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- 2003
- Working Paper
Market Discipline in the Thrift Industry and the Cost of Deposit Insurance
By: Benjamin C. Esty and C. Y. Baldwin
- October 2014
- Article
Good Cop, Bad Cop: Complementarities Between Debt and Equity in Disciplining Management
By: Alexander Guembel and Lucy White
In this paper we examine how the quantity of information generated about firm prospects can be improved by splitting a firm's cash flow into a "safe" claim (debt) and a "risky" claim (equity). The former, being relatively insensitive to upside risk, provides a...
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Guembel, Alexander, and Lucy White. "Good Cop, Bad Cop: Complementarities Between Debt and Equity in Disciplining Management." Journal of Financial Intermediation 23, no. 4 (October 2014): 541–569.
- 2005
- Working Paper
Strategic Management As Organizational Learning: Developing Fit and Alignment Through a Disciplined Process
By: Michael Beer, Sven C. Voelpel, Marius Leibold and Eden B. Tekie
- March 2013
- Article
From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America
By: Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana
This article draws on historical material to examine the co-evolution of economic science and business education over the course of the twentieth century, showing that fields evolve not only through internal struggles but also through struggles taking place in adjacent...
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Keywords:
Professions;
Disciplines;
Neo-Liberalism;
Education;
Economics;
Finance;
Society;
United States
Fourcade, Marion, and Rakesh Khurana. "From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America." Theory and Society 42, no. 2 (March 2013): 121–159.
- 29 Feb 2024
- HBS Case
Beyond Goals: David Beckham's Playbook for Mobilizing Star Talent
Superstar talent brings the kind of wattage that can power a business to the next level, as recent high-stakes decisions facing soccer legend David Beckham show. Two new Harvard Business School case studies examine the questions Beckham and his team pondered as he...
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- 07 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron
regulatory agencies, and the absence of Enron's ethical discipline while choosing to live in the murky borderlands of the law." Our Q&A follows. Martha Lagace: In a nutshell, why did Enron succeed insofar as it did? How did it...
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- September 1992 (Revised August 2004)
- Supplement
Martin Marietta: Managing Corporate Ethics (C-1)
By: Lynn S. Paine
The division human resources officer must decide whether an older employee should be disciplined for misusing company time and for improperly filling out time cards for his work on government contracts. Intended to focus on the various factors relevant to disciplining...
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Paine, Lynn S. "Martin Marietta: Managing Corporate Ethics (C-1)." Harvard Business School Supplement 393-017, September 1992. (Revised August 2004.)
- January 2006
- Case
Ron Perez (A)
By: Lynn S. Paine
The division human resources officer must decide whether to discipline a long-time employee for misusing company time and for improperly filling out time cards for his work on government contracts. Intended to focus on the various factors relevant to disciplining...
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Keywords:
Ethics;
Moral Sensibility;
Employees;
Business or Company Management;
Management Practices and Processes;
Organizations;
Crime and Corruption
Paine, Lynn S. "Ron Perez (A)." Harvard Business School Case 306-084, January 2006.
- 01 Dec 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?
that lead to economic prosperity. He defines labor quality in terms of such things as discipline and attitudes toward work. This requires social beliefs and institutions that produce labor quality. By implication, this largely rules out...
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by by Jim Heskett
- 27 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
My Week at Harvard Business School's Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP)
respective disciplines and environment through dynamic and ambitious leadership. As for me, I am excited to return to UnitedHealth Group's Optum for the remaining summer as a Business Systems Analyst. I am also looking forward to...
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- 08 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records
however, a catch: they tended to move from firms with lower rates of misconduct to firms with higher rates. “It seems like there is some sorting going on, with some firms more tolerant of misconduct than others.” In other words, while individual firms may be willing to...
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- Awards
McKinsey Award Finalist
By: Stefan H. Thomke
Finalist for the 2014 McKinsey Award for the best article in Harvard Business Review for "The Discipline of Business Experimentation" (December 2014) with Jim Manzi.
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- 13 Jan 2017
- News
An American Fault Line: High School-Only Grads Left Behind
- July 1982 (Revised April 1984)
- Background Note
Some Avenues for Ethical Analysis in General Management
Provides a general framework for the analysis of ethics-related case studies in business policy, drawing upon categories from the discipline of moral philosophy.
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Goodpaster, Kenneth E. "Some Avenues for Ethical Analysis in General Management." Harvard Business School Background Note 383-007, July 1982. (Revised April 1984.)
- 06 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Short Intensive Programs 2024 Preview: From Climate Change to Formula 1
Intensive Programs, or SIPs, allow MBA students to dive deep into a single subject matter for four days. These no-fee, no credit courses allow students to explore topics outside of their discipline or focus on a potential career choice....
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- January – February 2008
- Article
Managing the Impact of Employee Turnover on Performance: The Role of Process Conformance
By: Zeynep Ton and Robert S. Huckman
We examine the impact of employee turnover on operating performance in settings that require high levels of knowledge exploitation. Using 48 months of turnover data from U.S. stores of a major retail chain, we find that, on average, employee turnover is associated with...
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Keywords:
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Governance Compliance;
Retention;
Standards;
Service Operations;
Business Processes;
Retail Industry;
United States
Ton, Zeynep, and Robert S. Huckman. "Managing the Impact of Employee Turnover on Performance: The Role of Process Conformance." Organization Science 19, no. 1 (January–February 2008): 56–68.
- February 2005 (Revised November 2006)
- Case
InfoVision (A): Technology Transfer at Georgia Tech
InfoVision illustrates university technology transfer through the choices of a graduating doctoral student. Also explores the challenges of working across the scientific, business, and legal disciplines in the Georgia Tech transfer program.
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Keywords:
Information Technology;
Problems and Challenges;
Transformation;
Higher Education;
Science-Based Business;
Commercialization;
Research and Development;
Education Industry;
Georgia (state, US)
Fleming, Lee, Marie Thursby, and James Quinn. "InfoVision (A): Technology Transfer at Georgia Tech." Harvard Business School Case 605-064, February 2005. (Revised November 2006.)
- 2014
- Book
Business History
By: Walter A. Friedman and Geoffrey Jones
This volume contains a selection of 42 foundational articles on the discipline of business history written between 1934 and the present day by scholars based in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. A wide-ranging editorial introduction describes the...
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Friedman, Walter A. and Geoffrey Jones, eds. Business History. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2014.
- 13 Apr 2015
- News