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- March 2010 (Revised August 2010)
- Supplement
Systems Infrastructure at Google (B)
By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Stecker
This case is a thick description of how a Senior Vice President of Engineering at Google, Bill Coughran, leads a high-performing engineering organization. The case focuses specifically on Coughran's use of encouraging two teams of engineers to develop competing...
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Keywords:
Innovation Leadership;
Infrastructure;
Management Teams;
Leadership Development;
Information Technology Industry
Hill, Linda A., and Emily Stecker. "Systems Infrastructure at Google (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 410-111, March 2010. (Revised August 2010.)
- September 2021
- Supplement
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Art of the Entrepreneur
By: Rohit Deshpandé and Henry McGee
The case supplement videos are intended for students to view, along with the written case, before class.
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Deshpandé, Rohit, and Henry McGee. "Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Art of the Entrepreneur." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 521-710, September 2021.
- March 2013 (Revised May 2014)
- Case
Unilever's New Recipe for Growth
By: Jordan Siegel, Christopher Poliquin and Barbara Zepp Larson
This case looks at Unilever and its ongoing efforts at regional strategy and organizational change in Europe.
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Keywords:
Regional Strategy;
Aggregation;
Organizational Change;
Global Strategy;
Consumer Products Industry;
Europe
Siegel, Jordan, Christopher Poliquin, and Barbara Zepp Larson. "Unilever's New Recipe for Growth." Harvard Business School Case 713-418, March 2013. (Revised May 2014.)
- June 2008 (Revised November 2010)
- Supplement
Patient Flow at Brigham and Women's Hospital (B)
By: Anita L. Tucker and Jillian Alexandra Berry
The B Case is an email from the ED Director. He clarifies where the process deviations occurred.
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Keywords:
Change Management;
Health Care and Treatment;
Service Operations;
Business Processes;
Performance Productivity;
Conflict and Resolution;
Health Industry;
Massachusetts
Tucker, Anita L., and Jillian Alexandra Berry. "Patient Flow at Brigham and Women's Hospital (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 608-172, June 2008. (Revised November 2010.)
- October 2003
- Supplement
Strategic Inflection: TiVo in 2003 (B)
By: Christina Darwall, Pai-Ling Yin and David B. Yoffie
Spreadsheet for use with case (9-704-429). Download Only. (Examines the possibility of TIVo being a content distributor).
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- February 1997 (Revised March 1999)
- Background Note
Transition to a Market Economy: The Components of Reform
Makes a positive case for three broad categories of economic reform--macroeconomic stabilization, microeconomic liberalization, and institutional reform.
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Kennedy, Robert E., and Amy L Sandler. "Transition to a Market Economy: The Components of Reform." Harvard Business School Background Note 797-080, February 1997. (Revised March 1999.)
- June 2010 (Revised July 2012)
- Case
Dubai: Debt, Development, and Crisis (A)
By: Aldo Musacchio, Andrew Christopher Goodman and Claire K. Qureshi
On November 25, 2009, the city state of Dubai stunned markets by announcing that Dubai World, its flagship state holding company, would seek a six-month "standstill" on at least $4 billion U.S. dollars of its $26 billion in debt obligations. This case describes Dubai's...
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Keywords:
Accounting;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Development Economics;
Financial Crisis;
Borrowing and Debt;
Financial Strategy;
State Ownership;
Business and Government Relations;
Dubai
Musacchio, Aldo, Andrew Christopher Goodman, and Claire K. Qureshi. "Dubai: Debt, Development, and Crisis (A)." Harvard Business School Case 710-069, June 2010. (Revised July 2012.)
- 30 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: What Warren Buffett Saw in Newspapers
Buffett's offer and wondered what he saw in the declining industry that others did not," notes Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Professor Benjamin C. Esty, the author, with senior case researcher Aldo Sesia, of Buffett's Bid for Media...
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- 01 May 2024
- What Do You Think?
Have You Had Enough?
response posed to students in Harvard MBA classrooms who ask instructors for their opinions on the case studies under discussion. As instructors, we constantly remind ourselves that we are the ones who ask the first questions. Students...
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by James Heskett
- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
making: participants were more likely to hire job candidates and choose collaborators who reframed their distress as passion compared to those who did not. Expresser gender did not moderate these effects. Results suggest that in cases...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Help - Alumni
online: http://www.hbs.edu/maps/ . I’d like to bring a prospective student to campus to see what the case method is like. Please review the Visit Campus page for the latest on visiting campus. While in-person classes may not always be...
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- February 2009 (Revised July 2012)
- Supplement
Jieliang Phone Home! (C)
By: Willy Shih, Ethan Bernstein and Nina Bilimoria
At Precision Electro-Tek's mobile phone manufacturing facility in southern China, thousands of operators - bright and capable young men and (mostly) women like Jieliang Hao are motivated to improve line productivity through small innovations for faster assembly and...
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Keywords:
Globalization;
Compensation and Benefits;
Surveys;
Innovation and Invention;
Management Practices and Processes;
Production;
Performance Productivity;
Groups and Teams;
Labor and Management Relations;
Behavior;
Motivation and Incentives;
Manufacturing Industry;
Telecommunications Industry;
China
Shih, Willy, Ethan Bernstein, and Nina Bilimoria. "Jieliang Phone Home! (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 609-082, February 2009. (Revised July 2012.)
- February 2009 (Revised August 2021)
- Supplement
Jieliang Phone Home! (B)
By: Willy Shih, Ethan Bernstein and Nina Bilimoria
At Precision Electro-Tek's mobile phone manufacturing facility in southern China, thousands of operators—bright and capable young men and (mostly) women like Jieliang Hao—are motivated to improve line productivity through small innovations for faster assembly and have...
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Keywords:
Managing People;
Motivation and Incentives;
Behavior;
Production;
Innovation and Invention;
Performance Productivity;
Groups and Teams;
Management Practices and Processes;
Compensation and Benefits;
Labor;
Surveys;
Decisions;
Manufacturing Industry;
China
Shih, Willy, Ethan Bernstein, and Nina Bilimoria. "Jieliang Phone Home! (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 609-081, February 2009. (Revised August 2021.)
- February 2009 (Revised July 2012)
- Case
Jieliang Phone Home! (A)
By: Willy Shih, Ethan Bernstein and Nina Bilimoria
At Precision Electro-Tek's mobile phone manufacturing facility in southern China, thousands of operators—bright and capable young men and (mostly) women like Jieliang Hao—are motivated to improve line productivity through small innovations for faster assembly and have...
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Keywords:
Compensation and Benefits;
Job Design and Levels;
Business Processes;
Behavior;
Motivation and Incentives;
Manufacturing Industry;
China
Shih, Willy, Ethan Bernstein, and Nina Bilimoria. "Jieliang Phone Home! (A)." Harvard Business School Case 609-080, February 2009. (Revised July 2012.)
Regina E. Herzlinger
Regina E. Herzlinger is the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. She was the first woman to be tenured and chaired at Harvard Business School and serve on many established and start-up corporate health care/medical... View Details
- October 2002 (Revised March 2013)
- Case
Intermountain Health Care
By: Richard M.J. Bohmer, Amy C. Edmondson and Laura Feldman
Intermountain Health Care (IHC), an integrated delivery system based in Utah, has adopted a new strategy for managing health care delivery. The approach focuses management attention not only on the facilities where care takes place but also on physician decision making...
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Keywords:
Ethnicity;
Innovation Strategy;
Cost Management;
Information Technology;
Organizational Structure;
Technology Adoption;
Performance Improvement;
Problems and Challenges;
Adoption;
Change Management;
Cost vs Benefits;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Industry;
Utah
Bohmer, Richard M.J., Amy C. Edmondson, and Laura Feldman. "Intermountain Health Care." Harvard Business School Case 603-066, October 2002. (Revised March 2013.)
- July 2022 (Revised March 2023)
- Case
The LEGO Group: Builders of a More Diverse and Inclusive Tomorrow
By: Elie Ofek and Sarah Mehta
This case explores how the LEGO Group’s diversity and inclusion efforts from 2008 to 2022.
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Keywords:
Race;
Inclusion;
Equity;
Demographics;
Age;
Diversity;
Ethnicity;
Gender;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
Europe;
Denmark;
United States
- May 2021
- Case
Endesa Chile: Raising the Ralco Dam (Synopsis)
This is a short synopsis of both the A & B cases (906-014 and 906-015).
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McGinn, Kathleen L. "Endesa Chile: Raising the Ralco Dam (Synopsis)." Harvard Business School Case 921-058, May 2021.
- October 2014
- Teaching Plan
Havas: Change Faster
By: Karim Lakhani and Greta Friar
This teaching plan describes an 80 minute class plan for the case Havas: Change Faster.
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Lakhani, Karim, and Greta Friar. "Havas: Change Faster." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 615-004, October 2014.
- August 2008
- Supplement
Microsoft's Unlimited Potential (B)
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Marie Madelene Bell
This short (B) case provides an update of how Microsoft organized its unlimited potential initiative.
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Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Marie Madelene Bell. "Microsoft's Unlimited Potential (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 509-009, August 2008.