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- October 26, 2023
- Article
How to Connect Employees to Your Company’s Purpose
By: Hubert Joly
We know making a noble corporate purpose — that is, one aimed at doing something good in the world — come to life is both important and hard. Emerging practices from leading companies show that the journey is not about top-down messaging. If anything, it’s about...
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Joly, Hubert. "How to Connect Employees to Your Company’s Purpose." Harvard Business Review (website) (October 26, 2023).
- July 2017
- Case
A Green Forest Grows in Brooklyn: Joint Venturing with the Chinese
By: Charles F. Wu
MaryAnne Gilmartin, President and CEO of Forest City Ratner (“Forest City”) was planning for yet another protracted discussion over the merits of a green roof for part of her $5 billion dollar new development in Brooklyn. While the low seven-figure cost overrun was to...
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Keywords:
Real Estate Development;
Real Estate;
EB-5;
Sustainability;
Promote;
Waterfall;
Joint Ventures;
Environmental Sustainability;
Relationships;
Real Estate Industry;
China
Wu, Charles F. "A Green Forest Grows in Brooklyn: Joint Venturing with the Chinese." Harvard Business School Case 218-010, July 2017.
- September 1999 (Revised September 2005)
- Case
Strategic Deal Making at Millennium Pharmaceuticals
A small start-up in 1993, Millennium Pharmaceuticals was a name-brand biotechnology company by the end of 1998, with a market capitalization of $1.4 billion. The Cambridge-based company's growth strategy had relied heavily on building alliances for early-stage drug...
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Keywords:
Alliances;
Negotiation Deal;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Cambridge
Watkins, Michael D., and Sarah Matthews. "Strategic Deal Making at Millennium Pharmaceuticals." Harvard Business School Case 800-032, September 1999. (Revised September 2005.)
- June 1990 (Revised July 1990)
- Case
Minneapolis Plastic Packaging Ban (B)
By: George C. Lodge and Jeffrey F. Rayport
Lodge, George C., and Jeffrey F. Rayport. "Minneapolis Plastic Packaging Ban (B)." Harvard Business School Case 390-222, June 1990. (Revised July 1990.)
- 2022
- Working Paper
Multinationals and Varieties of Capitalism: When U.S. Giants Stepped into the Swiss Coordinated Labor Market in the 1950s
By: Sabine Pitteloud
This working paper investigates unintended consequences of U.S. FDI in Switzerland in the 1950s-1960s: the increased competition that U.S. firms generated within the national labor market and the challenge their hiring practices constituted for the institutional...
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Keywords:
Multinationals;
Capitalism;
Business & Government Relations;
Foreign Direct Investment;
Immigration Policy;
History;
Switzerland;
Americanization;
R&D;
Labor History;
Labor Market Institutions;
Tax Havens;
"USA,";
Business Interest Association;
Lobbying;
Labor and Management Relations;
Business History;
Multinational Firms and Management
Pitteloud, Sabine. "Multinationals and Varieties of Capitalism: When U.S. Giants Stepped into the Swiss Coordinated Labor Market in the 1950s." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-075, June 2022.
- September 2020
- Case
&pizza: Leading an ‘Employee-First’ Company During a Period of Societal Challenges
By: Francesca Gino and Jeffrey Huizinga
&Pizza is a pizza chain that in the spring of 2020 finds its business completely up-ended by the COVID-19 crisis and shut-down. Many companies in the restaurant and hospitality sector responded to the crisis by shutting down their operations and laying off employees....
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Keywords:
Agility;
Crisis;
Culture;
Values;
COVID-19 Pandemic;
Crisis Management;
Leadership;
Organizational Culture;
Values and Beliefs;
Employee Relationship Management
Gino, Francesca, and Jeffrey Huizinga. "&pizza: Leading an ‘Employee-First’ Company During a Period of Societal Challenges." Harvard Business School Case 921-017, September 2020.
- 24 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 24, 2007
personal example of these synergistic relationships and discusses boundary issues associated with these faculty/firm collaborations. Executive education in general, and custom programs in particular, may be...
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Sean Silverthorne
- September 2018
- Case
Sealed Air Corporation: Deciding the Fate of VTID (Abridged)
By: Elie Ofek
In mid-2010 the Sealed Air Corporation has to decide on next steps for its novel video tracking technology (called VTID) after unsuccessful attempts to market it in three different industry settings. The company must determine whether its most recent target market, the...
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Keywords:
Budgets and Budgeting;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Technological Innovation;
Marketing Strategy;
Problems and Challenges;
Commercialization;
Service Industry
Ofek, Elie. "Sealed Air Corporation: Deciding the Fate of VTID (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 519-030, September 2018.
- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
asymmetries inherent in the company-customer relationship and positions the economic, legal, and ethical responsibilities of companies to their customers as ways of addressing these asymmetries. Purchase...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 13, 2016
misbehavior, yet failed to notice it. To explain such inaction, management scholars have been developing the area of behavioral ethics and the more specific topic of bounded ethicality—the systematic and predictable ways in which even...
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- 02 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories 2007
psychologically painful as it is, is the first step to awareness of new opportunities in career and in life, says Harvard Business School's Timothy Butler. In this Q&A and excerpt from his new book, Getting Unstuck, he explains six steps for getting from here to...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future
and are in much closer contact with them. "Very often it's even the manager himself who's a large shareholder," Farre-Mensa says. Second, even external investors in private firms tend to have a much closer View Details
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by Maggie Starvish
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=kupor%20tormala%20norton%20rucker.pdf Working Papers An Empirical Study of the Spillover Effects of Workload on Patient Length of Stay By: Berry Jaeker, Jillian, and Anita Tucker Abstract—We use two years of inpatient...
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Anna Secino
- January–February 2021
- Article
How to Help (Without Micromanaging)
By: Colin M. Fisher, Teresa M. Amabile and Julianna Pillemer
Extensive research shows that when employees get hands-on managerial support, they perform better than when they’re left to their own devices, but unnecessary or unwanted help can be demoralizing and counterproductive. So how do you intervene constructively? The...
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Fisher, Colin M., Teresa M. Amabile, and Julianna Pillemer. "How to Help (Without Micromanaging)." Harvard Business Review 99, no. 1 (January–February 2021): 123–127.
- Article
A Three-Step Plan for CFOs: How to Help Your Audit Committee Work More Effectively
By: Robert C. Pozen
Pozen, Robert C. "A Three-Step Plan for CFOs: How to Help Your Audit Committee Work More Effectively." CFO 27, no. 3 (April 2011).
- 5 Aug 2005 - 10 Aug 2005
- Conference Presentation
The effects of culture and network density on trust in Chinese vs American managerial networks
By: Roy Y.J. Chua, M. W. Morris and P. Ingram
- 2007
- Chapter
Expanding Ethical Standards of HRM: Necessary Evils and the Multiple Dimensions of Impact
By: Joshua D. Margolis, Adam M. Grant and Andrew Molinsky
Margolis, Joshua D., Adam M. Grant, and Andrew Molinsky. "Expanding Ethical Standards of HRM: Necessary Evils and the Multiple Dimensions of Impact." Chap. 16 in Human Resource Management: Ethics and Employment, edited by Ashly Pinnington, Rob Macklin, and Tom Campbell, 15 pages. Oxford University Press, 2007.
- July 1979
- Case
Coal Strike of 1977-78 (B)
By: D. Quinn Mills and Richard O. von Werssowetz
Mills, D. Quinn, and Richard O. von Werssowetz. "Coal Strike of 1977-78 (B)." Harvard Business School Case 679-132, July 1979.
- July 1979 (Revised December 1981)
- Case
Coal Strike of 1977-78 (A)
By: D. Quinn Mills and Richard O. von Werssowetz
Mills, D. Quinn, and Richard O. von Werssowetz. "Coal Strike of 1977-78 (A)." Harvard Business School Case 679-131, July 1979. (Revised December 1981.)
- 26 Sep 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Negotiation
Key concepts include: Compared to managers in other businesses, managers running a family business are faced with additional complexity in negotiations because of personal View Details