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      • October 2005 (Revised September 2006)
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      Sapient Corporation (Abridged)

      By: Rakesh Khurana and Joel Podolny
      Describes the start-up, growth, organizational design, and operations over the first 10 years of a professional services firm. Focuses on the creative use of organizational purpose and values as an integral part of strategy and alignment of organizational activities. View Details
      Keywords: Leadership; Organizational Culture; Change Management; Human Resources; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Growth and Maturation; Operations; Business Processes; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Service Industry
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      Khurana, Rakesh, and Joel Podolny. "Sapient Corporation (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 406-058, October 2005. (Revised September 2006.)
      • October 2005 (Revised February 2006)
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      Reactivity: A Case of Re-Invention

      By: Myra M. Hart and Sylvia Sensiper
      By the time Glenn Osaka joined Reactivity as its new CEO in January 2001, the Internet bubble had burst, the financial markets had turned, and the company's core businesses were drying up. He was not hired to lead a turnaround, but Osaka found that the firm's future... View Details
      Keywords: Management Style; Venture Capital; Organizational Culture; Applications and Software; Leadership Style; Product; Transformation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Information Technology Industry; Consulting Industry
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      Hart, Myra M., and Sylvia Sensiper. "Reactivity: A Case of Re-Invention." Harvard Business School Case 806-025, October 2005. (Revised February 2006.)
      • September 2005
      • Case

      IBM Network Technology (A) (Abridged)

      By: Michael L. Tushman
      An unconventional manager within IBM leads the creation of a business unit with multibillion-dollar potential, winning over customers and nudging the organization to make the changes needed to achieve dramatic growth. Exemplifies how organizational design and... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Design; Management Teams; Leadership Style; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Employees; Information Technology Industry
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      Tushman, Michael L. "IBM Network Technology (A) (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 406-053, September 2005.
      • September 2005
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      Whitbread PLC (A)

      By: Michael Beer and James Weber
      Describes the change process Whitbread employed in transforming its organization and culture from a single underperforming business operating in a relatively stable environment to a multibusiness, high-commitment, and high-performance corporation operating in more... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Business or Company Management; Leadership; Diversification
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      Beer, Michael, and James Weber. "Whitbread PLC (A)." Harvard Business School Case 406-007, September 2005.
      • April 2005
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      Handleman Company

      By: Janice H. Hammond and Kevin Dolan
      Describes the organization and operations of the Handleman Co., an intermediary in the music industry that buys recorded music and resells it to mass retailers such as Wal-Mart. The company provides distribution, inventory management, retail merchandising, and category... View Details
      Keywords: Business Organization; Music Entertainment; Cost Management; Growth and Development; Business or Company Management; Distribution Channels; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty; Online Technology; Value Creation; Music Industry
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      Hammond, Janice H., and Kevin Dolan. "Handleman Company." Harvard Business School Case 605-024, April 2005.
      • April 2005 (Revised January 2006)
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      Protege Partners: The Capacity Challenge

      By: Randolph B. Cohen
      In February 2005, Jeffrey Tarrant (HBS '85) and Ted Seides (HBS '99) considered their strategy for Protege Partners, founded in July 2002 as a fund of hedge funds (FOHF) specializing in small hedge funds. Protege's assets under management had grown to $1.1 billion, and... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business Growth and Maturation; Investment Funds; Financial Services Industry
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      Cohen, Randolph B., and Brian DeLacey. "Protege Partners: The Capacity Challenge." Harvard Business School Case 205-100, April 2005. (Revised January 2006.)
      • April 2005 (Revised July 2009)
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      IBM's Decade of Transformation: Turnaround to Growth

      By: Lynda M. Applegate, Robert D. Austin and Elizabeth Collins
      Describes IBM's decade of transformation. Provides background on the company's history and the factors that led to its near death in the early 1990s and to its remarkable turnaround during Gerstner's reign as CEO. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details
      Keywords: History; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leading Change; Transformation; Growth and Development Strategy
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      Applegate, Lynda M., Robert D. Austin, and Elizabeth Collins. "IBM's Decade of Transformation: Turnaround to Growth." Harvard Business School Case 805-130, April 2005. (Revised July 2009.)
      • March 2005 (Revised March 2006)
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      Sealed Air Corporation: Globalization and Corporate Culture (A) (Abridged)

      By: Lynn S. Paine and Karen Wruck
      Sealed Air Corp.'s CEO and COO are considering what approach they should take to building a seamless corporate culture worldwide. Anticipating continuing growth and expansion, especially outside the United States, they are concerned with preserving and promoting the... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Culture; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Expansion; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Policy; Leadership; United States; Europe; Asia
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      Paine, Lynn S., and Karen Wruck. "Sealed Air Corporation: Globalization and Corporate Culture (A) (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 305-095, March 2005. (Revised March 2006.)
      • February 2005 (Revised May 2005)
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      Nordstrom: The Turnaround

      By: Rajiv Lal and Arar Han
      After a period of turbulence, the fourth generation of Nordstroms are in control of the $7.1 billion apparel retailer. They have instituted a number of changes in buying and IT that have turned the business around. What can they do to ensure future growth? View Details
      Keywords: Transformation; Crisis Management; Growth Management; Organizational Structure; Information Technology; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Retail Industry
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      Lal, Rajiv, and Arar Han. "Nordstrom: The Turnaround." Harvard Business School Case 505-051, February 2005. (Revised May 2005.)
      • January 2005 (Revised August 2005)
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      A Note on Managing the Growing Venture

      By: Richard G. Hamermesh, James L. Heskett and Michael J. Roberts
      Focuses on the strategic and organizational challenges that confront growing enterprises and the entrepreneurs who lead them. Provides an overview of how a new venture needs to change as it passes from the initial start-up to the growth phase. Explores how a venture's... View Details
      Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Leading Change
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      Hamermesh, Richard G., James L. Heskett, and Michael J. Roberts. "A Note on Managing the Growing Venture." Harvard Business School Background Note 805-092, January 2005. (Revised August 2005.)
      • January 2005 (Revised April 2006)
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      Stonewall Kitchen

      By: Myra M. Hart, Victoria Winston, Kristin Lieb, Kenna Wyllie Baudin, Alison Bell and Leslie Simmons
      Jonathan King and Jim Stott, the founders of Stonewall Kitchen, started out in 1992 with a simple business selling jams and jellies at local farmers' markets. By 2004, they had grown the company into a $25 million organization with 250 employees. They expanded their... View Details
      Keywords: Strategic Planning; Food; Expansion; Business Growth and Maturation; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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      Hart, Myra M., Victoria Winston, Kristin Lieb, Kenna Wyllie Baudin, Alison Bell, and Leslie Simmons. "Stonewall Kitchen." Harvard Business School Case 805-006, January 2005. (Revised April 2006.)
      • 2005
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      Increasing Exploration: Evidence from International Expansion

      By: Juan Alcacer, Heather Berry and Wilbur Chung
      While firms balance exploitation and exploration to maximize profits, specifics of how firms pursue this balance are scarce. We focus on how firms increase their exploration after obtaining greater capabilities and experience via sequential international expansion.... View Details
      Keywords: Price Bubble; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Industry Growth; Research and Development; Profit; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Disruptive Innovation; Five Forces Framework; SWOT Analysis; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Manufacturing Industry; Japan; United States
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      Alcacer, Juan, Heather Berry, and Wilbur Chung. "Increasing Exploration: Evidence from International Expansion." Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings (2005): D1–D6.
      • December 2004 (Revised April 2006)
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      Mavens & Moguls: Because Marketing Matters...

      By: Myra M. Hart, Kristin Lieb and Victoria Winston
      Mavens & Moguls is a virtual marketing-consulting firm of approximately 40 professionals. Examines the processes by which Paige Arnof-Fenn (an HBS grad with deep industry experience)draws on her experience and her network to create a high-quality marketing consulting... View Details
      Keywords: Networks; Values and Beliefs; Business Growth and Maturation; Organizational Structure; Marketing; Entrepreneurship; Experience and Expertise; Growth and Development Strategy; Consulting Industry
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      Hart, Myra M., Kristin Lieb, and Victoria Winston. "Mavens & Moguls: Because Marketing Matters..." Harvard Business School Case 805-005, December 2004. (Revised April 2006.)
      • December 2004 (Revised October 2005)
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      Innovation Corrupted: The Rise and Fall of Enron (A)

      By: Malcolm S. Salter
      Presents a brief historical overview of Enron's rise, its strategic successes and failures, the evolution of its business model, and the organizational processes relied upon by Enron's management to drive and monitor the business. A rewritten version of an earlier... View Details
      Keywords: Adaptation; Success; Business Model; Business History; Growth Management; Governance Controls; Innovation and Management; Failure; Business Processes; Energy Industry; United States
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      Salter, Malcolm S. "Innovation Corrupted: The Rise and Fall of Enron (A)." Harvard Business School Case 905-048, December 2004. (Revised October 2005.)
      • November 2004
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      IBM's Diversity Strategy: Bridging the Workplace and the Marketplace

      By: David A. Thomas and Ayesha Kanji
      Explores how IBM incorporated diversity into its business strategy, making the case that workforce diversity is critical to marketing its products and services to its customers. In the early 1990s, Ted Childs, vice-president of Workforce Diversity, proposed to CEO Lou... View Details
      Keywords: Information Technology; Diversification; Business Strategy; Integration; Global Strategy; Organizations; Markets; Information Technology Industry; United States
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      Thomas, David A., and Ayesha Kanji. "IBM's Diversity Strategy: Bridging the Workplace and the Marketplace." Harvard Business School Case 405-044, November 2004.
      • October 2004 (Revised November 2004)
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      Mavens & Moguls: Creating a New Business Model

      By: Myra M. Hart, Victoria Winston and Kristin Lieb
      Mavens & Moguls is a "virtual" marketing-consulting firm of approximately 40 professionals. Examines the processes by which its founder, Paige Arnof-Fenn, learns the business, builds a power network of industry experts and potential customers, and uses this expertise... View Details
      Keywords: Internet and the Web; Values and Beliefs; Work-Life Balance; Organizational Structure; Organizational Culture; Operations; Networks; Business Model; Growth Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Consulting Industry
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      Hart, Myra M., Victoria Winston, and Kristin Lieb. "Mavens & Moguls: Creating a New Business Model." Harvard Business School Case 805-050, October 2004. (Revised November 2004.)
      • September 2004 (Revised October 2005)
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      Sapient Corporation

      By: Rakesh Khurana and Joel Podolny
      Describes the start-up, growth, organizational design, and operations over the first 10 years of a professional services firm. Focuses on the creative use of organizational purpose and values as an integral part of strategy and alignment of organizational activities. View Details
      Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Operations; Knowledge Management; Strategy; Service Industry
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      Khurana, Rakesh, and Joel Podolny. "Sapient Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 405-045, September 2004. (Revised October 2005.)
      • September 2004 (Revised June 2005)
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      Hancock Land Company and Hancock Lumber Company (A)

      By: John A. Davis, Dwight B. Crane and Kelly M. Mulderry
      After inheriting the leadership of their family's land and lumber companies, Matt and Kevin Hancock struggled with how to revise their internally focused governance system. View Details
      Keywords: Family Business; Governance; Leadership Style; Growth Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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      Davis, John A., Dwight B. Crane, and Kelly M. Mulderry. "Hancock Land Company and Hancock Lumber Company (A)." Harvard Business School Case 805-056, September 2004. (Revised June 2005.)
      • July 2004 (Revised September 2004)
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      Novell: CEO-led Turnaround and Growth Strategy

      By: Richard L. Nolan and Robert D. Austin
      Novell CEO Jack Messman tried to return the company to its leadership position in the software industry through a strategy that embraces Linux and other open source software. This case serves as an introduction to open source software and strategies based on open... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Value Creation; Open Source Distribution; Applications and Software; Intellectual Property; Business Strategy; Information Technology Industry
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      Nolan, Richard L., and Robert D. Austin. "Novell: CEO-led Turnaround and Growth Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 605-004, July 2004. (Revised September 2004.)
      • March 2004 (Revised August 2004)
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      Strategic Review at Egon Zehnder International (A)

      By: Ashish Nanda
      The case describes the history of the executive search firm Egon Zehnder International (EZI) from its inception through 2000. Internal and environmental changes lead EZI leaders to question whether the firm might be at an inflection point in its history. The EZI... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Strategy; Service Industry
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      Nanda, Ashish, and Kelley Elizabeth Morrell. "Strategic Review at Egon Zehnder International (A)." Harvard Business School Case 904-071, March 2004. (Revised August 2004.)
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