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  • April 2021
  • Case

Zeynep Ton: The Good Jobs Strategy

By: Francesca Gino and Frances X. Frei
The link to this multimedia case should be provided to students in advance as preparation for classroom case discussion.

In Zeynop Ton’s 2014 book The Good Jobs Strategy: How the Smartest Companies Invest in Employees to Lower Costs and Boost... View Details
Keywords: Organizations; Selection and Staffing; Compensation and Benefits; Operations; Performance Effectiveness
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    Paul W. Marshall

    MBA Class of 1960 Professor of Management, Paul W. Marshall, is affiliated with the Entrepreneurial Management Unit and teaches The Entrepreneurial Manager in the Turnaround Environment. This Elective Curriculum course focuses on the role of... View Details

    Keywords: aerospace; banking; brokerage; computer; consulting; defense; management consulting; manufacturing; metals; professional services; retail financial services; retailing; steel
    • Sep 2007 - 2007
    • Conference Presentation

    Antecedents of Boundary Spanning in Cross-functional NPD Teams

    By: James R. Dillon, Shikhar Sarin and Amy C. Edmondson
    Boundary spanning has been shown in prior research to enhance innovativeness and performance of product development teams. In this study, we examine team conditions that foster boundary spanning behavior. We analyze survey data from 207 members of 54 cross-functional... View Details
    Keywords: Product Development; Innovation and Invention; Groups and Teams; Behavior; Performance Improvement; Boundaries; Leadership Style; Product; Complexity; Integration; Power and Influence
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    • November 2008
    • Article

    Winning the Race for Talent in Emerging Markets

    By: Douglas A. Ready, Linda A. Hill and Jay A. Conger
    "This war for talent is like nothing we've ever seen before," write the authors, who have spent decades studying talent management and leadership development. Recently they interviewed executives at more than 20 global companies to identify strategies for attracting... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership Development; Selection and Staffing; Talent and Talent Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Organizational Culture; Recruitment; Diversity; Developing Countries and Economies
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    • July 2014 (Revised May 2015)
    • Case

    Making Room for the Baby Boom: Senior Living

    By: Charles F. Wu, Joseph Beyer and Arthur I. Segel
    Tom Alperin's National Development has purchased a building site in affluent Wellesley, MA, and is in the process of deciding whether to build apartments, a combination of independent living and assisted living units for seniors, or perhaps even higher acuity... View Details
    Keywords: Senior Living; Assisted Living; Independent Living; Property; Finance; Real Estate Industry; Boston; Massachusetts; United States
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    • April 2001 (Revised August 2001)
    • Case

    Strategic Planning at Sun Life

    Describes the firm's strategic planning activities and focuses on the challenge of developing processes that enable the firm to improve the core business as well as processes that foster the creation of promising new business opportunities. View Details
    Keywords: Strategic Planning
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    • TeachingInterests

    FIELD Global Immersion

    By: Allison H. Mnookin
    The FIELD Global Immersion course sends student teams into global markets around the world, requiring them to develop a new customer experience, product or service concept for a global partner organization leveraging design thinking innovation techniques. View Details
    • Video

    Adib AlZamil

    Adib AlZamil, CEO of Zamil Group Holding Company, outlines the ways Saudi Arabia used its oil reserves towards the country's development and addresses the involvement of the private sector in the government's "Saudi Vision 2030" program. View Details
    • 04 Mar 2020

    Incorporating Climate Risk into Financial Models: Sustainable Finance

    • November 2002 (Revised September 2013)
    • Case

    Building a Cluster: Electronics and Information Technology in Costa Rica

    By: Michael E. Porter and Niels W. Ketelhohn
    Describes the actions of Costa Rica President Figueres and his cabinet in attracting an Intel assembly and testing plant to their country. The effort was part of a government strategy that sought to develop further the Costa Rican electronics and information technology... View Details
    Keywords: Development Economics; Growth and Development Strategy; Industry Clusters; Business and Government Relations; Information Technology; Electronics Industry; Information Technology Industry; Costa Rica
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    • November 2000 (Revised October 2002)
    • Background Note

    Dynamic Negotiation: Seven Propositions About Complex Negotiations

    Challenges conventionally held views of negotiations, arguing that they are simplistic, static, and sterile. Develops seven propositions about real-world negotiations emphasizing the impact of complexity and the need for learning and adaption. View Details
    Keywords: Negotiation; Complexity
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    • April 2000 (Revised May 2000)
    • Case

    Hotbank: Softbank's New Business Model for Early Stage Venture Incubation

    Softbank Venture Capital (SBVC) has established a business incubator, Hotbank. Ellen Levy, a "Netbatsu Development Officer" with SBVC, is faced with a decision about which relationships among Hotbank/SBVC portfolio companies to facilitate. View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital; Business Startups
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    • November 1999 (Revised February 2002)
    • Case

    Family Feud (A): Andersen v. Andersen

    By: Ashish Nanda and Scot H. Landry
    Traces the history and development of consulting within Andersen and the history of the schism between Arthur Andersen and Andersen Consulting. Ends with the two units seeking external arbitration of their dispute. View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Design; Corporate Governance; Conflict and Resolution; Consulting Industry
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    • April 1985 (Revised September 1993)
    • Background Note

    Hattori-Seiko and the World Watch Industry in 1980

    By: Michael E. Porter and Edward J. Hoff
    Focuses on the industry's development and evolution in three principal watch producing countries: Switzerland, the United States, and Japan. Based in part on two earlier cases by F.T. Knickerbocker and H.E.R. Uyterhoeven. View Details
    Keywords: Industry Growth; Consumer Products Industry; Japan; Switzerland; United States
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    • 09 Oct 2019
    • News

    Harvard Business School Faculty and Climate Experts Talk Water and the Future of the City in Panel Discussion

    • 20 Dec 2023
    • Video

    Chat GPT for Job Searching Short

    • Video

    Fadi Ghandour

    Fadi Ghandour, founder of Dubai-based courier company Aramex and a leading entrepreneur in the Gulf, describes how he developed a corporate culture at Aramex which decentralized decision-making and encouraged... View Details
    • Program

    Ascending the Peak: Finding the Leader Within—Virtual

    assets toward powerful ends, and how they brought those they led along in pursuit of their respective missions. You will leave the program with an array of actionable learning outcomes, including the development of your own personal... View Details
    • December 1998 (Revised July 2000)
    • Case

    Implementing Strategies for Mobile Telephony: The Cases of BellSouth and U S WEST

    By: Clayton M. Christensen
    Recounts how BellSouth and US WEST developed and implemented their strategies for becoming major players in the mobile telephony business. Shows how initial success at BellSouth attracted more resources and aggressive investment, while initial failures at US WEST... View Details
    Keywords: Investment; Growth and Development Strategy; Resource Allocation; Outcome or Result; Opportunities; Expansion; Mobile Technology; Communications Industry
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    • 25 Aug 2016
    • Video

    Seth Pinsky responds to MOC class discussion in 2016