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- 01 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Dying to Lead: How Reaching the Top Can Kill You Sooner
associated with firm performance. Nicholas’s findings, detailed in the working paper, Status and Mortality: Is there a Whitehall Effect in the United States?, contradict View Details
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by Jay Fitzgerald
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Eyes in the Skies
where Minnick serves as chief commercial officer, is one of several actors in the so-called “new space” sector that are pursuing commercial opportunities beyond our atmosphere. Long a provider View Details
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Alexander Gelfand
- June 2016
- Case
Augustine Heard & Co.: Building a Family Business in the China Trade (B)
By: William C. Kirby and Joycelyn W. Eby
In 1861, the Heard brothers faced a decision: should they continue their family firm's business model that had made them a successful commission house in China, or was it time to make fundamental adjustments to their work? This case reveals that the brothers decided to...
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Kirby, William C., and Joycelyn W. Eby. "Augustine Heard & Co.: Building a Family Business in the China Trade (B)." Harvard Business School Case 316-186, June 2016.
- Mar 2012
- Article
The Looming Challenge to U.S. Competitiveness
The United States is a competitive location to the extent that firms operating in the U.S. are able to compete successfully in View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
Tom Popik was just looking for a Christmas present, not a cause. Browsing through a bookstore looking for a gift for his oldest son almost a decade ago, he started thumbing through a copy of William Forstchen’s novel One Second After....
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- 16 Apr 2013
- News
A Walkabout to the Ocean
Merkl: Managing water resources for a sustainable future. Photo Courtesy of Andreas Merkl They say all rivers lead to the sea. If that is true, then it's only fitting that Andreas Merkl (MBA 1989) should...
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- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
of the total federal budget. By 1975, it was less than 1 percent. “The original programs were finished, the shuttle hadn’t begun yet, and we weren’t sending astronauts into...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 05 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
Summer Internships in the JD/MBA Program
very excited to be joining the Acquisitions team at Starwood Capital, a private equity firm with a focus on real estate, in their headquarters in Greenwich, Connecticut. As with last year, HBS opened View Details
- 23 Jun 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Dignity, Inequality, and the Populist Backlash: Lessons from America and Europe for a Sustainable Globalization
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by Rawi Abdelal
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Industrial Giant
manner of Dell and Cisco. Because the majority of these transformations are ongoing, the ultimate success or failure View Details
- 15 May 2019
- Research Event
The Unconventional Capitalism That Shapes Business History
Lalocracio In thinking about the current contested state of global capitalism, and what to do about it, much can be learned from the debates I heard at the recent Harvard Business School conference, Seeking the Unconventional in Forging Histories of Capitalism, which...
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Learning in Action: A Guide to Putting the Learning Organization to Work
Most managers today understand the value of building a learning organization. Their goal is to leverage knowledge and make it a key corporate asset, yet they remain uncertain about how best to get started. What they lack are guidelines and tools that transform abstract...
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- February 2014
- Article
Governance and CEO Turnover: Do Something or Do the Right Thing?
By: Ray Fisman, Rakesh Khurana, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and Soojin Yim
We study how corporate governance affects firm value through the decision of whether to fire or retain the CEO. We present a model in which weak governance—which prevents shareholders from controlling the board—protects inferior CEOs from dismissal, while at the same...
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Governing and Advisory Boards;
Value;
Retention;
Resignation and Termination;
Corporate Governance;
Management Teams;
Business and Shareholder Relations
Fisman, Ray, Rakesh Khurana, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, and Soojin Yim. "Governance and CEO Turnover: Do Something or Do the Right Thing?" Management Science 60, no. 2 (February 2014): 319–337.
- 08 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Handgun Waiting Periods Prevent Hundreds of Homicides Each Year
currently have waiting periods.) Yet this research shows that even if a waiting period isn’t necessary to complete a background check, it can serve the important purpose of slowing down gun purchases long...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 2013
- Article
Multinational Corporations, Global Justice and Corporate Responsibility: A Question of Purpose
By: Nien-he Hsieh
Do multinational corporations (MNCs) have a responsibility to address unjust conditions—not simply by refraining from contributing to injustice, but also by actively working to bring about a just state of affairs? This paper examines whether this question can be...
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Multinational Corporations;
Global Justice;
Corporate Purpose;
Corporate Responsibility;
Human Needs;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
Hsieh, Nien-he. "Multinational Corporations, Global Justice and Corporate Responsibility: A Question of Purpose." Notizie di Politeia 29, no. 111 (2013).
- 01 Feb 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Noncompetes and Inventor Mobility: Specialists, Stars, and the Michigan Experiment
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
When he turned 50, David Offensend (MBA 1977) decided to make a change. He’d had a successful career in finance, but ever since his undergraduate days of studying public and international affairs at Princeton, Offensend planned that, one...
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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Spangler, Former UNC President, Candidate for Board of Overseers
Governor Jim Hunt named Spangler chairman of the state's Board of Education, where he served for four years. Following graduation from HBS and two years View Details
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Nancy O. Perry
- 17 Apr 2014
- News
Support for the Global Century
Robert F. Greenhill (MBA 1962), the founder and chairman of an investment banking firm with 13 offices across five continents, is acutely aware View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Research Brief: As the Wind Blows
with the oil crises of the 1970s, but unlike the United States, where the government invested hundreds View Details