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- 23 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Are Great Teams Less Productive?
landscape of possibilities, while a product development team struggles to understand customers' changing needs and to invent new ways to serve them, and a production team seeks...
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- February 1997
- Case
Enron Development Corporation: The Dabhol Power Project in Maharashtra, India (A) (Abridged)
A large, lucrative power plant is negotiated for construction/operation by an American power company in India's evolving privatized power sector. The process of incorporating the project is captured in this case. The American company will own and operate the plant in...
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Factories, Labs, and Plants;
Transition;
Energy Generation;
Construction;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Emerging Markets;
Negotiation Process;
Production;
Privatization;
Energy Industry
Wells, Louis T., Jr. "Enron Development Corporation: The Dabhol Power Project in Maharashtra, India (A) (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 797-085, February 1997.
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
Cashing in on the $60 billion global luxury goods market has never been tougher — or more rewarding. Competition is keen. And consumer preferences are constantly shifting, causing the concept of luxury itself to change over time. As a...
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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
amenities. (Bloomberg/Getty Images) “Yoga is at the core of our identity and culture,” Yeung continues. “It has kept us grounded in who we are as a company. It influences our brand strategy, the product categories we go after, and the...
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Deborah Halber
- 20 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment
property technology for the Built World. The firm’s Climate Tech fund looks to invest in technologies built to help the real estate industry reduce its carbon footprint to zero and adapt in the face of a changing climate. Mike's role...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
’59; OPM 13, 1988) Potomac, MD Levitt’s Personal Touch Changed Lives and Institutions I just read Julia Hanna’s piece on Professor Ted Levitt in the September 2008 Bulletin and belatedly hasten to add the story of how Ted Levitt View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson
that requires sizable investments in projects that take several years to pay off, I believe the ideal is some combination of both. We could cut back on investment in future products or international joint ventures, but those efforts are...
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- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
to physically turn their backs to him and verbally shut him down during discussions; the team leader became more directive; and the customer-expert himself eventually minimized his contributions to the dialogue. In this way, everyone and no one was responsible for the...
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
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Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) - Course Catalog
Creating and communicating a turnaround narrative. Protecting the base business while changing direction and creating forward movement. Module 3: Crisis Building on the turnaround module, here we examine how the added elements of...
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- 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 24 Apr 2018
- Webinars: Career
Rethinking Retirement
Baby Boomers are reshaping retirement to create a life stage of possibilities and growth. But a step back from work requires a great deal of thought and consideration, and it's natural to feel uncertain. This program will provide a framework to plan and address each...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
government, and civil society all focus on the poor as producers. The main emphasis must be, he says, on creating employment opportunities for the poor and increasing their productive capacities by ensuring basic public services. What the...
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
of risk capital are contributing increasingly to a massive expansion in new business, all underpinned by a deep social change and a willingness to “do things differently,” especially among the young. Drawing on his experiences and more...
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- 17 Apr 2017
- HBS Case
This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly
overcome their shame, giving them a sense of purpose in the office that leads to better morale. Indeed, Turkasset has routinely made “best place to work” lists in Turkey, an unheard-of distinction for a debt collection agency. Total View Details
- 06 Dec 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Doing Business in Emerging Markets
entrepreneurs are innovating products to attract the emerging middle class. Such innovations could potentially benefit consumers living in mature markets. How Important Are Relations With The Host Country? HBS Cases: Looking Behind...
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- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
of organizational features during growth; the second, their dramatic change. We juxtapose the two narratives to reveal ongoing gaps in the study of how growth can effect change along three dimensions: organizational design, team...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Willa Zhou
motivated productive change in their health." She uncovered three critical factors—peer support, encouragement from authority figures, and access to coaching—that she incorporated into her program....
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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
New Idea: State of the Art
Photos courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum On the subject of art’s relevance in the digital age, Scott Belsky (MBA 2008) has never been one to mince words. “Art institutions need to change the way we think about the...
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- 20 Jan 2011
- News
Oil Spill Solution
plants, birds, fish, and shrimp. Smith’s planned two-day visit to test his products in the Gulf last May turned into an entire summer working with residents whose lives and livelihoods have been threatened. The experience, he notes, “has...
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Money and Markets Dominate New Course Offerings
anticipate using financial statements to evaluate and pursue opportunities in global commerce and finance. Competing Globally is designed for those who will work as managers, analysts, or consultants to corporations that operate in multiple View Details
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- 01 Mar 2016
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Jeffrey Deitch (MBA 1978)
art. “Even though you can’t apply sophisticated financial models to it or the complex structures that I learned in Production and Operations Management,” he says, “art is a business.” And Deitch, in his three-plus-decade career as an art...
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April White