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- 23 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
2019 Boston: Harvard Business Review Press Becoming a Manager: How New Managers Master the Challenges of Leadership By: Hill, Linda A. Abstract—In your career, or anyone's, there is one transition that stands out as the most crucial—going...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment
few" examples of shareholder actions resulting in an outcome such as the South African divestitures. "So, how do we operate in an imperfect society?" he asked. While clearly his committee wouldn't invest in a company owned by Saddam Hussein, in View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
What Makes a Good Leader?
When discussing business leadership, a distinction is often made between good management and good leadership. Managers are thought to be the budgeters, the organizers, the controllers — the ants, as one...
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by Deborah Blagg & Susan Young
- 16 Jun 2021
- HBS Case
Cruising in Crisis: How Carnival Is Riding Out the COVID-19 Storm
challenges. “To get to a better place, you therefore either have to find ways to generate more cash, or reduce or restructure your liabilities.” In addition to aggressively cutting expenses, Carnival also negotiated with its existing...
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- 24 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: What Mark Zuckerberg Can Learn About Crisis Leadership from Starbucks
things. After those first days, the moment had passed and other voices were crowding out his company’s messages. Leading in crisis is the real test for leaders. Zuckerberg failed his big test and will struggle to recover. Johnson has rebuilt goodwill with Starbucks...
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- 13 Apr 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
The ‘IKEA Effect’: When Labor Leads to Love
- November 2021
- Case
Steve Schwarzman on Dealmaking II: When They Hold All the Cards (A)
By: James K. Sebenius and Alex Green
Blackstone Co-founder, Chairman, and CEO Stephen A. Schwarzman, whom Forbes has called “Wall Street’s Greatest Dealmaker,” played a major role in the negotiations that transformed Blackstone from a fragile startup in 1985 with $400,000 in capital into a dominant...
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- 14 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Rainmakers: Why Bad Weather Means Good Productivity
- 24 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Bernie Madoff Explains Himself
brokerage business though, in his growing investment management practice, Madoff started to feel greater strain in generating profits. He began “naked shorting” to clients. Another controversial but legal...
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- 05 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2006
Gary Kusumi is considering. GMAC Insurance, the wholly-owned auto insurance subsidiary of General Motors, formed through the merger of two smaller insurance firms, is at a strategic cross-roads. Progressive changed the competitive...
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Sean Silverthorne
- September 1972 (Revised February 1984)
- Case
Blanchard Importing and Distribution Co., Inc.
By: Paul W. Marshall
Illustration of the two main types of errors resulting from use of the economic order quantity (EOQ) as a tool in production scheduling. Designed to permit class discussion to begin with a consideration of one common type of mistake, errors in calculation of the EOQ...
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Marshall, Paul W. "Blanchard Importing and Distribution Co., Inc." Harvard Business School Case 673-033, September 1972. (Revised February 1984.)
- 2005
- Working Paper
Wintel: Cooperation or Conflict
We study the incentives of complementors (producers of complementary products) to cooperate vs. compete and how these interact. In a system of complements, like the PC, the value of the final product depends on how well the different components work together. This, in...
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Investment;
Price;
Time Management;
Product;
Product Development;
Research and Development;
Conflict and Resolution;
Motivation and Incentives;
Value
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and David B. Yoffie. "Wintel: Cooperation or Conflict." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 05-083, July 2005.
- April 2008
- Exercise
Exercise: Customer-Operator Letter Writing
By: Frances X. Frei
The exercise involves having students write letters to an organization of their choice describing their operating experience at a detailed level. The companies' responses are paired with the students' letters and the entire collection is made available to the class....
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Customer Relationship Management;
Customer Satisfaction;
Customer Value and Value Chain;
Knowledge Sharing;
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Performance Improvement
Frei, Frances X. "Exercise: Customer-Operator Letter Writing." Harvard Business School Exercise 608-126, April 2008.
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
model for integrating diverse values offers some grounds for thinking about parallel virtues in the business case. Our goal is not to offer any general prescription for organizational democracy at this stage but, instead, to argue that...
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Carmen Nobel
- 2007
- Working Paper
Bandwidth Allocation in Peer-to-Peer Filesharing Networks
By: Albert Creus-Mir, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Andres Hervas-Drane
We present a model of bandwidth allocation in a stylized peer-to-peer file sharing network with s peers (sharers) who share files and download from each other and f peers (freeriders) who download from sharers but do not contribute files. Assuming that upload bandwidth...
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- 07 Jul 2019
- HBS Case
Walmart's Workforce of the Future
private employer in the United States, with 1.5 million workers (2.2 million worldwide). But that size and dominance doesn’t make Walmart immune to pressures faced by any other retail operation. In the second-year Harvard Business School course View Details
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
negotiators interact to influence cooperative behavior of low-power negotiators. Managers from four different cultural groups (Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, and the United States) negotiated face-to-face in a simulated power-asymmetric...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2021
- In Practice
What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?
The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental...
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by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
management team is wondering if it can take more control of distribution instead of leaving it to the Bordeaux wine merchants. Also, can the Chateau build marketing and sales capabilities on its own? Who is the target market, wine...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?
Miller vowed to hide his criminal past from the business world—a secret he managed to keep for more than 40 years. That was back in 1982, when arrest and prison records were recorded on paper, stored in filing cabinets, and were much...
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