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- January 2004 (Revised May 2004)
- Background Note
Professional Associations
By: Ashish Nanda
This case discusses why society grants professional associations the rights of certification and self-regulation. In exercising these rights, professional associations serve client interests but also the interest of member practitioners. The case discusses how...
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Nanda, Ashish. "Professional Associations." Harvard Business School Background Note 904-054, January 2004. (Revised May 2004.)
- April 2003 (Revised September 2003)
- Case
Harold Morton and the Rivendell Board (A)
By: F. Warren McFarlan and Ingrid Vargas
Describes the thoughts of a new trustee prior to his first trustees meeting.
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McFarlan, F. Warren, and Ingrid Vargas. "Harold Morton and the Rivendell Board (A)." Harvard Business School Case 303-114, April 2003. (Revised September 2003.)
- November 2001 (Revised April 2003)
- Case
Camp Dresser & McKee: Getting Incentives Right
By: Ashish Nanda
"If you try to use money to motivate behavior, you are in a powerful and dangerous place, especially with engineers and scientists," remarked Tom Furman, CEO of Camp Dresser & McKee, Inc. (CDM), a consulting environmental engineering firm. Historically, CDM had...
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Nanda, Ashish, and M. Julia Prats. "Camp Dresser & McKee: Getting Incentives Right." Harvard Business School Case 902-122, November 2001. (Revised April 2003.)
- May 2007
- Article
Corporate Financing Decisions When Investors Take the Path of Least Resistance
By: Malcolm Baker, Joshua Coval and Jeremy Stein
We explore the consequences for corporate financial policy that arise when investors exhibit inertial behavior. One implication of investor inertia is that, all else equal, a firm pursuing a strategy of equity-financed growth will prefer a stock-for-stock merger to...
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Baker, Malcolm, Joshua Coval, and Jeremy Stein. "Corporate Financing Decisions When Investors Take the Path of Least Resistance." Journal of Financial Economics 84, no. 2 (May 2007): 266–298.
- December 1988 (Revised October 1989)
- Teaching Note
Atlas Copco (A): Gaining and Building Distribution Channels, (B) and (C): The Conflict Episode, Teaching Note
Teaching Note for (9-588-004), (9-588-020), and (9-588-021).
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- December 2004
- Article
When the State is Untrustworthy: Public Finance and Private Banking in Porfirian Mexico
By: Noel Maurer and Andrei Gomberg
Maurer, Noel, and Andrei Gomberg. "When the State is Untrustworthy: Public Finance and Private Banking in Porfirian Mexico." Journal of Economic History 64, no. 4 (December 2004): 1087–1107.
- January 1998
- Case
Jeffrey Smith
Jeffrey Smith and David Johnson have apparently irreconcilable differences over their firm's strategy, which have led Jeffrey to conclude that he must fire David. Focuses on whether Jeffrey has used his influence in such a way as to avoid conflict. If he has no other...
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Ibarra, Herminia M., and Jennifer Suesse. "Jeffrey Smith." Harvard Business School Case 498-043, January 1998.
- July 1995
- Exercise
Workshop on Understanding and Communicating About Our Group Identities and Our Differences
By: Mary C. Gentile and James I. Cash Jr.
Gentile, Mary C., and James I. Cash Jr. "Workshop on Understanding and Communicating About Our Group Identities and Our Differences." Harvard Business School Exercise 396-009, July 1995.
- May 1988 (Revised November 1990)
- Supplement
Airbus vs. Boeing (C): Steps Toward Dispute Resolution
Presents partial resolution of problem. Cites points still to be resolved in trade dispute between U.S. aircraft manufacturers and Airbus Industrie. To be used as a handout after discussion of the case.
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Keywords:
Trade;
Problems and Challenges;
Conflict and Resolution;
Aerospace Industry;
United States
Salter, Malcolm S. "Airbus vs. Boeing (C): Steps Toward Dispute Resolution." Harvard Business School Supplement 388-146, May 1988. (Revised November 1990.)
- September 2019
- Exercise
Difficult Conversations (A)
By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
The exercises can be used as a follow-up to the Yesware (A) case (#816-039), or in conjunction with any case that involves replacing a founding team member (and/or providing feedback to a top executive). This is a role-playing exercise, and has been carried out in the...
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Keywords:
Firing;
Feedback;
Founders;
Culture;
Values;
Neuroscience;
Business Startups;
Organizational Culture;
Resignation and Termination;
Communication;
Emotions;
Trust;
Human Resources;
Entrepreneurship
Ghosh, Shikhar, and Shweta Bagai. "Difficult Conversations (A)." Harvard Business School Exercise 820-055, September 2019.
- Article
Seeker Beware: The Interpersonal Costs of Ignoring Advice
Prior advice research has focused on why people rely on (or ignore) advice and its impact on judgment accuracy. We expand the consideration of advice-seeking outcomes by investigating the interpersonal consequences of advice seekers’ decisions. Across nine studies, we...
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Keywords:
Advice;
Advice Seeking;
Expertise;
Impression Management;
Wisdom Of Crowds;
Interpersonal Communication;
Relationships;
Behavior;
Experience and Expertise;
Perception;
Judgments;
Outcome or Result
Blunden, Hayley, Jennifer M. Logg, Alison Wood Brooks, Leslie John, and Francesca Gino. "Seeker Beware: The Interpersonal Costs of Ignoring Advice." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 150 (January 2019): 83–100.
- August 2011 (Revised November 2015)
- Case
CFW Clinics in Kenya: To Profit or Not for Profit
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Katharine Lee
Ten years after having launched a chain of non-profit health clinics, its founder is now debating the merits of scaling the operation by converting to a for-profit enterprise.
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Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Business Model;
Social Enterprise;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Transformation;
For-Profit Firms;
Health Industry;
Kenya
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Katharine Lee. "CFW Clinics in Kenya: To Profit or Not for Profit." Harvard Business School Case 512-006, August 2011. (Revised November 2015.)
- November 2008 (Revised January 2011)
- Exercise
Breaking Through Action Plan
By: David A. Thomas and Karen J. Watai
The "Breaking Through Action Plan" is a developmental tool based on the book, Breaking Through: The Making of Minority Executives in Corporate America by David A. Thomas and John J. Gabarro. The Action Plan was originally designed as part of a facilitated session but...
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Keywords:
Competency and Skills;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Personal Development and Career;
Relationships;
Power and Influence;
Trust
Thomas, David A., and Karen J. Watai. "Breaking Through Action Plan." Harvard Business School Exercise 409-059, November 2008. (Revised January 2011.)
- 2006
- Working Paper
The Limits of Authority: Motivation versus Coordination
This paper studies the effects of open disagreement on motivation and coordination. It shows how, in the presence of differing priors, motivation and coordination impose conflicting demands on the allocation of authority, leading to a trade-off between the... View Details
Keywords:
Decisions;
Governance Controls;
Organizational Culture;
Agency Theory;
Conflict and Resolution;
Motivation and Incentives
Van den Steen, Eric J. "The Limits of Authority: Motivation versus Coordination." Sloan School of Management Working Paper, No. 4626-06, January 2006. (Available at SSRN.)
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders
of the individual, and concern for social responsibility. As Siam Cement expanded beyond Thailand, however, managers felt pressured to compromise the corporate code of ethics. The company's standards regarding improper payments, for...
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by Judith A. Ross
- 2012
- Working Paper
When Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint versus Separate Evaluation
By: Iris Bohnet, Alexandra van Geen and Max H. Bazerman
We examine a new intervention to overcome gender biases in hiring, promotion, and job assignments: an "evaluation nudge," in which people are evaluated jointly rather than separately regarding their future performance. Evaluators are more likely to focus on individual...
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Keywords:
Prejudice and Bias;
Selection and Staffing;
Behavior;
Groups and Teams;
Decision Making;
Performance Evaluation;
Gender
Bohnet, Iris, Alexandra van Geen, and Max H. Bazerman. "When Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint versus Separate Evaluation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-083, March 2012.
- May 2011
- Article
The Growing Power of Non-financial Reports
By: Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim
We are exploring the value of forcing corporations to issue sustainability reports, which provide information about corporate performance in terms of social, environmental and governance issues. In a breakthrough study they asked, what is the effect of mandatory...
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- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
Why would a business school professor want to write a case study about a string quartet? The answer was easy for Robert Austin, a scholar with research expertise in the management of innovation. While attending an academic workshop near Copenhagen, he had the good...
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