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      • September 2009
      • Article

      How to Fix Wall Street: Regulation Alone Can't Right the Financial System

      By: Lynn S. Paine
      Keywords: Stocks; Financial Institutions; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Finance; System
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      Paine, Lynn S. "How to Fix Wall Street: Regulation Alone Can't Right the Financial System." HBS Alumni Bulletin (September 2009).
      • 2009
      • Book

      High Commitment, High Performance: How to Build a Resilient Organization for Sustained Advantage

      By: Michael Beer
      Integrating knowledge from strategic management, performance management, and organization design, strategic human resource expert and Harvard Business School Professor Michael Beer outlines what the high-commitment, high-performance organization looks like and provides... View Details
      Keywords: Human Resources; Leadership; Management; Goals and Objectives; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Performance; Practice; Business Strategy; System
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      Beer, Michael. High Commitment, High Performance: How to Build a Resilient Organization for Sustained Advantage. Jossey-Bass, 2009.
      • 2009
      • Chapter

      Organizational Design: Balancing Search and Stability in Strategic Decision Making

      By: Jan Rivkin and Nicolaj Siggelkow
      Managers often must make decisions that depend on decisions in other parts of the organization. These interactions create a network of interdependent choices and make strategizing difficult. In this chapter, the authors explore the intersection between organizing and... View Details
      Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Strategy; Balance and Stability
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      Rivkin, Jan, and Nicolaj Siggelkow. "Organizational Design: Balancing Search and Stability in Strategic Decision Making." In The Network Challenge: Strategy, Profit, and Risk in an Interlinked World, edited by Paul R. Kleindorfer and Yoram Wind. Wharton School Publishing, 2009.
      • May 2009
      • Case

      Tokyo Electron Ltd.

      By: Willy C. Shih and Andrew A. King
      Tokyo Electron Ltd. operates in a constrained innovation environment, defined by modular boundaries that are long standing in the industry that it serves, the global semiconductor manufacturing industry. While the original motivation for these boundaries was division... View Details
      Keywords: Globalized Markets and Industries; Governance Controls; Technological Innovation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Boundaries; Manufacturing Industry; Semiconductor Industry
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      Shih, Willy C., and Andrew A. King. "Tokyo Electron Ltd." Harvard Business School Case 609-096, May 2009.
      • 2009
      • Working Paper

      Unraveling Results from Comparable Demand and Supply: An Experimental Investigation

      By: Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth and M. Utku Unver
      Markets sometimes unravel, with offers becoming inefficiently early. Often this is attributed to competition arising from an imbalance of demand and supply, typically excess demand for workers. However this presents a puzzle, since unraveling can only occur when firms... View Details
      Keywords: Labor; Marketplace Matching; Quality; Competition; Balance and Stability
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      Niederle, Muriel, Alvin E. Roth, and M. Utku Unver. "Unraveling Results from Comparable Demand and Supply: An Experimental Investigation." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 15006, May 2009.
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      A Blueprint for Pharmacy Benefits Managers to Increase Value

      By: William Shrank, Michael E. Porter, Sachin H. Jain and Niteesh K. Choudhary
      Pharmacy benefits managers (PBMs) have a unique opportunity to promote public health and generate value in the healthcare system. However, PBMs are largely evaluated on their ability to control costs rather than improve health. PBMs should be evaluated along three... View Details
      Keywords: Opportunities; Health; System; Cost Management; Partners and Partnerships; Motivation and Incentives; Value; Innovation and Invention; Performance Effectiveness; Health Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
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      Shrank, William, Michael E. Porter, Sachin H. Jain, and Niteesh K. Choudhary. "A Blueprint for Pharmacy Benefits Managers to Increase Value." American Journal of Managed Care 15, no. 2 (February 2009).
      • February 2009
      • Article

      Optimal Reserve Management and Sovereign Debt

      By: Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk
      Most models currently used to determine optimal foreign reserve holdings take the level of international debt as given. However, given the sovereign's willingness-to-pay incentive problems, reserve accumulation may reduce sustainable debt levels. In addition, assuming... View Details
      Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Motivation and Incentives; Decisions; Emerging Markets; Balance and Stability; Earnings Management; Policy; Interest Rates; International Finance; Cost
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      Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk. "Optimal Reserve Management and Sovereign Debt." Journal of International Economics 77, no. 1 (February 2009): 23–36. (Also Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 07-010, 2006 and NBER Working Paper No. 13216.)
      • January 2009
      • Supplement

      The Tip of the Iceberg: JP Morgan Chase and Bear Stearns (B2)

      By: Clayton S. Rose, Daniel Baird Bergstresser and David Lane
      Bear Stearns & Co burned through nearly all of its $18 billion in cash reserves during the week of March 10, 2008, and an unprecedented provision of liquidity support from the Federal Reserve on Friday March 13 was insufficient to reverse the decline in Bear's... View Details
      Keywords: Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Capital; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Liquidity; Banks and Banking; Governance; Crisis Management; Goals and Objectives; System; Valuation; New York (state, US)
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      Rose, Clayton S., Daniel Baird Bergstresser, and David Lane. "The Tip of the Iceberg: JP Morgan Chase and Bear Stearns (B2)." Harvard Business School Supplement 309-091, January 2009.
      • January 2009
      • Supplement

      The Tip of the Iceberg: JP Morgan Chase and Bear Stearns (B1)

      By: Clayton S. Rose, Daniel Baird Bergstresser and David Lane
      Bear Stearns & Co burned through nearly all of its $18 billion in cash reserves during the week of March 10, 2008, and an unprecedented provision of liquidity support from the Federal Reserve on Friday March 13 was insufficient to reverse the decline in Bear's... View Details
      Keywords: Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Capital; Financial Liquidity; Banks and Banking; Governance; Crisis Management; Failure; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Balance and Stability; Valuation; New York (state, US)
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      Rose, Clayton S., Daniel Baird Bergstresser, and David Lane. "The Tip of the Iceberg: JP Morgan Chase and Bear Stearns (B1)." Harvard Business School Supplement 309-070, January 2009.
      • January 2009 (Revised June 2014)
      • Supplement

      CityCenter (B): Economics and Delivery

      By: A. Eugene Kohn, John D. Macomber and Ben Creo
      Bill Smith is informed by his general contractor that a key component of the Aria Resort is going to be delayed. Aria is the centerpiece of CityCenter: a $9 billion complex and a bet-the-firm decision for MGM Mirage. Smith must make a decision as to whether to force... View Details
      Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Decision Choices and Conditions; Construction; Finance; Organizational Structure; Projects; Complexity
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      Kohn, A. Eugene, John D. Macomber, and Ben Creo. "CityCenter (B): Economics and Delivery." Harvard Business School Supplement 209-094, January 2009. (Revised June 2014.)
      • 2009
      • Working Paper

      An Ounce of Prevention: The Power of Public Risk Management in Stabilizing the Financial System

      By: David A. Moss

      The magnitude of the current financial crisis reflects the failure of an economic and regulatory philosophy that had proved increasingly influential in policy circles over the past three decades.

      This paper suggests (1) that contrary to the prevailing wisdom,... View Details

      Keywords: Financial Crisis; Financial Institutions; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Risk Management; Business and Government Relations; Balance and Stability
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      Moss, David A. "An Ounce of Prevention: The Power of Public Risk Management in Stabilizing the Financial System." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-087, January 2009.
      • December 2008 (Revised October 2009)
      • Case

      Wal-Mart Stores in 2003 (Abridged Version)

      By: Frank V. Cespedes
      Examines Wal-Mart's development over three decades and provides financial and descriptive detail of its domestic operations. In 2003, Wal-Mart's Supercenter business has surpassed its domestic business as the largest generator of revenues. Its international operation... View Details
      Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Business Growth and Maturation; Competitive Advantage; Labor Unions; Operations; Global Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Gender; Retail Industry; United States
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      Cespedes, Frank V. "Wal-Mart Stores in 2003 (Abridged Version)." Harvard Business School Case 709-423, December 2008. (Revised October 2009.)
      • 2008
      • Working Paper

      The Sciences of Design: Observations on an Emerging Field

      By: Sandeep Purao, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Alan Hevner, Veda C. Storey, Jan Pries-Heje, Brian Smith and Ying Zhu
      The boundaries and contours of design sciences continue to undergo definition and refinement. In many ways, the sciences of design defy disciplinary characterization. They demand multiple epistemologies, theoretical orientations (e.g. construction, analysis or... View Details
      Keywords: Design; Engineering; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Research; Science; Boundaries; Value
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      Purao, Sandeep, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Alan Hevner, Veda C. Storey, Jan Pries-Heje, Brian Smith, and Ying Zhu. "The Sciences of Design: Observations on an Emerging Field." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-056, October 2008.
      • September 2008
      • Article

      Firm Heterogeneity and Credit Risk Diversification

      By: Samuel G. Hanson, M. Hashem Pesaran and Til Schuermann
      This paper examines the impact of neglected heterogeneity on credit risk. We show that neglecting heterogeneity in firm returns and/or default thresholds leads to under estimation of expected losses (EL), and its effect on portfolio risk is ambiguous. Once EL is... View Details
      Keywords: Volatility; Credit; Investment Return; Outcome or Result; Risk and Uncertainty; Loss; Diversification; Complexity; United States
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      Hanson, Samuel G., M. Hashem Pesaran, and Til Schuermann. "Firm Heterogeneity and Credit Risk Diversification." Journal of Empirical Finance 15, no. 4 (September 2008): 583–612.
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      Untapped Potential in the Study of Negotiation and Gender Inequality in Organizations

      By: Hannah Riley Bowles and Kathleen L. McGinn
      Negotiation is a process that creates, reinforces, and reduces gender inequality in organizations, yet the study of gender in negotiation has little connection to the study of gender in organizations. We review the literature on gender in job negotiations from... View Details
      Keywords: Gender; Body of Literature; Negotiation Process; Organizational Culture; Research; Behavior; Equality and Inequality
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      Bowles, Hannah Riley, and Kathleen L. McGinn. "Untapped Potential in the Study of Negotiation and Gender Inequality in Organizations." Academy of Management Annals 2 (2008): 99–132.
      • July 2008 (Revised March 2010)
      • Case

      McDonald's Plan to Win (A)

      By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Karla Ingrid Gravis and Annette Kristine Rodriguez
      As of 2007, McDonald's had made significant progress on its “Plan to Win,” and the company was rewarded by reaching an all-time high share price. However, McDonald's competitors had expanded beyond the typical fast food giants, such as Wendy's and Burger King, as... View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Competitive Strategy; Complexity; Supply and Industry; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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      Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, Karla Ingrid Gravis, and Annette Kristine Rodriguez. "McDonald's Plan to Win (A)." Harvard Business School Case 709-419, July 2008. (Revised March 2010.)
      • July 2008
      • Teaching Note

      Hilton Hotels: Brand Differentiation through Customer Relationship Management (TN)

      By: Lynda M. Applegate, Gabriele Piccoli and Chekitan Dev
      Teaching Note for [809029]. View Details
      Keywords: History; Strategy; Customer Relationship Management; Information Technology; System; Privatization; Brands and Branding; Accommodations Industry
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      Applegate, Lynda M., Gabriele Piccoli, and Chekitan Dev. "Hilton Hotels: Brand Differentiation through Customer Relationship Management (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 809-030, July 2008.
      • 2008
      • Working Paper

      Communication (and Coordination?) in a Modern, Complex Organization

      By: Adam M. Kleinbaum, Toby E. Stuart and Michael L. Tushman
      This is a descriptive study of the structure of communications in a modern organization. We analyze a dataset with millions of electronic mail messages, calendar meetings and teleconferences for many thousands of employees of a single, multidivisional firm during a... View Details
      Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Interpersonal Communication; Organizational Structure; Social Issues; Boundaries
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      Kleinbaum, Adam M., Toby E. Stuart, and Michael L. Tushman. "Communication (and Coordination?) in a Modern, Complex Organization." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-004, July 2008.
      • June 2008
      • Supplement

      Kit Hinrichs at Pentagram (B)

      By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Stecker
      This case focuses on Kit Hindrichs, a 65 year-old partner at Pentagram, a privately-owned multidisciplinary design firm. One of the world's most prestigious design firms, Pentagram was founded by five designers from different disciplines in London in the 1970s. By... View Details
      Keywords: Business Offices; Design; Managerial Roles; Private Ownership; Business and Shareholder Relations; Partners and Partnerships; Equality and Inequality; London; San Francisco; New York (state, US)
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      Hill, Linda A., and Emily Stecker. "Kit Hinrichs at Pentagram (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 408-128, June 2008.
      • June 2008
      • Case

      System on a Chip 2008: Global Unichip Corp.

      By: Willy C. Shih, Chintay Shih, Chen-Fu Chien and Yuan-Chieh Chang
      Though much of the semiconductor industry has shifted to a horizontal model, complexity driven by technological evolution is driving a shift in the perceived boundaries in the value chain. Global Unichip sees itself as a "virtual integrated device manufacturer," a... View Details
      Keywords: Customer Value and Value Chain; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration; Boundaries; Semiconductor Industry
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      Shih, Willy C., Chintay Shih, Chen-Fu Chien, and Yuan-Chieh Chang. "System on a Chip 2008: Global Unichip Corp." Harvard Business School Case 608-159, June 2008.
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