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  • August 1995 (Revised September 1995)
  • Case

Hutton Branch Manager (C)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Jane Palley Katz
Centers on the company's plea of guilty to 2,000 counts of mail and wire fraud in response to the U.S. government's challenge to its cash management practices. Describes the Justice Department's investigations as well as the findings and recommendations of former... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Financial Management; Governance Controls; Crime and Corruption; Governance Compliance; Law Enforcement; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • 05 May 2021
  • News

Former Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly: 'Business Must Lead In New Ways'

  • 12 Sep 2018
  • News

Celebrating A Landmark Book on Gender in the Workplace

  • 05 Oct 2016
  • News

Why These Pessimistic HBS Professors Remain Optimistic

  • Person Page

Blog Post Collection

By: Sunil Gupta

“In Mobile Advertising, Timing is Everything,” Nov 4, 2015
https://hbr.org/2015/11/in-mobile-advertising-timing-is-everything

“2015: A Decisive Year for... View Details

  • 03 Oct 2023
  • Research Event

Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

let everybody know that thanks to the generosity of a good friend, [INAUDIBLE], there are copies of their book that she's generously provided for everyone here. You'll find them on the way out. I want to thank Harvard Business School,... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff
  • 30 Mar 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Professional Networks in China and America

these two types of trust? A: The distinction between affect- and cognition-based trust is useful because research has found that they can actually lead to different outcomes. For example, in earlier research, I found that higher affect-based trust toward one's team... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

    Roy D. Shapiro

    Roy D. Shapiro is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.  He is currently the faculty co-chair of the School's Technology and Operations Management Unit... View Details

    • August 1983 (Revised June 1986)
    • Case

    Johnson & Johnson (B): Hospital Services

    By: Francis Aguilar
    The main issue has to do with the lack of fit or incompatibility between the early environmental requirements for strategy and the cultural constraints on the organization. Describes the internal resistance to the proposed changes and top management's efforts to... View Details
    Keywords: Business or Company Management; Change Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Health Care and Treatment; Growth and Development Strategy; Health Industry
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    • May 2017
    • Teaching Note

    Promontory, Inc. (Brief Case)

    By: Frank V. Cespedes and Amy Handlin
    Teaching Note for HBS No. 917-535. The Promontory teaching note covers a) how and why buying processes in Promontory’s market generate the array of selling approaches illustrated in the case; b) the impact of incremental sales increases on the firm’s cost structure and... View Details
    Keywords: Sales; Salesforce Management; Marketing Strategy
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    • September 1989 (Revised December 1989)
    • Case

    Siemens Electric Motor Works (A) and (B) (Combined)

    Explores how a cost system can help support a firm's decision to change strategies. In the process, students are exposed to a simple activity-based cost system. Also examines Siemens policy for transferring products between sales and manufacturing divisions. Transfer... View Details
    Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Business Strategy; Technology Industry
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    • July 2001 (Revised June 2005)
    • Case

    Japan: Beyond the Bubble

    By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Rebecca Evans
    By the summer of 2001, Japan's economy had been generally stagnant for nearly 10 years--since the collapse of the bubble economy in 1990-91. The development strategy that drove the nation during earlier decades was fulfilled, and by 1989 Japan's GDP per capita exceeded... View Details
    Keywords: History; Strategy; Development Economics; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Macroeconomics; Japan
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    • November 1984 (Revised March 1999)
    • Case

    Mayers Tap, Inc. (C)

    Mayers Tap, Inc. has decided to redesign its cost system. In this case it uses three different cost center designs to determine how the new system should be designed. Students are asked to drop unprofitable products under the three scenarios and explain the effects on... View Details
    Keywords: Cost Accounting; Management Systems
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    • January 1984 (Revised April 1987)
    • Case

    Turning Around Alcan Europe (A): Patrick Rich's First Four Months as CEO-Europe

    Faced with large losses in Alcan Aluminum (Europe), Patrick Rich takes the position of area general manager and slashes capital budgets, introduces new financial controls, and sets up mechanisms for increasing cooperation among the national subsidiaries. The focus is... View Details
    Keywords: Change Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Manufacturing Industry; Europe
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    • 02 Apr 2013
    • News

    How to Not Get Sidetracked

    • 20 Jun 2008
    • News

    Winners of 2008 Harvard Business School Business Plan Contest Ring Opening Bell at New York Stock Exchange

    • 09 Apr 2021
    • News

    Why Most Startups Fail, and How to Avoid a Similar Fate

    • 13 Jan 2019
    • News

    Why Silicon Valley needs more visas

    • 30 Apr 2024
    • Book

    When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners

    when they were not, for example. In the end, Sears faced charges of fraud filed by the state attorney general in each of more than 40 states. The new quota and compensation system apparently did not help Sears’ financial performance. In... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • Research Summary

    Optimal Heteroskedasticity Autocorrelation Consistent Covariance Estimators for GMM Weighting Matrices

    This paper considers the optimal bias-variance tradeoff for estimators of the long run covariance matrix used to generate GMM weighting matrices in time series contexts.  Minimum MSE HAC estimators do not yield minimum MSE GMM estimators.  Instead, achieving... View Details