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- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
of control), (iii) increase DM total and performance-based pay. The results are generally consistent with the explanation that firms redesign their organizations through a set of complementary choices in response to changes in their...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
and CEO, Michael Lebowitz, now wondered what he needed to do to keep his company competitive in the years to come. Had he found the right way to organize his people and structure the organization following the transition from...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’Entrepreneurship and Multinationals’
change to economists, political scientists, sociologists, and a host of popular writers." A renewal of interest in the "history of capitalism" is finally beginning to correct this peculiar omission. Related Article An...
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Re: Geoffrey G. Jones
- 14 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Should You Bring Advertising Expertise In-House?
reasons include structural changes in the advertising industry such as the unbundling of agency services, and improved communication tools that make it easier and more cost efficient for firms to manage some...
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- 07 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence
conflicts of interest. For example, the change in the commission structure in 1974 created a whole new dynamic that influenced the role of research by investment banks. And the growing importance of...
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by Harvard Management Update
- 14 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
Recruiting During Uncertainty: How to Meet Students Where They Are
While there may be changes along the way, the more information students have about the process the more confident they will feel about engaging with your company. Create space for students to share their career goals honestly Transparency...
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- 14 Aug 2015
- Blog Post
What is a Career Coach?
the students and alumni they work with pursue their own unique career vision Also, when it comes right down to it, I think students and alumni find it really valuable to be able to spend 45 minutes speaking to someone about their job search on a regular basis – it can...
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Entrepreneurial Sales 102: Building, Managing, and Scaling the First Sales Team as a Founder, Investor, or Advisor - Course Catalog
a winning tactic. It is not. Often the critical success factor is exactly how a firm goes to market – with its sales force. But the rules have changed – innovations like ‘product-led-growth’ models and social media are View Details
- December 1999
- Case
Agrochemicals at Ciba-Geigy AG (A)
By: Michael L. Tushman, Wendy Smith and Daniel Radov
After spending five years to develop a revolutionary product, the director of Ciba-Geigy's fungicide research department is handed an unfavorable market study. The case details the R&D process for the new product, including information on corporate partnerships,...
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Agribusiness;
Plant-Based Agribusiness;
Research and Development;
Innovation and Invention;
Innovation Strategy;
Product Launch;
Marketing Channels;
Change Management;
Product Development;
Business Processes;
Organizational Structure;
Corporate Accountability;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Tushman, Michael L., Wendy Smith, and Daniel Radov. "Agrochemicals at Ciba-Geigy AG (A)." Harvard Business School Case 400-022, December 1999.
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
or Hands: How Do Employees Respond to a Radical Global Language Change Over Time? By: Reiche, Sebastian, and Tsedal Neeley Abstract— To understand how recipients respond to radical change over time across...
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Dina Gerdeman
- October 2017
- Teaching Note
Canadian Pacific's Bid for Norfolk Southern
By: Benjamin C. Esty and E. Scott Mayfield
Teaching Note for HBS No. 216-057.
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- April 2016
- Supplement
Canadian Pacific's Bid for Norfolk Southern Spreadsheet Supplement
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Scott Mayfield
In December 2015, Canadian Pacific Railroad (CPR) has just made its third bid to acquire Norfolk Southern Corporation (NSC), one of the largest railroads in the United States. Having rejected the prior offers, NSC’s CEO James Squires and the NSC board must now value...
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- 04 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 4
the work structure and in the physical space to promote the effective teamwork that was so essential to producing compelling, engaging animated films. Now it was time to figure out how well the changes were...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
must expect health plans to direct patients to excellent providers, not those provider networks that offer the biggest discounts.” What to do? The most important single change necessary is for employers to think about health care in terms...
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- 05 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 5, 2016
where CEO wealth is sensitive to change in the share price, (2) where announced earnings are particularly likely to be an important source of information about managerial ability and effort, and (3) before implementation of Sarbanes-Oxley...
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Sean Silverthlorne
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
forgoing an inspection of the trees. And many trees in the retail forest, that is, many brick-and-mortar stores, are in ill health. Like trees, retail stores are long-lived, often with leases lasting ten or more years, and are unable to rapidly adapt to meet a View Details
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Unlocking Your Investment Capital
markets, managers can engineer a company's capital structure so that the only liabilities borne by the company are value-added risks. What are value-added risks and how are they different from passive risks? A: "Value-added"...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
leadership and changed the basic structure of Wall Street, as outlined in this excerpt from the chapter “Revolution in Investment Banking.” During their time together working on the Ford offering [in 1956,...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Capitalism’s False Mantra
University of Toronto. The paper argued that the structure of executive compensation and perks motivated CEOs and other top officers to feather their own nests at the expense of the business itself — the “principal-agent problem.” How...
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- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
in Developing Countries Authors: Diego Comin, Norman Loayza, Farooq Pasha, and Luis Serven Abstract We build a two-country asymmetric DSGE model with two features: (1) a product cycle structure determines the range of intermediate goods...
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Martha Lagace