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- 2009
- Working Paper
Authority versus Persuasion
This paper studies a principal's trade-off between using persuasion versus using interpersonal authority to get the agent to "do the right thing"; from the principal's perspective (when the principal and agent openly disagree on the right course of action). It shows...
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Keywords:
Employee Relationship Management;
Managerial Roles;
Projects;
Motivation and Incentives;
Power and Influence
Van den Steen, Eric J. "Authority versus Persuasion." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-085, January 2009.
- February 2007
- Case
South African Airways (A)
By: Joshua D. Margolis, Laura Morgan Roberts and Laura Winig
Amid efforts to engineer a turnaround at South African Airways (SAA), the CEO confronts an impending strike at the struggling company. How should the company address questions of distributive and procedural justice in post-Apartheid South Africa, and how should the CEO...
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Keywords:
Fairness;
Crisis Management;
Employees;
Employment;
Growth and Development;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Air Transportation Industry;
South Africa
Margolis, Joshua D., Laura Morgan Roberts, and Laura Winig. "South African Airways (A)." Harvard Business School Case 407-014, February 2007.
- November 2006 (Revised July 2007)
- Case
CNN and the Cable News Wars
Set in 1996, when ABC, NBC and Microsoft, and Fox all announced that they will challenge Cable News Network's near monopoly position in the 24-hour cable news channel market. The focus is on the interaction of the strategies likely to be adopted by each player given...
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Keywords:
Leadership;
Resource Allocation;
Monopoly;
Rank and Position;
Reputation;
Adoption;
Competition
- September 2005
- Case
IBM Network Technology (A) (Abridged)
An unconventional manager within IBM leads the creation of a business unit with multibillion-dollar potential, winning over customers and nudging the organization to make the changes needed to achieve dramatic growth. Exemplifies how organizational design and...
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- February 2003 (Revised June 2006)
- Case
Implementing the Nissan Renewal Plan
By: Michael Y. Yoshino and Masako Egawa
Carlos Ghosn, a former executive vice-president of Renault, became the COO of Nissan Motor Co., a troubled auto company in Japan when Renault bought 38% of the company in 1999. This case deals with how Ghosn turned the company around. Examines in considerable detail...
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Keywords:
Acquisition;
Change Management;
Employees;
Leading Change;
Strategic Planning;
Motivation and Incentives;
Auto Industry;
Japan
Yoshino, Michael Y., and Masako Egawa. "Implementing the Nissan Renewal Plan." Harvard Business School Case 303-111, February 2003. (Revised June 2006.)
- January 1990 (Revised February 1990)
- Teaching Note
Sedalia Revisited, Teaching Note
By: Roy D. Shapiro
Teaching Note for (9-687-004).
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Keywords:
Factories, Labs, and Plants;
Design;
Quality;
System;
Employees;
Framework;
Competition;
Production;
Strategy
- 1986
- Chapter
Investing in the Defense Workforce: The Debt and Structure of Military Pensions
By: Dutch Leonard
Keywords:
Human Capital;
Compensation and Benefits;
Borrowing and Debt;
Sovereign Finance;
National Security
Leonard, Dutch. "Investing in the Defense Workforce: The Debt and Structure of Military Pensions." In Public Sector Payrolls, edited by David A. Wise. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.
- October, 2023
- Article
Cleaning Up the Great Lakes: Housing Market Impacts of Removing Legacy Pollutants
By: Alecia Cassidy, Robyn C. Meeks and Michale R. Moore
The Great Lakes and their tributaries make up the largest freshwater system on the planet, providing drinking water and recreational value to millions of people. Yet manufacturing plants left a legacy of toxic pollutants in the region, tarnishing it as part of the...
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Keywords:
Valuation Of Environmental Effects;
Housing Demand;
Water Pollution;
Water Quality;
Infrastructure;
Pollution;
Consumer Behavior
Cassidy, Alecia, Robyn C. Meeks, and Michale R. Moore. "Cleaning Up the Great Lakes: Housing Market Impacts of Removing Legacy Pollutants." Journal of Public Economics 226 (October, 2023).
- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
performance. That initially led managers inside both companies to resist devoting scarce resources to developing those technologies because their lead customers were saying they wanted additional performance features, not fewer. But...
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- 03 May 2016
- Blog Post
Working With Organizations That Recruit at HBS: An Interview with Renee Pappastratis
strategies. HBS has many great resources to guide employers on how to connect with students and alumni: Career Hub, student clubs and resume databases. All of these tools provide direct connections between the organizations and students....
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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
An Exceptional Faculty of Scholars and Teachers
extensive methodological, technical, and case-writing support as well as the unparalleled collections of Baker Library. These resources help accelerate the creation, refinement, and dissemination of knowledge that influences management...
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- Career Coach
Grace Jemison
Grace has been interested in work that is outside of the common HBS realm (of consulting and finance), and understands that it’s sometimes difficult to find resources or understand how to navigate an internship search for an early-stage...
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The Learning Effects of Monitoring
By: Dennis Campbell, Marc Epstein and F. Asis Martinez-Jerez
This paper investigates the relationship between monitoring, decision making, and learning among lower-level employees. We exploit a field-research setting in which business units vary in the "tightness" with which they monitor employee decisions. We find that tighter...
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Keywords:
Learning;
Business or Company Management;
Decision Making;
Employees;
Research;
Resignation and Termination;
Rights;
Business Units;
Governance Controls;
Performance;
Motivation and Incentives
Campbell, Dennis, Marc Epstein, and F. Asis Martinez-Jerez. "The Learning Effects of Monitoring." Accounting Review 86, no. 6 (November 2011): 1909–1934.
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
community resource because it nourished the livestock that provided a foundation for the local agricultural economy. If the commons fell into disrepair—either through overuse or neglect—everyone suffered. Although taking care of the...
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- 29 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
Being a Mom and a Founder at HBS
focus on while pursuing my MBA. I now know from personal experience how similar being a mother and an entrepreneur can be. It Takes a Village – Resources for Moms at HBS Managing a household with kids, having a spouse that works...
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- Fast Answer
Turnarounds and Transformation
Resources for identifying companies in distress and analyzing their situations Examples & articles identified using Baker resources on specific turnarounds Restauraunt Brands International 2Q23 Take......
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- Profile
Margarita de la Piedra Carrillo
which is what I'll experience in my career. I think the so-called "softer" courses in management and human resources are very important. Talking to alumni, they say a big percentage of their time is spent dealing with people...
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- Web
Introduction - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
The Competition McKim, Mead & White The Campus Emerges Concrete Symbols The Dedication Building the Campus Research Links Bibliography Archival Collections Digital Resources Site Credits Introduction “It seems to be an Aladdin-like...
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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Students Ready to Make an Impact
highlights the wide-ranging interests and impact of the School’s entrepreneurially minded MBA students. A conversation with two faculty members provides an overview of the many resources available to students at HBS, and three stories...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Business Environment in the 21st century
interdependency. It’s conceivable that at HBS, maybe in cooperation with the Kennedy School, the Medical School, or the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, that we can begin to understand those problems better and do some things here at Harvard that nobody else...
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