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- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Minding the Muse: The Impact of Downsizing on Corporate Creativity
found that the creative environment, and creativity itself, remained depressed four months after the layoffs had been completed. To corroborate this conclusion, Amabile and Conti compared how many invention disclosures had been filed by...
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by Peter K. Jacobs
- Program
Audit Committees in a New Era of Governance
Summary As the focus on corporate governance and oversight has grown, so has the complexity of regulatory challenges facing audit committees. This corporate governance strategy program explores the best practices that your audit committee can use to fulfill its mandate...
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Students on the Job Market - Doctoral
such cultural inconsistency. Faculty Advisor(s): Dennis Campbell (Chair), Susanna Gallani, Jonas Heese, and Wei Cai Curriculum Vitae | Website | Email Botir Kobilov Abstract: Technology-Enabled Enforcement Ensuring the transparency and View Details
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
Open/User Innovation, and Ecosystems: A Strategic Leadership Perspective By: Altman, Elizabeth J., and Michael Tushman Abstract—Platform, open/user innovation, and ecosystem strategies embrace and enable interactions with external...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Business & Environment
innovation. The conversation delves into Raízen’s cutting-edge work in biofuels, the strategic choices behind advancing second-generation ethanol, and how these efforts contribute to global decarbonization initiatives. Guest/Host: Brian...
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- 12 Mar 2024
- HBS Case
How Used Products Can Unlock New Markets: Lessons from Apple's Refurbished iPhones
Some of Apple’s most loyal customers think nothing of upgrading to the latest iPhone every time one comes out. But what about consumers who can’t splurge on a $1,000 iPhone 15 Pro? And what about the electronic waste that would accrue if people threw away functional...
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- January 2004
- Case
Bob Holgrom and the Buyout of the Carlson Division
By: Thomas R. Piper
The head of the Carlson Division stands to benefit substantially in financial terms if a private equity firm wins the bid for the division. The division is in the early stages of a performance turnaround, with only three quarters of profit improvement and no audited...
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Private Equity;
Leveraged Buyouts;
Corporate Disclosure;
Ethics;
Financial Reporting;
Laws and Statutes;
Performance Improvement
Piper, Thomas R. "Bob Holgrom and the Buyout of the Carlson Division." Harvard Business School Case 304-083, January 2004.
- 26 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 26
related to the repeal of these NAS disclosures in 1982 are associated with a small positive stock price reaction suggesting no adverse economic consequences of withdrawing NAS disclosures. Further, following the repeal of View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- July 2009 (Revised January 2014)
- Case
Sustainability at Millipore
By: Michael W. Toffel and Katharine Lee
This case describes Millipore Corporation's approach to becoming a more environmentally sustainable company. As he prepared for his quarterly meeting with the CEO, the Director of Sustainability needed to develop positions on several issues. Tactically, he needed to...
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Investment;
Corporate Disclosure;
Operations;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Organizational Structure;
Natural Environment;
Environmental Sustainability;
Pollutants
Toffel, Michael W., and Katharine Lee. "Sustainability at Millipore." Harvard Business School Case 610-012, July 2009. (Revised January 2014.) (defining sustainability in a corporate context, managing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions including inventories, targets, disclosure, reduction strategies.)
- 07 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 7
value. This uproar calls attention to the fact that the literature on intermediaries has carefully analyzed their incentives, but that we know little about the broader strategic dimensions of this market. The paper explores three related...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
hospital business and a health insurance business, management decided to split the businesses apart through a corporate spin-off because it realized the businesses were strategically incompatible—the customers of one business were...
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by Stuart C. Gilson
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54087 February 2018 Management Science Patent Publication and the Market for Ideas By: Hegde, Deepak, and Hong Luo Abstract—In this paper, we study the effect of invention disclosure through...
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Sean Silverthorne
- September 2023
- Module Note
Live Case Exercise for Financial Reporting
By: Tatiana Sandino and Marshal Herrmann
Harvard Business School employs the case method as a cornerstone of its pedagogy, providing students with opportunities to engage in discussions related to difficult or contentious decisions confronted by real-world organizations. In this “live case,” we depart from...
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- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
insiders strategically sell shares prior to the disclosure of goodwill impairment losses. We provide evidence that insiders of goodwill impairment firms engage in abnormal selling of their shares quarters...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
preparation for crisis, management of crises, computer security, and public disclosure of security risks. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609092 Purchase supplement (B):...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Topics - HBS Working Knowledge
Conflict Management (4) Conflict and Resolution (13) Conflict of Interests (1) Construction (1) Consumer Behavior (172) Contracts (7) Cooperation (3) Cooperative Ownership (1) Copyright (2) Core Relationships (1) Corporate Accountability (10) Corporate View Details
- 21 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
When a Competitor Abandons the Market, Should You Advance or Retreat?
Terminations: Learning from Competitors’ R&D Failures, Krieger explores how pharmaceutical companies choose to react strategically when a competitor exits the market during the development stage. These companies may decide further...
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- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
health of the enterprise rather than near-term returns to its shareholders. Their model would refocus companies’ attention to innovation, strategic renewal, and investment in the future. Publisher's link:...
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Business for Social Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Since its inception, the Social Enterprise Initiative has explored the role of business in creating social value. Early efforts in the late 1990s included hosting a research conference on business leadership in the social sector and developing an MBA course focused on...
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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni
Net Zero In addition to his role at GFANZ, Curtis Ravenel is a founding member of the secretariat for the Financial Stability Board’s Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), a distinguished fellow in sustainable...
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