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      • 2008
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      Ownership Quotient: Putting the Service Profit Chain to Work for Unbeatable Competitive Advantage

      By: James L. Heskett, W. Earl Sasser Jr. and Joe Wheeler
      Hundreds of large organizations worldwide have used the groundbreaking Service Profit Chain to improve business performance. Now The Ownership Quotient reveals the next generation of the chain: customer and employee "owners" of your business. Employee-owners exhibit... View Details
      Keywords: Customer Satisfaction; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Customer Ownership; Employee Ownership; Competitive Advantage; Value Creation
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      Heskett, James L., W. Earl Sasser Jr., and Joe Wheeler. Ownership Quotient: Putting the Service Profit Chain to Work for Unbeatable Competitive Advantage. Harvard Business Press, 2008.
      • October 2008 (Revised January 2011)
      • Case

      Lawrence Trinh: Venturing to Vietnam

      By: Joshua D. Margolis and Rachel Gordon
      Should Lawrence Trinh pursue his aspiration of working in Vietnam—and if so, what set of principles and practices should he adopt if he encounters corruption? These are questions that reverberate for many students who wish to work in emerging markets and other contexts... View Details
      Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Ethics; Investment; Leadership Development; Emerging Markets; Personal Development and Career; Welfare; Financial Services Industry
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      Margolis, Joshua D., and Rachel Gordon. "Lawrence Trinh: Venturing to Vietnam." Harvard Business School Case 409-017, October 2008. (Revised January 2011.)
      • September 2008
      • Case

      Adobe Systems: Working Towards a "Suite" Release (A)

      By: David A. Thomas and Lauren Barley
      The case examines the tools a manager can use to keep her project on track and manage conflict and tension as Adobe prepares to launch Creative Suite 3, the biggest software release in the company's 25-year history. The protagonist, Yvonne Murray, is a group program... View Details
      Keywords: Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Product Launch; Projects; Groups and Teams; Conflict Management; Power and Influence
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      Thomas, David A., and Lauren Barley. Adobe Systems: Working Towards a "Suite" Release (A). Harvard Business School Case 409-014, September 2008.
      • September 2008
      • Supplement

      Adobe Systems: Working Towards a "Suite" Release (B)

      By: David A. Thomas and Lauren Barley
      The case examines the tools a manager can use to keep her project on track and manage conflict and tension as Adobe prepares to launch Creative Suite 3, the biggest software release in the company's 25-year history. The protagonist, Yvonne Murray, is a group program... View Details
      Keywords: Change; Interpersonal Communication; Crisis Management; Product Launch; Projects; Conflict of Interests; Integration; Software
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      Thomas, David A., and Lauren Barley. Adobe Systems: Working Towards a "Suite" Release (B). Harvard Business School Supplement 409-015, September 2008.
      • fall 2008
      • Article

      Toward a Theory of Behavioral Operations

      By: Francesca Gino and Gary P. Pisano
      Human beings are critical to the functioning of the vast majority of operating systems, influencing both the way these systems work and how they perform. Yet most formal analytical models of operations assume that the people who participate in operating systems are... View Details
      Keywords: Management Systems; Operations; Mathematical Methods; Behavior; Cognition and Thinking; Perspective; Theory
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      Gino, Francesca, and Gary P. Pisano. "Toward a Theory of Behavioral Operations." Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 10, no. 4 (fall 2008): 676–691.
      • 2008
      • Working Paper

      Variation in Experience and Team Familiarity: Addressing the Knowledge Acquisition-Application Problem

      By: Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats
      Prior work in organizational learning has failed to find a consistent effect of variation in experience on performance. While some studies find a positive relationship between these two variables, others find no effect or even a negative relationship. In this paper, we... View Details
      Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Learning; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Organizational Culture; Performance Improvement; Groups and Teams; Familiarity; India
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      Huckman, Robert S., and Bradley R. Staats. "Variation in Experience and Team Familiarity: Addressing the Knowledge Acquisition-Application Problem." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-035, September 2008.
      • August 2008 (Revised December 2010)
      • Case

      AMD Dresden: Copy Inexactly!

      By: Willy C. Shih
      The establishment and growth of AMD's Dresden, Germany manufacturing site illustrates how processes develop in an organization and how those processes get institutionalized into a unique culture. Located in the Free State of Saxony in the eastern part of Germany (the... View Details
      Keywords: Geographic Location; Industry Clusters; Business Processes; Organizational Culture; Semiconductor Industry; Europe; Dresden
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      Shih, Willy C. "AMD Dresden: Copy Inexactly!" Harvard Business School Case 609-004, August 2008. (Revised December 2010.)
      • May 2008 (Revised April 2018)
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      The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center: Interdisciplinary Cancer Care

      By: Michael E. Porter and Sachin H. Jain
      In 2006, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center was an internationally leading institution for cancer care, education, and research. Since 1996, it had successfully reorganized itself from a cancer hospital that was physically organized around clinical... View Details
      Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Health Disorders; Organizational Structure; Medical Specialties; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Value Creation; Service Delivery; Research; Health Care and Treatment; Education Industry; Health Industry; Texas
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      Porter, Michael E., and Sachin H. Jain. "The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center: Interdisciplinary Cancer Care." Harvard Business School Case 708-487, May 2008. (Revised April 2018.)
      • April 2008
      • Case

      Ophthalmic Consultants of Boston and Dr. Bradford J. Shingleton (2004)

      By: H. Kent Bowen and Marcelo Pancotto
      Dr. Bradford Shingleton has developed some of the highest quality eye surgery techniques in the industry. He involves his nurses and technicians in creating a surgical service that is constantly improving. The case has many details about how Dr. Shingleton works with... View Details
      Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Independent Innovation and Invention; Service Operations; Performance Productivity; Practice; Problems and Challenges; Health Industry; Boston
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      Bowen, H. Kent, and Marcelo Pancotto. "Ophthalmic Consultants of Boston and Dr. Bradford J. Shingleton (2004)." Harvard Business School Case 608-151, April 2008.
      • April 2008
      • Article

      The Survey of Industrial R&D—Patent Database Link Project

      By: William R. Kerr and Shihe Fu
      This paper details the construction of a firm-year panel dataset combining the NBER Patent Dataset with the Survey of Industrial R&D conducted by the Census Bureau and National Science Foundation. The dataset constitutes a platform that offers an unprecedented view of... View Details
      Keywords: Analytics and Data Science; Patents; Surveys; Research and Development; Innovation and Invention; Performance Productivity; Projects; Management Practices and Processes; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques
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      Kerr, William R., and Shihe Fu. "The Survey of Industrial R&D—Patent Database Link Project." Journal of Technology Transfer 33, no. 2 (April 2008): 173–186.
      • March 2008
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      Deferred Acceptance Algorithms: History, Theory, Practice, and Open Questions

      By: Alvin E. Roth
      The deferred acceptance algorithm proposed by Gale and Shapley (1962) has had a profound influence on market design, both directly, by being adapted into practical matching mechanisms, and, indirectly, by raising new theoretical questions. Deferred acceptance... View Details
      Keywords: History; Market Design; Labor; System; Practice; Performance; Theory; Boston; New York (city, NY)
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      Roth, Alvin E. "Deferred Acceptance Algorithms: History, Theory, Practice, and Open Questions." Prepared for Gale's Feast: A Day in Honor of the 85th Birthday of David Gale International Journal of Game Theory 36, nos. 3-4 (March 2008): 537–569.
      • March 2008
      • Article

      Is Yours a Learning Organization?

      By: David A. Garvin, Amy C. Edmondson and Francesca Gino
      This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. An organization with a strong learning culture faces the unpredictable deftly.... View Details
      Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Learning; Surveys; Leading Change; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Organizational Culture
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      Garvin, David A., Amy C. Edmondson, and Francesca Gino. "Is Yours a Learning Organization?" Harvard Business Review 86, no. 3 (March 2008): 109–116.
      • March 2008
      • Article

      When Growth Stalls

      By: Matthew S. Olson, Derek C. M. van Bever and Seth Verry
      This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. An abrupt and lasting drop in revenue growth is a crisis that can strike even the... View Details
      Keywords: Growth Strategy; Revenues; Crisis Management; Revenue; Growth and Development Strategy
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      Olson, Matthew S., Derek C. M. van Bever, and Seth Verry. "When Growth Stalls." Harvard Business Review 86, no. 3 (March 2008): 50–61.
      • January 2008 (Revised March 2011)
      • Case

      Henry J. Kaiser and the Art of the Possible

      By: Anthony J. Mayo, Mark Benson and David Chen
      From his humble beginnings as a local salesman in New York, Henry J. Kaiser rose to become one of the leading industrialists of 20th century America. Though he had no technical engineering training, Kaiser mastered the management and execution of plans for several... View Details
      Keywords: History; Mission and Purpose; Transition; Management Practices and Processes; Construction; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Leadership Style; Business History; Business Growth and Maturation; Civil Society or Community; Business Strategy; Planning; Construction Industry; Shipping Industry; United States
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      Mayo, Anthony J., Mark Benson, and David Chen. "Henry J. Kaiser and the Art of the Possible." Harvard Business School Case 408-072, January 2008. (Revised March 2011.)
      • 2008
      • Working Paper

      Embracing Commitment and Performance: CEOs and Practices Used to Manage Paradox

      By: Tobias Fredberg, Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote and Flemming Norrgren
      We tend to assume that great leaders must make difficult choices between two or more conflicting outcomes. In an interview study with 26 CEOs of top American and European companies (incl. IKEA, Campbell Soups, Nokia, H&M), we find that instead of choosing between... View Details
      Keywords: Leadership; Managerial Roles; Performance; Strategy; Management Practices and Processes; Decision Choices and Conditions
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      Fredberg, Tobias, Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote, and Flemming Norrgren. "Embracing Commitment and Performance: CEOs and Practices Used to Manage Paradox." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-052, January 2008.
      • 2008
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      Greater Good: How Good Marketing Makes for Better Democracy

      By: John A. Quelch and Katherine E. Jocz
      Marketing has a greater purpose, and marketers, a higher calling, than simply selling more widgets, according to John Quelch and Katherine Jocz. In "Greater Good", the authors contend that marketing performs an essential societal function—and does so democratically.... View Details
      Keywords: Economic Systems; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government and Politics; Marketing; Practice; Welfare
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      Quelch, John A., and Katherine E. Jocz. Greater Good: How Good Marketing Makes for Better Democracy. Boston: Harvard Business Press, 2008.
      • 2008
      • Working Paper

      Product Development and Learning in Project Teams: The Challenges are the Benefits

      By: Amy C. Edmondson and Ingrid M. Nembhard
      The value of teams in new product development (NPD) is undeniable. Both the interdisciplinary nature of the work and industry trends necessitate that professionals from different functions work together on development projects to create the highest quality product in... View Details
      Keywords: Competency and Skills; Learning; Management Skills; Product Development; Projects; Groups and Teams; Conflict Management; Social and Collaborative Networks
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      Edmondson, Amy C., and Ingrid M. Nembhard. "Product Development and Learning in Project Teams: The Challenges are the Benefits." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-046, January 2008.
      • January 2008
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      The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy

      By: Michael E. Porter
      This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. In 1979, a young associate professor at Harvard Business School published his first... View Details
      Keywords: Profit; Five Forces Framework; Industry Growth; Industry Structures; Business and Government Relations; Competitive Strategy
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      Porter, Michael E. "The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy." Special Issue on HBS Centennial. Harvard Business Review 86, no. 1 (January 2008): 78–93.
      • 2007
      • Casebook

      Managing School Districts for High Performance: Cases in Public Education Leadership

      By: Stacey Childress, Richard F. Elmore, Allen S. Grossman and Susan Moore Johnson
      Managing School Districts for High Performance brings together more than twenty case studies and other readings that offer a powerful and transformative approach to advancing and sustaining the work of school improvement. At the center of this work is the... View Details
      Keywords: Management; Strategy; Leadership; Public Sector; Organizational Design; Education; Performance Improvement
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      Childress, Stacey, Richard F. Elmore, Allen S. Grossman, and Susan Moore Johnson, eds. Managing School Districts for High Performance: Cases in Public Education Leadership. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press, 2007.
      • 2007
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      Process Management, Technological Innovation, and Organizational Adaptation

      By: Mary Benner and M. Tushman
      The promise of process management practices is that as organizations focus on variance reduction and increased process control, they will drive both speed and organizational efficiency. However, this promise also accentuates the dark side of process management. These... View Details
      Keywords: Competency and Skills; Innovation and Management; Technological Innovation; Management Practices and Processes; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design
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      Benner, Mary, and M. Tushman. "Process Management, Technological Innovation, and Organizational Adaptation." Chap. 15 in Business Process Transformation, edited by Varun Grover and M. Lynne Markus, 317–326. Advances in Management Information Systems. Irvine, CA: M.E. Sharpe, 2007.
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