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- August 1999 (Revised February 2000)
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Cisco Systems, Inc.: Acquisition Integration for Manufacturing (A)
By: Steven C. Wheelwright, Charles A. Holloway, Nicole Tempest and Christian G. Kasper
Describes the procedures and processes used by Cisco Systems in its acquisition of high-technology firms. Its goal is to retain key engineering talent and to leverage existing product development efforts, but to quickly merge acquired companies its own systems and... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Leveraged Buyouts; Acquisition; Integration; Mergers and Acquisitions; Production; Activity Based Costing and Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Management; Technological Innovation; Talent and Talent Management; Human Resources; Manufacturing Industry; Technology Industry; England
Wheelwright, Steven C., Charles A. Holloway, Nicole Tempest, and Christian G. Kasper. "Cisco Systems, Inc.: Acquisition Integration for Manufacturing (A)." Harvard Business School Case 600-015, August 1999. (Revised February 2000.)
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
skill transfer—the two charges that the new skills economy has laid out for any educational enterprise. Corporate Explorer: How Corporations Beat Startups at the Innovation... View Details
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
copyright, as well as the application of these rules to software, video, recordings, and Internet service providers. Purchase this note: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309052 Corporate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
The Corporate Lattice: Achieving High Performance in the Changing World of Work by Cathleen Benko (MBA ’89) and Molly Anderson (Harvard Business Review Press) The authors argue that a lattice model rather than the View Details
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53563 The Use and Misuse of Patent Data: Issues for Corporate Finance and Beyond By: Lerner, Josh, and Amit Seru Abstract—Patents and citations are powerful tools for understanding View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
other outputs by autonomous machines. I argue that organizational researchers of creativity and innovation should invest significant energy in studying artificial intelligence and computer-assisted human intelligence, the ways in which... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Nov 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Accounting for Product Impact in the Consumer Finance Industry
- 08 Jan 2001
- What Do You Think?
Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?
Summing Up "What we are looking at is a fundamental challenge to our assumptions about which corporate structures work," commented Daniel Hayes in response to the recent piece on the future bounds of the organization. Raman... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
The School that Donham Built
campus on the banks of the Charles. “Dean Donham was an extraordinarily innovative and productive leader,” says Dean Nitin Nohria. “Many iconic HBS elements—including our mission, residential campus, case method teaching, the Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
Illustration by Mario Wagner RELATED Learn about how HBS students and alumni are helping transform Boston Watch alumni discuss innovation inside City Hall Once viewed as an oxymoron, civic innovation has... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Youth Movement: HBS Clubs Make Students a Top Priority
On opposite coasts of the United States, two HBS clubs have developed innovative programs to help MBA students broaden their career options. "I am confident that I will get a job in Seattle when I graduate," says Martin DeBono (HBS '00),... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Revitalizing America
help address urgent priorities that the public cares about and bring communities together for the common good. An early slogan for AmeriCorps, the lead program of America's Corporation for National and Community Service, was "getting... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-099WP.pdf Evaluating the Impact of SA 8000 Certification Authors:Michael J. Hiscox, Claire Schwartz, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract SA 8000, along with other types of certification standards and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
US outbound FPI and FDI, this paper analyzes whether the composition of US outbound capital flows reflect efforts to bypass home country tax regimes and weak host country investor protections. The cross-country analysis indicates that a 10% decrease in a foreign... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism
separating corporate leaders from their rank-and-file workers has become a hot-button issue in the upcoming presidential election. And in public opinion polls, business moguls are cushioned from the bottom of the reputation scale only by... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- February 2010 (Revised January 2014)
- Case
Tennant Company
By: Toby E. Stuart, Lynda M. Applegate and James Weber
Tennant, a leading producer of floor cleaning equipment, must determine how to create, finance, structure, staff, govern, measure, and manage a new venture for developing a fundamentally new product line. In 2005, Tennant Company had developed an innovative,... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Change Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Disruptive Innovation; Product Development; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Research and Development
Stuart, Toby E., Lynda M. Applegate, and James Weber. "Tennant Company." Harvard Business School Case 810-040, February 2010. (Revised January 2014.)
- 12 Jan 2017
- News
Personalizing Women’s Path to Success
caught the entrepreneurial bug. She realized she was passionate about solving problems with new and innovative solutions. Three years later, the newly married Skeete Tatum applied to HBS to pivot to venture capital, and convinced her... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
the improved ability of firms to replicate business innovations has affected not only productivity, but also the nature of business competition itself. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-016.pdf Cases &... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular 'Cold Call' Podcasts
covering world-class brands, innovative start-ups, and social enterprises, and the most popular of the more than 30 episodes produced in the past year are listed below. The Amazing Life of One of America’s Earliest Black, Female... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
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Middle East & North Africa - Global Activities 2021
or by cleaning up its streets? Hsieh, who is now course head for Leadership and Corporate Accountability, wrote the case “Cedar Environmental: Innovation vs. Corruption” with Youssef Abdel Aal of HBS’s... View Details