Higher Education - Publications - Faculty & Research

May – June 1999
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1999
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Organizations and Markets at Harvard Business School, 1984-1996

By: George P. Baker, Michael C. Jensen, Carliss Y. Baldwin and Karen H. Wruck

Keywords: Higher Education; Markets; Organizations

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1999
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Managing Change in Higher Education: A Leader's Guide

By: D. Q. Mills and J. Pumo

Keywords: Change Management; Higher Education; Leading Change; Education Industry

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December 1998
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Entrepreneurs and Business Performance in Nineteenth Century France

By: Tom Nicholas, Elisa Boccaletti and James Foreman-Peck

A popular explanation for the supposed "delayed industrialisation" of the nineteenth century French economy has been the inappropriate attitudes and actions of the managerial classes and family firms. To address these claims we model the supply and demand for... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Performance; Economy; Management; Success; Opportunities; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Saving; Higher Education; Training; Demand and Consumers; France

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fall 1998
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The Pedagogy of Executive Education in Business Markets

By: V. K. Rangan, Das Narayandas and Gerald Zaltman

Keywords: Teaching; Higher Education; Markets; Business Ventures

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January 1998
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Connecticut Spring and Stamping Corporation (B)

By: H. Kent Bowen, Massimo Russo and Steven J. Spear

Connecticut Spring and Stamping Corp. (CSSC), a 50-year-old spring manufacturing and metal stamping firm, is experiencing slow sales growth and feeling the impact of global competition. The company has over 800 customers but little understanding of those customers'... View Details

Keywords: Globalization; Competency and Skills; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Production; Customer Relationship Management; Quality; Training; Performance Efficiency; Cost Management; Sales; System

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28 Apr 1997
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Ethics Education in Business Schools: The Evolution of an Idea." Speaker. "Smith College Club of Cambridge

By: Lynn S. Paine

Keywords: Ethics; Education; Higher Education; Innovation and Invention

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1997
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University versus Corporate Patents: A Window on the Basicness of Invention

By: Rebecca M. Henderson, Adam Jaffe and Manuel Trajtenberg

Keywords: Higher Education; Patents; Innovation and Invention; Business Ventures

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December 1996 (Revised June 1997)
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Trinity College (A)

By: F. Warren McFarlan and Jaan Elias

Trinity College was an elite, private, liberal-arts college of some 1,800 students located in Hartford, CT. When Tom Gerety was chosen as Trinity's 17th president in 1989, he pledged to stay for ten years. Now less than five years at the job, Gerety announced he was... View Details

Keywords: Higher Education; Crisis Management; Management Succession; Planning; Social Enterprise; Education Industry; Connecticut

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12 Aug 1996
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Ethics Education in Business Schools." Speaker. "Management Faculty Seminar sponsored by Universidad de San Andres

By: Lynn S. Paine

Keywords: Ethics; Higher Education

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1996
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Trends in University Patenting 1965-1992

By: Rebecca M. Henderson, Adam Jaffe and Manuel Trajtenberg

Keywords: History; Patents; Higher Education; Trends; Non-Governmental Organizations; Education Industry

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May 1994
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The Work Preference Inventory: Assessing Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivational Orientations

By: T. M. Amabile, K. G. Hill, B. A. Hennessey and E. M. Tighe

The Work Preference Inventory (WPI) is designed to assess individual differences in intrinsic and extrinsic motivational orientations. Both the college student and the working adult versions aim to capture the major elements of intrinsic motivation (self-determination,... View Details

Keywords: Creativity; Motivation and Incentives; Measurement and Metrics; Higher Education; Employees; Personal Characteristics

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