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- November 2016
- Case
QuintilesIMS: Biosimilar Marketing in England
By: John A. Quelch and Emily C. Boudreau
QuintilesIMS was a leading healthcare consulting firm best known for its data and information offerings as well as its market research and management consulting services for life science companies. By 2015, the company was expanding beyond the biopharmaceutical...
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Keywords:
Health;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Biotech;
Marketing;
Health Care and Treatment;
Biotechnology Industry;
England
Quelch, John A., and Emily C. Boudreau. "QuintilesIMS: Biosimilar Marketing in England." Harvard Business School Case 517-054, November 2016.
- Article
Managing Perceptions of Distress at Work: Reframing Emotion as Passion
By: Elizabeth Baily Wolf, Jooa Julia Lee, Sunita Sah and Alison Wood Brooks
Expressing distress at work can have negative consequences for employees: observers perceive employees who express distress as less competent than employees who do not. Across five experiments, we explore how reframing a socially inappropriate emotional expression...
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Wolf, Elizabeth Baily, Jooa Julia Lee, Sunita Sah, and Alison Wood Brooks. "Managing Perceptions of Distress at Work: Reframing Emotion as Passion." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 137 (November 2016): 1–12.
- Article
Risk Management—The Revealing Hand
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Anette Mikes
Many believe that the recent emphasis on enterprise risk management function is misguided, especially after the failure of sophisticated quantitative risk models during the global financial crisis. The concern is that top-down risk management will inhibit innovation...
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Keywords:
Risk Management
Kaplan, Robert S., and Anette Mikes. "Risk Management—The Revealing Hand." Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 28, no. 1 (Winter 2016): 8–18.
- 2016
- Working Paper
Explaining the Persistence of Gender Inequality: The Work-Family Narrative as a Social Defense Against the 24/7 Work Culture
By: Irene Padavic, Robin J. Ely and Erin M. Reid
It is widely accepted that the conflict women experience between family obligations and professional jobs’ long hours lies at the heart of their stalled advancement. Yet research suggests that this “work-family narrative” is partial at best: men, too, experience...
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Keywords:
24/7 Work Culture;
Hegemonic Narrative;
Social Defense;
Work-family Conflict;
Systems Psychodynamic Theory;
Work-Life Balance;
Personal Development and Career;
Gender;
Equality and Inequality;
Organizational Culture
Padavic, Irene, Robin J. Ely, and Erin M. Reid. "Explaining the Persistence of Gender Inequality: The Work-Family Narrative as a Social Defense Against the 24/7 Work Culture." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-038, October 2016.
- 2016
- Working Paper
How Does Competition Impact Quality of Care? A Case Study of the U.S. Dialysis Industry
By: Leemore S. Dafny, David Cutler and Christopher Ody
Dafny, Leemore S., David Cutler, and Christopher Ody. "How Does Competition Impact Quality of Care? A Case Study of the U.S. Dialysis Industry." Working Paper, October 2016. (Currently being revised (June 2018))
- September 2016
- Article
Communicating Value in Healthcare Using Radar Charts: A Case Study of Prostate Cancer
By: Nikhil G. Thaker, Tariq N. Ali, Michael E. Porter, Thomas W. Feeley, Robert S. Kaplan and Steven J. Frank
Question: Can we create a value-based tool to visualize the outcomes and cost of various treatments that could facilitate patient-centered decision making?
Summary Answer: We developed a standardized value framework by using radar charts to visualize and... View Details
Summary Answer: We developed a standardized value framework by using radar charts to visualize and... View Details
Thaker, Nikhil G., Tariq N. Ali, Michael E. Porter, Thomas W. Feeley, Robert S. Kaplan, and Steven J. Frank. "Communicating Value in Healthcare Using Radar Charts: A Case Study of Prostate Cancer." Journal of Oncology Practice 12, no. 9 (September 2016): 813–820.
- September–October 2016
- Article
Growing New Corporate Businesses: From Initiation to Graduation
By: Sebastian Raisch and Michael Tushman
Large companies initiate many new businesses, but few of them reach scale. The ambidexterity literature describes how companies create exploratory businesses, but says little about how they subsequently scale these businesses. The strategy literature uses real option...
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Keywords:
Ambidexterity;
Comparative Case Study;
Corporate Venturing;
Exploration;
Organization Design;
Real Option Theory;
Organizational Design;
Corporate Strategy;
Corporate Entrepreneurship
Raisch, Sebastian, and Michael Tushman. "Growing New Corporate Businesses: From Initiation to Graduation." Organization Science 27, no. 5 (September–October 2016).
- Summer 2016
- Article
Open Content, Linus' Law, and Neutral Point of View
By: Shane Greenstein and Feng Zhu
The diffusion of the Internet and digital technologies has enabled many organizations to use the open-content production model to produce and disseminate knowledge. While several prior studies have shown that the open-content production model can lead to high-quality...
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Keywords:
Prejudice and Bias;
Internet and the Web;
Balance and Stability;
Operations;
Knowledge Management;
Knowledge Dissemination
Greenstein, Shane, and Feng Zhu. "Open Content, Linus' Law, and Neutral Point of View." Information Systems Research 27, no. 3 (September 2016): 618–635.
- 2016
- Chapter
Unpacking the Dynamics of Successful Change: Ten Insights from the Private Sector
Book Abstract: The aim of this book is to catalyze global interest in the pursuit of transformational changes in natural resource and environmental management. It is shown that transformational policy reforms involve fundamental shifts in strategy with far-reaching...
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Keywords:
Change Management;
Environmental Sustainability;
Policy;
Transformation;
Australia;
New Zealand;
China;
United States;
Europe;
Southeast Asia
Henderson, Rebecca. "Unpacking the Dynamics of Successful Change: Ten Insights from the Private Sector." Chap. 3 in Transformational Change in Environmental and Natural Resource Management: Guidelines for Policy Excellence, edited by Michael D. Young and Christine Esau. Routledge, 2016.
- August 2016 (Revised March 2019)
- Case
Tom Kalil: Leading Technology & Innovation at the White House
By: Linda A. Hill and Allison J. Wigen
This case explores the role of Tom Kalil as Deputy Director for Technology & Innovation at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. With the end of President Obama's Administration drawing near, Kalil and his team of "policy entrepreneurs" must work to...
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Keywords:
Innovation;
Innovation Leadership;
Government Innovation;
Talent Management;
Collaboration;
Policy-making;
Public Sector Management;
Leadership And Managing People;
Public-Private Partnerships;
Ecosystems;
Science And Technology Studies;
Public Entrepreneurship;
Business And Government;
Entrepreneurship;
Government and Politics;
Leadership;
Networks;
Partners and Partnerships;
Science;
Technology;
Technology Industry;
North and Central America;
United States;
District of Columbia
Hill, Linda A., and Allison J. Wigen. "Tom Kalil: Leading Technology & Innovation at the White House." Harvard Business School Case 417-021, August 2016. (Revised March 2019.)
- 2017
- Working Paper
Cross-Boundary Teaming for Innovation: Integrating Research on Teams and Knowledge in Organizations
By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey
Cross-boundary teaming, within and across organizations, is an increasingly popular strategy for innovation. Knowledge diversity is seen to expand the range of views and ideas that teams can draw upon to innovate. Yet, case studies of practice reveal that teaming...
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Edmondson, Amy C., and Jean-François Harvey. "Cross-Boundary Teaming for Innovation: Integrating Research on Teams and Knowledge in Organizations." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-013, August 2016. (Revised February 2017.)
- July 2016 (Revised January 2017)
- Case
Banking on Change: Aligning Culture and Compensation at Morgan Stanley
This case study was prepared as part of a research project on Culture, Conduct, and Governance in Financial Firms. The objective of this project is to compare and contrast the efforts of U.S. and European banks to induce changes in organization culture in the aftermath...
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Keywords:
Business or Company Management;
Corporate Accountability;
Ethics;
Organizational Culture;
Corporate Governance;
Banks and Banking;
United States;
Europe
Salter, Malcolm S. "Banking on Change: Aligning Culture and Compensation at Morgan Stanley." Harvard Business School Case 917-402, July 2016. (Revised January 2017.)
- July–August 2016
- Article
Stick to the Strategy or Make the Sale?: A Manufacturer of High-tech Streetlights Considers an Exception to Its New Subscription Model
By: Mitchell Weiss
A manufacturer of high-tech streetlights considers an exception to its new subscription model. A fictionalized case study based on the HBS Case 816-005, "Bigbelly," by Mitchell Weiss and Christine Snively. This case is an example of public entrepreneurship.
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Keywords:
Public Entrepreneurship;
Smart Cities;
Anything As A Service;
Xaas;
Bigbelly;
Entrepreneurship
Weiss, Mitchell. "Stick to the Strategy or Make the Sale? A Manufacturer of High-tech Streetlights Considers an Exception to Its New Subscription Model." Harvard Business Review 94, nos. 7-8 (July–August 2016): 119–121. (Published online as “Case Study: Should You Adjust Your Business Model for a Major Customer?")
- 2016
- Working Paper
More Effective Sports Sponsorship—Combining and Integrating Key Resources and Capabilities of International Sports Events and Their Major Sponsors
By: Ragnar Lund and Stephen A. Greyser
Organizations in the field of sports are becoming increasingly dependent on sponsors for their value creation and growth. Studies suggest that sports organizations (rights-holders) often fail to exploit the full potential of such sponsorship partnerships. The aim of...
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Keywords:
Sponsorship;
"Sports Organizations,;
Case Study;
Europe;
Business Relationships;
Collaborative Marketing;
Value Co-creation;
Relationship Portfolio Management;
Value Creation;
Cases;
Marketing;
Sports;
Sports Industry;
Europe
Lund, Ragnar, and Stephen A. Greyser. "More Effective Sports Sponsorship—Combining and Integrating Key Resources and Capabilities of International Sports Events and Their Major Sponsors." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-139, June 2016.
- July 16, 2016
- Article
A Game Theoretic Model for Resource Allocation Among Countermeasures with Multiple Attributes
By: Elisabeth C. Paulson, Igor Linkov and Jeffrey Keisler
We study a strategic, two-player, sequential game between an attacker and defender. The defender must allocate resources amongst possible countermeasures and across possible targets. The attacker then chooses a type of threat and a target to attack. This paper proposes...
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Paulson, Elisabeth C., Igor Linkov, and Jeffrey Keisler. "A Game Theoretic Model for Resource Allocation Among Countermeasures with Multiple Attributes." European Journal of Operational Research 252, no. 2 (July 16, 2016): 610–622.
- June 2016
- Teaching Note
Relating to Peapod
By: Jill Avery and Susan Fournier
This case concerns the topics of relationship marketing, customer acquisition and retention, brand loyalty, service failure and recovery, new product introduction, and the use of consumer ethnography to study consumer behavior. Specifically, the case explores the...
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- 2016
- Working Paper
Who Pays for White-Collar Crime?
By: Paul Healy and George Serafeim
Using a proprietary dataset of 667 companies around the world that experienced white-collar crime, we investigate what drives punishment of perpetrators of crime. We find a significantly lower propensity to punish crime in our sample, where most crimes are not reported...
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Keywords:
Crime;
Gender Bias;
Women;
Women Executives;
Corruption;
Legal Aspects Of Business;
Firing;
Human Capital;
Human Resource Management;
Prejudice and Bias;
Crime and Corruption;
Judgments;
Law Enforcement;
Human Resources;
Corporate Governance;
Gender
Healy, Paul, and George Serafeim. "Who Pays for White-Collar Crime?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-148, June 2016.
- May 2016 (Revised June 2017)
- Case
Sales Compensation Vignettes
This case study is comprised of two vignettes about startup companies considering whether and how to change their sales compensation plans. ElMenus.com is a restaurant app venture in Egypt seeking to lower customer churn while confronting new competition. BigBelly is a...
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Cespedes, Frank V. "Sales Compensation Vignettes." Harvard Business School Case 816-092, May 2016. (Revised June 2017.)
- January 2016 (Revised August 2019)
- Case
From Preparatory Academy to National Flagship: The Evolution of Tsinghua University
By: William C. Kirby and Joycelyn W. Eby
Tsinghua University is one of the most prominent universities in China, and, increasingly, in the world. Its evolution to this position reflects the major developments in Chinese history—outward looking internationalism in the 1920s and 1930s, creative survival in the...
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Keywords:
University Administration;
University Curriculum;
University Faculty;
World-class Universities;
Higher Education;
History;
Governance;
Education Industry;
China;
Beijing
Kirby, William C., and Joycelyn W. Eby. "From Preparatory Academy to National Flagship: The Evolution of Tsinghua University." Harvard Business School Case 316-141, January 2016. (Revised August 2019.)
- January 2016
- Case
Open Innovation at Fujitsu (A)
By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey
This case study examines the open innovation journey at Fujitsu, a global information and communication technology company. The case ends with the location decision between Tokyo, Japan, downtown San Francisco or Sunnyvale, California, regarding establishing a small...
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Keywords:
Open Innovation;
Collaboration;
Culture Change;
Leadership;
Japan;
United States;
Inter-organizational Relationships;
Teaming;
Maker Movement;
Nascent Industries;
Change Management;
Leading Change;
Organizational Culture;
Emerging Markets;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Information Technology Industry;
Technology Industry;
Sunnyvale;
Tokyo;
San Francisco
Edmondson, Amy C., and Jean-François Harvey. "Open Innovation at Fujitsu (A)." Harvard Business School Case 616-034, January 2016.