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  • October 2010 (Revised June 2014)
  • Case

Volkswagen do Brasil: Driving Strategy with the Balanced Scorecard

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho
A new management team at VW do Brazil develops and deploys a strategy map and Balanced Scorecard to accomplish a turnaround and cultural change after eight consecutive years of financial losses and market share declines. The team uses the strategy map to align... View Details
Keywords: Business Cycles; Developing Countries and Economies; Management Teams; Leadership; Balanced Scorecard; Strategic Planning; Balance and Stability; Motivation and Incentives; Communication Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Auto Industry; Brazil; Germany
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  • January 10, 2022
  • Article

The Secret Ingredient of Thriving Companies? Human Magic

By: Hubert Joly
The traditional corporate approach to motivating people has been a combination of carrots and sticks: a system of financial incentives designed to mobilize everyone around a plan designed by a few smart people at the top. Multiple studies have confirmed that, for any... View Details
Keywords: Meaning; Purpose; Organizational Culture; Employees; Motivation and Incentives; Performance
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  • Forthcoming
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Achieving Epilepsy Care for All: Ecosystem-Based Transformation

By: Susanna Gallani, Bernice Martin Lee and Lidia M. V. R. Moura
Epilepsy exemplifies many of the systemic challenges of modern health care— fragmented care delivery, inequitable access, financial strain, and so on. The current “system of systems” (SoS) structure of U.S. health care fosters siloed operations among its member systems... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare Delivery; Epilepsy; Seizures; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Equality and Inequality; Framework; Service Delivery
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  • 02 Apr 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Monitoring and the Portability of Soft Information

Keywords: by Dennis Campbell & Maria Loumioti; Banking
  • February 2002 (Revised April 2002)
  • Case

Chengwei Ventures and the hdt* Investment

By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
Bo Feng, cofounder and principal in Chengwei Ventures, one of the first sovereign venture capital firms in China, is trying to decide on the proper business model for hdt, the product of a merger between two portfolio companies. This case discusses the best way for the... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Mergers and Acquisitions; Customer Relationship Management; Sovereign Finance; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Entrepreneurship; Internet and the Web; Applications and Software; Markets; Business Model; Financial Services Industry; China
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  • December 2007 (Revised September 2009)
  • Case

Wall Street's First Panic (A)

By: David A. Moss and Cole Bolton
In the early 1790s, a flood of newly issued public and private securities sparked an investment boom in the nascent United States. In New York, the bustling commercial district along Wall Street emerged as the center of the city's securities trade. One of the many... View Details
Keywords: History; Financial Instruments; Auctions; Financial Crisis; Business and Government Relations; Financial Services Industry
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  • April 2003 (Revised October 2003)
  • Case

Banking on Germany?

Explores the causes and consequences of transforming Germany's bank-oriented financial system into one more oriented to capital markets. The economics of globalization, international accords such as Basel II, EU financial policies, and Germany's own regulatory reforms... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Financial Crisis; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; Germany
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    Jonas Heese

    Jonas Heese is a Professor of Business Administration in the Accounting & Management (A&M) Unit at Harvard Business School.He serves as a course head of Financial Reporting and Control in the MBA core curriculum and teaches The Anatomy of... View Details

    • February 2007 (Revised July 2009)
    • Case

    Leadership at WildChina (A)

    WildChina (A) tells the story of Mei Zhang, a Chinese-born HBS alumna, and her pursuit of a dream: to share her passion for travel, her appreciation of China's beauty and culture, and her desire to start her own business. Describes the startup of WildChina, a tour... View Details
    Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Leadership; Management Succession; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Tourism Industry; Los Angeles; Beijing
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      Richard F. Meyer

      Richard F. Meyer is Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Professor Meyer received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and spent the first ten years of his career in the Management Services Division of Arthur D. Little, Inc., serving as a... View Details

        Dennis Campbell

        Dennis W. Campbell is currently the Dwight P. Robinson Jr. Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. His research and teaching activities focus broadly on how management control systems can be designed to balance short-term strategy execution... View Details

        Keywords: financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services

          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: financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services
          • May 1998 (Revised January 1999)
          • Case

          Japan: "Free, Fair, and Global?"

          By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Stephen E. Lynagh
          In April 1998, Prime Minister Hashimoto faced serious problems, both with his program of six systemic reforms and with his fiscal policy. Japan had been in effective recession for six years, unable to retain the miracle-growth achieved in earlier decades. Hashimoto has... View Details
          Keywords: Sovereign Finance; Development Economics; Social Issues; Policy; Economy; Government Administration; Financial Crisis; Japan
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          • Article

          Forgoing Earned Incentives to Signal Pure Motives

          By: Erika L. Kirgios, Edward H. Chang, Emma E. Levine, Katherine L. Milkman and Judd B. Kessler
          Policy makers, employers, and insurers often provide financial incentives to encourage citizens, employees, and customers to take actions that are good for them or for society (e.g., energy conservation, healthy living, safe driving). Although financial incentives are... View Details
          Keywords: Incentives; Motivation Laundering; Self-signaling; Motivation and Incentives; Behavior; Perception
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          • 12 Jan 2013
          • News

          Striking a balance on money market funds

          • November 2011 (Revised June 2013)
          • Case

          Allied Electronics Corporation Ltd: Linking Compensation to Sustainability Metrics

          Robert Venter, second-generation Chief Executive (CE) of family-owned Allied Electronics Corporation Ltd (Altron), considered the pros and cons of more clearly linking the firm's compensation system to sustainability performance. In June 2011, Altron, a conglomerate... View Details
          Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Motivation and Incentives; Environmental Sustainability
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          • June 1991 (Revised May 1992)
          • Case

          Lithonia Lighting

          By: Nitin Nohria
          In early 1991, Lithonia, the U.S.'s largest manufacturer of lighting fixtures, faced a major slump in the construction business that threatened to cause its first decline in revenues after over a decade of strong growth. With financial pressures from its parent company... View Details
          Keywords: Organizational Structure; Industry Growth; Decision Making; Information Technology; Financial Crisis; Investment; Business Growth and Maturation; Electronics Industry; United States
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            The Value of Trading Relationships in Turbulent Times

            Our recent work investigates dealers' trading behavior and pricing strategy in the corporate bond market to shed new light on the role of the network of existing relationships among dealers in shaping the transmission of risk and influencing market liquidity. We show... View Details
            • March 2019
            • Article

            Is There a Future for the Gas Network in a Low Carbon Energy System?

            By: Conor Hickey, Paul Deane, Celine McInerney and Brian O' Gallachoir
            This paper evaluates the potential low carbon opportunities for and challenges to the utilisation and financial performance of Ireland's gas distribution network within a series of low carbon scenarios. There has been a limited amount of academic literature published... View Details
            Keywords: Decarbonization; Investment; Risk and Uncertainty; Environmental Sustainability; Demand and Consumers; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry; Republic of Ireland
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            Finance Reporting and Control

            Financial Reporting and Control (FRC) is a course about how leaders can design and use performance measurement systems to build more effective organizations. Throughout their careers, business leaders are required to... View Details