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- 01 Jul 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
File-Sharing and Copyright
- October 1999
- Case
CIBC Corporate and Investment Banking (B): 1992-1997
By: Joseph L. Bower and Michael Raynor
From 1992 to 1997, CIBC CEO Al Flood and head of investment banking John Hunkin integrate the struggling investment bank, Wood Gundy, with CIBC's corporate bank. The impact and interaction of organization design, compensation schemes, and communication initiatives are...
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Keywords:
Investment Banking;
Banks and Banking;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Organizational Design;
Business Plan;
Communication;
Banking Industry
Bower, Joseph L., and Michael Raynor. "CIBC Corporate and Investment Banking (B): 1992-1997." Harvard Business School Case 300-042, October 1999.
- 05 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building Bridges Between Education and Business
they are truly willing to participate in the process. Channels Of Communication Miguel Ochoa, of Instituto Panamericana de Alta Direccion de Empresa (IMPADE) in Mexico, said there is plenty that academics View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- December 2012
- Case
Chobani: Growing a Live and Active Culture
By: Joshua D. Margolis and Matthew Preble
Hamdi Ulukaya, CEO of the Greek yogurt company Chobani, Inc., was reflecting on what explained his young company's meteoric rise. The company held over half of the U.S. Greek yogurt market, and nearly 20% of the total yogurt market. The company's innovative approach to...
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- Article
Collection, Exploration and Analysis of Crowdfunding Social Networks
By: Miao Cheng, Anand Sriramulu, Sudarshan Muralidhar, Boon Thau Loo, Laura Huang and Po-Ling Loh
Crowdfunding is a recent financing phenomenon that is gaining wide popularity as a means for startups to raise seed funding for their companies. This paper presents our initial results at understanding this phenomenon using an exploratory data driven approach. We have...
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Cheng, Miao, Anand Sriramulu, Sudarshan Muralidhar, Boon Thau Loo, Laura Huang, and Po-Ling Loh. "Collection, Exploration and Analysis of Crowdfunding Social Networks." Proceedings of the International Workshop on Exploratory Search in Databases and the Web 3rd (2016): 25–30.
- 15 Oct 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Vote Choice Formation and the Minimal Effects of TV Debates: Evidence from 61 Elections in 9 OECD Countries
- November – December 1998
- Article
Clusters and the New Economics of Competition
This article explains how clusters foster high levels of productivity and innovation and lays out the implications for competitive strategy and economic policy. Economic geography in an era of global competition poses a paradox. In theory, location should no longer be...
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Porter, Michael E. "Clusters and the New Economics of Competition." Harvard Business Review 76, no. 6 (November–December 1998): 77–90.
- 2012
- Article
Open Innovation and Organization Design
By: Michael Tushman, Karim Lakhani and Hila Lifshitz - Assaf
This paper calls the organization design community to reconcile the divergent scholarly perspectives on the relationship between firm boundaries and the locus of innovation by moving beyond debates between open vs. closed boundaries and instead embracing the notion of...
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Keywords:
Organization Design;
Open Innovation;
Innovation;
Locus Of Innovation;
Organizational Boundaries;
Organizational Design;
Organizational Structure;
Innovation and Invention;
Alliances;
Vertical Integration;
Boundaries
Tushman, Michael, Karim Lakhani, and Hila Lifshitz - Assaf. "Open Innovation and Organization Design." Special Issue on The Future of Organization Design. Journal of Organization Design 1, no. 1 (2012): 24–27. (SSRN's top ten download list for: Organizational Structural Designs, Innovation & Product Development.)
- March 2016
- Case
Evive Health and Workplace Influenza Vaccinations
By: John Beshears
Evive Health is a company that manages communication campaigns on behalf of health insurance plans and large employers. Using big data techniques and insights from behavioral economics, Evive deploys targeted and effective messages that improve individuals' health...
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Keywords:
Vaccination;
Influenza;
Flu Shot;
Preventive Care;
Health Care;
Behavioral Economics;
Choice Architecture;
Nudge;
Experimental Design;
Randomized Controlled Trial;
RCT;
Causal Inference;
Consumer Behavior;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Testing and Trials;
Communication Strategy;
Health Industry
Beshears, John. "Evive Health and Workplace Influenza Vaccinations." Harvard Business School Case 916-044, March 2016.
- 2009
- Working Paper
Informed and Interconnected: A Manifesto for Smarter Cities
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Stanley S. Litow
The need for a fresh approach to U.S. communities is more urgent than ever because of the biggest global economic crisis since the Great Depression. Through examination of the barriers to solving urban problems (and the ways they reinforce each other), this paper...
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Keywords:
Transformation;
Investment;
Urban Scope;
Leadership;
Safety;
Civil Society or Community;
Technology Networks;
United States
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Stanley S. Litow. "Informed and Interconnected: A Manifesto for Smarter Cities." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-141, June 2009.
- Research Summary
Advancing Leadership: Research and Teaching
By: Nitin Nohria
Despite the fact that most business schools' mission statement proclaim their commitment to developing leaders who can contribute in a meaningful way to the betterment of their organizations and society, research and teaching on leadership remains a fragmented and...
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- 14 Apr 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Facts and Figuring: An Experimental Investigation of Network Structure and Performance in Information and Solution Spaces
- 2023
- Working Paper
Location-Specificity and Geographic Competition for Remote Workers
By: Thomaz Teodorovicz, Prithwiraj Choudhury and Evan Starr
The precipitous growth of remote work has given rise to a new phenomenon: geographic competition between localities for the physical presence of remote workers. Remote workers with high general human capital may create value for their new destinations and reverse net...
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Keywords:
Remote Work;
Human Capital;
Geographic Location;
Civil Society or Community;
Motivation and Incentives
Teodorovicz, Thomaz, Prithwiraj Choudhury, and Evan Starr. "Location-Specificity and Geographic Competition for Remote Workers." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-071, May 2023.
- 2007
- Text Book
Business Analysis and Valuation: Using Financial Statements
By: Paul M. Healy and Krishna G. Palepu
Financial statements are the basis for a wide range of business analysis. Managers, securities analysts, bankers, and consultants all use them to make business decisions. There is strong demand among business students for course materials that provide a framework for...
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Healy, Paul M., and Krishna G. Palepu. Business Analysis and Valuation: Using Financial Statements. 4th ed. Mason, OH: Thomson South-Western, 2007.
- June 2018
- Article
Personal and Social Usage: The Origins of Active Customers and Ways to Keep Them Engaged
By: Clarence Lee, Elie Ofek and Thomas Steenburgh
We study how digital service firms can develop an active customer base, focusing on two questions. First, how does the way that customers use the service postadoption to meet their own needs (personal usage) and to interact with one another (social usage) vary across...
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Keywords:
Customer Engagement;
Adoption Routes;
Word-of-Mouth;
Digital Marketing;
Bayesian Estimation;
Customers;
Communication;
Consumer Behavior;
Marketing;
Internet and the Web;
Analytics and Data Science
Lee, Clarence, Elie Ofek, and Thomas Steenburgh. "Personal and Social Usage: The Origins of Active Customers and Ways to Keep Them Engaged." Management Science 64, no. 6 (June 2018): 2473–2495. (Lead Article.)
- 23 Jul 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Informed and Interconnected: A Manifesto for Smarter Cities
- September 1996 (Revised April 1998)
- Case
Mobil USM&R (B): New England Sales and Distribution
By: Robert S. Kaplan
The general manager of a local gasoline/distillate sales and distribution business unit must communicate a new strategy to the unit's 300 employees. An initial strategic planning exercise identified a high-priority list of opportunities that blended the parent...
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Keywords:
Balanced Scorecard;
Adoption;
Strategic Planning;
Customization and Personalization;
Management Practices and Processes;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Measurement and Metrics;
Motivation and Incentives;
Performance Evaluation;
Energy Industry;
Mining Industry;
United States
Kaplan, Robert S. "Mobil USM&R (B): New England Sales and Distribution." Harvard Business School Case 197-026, September 1996. (Revised April 1998.)
- August 2024
- Case
Oculii
By: Andy Wu and Lucas Defilippo
It was a bright June day in 2016. Steven Hong, co-founder and COO of Oculii had just signed a letter of intent agreeing to a 51% stake acquisition by Nexteer Automotive, a global steering and driveline supplier company that developed advanced driver assistance systems...
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- February 2023 (Revised March 2023)
- Case
Twitter Turnaround and Elon Musk
By: Andy Wu and Goran Calic
Late afternoon on Friday, October 27th, 2022, Elon Musk was the center of attention at Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters. The night before, Musk officially took the company private and became Twitter’s majority shareholder, finally ending a months-long acquisition...
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Keywords:
Elon Musk;
Twitter;
Acquisition;
Revenue;
Advertising;
Social Media;
Business or Company Management;
Public Opinion;
Job Cuts and Outsourcing
Wu, Andy, and Goran Calic. "Twitter Turnaround and Elon Musk." Harvard Business School Case 723-418, February 2023. (Revised March 2023.)
- February 10, 2015
- Article
Nonprice incentives and Energy Conservation
By: Omar Isaac Asensio and Magali A Delmas
We investigate the effectiveness of nonprice incentives to motivate conservation behavior. We test whether tailored information about environmental and health damages produces behavior change in the residential electricity sector. In a randomized controlled trial with...
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Keywords:
Motivation and Incentives;
Energy Conservation;
Environmental Sustainability;
Pollutants;
Health Disorders;
Knowledge Dissemination;
Behavior
Asensio, Omar Isaac, and Magali A Delmas. "Nonprice incentives and Energy Conservation." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112, no. 6 (February 10, 2015): E510–E515.