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- 07 Oct 2015
- HBS Seminar
Florian Ederer, Assistant Professor of Economics, Yale School of Management
- June 1989 (Revised July 1993)
- Case
CIGNA Worldwide
By: John A. Quelch
A CIGNA Worldwide (CWW) task group of European country directors and key functional managers is meeting in November 1988 to discuss how CWW should respond to the European Community's plan to remove existing internal barriers and restrictions to the free flow of goods...
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Keywords:
Multinational Firms and Management;
Insurance;
Competitive Strategy;
Emerging Markets;
Trade;
Insurance Industry;
Europe
Quelch, John A. "CIGNA Worldwide." Harvard Business School Case 589-098, June 1989. (Revised July 1993.)
- October 2014 (Revised December 2018)
- Background Note
Leading and Managing Change
By: Ryan Raffaelli
Managing change is consistently ranked as one of the most critical and difficult tasks that leaders face. This note outlines the key choices that leaders must make when engineering change. It is organized into four sections, offering guidance on how to 1) diagnose the...
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Raffaelli, Ryan. "Leading and Managing Change." Harvard Business School Background Note 415-040, October 2014. (Revised December 2018.)
- April 2014
- Tutorial
Conjoint Analysis: Online Tutorial
By: Elie Ofek and Olivier Toubia
The Conjoint Analysis: Online Tutorial is an interactive pedagogical vehicle intended to facilitate understanding of one of the most popular market research methods in academia and practice, namely conjoint analysis. The aim is to provide students or executives going...
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- February 1989
- Background Note
Note on Attracting Stakeholders
By: Amar Bhide and Howard H. Stevenson
Acquiring resources--or to put it more broadly, attracting stakeholders--is a basic entrepreneurial task. While every enterprise needs employees, customers, suppliers, and financiers who are willing to risk their time and money, attracting these "stakeholders" to an...
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Keywords:
Business Ventures;
Customers;
Entrepreneurship;
Investment;
Human Resources;
Organizational Design;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Risk and Uncertainty
Bhide, Amar, and Howard H. Stevenson. "Note on Attracting Stakeholders." Harvard Business School Background Note 389-139, February 1989.
- July 1989
- Background Note
What Is Marketing?
An introductory note for MBA students on the nature of marketing and topics encountered in its study. Defines the topic then breaks marketing into two major conceptual pieces--the tools, tasks and variables of the marketer, and the marketing process. In the tools...
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Keywords:
Marketing
Bonoma, Thomas V., and Thomas J. Kosnik. "What Is Marketing?" Harvard Business School Background Note 590-007, July 1989.
- April 2014
- Article
Evil Genius? How Dishonesty Can Lead to Greater Creativity
By: F. Gino and S. Wiltermuth
We propose that dishonest and creative behavior have something in common: they both involve breaking rules. Because of this shared feature, creativity may lead to dishonesty (as shown in prior work), and dishonesty may lead to creativity (the hypothesis we tested in...
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Gino, F., and S. Wiltermuth. "Evil Genius? How Dishonesty Can Lead to Greater Creativity." Psychological Science 25, no. 4 (April 2014): 973–981.
- Research Summary
Team-based strategic work among senior executives
My research centers on a study of organizational design for senior-executive work on strategy. I examine the role of small groups that are tasked with resolving strategic issues, and I consider the effects of such team-based organizing models on strategic... View Details
- 17 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Teaming in the Twenty-First Century
she says. "When I think about my research, it doesn't necessarily organize itself into a clear narrative from point A to point B." Edmondson's career hasn't followed a clear narrative either. After earning her undergraduate degree in engineering and View Details
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by Maggie Starvish
- 2015
- Working Paper
Thick as Thieves? Dishonest Behavior and Egocentric Social Networks
By: Jooa Julia Lee, Dong-Kyun Im, Bidhan Parmar and Francesca Gino
People experience a threat to their moral self-concept in the face of discrepancies between their moral values and their unethical behavior. We theorize that people's need to restore their view of themselves as moral activates thoughts of a high-density personal social...
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Lee, Jooa Julia, Dong-Kyun Im, Bidhan Parmar, and Francesca Gino. "Thick as Thieves? Dishonest Behavior and Egocentric Social Networks." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-064, February 2015.
- 10 Jan 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Pay for Environmental Performance: The Effect of Incentive Provision on Carbon Emissions
- Article
Do Supervisors Thrive in Participative Work Systems?
By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Richard E. Walton
This article presents the findings regarding the nature of the difficulties surrounding the supervisory role in participative work systems, a conceptualization of the supervisor/work group interface, and some action implications for the management of organizations....
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Keywords:
Managerial Roles;
Organizational Design;
Management Practices and Processes;
Innovation and Invention
Schlesinger, Leonard A., and Richard E. Walton. "Do Supervisors Thrive in Participative Work Systems?" Organizational Dynamics 7, no. 3 (Winter 1979): 24–38.
- February 1990 (Revised July 1990)
- Case
Internal Revenue Service: Automated Collection System
By: Nitin Nohria
Describes how the IRS's collection operations changed from a largely manual system (COF) to an automated system (ACS). A central aspect of ACS was the electronic scheduling and maintaining of work. While with ACS the IRS accomplished significant improvements in the...
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Keywords:
Sovereign Finance;
Revenue;
Information Technology;
Taxation;
Change Management;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Design;
Human Resources;
Public Administration Industry;
United States
Nohria, Nitin. "Internal Revenue Service: Automated Collection System." Harvard Business School Case 490-042, February 1990. (Revised July 1990.)
- 27 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Build 'Scaffolds' to Improve Performance of Temporary Teams
"Just the designation that you're part of this temporary group can eliminate some of those bureaucratic layers where the coordination between people laterally is harder than it needs to be," Edmondson says. Valentine was one of...
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- 08 Sep 2011
- What Do You Think?
What’s Apple’s Biggest Challenge: Replacing Steve or Wall Street?
Summing Up The first impression I get from respondents to this month's column is that Steve Jobs can't be replaced as CEO of Apple by just one person. Rather the succession must include at least a head of design (according to Yadeed Lobo)...
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- January 2019 (Revised October 2019)
- Case
Rural Taobao: Alibaba's Expansion into Rural E-Commerce
By: Tarun Khanna, Ryan Allen, Adam Frost and Wesley Koo
Alibaba's Rural Taobao initiative had been launched in 2014 as a public service initiative to increase e-commerce adoption in China’s remote rural areas. In the first two iterations of the initiative, dubbed “1.0” and “2.0,” Alibaba had partnered with local businesses...
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Keywords:
Strategy;
Business Growth;
Ecommerce;
Corporate Social Responsibility;
Business And Government;
Emerging Market;
Digital Platforms;
Internet and the Web;
Emerging Markets;
Rural Scope;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Business and Government Relations;
Decision Making;
E-commerce;
China
Khanna, Tarun, Ryan Allen, Adam Frost, and Wesley Koo. "Rural Taobao: Alibaba's Expansion into Rural E-Commerce." Harvard Business School Case 719-433, January 2019. (Revised October 2019.)
- October 2015 (Revised May 2016)
- Background Note
Leading and Managing Change (ABRIDGED)
By: Ryan Raffaelli
Managing change is consistently ranked as one of the most critical and difficult tasks that leaders face. This note outlines the key choices that leaders must make when engineering change. It is organized into four sections, offering guidance on how to 1) diagnose the...
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Keywords:
Change Management
Raffaelli, Ryan. "Leading and Managing Change (ABRIDGED)." Harvard Business School Background Note 416-021, October 2015. (Revised May 2016.)
- 28 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Discrimination
prevalence of discrimination among their users by making careful design choices, says Luca, the Lee J. Styslinger III Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, who has been studying platform View Details
- September 1989 (Revised July 1992)
- Case
Pepsi-Cola U.S. Beverages (A)
Responding to changes in Pepsi-Cola's competitive environment, Roger Enrico, president and CEO of PepsiCo Worldwide Beverages, formed a task force to investigate a possible reorganization of Pepsi's domestic soft drink business. The task force recommends reorganizing...
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Pearson, Andrall E. "Pepsi-Cola U.S. Beverages (A)." Harvard Business School Case 390-034, September 1989. (Revised July 1992.)
- April 2023 (Revised September 2023)
- Case
Levels: The Remote, Asynchronous, Deep Work Management System
By: Joseph B. Fuller and George Gonzalez
Levels is a highly innovative startup in the health care space. They intend to revolutionize health by linking behavior—eating, exercise, sleeping, etc.—to changes in metabolism. They believe metabolic health can be managed through careful monitoring of changes in...
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Keywords:
Applications and Software;
Business Startups;
Organizational Culture;
Management Style;
Technology Industry;
United States
Fuller, Joseph B., and George Gonzalez. "Levels: The Remote, Asynchronous, Deep Work Management System." Harvard Business School Case 323-069, April 2023. (Revised September 2023.)