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- 07 Nov 2019
- News
McDonald’s fires its boss over a workplace romance
- August 2005 (Revised March 2007)
- Case
Leitax (A)
By: Noel H. Watson, Rogelio Oliva and Laura Winig
Leitax, a young digital camera manufacturer selling its cameras mainly through retailers, experienced poor matching of inventory availability with demand for new and existing products in 2002. Describes the implementation and details of a consensus forecasting...
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Keywords:
Demand and Consumers;
Supply Chain Management;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Supply and Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
Retail Industry
Watson, Noel H., Rogelio Oliva, and Laura Winig. "Leitax (A)." Harvard Business School Case 606-002, August 2005. (Revised March 2007.)
- August 1996 (Revised February 2000)
- Exercise
Decision-Making Exercise (A)
By: David A. Garvin and Michael Roberto
Provides questionnaires so students can compare their experiences with different decison-making processes. Students read "Growing Pains," a Harvard Business Review (HBR) case study, and then work in teams to come up with recommendations using a consensus approach to...
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Garvin, David A., and Michael Roberto. "Decision-Making Exercise (A)." Harvard Business School Exercise 397-031, August 1996. (Revised February 2000.)
- 14 Sep 2017
- News
Our Political System Is Failing. Michael Porter Has Solutions.
- August 1996 (Revised February 2000)
- Exercise
Decision-Making Exercise (B)
By: David A. Garvin and Michael Roberto
Provides questionnaires so students can compare their experiences with different decison-making processes. Students read "Growing Pains," a Harvard Business Review (HBR) case study, and then work in teams to come up with recommendations using a consensus approach to...
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Keywords:
Decision Making
Garvin, David A., and Michael Roberto. "Decision-Making Exercise (B)." Harvard Business School Exercise 397-032, August 1996. (Revised February 2000.)
- February 2003
- Case
UNICEF
By: John A. Quelch
In September 2002, Marjorie Newman-Williams, director of communication for UNICEF, is poised to present the results of a two-year rebranding process at the annual meeting of the national committee heads. This case describes the organization and highlights the...
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- March 2011 (Revised December 2017)
- Background Note
The IMF: The Washington Consensus, the Critics, and the New Challenges as China Rises
By: Rafael M. Di Tella, Natalie Kindred and Monica Baraldi
How the International Monetary Fund (IMF) defines and carries out its mandate has evolved considerably since 1944, when it was founded to serve a vital but narrow function in maintaining the global foreign exchange system and thus enabling international trade. This...
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Keywords:
History;
International Finance;
Globalized Economies and Regions;
Trade;
Financial Institutions;
Macroeconomics;
Financial Services Industry
Di Tella, Rafael M., Natalie Kindred, and Monica Baraldi. "The IMF: The Washington Consensus, the Critics, and the New Challenges as China Rises." Harvard Business School Background Note 711-040, March 2011. (Revised December 2017.)
- Article
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Appropriateness: An Interdisciplinary Consensus-Based Approach
By: Robert S. Kaplan, Michael Nurok, Jonathan Warsh, Todd Griner, Mayumi Kharabi, Joseph Castongia, Cali Overbeck, Lisa Krueger, Bernice Coleman, Danny Ramzy, Joshua Chung, Alice Chan, Eric Ley, Sindhu Kubendran, Neil Parrish, Zhe Yu, Michael Landberg, Stuart Finder, Bradley T. Rosen, Harry Sax and Francisco Arabia
We describe a quality improvement initiative aimed at achieving interdisciplinary consensus about the appropriate delivery of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). Interdisciplinary rounds were implemented for all patients on ECMO and addressed whether care was...
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Kaplan, Robert S., Michael Nurok, Jonathan Warsh, Todd Griner, Mayumi Kharabi, Joseph Castongia, Cali Overbeck, Lisa Krueger, Bernice Coleman, Danny Ramzy, Joshua Chung, Alice Chan, Eric Ley, Sindhu Kubendran, Neil Parrish, Zhe Yu, Michael Landberg, Stuart Finder, Bradley T. Rosen, Harry Sax, and Francisco Arabia. "Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Appropriateness: An Interdisciplinary Consensus-Based Approach." Anesthesia & Analgesia 128, no. 3 (March 2019).
- 30 Nov 2013
- News
Yahoo serves up the same old recipe with Couric pick
- Research Summary
Strategic Decision-Making Processes
Michael Roberto is studying the processes that managers employ to make critical strategic decisions. Through extensive field research, he has examined how groups of senior managers make these decisions efficiently, and simultaneously build the consensus required to...
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- November 1995
- Case
Ernst & Young United Kingdom (B)
By: John J. Gabarro and Samantha Graff
Discusses progress made by mid-1995 on the three challenges identified by the change leadership at the end of 1993. First, it describes the decision-making process that resulted in a general consensus to reorganize the huge London office, and it highlights certain...
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Keywords:
Change Management;
Leading Change;
Management Teams;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Restructuring;
Problems and Challenges;
Decision Making;
Adaptation;
Perspective;
United Kingdom;
London
Gabarro, John J., and Samantha Graff. "Ernst & Young United Kingdom (B)." Harvard Business School Case 496-010, November 1995.
- 2009
- Working Paper
Clusters of Entrepreneurship
By: Edward L. Glaeser, William R. Kerr and Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto
Employment growth is strongly predicted by smaller average establishment size, both across cities and across industries within cities, but there is little consensus on why this relationship exists. Traditional economic explanations emphasize factors that reduce entry...
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Glaeser, Edward L., William R. Kerr, and Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto. "Clusters of Entrepreneurship." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-019, September 2009.
- 18 Apr 2013
- HBS Seminar
Robin Hanson, George Mason University
- May 2005 (Revised May 2011)
- Background Note
Inequality and Globalization
By: David A. Moss, Anna Harrington and Jonathan Schlefer
Inequality represented a major issue at the dawn of the 21st century. By many measures, inequality had increased over the previous several decades, within both developed and developing countries. Whether global inequality (measured across countries or among the people...
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Moss, David A., Anna Harrington, and Jonathan Schlefer. "Inequality and Globalization." Harvard Business School Background Note 705-040, May 2005. (Revised May 2011.)
California Fair Trade: Antitrust and the Politics of 'Fairness' in U.S. Competition Policy
In the decades before World War II, U.S. antitrust law was anything but settled. Considerable pressure for antitrust revision came from the states. A perhaps unlikely leader, Edna Gleason, organized California's retail pharmacists and coordinated trade networks to... View Details
- Research Summary
Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution
Disputes between organizations and among individuals are an all-too-familiar feature of modern life. Lengthy court proceedings consume resources, damage relationships, and often yield outcomes that do not fully satisfy the real needs of the litigants. As a result,... View Details
- January 2009 (Revised March 2012)
- Case
Spain: Can the House Resist the Storm?
By: Diego A. Comin
On September 16, 2008, President Rodriguez Zapatero recognized the severity of Spain's macroeconomic situation and clearly pointed to the culprit in front of the Spanish Congress: "Let nobody doubt it; there is already a wide consensus about the origin of the crisis:...
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Comin, Diego A. "Spain: Can the House Resist the Storm?" Harvard Business School Case 709-021, January 2009. (Revised March 2012.)
- 30 Jun 2016
- Working Paper Summaries