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  • March 2022 (Revised May 2022)
  • Case

Winning Business at Russell Reynolds (A)

By: Ethan Bernstein and Cara Mazzucco
In an effort to make compensation drive collaboration, Russell Reynolds Associates’ (RRA) CEO Clarke Murphy sought to re-engineer the bonus system for his executive search consultants in 2016. As his HR analytics guru, Kelly Smith, points out, that risks upsetting–and... View Details
Keywords: Compensation; Collaboration; Executive Search Firms; Consulting Firms; Compensation and Benefits; Restructuring; Human Resources; Human Capital; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Social and Collaborative Networks; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Talent and Talent Management; Consulting Industry; Employment Industry; Asia; Europe; Latin America; Middle East; North and Central America; South America; Oceania
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Food & Agriculture - Business & Environment

climate change is expected to worsen conditions for growing food. [27] Barclays predicts that markets for meat alternatives could be worth $140 billion within 10 years (by 2029). [28] Challenge Agriculture’s contributions to climate change come from a variety of... View Details
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Frameworks & Key Concepts - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Successful economic development is a process of successive upgrading , often through a sequence of stages. Role of Different Levels of Government Competitiveness, in particular microeconomic competitiveness, is shaped by policy decisions... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees

For 17 years, Andre Kearns (MBA 1999) has been tracing his family tree. One by one, he has added branches, grounding himself in a long and sometimes complicated lineage. Through family stories, forgotten heirlooms, and vital records, Kearns has traveled back through... View Details
Keywords: April White; Illustrations by Fabio Consoli; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • January 2025
  • Supplement

Colbún’s Angostura Dam Project (B)

By: James K. Sebenius and Nicolas Andrade
The A case describes Colbún Chile’s plans for the Angostura dam in the Bío Bío River, a hydroelectric construction venture with major challenges given the region’s history of indigenous resistance. This context was especially unfavorable given the highly contentious... View Details
Keywords: Bargaining; Conflict Resolution; Dam; Stakeholder Analysis; Environmental Negotiation; Negotiation; Chile
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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship Article Entrepreneurship as Experimentation By: William R. Kerr , Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Entrepreneurship research is on the rise, but many questions about its fundamental nature still... View Details
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Drivers of Competitiveness - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

education, health care, equal opportunity Rule of Law: Property rights, personal security, and due process Political Institutions: Stable and effective political and governmental organizations and processes... View Details
  • 26 Sep 2023
  • Book

Digital Strategy: A Handbook for Managing a Moving Target

Volberda et al. (2021) put it: “with these advances in digital technology, the very nature of strategy is changing”. Others might argue that there is “nothing new under the sun” about digital strategy. It is just “dressing up” the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Information Technology; Technology
  • March 1998
  • Case

Bumper Acquisition (A2), A: Confidential Information for Medallion Capital, Inc.

By: James K. Sebenius and David T. Kotchen
Located in Mundelein, IL, Thermo-Impact, Inc. is a rapidly growing, private firm that manufactures automotive bumpers. In 1995, a number of large automotive supply companies and a private equity investment firm offer to buy Thermo-Impact. The cases in this series focus... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Valuation; Negotiation Participants; Decision Making; Negotiation Process; Entrepreneurship; Negotiation Offer; Acquisition; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; Illinois
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  • 04 Sep 2013
  • What Do You Think?

How Relevant is Long-Range Strategic Planning?

have to be applied more selectively, depending on such things as the industry, the nature of competition, and the speed with which a particular organization's environment is changing. And there is a question about whether a sufficient... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Skydeck - Alumni

Achievement Award reflect on how family and where they grew up formed them—personally and professionally Mission Control Space entrepreneur Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) on the process of finding your purpose In Harmony Born in Korea, Michael... View Details
  • 24 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Value Maximization and Stakeholder Theory

consuming their economic rents in this manner. Enlightened Stakeholder Theory Enlightened stakeholder theory is easy to explain. It can take advantage of most that stakeholder theorists offer in the way of processes and audits to measure... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
  • 12 Dec 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

Organizational Behavior The Energizing Nature of Work Engagement: Toward a New Need-Based Theory of Work Motivation By: Green, Paul, Eli Finkel, Grainne Fitzsimons, and Francesca Gino Abstract—We present theory suggesting that experiences... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Information Technology - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

(such as comorbidities) Incorporates structured data sets (rather than free text) and use of natural language processing to decrease need for manual data abstraction and hiring... View Details
  • 28 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 28, 2008

platform-based products (applications) and users of such products. We show that the unique equilibrium under platform compatibility leads to higher profits than the symmetric equilibrium under incompatibility. Notwithstanding, incompatibility View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Article

Management Practices, Relational Contracts and the Decline of General Motors

By: Susan Helper and Rebecca Henderson
General Motors was once regarded as one of the best managed and most successful firms in the world, but between 1980 and 2009 its share of the U.S. market fell from 62.6% to 19.8%, and in 2009 the firm went bankrupt. In this paper we argue that the conventional... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Design; Management Practices and Processes; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; United States
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  • 06 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

on California and Silicon Valley, we exploit Michigan's inadvertent reversal of its non-compete enforcement legislation as a natural experiment to investigate the impact of non-competes on mobility. Using the U.S. patent database and a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Stages of Development - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Strategy Stages of Development Stages of Development Successful economic development is a process of successive upgrading. A nation’s business environment evolves to support and encourage increasingly sophisticated and productive ways of... View Details
  • 11 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing

To improve any business, managers need to understand how much it costs to produce a profitable product. It seems a simple task, but the process of securing and analyzing the data can be incredibly complex and organizationally taxing. In... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
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FAQ - Alumni

are not legally binding. If your pledge is legally binding, the gift intention agreement will include the following language (or similar): “It is my intention that the Agreement shall create obligations that are binding and enforceable... View Details