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    Jeffrey T. Polzer

    Jeff Polzer is the UPS Foundation Professor of Human Resource Management in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. He studies how people collaborate in teams and across organizational networks to accomplish their individual and collective... View Details

    • May 2016 (Revised April 2018)
    • Case

    Building the Digital Manufacturing Enterprise of the Future at Siemens

    By: Willy Shih
    This case describes the motivation for and the development of Siemens' digital manufacturing enterprise vision, which became the foundation for its implementation of Industrie 4.0. While the effort started with a purely defensive move by Anton Huber, head of the... View Details
    Keywords: Big Data; Internet Of Things; Internet Of Everything; Industrie 4.0; Digital Factory; Digital Enterprise; Digital Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Production Management; Production Planning; Computer Software; Germany; German Manufacturing; Machinery and Machining; Information Technology; Digital Platforms; Technological Innovation; Production; Supply Chain; Applications and Software; Information Infrastructure; Internet and the Web; Analytics and Data Science; Manufacturing Industry; Germany
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    • 02 Nov 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Making the Numbers? ‘Short Termism’ & the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster

    Keywords: by Nelson P. Repenning & Rebecca M. Henderson
    • June 18, 2019
    • Article

    Research: Investors Reward Companies That Talk Up Their Digital Initiatives

    By: Suraj Srinivasan and Wilbur Chen
    A study of how companies disclose their digital initiatives on earnings calls and written communications finds that more firms are using these technologies, that financial markets reward companies that disclose such initiatives, but that financial performance... View Details
    Keywords: Digital Technologies; Disclosure; Investment; Performance Improvement
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      Feng Zhu

      Feng Zhu is the MBA Class of 1958 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he leads the Platform Lab within the Digital, Data, and Design Institute, co-chairs the Harvard Business Analytics Program, and serves as the course head for the... View Details

        Christopher T. Stanton

        Christopher Stanton is Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. Professor Stanton's research streams focus on personnel economics, organizational economics, labor markets, and entrepreneurship. His MBA... View Details

        • January 2011 (Revised July 2011)
        • Case

        Elizabeth Jacobs: Price-Earnings Ratios and Employee Stock Option Grants

        By: David F. Hawkins
        Analyst questions the value of accounting measurement of earnings per share and stock option costs for equity valuation purposes. View Details
        Keywords: Earnings Management; Business Earnings; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Stock Shares; Employee Ownership; Stock Options; Equity; Accounting Audits; Valuation; Profit Sharing; Accounting Industry
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          Summer R. Jackson

          Summer Jackson is an Assistant Professor of Management in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches LEAD in the MBA required curriculum.

          Professor Jackson is an organizational ethnographer and field researcher... View Details

            Ashley V. Whillans

            Ashley Whillans is the Volpert Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where she teaches the Motivation and Incentives course to MBA students. Professor Whillans earned her PhD in Social Psychology from the University of... View Details

            • April 2009 (Revised November 2012)
            • Case

            Sermo, Inc.

            By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Lars Peter Christian Nielsen
            Sermo operates the leading online professional network for physicians in the United States. Doctors use Sermo free of charge to post surveys regarding diagnostic and treatment concerns and to discuss these concerns, as well as challenges with managing their practices.... View Details
            Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Knowledge Sharing; Two-Sided Platforms; Conflict and Resolution; Social and Collaborative Networks; United States
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            • November 1994 (Revised April 2012)
            • Case

            National Electric Corporation

            By: David F. Hawkins and Norman Bartczak
            A company meets financial analysis year-end earnings per share estimates, which have been progressively lowered during the year. View Details
            Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Quality; Business Earnings; Stock Shares; Analysis
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              John Beshears

              John Beshears is the Albert J. Weatherhead Jr. Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit, teaching the second-year MBA course "Negotiation." He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.... View Details

              • October 1987 (Revised July 1991)
              • Case

              Tiffany & Co.

              By: Samuel L. Hayes III
              This premier retail jewelry company was bought from its parent, Avon, by a group of investors led by its own management in 1984. The company was highly leveraged, financially, and had to scramble to meet the cash flow and earnings requirements laid down by its lenders.... View Details
              Keywords: Acquisition; Borrowing and Debt; Cash Flow; Price; Going Public; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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                Ayelet Israeli

                Ayelet Israeli is the Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School Marketing Unit. She is the co-founder of the Customer Intelligence Lab at the Digital Data Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard Business School. She teaches... View Details
                Keywords: retailing; e-commerce industry; internet; automotive

                  Research: Investors Reward Companies That Talk Up Their Digital Initiatives

                  A study of how companies disclose their digital initiatives on earnings calls and written communications finds that more firms are using these technologies, that financial markets reward companies that disclose such initiatives, but that financial performance... View Details
                  • September 2009 (Revised December 2009)
                  • Supplement

                  Genzyme Center (B)

                  By: Michael W. Toffel and Aldo Sesia
                  Genzyme Corporation is in the midst of planning its new corporate headquarters, which incorporates many innovative green building features. After learning that the building as planned would likely earn a LEED Silver rating, an intermediate score in the LEED green... View Details
                  Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Standards; Cost vs Benefits; Biotechnology Industry; Construction Industry; Real Estate Industry; Green Technology Industry
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                  • March 2016
                  • Article

                  Dividends as Reference Points: A Behavioral Signaling Approach

                  By: Malcolm Baker, Brock Mendel and Jeffrey Wurgler
                  We outline a dividend signaling model that features investors who are averse to dividend cuts. Managers with strong unobservable cash earnings separate by paying high dividends but retain enough to be likely not to fall short next period. The model is consistent with a... View Details
                  Keywords: Investment
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                    Signaling with Dividends

                    We outline a dividend signaling model that features investors who are behaviorally averse to dividend cuts. Managers with strong unobservable cash earnings separate by paying high dividends but retain enough to be likely not to fall short next period. The model is... View Details

                    • September 2009 (Revised September 2010)
                    • Case

                    Genzyme Center (A)

                    By: Michael W. Toffel and Aldo Sesia
                    Genzyme Corporation is in the midst of planning its new corporate headquarters, which incorporates many innovative green building features. After learning that the building as planned would likely earn a LEED Silver rating, an intermediate score in the LEED green... View Details
                    Keywords: Green Building; LEED Rating System; Economic And Environmental Performance; Program Evaluation And Assessment; Tradeoffs Between Process- And Performance Standards; Buildings and Facilities; Business Headquarters; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Standards; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Improvement; Environmental Sustainability; Pollutants; Green Technology Industry
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                      Robert F. White

                      Bob White is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at the Harvard Business School where he teaches courses in the MBA program (Required and Elective curricula) and the Executive Education program. Courses taught include Entrepreneurial... View Details