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- August 2000
- Case
Manila Water Company (B)
By: Michael Beer and Elizabeth Weldon
On August 1, 1997 the Manila Water Co. took control of the east zone of the newly privatized Manila Metropolitan Water and Sewerage System (MWSS). At the time of privatization, MWSS was an inefficient, ineffective, and corrupt government agency. MWC must develop the...
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Keywords:
Change Management;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Horizontal Integration;
Privatization;
Problems and Challenges;
Utilities Industry
Beer, Michael, and Elizabeth Weldon. "Manila Water Company (B)." Harvard Business School Case 401-015, August 2000.
- September 1987 (Revised May 1993)
- Case
Pizza Hut, Inc.
Pizza Hut, Inc. is a franchisor of eat-in pizza restaurants. It has decided to enter the home delivery market and is in the process of implementing that strategy. The case traces the development of the home delivery concept at Pizza Hut and the interaction between the...
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Expansion;
Franchise Ownership;
Product Launch;
Food and Beverage Industry;
United States
Kaufmann, Patrick J. "Pizza Hut, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 588-011, September 1987. (Revised May 1993.)
- May 2014
- Case
Building a High Performance Culture at IDFC
By: V.G. Narayanan and Vidhya Muthuram
IDFC was set up in 1997 to direct private finance to infrastructure projects in India. Over the years, it expanded its capabilities to become a 'complete solutions provider' offering financing solutions including debt and equity, investment banking, brokerage and asset...
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Narayanan, V.G., and Vidhya Muthuram. "Building a High Performance Culture at IDFC." Harvard Business School Case 114-077, May 2014.
- January 2023 (Revised June 2024)
- Case
Adams + Beasley Associates
By: Dennis Campbell and Iuliana Mogosanu
This case illustrates how a strong culture, founder-led SME designed and used a unique performance metric—the job security index—to manage through periods of economic uncertainty. The case centers specifically on how the job security index was used in an interactive...
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Keywords:
Financial Crisis;
Measurement and Metrics;
Employee Ownership;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Small Business;
Leadership;
Organizational Culture
Campbell, Dennis, and Iuliana Mogosanu. "Adams + Beasley Associates." Harvard Business School Case 123-051, January 2023. (Revised June 2024.)
- April 1997
- Case
Peoria Engine Plant (A): (Abridged)
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Amy P. Hutton
Describes the cost control system used at an automobile engine plant for labor and overhead costs. The finance staff prepares daily, weekly, and monthly variance reports against budgets. Department supervisors, finance staff, and the plant manager discuss the use and...
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Keywords:
Motivation and Incentives;
Cost Management;
Financial Reporting;
Performance Improvement;
Budgets and Budgeting;
Auto Industry
Kaplan, Robert S., and Amy P. Hutton. "Peoria Engine Plant (A): (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 197-099, April 1997.
- February 2008 (Revised August 2011)
- Case
Olympia Machine Company, Inc.
By: Frank V. Cespedes and Benson P. Shapiro
The management team of an industrial equipment supplier is debating the company's method of compensating salespeople. Different executives have offered different alternatives to the current method of straight salary plus expenses. Each option has different implications...
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Keywords:
Governance Controls;
Compensation and Benefits;
Mission and Purpose;
Salesforce Management;
Motivation and Incentives;
Business Strategy;
Industrial Products Industry
Cespedes, Frank V., and Benson P. Shapiro. "Olympia Machine Company, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 708-490, February 2008. (Revised August 2011.)
- February 2002 (Revised February 2003)
- Case
Argentina's Financial System: The Case of Banco de Galicia
By: Rafael M. Di Tella, Tarun Khanna, Huw Pill, Alexandra de Royere and Ingrid Vogel
Describes the development of Argentina's financial system after the "Tequila Crisis" that came about as a result of the speculative attack on the Mexican peso's peg to the U.S. dollar in December 1994. Although Argentina's banking system was strengthened overall due to...
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Keywords:
Finance;
Emerging Markets;
Macroeconomics;
Business Strategy;
Banks and Banking;
Financial Crisis;
Family Business;
Acquisition;
Banking Industry;
Argentina
Di Tella, Rafael M., Tarun Khanna, Huw Pill, Alexandra de Royere, and Ingrid Vogel. "Argentina's Financial System: The Case of Banco de Galicia." Harvard Business School Case 702-033, February 2002. (Revised February 2003.)
- Research Summary
Antecedents and Consequences of Trust in Intraorganizational Relations: An International Comparison
This project moves the level of analysis to the intraorganizational level. The empirical context consists of internal relationships between the Information Systems (IS) function and the user groups. Are better project management techniques, better software development...
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- 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM EST, 20 Nov 2023
- Webinars: Career
Tech in the Job Search: LinkedIn for Job Searching
Data can reveal what matters most in today's job market, and this interactive webinar from CPD and Jeremy Schifeling, LinkedIn's former head of student and alumni education, will share behind-the-scenes insights that can help you optimize LinkedIn for both job hunting...
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Robert Simons
Robert Simons is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School. For over 35 years, Simons has taught accounting, management control, and strategy execution courses in both the Harvard MBA and Executive Education Programs. For 2023/24, he is... View Details
- February 2014 (Revised May 2014)
- Background Note
Flying High, Landing Low: Strengths and Challenges for U.S. Air Transportation
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Aditi Jain and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
The U.S. air transportation system flies high on some indicators, mostly involving capacity to take to the air, but lands low on others, mostly involving ground facilities and processes. This note provides an overview of the history and current state of air...
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Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, Aditi Jain, and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone. "Flying High, Landing Low: Strengths and Challenges for U.S. Air Transportation." Harvard Business School Background Note 314-098, February 2014. (Revised May 2014.)
- 12 Jan 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Modularity for Value Appropriation--How to Draw the Boundaries of Intellectual Property
Keywords:
by Carliss Y. Baldwin & Joachim Henkel
V.G. Narayanan
Professor Narayanan is the Thomas D. Casserly, Jr. Professor of Business Administration, and Senior Associate Dean of Executive Education and HBS Online. His research focuses on management accounting with an interest in performance evaluation and incentives. He uses... View Details
- Article
Are They Useful? The Effects of Performance Incentives on the Prioritization of Work Versus Personal Ties
By: Julia Hur, Alice Lee-Yoon and Ashley V. Whillans
Most working adults report spending very little time with friends and family. The current research explores the aspects of work that encourage employees to spend less time with personal ties. We show that incentive systems play a critical role in shaping how people...
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Keywords:
Rewards;
Performance Incentives;
Social Relationships;
Instrumentality;
Time Allocation;
Performance;
Motivation and Incentives;
Relationships;
Time Management
Hur, Julia, Alice Lee-Yoon, and Ashley V. Whillans. "Are They Useful? The Effects of Performance Incentives on the Prioritization of Work Versus Personal Ties." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 165 (July 2021): 103–114. (Shared Authorship.)
- 26 Mar 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Humans Outshine AI in Adapting to Change
that required increasingly more flexible self-orienting. Like a simplified version of a four-player scenario of the classic video game Mario Kart, each game included four “possible selves,” which were indicated by red squares. Yet, only one avatar (also known as the...
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- 2014
- Other Teaching and Training Material
Marketing Reading: Segmentation and Targeting
By: Sunil Gupta
This Reading introduces two of the integral parts of any marketing strategy: segmentation and targeting. It covers, first, all of the methods, techniques, and variables with which a business first uncovers the full range of its potential customers and then...
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Keywords:
Behavioral Segmentation;
Conjoint Analysis;
Demographic Segmentation;
Geographic Segmentation;
Market Opportunities;
Market Segmentation;
Marketing;
Marketing Strategy;
Psychographic Segmentation;
Unethical Marketing Practices;
United States
Gupta, Sunil. "Marketing Reading: Segmentation and Targeting." Core Curriculum Readings Series. Boston: Harvard Business Publishing 8219, 2014.
- December 1992 (Revised March 1997)
- Case
Peoria Engine Plant (A)
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Amy P. Hutton
Describes the cost control system used at an automobile engine plant for labor and overhead costs. The finance staff prepares daily, weekly, and monthly variance reports against budgets. Department supervisors, finance staff, and the plant manager discuss the use and...
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Keywords:
Cost Management;
Cost Accounting;
Budgets and Budgeting;
Earnings Management;
Reports;
Financial Reporting;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Performance Improvement;
Performance Productivity;
Factories, Labs, and Plants;
Auto Industry
Kaplan, Robert S., and Amy P. Hutton. "Peoria Engine Plant (A)." Harvard Business School Case 193-082, December 1992. (Revised March 1997.)
- 20 Dec 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
The Demise of Cost and Profit Centers
Keywords:
by Robert S. Kaplan
- 03 Apr 2014
- HBS Seminar
Michael Kremer, Harvard University
- 2012
- Article
Journalists and the Stock Market
By: Christopher Parsons, C. Dougal, J. Engelberg and D. Garcia
We use exogenous scheduling of Wall Street Journal columnists to identify a causal relation between financial reporting and stock market performance. To measure the media's unconditional effect, we add columnist fixed effects to a daily regression of excess Dow Jones...
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Parsons, Christopher, C. Dougal, J. Engelberg, and D. Garcia. "Journalists and the Stock Market." Review of Financial Studies 25, no. 3 (March 2012): 639–679.