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- 16 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55132 Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 6 The Value Structure of Technologies, Part 1: Mapping Functional Relationships By: Baldwin, Carliss Y....
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Dina Gerdeman
- November 2007 (Revised June 2011)
- Case
ISS A/S (A)
By: Clayton S. Rose
Provides the opportunity to examine the nature and extent of a company's responsibilities to its bondholders, and to develop an enhanced understanding of the challenges in managing contractual obligations, and circumstances under which business leaders might agree to...
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Risk and Uncertainty;
Bonds;
Contracts;
Private Equity;
Leveraged Buyouts;
Privatization;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Borrowing and Debt;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Europe
Rose, Clayton S. "ISS A/S (A)." Harvard Business School Case 308-054, November 2007. (Revised June 2011.)
- January 2007 (Revised October 2007)
- Case
Procter & Gamble: Organization 2005 (A)
By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski and Alessandro L. Spadini
In response to a huge crisis in 2000, the new CEO of Procter & Gamble has to decide whether to continue with an unusual organizational design or to revert to the old matrix organization. Describes all the organizational designs used by Procter & Gamble from the 1920s...
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Global Strategy;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Organizational Design;
Organizational Structure
Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan, and Alessandro L. Spadini. "Procter & Gamble: Organization 2005 (A)." Harvard Business School Case 707-519, January 2007. (Revised October 2007.)
- November 1996 (Revised August 1997)
- Case
Project "Dial-Tone"
By: William A. Sahlman and Andrew S. Janower
Bob Hellman, a partner in a West Coast middle-market buyout firm, is attempting to simultaneously acquire and merge three disparate firms in the rapidly consolidating telemarketing services industry. Hellman must value the individual companies as well as the combined...
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Complexity;
Private Equity;
Integration;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Negotiation Deal;
Strategic Planning;
Investment;
Opportunities;
Valuation;
Service Industry
Sahlman, William A., and Andrew S. Janower. Project "Dial-Tone". Harvard Business School Case 897-003, November 1996. (Revised August 1997.)
- 2011
- Teaching Note
CSCEC: Transformation and Development (TN)
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donghong Li and Hong Zhang
In 2001, CSCEC, the largest residential building constructor in China, greeted its new General Manager, Wenjie Sun, who was the President of China Overseas, a Hong Kong-listed subsidiary of CSCEC. In the following 9 years, Sun strived to advance the transformation and...
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McFarlan, F. Warren, Donghong Li, and Hong Zhang. "CSCEC: Transformation and Development (TN)." Tsinghua University Teaching Note, 2011.
- May 2022
- Case
Rawbank's Illico Cash: Can 'Fast Money' Overcome Cash Dependency in the DRC?
By: Lauren Cohen and Grace Headinger
Thomas de Dreux-Brézé, the Head of Strategy and Project Management at Rawbank Congo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), was perplexed as he reviewed annual adoption rates for the bank’s launch of Illico Cash 2.0. As the bank’s mobile money app, Illico Cash...
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Fintech;
Inflation;
Deflation;
Rural;
Urban;
Emerging Market;
Mobile Technology;
Finance;
Money;
Inflation and Deflation;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Demographics;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Behavioral Finance;
Currency;
Banks and Banking;
Commercial Banking;
Financial Strategy;
Rural Scope;
Urban Scope;
Innovation Strategy;
Emerging Markets;
Network Effects;
Consumer Behavior;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Technology Adoption;
Banking Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
Technology Industry;
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Cohen, Lauren, and Grace Headinger. "Rawbank's Illico Cash: Can 'Fast Money' Overcome Cash Dependency in the DRC?" Harvard Business School Case 222-084, May 2022.
- Blog
Is AI Coming for Your Job?
percent believe the technology will affect them personally. Harvard Business School faculty members share their thoughts below about how AI will reshape the workforce and the skills necessary to succeed in the years ahead. Joseph Fuller:...
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- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
Pursuing Systemic Change through Entrepreneurship Stacey Childress and James WeberHarvard Business School Case 310-052 After Hurricane Katrina devastated the city in August 2005, the state had taken over 102 of the 118 public schools in...
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- March 1992 (Revised November 1992)
- Case
Lockheed Aeromod Center, Inc.
By: Timothy A. Luehrman
A wholly-owned subsidiary of Lockheed Corp. has an $11 million expansion underway in South Carolina. The company must decide how best to take advantage of the opportunity to issue tax exempt debt. Specifically, the decision involves choices about the maturity and...
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Business Subsidiaries;
Decisions;
Borrowing and Debt;
Financial Strategy;
Taxation;
Opportunities;
Expansion;
Valuation;
South Carolina
Luehrman, Timothy A. "Lockheed Aeromod Center, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 292-123, March 1992. (Revised November 1992.)
- 29 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism
through the writings of Adam Smith, Milton Friedman, and Friedrich Hayek among other foundational thinkers. "Many economists think of it as a positivist system that does not impose morality upon society, but this is not the case," says Harvard View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- 2012
- Chapter
Institutional Pressures and Organizational Characteristics: Implications for Environmental Strategy
By: Magali A. Delmas and Michael W. Toffel
A broad literature has emerged over the past decades demonstrating that firms' environmental strategies and practices are influenced by stakeholders and institutional pressures. Such findings are consistent with institutional sociology, which emphasizes the importance...
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Keywords:
Management Practices and Processes;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Natural Environment;
Business Strategy
Delmas, Magali A., and Michael W. Toffel. "Institutional Pressures and Organizational Characteristics: Implications for Environmental Strategy." In The Oxford Handbook of Business and the Natural Environment, edited by Pratima Bansal and Andrew J. Hoffman. Oxford University Press, 2012.
- 25 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence
believe they won’t excel in, despite having the skills to succeed, says Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Katherine B. Coffman. “Our beliefs about ourselves are important in shaping all kinds of important decisions, such as what...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- May 2010 (Revised June 2012)
- Case
From Imitation to Innovation: Zongshen Industrial Group
By: Willy Shih and Nancy Hua Dai
As Zuo Zongshen drove the transformation of the Zongshen Industrial Group from an early imitator in the motorcycle business to a company that increasingly focused on innovation as a way to get out of the hyper-competitive commodity business, he continually faced new...
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Experience and Expertise;
Learning;
Investment;
Disruptive Innovation;
Knowledge Acquisition;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Structure;
Competitive Strategy;
Manufacturing Industry;
Motorcycle Industry;
China
Shih, Willy, and Nancy Hua Dai. "From Imitation to Innovation: Zongshen Industrial Group." Harvard Business School Case 610-057, May 2010. (Revised June 2012.)
- Article
Network Effects Aren't Enough
By: Andrei Hagiu and Simon Rothman
In many ways, online marketplaces are the perfect business model. Since they facilitate transactions between independent suppliers and customers rather than take possession of and responsibility for the products or services in question, they have inherently low cost...
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Digital Platforms;
Competition;
Internet and the Web;
Network Effects;
Market Participation
Hagiu, Andrei, and Simon Rothman. "Network Effects Aren't Enough." Harvard Business Review 94, no. 4 (April 2016): 65–71.
- June 2018
- Teaching Note
Meridian Systems (Brief Case)
By: Frank V. Cespedes and Michael J. Roberts
Teaching Note for HBS No. 918-533. The key issues discussed in the Meridian teaching note concern sales force deployment: decisions about how to focus sales efforts with respect to territories, customers, and products. The teaching note explains the strengths and...
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- June 2014
- Supplement
eBay Partner Network — slide supplement (widescreen)
By: Benjamin Edelman
eBay considers adjustments to the structure and rules of its affiliate marketing program, eBay Partner Network (ePN). In particular, eBay reevaluates affiliate compensation structure, the role of bonuses for especially productive affiliates, and the overall rationale...
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- 2010
- Working Paper
Employee Selection as a Control System
By: Dennis Campbell
Theories from the economics, management control, and organizational behavior literatures predict that when it is difficult to align incentives by contracting on output, aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a useful alternative. This study...
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Accounting;
Decision Making;
Governance Controls;
Employees;
Selection and Staffing;
Management Systems;
Financial Services Industry
Campbell, Dennis. "Employee Selection as a Control System." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-021, August 2010. (Revised September 2010, April 2012.)
- November 2020
- Case
Truebird—An AlleyCorp Venture
By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
In December 2018, Kevin Ryan and Wendy Tsu faced an important decision – to finalize the CEO candidate for Truebird, an innovative, automated coffee café concept. Like many of AlleyCorp and Ryan’s companies, Truebird started with the observation of an unmet need – an...
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Startup;
Hiring;
Staffing;
Recruiting;
Business Startups;
Finance;
Leadership;
Management Skills;
Management Teams;
Jobs and Positions;
Job Interviews;
Human Resources;
Recruitment;
Selection and Staffing;
Technology Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
United States
Ghosh, Shikhar, and Shweta Bagai. "Truebird—An AlleyCorp Venture." Harvard Business School Case 821-030, November 2020.
- 12 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
The Many Languages of Medicine to Impact Care Delivery
Diversity Innovation Hub, a Mount Sinai venture addressing social and structural determinants of health in NYC. Recently, Ted was named an HBS Kaplan Fellow and RISE Fellow. While on my pediatrics rotation at a hospital in New York City,...
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- February 1995 (Revised April 1996)
- Case
MW Petroleum Corporation (B)
By: Timothy A. Luehrman, Peter Tufano and Barbara Wall
Amoco Corp. is negotiating to sell a wholly-owned subsidiary, MW Petroleum, to Apache Corp. MW owns large reserves of oil and gas comprising many properties at different stages of engineering, development, and production. The proposed acquisition is a large one for...
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Business Subsidiaries;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Risk Management;
Financing and Loans;
Mining Industry;
Energy Industry
Luehrman, Timothy A., Peter Tufano, and Barbara Wall. "MW Petroleum Corporation (B)." Harvard Business School Case 295-045, February 1995. (Revised April 1996.)