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- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
business contribution. The case uses interviews with Winfrey and her team to analyze how the business model and strategy of the company has changed—in the context of a dynamic marketplace, rapid View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2012
- What Do You Think?
Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?
"Where was (the) support for manufacturing when it really counted, before much of it escaped offshore? Why should we believe this 'new thinking' now?" Citing " high labor costs and uncooperative unions," Philippe... View Details
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
journals. He was tenurable as a chemical engineer at any major university anywhere in the world in his early thirties. He also wrote a textbook called Physics and Technology of Semiconductor Devices, which... View Details
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’
miles from Burbank, California, to Emeryville, near San Francisco, setting the systems up over a weekend. The move worked and the studio hit both deadlines. The book cites short-term innovation, in the... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 07 Jan 2002
- What Do You Think?
Did Consumer Behavior Tracking Come of Age on September 11?
banking and credit card transactions, and 68% would agree to the adoption of a national identification system for all U.S. citizens. Clearly, the behavior of U.S. citizens... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything
The world is. on. fire. The Earth is burning. We only have a little time to arrest climate change, and if we fail to do so the consequences will be both dire and irreversible. We have the technology and the resources to fix things, if we want to. We even have a... View Details
- 20 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Misgovernance at the World Bank
examines whether those countries that have a seat on the board award more aid and loans to themselves. We found that developing countries can expect around a $60 million bonus in the years they serve on the Executive Board. This is a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- March 2007
- Teaching Note
Understanding Customer Profitability at Charles Schwab (TN)
By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez
Teaching note to 106002. View Details
- 03 Oct 2018
- What Do You Think?
How Should Managers Deal with the Challenges of Building an Inclusive Workplace?
symptom of a systemic problem. It’s a problem with the culture in that organization.” David Wittenberg pursued the issue of rules-based approaches to inclusion further when he said, “Inclusion and diversity... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- November 1990 (Revised September 1991)
- Case
The Transformation of IBM
By: Andrall E. Pearson and David B. Yoffie
John Akers, IBM's chairman, must confront how to transform a $60 billion, full line, global computer company that is the leader in every market it serves, yet losing share across the board. The case explores senior management's perspective on the process of... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Transformation; Corporate Strategy; Adoption; Management Teams; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology; Multinational Firms and Management; Computer Industry
Pearson, Andrall E., and David B. Yoffie. "The Transformation of IBM." Harvard Business School Case 391-073, November 1990. (Revised September 1991.)
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
"money management" and the "investment systems platform" businesses. Students analyze why BlackRock decided to unbundle its Aladdin investment platform and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- July 2011
- Teaching Note
MindTree: A Community of Communities (TN)
By: David A. Garvin
Teaching Note for 311049. View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
in K-12 education, has brought to a collaboration with Hewlett Packard (HP) high credibility and access to key curriculum decision makers in the public education system. A leading designer, manufacturer, and... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
Publication: Journal of Public Policy and Marketing 27, no. 2 (fall 2008): 202-206 Abstract The authors propose a political theory perspective for examining the impact of the modern aggregate marketing View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
These Employers Pay Higher Salaries than Necessary
system negotiate. “Workers on the market have lots of feedback on their past jobs, and can also see how much experience the employer has on the market,” says Christopher T. Stanton, an assistant professor in... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders
organizational values and business ethics, Paine focused on U.S. companies engaged in business principally at home. But faced with an increasing number of questions from international students about whether... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 02 Oct 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?
one with fewer answers? Those were the questions implied by this month's column. The predominance of responses suggested that the answers to the questions are "yes, yes, and maybe." Adam Hartung commented that "As View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
integral component of management control systems and play a significant role in achieving desirable performance outcomes. We focus on a key environmental performance objective—reduction of carbon... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
receptive? If not, there's not going to be sufficient returns to the investors. Assess your qualifications to lead the enterprise. Entrepreneurs don't actually have to be the techies, but they need to have an understanding and capability... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
813-184 Kaiser Permanente: Innovating to Transform Healthcare This case enables discussion of organizational and industry transformation. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne