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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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  • 12 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 12

collective, the nature and importance of relationships, how personal space and the role of time are viewed, the extent to which authority and hierarchy are accepted, how ambiguity and risk are regarded, and so on. Extending this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

measure of company returns but are deeply flawed. We propose an alternative measure that isolates operational performance from financial engineering, titled Core Operating Shareholders Returns (COSRs). In the process of disentangling... View Details
  • 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
  • 09 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?

technological language between suppliers and customers. These standards are primarily business-to-business programs that can be certified by independent agents, similar to how external financial auditors certify a company's financial... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

The Exchange: Help Wanted

moved away from operational expertise as they look to hire CEOs. Do organizations know how to recruit for these softer skills? Raffaella Sadun: As a basic starting point, organizations often lack the process to make these decisions... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 04 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Is Government Just Stupid? How Bad Decisions Are Made

choice without government interference. If elected, I will do everything possible to guarantee that there will be no real reduction in Social Security or Medicare spending. If elected, I will do everything possible to protect our natural... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman, Jonathan Baron & Katherine Shonk
  • 12 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 12, 2008

conceptual model and propositions that highlight the attributes of effective workforce diversity initiatives and the process through which workforce diversity initiatives become effective. We focus on knowledge-intensive work and argue... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 May 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Can AI Predict Whether Shoppers Would Pick Crest or Colgate?

but large language models like generative pre-trained transformers (GPTs) may allow companies to rely on AI to uncover consumers’ tastes, according to new research from Harvard Business School and Microsoft. Ayelet Israeli, an associate... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 20 Sep 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Power Posing: Fake It Until You Make It

and why we come to snap judgments about coworkers (and how to fight that natural instinct). The article was cited as a "Breakthrough Business Idea" for 2009 by Harvard Business Review. "The power poses paper came about in... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 28 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 28

straightforward processing to update prices, while the other set requires more complicated analyses to incorporate the same piece of information into prices. We document substantial return predictability from the set of easy-to-analyze... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jul 2019
  • HBS Case

Walmart's Workforce of the Future

initiative. “That requires a lot of reskilling of employees and hard choices, in an uncertain environment, in terms of how to deploy capital.” “This digital transformation creates new jobs, but, more important, it changes the nature of... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
  • 02 Jun 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Blissful Thinking: When It Comes to Finding Happiness, 'Your Dreams Are Liars'

finally satiated. You have enough until you pass out, and the next day you want it again. That’s the nature of all addiction, and success addiction is no different. People get on what we call the “hedonic treadmill,” where you’re running... View Details
Keywords: by Dan Morrell
  • Web

HBS - The year in Review

priority for HBS that cuts across all aspects of our work from teaching and scholarship to day-to-day operations. The School’s sustainability framework focuses on emissions and energy; campus operations; nature and ecosystems; health and... View Details
  • Web

Sample Student Projects - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Australia Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Cluster (2016) Saudi Arabia Chemicals Cluster (2016) Pennsylvania Natural Gas Cluster (2013) Abu Dhabi (UAE) Petrochemical Cluster (2012) Norway Oil and Gas Cluster... View Details
  • 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 Mar 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Want to Make Diversity Stick? Break the Cycle of Sameness

short term, for example, by focusing on implementing one-time interventions to hiring processes with the goal of diversifying one role at a time. Consider the overall diversity of the leadership group, rather than focusing on the identity... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 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
  • August 2008
  • Article

From Clusters to Cluster-Based Economic Development

By: Christian H.M. Ketels and Olga Memedovic
Over the last decades, changes in the global economy and the emergence of Global Value Chains (GVCs) have raised the interest in understanding the specific conditions and cross-company interactions within and across locations. For companies, the need to choose the... View Details
Keywords: Development Economics; Economy; Value; Business Strategy; Competition; Performance Productivity; Cost; Natural Environment; Policy; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Framework; Industry Clusters
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  • 15 Jul 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Five Imperatives for Improving Health Care

to be reimbursed very well by insurance companies, and they've set themselves up to do a lot of those particular procedures? "Those are two different scenarios, and we'd like to see more of the former than the latter." Promoting novel approaches to View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health