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      Designing Sustainability at BMW Group: The Designworks/USA Experience

      By: Michael W. Toffel, Natalie Hill and Kellie McElhaney
      This case study describes how an industrial design company developed a Sustainability Management System (SMS) standard, designed and implemented an SMS throughout its business, and then became the first company in the world to achieve third-party SMS certification. The... View Details
      Keywords: Design; Governance Compliance; Management Practices and Processes; Standards; Environmental Sustainability; United States
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      Toffel, Michael W., Natalie Hill, and Kellie McElhaney. "Designing Sustainability at BMW Group: The Designworks/USA Experience." In From Principles to Practice, 57–83. Case Studies Series. Global Compact Office, 2003.
      • November 2003 (Revised July 2006)
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      STAR 2003

      By: Thomas R. Piper
      A shift in strategy from broadcasting standardized programs throughout its footprint to localized programming necessitates a review of STAR's organizational structure. Growing complexity and a need for local responsiveness point toward adoption of a country-based... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Organizational Structure; Management Teams; Decision Choices and Conditions; Organizational Design; Complexity; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Service Industry
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      Piper, Thomas R. "STAR 2003." Harvard Business School Case 204-014, November 2003. (Revised July 2006.)
      • June 2003
      • Module Note

      Design and Implementation of Activity-Based Cost Systems

      By: V.G. Narayanan
      Describes the main themes of the module on the design and implementation of an activity-based costing (ABC) system. Instructors can teach this module to second-year MBA students who have been exposed to activity-based costing in their first-year core accounting... View Details
      Keywords: Cost Accounting
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      Narayanan, V.G. "Design and Implementation of Activity-Based Cost Systems." Harvard Business School Module Note 103-075, June 2003.
      • March 2003
      • Article

      Balancing Search and Stability: Interdependencies Among Elements of Organizational Design

      By: Jan W. Rivkin and Nicolaj Siggelkow
      Keywords: Balance and Stability; Organizational Design
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      Rivkin, Jan W., and Nicolaj Siggelkow. "Balancing Search and Stability: Interdependencies Among Elements of Organizational Design." Management Science 49, no. 3 (March 2003): 290–311.
      • 2003
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      BMW Group's Sustainability Management System: Preliminary Results, Ongoing Challenges, and the UN Global Compact

      By: Michael W. Toffel, Natalie Hill and Kellie McElhaney
      This article describes preliminary results and ongoing challenges faced by Designworks/USA, an industrial design subsidiary of BMW Group, in its sustainability management efforts since it implemented the world's first certified Sustainability Management System (SMS).... View Details
      Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Management Systems; Standards; Social Issues; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Outcome or Result; Auto Industry
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      Toffel, Michael W., Natalie Hill, and Kellie McElhaney. "BMW Group's Sustainability Management System: Preliminary Results, Ongoing Challenges, and the UN Global Compact." Corporate Environmental Strategy 10, no. 3 (2003).
      • 2003
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      Developing a Management Systems Approach to Sustainability at BMW Group

      By: Michael W. Toffel, Natalie Hill and Kellie McElhaney
      This article describes how Designworks/USA, a subsidiary of BMW Group, developed a Sustainability Management System (SMS) by integrating the management of environmental, social, and traditional business issues. After several months of deploying the SMS throughout its... View Details
      Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Management Systems; Standards; Operations; Auto Industry
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      Toffel, Michael W., Natalie Hill, and Kellie McElhaney. "Developing a Management Systems Approach to Sustainability at BMW Group." Corporate Environmental Strategy 10, no. 2 (2003).
      • October 2002 (Revised March 2017)
      • Teaching Note

      DIENA

      By: Robert Simons and Indra Reinbergs
      Teaching Note for (102-001) View Details
      Keywords: Strategy; Execution; Management Control Systems; Organization Design; Implementing Strategy; Pulp and Paper Industry; Publishing Industry; Latvia
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      Simons, Robert, and Indra Reinbergs. "DIENA." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 103-006, October 2002. (Revised March 2017.)
      • October 2002 (Revised February 2003)
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      Joe Smith's Closing Analysis (A)

      By: Lynda M. Applegate and Rakesh Khurana
      Highlights giving and receiving feedback in an MBA classroom setting. View Details
      Keywords: Design; System; Performance Evaluation
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      Applegate, Lynda M., and Rakesh Khurana. "Joe Smith's Closing Analysis (A)." Harvard Business School Case 803-046, October 2002. (Revised February 2003.)
      • October 2002 (Revised March 2013)
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      Intermountain Health Care

      By: Richard M.J. Bohmer, Amy C. Edmondson and Laura Feldman
      Intermountain Health Care (IHC), an integrated delivery system based in Utah, has adopted a new strategy for managing health care delivery. The approach focuses management attention not only on the facilities where care takes place but also on physician decision making... View Details
      Keywords: Ethnicity; Innovation Strategy; Cost Management; Information Technology; Organizational Structure; Technology Adoption; Performance Improvement; Problems and Challenges; Adoption; Change Management; Cost vs Benefits; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Utah
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      Bohmer, Richard M.J., Amy C. Edmondson, and Laura Feldman. "Intermountain Health Care." Harvard Business School Case 603-066, October 2002. (Revised March 2013.)
      • September 2002 (Revised April 2006)
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      Istituto Clinico Humanitas (A)

      By: Richard M.J. Bohmer, Gary P. Pisano and Ning Tang
      Istituto Clinico Humanitas is a newly built private hospital, south of Milan, Italy, that has attained unusual profitability while treating public system patients. The hospital was built and is managed by Techosp, a subsidiary of Techint, a global engineering and... View Details
      Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Management Systems; Infrastructure; Managerial Roles; Integration; Performance; Health Industry; Milan
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      Bohmer, Richard M.J., Gary P. Pisano, and Ning Tang. "Istituto Clinico Humanitas (A)." Harvard Business School Case 603-063, September 2002. (Revised April 2006.)
      • March 2002
      • Background Note

      Incentive Strategy Within Organizations

      By: Brian J. Hall
      This case serves as a supplement to any course on incentive design and implementation. The analysis first locates incentive strategy within the larger structure of organizations and markets and then helps to define the central components and difficulties of incentive... View Details
      Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Compensation and Benefits; Performance Evaluation; Strategy; Situation or Environment; Problems and Challenges
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      Hall, Brian J. "Incentive Strategy Within Organizations." Harvard Business School Background Note 902-131, March 2002.
      • January 2002 (Revised April 2004)
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      Chapter Enrichment Program Teams at the American Red Cross (A)

      By: Jeffrey T. Polzer and Anita Williams Woolley
      The American Red Cross has a system for structuring, staffing, and leading teams to review its local chapters. Mirroring professional services firms that use teams to serve clients, this system provides detailed guidelines to increase individual team member's... View Details
      Keywords: Planning; Groups and Teams; Management Teams; Leadership; Organizational Structure
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      Polzer, Jeffrey T., and Anita Williams Woolley. "Chapter Enrichment Program Teams at the American Red Cross (A)." Harvard Business School Case 402-042, January 2002. (Revised April 2004.)
      • October 2001 (Revised November 2002)
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      Herman Miller(B): Creating Innovation Streams

      By: Sandra J. Sucher and Stacy McManus
      In 1997, Mike Volkema faced the difficulty of attempting to revitalize a once dynamic organization. Volkema wondered how he could incorporate advances made within subsidiaries, such as Miller SQA's business model innovation, into the company as a whole while also... View Details
      Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Product Design; Product Development; Product; Supply Chain Management; Business Model; Service Delivery; Customer Value and Value Chain; Manufacturing Industry; Consumer Products Industry
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      Sucher, Sandra J., and Stacy McManus. "Herman Miller(B): Creating Innovation Streams." Harvard Business School Case 602-024, October 2001. (Revised November 2002.)
      • September 2001 (Revised October 2018)
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      DIENA

      By: Robert Simons and Indra Reinbergs
      Requires students to draw a new organization structure diagram for a rapidly evolving business. A/S DIENA is a newspaper publisher founded during Latvia's 1990/91 struggle for independence from the USSR with a clear social mission to support democracy. With the help of... View Details
      Keywords: Employee Ownership; Organizational Design; Marketing Strategy; Managerial Roles; Growth and Development; Economic Systems; Publishing Industry; Journalism and News Industry; Latvia
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      Simons, Robert, and Indra Reinbergs. "DIENA." Harvard Business School Case 102-001, September 2001. (Revised October 2018.)
      • March 2001 (Revised November 2005)
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      Cisco Systems Architecture: ERP and Web-enabled IT

      By: Richard L. Nolan, Kelley Porter and Christina Akers
      In a seven-year process, Cisco built its strategic I-Net. Beginning in 1994, Cisco completely replaced its back-office legacy systems. At that time, the company standardized Internet protocols. In addition, the company shifted strategic focus from IT back-office... View Details
      Keywords: Internet and the Web; Information Technology; Technological Innovation; Internet and the Web; Management Practices and Processes; Technology Adoption; Information Technology Industry
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      Nolan, Richard L., Kelley Porter, and Christina Akers. "Cisco Systems Architecture: ERP and Web-enabled IT." Harvard Business School Case 301-099, March 2001. (Revised November 2005.)
      • November 2000
      • Case

      Geocast Network Systems, Inc.

      By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Christina L. Darwall and Elizabeth Kind
      Geocast, a venture-backed start-up, had developed innovative technology for "datacasting" broadband information and entertainment content to an external hard drive, where it was cached for later retrieval by a Web-enabled PC. By using terrestrial TV, direct broadcast... View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Customer Value and Value Chain; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Information Management; Technological Innovation; Marketing Channels; Corporate Strategy; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Web Services Industry
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      Eisenmann, Thomas R., Christina L. Darwall, and Elizabeth Kind. "Geocast Network Systems, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 801-211, November 2000.
      • October 2000 (Revised June 2017)
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      Vyaderm Pharmaceuticals: The EVA Decision

      By: Robert Simons and Indra A. Reinbergs
      In 2016, the new CEO of Vyaderm Pharmaceuticals introduces an Economic Value Added (EVA) program to focus the company on long-term shareholder value. The EVA program consists of three elements: EVA centers (business units), EVA drivers (operational practices that... View Details
      Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Employee Relationship Management; Economic Growth; Economic Systems; Management; Motivation and Incentives; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Performance Evaluation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Pharmaceutical Industry; Washington (state, US)
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      Simons, Robert, and Indra A. Reinbergs. "Vyaderm Pharmaceuticals: The EVA Decision." Harvard Business School Case 101-019, October 2000. (Revised June 2017.)
      • August 2000 (Revised August 2018)
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      The Atchison Corporation (A)

      By: Joseph L. Bower
      A new general manager uses a profit-center-based system to shake up an old line company. He then faces the task of placating a board member upset by the human consequences. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details
      Keywords: Transformation; Profit; Human Resources; Change Management; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Organizational Design
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      Bower, Joseph L. "The Atchison Corporation (A)." Harvard Business School Case 301-020, August 2000. (Revised August 2018.)
      • April 2000 (Revised December 2001)
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      AirTex Aviation

      By: Brian J. Hall and Carleen Madigan
      Two young and inexperienced MBAs buy a virtually bankrupt company. They design a decentralized control system organized around profit centers. As a case in control systems, there is ample detail for a discussion of design issues, control of independent profit centers,... View Details
      Keywords: Air Transportation; Management Systems; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Air Transportation Industry
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      Hall, Brian J., and Carleen Madigan. "AirTex Aviation." Harvard Business School Case 800-269, April 2000. (Revised December 2001.)
      • September 1999
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      Trisha Wilson of Wilson & Associates

      By: Teresa M. Amabile and Sarah S. Khetani
      Texan entrepreneur Trisha Wilson has founded an interior design firm and watched it grow into one of the most successful firms in the hospitality design services industry. After 20 years of building a company that is truly a reflection of her own personality, Wilson... View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Employees; Innovation and Management; Management; Business or Company Management; Management Succession; Organizational Culture; Strategy; Service Industry; Texas
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      Amabile, Teresa M., and Sarah S. Khetani. "Trisha Wilson of Wilson & Associates." Harvard Business School Case 800-001, September 1999.
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