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- September 2009
- Article
Labor Market Institutions and Global Strategic Adaptation: Evidence from Lincoln Electric
By: Jordan I. Siegel and Barbara Zepp Larson
Although one of the central questions in the global strategy field is how multinational firms successfully navigate multiple and often conflicting institutional environments, we know relatively little about the effect of conflicting labor market institutions on... View Details
Keywords: Institutions; Labor Market; Complementarity; Global Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Labor Unions; Laws and Statutes; Operations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Manufacturing Industry
Siegel, Jordan I., and Barbara Zepp Larson. "Labor Market Institutions and Global Strategic Adaptation: Evidence from Lincoln Electric." Management Science 55, no. 9 (September 2009): 1527–1546. (Although one of the central questions in the global strategy field is how multinational firms successfully navigate multiple and often conflicting institutional environments, we know relatively little about the effect of conflicting labor market institutions on multinational firms' strategic choice and operating performance. With its decision to invest in manufacturing operations in nearly every one of the world's largest welding
markets, Lincoln Electric offers us a quasi-experiment. We leverage a unique data set covering 1996–2006 that combines data on each host country's labor market institutions with data on each subsidiary's strategic choices and historical operating performance. We find that Lincoln Electric performed significantly better in countries with labor laws and regulations supporting manufacturers' interests and in countries that allowed the free
use of both piecework and a discretionary bonus. Furthermore, we find that in countries with labor market institutions unfriendly to manufacturers, Lincoln Electric was still able to overcome most (although not all) of the institutional distance by what we term flexible intermediate adaptation.)
- September 2006 (Revised January 2008)
- Case
Providian Financial Corporation
By: John R. Wells
On October 3, 2005, Washington Mutual acquired Providian Financial Corporation, the ninth-largest credit card issuer in the U.S., for $6.5 billion. At the time, Providian had approximately 10 million customer relationships and a balance of $18.6 billion. For some... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Restructuring; Customer Relationship Management; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Credit Cards; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Financial Services Industry; United States
Wells, John R. "Providian Financial Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 707-446, September 2006. (Revised January 2008.)
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
help the USPTO achieve its joint goals of processing patent applications more quickly and granting better quality patents. But the new tools and organizational changes would bring challenges, too. Any View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
and boot it up and all of a sudden it works. It's anything but that. Q: In your preface, you explain that there has been less progress in the strategy field understanding the interaction between economic forces and organizational... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
understood and managed. The key to success? Incentives. Fortunately, new research has shed light on the role incentives can play in promoting new ideas, but these findings have been absent from innovation literature-until now. By using the principles of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
2018 Gender and Work Symposium. Lumumba Seegars is a doctoral student in Organizational Behavior, a joint program with Harvard Business School and the Department of Psychology. He studies how individuals’ values and identities affect how... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
Koehn, with a presentation titled "Managing Change in the Third Industrial Revolution." Koehn galvanized the gathering with an interactive lecture and slide presentation that drew lessons from business history and focused particularly on... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
December 19, 2018 NEJM Catalyst It's Time to Reform the Orphan Drug Act By: Bagley, Nicholas, Amitabh Chandra, Craig Garthwaite, and Ariel Dora Stern Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55448 January 2019... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
been blighted by changes in industry.” Finally, Marietta says the lack of resources and infrastructure means that anyone committed to growing local enterprises and organizational capacity beyond the big city... View Details
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’
products and services but don't innovate. "That (assumption) made him crazy," Hill says. "He said 'We can and will compete that way.' " Nayar focused on changing the organization from within, starting by empowering employees. In 2005, he... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 06 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing
fire- and building-safety improvements in Bangladesh is an important first step—and a vital recognition of responsibility, especially given the reluctance of so many garment-factory owners in Bangladesh to make necessary changes on their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
Small Leaders, Important Roles I enjoyed reading “This Is What I Do” in the December Bulletin, with its profiles of three alumni who are changing things for the better in their fields of endeavor. The vast majority of HBS alumni are not... View Details
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Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry General Management Michael S. Kaufman , Andy Pforzheimer Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders Accounting & Management, General Management, View Details
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
essentially disappeared. The largest firms in the industry in 2000 were sponsors and participants in open platform systems. I argue that the vertical-to-horizontal transition in the computer industry was an organizational response to a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- April 2009
- Case
Invest Early: Early Childhood Development in a Rural Community
By: Stacey M. Childress and Geoff Eckman Marietta
Invest Early was an early childhood development partnership in rural northern Minnesota between 14 different organizations, which worked together through an advisory board, governing board, and leadership team in order to deliver coordinated early childhood services to... View Details
Keywords: Early Childhood Education; Rural Scope; Management Teams; Managerial Roles; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business and Community Relations; Partners and Partnerships; Social and Collaborative Networks
Childress, Stacey M., and Geoff Eckman Marietta. "Invest Early: Early Childhood Development in a Rural Community." Harvard Business School Case 309-089, April 2009.
- March 1990 (Revised June 1993)
- Case
Analog Devices, Inc.: The Half-Life System
By: Robert S. Kaplan
The company has committed to major improvements in quality, cost, and on-time delivery performance. Despite strong senior management support, however, the actual rate of improvement was disappointing until a new measurement philosophy was introduced. The new approach... View Details
Keywords: Quality; Performance Improvement; Earnings Management; Financial Reporting; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Productivity; Business or Company Management; Cost Management; Measurement and Metrics; Management Teams; Semiconductor Industry
Kaplan, Robert S. "Analog Devices, Inc.: The Half-Life System." Harvard Business School Case 190-061, March 1990. (Revised June 1993.)
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
executive branch a credible political excuse not to act. Maurer cautions that these institutions are now under strain and that a collapse might open the empire trap once more. With shrewd and timely analysis, this book considers American patterns of foreign... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Jun 2019
- Book
Are You a Digital Manager?
teams within and sometimes outside their organization. This raises questions like: How will you innovate? How will you bring out the best ideas in your teams working together near and far? How will you drive change within the organization... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 2010
- Article
We Cannot Go On: Disruptive Innovation and the First World War Royal Navy
By: Gautam Mukunda
Insights from Disruptive Innovation theory (DI) are often used in the formulation, implementation, and evaluation of national security policy. DI explains why successful companies are sometimes defeated by new competitors with relatively unsophisticated products.... View Details
Keywords: Technology; History; National Security; Framework; Adaptation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Technological Innovation; Machinery and Machining; Disruptive Innovation; Theory; Developing Countries and Economies; Technology Industry
Mukunda, Gautam. "We Cannot Go On: Disruptive Innovation and the First World War Royal Navy." Security Studies 19, no. 1 (2010).
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
best-selling business fable, Who Moved My Cheese? offered its answer to the question: accept that change is inevitable and beyond your control, don't waste your time wondering why things are the way they are, keep your head down, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne