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      • April 2008
      • Supplement

      Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. (B)

      By: Paul W. Marshall, Michael Shih-ta Chen and Keith Chi-ho Wong
      In late November 2000, Chung Telecom Co., Ltd., the once-monopolized telecom operator owned by the Taiwanese government, was on its way to privatization. Mr. C.K. Mao, Chairman of the company, was headed the job only three months earlier, after its prior chairman... View Details
      Keywords: State Ownership; Jobs and Positions; Monopoly; Privatization; Competition; Decisions; Motivation and Incentives; Labor and Management Relations; Resignation and Termination; Compensation and Benefits; Price; Status and Position; Telecommunications Industry; Public Administration Industry; Taiwan
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      Marshall, Paul W., Michael Shih-ta Chen, and Keith Chi-ho Wong. "Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 808-138, April 2008.
      • May 2008
      • Article

      Excess Comovement of Stock Returns: Evidence from Cross-sectional Variation in Nikkei 225 Weights

      By: Robin Greenwood
      In the presence of limits to arbitrage, cross-sectional variation in periodic investor demand should be related to the degree of comovement of returns. I exploit the unusual weighting system of the Nikkei 225 index in Japan to identify cross-sectional variation in... View Details
      Keywords: Stocks; Investment; Investment Return; Market Transactions; Weight; Performance Expectations; Behavior; Japan
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      Greenwood, Robin. "Excess Comovement of Stock Returns: Evidence from Cross-sectional Variation in Nikkei 225 Weights." Review of Financial Studies 21, no. 3 (May 2008): 1153–1186.
      • February 2008 (Revised August 2011)
      • Case

      Olympia Machine Company, Inc.

      By: Frank V. Cespedes and Benson P. Shapiro
      The management team of an industrial equipment supplier is debating the company's method of compensating salespeople. Different executives have offered different alternatives to the current method of straight salary plus expenses. Each option has different implications... View Details
      Keywords: Governance Controls; Compensation and Benefits; Mission and Purpose; Salesforce Management; Motivation and Incentives; Business Strategy; Industrial Products Industry
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      Cespedes, Frank V., and Benson P. Shapiro. "Olympia Machine Company, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 708-490, February 2008. (Revised August 2011.)
      • 2008
      • Chapter

      Life-Cycle Funds

      By: Luis M. Viceira
      The U.S. retirement system has experienced a substantial transformation in recent years. It has evolved from a system in which employees relied mainly on Social Security and professionally managed defined benefit (DB) pension plans sponsored by their employers to... View Details
      Keywords: Retirement; Personal Finance; Investment Funds; Compensation and Benefits; United States
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      Viceira, Luis M. "Life-Cycle Funds." Chap. 5 in Overcoming the Saving Slump: How to Increase the Effectiveness of Financial Education and Saving Programs, edited by Annamaria Lusardi. University of Chicago Press, 2008.
      • Sep 2007 - 2007
      • Conference Presentation

      Antecedents of Boundary Spanning in Cross-functional NPD Teams

      By: James R. Dillon, Shikhar Sarin and Amy C. Edmondson
      Boundary spanning has been shown in prior research to enhance innovativeness and performance of product development teams. In this study, we examine team conditions that foster boundary spanning behavior. We analyze survey data from 207 members of 54 cross-functional... View Details
      Keywords: Product Development; Innovation and Invention; Groups and Teams; Behavior; Performance Improvement; Boundaries; Leadership Style; Product; Complexity; Integration; Power and Influence
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      Dillon, James R., Shikhar Sarin, and Amy C. Edmondson. "Antecedents of Boundary Spanning in Cross-functional NPD Teams." Paper presented at the Product Development and Management Association Annual Global Conference on Product Innovation Management, Orlando, FL, September 2007.
      • 2007
      • Working Paper

      Interpersonal Authority in a Theory of the Firm

      By: Eric J. Van den Steen
      This paper develops a theory of the firm in which a firm's centralized asset ownership and low-powered incentives give a manager 'interpersonal authority' over employees (in a world with differing priors). The paper derives such interpersonal authority as... View Details
      Keywords: Governance Controls; Employee Relationship Management; Managerial Roles; Motivation and Incentives; Boundaries; Theory
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      Van den Steen, Eric J. "Interpersonal Authority in a Theory of the Firm." Sloan School of Management Working Paper, No. 4667-07, July 2007. (Available at SSRN.)
      • April 2007
      • Article

      Wintel: Cooperation and Conflict

      By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and David B. Yoffie
      We study competitive interactions between Intel and Microsoft, two producers of complementary products. In a system of complements, like the PC, the value of the final product depends on how well the different components work together. This, in turn, depends on the... View Details
      Keywords: Conflict and Resolution; Competition; Cooperation; Value; Performance Effectiveness; Research and Development; Motivation and Incentives; Investment; Price; Product Launch; Product
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      Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and David B. Yoffie. "Wintel: Cooperation and Conflict." Management Science 53, no. 4 (April 2007): pp. 584–598.
      • March 2007 (Revised April 2007)
      • Case

      McDonald's Corporation: Managing a Sustainable Supply Chain

      By: Ray A. Goldberg and Jessica Droste Yagan
      McDonald's seeks to learn from a successful response to Greenpeace's Amazon deforestation campaign in order to make its supply chain more socially and environmentally responsible. View Details
      Keywords: Food; Supply Chain Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Management Systems; Food and Beverage Industry
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      Goldberg, Ray A., and Jessica Droste Yagan. "McDonald's Corporation: Managing a Sustainable Supply Chain." Harvard Business School Case 907-414, March 2007. (Revised April 2007.)
      • January 2007 (Revised January 2008)
      • Case

      Amanco: Developing the Sustainability Scorecard

      By: Robert S. Kaplan and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho
      Describes the challenges of using the Balanced Scorecard to implement a triple-bottom-line strategy for delivering excellent economic, environmental, and social performance. The owners and senior executive team of Amanco, a producer of plastic pipe and complete water... View Details
      Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Measurement and Metrics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Social Issues; Strategy; Construction Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Latin America; Brazil
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      Kaplan, Robert S., and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho. "Amanco: Developing the Sustainability Scorecard." Harvard Business School Case 107-038, January 2007. (Revised January 2008.)
      • 2007
      • Chapter

      Informational Complexity and the Flow of Knowledge across Social Boundaries

      By: Lee Fleming, J. Rivkin and O. Sorenson
      Keywords: Complexity; Boundaries; Information Management; Knowledge Dissemination
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      Fleming, Lee, J. Rivkin, and O. Sorenson. "Informational Complexity and the Flow of Knowledge across Social Boundaries." In Applied Evolutionary Economics and Economic Geography, edited by K. Frenken. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007.
      • December 2006 (Revised March 2008)
      • Case

      The European Union in the 21st Century

      By: J. Gunnar Trumbull
      Focuses on the challenges facing the European Union in 2006. Following the French and Dutch referendums in 2005, the fate of the European Constitution is in jeopardy. Ten new accession countries have just joined the EU, with Turkey in the beginning stages of the... View Details
      Keywords: Economic Growth; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Government Administration; European Union
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      Trumbull, J. Gunnar. "The European Union in the 21st Century." Harvard Business School Case 707-021, December 2006. (Revised March 2008.)
      • April 2006
      • Case

      Medical Innovation Beyond MedStar: Mobilizing for National Impact

      By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Ryan Raffaelli and Michelle Heskett
      Dr. Craig Feied, director of MedStar Health's Medical Informatics programs, wanted his innovations to influence national health care. Since joining Washington Hospital Center's Emergency Department in 1995 with Dr. Mark Smith, their information system had become the... View Details
      Keywords: Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Policy; Government and Politics; Innovation and Management; Projects; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Health Industry; Washington (state, US)
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      Kanter, Rosabeth M., Ryan Raffaelli, and Michelle Heskett. "Medical Innovation Beyond MedStar: Mobilizing for National Impact." Harvard Business School Case 306-096, April 2006.
      • March 2006
      • Module Note

      Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World

      By: Alan D. MacCormack
      Describes the second module of the 30-session Harvard Business School elective course Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World. The course helps students understand the challenges that uncertainty implies for innovation and how to overcome these challenges. The course... View Details
      Keywords: Innovation and Management; Problems and Challenges; Business Processes; Perspective; Opportunities; Risk and Uncertainty; Managerial Roles; Product Design; Business Startups; Organizational Design
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      MacCormack, Alan D. "Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World." Harvard Business School Module Note 606-103, March 2006.
      • March 2006
      • Case

      The Whitesides Lab

      By: H. Kent Bowen and Francesca Gino
      A significant part of the long-term economic growth in developed economies depends on the translation of scientific research into new products and processes. Focuses on the front end of this value creation stream. The laboratory of George Whitesides has a 30-year... View Details
      Keywords: Research; Performance Productivity; Economic Growth; Infrastructure; Creativity; Groups and Teams; Value Creation; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Leadership; Resource Allocation
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      Bowen, H. Kent, and Francesca Gino. "The Whitesides Lab." Harvard Business School Case 606-064, March 2006.
      • March 2006
      • Book Review

      Book review of Capitalism, Social Privilege and Managerial Ideologies

      By: Rakesh Khurana
      Keywords: Economic Systems; Information; Society; Management
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      Khurana, Rakesh. "Book review of Capitalism, Social Privilege and Managerial Ideologies." American Journal of Sociology 111, no. 5 (March 2006).
      • March 2006
      • Book Review

      Review of Capitalism, Social Privilege and Managerial Ideologies, by Ernesto R. Gantman. Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing, 2005.

      By: Rakesh Khurana
      Keywords: Economic Systems; Society; Management; Information
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      Khurana, Rakesh. "Review of Capitalism, Social Privilege and Managerial Ideologies, by Ernesto R. Gantman. Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing, 2005." American Journal of Sociology 111, no. 5 (March 2006): 1608–1611.
      • November 2005
      • Case

      Playgrounds and Performance: Results Management at KaBOOM! (A)

      By: Herman B. Leonard, Marc J. Epstein and Laura Winig
      KaBOOM!, a successful playground-building social enterprise funded through corporate partnerships, wants to develop a performance measurement system that will enable the organization to expand its impact substantially. The board of directors and management are trying... View Details
      Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Growth and Development Strategy; Social Enterprise; Performance Evaluation; Management Systems; Design; Construction Industry
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      Leonard, Herman B., Marc J. Epstein, and Laura Winig. "Playgrounds and Performance: Results Management at KaBOOM! (A)." Harvard Business School Case 306-031, November 2005.
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      Trust and Incentives in Agency

      By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Daniel F Spulber
      Contracts between a principal and an agent are not formed in a vacuum. Although formal contracts between a principal and an agent contain explicit incentives for performance, the relationship between a principal and an agent also involves implicit incentives. Three... View Details
      Keywords: Trust; Motivation and Incentives; Agency Theory; Contracts; Market Transactions; Performance; Relationships; Societal Protocols; Legal Liability; Cost
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      Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Daniel F Spulber. "Trust and Incentives in Agency." Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 15, no. 1 (Fall 2005): 45–104.
      • August 2005
      • Background Note

      Note on International Tax Regimes

      By: Mihir A. Desai, Mark Veblen and Kathleen Luchs
      Provides a framework for understanding different types of international tax regimes. Examines how alternative tax regimes tax the foreign income of their citizens (including corporate citizens); how tax regimes define foreign and domestic income; and how foreign tax... View Details
      Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Earnings Management; Nationality; Framework; Taxation; Profit; Globalization; Credit; United States
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      Desai, Mihir A., Mark Veblen, and Kathleen Luchs. "Note on International Tax Regimes." Harvard Business School Background Note 206-014, August 2005.
      • August 2005
      • Article

      Strategy-Making in Novel and Complex Worlds: The Power of Analogy

      By: Giovanni Gavetti, Daniel A. Levinthal and Jan W. Rivkin
      Keywords: Strategy; Power and Influence; Complexity
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      Gavetti, Giovanni, Daniel A. Levinthal, and Jan W. Rivkin. "Strategy-Making in Novel and Complex Worlds: The Power of Analogy." Strategic Management Journal 26, no. 8 (August 2005): 691–712.
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