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  • March 1997 (Revised April 2011)
  • Case

Gillette Singapore: Managing Global Business Integration on the Ground (A)

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Thomas Dretler
The general manager of Gillette Singapore faces issues of managing change during the company's global integration with Parker Pen. View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Change Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Integration; Retail Industry; Singapore
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  • 05 Feb 2024
  • Research & Ideas

The Middle Manager of the Future: More Coaching, Less Commanding

Middle managers aren’t going extinct. They’re evolving. Once a wasteland where careers stalled or abruptly ended in layoffs, middle management has adapted and is thriving, seeing double-digit growth in some... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • January 2019 (Revised February 2020)
  • Case

World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.

By: Anita Elberse and Melissa Rodman
World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (WWE) develops and presents scripted hero-versus-villain storylines featuring its wrestlers at hundreds of live events—on several weekly television shows, on its own over-the-top streaming service, and on social media—to millions of... View Details
Keywords: Superstars; Talent; Talent Development; Labor Economics; General Management; Entertainment; Sports; Media; Talent and Talent Management; Contracts; Marketing; Strategy
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  • Fast Answer

Sustainability in Waste Management

management.  What a Waste 2.0: A Global Snapshot of Solid Waste Management to 2050  This report aggregates solid waste data at the national and urban level and predicts waste generation to 2030 and... View Details
  • 28 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Meeting China’s Need for Management Education

practices in management education. "Overall, we were delighted to see the impact that PCMPCL is having in the area and on these leading schools of business," Wheelwright says. Report: Q: What View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education
  • 13 Dec 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis

adversarial custodians." More often than not, support staffers are unhappy about this role. They would rather identify themselves as necessary and important, not as innovation blockers. But when Gulati asks managers in finance, HR,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • October 2024
  • Course Overview Note

Risks, Opportunities, and Investments in the Era of Climate Change (ROICC)

By: George Serafeim
This course overview note introduces the course Risks, Opportunities, and Investments in the Era of Climate Change to students. View Details
Keywords: Environment; Innovation; Technology; General Management; Organizational Transformations; Investments; Entrepreneurship; Strategy; Finance; Accounting; Leadership; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Management
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  • 10 Jan 2007
  • HBS Case

The Challenge of Managing National Security

attacks. Garry Emmons: The focus of your work is on how to manage integration within a highly differentiated organization. Post-9/11, how's the intelligence community doing on that score? Jan Rivkin: Intelligence issues are enormously... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Service
  • 02 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Casino Payoff: Hands-Off Management Works Best

quarterly and generally with less scrutiny from higher-ups. The researchers wanted to test their hypothesis that casino hosts in loosely monitored, more hands-off management structures were more successful... View Details
Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 18 May 2017
  • News

Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management

  • 26 Sep 2023
  • Book

Digital Strategy: A Handbook for Managing a Moving Target

excitement and the growing enthusiasm, at times even the frenzy, about these new phenomena, on the grounds of the pressing demands on managers to deal with the new reality and on academics to understand these phenomena. “Existing strategy... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Information Technology; Technology
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

The Exchange: Micro Management

for solutions to make the next generation of microfinance tools even more transformative. One of the great surprises of microfinance has been the astonishingly high rates of loan repayment, at around 96 or 98 percent. How do you interpret... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • August 1995 (Revised September 1995)
  • Background Note

Designing and Managing the Information Age IT Architecture

By: Lynda M. Applegate
The co-evolution of technology, work, and the workforce over the past 30 years has dramatically influenced our concept of organizations and the industries within which they compete. No longer simply a tool to support "back-office" transactions, IT has become a... View Details
Keywords: Design; Management; Organizations; Information Technology
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  • June 2001
  • Teaching Note

Coordinating + Managing Supply Chains: Course Overview Note TN

By: Ananth Raman
Describes the MBA elective course on supply chain management at HBS. Coordinating and Managing Supply Chains focuses on the managerial aspects of supply chains. Acquaints students with practical issues in a variety of supply chains and then identifies barriers to, and... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Framework; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Management Practices and Processes; Managerial Roles; Marketing; Supply Chain Management; Performance Improvement; Planning; Behavior; Integration
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  • 16 Jun 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Seven Tips for Managing Price Increases

services that they truly need by giving them an unbundled menu of options. 6. Monitor Trade Terms. Beware of powerful distributors paying you more slowly than they turn the inventory they buy from you. In an inflationary environment, they're making money on the float... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • March 2009
  • Article

Earnings Management and Corporate Tax Shelters, and Book-Tax Alignment

By: Mihir Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala
This paper reviews recent evidence analyzing the link between earnings management and corporate tax avoidance and considers the implications for how policymakers should evaluate the financial reporting environment facing firms. A real-world tax shelter is dissected to... View Details
Keywords: Earnings Management; Taxation; Financial Reporting; Business and Shareholder Relations
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  • April 1982
  • Supplement

General Electric: John F. Welch, Jr., Chairman of the Board, Video

By: Francis Aguilar and Richard G. Hamermesh
Welch discusses a variety of topics. View Details
Keywords: Management Teams; Governing and Advisory Boards; Spoken Communication; Industrial Products Industry
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  • Teaching Interest

Managing Human Capital: Keeping Hope Alive in Organizations (Not offered 2013-2014)

Managing Human Capital has been specifically designed to teach practical skills for the general manager who seeks to manage both other people and his or her own career with optimal effectiveness. Any and all students who believe they will need to effectively manage... View Details

  • April 2002
  • Article

Internal Capital Markets and Firm-Level Compensation Incentives for Division Managers

By: Julie Wulf
Do multidivisional firms structure compensation contracts for division managers to mitigate incentive problems in their internal capital markets? I find evidence that compensation and investment incentives are substitutes: firms providing a stronger link to firm... View Details
Keywords: Capital Markets; Executive Compensation; Capital Budgeting; Motivation and Incentives; Profit; Decisions; Resource Allocation; Performance; Investment; Contracts
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  • 30 Apr 2024
  • Book

When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners

and its own set of ethical issues. But they all reinforce the first general point I was trying to make in my 1994 article—that corporate misconduct and irresponsibility are often rooted in organisational and View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman