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- 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.)
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Lessons from Private Equity
GADIESH: To reap private equity returns, act more like a private equity manager COURTESY OF BAIN & CO A recent Harvard Business Review article headlined “If Private Equity Sized Up Your Business” gave many leaders of public companies a... View Details
- April 1992
- Background Note
Ethical Dimensions of Competitive Analysis
Presents some of the dilemmas of gathering competitive information and the appropriate limits for competitive analysis. Raises the issues involved and provides information about actual corporate practice. View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Competition; Management Practices and Processes; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Corporate Governance; Information Management
Porter, Michael E. "Ethical Dimensions of Competitive Analysis." Harvard Business School Background Note 792-088, April 1992.
- May 1997
- Teaching Note
Product Development Performance, Instructor's Note
By: Marco Iansiti
Focuses on what constitutes product development performance and how it is assessed. Performance, as explained in both the note and in the materials for this three-session module, refers to the performance of both the product and the organizational process producing it.... View Details
- Profile
Robert Leke
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? An MBA at HBS was important in providing the opportunity for me to step back, assess my current capabilities, and develop the additional skills I lacked to become a successful manager in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
in three years’ time. One is on the procurement side, where we’re applying global procurement practices and integrating all parts of the business. The second is what we call Asset Optimization: getting the most out of each and every... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Rewriting the Script: Social Enterprise Start-ups Expand Business Plan Contest's Parameters
the HBS Business Plan Contest. “A commitment to social enterprise is embedded in the fabric of HBS,” notes Professor of Management Practice Allen Grossman, the track’s faculty organizer. Despite tacit... View Details
- 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.)
- Profile
Anddria Clack
interest and practice in a way that I had not experienced before. Through the case study method and experiential activities, I knew that I would be challenged to make important decisions in a managerial context, very similar to the CEOs... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Faculty Books
The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work by Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer (Harvard Business Review Press) The best managers build a group of employees who have great inner work lives:... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Faculty Books
think about these subjects. High Commitment, High Performance: How to Build a Resilient Organization for Sustained Advantage by Michael Beer (Jossey-Bass) Drawing on many management studies and his work with senior managers, Professor... View Details
- March 2009
- Case
Bausch & Lomb, Inc.: Pressure to Perform (A)
By: Robert L. Simons
This case breaks the existing (and still available) Bausch & Lomb, Inc.: Pressure to Perform case into an (A) and a (B) case. The (A) case describes the revenue recognition concerns as of early-1994 and the organizational context within which the decisions were made. View Details
- Editorial
Moving Forward
By: George Serafeim
Commerce, the synthesis of entrepreneurship and business, has been one of the most powerful institutions the world has ever seen. Commerce unlocks the highest human potential for creativity, innovation, and discovery. View Details
Keywords: Change; Europe; Turnaround; Leadership; Change Management; Management Practices and Processes; Entrepreneurship; Europe
Serafeim, George. "Moving Forward." Business Partners 15, no. 82 (January–February 2016): 38–39.
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
One Degree of Difference
Competitiveness and Hurting America’s Middle Class,” by Professor Joseph Fuller and Manjari Raman, a program director and senior researcher at HBS’s Managing the Future of Work project. The impact of the View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Bloomberg’s Gift to Boost Cities
in the field about best practices and effective management tools, so they can expand their knowledge and sharpen their leadership skills. The new Bloomberg-Harvard partnership seeks to bridge that gap.”... View Details
- June 2010
- Teaching Note
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (TN)
By: Anita L. Tucker
Teaching Note for 609109. View Details
- October 2009
- Article
Making Time Off Predictable—and Required
By: Leslie Perlow and Jessica L. Porter
People in professional services believe a 24/7 work ethic is essential for getting ahead—and so they work 60-plus hours a week and stay tethered to their BlackBerrys. This perpetuates a vicious cycle: Responsiveness breeds the need for more responsiveness. When people... View Details
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Performance Expectations; Performance Productivity; Work-Life Balance; Service Industry
Perlow, Leslie, and Jessica L. Porter. "Making Time Off Predictable—and Required." Harvard Business Review 87, no. 10 (October 2009).
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Training Principals to Build Great Schools
retired MBA Class of 1957 Professor of Management Practice. “Great schools have great leaders. If you have an ineffective leader, the school will not succeed.” How do you help principals become great leaders? That question inspired a... View Details
Keywords: University Collaborations