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- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
how companies, especially those based in developed economies, compete. To survive, companies and their managers will adapt. As some are now beginning to realize, an important part of that adaptation will require a new understanding of art...
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Martha Lagace
- May 2019
- Case
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation: 'One CMHC' and Version 3.0
By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott
When Evan Siddall was appointed CEO of Canada Mortgage Housing Corporation (CMHC) five years earlier, he had embarked on a major organizational restructuring. Now he is spearheading another round of changes. CMHC has adopted an ambition vision and five year strategic...
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Government Organizations;
Culture;
Organizational Change And Transformation;
Human Resource Practices;
Future Of Work;
Change Management;
Leading Change;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Design;
Government Administration;
Restructuring;
Leadership;
Human Resources;
Talent and Talent Management;
Diversity;
Work-Life Balance;
Financial Services Industry;
Public Administration Industry;
Canada
Groysberg, Boris, and Sarah L. Abbott. "Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation: 'One CMHC' and Version 3.0." Harvard Business School Case 419-068, May 2019.
- June 1992 (Revised March 2006)
- Case
Concordia Casting Company
Describes five years of development in a centralized data processing activity serving a highly decentralized corporation. Data processing manager discovers that a major software system conversion is a full year behind schedule, and subsequently makes several managerial...
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Analytics and Data Science;
Applications and Software;
System;
Information Technology;
Change Management;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Leadership Style;
Leading Change;
Human Resources;
Conflict and Resolution;
Supply Chain Management;
Accounting;
Auto Industry
McFarlan, F. Warren. "Concordia Casting Company." Harvard Business School Case 192-151, June 1992. (Revised March 2006.)
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
adaptive benefits of synchrony, including neural efficiency and the release of a reward signal that promotes future social interaction. In nature, neural synchrony yields behavioral synchrony. Humans use behavioral synchrony to promote...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
how is internal adaptation in employment practices linked to external shifts in gendered beliefs and practices? The authors began by comparing thousands of pages of the firm's internal documents, such as surveys and interviews, as well as...
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- 15 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise
disciplined way. Nonprofits too are very adaptive organizations. I expect to see some common understanding in the sector of what performance means, and how social value creation is measured and reported. From there on it is only a matter...
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by Roger Thompson
- March 2022
- Supplement
Winning Business at Russell Reynolds (B)
By: Ethan Bernstein and Cara Mazzucco
In an effort to make compensation drive collaboration, Russell Reynolds Associates’ (RRA) CEO Clarke Murphy sought to re-engineer the bonus system for his executive search consultants in 2016. As his HR analytics guru, Kelly Smith, points out, that risks upsetting–and...
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Compensation;
Collaboration;
Executive Search Firms;
Consulting Firms;
Compensation and Benefits;
Restructuring;
Human Resources;
Human Capital;
Management Practices and Processes;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Recruitment;
Selection and Staffing;
Talent and Talent Management;
Consulting Industry;
Employment Industry;
Asia;
Europe;
Latin America;
Middle East;
North and Central America;
South America;
Oceania
Bernstein, Ethan, and Cara Mazzucco. "Winning Business at Russell Reynolds (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 422-046, March 2022.
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
maintaining and adapting this system in future. An important component of technical debt relates to decisions about system architecture. As systems grow and evolve, their architectures can degrade, increasing maintenance costs and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
adapted the model pioneered by Teach For America to meet the needs of the educationally under-resourced of rural China. Led by an American, could Teach For China reshape its international identity and become an enduring Chinese...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
http://hbr.org/product/houston-we-have-a-problem-nasa-and-open-innovation-a/an/414044-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 414-057 Houston We Have A Solution: NASA and Open Innovation (B) The (B) case details what Davis and the SLSD strategy team learned, and how they...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
product and the activities associated with making and selling it. Selling becomes a function of individual "heroic" efforts, not a scalable platform for profitable growth. Equally important, this inhibits adaptive learning—a...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
economic obstacle of time and place by connecting excess supply (of physician capacity) with excess demand (for patient care). Could this model be adapted to other industries, such as legal and accounting services? Alternatively, should...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
interest deduction is widely disliked by tax analysts, but it has survived as a policy. Does this suggest that the policy process is broken or that tax analysts are missing something? My intuition often leans toward the latter, and not just on this issue. Q: How fast...
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by Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
center dispatched paramedics within ten minutes despite traffic congestion and unpredictable call patterns. Another example of scouring the globe for good ideas and adapting those ideas for its target market comes from Natura, a leading...
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- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
China, Hong Kong, and the world, but in a very different global context. President Peter Mathieson believed that HKU still had an important role to play but knew that HKU needed to adapt to China's growing global presence and the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- August 2019 (Revised February 2020)
- Case
New Hope Liuhe: Building an Integrated Agri-Food Business
By: Forest L. Reinhardt, Shu Lin, Natalie Kindred and Nancy Hua Dai
In October 2018, LIU Chang (Angela), chairman of Beijing-based New Hope Liuhe (NHL), was considering the strategy of the firm. With $9 billion in sales and a presence in nearly 20 countries, NHL was China’s largest animal feed producer and a major pork and poultry...
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Strategy;
Corporate Strategy;
Food;
Agribusiness;
Expansion;
Diversification;
Growth Management;
Consumer Behavior;
Change Management;
Entrepreneurship;
Organizational Structure;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Government and Politics;
Animal-Based Agribusiness;
Transformation;
Volatility;
Business Cycles;
Goods and Commodities;
Supply Chain;
Product;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
China;
Asia
Reinhardt, Forest L., Shu Lin, Natalie Kindred, and Nancy Hua Dai. "New Hope Liuhe: Building an Integrated Agri-Food Business." Harvard Business School Case 720-009, August 2019. (Revised February 2020.)
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
interviewees in South Asia frequently reported attempting to steer clear from highly regulated industries, while many interviewees in Latin America discussed how they adapted to heavier government oversight by forming closer ties or...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
hospital system in U.S. The hospital was inaugurated in February 2014, but there were open questions related to pricing of the procedures and the related target patient segment and volumes. Also, HCCI senior management realized the need to View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
control over whether and when identities are co-activated. We also argue that compatibility arises from cognitive routines which emerge from active and passive adaptation to situations in which co-activation of identities occurs...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
2011, she was selected to head the IMF. Since 2011, Lagarde built the foundation for the IMF’s adaptation to the realities of the 21st century. By 2017, shortly after Lagarde began her second term as the managing director of the IMF, the...
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Dina Gerdeman