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Specialization and Success: Evidence from Venture Capital
By: Paul A. Gompers, Anna Kovner and Josh Lerner
This paper examines how organizational structure affects behavior and outcomes, studying the performance of different types of venture capital organizations. We find a strong positive relationship between the degree of specialization by individual venture capitalists...
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Keywords:
Experience and Expertise;
Venture Capital;
Organizational Structure;
Outcome or Result;
Performance Effectiveness;
Behavior;
Financial Services Industry
Gompers, Paul A., Anna Kovner, and Josh Lerner. "Specialization and Success: Evidence from Venture Capital." Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 18, no. 3 (Fall 2009): 817–844.
- July 2008
- Course Overview Note
The Devil Wears Prada (HBS Version) (TN)
By: Howard H. Stevenson and Shirley Spence
The Devil Wears Prada is used to facilitate a discussion of the role of communities in people's lives. It is used in a second year MBA elective at HBS called Building a Business in the Context of a Life (BBCL). BBCL is primarily designed for students who plan to be...
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- June 2008 (Revised October 2010)
- Case
Patient Flow at Brigham and Women's Hospital (A)
By: Anita L. Tucker and Jillian Alexandra Berry
Brigham and Women's Hospital challenged a team of physicians to improve patient flow from the Emergency Department to Intensive Care Units (ICUs). One of the team members, Selwyn Rogers, Director of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) at Brigham and Women's...
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Keywords:
Change Management;
Health Care and Treatment;
Service Operations;
Business Processes;
Performance Productivity;
Conflict and Resolution;
Health Industry;
Massachusetts
Tucker, Anita L., and Jillian Alexandra Berry. "Patient Flow at Brigham and Women's Hospital (A)." Harvard Business School Case 608-171, June 2008. (Revised October 2010.)
- August 2005
- Background Note
Note on International Tax Regimes
By: Mihir A. Desai, Mark Veblen and Kathleen Luchs
Provides a framework for understanding different types of international tax regimes. Examines how alternative tax regimes tax the foreign income of their citizens (including corporate citizens); how tax regimes define foreign and domestic income; and how foreign tax...
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Keywords:
Motivation and Incentives;
Earnings Management;
Nationality;
Framework;
Taxation;
Profit;
Globalization;
Credit;
United States
Desai, Mihir A., Mark Veblen, and Kathleen Luchs. "Note on International Tax Regimes." Harvard Business School Background Note 206-014, August 2005.
- 2008
- Working Paper
I Am Not on the Market, I Am Here with Friends: Using On-Line Social Networks to Find a Job or a Spouse
By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski
Sociologists have extensively documented that networks influence market exchange through improved matching and vouching. In this paper, I propose that networks can also blunt the signal of market participation, as actors who are on the market surrounded by their...
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- November 2000 (Revised November 2002)
- Case
Activity-Based Management at W.S. Industries (A)
By: V.G. Narayanan and Sanjay Pothen
W.S. Industries undertakes the design and implementation of an activity based costing (ABC) system, and the ABC information empowers workers to make process improvement decisions. Workers' incentive pay is tied to cost savings from process improvements.
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Keywords:
Activity Based Costing and Management;
Motivation and Incentives;
Performance Evaluation;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Knowledge Management;
Energy Industry;
India
Narayanan, V.G., and Sanjay Pothen. "Activity-Based Management at W.S. Industries (A)." Harvard Business School Case 101-062, November 2000. (Revised November 2002.)
- May 2000 (Revised December 2018)
- Case
SMA: Micro-Electronic Products Division (A)
By: Michael Beer and Michael Tushman
The Micro-Electronic Products Division of SMA has financial and organizational problems. Conflict and lack of coordination exist between functional groups. Employees do not have a sense of direction and morale is low. The cause of these problems is found in a change in...
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Keywords:
Change Management;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Structure;
Conflict and Resolution;
Business Strategy
Beer, Michael, and Michael Tushman. "SMA: Micro-Electronic Products Division (A)." Harvard Business School Case 400-084, May 2000. (Revised December 2018.)
- February 1997 (Revised July 2004)
- Case
Walden Woods
By: William J. Poorvu and Arthur I Segel
In 1984, Mortimer Zuckerman and Ed Linde, through their firm, Boston Properties (BP), acquired land in Concord, MA to build a 147,000-square-foot, first-class suburban office building. BP proceeded to go through the permitting and approval process with the town and was...
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Keywords:
Risk and Uncertainty;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Entrepreneurship;
Property;
Environmental Sustainability;
Conflict and Resolution;
Real Estate Industry;
Massachusetts
Poorvu, William J., and Arthur I Segel. "Walden Woods." Harvard Business School Case 897-070, February 1997. (Revised July 2004.)
- 2006
- Working Paper
Managing Functional Biases in Organizational Forecasts: A Case Study of Consensus Forecasting in Supply Chain Planning
To date, little research has been done on managing the organizational and political dimensions of generating and improving forecasts in corporate settings. We examine the implementation of a supply chain planning process at a consumer electronics company, concentrating...
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Keywords:
Prejudice and Bias;
Business or Company Management;
Supply Chain Management;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Planning;
Electronics Industry
Oliva, Rogelio, and Noel Watson. "Managing Functional Biases in Organizational Forecasts: A Case Study of Consensus Forecasting in Supply Chain Planning." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 07-024, October 2006. (Revised March 2007, January 2008.)
- 26 Mar 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Mitigating the Negative Effects of Customer Anxiety Through Access to Human Contact
- 2012
- Article
Specialization and Variety in Repetitive Tasks: Evidence from a Japanese Bank
By: B. Staats and F. Gino
Sustaining operational productivity in the completion of repetitive tasks is critical to many organizations' success. Yet research points to two different work-design-related strategies for accomplishing this goal: specialization to capture the benefits of repetition...
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Keywords:
Motivation;
Productivity;
Specialization;
Variety;
Work Fragmentation;
Boundaries;
Performance Productivity;
Organizations;
Research;
Strategy;
Motivation and Incentives;
Opportunities;
Market Transactions;
Resource Allocation;
Performance;
Goals and Objectives;
Learning
Staats, B., and F. Gino. "Specialization and Variety in Repetitive Tasks: Evidence from a Japanese Bank." Management Science 58, no. 6 (June 2012): 1141–1159.
- November 2009 (Revised July 2011)
- Case
International Lobbying and The Dow Chemical Company (A)
By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
This case explores company strategy, business-government relations, and collective action challenges associated with international and domestic lobbying regarding regulation of the chemical industry. In the fall of 2006, a five-year legislative process for a major new...
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Keywords:
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Government Legislation;
Business and Government Relations;
Power and Influence;
Competitive Advantage;
Corporate Strategy;
Chemical Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
Europe
Daemmrich, Arthur A. "International Lobbying and The Dow Chemical Company (A)." Harvard Business School Case 710-027, November 2009. (Revised July 2011.)
- fall 2010
- Article
Lawsuits and Empire: On the Enforcement of Sovereign Debt in Latin America
By: Faisal Z. Ahmed, Laura Alfaro and Noel Maurer
The re-occurring phenomenon of sovereign default has prompted an enormous theoretical and empirical literature. Most of this research has focused on why countries ever chose to pay their debts (or why private creditors ever expected repayment). The problem originates...
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Keywords:
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Sovereign Finance;
Borrowing and Debt;
Debt Securities;
Motivation and Incentives;
Markets;
Equity;
Banking Industry;
Latin America
Ahmed, Faisal Z., Laura Alfaro, and Noel Maurer. "Lawsuits and Empire: On the Enforcement of Sovereign Debt in Latin America." Law and Contemporary Problems 73, no. 4 (fall 2010): 39–46.
- June 2007 (Revised June 2011)
- Case
TA Energy (Turkey): A Bundle of International Partnerships
By: William R. Kerr, Daniel J. Isenberg and Ant Bozkaya
Stimulates discussion of entrepreneurship in emerging economies, especially for entrepreneurs returning to their home countries to start businesses with global technologies and partners. Focuses on the partnership tensions between global firms and local...
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Keywords:
Family Business;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Partners and Partnerships;
Conflict and Resolution;
Turkey
Kerr, William R., Daniel J. Isenberg, and Ant Bozkaya. "TA Energy (Turkey): A Bundle of International Partnerships." Harvard Business School Case 807-175, June 2007. (Revised June 2011.) (This case replaces "Bundling the Contracts: TA-Energy", Harvard Business School Case 807-075, by Kerr and Bozkaya.)
- 2008
- Chapter
The Evidence Does Not Speak for Itself: Expert Witnesses and the Organization of DNA-Typing Companies
By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
During the past 15 years, new biotechnology companies have promoted DNA typing as a sophisticated criminal and paternity identification technique. Private testing laboratories produce results that link individuals with crime scenes and fathers to their children....
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- May 2007 (Revised January 2011)
- Case
Bankinter: Deploying the Mortgage Simulator to the Branches
Describes how Bankinter, a mid-sized Spanish bank, altered the information set available to its customer-facing employees. In the spring of 2003, Bankinter introduced an Excel-based program called the Mortgage Simulator that helped branch managers calculate the price...
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Keywords:
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Customer Value and Value Chain;
Banks and Banking;
Mortgages;
Employees;
Motivation and Incentives;
Spain
Martinez-Jerez, Francisco de Asis, and Katherine Miller. "Bankinter: Deploying the Mortgage Simulator to the Branches." Harvard Business School Case 107-070, May 2007. (Revised January 2011.)
- September 1998 (Revised April 2001)
- Case
Sealed Air Taiwan (A)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Robert J. Crawford
The general manager for U.S.-based Sealed Air Corp.'s Taiwan subsidiary must decide whether he's hired the right person to bridge the gap between Sealed Air's corporate culture and Taiwan's business culture. This case details Bob Kayser's experiences in trying to...
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Relationships;
Service Operations;
Motivation and Incentives;
Management Skills;
Compensation and Benefits;
Taiwan;
United States
Paine, Lynn S., and Robert J. Crawford. "Sealed Air Taiwan (A)." Harvard Business School Case 399-058, September 1998. (Revised April 2001.)
- September 2011 (Revised October 2011)
- Case
Scotty Smiley
By: Scott A. Snook and Doug Crandall
U.S. Army Lieutenant Scotty Smiley faces the biggest challenge of his young life. What will he do after learning that the wounds he received from a car bomb in Iraq have left him permanently blinded? On April 6, 2005, Lieutenant Scotty Smiley was grievously wounded by...
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Keywords:
Government Administration;
Leadership Development;
Leadership Style;
Personal Characteristics;
Customization and Personalization;
Personal Development and Career;
Work-Life Balance;
Performance Capacity;
Planning;
Employment Industry;
United States;
Iraq
Snook, Scott A., and Doug Crandall. "Scotty Smiley." Harvard Business School Case 412-058, September 2011. (Revised October 2011.)
- May 2008
- Supplement
Tribune Company, 2007 (CW)
By: Timothy A. Luehrman
This case describes the proposed acquisition of Tribune Company by Sam Zell in 2007. Tribune Company is one of the largest newspapers and broadcasting companies in the United States. Zell's proposed acquisition is unusual in several respects. It is two-tiered, employs...
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- February 2008 (Revised November 2008)
- Case
Global Talent Management at Novartis
By: Jordan Siegel
This case tackles the topic of global talent management. It can be used to analyze the performance measurement, incentive, and talent development system used at a major multinational company. This case can also be used to analyze the extent to which this system should...
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Keywords:
Talent and Talent Management;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Performance Evaluation;
Motivation and Incentives;
Adaptation
Siegel, Jordan. "Global Talent Management at Novartis." Harvard Business School Case 708-486, February 2008. (Revised November 2008.)