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  • April 1992 (Revised September 1993)
  • Case

Poland--1989

By: Debora L. Spar
Describes the political and economic situation in Poland in 1989, following the country's first democratic elections and the subsequent establishment of a Solidarity-led government. After examining the legacies left by 40 years of Communist rule, the case lays out the... View Details
Keywords: Sovereign Finance; Economic Systems; Government and Politics; Poland
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  • April 1985 (Revised November 1987)
  • Case

Sun Hydraulics Corp. (A)

Involves the design and creation of a company with no formally-defined hierarchy. Describes the steps the founder takes to avoid the organizational politics he perceives as crushing the human contributions they were designed to harness. View Details
Keywords: Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Engineering; Business Startups; Technology Industry
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    Ethan S. Bernstein

    Ethan Bernstein (@ethanbernstein) is an associate professor in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School. He has spent his career researching novel talent management practices and their effect on employee behavior, collaboration, and performance.... View Details

    • Fourth Quarter 2007
    • Article

    Contingent Claims Approach to Measuring and Managing Sovereign Credit Risk

    By: Dale . F. Gray, Robert C. Merton and Zvi Bodie
    This paper proposes a new approach to measure, analyze, and manage sovereign risk based on the theory and practice of modern contingent claims analysis (CCA). The paper provides a new framework for adapting the CCA model to the sovereign balance sheet in a way that can... View Details
    Keywords: Credit; Investment; Sovereign Finance; Risk Management; Emerging Markets; Market Transactions; Mathematical Methods; Valuation
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    • Teaching Interest

    Large-Scale Investment (LSI, MBA Elective Curriculum)

    By: Benjamin C. Esty
    Large-Scale Investment (LSI) is a case-based course about project finance that is designed for second-year MBA students. Project finance involves the creation of a legally independent project company financed with nonrecourse debt for the purpose of investing in a... View Details
    Keywords: Project Finance; Corporate Finance; Corporate Governance; Valuation; Capital Budgeting
    • 03 Feb 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Accountability and Control as Catalysts for Strategic Exploration and Exploitation: Field Study Results

    Keywords: by Robert L. Simons
    • 2012
    • Working Paper

    IP Modularity: Profiting from Innovation by Aligning Product Architecture with Intellectual Property

    By: Joachim Henkel, Carliss Y. Baldwin and Willy C. Shih
    In this paper we explain how firms seeking to take advantage of distributed innovation and outsourcing can bridge the tension between value creation and value capture by modifying the modular structure of their technical systems. Specifically, we introduce the concept... View Details
    Keywords: Modularity; Value Appropriation; Distributed Innovation; Open Innovation; Strategy; Open Source Distribution; Value; Complexity; Intellectual Property
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    • January 2009 (Revised May 2009)
    • Case

    Innovation at Mahindra & Mahindra (A)

    By: Stefan H. Thomke and Briana Doerr Luthra
    Describes the Mahindra & Mahindra Group's approach to innovation. The Group is among the top industrial houses in India and its managing director Anand Mahindra has put innovation at the core of its growth strategy. Emphasis is placed on managing the balance between... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Marketing; Business Processes; Product; Innovation Strategy; Organizational Design; Demand and Consumers; Auto Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; India
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    • 16 Jul 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Visualizing and Measuring Enterprise Architecture: An Exploratory BioPharma Case

    Keywords: by Robert Lagerstrom, Carliss Baldwin, Alan MacCormack & David Dreyfus
    • Research Summary

    Performance Measurement and Accountability in the Social Sector

    Professor Ebrahim's research examines the pressures for accountability facing social sector organizations, and their implications for organizational performance. How can nonprofits and social enterprises measure performance in order to achieve better results? This... View Details
    • October 2013
    • Supplement

    Dongfeng Nissan's Venucia (B)

    By: Forest Reinhardt, Mayuka Yamazaki and G.A. Donovan
    The (A) case describes the launch of a new passenger vehicle in China, produced jointly by Nissan of Japan and by Chinese automaker Dongfeng. Early sales results following the April 2012 launch were disappointing and the joint venture's managers had to decide how to... View Details
    Keywords: China; Japan; Multinational Firms; Cross-cultural/cross-border; Environment; Sustainability; Competitive Strategy; Product Launch; Global Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Crisis Management; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Auto Industry; China; Japan
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    • October 2013
    • Supplement

    Dongfeng Nissan's Venucia (C)

    By: Forest Reinhardt, Mayuka Yamazaki and G.A. Donovan
    The (A) case describes the launch of a new passenger vehicle in China, produced jointly by Nissan of Japan and by Chinese automaker Dongfeng. Early sales results following the April 2012 launch were disappointing and the joint venture's managers had to decide how to... View Details
    Keywords: China; Japan; Environment; Sustainability; Cross-cultural/cross-border; Competitive Strategy; Product Launch; Global Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Crisis Management; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Auto Industry; China; Japan
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    • October 2013
    • Case

    Dongfeng Nissan's Venucia (A)

    By: Forest Reinhardt, Mayuka Yamazaki and G.A. Donovan
    The (A) case describes the launch of a new passenger vehicle in China, produced jointly by Nissan of Japan and by Chinese automaker Dongfeng. Early sales results following the April 2012 launch were disappointing and the joint venture's managers had to decide how to... View Details
    Keywords: China; Japan; Cross-cultural/cross-border; Multinational Firms; Competitive Strategy; Product Launch; Global Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Crisis Management; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Auto Industry; China; Japan
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    • November 1980 (Revised October 1984)
    • Supplement

    Progressive Corp.'s Divisionalization Decision (B)

    By: Robert G. Eccles Jr.
    Supplements the (A) case. Designed as an in-class handout. View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Structure
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    • 28 Apr 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: April 28

    http://www.amazon.com/Strategy-Rules-Timeless-Lessons-Gates/dp/0062373951/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1427236936&sr=8-1 April 2015 Harvard Business Review Leaders as Decision Architects: Structure Your Organization's Work to... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

      The Truth About Open Offices

      It’s never been easier for workers to collaborate—or so it seems. Open, flexible, activity-based spaces are displacing cubicles, making people more visible. Messaging is displacing phone calls, making people more accessible. Enterprise social media tools are displacing... View Details

        Alan D. MacCormack

        Alan MacCormack is the MBA Class of 1949 Adjunct Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, a member of The Digital, Data, and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard, and a core faculty member... View Details

        Keywords: automotive; communications; computer; e-commerce industry; electronics; high technology; information technology industry; internet; semiconductor; software; telecommunications; venture capital industry
        • 12 Aug 2018 - 14 Aug 2018
        • Conference Presentation

        Abstraction, Knowledge Flows, and the Rapid Dissemination of Emerging Technologies

        By: Willy C. Shih
        Many emerging technologies are remarkably complex and embody high levels of technological sophistication, and they often are key enablers for new products and services. Yet the speed of dispersal of the know-how required to employ these technologies and foster... View Details
        Keywords: Emerging Technologies; Technological Innovation; Knowledge Dissemination
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        • Research Summary

        Distributed Innovation in Open Systems—The Role of Modularity

        By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
        Distributed innovation in open systems is an important trend in the modern global economy. As education levels rise and communication costs fall, more people have the means and motivation to innovate. Supply chains now stretch around the world as firms outsource... View Details
        • 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 14 Sep 2017
        • Webinars: Trending@HBS

        Why Competition in the Politics Industry Is Failing America

        It is often said that "Washington is broken," but this reflects a common misunderstanding of the problem. Washington isn't broken--it is delivering exactly what its currently designed to deliver. The problem is that our political system is no longer designed to serve... View Details