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- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
apart; the less they share, the more likely they are to be best executed separately. Nevertheless, managing multiple models is a tall order. LAN has had to face greater complexity, broaden its organizational...
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Sean Silverthorne
- September 2009
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Labor Market Institutions and Global Strategic Adaptation: Evidence from Lincoln Electric
By: Jordan I. Siegel and Barbara Zepp Larson
Although one of the central questions in the global strategy field is how multinational firms successfully navigate multiple and often conflicting institutional environments, we know relatively little about the effect of conflicting labor market institutions on...
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Institutions;
Labor Market;
Complementarity;
Global Strategy;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Labor Unions;
Laws and Statutes;
Operations;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Manufacturing Industry
Siegel, Jordan I., and Barbara Zepp Larson. "Labor Market Institutions and Global Strategic Adaptation: Evidence from Lincoln Electric." Management Science 55, no. 9 (September 2009): 1527–1546. (Although one of the central questions in the global strategy field is how multinational firms successfully navigate multiple and often conflicting institutional environments, we know relatively little about the effect of conflicting labor market institutions on multinational firms' strategic choice and operating performance. With its decision to invest in manufacturing operations in nearly every one of the world's largest welding
markets, Lincoln Electric offers us a quasi-experiment. We leverage a unique data set covering 1996–2006 that combines data on each host country's labor market institutions with data on each subsidiary's strategic choices and historical operating performance. We find that Lincoln Electric performed significantly better in countries with labor laws and regulations supporting manufacturers' interests and in countries that allowed the free
use of both piecework and a discretionary bonus. Furthermore, we find that in countries with labor market institutions unfriendly to manufacturers, Lincoln Electric was still able to overcome most (although not all) of the institutional distance by what we term flexible intermediate adaptation.)
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The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
wrote, “The corporate balance sheet is nowadays affected not only by conditions within the business—but also by the rules and regulations of government bureaus, the probings and acts of Congress, and the strategy of powerful labor unions. And, looking over the...
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- 08 Mar 2021
- In Practice
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?
A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Entrepreneurs Can Find the Right Problem to Solve
outreach should be done on multiple platforms and carefully crafted to answer only one or two hypotheses. These hypotheses are commonly, “Is this where we can reach this audience if we want to market to them?” and “Are they interested...
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by Julia Austin
- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
UnileverA Case Study
Organization Unilever was an organizational curiosity in that, since 1929, it has been headed by two separate British and Dutch companies—Unilever Ltd. (PLC after 1981), and Unilever N.V.—with different sets of shareholders but identical...
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MBA Experience - Global
what they learn to multiple contexts, in meaningful ways. Faculty bring important business issues and management problems from around the world into the classroom. Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership...
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Develop Your Career Vision - Alumni
need to be attended to, in order to feel fulfilled and truly successful. Career criteria create focus and clarity. When you have an explicit awareness of your own career criteria, you know what to look for in multiple alternative career...
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Ascending the Peak: Finding the Leader Within—Virtual
Management Excellence. Learn More Key Benefits Ascending the Peak: Finding the Leader Within—Virtual is for mid-career professionals ready to advance their organization—and career—with greater purpose and focus. By concentrating on eight...
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- 21 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19
weaponry. (Many managers today must feel hopeless against an invisible foe that always seems a step ahead.) Boyd realized he could narrow the gap by working out the best possible approaches to deal with rapid change. Similarly, an Agile...
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by Euvin Naidoo
- May 2008 (Revised December 2010)
- Case
Chi Mei Optoelectronics
By: Willy C. Shih, Chintay Shih, Jyun-Cheng Wang and Ho Howard Yu
Chi Mei is a Taiwanese industrial group that makes a major diversification into the technology intensive TFT-LCD flat panel display industry. Because the diversification is far away from its core competence in petrochemicals, it is an opportunity to examine how the...
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Globalized Firms and Management;
Supply Chain;
Corporate Strategy;
Diversification;
Information Technology;
Electronics Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
China;
South Korea;
Taiwan
Shih, Willy C., Chintay Shih, Jyun-Cheng Wang, and Ho Howard Yu. "Chi Mei Optoelectronics." Harvard Business School Case 608-123, May 2008. (Revised December 2010.)
- 04 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Lose Money With Customers
demands can sometimes cost more than the revenue actually generated. By studying numerous companies and their customers across multiple industries, the researchers learned that the way firms derive profit through the customer View Details
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by Peter K. Jacobs
- October 2023 (Revised November 2023)
- Teaching Note
The Miccosukee Tribe and the Battle to Save the Everglades: A Miami Climate Action Story
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 324-002. "Miccosukee" explores the challenges of coordinating actions to solve a complex systems problem—from individuals, small organizations, and coalitions of multiple organizations. The case discusses the impact of climate change and...
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- January–February 2023
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The Overlooked Key to a Successful Scale-Up
By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Davide Sola and Martin Kupp
Many start-ups experience enormous popularity and runaway growth, but only a few go on to become stable giants. What separates them from the pack? They all go through a developmental stage called extrapolation, say three business school professors.
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Entrepreneurship And Strategy;
Scalability;
Business Startups;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Entrepreneurship
Rayport, Jeffrey F., Davide Sola, and Martin Kupp. "The Overlooked Key to a Successful Scale-Up." Harvard Business Review (January–February 2023): 56–65.
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HBS - The year in Review
wrapped into one, beginning with an intense effort around welcoming the entire community back and culminating in a joyous crescendo of multiple commencements and alumni reunions—with more than 23,000 in attendance, including graduates,...
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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
result, there are meaningful externalities in the mutual fund industry due to cash management. A fund family may coordinate the liquidity management efforts of its funds in order to minimize volatility spillovers from fire sales. Related...
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- 26 Aug 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Built for Global Competition from the Start
business life cycle how these fledgling ventures can operate across multiple countries. The course would also identify advantages and liabilities of starting an international company, how to manage it...
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Sadness, Identity, and Plastic in Over-shopping: The Interplay of Materialism, Poor Credit Management, and Emotional Buying Motives in Predicting Compulsive Buying
By: Grant Edward Donnelly, Masha Ksendzova and Ryan Howell
A comprehensive study is currently lacking to explain why material values strongly influence compulsive buying. The goal of the current study is to test if money management, buying motivations for improving mood and identity, and self-transformation expectations...
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Donnelly, Grant Edward, Masha Ksendzova, and Ryan Howell. "Sadness, Identity, and Plastic in Over-shopping: The Interplay of Materialism, Poor Credit Management, and Emotional Buying Motives in Predicting Compulsive Buying." Journal of Economic Psychology 39 (December 2013): 113–125.
- 27 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 27, 2007
Working PapersFrom Manufacturing to Design: An Essay on the Work of Kim B. Clark Authors:Sylvain Lenfle and Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract Kim Clark occupies a unique place in management scholarship. As a member of the Technology and...
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Martha Lagace