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- 2008
- Book
Managing Up
By: Linda A. Hill
Managing up is not political game playing. Rather, it's a conscious approach to working with your supervisor toward goals that are important to both of you. Through managing up, you build a productive working relationship with your boss and create a way to use the...
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Hill, Linda A. Managing Up. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Press, 2008. (Mentor.)
- February 2003
- Background Note
Leading Teams
This note which describes the architecture and processes that characterize effective teams, begins by detailing the steps involved in designing a team, from diagnosing the complexity, interdependence, and objectives of the task to harnessing the key resources teams...
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Keywords:
Communication;
Decision Making;
Leadership;
Managerial Roles;
Performance Effectiveness;
Groups and Teams
Polzer, Jeffrey T. "Leading Teams." Harvard Business School Background Note 403-094, February 2003.
- August 2009
- Exercise
Managing Your Own Human Capital: Executive Interview Exercise (2009)
By: Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
This note contains instructions for an exercise in which students interview C-level executives on how they have managed their careers.
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Keywords:
Managerial Roles;
Personal Development and Career;
Strategic Planning;
Personal Characteristics
Groysberg, Boris, and Robin Abrahams. "Managing Your Own Human Capital: Executive Interview Exercise (2009)." Harvard Business School Exercise 410-047, August 2009.
- May 1985
- Supplement
Milford Industries (A1)
By: Robert J. Dolan
Presents the salesforce performance data of the Milford (A) case in a format suitable for spreadsheet analysis using a personal computer.
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Keywords:
Managerial Roles;
Salesforce Management;
Resignation and Termination;
Performance Evaluation
Dolan, Robert J. "Milford Industries (A1)." Harvard Business School Supplement 585-138, May 1985.
- June 2006 (Revised January 2012)
- Case
Teena Lerner: Dividing the Pie at Rx Capital (A)
By: Boris Groysberg, Victoria Winston and Robin Abrahams
Teena Lerner started her own hedge fund firm in 2001 after nearly 20 years as a star biotechnology analyst and hedge fund manager. After the start-up phase, her firm became highly profitable. In 2004, however, one of her four analysts lost a lot of money for the firm....
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Keywords:
Managerial Roles;
Investment Funds;
Performance;
Business Startups;
Compensation and Benefits;
Corporate Finance;
Financial Services Industry
Groysberg, Boris, Victoria Winston, and Robin Abrahams. "Teena Lerner: Dividing the Pie at Rx Capital (A)." Harvard Business School Case 406-088, June 2006. (Revised January 2012.)
- January 2004 (Revised July 2007)
- Case
Lumen and Absorb Teams at Crutchfield Chemical Engineering, The
By: Teresa M. Amabile and Elizabeth Schatzel
Large discrepancies have developed between two elite technology development teams at Crutchfield Chemical Engineering in terms of motivation and creativity. To investigate, Paul Burke, director of corporate technology development, commissioned a study of the day-by-day...
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Keywords:
Leadership;
Managerial Roles;
Projects;
Groups and Teams;
Behavior;
Creativity;
Motivation and Incentives
Amabile, Teresa M., and Elizabeth Schatzel. "Lumen and Absorb Teams at Crutchfield Chemical Engineering, The." Harvard Business School Case 804-118, January 2004. (Revised July 2007.)
- August 2000
- Case
Belmont Industries, Inc. (C)
By: Joseph L. Bower
Supplements the (A) case. A rewritten version of an earlier supplement.
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Keywords:
Wages;
Managerial Roles;
Management Practices and Processes;
Performance;
Goals and Objectives;
Labor and Management Relations
Bower, Joseph L. "Belmont Industries, Inc. (C)." Harvard Business School Case 301-018, August 2000.
- Person Page
Course Development
By: Debora L. Spar
Managing International Trade and Investment
Despite the ease with which it is often conducted, doing business across borders is not the same as doing it at home. Rather, it entails a whole new set of managerial challenges: re-assessing competitive... View Details
- February 1980 (Revised June 1984)
- Case
Quaker Steel and Alloy Corp.
By: John J. Gabarro
Lower middle-level manager is faced with the need to bring about a change in the call patterns of the sales force selling her product. Based on an earlier case by P.R. Lawrence.
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Gabarro, John J. "Quaker Steel and Alloy Corp." Harvard Business School Case 480-063, February 1980. (Revised June 1984.)
- June 2006
- Exercise
Matthew A. Hunter
By: John A. Davis and Deepak Malhotra
Matthew Hunter, CEO of a second-generation family business, must manage the performance of a key manager in his company. Looks at the impact of family relationships on performance management.
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Keywords:
Family and Family Relationships;
Conflict Management;
Negotiation;
Family Business;
Performance;
Managerial Roles
Davis, John A., and Deepak Malhotra. "Matthew A. Hunter." Harvard Business School Exercise 806-203, June 2006.
- October 1993
- Case
United Way of America: Governance in the Nonprofit Sector (A), The United Way
By: Jay W. Lorsch
Discusses the management practices of William Aramony at the United Way of America (UWA). First, the case describes the United Way movement, focusing on both the local chapters and the national organization. Second, it sets forth the Washington Post reports that lead...
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Keywords:
Corporate Governance;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Management Practices and Processes;
Managerial Roles;
Management Teams;
Crisis Management;
Public Administration Industry;
United States
Lorsch, Jay W. "United Way of America: Governance in the Nonprofit Sector (A), The United Way." Harvard Business School Case 494-032, October 1993.
- March 1974 (Revised June 1996)
- Case
First National City Bank Operating Group (A)
By: Jay W. Lorsch
Growth in the banking field has produced new demands on the "back office." Traditional management practices in check processing and paper handling operations have resulted in ten years of cost increases and quality loss. New manager of the operating group faces an...
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Keywords:
Change Management;
Transition;
Banks and Banking;
Management Practices and Processes;
Managerial Roles;
Production;
Banking Industry
Lorsch, Jay W. "First National City Bank Operating Group (A)." Harvard Business School Case 474-165, March 1974. (Revised June 1996.)
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Faculty Research Online
HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’ CEOs of global companies increasingly mandate that their employees learn English. The problem: these workers can experience a loss of status and believe they aren’t as effective in their learned language, says...
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- October 2007 (Revised February 2008)
- Case
The Coca-Cola Company (A): The Rise and Fall of M. Douglas Ivester (Abridged)
By: Michael D. Watkins, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Cate Reavis
This is a shortened version of "The Coca-Cola Company (A): The Rise and Fall of M. Douglas Ivester," HBS case #9-800-355. It eliminates some background detail and the financial data and exhibits. As with the original case, it chronicles the appointment of Douglas...
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Keywords:
Resignation and Termination;
Selection and Staffing;
Managerial Roles;
Food and Beverage Industry
Watkins, Michael D., Carin-Isabel Knoop, and Cate Reavis. "The Coca-Cola Company (A): The Rise and Fall of M. Douglas Ivester (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 808-074, October 2007. (Revised February 2008.)
- April 1999 (Revised May 1999)
- Teaching Note
Innovation and the General Manager: Managing Innovation: Introductory Teaching Note for Instructors
By: Clayton M. Christensen
Provides instructors with an overview of the entire Managing Innovation course. It lists the cases that are recommended to be taught in each class session and summarizes the key concepts students should learn in each of the course's five modules.
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- 2010
- Working Paper
Does Product Market Competition Lead Firms To Decentralize?
By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
There is a widespread sense that over the last two decades firms have been decentralizing decisions to employees further down the managerial hierarchy. Economists have developed a range of theories to account for delegation, but there is less empirical evidence,...
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Keywords:
Decision Making;
Employees;
Managerial Roles;
Organizational Structure;
Competitive Strategy;
Asia;
Europe;
North America
Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "Does Product Market Competition Lead Firms To Decentralize?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-052, January 2010. (forthcoming in: American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings.)
- July 1993 (Revised June 1994)
- Case
Phil Knight Managing NIKE's Transformation
By: Hugo Uyterhoeven
Describes Nike's responses to market and competitive challenges as well as its attempts at an organizational transformation from unstructured entrepreneurial management to more formalized, professional management. Focuses on Phil Knight's leadership role.
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Leadership;
Managerial Roles;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Problems and Challenges;
Competition
Uyterhoeven, Hugo. "Phil Knight Managing NIKE's Transformation." Harvard Business School Case 394-012, July 1993. (Revised June 1994.)
- September 2002 (Revised April 2006)
- Case
Istituto Clinico Humanitas (A)
By: Richard M.J. Bohmer, Gary P. Pisano and Ning Tang
Istituto Clinico Humanitas is a newly built private hospital, south of Milan, Italy, that has attained unusual profitability while treating public system patients. The hospital was built and is managed by Techosp, a subsidiary of Techint, a global engineering and...
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Keywords:
Health Care and Treatment;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Management Systems;
Infrastructure;
Managerial Roles;
Integration;
Performance;
Health Industry;
Milan
Bohmer, Richard M.J., Gary P. Pisano, and Ning Tang. "Istituto Clinico Humanitas (A)." Harvard Business School Case 603-063, September 2002. (Revised April 2006.)
- October 2001 (Revised May 2010)
- Case
Sarnia Corporation
By: Thomas R. Piper
A division manager must explain why his division failed to meet its budgeted profit performance as well as meet with members of his management team to discuss corrective action.
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Keywords:
Budgets and Budgeting;
Business Divisions;
Profit;
Management Teams;
Managerial Roles;
Failure;
Performance;
Strategy
Piper, Thomas R. "Sarnia Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 202-051, October 2001. (Revised May 2010.)