Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (13,125) Arrow Down
Filter Results: (13,125) Arrow Down Arrow Up

Show Results For

Show Results For

← Page 160 of 13,125 Results →
  • March 2015
  • Supplement

Interview: Iz-Lynn Chan at Far East Organization

By: Linda A. Hill and Anthony Mayo
Contains excerpts from an interview with Iz-Lynn Chan, former assistant director of retail business group and service quality and vice president of Far East retail consultancy for Far East Organization, a private real estate developer group in Singapore. Chan discusses... View Details
Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Retail Industry; Real Estate Industry; Singapore
Related
  • May 2000 (Revised December 2018)
  • Supplement

SMA: Micro-Electronic Products Division (B)

By: Michael Beer and Michael Tushman
Focuses on the recommendations and implementation strategy suggested by the organizational development group for the division's problems. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Organizational Culture; Conflict Management; Corporate Strategy
Related
  • June 1999 (Revised August 2004)
  • Case

Friendly Fenway Program, The: The Value of Experience Enhancement

By: Stephen A. Greyser
The marketing head of the Boston Red Sox is reviewing the team's "Friendly Fenway" fan satisfaction program. The program is described in the context of the team's on-the-field performance, the ballpark's character, and team marketing and fan-building in general. The... View Details
Keywords: Customer Satisfaction; Revenue; Framework; Management; Marketing Reference Programs; Performance; Boston
Related

    Gunnar Trumbull

    Gunnar Trumbull is the Phillip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

    Professor Trumbull’s primary area of expertise in political economy, with a focus on consumer and regulatory politics. His book Strength in... View Details

    Keywords: agribusiness; consumer products; credit card; financial services; food; food processing; grocery; microfinance; retail financial services; retailing
    • August 1994
    • Case

    Higashimaru Shoyu Company, Ltd. (A): Price Control System

    Illustrates how Japanese firms use profit pressures to increase efficiency. In particular, explores how pseudo profit centers create pressure on workers to increase revenues and reduce costs, and the use of semiautonomous teams in a traditional Japanese workforce. View Details
    Keywords: Cost Management; Groups and Teams; Organizational Structure; Performance Efficiency; Management Systems; Japan
    Related
    • 19 Nov 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web

    processes that cut across companies and may involve multiple systems. 51 Both of these approaches have proved productive for manufacturing firms. Multi-partner Integration In addition to enabling rich point-to-point links, the Internet is... View Details
    Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
    • July 1997
    • Case

    Allentown Materials Corporation: The Electronic Products Division (B)

    By: Michael Beer
    Focuses on the recommendations and implementation strategy made by the organizational development group to address the division's problems. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details
    Keywords: Change Management; Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Electronics Industry; United States
    Related
    • 08 Feb 2017
    • HBS Seminar

    Andrew Mao, Microsoft Research

    • September 2021
    • Case

    TAV Airports: Acquiring Almaty International

    By: Juan Alcácer and Esel Çekin
    The case opens in April 2020 with Sani Şener, CEO of TAV Airports, a vertically integrated regional airport operator headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey, and his team discussing the pending acquisition of the Almaty International Airport in Kazakhstan. The company had... View Details
    Keywords: Airports; COVID-19 Pandemic; Strategy; Mergers and Acquisitions; Bids and Bidding; Air Transportation Industry; Central Asia; Turkey
    Related
    • July–August 2014
    • Article

    How the Other Fukushima Plant Survived

    By: Ranjay Gulati, Charles Casto and Charlotte Krontiris
    In March 2011, Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was devastated by three reactor explosions and two core meltdowns in the days following a 9.0 earthquake and a tsunami that produced waves as high as 17 meters. The world is familiar with Daiichi's fate; less... View Details
    Related

      Sara L. Fleiss

      Sara Fleiss was the co-founder and co-portfolio manager of Emeth Partners, an emerging markets arbitrage hedge fund.  Prior to founding Emeth, Sara was the lead analyst on the Emerging Markets Equities portfolio at Harvard Management Company (HMC). At HMC, Sara... View Details

      • 03 Jul 2012
      • First Look

      First Look: July 3

      Organizations. Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2011 Abstract Social enterprise organizations (SEOs) arise from entrepreneurial activities with the aim to achieve social goals. SEOs have been identified as alternative and/or... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • December 2013
      • Article

      How Google Sold Its Engineers on Management

      By: David A. Garvin
      High-performing knowledge workers often question whether managers actually contribute much, especially in a technical environment. Until recently, that was the case at Google, a company filled with self-starters who viewed management as more destructive than beneficial... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Human Resource Management; Managing Change; Organizational Change; Analytics; Management; Leadership; Human Resources; Talent and Talent Management
      Related
      • November 1990 (Revised April 1999)
      • Case

      General Motors: Packard Electric Division

      By: Steven C. Wheelwright
      Packard Electric is the division of General Motors (GM) that does all of the electrical wiring and cabling for GM automobiles. They developed a new approach for passing the cables through the firewall between the engine and passenger compartments. The new technology... View Details
      Keywords: Business Divisions; Cost; Management Style; Product Design; Product Development; Production; Projects; Groups and Teams; Conflict and Resolution; Technology; Auto Industry
      Related
      • 2014
      • Other Teaching and Training Material

      Strategy Reading: Introduction to Strategy

      By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell
      "Introduction to Strategy" provides a comprehensive overview of the strategy discipline and introduces the building blocks of strategy by providing overviews of fundamental conceptual frameworks. Students will learn how firms decide where to compete by exploring the... View Details
      Related
      • January 2024
      • Case

      Deion Sanders: The Prime Effect

      By: Hise O. Gibson, Nicole Gilmore and Alicia Dadlani
      In 2023, Deion Sanders, known as “Coach Prime,” became head football coach of the University of Colorado Boulder (CU). Sanders was tasked with leading CU’s struggling football program, which had only achieved one winning season in the last 15 years, back to glory. Many... View Details
      Keywords: Leadership Style; Leading Change; Management Style; Race; Prejudice and Bias; Sports; Experience and Expertise; Sports Industry; United States; Colorado
      Related
      • September 2019
      • Case

      Nimbus Therapeutics

      By: Peter Barrett, Karim Lakhani and Julia Kelley
      This case focuses on Nimbus Therapeutics, a biotechnology startup based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as its leadership team tries to determine the company’s long-term strategy. The startup’s founders structured Nimbus as a limited liability company, which has given it... View Details
      Keywords: Business Startups; Organizational Structure; Strategy; Biotechnology Industry
      Related

        Marco E. Tabellini

        Marco Tabellini is an assistant professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy unit and is affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), the Centre for Research... View Details

        • December 1990
        • Case

        Allen-Bradley's ICCG: Repositioning for the 1990s

        By: Nitin Nohria
        Allen-Bradley's Industrial Computer and Communication Group (ICCG) underwent a period of rapid transformation in the 1980s, instituting a wide array of innovations from product development to information systems. In 1990 the Ohio-based group announced a major... View Details
        Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Organizational Culture; Business Organization; Problems and Challenges; Information Technology Industry
        Related
        • 6 PM – 8 PM EST, 26 Jan 2017

        Alumnae Circles Open House: Boston 2017

        Women's groups are launching- are you interested? Register for this upcoming open house to learn more. View Details