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- December 1994 (Revised July 1996)
- Case
USSR 1988, The: The Search for Growth
For decades after the revolution of 1917, Communist Party leaders claimed that the socialist economic system was superior to the capitalist system on both moral and economic grounds. By 1985, when Mikhail Gorbachev became general secretary of the Communist Party of the...
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Dyck, Alexander. "USSR 1988, The: The Search for Growth." Harvard Business School Case 795-060, December 1994. (Revised July 1996.)
- January 1998 (Revised May 1999)
- Case
General Scanning, Inc. (B)
By: H. Kent Bowen, Sean McClenaghan and Charles Tillen
After meeting with a mediator, Montagu and Davis decided their goals were not in accordance, and Davis left General Scanning. Montagu and Brosens wrote three-year objectives for the company and proceeded to search for a new professional manager. Chuck Winston took on...
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Business Units;
Restructuring;
Change;
Business or Company Management;
Ownership Stake;
Strategic Planning;
Hardware
Bowen, H. Kent, Sean McClenaghan, and Charles Tillen. "General Scanning, Inc. (B)." Harvard Business School Case 698-037, January 1998. (Revised May 1999.)
- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
culture, how culture persists despite turnover, and why the suggested link between culture and performance may be a case of inverse causality. It finally shows that, from an outsider's perspective, organizations may tend to over-invest in...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
incentives to invest in the face of potential holdup problems and also with the proposition that exclusive arrangements lead firms to seek contingent control rights to avoid lock-in when environmental uncertainty is high. Private Equity and Long-Run Investment: The...
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Carmen Nobel
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
implications for pay inequality and pay transparency Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54750 Digitizing Disclosure: The Case of Restaurant Hygiene Scores By: Dai, Weijia (Daisy), and Michael Luca...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
contribute to the development of broader firm capabilities. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-019.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAkshaya Patra: Feeding India's Schoolchildren Harvard Business School View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
strong interaction between financing choices for innovation and changing external conditions, especially reduced experimentation costs. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2519572 Cases & Course Materials Harvard...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Research Summary
Management Control Systems in Multiunit Companies
By: Tatiana Sandino
Professor Sandino conducts research on early-stage multiunit companies that introduce management control systems to help maintain operations, as well as company culture, as they grow, but also to enable adaptation to the different markets that they serve. Building... View Details
- 2011
- Book
Detour: My Unexpected, Amazing, Life Changing Journey With OnStar
By: Chet Huber
Detour is the story behind the launch of OnStar’s now well known blue button, as told through the eyes of its founder and CEO of over fourteen years, Chet Huber. It’s a personal narrative that describes the events that led up to General Motors’ unexpected choice...
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Keywords:
General Motors;
OnStar;
Technological Innovation;
Business Startups;
Transportation;
Safety;
Personal Development and Career;
Creativity;
Success;
Business History;
Auto Industry
Huber, Chet. Detour: My Unexpected, Amazing, Life Changing Journey With OnStar. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011.
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
many firms. The article examines not only the types of risk found in different environments, but also how interviewees discussed and responded to risk. In the case of corruption, although most countries surveyed had similarly high levels...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 9
broad-based corporate governance reforms were implemented goes expressly against the prediction of prior schools of thought about business groups. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-072.pdf Cases & Course...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 2
management. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-099.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsRussia: Revolution and Reform Rawi Abdelal and Sogomon TarontsiHarvard Business School Case 710-030...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17
efforts to redesign workspaces and processes so they are better integrated with patients' needs. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-023.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School...
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Sean Silverthorne
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The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building
The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building makes two main theoretical contributions to the scholarship on credit markets and institutional development. First, the book demonstrates that opportunistic lenders can take...
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- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
their products, most demand the same from themselves. In so doing, they are at risk of letting their egos take over and letting their protective shells harden. When things go wrong—which they inevitably do—they assume the fault lies elsewhere. Yet in most View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
generating consensus on the specifics of benefit-based taxation. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55548 Harvard Business School Case 818-017 Pricing PatientPing In 2017, Jay Desai, the CEO of...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Oct 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Fairness, Efficiency, and Flexibility in Organ Allocation for Kidney Transplantation
- 24 Mar 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Fiduciary Duties and Equity-Debtholder Conflicts
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by Bo Becker & Per Stromberg
- October 2023 (Revised April 2024)
- Case
ghSMART & Co: Building and Scaling a Time Smart Firm
By: Ashley Whillans and Sara Coronel Rodriguez
"For ghSMART, freedom is the first principle from which all good things flow”—Geoff Smart, Chairman and Founder, ghSMART. ghSMART was a leadership advisory firm that was grounded in the principle of freedom. Talented Consultants and Partners could work remotely from...
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Time;
Consulting Firms;
Time Management;
Talent and Talent Management;
Employee Relationship Management;
Innovation Strategy;
Knowledge Sharing;
Organizational Culture;
Going Public;
Partners and Partnerships;
Expansion;
Reputation
Whillans, Ashley, and Sara Coronel Rodriguez. "ghSMART & Co: Building and Scaling a Time Smart Firm." Harvard Business School Case 924-009, October 2023. (Revised April 2024.)
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Democratizing Work: Redistributing Power in Organizations for a Democratic and Sustainable Future
By: Julie Battilana, Julie Yen, Isabelle Ferreras and Lakshmi Ramarajan
Environmental destruction and social inequalities are increasingly urgent challenges. How can corporations, which have played a key role in creating and reproducing these problems, be part of the solution? In this paper, we advance that a shift to more democratic forms...
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Keywords:
Corporate Citizenship;
Corporate Social Responsibility;
CSP;
CSR;
Domination;
Industrial Relations;
Power;
Resistance;
Work;
Corporate Governance;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Governance;
Power and Influence;
Environmental Management;
Social Issues
Battilana, Julie, Julie Yen, Isabelle Ferreras, and Lakshmi Ramarajan. "Democratizing Work: Redistributing Power in Organizations for a Democratic and Sustainable Future." Organization Theory 3, no. 1 (January–March 2022).