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- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Challenge of the Multi-site Nonprofit
rational decision making. Nonprofits often have a cultural opposition to structure. A lack of theory of management practice exists for nonprofits. These characteristics lead to a number of disputes between headquarters and affiliates, according to Grossman and Rangan.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Web Services
security; routing and messaging; and B2B Web service networks. While the big players such as IBM, BEA, and Microsoft control the platform, start-up opportunities exist with Web services deployment and application development, Bhusri said.... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- What Do You Think?
Dot.Com Shakeout: Chess or Roulette?
small amounts of money for control of the most promising dot.coms subject to this fire sale? On another level, the question might be raised whether or not this game resembles roulette. For example, the corporate histories of the most... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Audit: War & Peace
QUESTION: “How did you ensure the talks didn’t fail because of internal strife?” —Alexandra Baranowski (MBA 2025) “I had to handle that with a lot of cold blood and not engage the opposition in every argument. I had to maintain the course, explain why we were doing... View Details
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Expansion of the Case Method | Baker Library
conditions.” (3) The legendary “Umpteenth Fighter Squadron” case used in the Army Air Forces Statistical School, for example, provided Air Force officers-in-training with the opportunity to diagnose scenarios they would face on and off the battlefield. They learned to... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
information technology can lead to more flexible organizational structures and innovative management control systems. These ideas appear in her recent casebook Managing in an Information Age. Professor F. Warren McFarlan is currently... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
extending the idea that information could be used not just for after-the-fact scorekeeping but for real-time managerial decision-making. In particular, he was in the vanguard of advancing the idea that information could be used to plan the implementation of strategic... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
Jorge Paulo Lemann, A.B. 1961; Carlos A. Sicupira, OPM 9, 1984; Marcel H. Telles, OPM 10, 1985
when he and partners Jorge Paulo Lemann and Carlos Sicupira gained control of one of Brazil’s largest breweries, Telles agreed to run the company. Using strategies that had proven successful as an investment banker, he dramatically... View Details
- April 2008
- Teaching Note
Marketing Chateau Margaux (TN)
By: John A. Deighton and Leyland Pitt
Teaching Note for [507033]. View Details
- September 2009
- Article
Labor Market Institutions and Global Strategic Adaptation: Evidence from Lincoln Electric
By: Jordan I. Siegel and Barbara Zepp Larson
Although one of the central questions in the global strategy field is how multinational firms successfully navigate multiple and often conflicting institutional environments, we know relatively little about the effect of conflicting labor market institutions on... View Details
Keywords: Institutions; Labor Market; Complementarity; Global Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Labor Unions; Laws and Statutes; Operations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Manufacturing Industry
Siegel, Jordan I., and Barbara Zepp Larson. "Labor Market Institutions and Global Strategic Adaptation: Evidence from Lincoln Electric." Management Science 55, no. 9 (September 2009): 1527–1546. (Although one of the central questions in the global strategy field is how multinational firms successfully navigate multiple and often conflicting institutional environments, we know relatively little about the effect of conflicting labor market institutions on multinational firms' strategic choice and operating performance. With its decision to invest in manufacturing operations in nearly every one of the world's largest welding
markets, Lincoln Electric offers us a quasi-experiment. We leverage a unique data set covering 1996–2006 that combines data on each host country's labor market institutions with data on each subsidiary's strategic choices and historical operating performance. We find that Lincoln Electric performed significantly better in countries with labor laws and regulations supporting manufacturers' interests and in countries that allowed the free
use of both piecework and a discretionary bonus. Furthermore, we find that in countries with labor market institutions unfriendly to manufacturers, Lincoln Electric was still able to overcome most (although not all) of the institutional distance by what we term flexible intermediate adaptation.)
- November 2010 (Revised December 2010)
- Case
Mid-Missouri Energy: Ethanol from Corn
By: Forest L. Reinhardt, Noel Michele Holbrook, James Weber and Karla Sartor
Mid-Missouri Energy (MME) is a farmer-owned cooperative that produces ethanol from corn. The cooperative has performed well in comparison to other producers, but margins in the industry had declined as industry production levels neared market demand limits. MME farmers... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Renewable Energy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Growth and Development Strategy; Cooperative Ownership; Business and Government Relations; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; United States
Reinhardt, Forest L., Noel Michele Holbrook, James Weber, and Karla Sartor. "Mid-Missouri Energy: Ethanol from Corn." Harvard Business School Case 711-004, November 2010. (Revised December 2010.)
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Ink: Miami’s Dark Neon Era, the Language of Success, and Getting Psyched Up
MORE Farzad on the lasting allure of 1980s Miami on the Skydeck podcast MORE Farzad on the lasting allure of 1980s Miami on the Skydeck podcast The Bookshelf Journalist Roben Farzad (MBA 2005) on his new nonfiction tale, Hotel Scarface: Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Beyond the Numbers
Robinson in 1986 as assistant controller for their international consumer businesses, including bank cards and retail banking. His first task, he recalls, was to "take a look around and advise my boss what his group should be doing... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Finishing Touches
On a steamy day last July, workers replacing books in the restored Stamps Reading Room of Baker Library experienced an unfamiliar sensation: air-conditioning. Climate control is just one improvement to come out of a comprehensive... View Details
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset
others are bidding for what you want? One solution to distinguishing yourself in competitive environments is to build your bargaining endowment—storing up credibility and resources by developing relationships, burnishing your reputation, and View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment
Chinese controlling much of the economy and Malays controlling the politics. The economic and political inequities would culminate in a large-scale riot in 1969, in which racially motivated attacks resulted... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
recommendations for stocks with larger market capitalizations and lower return volatility than their sell-side peers, consistent with their facing fewer conflicts of interest and having a preference for liquid stocks. Tests with no View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
clients may be served by separate organizational units that are under common control and/or ownership. Second, a family of hybrid conflict polices has evolved that feature elements of the split account system long practiced in Japan,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2024
- News
Running Man
very short time. You can even benefit from it.” The real trick, he says, is having the self-awareness and enough control of your ego to take a break. “It doesn’t matter what you’re doing,” he says. “You’ve got to be smart enough to stop... View Details
- 26 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the International Rescue Committee
found that beyond the hardship of displacement and loss, it was a strong lack of agency paired with the anxiety of always waiting for something to happen that characterized the refugee experience, which is why we wanted to equip people to take more View Details