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  • December 2010 (Revised March 2012)
  • Teaching Note

Alibaba Group

By: Julie M. Wulf
Teaching Note for 710436. View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Business Subsidiaries; Competition; Motivation and Incentives; Internet and the Web; Growth and Development; Corporate Strategy; Organizational Structure; Retail Industry; China
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  • 17 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 17

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-114.pdf Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management Authors:Maria Guadalupe, Hongyi Li, and Julie Wulf Abstract This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Mastering Consulting and Advisory Skills - Course Catalog

challenging headwinds. After a successful inaugural semester as a full-term course, Mastering Consulting and Advisory Skills (MCAS) is transitioning to a half-term structure to maximize effectiveness. Based on alumni feedback, a half-term... View Details
  • March 1999
  • Case

Hans Fritz at Novartis Thailand (A): The First Month

By: Michael Y. Yoshino and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Dr. Hans Fritz is 37 years old when he arrives in Bangkok on March 1, 1998 to assume his position as general manager of Novartis Thailand. Novartis is the world's largest pharmaceutical company. He had lobbied to transition from a staff position to this line management... View Details
Keywords: Management Teams; Organizational Structure; Transition; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Working Conditions; Organizational Culture; Growth and Development Strategy; Crisis Management; Decision Making; Pharmaceutical Industry; Thailand
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  • Profile

Frank Spencer

logistics, organizational issues, strategy, and capital." In addition to his full-time work at Habitat, Spencer devotes approximately 20 hours each week to prepping for and attending classes at Union Presbyterian Seminary, where he... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate; Services
  • 11 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 11, 2007

future lock-in can arise without changing the structure of a should-choice, but by just changing people's temporal focus. Finally, we provide evidence that the should self operates at a higher construal level (abstract, superordinate)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • July 1991 (Revised June 1993)
  • Background Note

Conflicting Responsibilities

By: Joseph L. Badaracco
Presents a framework for resolving issues in which managers' responsibilities--to shareholders, employees, other stakeholder groups, and to their own values and commitments in life--conflict with each other. The framework analyzes these issues in terms of duties,... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Employees; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Structure; Personal Development and Career; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations
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  • August 2021
  • Teaching Note

Moderna (A)

By: Marco Iansiti, Karim R. Lakhani, Kerry Herman and Amy Klopfenstein
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 621-032. View Details
Keywords: Organizational Structure; Operations; Management; Health Pandemics; Research and Development; Goals and Objectives
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  • January 2015
  • Supplement

Chorus and Telecom: Building the Boards. An Interview with Sarah Naudé and Matt Stanley

By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott
In 2011, Telecom, the largest telecom provider in New Zealand, was being divided into two publicly traded companies. In connection with this split, Sarah Naudé and Matt Stanley worked with the chairman of Telecom, Wayne Boyd, to create two new boards of directors for... View Details
Keywords: Board Of Directors; Women's Empowerment; Governance; Leadership; Selection and Staffing; Organizational Structure; Decision Making; Human Resources; Diversity; Telecommunications Industry; New Zealand
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  • 12 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization

way in its home market. Beiersdorf invested heavily in political risk management. In the wake of World War I, the company developed a "ring" organizational structure as a way for affiliates to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics; Manufacturing; Consumer Products; Pharmaceutical
  • April 2009
  • Case

GSK's Acquisition of Sirtris: Independence or Integration?

By: Toby E. Stuart and James Weber
An executive from pharmaceutical company GSK must choose how much to integrate a recently acquired biotechnology firm, Sirtris. Moncef Slaoui, GSK's global head of R&D, championed the acquisition of Sirtris to gain access to its potentially revolutionary science.... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Resource Allocation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Research and Development; Science-Based Business; Integration
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  • 20 Nov 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018

incremental to the effects of other forms of organizational structure, namely business and geographic diversification. I also find that the level of debt at subsidiaries affects the parent company's borrowing costs. However, the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 15, 2008

slow decision-making, lack of visibility, and organizational inconsistency. When the case protagonist, Kim Scott, started with Google in 2004, she wondered if she would still be there in several years as she liked small, entrepreneurial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Nov 2007
  • First Look

First Look: November 6, 2007

patients' families in an ongoing organizational learning process. The two-case series is particularly distinctive in tracking an organizational change initiative for almost a decade and, as such, uncovers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 15

http://www.smi.ethz.ch/news/news/docs/ResearchAlive.pdf An Organizational Approach to Undoing Gender: The Unlikely Case of Offshore Oil Platforms Authors:R. Ely and D. E. Meyerson Publication:Research in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 23

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=43830 Team Scaffolds: How Minimal Team Structures Enable Role-Based Coordination By: Valentine, Melissa, and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract—In this paper, we integrate research on role-based coordination with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Feb 2023
  • Blog Post

The Rituals of Case Method Teaching

marriages to death, and even to organizational practices designed to promote cohesion. When Alison Wood Brooks, the O'Brien Associate Professor of Business Administration, joined the HBS faculty, she was working on a paper about how... View Details
  • Web

Design: At, Into, & Beyond - Race, Gender & Equity

everyone. A designer with an inclusive approach might speak out against automatic car door unlocking when considering the high rates of femicide around the world. On a structural level, in order for more perspectives to be heard, they... View Details
  • 28 Jun 2016
  • First Look

June 28, 2016

businesses that scale undergo a graduation process in which they meet the varying expectations of multiple organizational resource providers. At the unit level, they convince established core units that the potential value from combining... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Sep 2019
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019

Equity Finance class, an advanced elective course offered in the Harvard Business School MBA elective curriculum. The structure of the book follows the timeline of a typical investment. Starting with deal sourcing, due diligence and... View Details