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  • August 2002 (Revised August 2003)
  • Case

Electronic Arts Introduces The Sims Online

By: Youngme E. Moon
Electronic Arts (EA), the world's largest independent game publisher, is preparing to launch an online, subscription-based version of the most popular PC game in history: The Sims. The new game is called "The Sims Online" and it differs from the original game in two... View Details
Keywords: Fair Value Accounting; Decision Making; Price; Product Launch; Market Entry and Exit; Internet; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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  • Third Quarter 2022
  • Article

How Global Upheaval Influences Board Decision-Making: What Is the Effect of Cold War II on Corporate Governance?

By: Michael Montelongo
What should boards and companies do or not do when confronting the impact of geopolitical crises? It may be helpful to consider the broader context giving rise to these issues, namely why we’re in the situation, the lessons we’re learning about geopolitical risk in... View Details
Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; International Relations; Globalization; Decision Making
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  • January 2013 (Revised August 2013)
  • Case

Vietnam: Sustaining the Growth of an Asian Tiger

By: Michael E. Porter and Christian H.M. Ketels
The case tracks Vietnam's economic policy choices and performance from the end of the Vietnam war to the Doi Moi economic reforms and the economic transformation that followed. Throughout this period, the country had become a darling of the international aid community.... View Details
Keywords: Conflict Management; Leadership; Policy; Transformation; Economic Growth; Developing Countries and Economies; Macroeconomics; Viet Nam
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  • Program

Developing Yourself as a Leader—Virtual

leader. These learning outcomes include crafting a more strategic and effective approach to your career trajectory grounded authentically in your strengths, experiences and, aspirations; readiness in communications, negotiations, influence and design; and View Details

    David A. Thomas

    David Thomas is H. Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.  His research addresses issues related to executive development, cultural diversity in organizations, leadership and organizational change.  He recently served as a... View Details

    Keywords: biotechnology; consulting; consumer products; education industry; financial services; media
    • 18 Oct 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light

    issue and opportunity is globalization. As business becomes more global, and our students and faculty more international, we need to build on the efforts we've launched and seek new ways to prepare students to lead in a globalized world.... View Details
    Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education
    • October 2019 (Revised January 2020)
    • Case

    NewView Capital and Venture Capital Secondaries

    By: Shai Bernstein, Ramana Nanda and Allison Ciechanover
    While still a general partner at Silicon Valley–based New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Ravi Viswanathan considered the challenges presented by evolving market dynamics in the venture capital space. Startups were staying private longer, which led to limited partners... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital; Capital Markets; Private Equity; Strategy
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    • July 2015
    • Article

    Preparatory Power Posing Affects Nonverbal Presence and Job Interview Outcomes

    By: Amy J.C. Cuddy, Caroline A. Wilmuth, Andy J. Yap and Dana R. Carney
    We tested whether engaging in expansive (vs. contractive) "power poses" before a stressful job interview—preparatory power posing—would enhance performance during the interview. Participants adopted high-power (i.e., expansive, open) poses or low-power (i.e.,... View Details
    Keywords: Power Posing; Social Evaluation; Nonverbal Behavior; Presence; Posture; Behavior; Job Interviews
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    • Program

    Senior Executive Leadership Program—India

    greater leadership capacity, this intensive program empowers you to look critically at the business as a whole—and build and lead a high-performance organization. You will emerge better prepared to make the bold market moves that foster... View Details
    • Research Summary

    Family Business Management

    John Davis is developing cases and other course materials on family business management for the Executive Education program Families in Business: From Generation to Generation, Families in Business/China, the Owner/President Management... View Details
    • June 2020
    • Case

    Career Karma: Growth in a Time of Global Uncertainty (A)

    By: Laura Huang, Elizabeth Jiang and Brandon Yu
    Career Karma is a startup focused on helping individuals looking to transition careers into computer engineering roles or similar fields by preparing them for formal technical training programs, or “coding bootcamps,” that would lead to a successful career pivot upon... View Details
    Keywords: Business Ventures; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Plan; Business Startups; Education; Training; Entrepreneurship; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Marketing Strategy; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Personal Development and Career; Health Pandemics; Technology Industry; Education Industry; Employment Industry
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    • March 2020 (Revised October 2020)
    • Case

    Board Director Dilemmas—Digging into Detail

    By: David G. Fubini, Suraj Srinivasan and Amram Migdal
    This case explores a new board director who asks a detailed question about a footnote in the lengthy board packet distributed to directors by management. The case allows for discussion about the amount of information and level of detail provided by management, the... View Details
    Keywords: Board Of Directors; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards
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    • August 2002 (Revised June 2003)
    • Case

    New Wachovia (A), The

    By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Jeremy Swinson
    In April 2001, First Union Corp. announced an agreement to merge with Wachovia Corp., a fellow North Carolina-based commercial bank. While the banks were preparing to consummate the merger, SunTrust Banks, Inc. of Atlanta, made a hostile offer for Wachovia, setting in... View Details
    Keywords: Voting; Mergers and Acquisitions; Conflict and Resolution; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; Atlanta; North Carolina
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    • April 2001 (Revised November 2001)
    • Case

    AvantGo

    By: Alan D. MacCormack and Kerry Herman
    Richard Owen, CEO of AvantGo, is preparing for a meeting in which he will set the human resource policy for the firm going forward. It has been three months since the company's IPO, and given the tremendous cramp in hiring over the six months prior to the IPO, he knows... View Details
    Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Management Teams; Selection and Staffing; Retention; Growth and Development Strategy; Performance Evaluation; Information Technology; Decisions; Information Technology Industry; Service Industry; United States
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    • February 1994 (Revised May 1999)
    • Case

    Manville Corp. Fiber Glass Group (C)

    By: Lynn S. Paine and Sarah Gant
    Manville Corp.'s senior managers are surprised when Japanese government officials advise them not to go forward with their plan to add a cancer warning label to diatomaceous earth (DE) products sold in Japan. The International Agency for Research on Cancer has ruled... View Details
    Keywords: Management Teams; Ethics; Conflict of Interests; Health; Safety; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Policy; Japan
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    • 09 Jun 2020
    • News

    Coronavirus Could Finally Fix Some of Our Most Toxic Work Habits

    • July 2021
    • Teaching Plan

    Aligning Mission and Margin at Southern Bancorp

    By: Rebecca Henderson, Brian Trelstad and Eren Kuzucu
    Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 321-099. In October 2020, after spending almost a decade to turnaround Southern Bancorp, an Arkansan bank founded with the mission to provide financial services to rural, underserved communities, CEO Darrin Williams is wondering how... View Details
    Keywords: Racial Wealth Gap; Banks and Banking; Growth and Development; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Going Public; Investment Return; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States; Arkansas
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    • 13 Aug 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    The Inner Life of Leaders

    the ancient Greek philosophers that hedgehogs know one big thing while foxes know many things. Applied to leadership, hedgehogs reduce reality to one single principle, while foxes know many things and are prepared to adapt to a complex... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • November 2019
    • Case

    Chief: Role for Lindsay Kaplan

    By: Katherine B. Coffman, Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Kathleen L. McGinn, Julia Kelley and Katherine Chen
    In 2018, Lindsay Kaplan is preparing to meet with Carolyn Childers about the possibility of co-founding Chief, a New York-based peer network for women executives. Kaplan is currently the vice president of communications and brand engagement at a successful mattress... View Details
    Keywords: Negotiation; Entrepreneurship; Leadership; North and Central America; United States; New York (state, US); New York (city, NY)
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    • January 2018 (Revised March 2019)
    • Case

    Autonomous Vehicles: The Rubber Hits the Road...but When?

    By: William Kerr, Allison Ciechanover, Jeff Huizinga and James Palano
    The rise of autonomous vehicles has enormous implications for business and society. Despite the many headlines and significant investment in the technology by early 2019, it was still unclear when truly autonomous vehicles would be a commercial reality. Students will... View Details
    Keywords: Technology Management; Artificial Intelligence; General Management; Robotics; Technological Innovation; Transportation; Disruption; Information Technology; Decision Making; AI and Machine Learning; Auto Industry; Technology Industry
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