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- April 1997
- Case
ABB Germany
By: Hugo Uyterhoeven
Describes Europe's most famous postwar multinational merger between Asea of Sweden and Brown Boveri of Switzerland. Gives background on both companies and focuses particularly on BBC's geographic organization, its corporate culture, and the relationship between its... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Multinational Firms and Management; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Goals and Objectives; Organizational Culture; Performance Improvement; Geographic Location; Rank and Position; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Sweden; Switzerland; Germany
Uyterhoeven, Hugo. "ABB Germany." Harvard Business School Case 397-096, April 1997.
- 2009
- Chapter
Company Strategy: Business Model Reconfiguration for Innovation and Internationalization
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Joan E. Ricart
Keywords: Business Strategy; Business Model; Competitive Advantage; Innovation and Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Globalized Firms and Management
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Joan E. Ricart. "Company Strategy: Business Model Reconfiguration for Innovation and Internationalization." In Competitiveness in Catalonia: Looking AheadA Report of the Center SP-SP at IESE Business School. Universidad de Navarra, 2009.
- March 2007 (Revised May 2012)
- Case
PRG-Schultz International
By: Paul W. Marshall and James Weber
PRG-Schultz will run out of cash within a couple of months unless the new CEO can reduce costs and restructure the company's debt. PRG was the dominant market leader in the audit recovery industry. The industry consisted of firms which employed accounting professionals... View Details
Keywords: History; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership; Restructuring; Cost Management; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Borrowing and Debt; Accounting Audits; Accounting Industry
Marshall, Paul W., and James Weber. "PRG-Schultz International." Harvard Business School Case 807-126, March 2007. (Revised May 2012.)
- January 1994 (Revised June 1996)
- Case
Problems at InSpeech
By: Lynn S. Paine
InSpeech, Inc., the largest U.S. provider of speech, occupational, and physical therapists to nursing homes and hospitals, is faltering badly. The company is having trouble retaining its frontline employees--the clinicians who deliver its services--and its customers.... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Health Care and Treatment; Crisis Management; Mission and Purpose; Values and Beliefs; Health Industry
Paine, Lynn S. "Problems at InSpeech." Harvard Business School Case 394-109, January 1994. (Revised June 1996.)
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
After the Revolution: Putting the Internet in Perspective
what's going on in business," Nolan noted. "We have never lived through anything like this." With that, Nolan opened his discussion of the profound changes that computers -- and now the Internet -- have wrought on the way business is... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
markets. We find that introducing a signaling mechanism increases the welfare of workers and the number of matches, while the change in firm welfare is ambiguous. A signaling mechanism adds the most value for balanced markets. Should You... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
Mall — it is not surprising that 80 percent of the museum's visitors are not from the D.C. metropolitan area. "Unlike other museums," observes Bob Fri, "we don't need to get on the treadmill of constantly changing our temporary exhibits... View Details
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
Measurement, Causes, and Consequences By: Comin, Diego A., and Marti Mestieri Abstract—This chapter discusses different approaches pursued to explore three broad questions related to technology diffusion: what general patterns characterize the diffusion of... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
edge of a cliff, cast knowing glances and jumped. “There was that feeling that submitting the business plan was like jumping off a cliff,” says Tierney. “We couldn’t say after that, ‘Oh, we changed our minds.’” A Targeted Approach... View Details
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Benefits of “Not Invented Here”
those small companies accounted for over 22 percent of all industrial R&D spending, while the largest companies' share of spending declined to just over 40 percent. These data reflect the changing reality in almost every industry:... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- March 2024
- Case
Funderbeam: Teaming Up or Going Alone?
By: Paul A. Gompers, Elena Corsi and Orna Dan
Funderbeam, a global platform founded in Estonia to enable start-ups to run private syndications and secondaries while offering liquidity for private equity investors, was at a crossroads. Over its ten-year run, the company had expanded its services and areas of... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Business Exit or Shutdown; Transition; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Law; Mergers and Acquisitions; Financing and Loans; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Ownership Stake; Expansion; Business Startups; Venture Capital; Financial Services Industry; Estonia; Republic of Ireland; United Kingdom; Singapore
- May 2004 (Revised December 2004)
- Case
Slingshot Technology, Inc. (A)
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Elizabeth Collins
Slingshot Technology Inc. (STI) is a privately held software start-up founded in 1995 focused on identifying emerging spaces in the IT services industry and partnering with vendors selling promising but unproven technologies in those spaces. The vendors used STI to... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Private Ownership; Opportunities; Partners and Partnerships; Entrepreneurship; Applications and Software; Intellectual Property; Business Startups; Information Technology Industry
Applegate, Lynda M., and Elizabeth Collins. "Slingshot Technology, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 804-022, May 2004. (Revised December 2004.)
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
Organizational Behavior The Energizing Nature of Work Engagement: Toward a New Need-Based Theory of Work Motivation By: Green, Paul, Eli Finkel, Grainne Fitzsimons, and Francesca Gino Abstract—We present theory suggesting that experiences... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
organizational mechanisms can help: guardrails that protect the weaker of the two goals, dynamic decision-making that treats high-level goals as sacrosanct but tactical decisions as provisional, and leaders dedicated to “both/and”... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
none of the five measures identifies firms that behave as if they were constrained: public firms classified as constrained have no trouble raising debt when their demand for debt increases, are unaffected by changes in the supply of bank... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
new achievement are further escalated by the glamorized treatment they receive in today's media-centric world. The elements of celebrity—spectacle, "bests," charisma, and any form of novelty from the latest in consumption to a sexy new View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 22 Nov 2017
- News
How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team
Scott, I want to talk about something that you mentioned earlier about mind, body, and soul and how that's sort of like an organizational value for you guys. Can you talk specifics? How do you instill that? Does that mean retreats, does... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
1968 and named the first Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration in 1973. He was appointed to the Royal Little chair in 1980. In retirement, Christenson plans to complete work on a book he began years ago on View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
Kathryn S. Roloff Abstract The emergence of a research literature on team learning has been driven by at least two factors. First, longstanding interest in what makes organizational work teams effective leads naturally to questions of how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
of the School’s budget in fiscal 2023 centered on our most important asset—our people. Salaries and benefits totaled $457 million, or 46 percent of total operating expenses, an increase of $29 million, or 7 percent year over year. The View Details