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- July 2015
- Exercise
An Activist Approach: Castle Rock-Fultons-Remingtons
By: Guhan Subramanian and Kait Szydlowski
A three party, multiple-issue negotiation exercise dealing with a potential merger between two leading department stores, called for by an activist investor hedge fund in a letter to both companies. Company management will now attempt to navigate next moves, which are...
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Keywords:
Negotiation;
Activist Investors;
Takeover Defense;
Negotiation Types;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Corporate Governance;
Investment Activism;
Retail Industry
Subramanian, Guhan, and Kait Szydlowski. "An Activist Approach: Castle Rock-Fultons-Remingtons." Harvard Business School Exercise 916-011, July 2015.
- 09 Feb 2015
- News
Good Business Needs Bad Lobbyists
- 17 Nov 2011
- News
Practicing Moral Humility
- 2009
- Working Paper
Management and the Financial Crisis (We have met the enemy and he is us...)
The financial crisis of 2008-9 has revealed that our broad model of corporate governance is broken, independent of the shortcomings in the regulatory system. Managers and boards of directors in scores of systemically important firms failed to protect employees,...
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Keywords:
Risk Management;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Ethics;
Corporate Governance;
Financial Crisis
Sahlman, William A. "Management and the Financial Crisis (We have met the enemy and he is us...)." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-033, October 2009.
- December 1, 2022
- Article
Which Connections Really Help You Find a Job?
By: Iavor I. Bojinov, Karthik Rajkumar, Guillaume Saint-Jacques, Erik Brynjolfsson and Sinan Aral
Experiments involving 20 million people generated a surprising finding: moderately weak connects — and not strong connections — are the most useful in finding a new job. To be more specific, the ties that are most helpful for finding new jobs tend to be moderately...
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Bojinov, Iavor I., Karthik Rajkumar, Guillaume Saint-Jacques, Erik Brynjolfsson, and Sinan Aral. "Which Connections Really Help You Find a Job?" Harvard Business Review (website) (December 1, 2022).
- May 2019 (Revised April 2021)
- Background Note
Managing Talent Pipelines in the Future of Work
By: William R. Kerr, Joseph B. Fuller, Manjari Raman and Carl Kreitzberg
In the face of a rapidly-changing economy, organizations that wish to compete in the future of work must develop strategies for acquiring, retaining, and developing talent for their organizations. This primer reviews the major trends shaping jobs, workplaces, and...
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Keywords:
Future Of Work;
Talent and Talent Management;
Experience and Expertise;
Demographics;
Labor;
Problems and Challenges;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Quality;
Supply Chain
Kerr, William R., Joseph B. Fuller, Manjari Raman, and Carl Kreitzberg. "Managing Talent Pipelines in the Future of Work." Harvard Business School Background Note 819-131, May 2019. (Revised April 2021.)
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
Business Can Do a Better Job Supporting Public Education
- 25 Jan 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
What Do Non-Governmental Organizations Do?
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by Eric D. Werker & Faisal Z. Ahmed
- 2015
- Report
The Iran Nuclear Deal: A Definitive Guide
By: Gary Samore, Graham T. Allison, Aaron Arnold, Matthew Bunn, Nicholas Burns, Shai Feldman, Chuck Freilich, Olli Heinonen, Martin B. Malin, Steven E. Miller, Payam Mohseni, Richard Nephew, Laura Rockwood, James K. Sebenius and William Tobey
This report on a comprehensive nuclear agreement with Iran—the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) provides a concise description of the agreement and the accompanying UN Security Council Resolution 2231. It also includes a balanced assessment of the agreement's...
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Samore, Gary, Graham T. Allison, Aaron Arnold, Matthew Bunn, Nicholas Burns, Shai Feldman, Chuck Freilich, Olli Heinonen, Martin B. Malin, Steven E. Miller, Payam Mohseni, Richard Nephew, Laura Rockwood, James K. Sebenius, and William Tobey., ed. "The Iran Nuclear Deal: A Definitive Guide." Report, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, August 2015.
- April 2009
- Case
Performance Management at Intermountain Healthcare
By: Richard M.J. Bohmer and Alexander Romney
Intermountain Healthcare is a 21-hospital integrated delivery system serving Utah and southern Idaho that is nationally recognized for its highly structured approach to managing the quality of clinical care. This case describes Intermountain's system for improving...
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Keywords:
Financial Strategy;
Health Care and Treatment;
Standards;
Service Delivery;
Outcome or Result;
Motivation and Incentives;
Health Industry;
Idaho;
Utah
Bohmer, Richard M.J., and Alexander Romney. "Performance Management at Intermountain Healthcare." Harvard Business School Case 609-103, April 2009.
- November 2003 (Revised March 2004)
- Case
Dewberry Capital
In 2003, key executives of Dewberry Capital, a fast-growing, Atlanta-based real estate company, are evaluating their growth strategy and the resultant organizational issues. John Dewberry, the entrepreneurial founder of the firm, has developed a portfolio of...
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Keywords:
Buildings and Facilities;
Selection and Staffing;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Entrepreneurship;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Real Estate Industry;
Atlanta
Poorvu, William J. "Dewberry Capital." Harvard Business School Case 904-418, November 2003. (Revised March 2004.)
- Article
Novelty and Disclosure in Patent Law
By: Suzanne Scotchmer and Jerry R. Green
The stringency of the novelty requirement in patent law affects the pace of innovation because it affects the amount of technical information that is disclosed among firms. It also affects ex ante profitability of research. We compare weak and strong novelty...
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Scotchmer, Suzanne, and Jerry R. Green. "Novelty and Disclosure in Patent Law." RAND Journal of Economics 21, no. 1 (Spring 1990): 131–146.
- 2008
- Working Paper
The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and U.S. Ethnic Invention
By: William R. Kerr and William F. Lincoln
This study evaluates the impact of high-skilled immigrants on US technology formation. Specifically, we use reduced-form specifications that exploit large changes in the H-1B visa program. Fluctuations in H-1B admissions levels significantly influence the rate of...
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Keywords:
Information Technology;
Patents;
Ethnicity;
Immigration;
Innovation and Invention;
United States
Kerr, William R., and William F. Lincoln. "The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and U.S. Ethnic Invention." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-005, December 2008. (FAQ on paper, Appendix, forthcoming at Journal of Labor Economics.)
- 26 Oct 2016
- News
Newspapers Are Social Media
- October 1991 (Revised December 1993)
- Case
Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream, Inc.: Keeping the Mission(s) Alive
Ben & Jerry's is an anti-establishment, values-driven company that has become a successful venture. The dominant founder, Ben Cohen, is not an effective manager, but he brings creative marketing and product skills that have been important to the company's success. He...
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Keywords:
Mission and Purpose;
Organizational Culture;
Entrepreneurship;
Compensation and Benefits;
Manufacturing Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry
Theroux, John B. "Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream, Inc.: Keeping the Mission(s) Alive." Harvard Business School Case 392-025, October 1991. (Revised December 1993.)
- January 2019 (Revised November 2019)
- Case
Ajeej Capital: Investing in Emerging Markets
By: Luis M. Viceira and Eren Kuzucu
In October 2007, Tarek Sakka and Fouad Dajani launched Ajeej Capital, the first independent investment advisory in the MENA region. Fittingly named ajeej, an Arabic word that translates to “growth and propagation in a chaotic setting,” the firm’s AUM grew from $20...
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Keywords:
Security Selection;
Investments;
Growth;
Culture;
UAE;
Finance;
Asset Management;
Emerging Markets;
Capital Markets;
Investment;
Growth Management;
Risk Management;
Middle East;
Saudi Arabia;
Dubai;
United Arab Emirates;
Egypt;
North Africa
Viceira, Luis M., and Eren Kuzucu. "Ajeej Capital: Investing in Emerging Markets." Harvard Business School Case 219-029, January 2019. (Revised November 2019.)
- December 2010
- Article
Management and the Financial Crisis (We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us...)
The financial crisis of 2008-2009 has revealed that our broad model of corporate governance is broken, independent of the shortcomings in the regulatory system. Managers and boards of directors in scores of systemically important firms failed to protect employees,...
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Keywords:
Risk Management;
Human Capital;
Ethics;
Policy;
Corporate Governance;
Financial Crisis;
Finance;
Business and Shareholder Relations
Sahlman, William A. "Management and the Financial Crisis (We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us...)." Economics, Management, and Financial Markets 5, no. 4 (December 2010): 11–53.
- January 2021
- Article
ETF Activity and Informational Efficiency of Underlying Securities
By: Lawrence Glosten, Suresh Nallareddy and Yuan Zou
This paper investigates the effect of exchange-traded funds’ (ETFs’) activity on the short-run informational efficiency of their underlying securities. We find that ETF activity increases short-run informational efficiency for stocks with weak information environments....
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Glosten, Lawrence, Suresh Nallareddy, and Yuan Zou. "ETF Activity and Informational Efficiency of Underlying Securities." Management Science 67, no. 1 (January 2021): 22–47.
- August 2020
- Article
Leverage and the Beta Anomaly
By: Malcolm Baker, Mathias F. Hoeyer and Jeffrey Wurgler
The well-known weak empirical relationship between beta risk and the cost of equity—the beta anomaly—generates a simple tradeoff theory: As firms lever up, the overall cost of capital falls as leverage increases equity beta, but as debt becomes riskier the marginal...
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Baker, Malcolm, Mathias F. Hoeyer, and Jeffrey Wurgler. "Leverage and the Beta Anomaly." Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 55, no. 5 (August 2020): 1491–1514.
- 2008
- Working Paper
Stable Many-to-Many Matchings with Contracts
By: Bettina-Elisabeth Klaus and Markus Walzl
We consider several notions of setwise stability for many-to-many matching markets with contracts and provide an analysis of the relations between the resulting sets of stable allocations for general, substitutable, and strongly substitutable preferences. Apart from...
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Klaus, Bettina-Elisabeth, and Markus Walzl. "Stable Many-to-Many Matchings with Contracts." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-046, September 2008.