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Mine.--Flat sheet of 800 foot level, bottom of rock shaft (underground). Illustrations of Diamond Industry from “Mining the Ground” Mss: 375 1892 M627 1 album, 24 photographs This souvenir album illustrates the diamond mining operations of the De View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
ways it’s easier to do our collaborative work in Africa and Asia, because they insist upon building relationships. You’re not going to do business together until the third time you’ve gotten together for beer or for tea.” After college,...
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Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jun 2016
- What Do You Think?
When Business Performance Falters, is Culture Change the Fix?
Yet a third view is that the odds of success in achieving important change are enhanced by coordinated efforts to alter, as Michael Beer puts it, “the organization model” (including culture) and the “economic model” (actions producing...
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by James L. Heskett
- July 1995 (Revised April 1996)
- Supplement
Cambridge Technology Partners (B)
By: George P. Baker III, Teresa M. Amabile and Michael Beer
Supplements the (A) case.
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Technology Industry
Baker, George P., III, Teresa M. Amabile, and Michael Beer. "Cambridge Technology Partners (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 496-006, July 1995. (Revised April 1996.)
- July 1995 (Revised April 1996)
- Case
Cambridge Technology Partners (A)
By: Teresa M. Amabile, George P. Baker III and Michael Beer
Cambridge Technology Partners uses a highly innovative product strategy, supported by a human resources strategy, that has been very successful. However, high growth rates jeopardize product quality while tension about relative compensation levels between sales and...
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Growth Management;
Compensation and Benefits;
Organizational Culture;
Quality;
Human Resources;
Relationships;
Innovation and Invention;
Consulting Industry;
Massachusetts
Amabile, Teresa M., George P. Baker III, and Michael Beer. "Cambridge Technology Partners (A)." Harvard Business School Case 496-005, July 1995. (Revised April 1996.)
- 21 May 2019
- News
Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
with the company to better understand water conservation. MillerCoors is working to improve water conservation at the supplier level, as more than 90 percent of water used to produce beer is in the agriculture supply chain. The company is...
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Agriculture
- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
world's greatest economist, lover, and horseman—and admitted to failure only with the horses. Collaborative R&D in Management: The Practical Experience of Fenix and TruePoint in Bridging the Divide Between Scientific and Managerial Goals Authors:Michael View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals
Michael Beer and his coauthors at the Center for Higher Ambition Leadership, the executives underscored the importance of higher-ambition goals, including engaging with and developing employee and customer commitment, contributing to the...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
grandchildren." « Back New Brew Like many other HBS-trained entrepreneurs, Charles J. ("Jim") Koch (MBA '74, JD '78), founder and CEO of the Boston Beer Company, became a management consultant immediately after leaving Soldiers Field. In...
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- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
Company Authors:Michael Beer and Magnus Finnstrom Publication:Leadership in Action, November-December 2009 Abstract Traditional leadership development programs often fail to achieve the desired results because they don't focus on learning...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2022
- Op-Ed
Feeling Separation Anxiety at Your Startup? 5 Tips to Soothe These Growing Pains
employees to form personal relationships with founders outside of work. Late night beers or weekend family barbecues may have become routine. With a larger team, consider how these special out-of-work connections reflect on your...
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by Julia Austin
- 18 Sep 2008
- News
HBS Olympians
slalom in the 1952 Olympics in Oslo and in men’s slalom and giant slalom in the 1956 Olympics in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. More information here. David Hawkins (MBA 1958) swam the 200 meter breaststroke for the Australian team at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. More...
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- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
Higher-Ambition CEOs Need Higher-Ambition Boards By: Ludwig, Edward J., Anna Elise Walton, and Michael Beer Abstract—Over the past years, forward-looking CEOs have adopted a higher-ambition approach to strategy and leadership. These...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
Beers at the Millennium Harvard Business School Case 706-518 At the time of the millennium, diamond demand was threatened by an increasing awareness among jewelry customers that diamond production and trading in some countries was being...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
Compete: Why Honest Conversations about Your Company’s Capabilities Are the Key to a Winning Strategy When company leaders can't hear the voices of their workers, serious strategic mistakes are likely. Michael Beer discusses ways...
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by Staff
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
How Sports Should Use Its Timeout
when we get out of this, laying that groundwork for safety reasons today will pay dividends tomorrow in terms of fan engagement. This fluid fan wants to have that personalized experience in the venue. They want you to know what kind of View Details
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
Michael Beer and Lynda St. ClairHarvard Business School Case 913-521 A new Dallas-based health and beauty spa aims to use a highly distinctive human resource system as the foundation of its competitive strategy. By encouraging employees...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry
successful, but there are probably lots of great things that will have this kind of excitement and get a lot of traction. Would it be more effective to spend my money online rather than in another car or beer ad on television?...
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- 03 Jul 2024
- News
Surviving the Iditarod
start their race. The mood at the start line is usually very friendly and very casual to start with, because everybody has time to spare and there's a bar and there's beer and burgers and all the things, and you see old friends that you...
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- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
handed the business plan for Internet Wicket Ale Inc. (IWA), an interactive, on-line marketing company being formed to sell premium beers made by microbreweries over the Internet. According to the president of the company—a...
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by John S. Rosenberg