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- October 1996 (Revised January 1998)
- Case
Sony Corporation: Car Navigation Systems
By: John A. Quelch
In the summer of 1996, Masao Morita, president of Sony Personal Mobile Communication Co., contemplated how to formulate its multinational marketing strategy for the fast-changing car navigation systems market. Morita needed to resolve the conflicting views within his... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Standards; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Conflict and Resolution; Auto Industry; Electronics Industry; Japan
Quelch, John A., and Yoshinori Fujikawa. "Sony Corporation: Car Navigation Systems." Harvard Business School Case 597-032, October 1996. (Revised January 1998.)
- 10 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
What You Can Do to Create an Anti-Racist Organization
winter of 2021, that national conversation continues, but what have we done, and what can we continue to do, as individuals and organizations to make meaningful progress? Danika Manso-Brown (HGSE ’18), Founder of Manso Brown Group and co-founder of Spoken Verb, a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Tackling the World’s Most Difficult Challenges
prosperity, environmental stewardship, social justice, and democracy are not at odds. Henderson and former HBS Dean Nitin Nohria talked about the book in an alumni webinar. Inspiring Public Entrepreneurship “A public official can be every... View Details
- 2003
- Conference Paper
Follow the Money: What Really Drives Technology Innovation in Construction
By: John D. Macomber
Technology enthusiasts, academics, and software companies remain concerned about the slow pace of innovation in the construction industry. Tools are widely available that seem to provide eminently sensible and clearly apparent improvement to the process of design and... View Details
Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Technological Innovation; Construction; Design; Performance Improvement; Motivation and Incentives; Knowledge Management; Adoption; Business Model; Capital Structure; Supply Chain
Macomber, John D. "Follow the Money: What Really Drives Technology Innovation in Construction." Paper presented at the American Society of Civil Engineers, 2003.
- 2012
- Other Unpublished Work
The Efficacy of Shareholder Voting: Evidence from Equity Compensation Plans
By: Ian D. Gow, Christopher S. Armstrong and David F. Larcker
This study examines the effects of shareholder support for equity compensation plans on subsequent chief executive officer (CEO) compensation. Using cross-sectional regression, instrumental variable, and regression discontinuity research designs, we find little... View Details
- October 1996 (Revised May 2001)
- Case
Cantuga Farmworkers Clinic (A)
By: James E. Austin and Catherine Overholt
The board of directors of a rural health clinic fires its executive director. The case elaborates the evolution and progress of the clinic under this director during a period of growth and a changing health care environment. Factors contributing to and questioning the... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Resignation and Termination; Managerial Roles; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Evaluation; Problems and Challenges; Rank and Position; Social Enterprise; Health Industry
Austin, James E., and Catherine Overholt. "Cantuga Farmworkers Clinic (A)." Harvard Business School Case 797-041, October 1996. (Revised May 2001.)
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Bozidar Djelic
When Bozidar Djelic turned 37 last April, the musicians cutting loose at his birthday soiree boasted some pretty impressive days jobs. The one hundred guests at the celebration, including Serbia's Prime Minster Zoran Djindjic, were treated to a View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ink: Alumni Book Recommendations
the 21st century: “Advancing women means breaking free of a new set of stereotypes and assumptions, not only for women, but also for men. It means challenging a much wider range of conventional wisdom about what we value and why, about View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
out for the conference's program of seminars, panel discussions, and social events. Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine and the School's new Dean, Kim B. Clark, also joined us, along with some fifty outstanding speakers from a variety of... View Details
Keywords: Cathy Connett
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
that may be to do. In this article, the authors look at research from behavioral economics, social psychology, and other disciplines and offer practical tactics for leaders hoping to project a healthy amount of both qualities. Publisher's... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 05 Jun 2013
- What Do You Think?
Do We Need to Extend ‘No Surprises Management?’
symptom of competent managers than (a) cause of good performance " Another may have been provoked by Kapil Kumar Sopory when he offered the opinion that "NSM is an ideal concept. However, it will work upwards only if it is first... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Way Whistleblowers Reduce Government Fraud
about the allegations. They found that after a lawsuit was filed, the government changed the terms to shift more of the contract risk to the supplier during the investigation. It did so by increasing the proportion of work the company View Details
- 2019
- Working Paper
Golden Opportunity? Voluntary Sustainability Standards for Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
By: Kristin Sippl
While much is known about voluntary sustainability standards' contributions to certain issues in certain sectors, less is known about their contributions to the realization of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This paper helps balance the... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability Standards; Gold; Certification; Eco-labeling; International Law; Extractive Industries; Fair Trade; United Nations; Sustainable Development; Environmental Sustainability; Standards; Adoption; Governance; Global Range; Luxury; Mining Industry
Sippl, Kristin. "Golden Opportunity? Voluntary Sustainability Standards for Artisanal Mining and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-024, September 2018. (Revised April 2019. Revise and Resubmit.)
- February 2009 (Revised July 2012)
- Supplement
Jieliang Phone Home! (C)
By: Willy Shih, Ethan Bernstein and Nina Bilimoria
At Precision Electro-Tek's mobile phone manufacturing facility in southern China, thousands of operators - bright and capable young men and (mostly) women like Jieliang Hao are motivated to improve line productivity through small innovations for faster assembly and... View Details
Keywords: Globalization; Compensation and Benefits; Surveys; Innovation and Invention; Management Practices and Processes; Production; Performance Productivity; Groups and Teams; Labor and Management Relations; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Manufacturing Industry; Telecommunications Industry; China
Shih, Willy, Ethan Bernstein, and Nina Bilimoria. "Jieliang Phone Home! (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 609-082, February 2009. (Revised July 2012.)
- 05 Apr 2004
- What Do You Think?
Should We Brace Ourselves for Another Era of M&A Value Destruction?
in an asymmetrical fashion (for example, through stock options), it is in their financial best interest to do M&A to add volatility to their business." Is M&A part of the natural Darwinian process of business, or is it rigged to produce inferior species of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Under a Research Microscope
The $2 trillion health care system is one of the United States' largest industries—but one of its worst performing by almost any measure other than technological innovation. The problems are painful,... View Details
- January 2010
- Teaching Note
IFRS in China (TN)
By: Karthik Ramanna
Teaching Note for [110037]. View Details
- June 2001
- Supplement
GE's Early Dispute Resolution Initiative (B)
By: Michael A. Wheeler and Gillian Morris
Early Dispute Resolution (EDR) has proved successful at GE. Yet, when Michael McIlwrath, new counsel at an Italian subsidiary, attempted to translate it to his company, problems arose. He had to gain internal acceptance, and explain the concept of early mediation to a... View Details
Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Globalization; Lawsuits and Litigation; Organizational Culture; Performance Effectiveness; Problems and Challenges; Conflict of Interests; Complexity; Italy; New York (state, US)
Wheeler, Michael A., and Gillian Morris. "GE's Early Dispute Resolution Initiative (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 801-453, June 2001.
- Web
2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
essays on female ambition. To fuse her interests in performance and social justice, she founded Paprika Productions, an all-female production company that seeks to share the stories from cultural... View Details
- Article
The Best of Both Worlds: Integrating Conscious and Unconscious Thought Best Solves Complex Decisions
Two studies address the debate over whether conscious or unconscious mental processes best handle complex decisions. According to Unconscious Thought Theory (Dijksterhuis & Nordgren, 2006), both modes of thinking have particular advantages: conscious thought can follow... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Values and Beliefs; Information; Knowledge Management; Management Skills; Management Style; Measurement and Metrics; Success; Research; Cognition and Thinking; Personal Characteristics; Perception
Nordgren, Loran F., Maarten W. Bos, and Ap Dijksterhuis. "The Best of Both Worlds: Integrating Conscious and Unconscious Thought Best Solves Complex Decisions." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 47, no. 2 (March 2011): 509–511.