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      • 2010
      • Book

      One Strategy: Organization, Planning, and Decision Making

      By: Steven Sinofsky and Marco Iansiti
      Learn from the concepts, capabilities, processes, and behaviors that aligned around one strategy with the hard-won, first-person wisdom found in One Strategy. Challenging traditional views of strategy and operational execution, this book - written by Microsoft... View Details
      Keywords: Strategy; Organizations; Planning; Decision Making
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      Sinofsky, Steven, and Marco Iansiti. One Strategy: Organization, Planning, and Decision Making. NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2010.
      • Article

      Uncovering Mechanisms of Theory Development in an Academic Field: Lessons from Leadership Research

      By: Mary Ann Glynn and Ryan Raffaelli
      A long-standing debate in organization studies has centered on the tension between paradigmatic consensus and theoretical pluralism in an academic field, but little attention has been paid to the underlying processes of field development that account for this. Using a... View Details
      Keywords: Leadership; Theory
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      Glynn, Mary Ann, and Ryan Raffaelli. "Uncovering Mechanisms of Theory Development in an Academic Field: Lessons from Leadership Research." Academy of Management Annals 4 (2010): 359–401.
      • December 2009 (Revised June 2011)
      • Case

      Curt Schilling's Next Pitch

      By: Noam T. Wasserman, Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Rachel Gordon
      As his major-league pitching career was starting to wind down in 2006, baseball all-star Curt Schilling decided to become an entrepreneur. Looking to focus his tenacity and his passion for online role-playing games on a new challenge, he founded an online gaming... View Details
      Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Startups; Decision Choices and Conditions; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Groups and Teams; Video Game Industry
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      Wasserman, Noam T., Jeffrey J. Bussgang, and Rachel Gordon. "Curt Schilling's Next Pitch." Harvard Business School Case 810-053, December 2009. (Revised June 2011.)
      • Article

      Management Accounting and Control: Lessons for and from the World's Tiniest Businesses

      By: Srikant M. Datar, Marc J. Epstein and Kristi Yuthas
      The article discusses skills microentrepreneurs need to manage and expand their businesses. After interviewing hundreds of microfinance clients around the globe, the authors were able to identify five tools drawn from management accounting where improved knowledge... View Details
      Keywords: Governance Controls; Expansion; Business or Company Management; Microfinance; Cost Management; Risk Management; Budgets and Budgeting; Accounting; Opportunities
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      Datar, Srikant M., Marc J. Epstein, and Kristi Yuthas. "Management Accounting and Control: Lessons for and from the World's Tiniest Businesses." Strategic Finance 91, no. 5 (November 2009).
      • 2009
      • Book

      Entrepreneurs, Managers, and Leaders: What the Airline Industry Can Teach Us About Leadership

      By: Anthony J. Mayo, Nitin Nohria and Mark Rennella
      'Entrepreneurs, Managers, and Leaders' examines the role that business leaders play in shaping industries and how the evolving context of industries shapes leaders in turn. This co-evolutionary process of leadership and industry development is told through the story of... View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Entrepreneurship; Leadership Development; Managerial Roles; Supply and Industry; Industry Growth; Air Transportation Industry
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      Mayo, Anthony J., Nitin Nohria, and Mark Rennella. Entrepreneurs, Managers, and Leaders: What the Airline Industry Can Teach Us About Leadership. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
      • 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
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      Perlow, Leslie, and Jessica L. Porter. "Making Time Off Predictable—and Required." Harvard Business Review 87, no. 10 (October 2009).
      • October 2009
      • Article

      Managing Risk in the New World

      By: Robert S. Kaplan, Anette Mikes, Robert Simons, Peter Tufano and Michael Hofmann Jr.
      Five experts gathered recently to discuss the future of enterprise risk management: Kaplan, the Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School, who with his colleague David Norton developed the balanced scorecard; Mikes, an assistant professor at HBS who studies... View Details
      Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Financial Crisis; Capital Structure; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Risk Management
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      Kaplan, Robert S., Anette Mikes, Robert Simons, Peter Tufano, and Michael Hofmann Jr. "Managing Risk in the New World." Harvard Business Review 87, no. 10 (October 2009): 68–75.
      • September 14, 2009
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      The Lessons of Lehman: Do the Opposite

      By: Michael Beer
      Keywords: Learning
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      Beer, Michael. "The Lessons of Lehman: Do the Opposite." Forbes.com (September 14, 2009).
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      Optimal Taxation in Theory and Practice

      By: N. Gregory Mankiw, Matthew C. Weinzierl and Danny Yagan
      We highlight and explain eight lessons from optimal tax theory and compare them to the last few decades of OECD tax policy. As recommended by theory, top marginal income tax rates have declined, marginal income tax schedules have flattened, redistribution has risen... View Details
      Keywords: Taxation; Theory; Practice; Policy
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      Mankiw, N. Gregory, Matthew C. Weinzierl, and Danny Yagan. "Optimal Taxation in Theory and Practice." Journal of Economic Perspectives 23, no. 4 (Fall 2009): 147–174.
      • 2009
      • Working Paper

      Input Constraints and the Efficiency of Entry: Lessons from Cardiac Surgery

      By: David M. Cutler, Robert S. Huckman and Jonathan T. Kolstad
      Prior studies suggest that, with elastically supplied inputs, free entry may lead to an inefficiently high number of firms in equilibrium. Under input scarcity, however, the welfare loss from free entry is reduced. Further, free entry may increase use of high-quality... View Details
      Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Market Entry and Exit; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Government Legislation; Mathematical Methods; Health Industry; Pennsylvania
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      Cutler, David M., Robert S. Huckman, and Jonathan T. Kolstad. "Input Constraints and the Efficiency of Entry: Lessons from Cardiac Surgery." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 15214, August 2009.
      • 2009
      • Working Paper

      Input Constraints and the Efficiency of Entry: Lessons from Cardiac Surgery

      By: David M. Cutler, Robert S. Huckman and Jonathan T. Kolstad
      Prior studies suggest that, with elastically supplied inputs, free entry may lead to an inefficiently high number of firms in equilibrium. Under input scarcity, however, the welfare loss from free entry is reduced. Further, free entry may increase use of high-quality... View Details
      Keywords: Government Legislation; Health Care and Treatment; Medical Specialties; Market Entry and Exit; Welfare; Health Industry; Pennsylvania
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      Cutler, David M., Robert S. Huckman, and Jonathan T. Kolstad. "Input Constraints and the Efficiency of Entry: Lessons from Cardiac Surgery." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-011, August 2009.
      • 24 Jul 2009
      • Lecture

      Lessons from the Financial Crisis

      By: W. Carl Kester
      Keywords: Financial Crisis
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      Kester, W. Carl. "Lessons from the Financial Crisis." Lecture at the Nomura School of Advanced Management Reunion, Tokyo, Japan, July 24, 2009. (Reunion speaker.)
      • 2009
      • Book

      Leading for Equity: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Montgomery County Public Schools

      By: Stacey M. Childress, Dennis Doyle and David A. Thomas
      Leading for Equity tells the compelling story of the Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools and its transformation—in less than a decade—into a system committed to breaking the links between race and class and academic achievement. In chapters organized around six... View Details
      Keywords: Transformation; Education; Leadership; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Improvement; Social Issues
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      Childress, Stacey M., Dennis Doyle, and David A. Thomas. Leading for Equity: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Montgomery County Public Schools. Cambridge: Harvard Education Press, 2009. (Foreword by David Gergen.)
      • 2009
      • Working Paper

      Don't Just Survive - Thrive: Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad

      By: Lynda M. Applegate and J. Bruce Harreld
      Battered by contracting markets and frozen credit, many businesses today are fighting for survival. Indeed, the current global financial crisis provides a mandate for restructuring. But survival is not the end goal. In fact, cost cutting and restructuring are simply... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Risk Management; Leading Change; Innovation and Management; Crisis Management; Growth and Development Strategy
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      Applegate, Lynda M., and J. Bruce Harreld. "Don't Just Survive - Thrive: Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-127, April 2009. (Revised May 2009.)
      • February 2009 (Revised July 2012)
      • Case

      Jieliang Phone Home! (A)

      By: Willy Shih, Ethan Bernstein and Nina Bilimoria
      At Precision Electro-Tek's mobile phone manufacturing facility in southern China, thousands of operators—bright and capable young men and (mostly) women like Jieliang Hao—are motivated to improve line productivity through small innovations for faster assembly and have... View Details
      Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Job Design and Levels; Business Processes; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Manufacturing Industry; China
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      Shih, Willy, Ethan Bernstein, and Nina Bilimoria. "Jieliang Phone Home! (A)." Harvard Business School Case 609-080, February 2009. (Revised July 2012.)
      • February 2009 (Revised August 2021)
      • Supplement

      Jieliang Phone Home! (B)

      By: Willy Shih, Ethan Bernstein and Nina Bilimoria
      At Precision Electro-Tek's mobile phone manufacturing facility in southern China, thousands of operators—bright and capable young men and (mostly) women like Jieliang Hao—are motivated to improve line productivity through small innovations for faster assembly and have... View Details
      Keywords: Managing People; Motivation and Incentives; Behavior; Production; Innovation and Invention; Performance Productivity; Groups and Teams; Management Practices and Processes; Compensation and Benefits; Labor; Surveys; Decisions; Manufacturing Industry; China
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      Shih, Willy, Ethan Bernstein, and Nina Bilimoria. "Jieliang Phone Home! (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 609-081, February 2009. (Revised August 2021.)
      • February 2009 (Revised July 2012)
      • Supplement

      Jieliang Phone Home! (C)

      By: Willy Shih, Ethan Bernstein and Nina Bilimoria
      At Precision Electro-Tek's mobile phone manufacturing facility in southern China, thousands of operators - bright and capable young men and (mostly) women like Jieliang Hao are motivated to improve line productivity through small innovations for faster assembly and... View Details
      Keywords: Globalization; Compensation and Benefits; Surveys; Innovation and Invention; Management Practices and Processes; Production; Performance Productivity; Groups and Teams; Labor and Management Relations; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Manufacturing Industry; Telecommunications Industry; China
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      Shih, Willy, Ethan Bernstein, and Nina Bilimoria. "Jieliang Phone Home! (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 609-082, February 2009. (Revised July 2012.)
      • January 2009
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      Innovation Lessons from the 1930s

      By: Tom Nicholas
      Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Learning; History
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      Nicholas, Tom. "Innovation Lessons from the 1930s." McKinsey Quarterly (January 2009).
      • 2008
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      On Competition

      By: M. E. Porter
      Competition is one of society's most powerful forces for making things better in many fields of human endeavor. The study of competition and the creation of value, in their full richness, have preoccupied me for several decades. Competition is pervasive, whether it... View Details
      Keywords: Leadership; Practice; Competitive Strategy; Theory; Value Creation
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      Porter, M. E. On Competition. Updated and Expanded Ed. Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing, 2008.
      • November 2008
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      The Hong Kong & China Gas Company Ltd.: Negotiating Joint Ventures in China

      By: James K. Sebenius, Michael Shih-ta Chen and Medha Samant
      To deliver 5-6 major new Chinese joint ventures annually, Hong Kong China Gas executives began extracting cross-border negotiating lessons from their 80 existing Chinese JVs. Chairman Alfred Chan and CEO Peter Wong knew that HKGC's growth strategy required significant... View Details
      Keywords: Joint Ventures; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Negotiation Tactics; Interests; Cooperation; Expansion; Utilities Industry; Hong Kong
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      Sebenius, James K., Michael Shih-ta Chen, and Medha Samant. "The Hong Kong & China Gas Company Ltd.: Negotiating Joint Ventures in China." Harvard Business School Case 909-028, November 2008.
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