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  • March 2016
  • Teaching Plan

Emaar: The Center of Tomorrow, Today

By: Sid Yog, Esel Cekin and Marc Homsy
Starting in 1997, Mohammad Alabbar, Chairman of Emaar, has been largely associated with Dubai's most renowned real estate projects: the world's tallest building, largest mall and biggest fountain show. Emaar's pioneering success attracted a large number of private... View Details
Keywords: Middle East; United Arab Emirates; Egypt; Dubai; Real Estate; Finance; Emaar; Public Real Estate Company; Market Entry and Exit; Competitive Strategy; Financial Condition; Entrepreneurship; Global Strategy; Real Estate Industry; Dubai
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  • August 2013 (Revised December 2014)
  • Case

Taking Dell Private

By: David J. Collis, David B. Yoffie and Matthew Shaffer
In July 2012, Michael Dell, CEO and founder of Dell, Inc., met with a representative of Silver Lake Partners to explore taking his company private. The company, which he had founded in his dorm room as a college freshman and which had made him the youngest Fortune 500... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Going Private; The PC Market; Market For Corporate Control; Corporate Strategy; Leveraged Buyouts; Change Management; Private Equity; Market Entry and Exit; Private Ownership; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Internet and the Web; Computer Industry; Technology Industry; United States
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    Improving the Rhythm of Your Collaboration

    Winner of the annual MIT Sloan Management Review Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize, for the most outstanding MIT SMR article on planned change and organizational development. Chosen by MIT Sloan faculty judges Deborah Ancona, John Van Maanen, and Cyrus... View Details

    • February 2020
    • Article

    Tales of Two Motives: Disclosure and Concealment

    By: Leslie John, Michael L. Slepian and Diana Tamir
    We posit that the desire to disclose personal information, and the desire to conceal it, are related yet distinct psychological motives. People often wish to conceal information, such as embarrassing aspects of the self. Yet people also seek to reveal information, such... View Details
    Keywords: Disclosure; Privacy; Information; Motivation and Incentives
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    • Forthcoming
    • Article

    The (Heterogenous) Economic Effects of Private Equity Buyouts

    By: Steven J. Davis, John Haltiwanger, Kyle Handley, Ben Lipsius, Josh Lerner and Javier Miranda
    The effects of private equity buyouts on employment, productivity, and job reallocation vary tremendously with macroeconomic and credit conditions, across private equity groups, and by type of buyout. We reach this conclusion by examining the most extensive... View Details
    Keywords: Private Equity Buyouts; Impact; Private Equity; Economics; Employment; Performance Productivity; Wages
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    • Research Summary

    Overview

    By: Robert Simons
    Professor Simons is currently studying how executives make their businesses more competitive using innovative structural designs and performance measurement systems. He has a number of ongoing research projects on this topic, and teaches MBA and executive education... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy Execution; Organization Design; Management Control Systems; Performance Measurement; Competitiveness
    • 14 Mar 2023
    • In Practice

    What Does the Failure of Silicon Valley Bank Say About the State of Finance?

    exhaustion after several years of dealing with surprises ranging from shortages and runs on basic goods to the Fed’s limited ability to control or even forecast inflation. Something will also have to be said... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking
    • Article

    The Effect of Background Music in Shark Documentaries on Viewers' Perceptions of Sharks

    By: Andy Nosal, Elizabeth A. Keenan, Philip A. Hastings and Ayelet Gneezy
    Despite the ongoing need for shark conservation and management, prevailing negative sentiments marginalize these animals and legitimize permissive exploitation. These negative attitudes arise from an instinctive yet exaggerated fear, which is validated and reinforced... View Details
    Keywords: Natural Environment; Prejudice and Bias; Marketing; Attitudes; Music Entertainment
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    • 18 Mar 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Schumpeterian Competition and Diseconomies of Scope: Illustrations from the Histories of Microsoft and IBM

    Keywords: by Timothy Bresnahan, Shane Greenstein & Rebecca Henderson
    • November 2016 (Revised March 2018)
    • Module Note

    Strategy Execution Module 9: Building a Balanced Scorecard

    By: Robert Simons
    This module reading explains how to construct a strategy map and build a balanced scorecard. Using an internal value chain model, the module illustrates how a balanced scorecard can support and enable customer management, innovation, operations, and post-sale service... View Details
    Keywords: Management Control Systems; Implementing Strategy; Execution; Performance Measurement; Strategy Map; Business Goals; Customer Measures; Strategy; Balanced Scorecard; Business Model
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    • March 2020
    • Case

    China's Management of COVID-19 (A): People's War or Chernobyl Moment?

    By: Meg Rithmire and Courtney Han
    In late 2019, a novel respiratory virus appeared in a province in central China. Government officials in Wuhan, Hubei province had to respond to the new virus in the shadow of the 2002–2003 outbreak of SARS in China and within the context of the country’s public health... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19; Coronavirus; Pandemics; Public Health; COVID-19 Pandemic; Health Pandemics; Government Administration; Social Issues; Policy; Decision Making; China
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    • April 1985 (Revised October 1988)
    • Case

    Everest Computer (A): The Development of the SuperMOS Process

    By: Kim B. Clark
    The research and development lab at the semiconductor development and manufacturing facility of a computer systems manufacturer has embarked on a radically improved semiconductor manufacturing process for application in a new computer system. The case offers a detailed... View Details
    Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Governance Controls; Production; Research and Development; Hardware; Semiconductor Industry
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    • April 2019 (Revised March 2020)
    • Case

    Handy: The Future of Work? (A)

    By: Nien-hê Hsieh and Kieron Stopforth
    Witnessing numerous lawsuits alleging that online platform companies misclassified workers as contractors when they were actually employees, Handy’s founders faced a series of decisions. Handy was an online platform business that enabled customers to book appointments... View Details
    Keywords: Employment; Working Conditions; Entrepreneurship; Compensation and Benefits; Internet and the Web; Ethics; Fairness; Service Industry; United States
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    • September 2016 (Revised September 2016)
    • Case

    Spectio: A Digital Lighting Company

    By: Rajiv Lal and Sarah McAra
    Spectio Tech, founded in 2005, developed and implemented intelligent LED lighting solutions for the industrial market. Sensors and wireless connectivity embedded in its LED fixtures not only significantly reduced lighting-related energy use—by up to 90% in some... View Details
    Keywords: Internet Of Things; IoT; LED Lighting; Start-up; Energy Efficiency; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Technological Innovation; Business Startups; Internet and the Web
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    • 19 Apr 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    Birth of the American Salesman

    sales territories, and tested different methods of compensation. Also, like Taylor, he placed the pace of work under managerial control by demanding that salesmen meet monthly... View Details
    Keywords: by Laura Linard
    • Article

    Risk and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns

    By: Mark Seasholes, Radu Burlacu, Patrice Fontaine and Sonia Jimenez-Garces
    This paper mathematically transforms unobservable rational expectation equilibrium model parameters (information precision and supply uncertainty) into a single variable that is correlated with expected returns and that can be estimated with recently observed data. Our... View Details
    Keywords: Risk Premiums; Cross-sectional Asset Pricing; REE Models; Risk and Uncertainty; Asset Pricing; Investment Return
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    • Article

    Variety of Innovation in Global Value Chains

    By: Giulio Buciuni and Gary P. Pisano
    This article analyzes how the geography and organization of pre- and production stages in Global Value Chains (GVC) contribute to lead firms' innovation development. A novel approach in GVC studies is introduced based on transaction cost economics (TCE) and the... View Details
    Keywords: GVC; Global Value Chains; Manufacturing; Production; Global Range; Innovation and Invention
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    • March 2019
    • Article

    A Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing Analysis of Emergency Department Scribes

    By: Robert S. Kaplan, Heather A. Heaton, David M. Nestler, William J. Barry, Richard A. Helmers, Mustafa Y. Sir, Deepi G. Goyal, Derek A. Haas and Annie T. Sadosty
    Objectives: To apply time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) methodology to determine emergency medicine physician documentation costs with and without scribes.

    Methods: Two research assistants shadowed attending physicians for a total of 64 hours in the... View Details
    Keywords: Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Health Care and Treatment; Analysis
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    • 2010
    • Other Unpublished Work

    Saving Face by Making Meaning: The Negative Effects of Brand Communities' Self-serving Response to Brand Extensions

    By: Jill Avery
    An ethnographic study of a brand community following the launch of the Porsche Cayenne SUV finds that brand extensions can negatively affect the value of their parent brands. By studying the collective response to brand extensions of existing consumers and by... View Details
    Keywords: Brands; Brand Management; Brand Positioning; Brand Equity; Internet; Social Media; Customers; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Auto Industry
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    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Corporate Culture Homogeneity and Top Executive Incentive Design: Evidence from CEO Compensation Contracts

    By: Dennis Campbell, Ruidi Shang and Zhifang Zhang
    We examine how corporate cultures characterized by high degrees of homogeneity in the underlying values and beliefs of organizational members are related to the design of CEO incentive compensation contracts. We argue that culture homogeneity within firms lowers... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Culture; Compensation Design; Accounting; Management Control; Incentive Systems; Organizational Culture; Job Design and Levels; Governance; Executive Compensation; Motivation and Incentives
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