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    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
    • 30 Mar 2015
    • News

    How to Deliver Bad News to Your Employees

    • January 2009 (Revised July 2009)
    • Case

    Targanta Therapeutics: Hitting a Moving Target

    By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
    This case explores regulatory, product testing, and business strategy at Targanta Therapeutics, a biotech company preparing its first new drug application to the FDA. In October 2007, Mark Leuchtenberger, president and CEO of Targanta—which has just held a successful... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Entrepreneurship; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Health Testing and Trials; Product Development; Business and Government Relations; Business Strategy; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
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    • February 2001 (Revised May 2001)
    • Case

    Wipro Technologies (A)

    By: Lynn S. Paine, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Suma Raju
    The new general manager of Wipro's software services division has been brought on board from General Electric to develop the division into a leading provider of software services to the world's largest corporations. A native of India who received management training in... View Details
    Keywords: Business or Company Management; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Transformation; Change Management; Human Resources; Software; Information Technology Industry; India
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    • 01 Nov 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

    the pandemic. But being kind might also involve taking an active role in offering mental health resources or creating a virtual support group or sounding board. ""How are you View Details
    Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson
    • 26 Aug 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Lipstick Tips: How Influencers Are Making Over Beauty Marketing

    products—as less credible and less trustworthy, according to research by recent Harvard Business School MBA graduate Alessia Vettese. “People used to watch celebrities on the red carpet talking about what they were wearing, View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products; Beauty & Cosmetics
    • 07 Aug 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    When Supply-Chain Disruptions Matter

    Keywords: by William Schmidt & Ananth Raman
    • November 2007 (Revised May 2008)
    • Case

    Creativity under the Gun at Litmus Corporation

    By: Teresa M. Amabile and Yana Litovsky
    Teaches students to diagnose the circumstances under which time pressure can facilitate or hinder creativity. A team's creative "genius", Miles Grady, who previously conceptualized a revolutionary material for an important new product, must now significantly change... View Details
    Keywords: Situation or Environment; Creativity; Innovation and Management; Problems and Challenges
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    • 24 Jul 2014
    • Blog Post

    Create a Content Marketing Strategy for your Talent Acquisitions Team

    As a talent acquisitions manager or a marketing manager within a human resources team, you’ve probably asked yourself how to reach large quantities of high quality candidates... View Details
    • 16 Nov 2020
    • News

    How Panera’s CEO Learned to Go Against the Grain

    • October 2013 (Revised January 2017)
    • Case

    Walmart around the World

    By: Juan Alcácer, Abhishek Agrawal and Harshit Vaish
    After reaching the limits of its successful expansion in the United States in the early 1990s, Walmart sought growth opportunities in markets abroad. This case describes Walmart's attempts to replicate its successful U.S. business model in Mexico, Canada, Brazil,... View Details
    Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Success; Globalized Markets and Industries; Expansion; Market Entry and Exit; Failure; Retail Industry; Germany; China; Argentina; South Korea; Canada; Japan; Brazil; Africa; United Kingdom; United States; Mexico
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    • May 2014
    • Case

    Building a High Performance Culture at IDFC

    By: V.G. Narayanan and Vidhya Muthuram
    IDFC was set up in 1997 to direct private finance to infrastructure projects in India. Over the years, it expanded its capabilities to become a 'complete solutions provider' offering financing solutions including debt and equity, investment banking, brokerage and asset... View Details
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    • December 2011
    • Article

    EXEMPLARY CONTRIBUTION: Transforming Mental Models on Emerging Markets

    By: Charles Dhanaraj and Tarun Khanna
    Economic growth in the Western world increasingly depends on meaningful engagement with emerging markets such as Brazil, China, India, South Africa, and Turkey. Business schools are responding with increased attention to these markets in their research and curricula.... View Details
    Keywords: Emerging Markets; Business Model; Economic Growth; Developing Countries and Economies; Research; Business Education; Learning; Financial Institutions; Framework; Transformation; Perspective; India; China; Brazil; South Africa; Turkey
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    • 30 May 2019
    • News

    Unwanted Roles

    • January 2007 (Revised October 2007)
    • Case

    Procter & Gamble: Organization 2005 (A)

    By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski and Alessandro L. Spadini
    In response to a huge crisis in 2000, the new CEO of Procter & Gamble has to decide whether to continue with an unusual organizational design or to revert to the old matrix organization. Describes all the organizational designs used by Procter & Gamble from the 1920s... View Details
    Keywords: Global Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure
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    • 09 May 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Clayton Christensen’s “How Will You Measure Your Life?”

    called Netflix emerged in the 1990s with a novel idea: rather than make people go to the video store, why don't we mail DVDs to them? Netflix's business model made profit in just the opposite way to Blockbuster's. Netflix customers paid a... View Details
    • February 2001 (Revised February 2002)
    • Background Note

    Competitor Analysis: Anticipating Competitive Actions

    Before taking competitive action, managers must anticipate the actions of their competitors. This can only be accomplished by performing thorough competitor analysis. View Details
    Keywords: Business or Company Management; Competition
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    • 30 Mar 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    Commuting Hurts Productivity and Your Best Talent Suffers Most

    workers’ subjective well-being,” the researchers write. How can companies ease the commuting pain? While Wu is quick to note that some “knowledge work” depends on in-person collaboration, including medical and biotech research, he says... View Details
    Keywords: by Lane Lambert
    • July 2018
    • Case

    Hironobu Tsujiguchi and His Sweet Revolution

    By: Boris Groysberg and Naoko Jinjo
    Hironobu Tsujiguchi, a Japanese chocolatier, had chosen an unusual path to success as a pastry chef. Instead of spending most of his time in his kitchen and focusing on one or two confectionery categories like most pastry chefs, he chose to work on diverse projects and... View Details
    Keywords: Relevance; Entrepreneurship; Diversification; Personal Development and Career; Decision Making; Food and Beverage Industry; Japan
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    • April 1991
    • Case

    Sun Hydraulics Corp. (A) and (B) (Abridged)

    Involves the design and creation of a company with no formally-defined hierarchy. Describes the steps the founder takes to avoid the organizational politics he perceives as crushing the human contributions they were designed to harness. Fifteen years later, the company... View Details
    Keywords: Management Style; Business or Company Management; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure
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