scrutiny on corporate governance practices began to recede as well. That is until another major financial scandal emerged in Japan in...
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Lorsch, Jay W., Suraj Srinivasan, and Kathleen Durante. "Olympus (A) ." Harvard Business School Case 413-040, October 2012. (Revised July 2013.)
- 16 Apr 2014
- News
Professor Shih Gives Manufacturing Renaissance a C-
- September 2019 (Revised December 2019)
- Case
Google: To TVC or Not to TVC?
By: William R. Kerr and Carl Kreitzberg
In late 2018, evidence emerged that many of Google’s temporary help agency workers, vendors, and independent contractors (“TVCs”) were unhappy with the company. TVCs, who reportedly made up 49.95% of Google’s 170,000-person global workforce, had raised concerns of...
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Keywords:
Workforce;
Independent Contractors;
Talent Management;
Silicon Valley;
Google;
Employee Attitude;
Employee Compensation;
Employee Engagement;
Future Of Work;
Innovation;
Innovation And Strategy;
Inequality;
Talent Acquisition;
Labor;
Talent and Talent Management;
Strategy;
Technological Innovation;
Employees;
Attitudes;
Innovation and Management;
Human Resources;
Equality and Inequality;
Information Technology Industry;
United States;
San Francisco
Kerr, William R., and Carl Kreitzberg. "Google: To TVC or Not to TVC?" Harvard Business School Case 820-048, September 2019. (Revised December 2019.)
- 04 May 2012
- News
How McDonald’s Came Back Bigger Than Ever
- September 2003
- Case
Executive Compensation at Reckitt Benckiser plc
By: V.G. Narayanan, Krishna G. Palepu and Lisa Brem
Investors felt betrayed by the increasingly lucrative pay packages awarded to CEOs and other top executives at multinational companies. Yet, board members charged with adequately rewarding executives were forced to compete with rising packages of salaries and stock...
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- 2022
- Article
Values and Inequality: Prosocial Jobs and the College Wage Premium
By: Nathan Wilmers and Letian Zhang
Employers often recruit workers by invoking corporate social responsibility, organizational purpose, or other claims to a prosocial mission. In an era of substantial labor
market inequality, commentators typically dismiss these claims as hypocritical: prosocial...
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Wilmers, Nathan, and Letian Zhang. "Values and Inequality: Prosocial Jobs and the College Wage Premium." American Sociological Review 87, no. 3 (2022): 415–442.
- May–June 2018
- Article
The Surprising Power of Questions
By: Alison Wood Brooks and Leslie K. John
Much of an executive’s workday is spent asking others for information—requesting status updates from a team leader, for example, or questioning a counterpart in a tense negotiation. Yet unlike professionals such as litigators, journalists, and doctors, who are taught...
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Keywords:
Interpersonal Communication;
Communication Strategy;
Information;
Knowledge Sharing;
Performance Effectiveness
Brooks, Alison Wood, and Leslie K. John. "The Surprising Power of Questions." Harvard Business Review 96, no. 3 (May–June 2018): 60–67.
- November 2016 (Revised December 2020)
- Case
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation in Motion
By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott
Evan Siddall, newly appointed CEO of Canada Mortgage Housing Corporation, a governmental organization focused on the residential housing market, is charged with leading change at the organization. The case follows this process of change step by step and looks at the...
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Keywords:
Leadership, Personal Strategy & Style;
Government Organizations;
Performance Management;
Organizational Change And Transformation;
Culture;
Leading Change;
Change;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Performance Evaluation;
Government Administration;
Risk Management;
Restructuring;
Leadership;
Performance;
Change Management;
Financial Services Industry;
Canada
Groysberg, Boris, and Sarah L. Abbott. "Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation in Motion." Harvard Business School Case 417-049, November 2016. (Revised December 2020.)
- October 2008
- Case
The Talbots, Inc., and Subsidiaries: Accounting for Goodwill
By: William J. Bruns Jr.
In 2006, Talbots, Inc., a specialty women's retailer, purchased a competitor, J. Jill. The transaction created a large goodwill account along with accounts for trademarks and other intangible assets. Using prevailing accounting standards (Statement of Financial...
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Keywords:
FASB;
Intangible Assets;
Standards;
Financial Statements;
Goodwill Accounting;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
Retail Industry
Bruns, William J., Jr. "The Talbots, Inc., and Subsidiaries: Accounting for Goodwill." Harvard Business School Brief Case 083-254, October 2008.
- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
beneficial effect reverses (i.e., cost transparency backfires) when it is revealed that a firm's profit margins are high relative to those of its competitors. Download working paper:...
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Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- November 2002
- Case
Siemens ShareNet: Building a Knowledge Network
By: Alan D. MacCormack, Sven Volpel and Kerry Herman
Describes the development of ShareNet, an innovative knowledge management system used by a division of Siemens. ShareNet attempts to capture the knowledge and experience of Siemen's many dispersed sales and marketing units around the globe, making it available to all....
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Keywords:
Cost Management;
Investment Return;
Revenue;
Knowledge Acquisition;
Knowledge Management;
Sales
MacCormack, Alan D., Sven Volpel, and Kerry Herman. "Siemens ShareNet: Building a Knowledge Network." Harvard Business School Case 603-036, November 2002.
- September 2013 (Revised June 2019)
- Case
Marquee: Reinventing the Business of Nightlife
By: Anita Elberse, Ryan Barlow and Sheldon Wong
In January 2013, nightlife impresarios Jason Strauss and Noah Tepperberg are celebrating the re-opening of their famed New York City–based nightclub Marquee. While most clubs are over within their first one and a half years, Strauss and Tepperberg managed to keep...
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Keywords:
Creative Industries;
Nightlife;
Service Management;
Entertainment;
Fashion;
Celebrities;
Event Marketing;
Risk Management;
Customer Relationship Management;
Change Management;
Supply Chain Management;
Music Entertainment;
Product Marketing;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
Las Vegas
Elberse, Anita, Ryan Barlow, and Sheldon Wong. "Marquee: Reinventing the Business of Nightlife." Harvard Business School Case 514-028, September 2013. (Revised June 2019.)