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- January 2006
- Case
Ron Perez (A)
By: Lynn S. Paine
The division human resources officer must decide whether to discipline a long-time employee for misusing company time and for improperly filling out time cards for his work on government contracts. Intended to focus on the various factors relevant to disciplining... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Employees; Business or Company Management; Management Practices and Processes; Organizations; Crime and Corruption
Paine, Lynn S. "Ron Perez (A)." Harvard Business School Case 306-084, January 2006.
- January 2005 (Revised September 2018)
- Exercise
RetailSoft: Role for Sydney Masser
By: Kathleen McGinn, Hannah Riley Bowles and Dina Witter
Presents a three-way version of the RetailMax simulation requiring students to enact an internal salary negotiation, taking on the roles of Cam Archer, a star employee, and Regan Kessel, a VP trying to attract the MBA into his department. However, RetailSoft introduces... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation; Compensation and Benefits; Management Practices and Processes; Retail Industry
McGinn, Kathleen, Hannah Riley Bowles, and Dina Witter. "RetailSoft: Role for Sydney Masser." Harvard Business School Exercise 905-005, January 2005. (Revised September 2018.)
- January 2005 (Revised September 2018)
- Exercise
RetailSoft: Role for Regan Kessel
By: Kathleen McGinn, Hannah Riley Bowles and Dina Witter
Presents a three-way version of the RetailMax simulation requiring students to enact an internal salary negotiation, taking on the roles of Cam Archer, a star employee, and Regan Kessel, a VP trying to attract the MBA into his department. However, RetailSoft introduces... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation; Compensation and Benefits; Management Practices and Processes; Retail Industry
McGinn, Kathleen, Hannah Riley Bowles, and Dina Witter. "RetailSoft: Role for Regan Kessel." Harvard Business School Exercise 905-003, January 2005. (Revised September 2018.)
- April 1942 (Revised December 1982)
- Case
Dashman Co.
The vice president in charge of purchasing sends a letter to each of the company's 20 purchasing executives requesting that contracts made in excess of $10,000 be cleared with him prior to signing. The branches promise to cooperate, but no notices of negotiations are... View Details
Lombard, George F. "Dashman Co." Harvard Business School Case 642-001, April 1942. (Revised December 1982.)
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
August 2013 MIT Sloan Management Review The High Price of Customer Satisfaction By: Keiningham, Timothy, Sunil Gupta, Lerzan Aksoy, and Alexander Buoye Abstract—Managers often assume that improving customer satisfaction and financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
buying and maintaining technology hardware. "You've seen the cost of launching a new company go from $10 to $15 million down to $500,000 to $1 million," comments MBA Class of 1954 Professor of Management View Details
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
a path to the future.” Lassiter, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Management Practice in Environmental Management, has spent several years studying the intersection between entrepreneurial finance and... View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
likes to do operations like housekeeping and food and beverage. And there’s a third entity that has the brand. Companies like the Four Seasons or Ritz Carlton, we say they “flag” a hotel. They don’t manage it; they “flag” it. Trump has a... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
is the traditional private-sector approach," Ashraf says. "The assumption is that if you don't give someone a stake in the profits of the organization they won't feel that they have a mission." The practical problem with the theory is... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
important and contentious subjects where intellectual breakthroughs are possible. 1. Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship is an area in which business historians have made important contributions, but in which most of the recent conceptual work has been done by... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
difference in the world. To that end, we search for opportunities to contribute to the study of leadership and the development of content for the MBA Program and various executive education offerings. Throughout our work, we seek to bridge the gap between the theory... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 1998
- Chapter
Effective Oversight: A Guide for Nonprofit Directors
Herzlinger, Regina E. "Effective Oversight: A Guide for Nonprofit Directors." In Fachzeitschrift fur Nonprofit Management, edited by Michael Muller and Franziska Hiltpold. Fribourg: Verbandsmanagement Institut, 1998.
- 08 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs
"Someone asked me why I'm interested in labor in the supply chain. The answer from my head is that we have evidence of how important people are to the total equation. So my future research will definitely focus on identifying better process designs and labor View Details
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
company ravaged by a massive fire. "They were very upset," says Sucher, the MBA Class of 1966 Professor of Management Practice and Joseph L. Rice, III Faculty Fellow at HBS. "What upset them... View Details
- 11 Aug 2003 - 16 Aug 2003
- Conference Presentation
Explaining change in institutionalized practices: A review and roadmap for research,
By: Julie Battilana and T. D'Aunno
- March 1993
- Supplement
Praxair: Creating a Board (B)
By: Jay W. Lorsch
Discusses the final formation of Praxair's board. Lists the members chosen with their backgrounds. Also describes the selection process of board members, and the structure and process of board meetings. View Details
Keywords: Conferences; Governing and Advisory Boards; Selection and Staffing; Management Practices and Processes
Lorsch, Jay W. "Praxair: Creating a Board (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 493-065, March 1993.
- January 2005 (Revised September 2018)
- Exercise
RetailSoft: Role for Cam Archer
By: Kathleen McGinn, Hannah Riley Bowles and Dina Witter
Presents a three-way version of the RetailMax simulation requiring students to enact an internal salary negotiation, taking on the roles of Cam Archer, a star employee, and Regan Kessel, a VP trying to attract the MBA into his department. However, RetailSoft introduces... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation; Compensation and Benefits; Management Practices and Processes; Retail Industry
McGinn, Kathleen, Hannah Riley Bowles, and Dina Witter. "RetailSoft: Role for Cam Archer." Harvard Business School Exercise 905-004, January 2005. (Revised September 2018.)
- September 2003 (Revised September 2018)
- Exercise
RetailMax: Role for Regan Kessel
By: Kathleen McGinn and Dina Witter
This exercise requires students to enact an internal salary negotiation, taking on the roles of Cam Archer, a star employee, and Regan Kessel, a VP trying to attract the MBA into his department. The exercise presents a one-issue, distributive negotiation that... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation; Compensation and Benefits; Management Practices and Processes; Retail Industry
McGinn, Kathleen, and Dina Witter. "RetailMax: Role for Regan Kessel." Harvard Business School Exercise 904-025, September 2003. (Revised September 2018.)
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
"Renew Blue" strategy. When he took over, Best Buy was losing share to Amazon.com, which was encouraging consumers to view products at Best Buy and other physical stores and then buy them for a lower price online, a practice known as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How New BofA Executives Learn its ’Deep Smarts’
Editor's note: How does an organization hold on to its wealth of accumulated knowledge when the knowledge-holders depart? It's a very real dilemma made even more critical as Baby Boomers begin their mass exit into retirement. The new book Critical Knowledge Transfer:... View Details