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      • 2024
      • Working Paper

      Transforming the Federal Bureau of Investigation: Outcome and Process Framing

      By: Ryan Raffaelli, Tiona Zuzul, Ranjay Gulati and Jan Rivkin
      This twelve-year qualitative study examines how Director Robert Mueller and his senior team profoundly transformed the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Drawing on 138 interviews within the FBI and Mueller’s... View Details
      Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Transformation; Government and Politics; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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      Raffaelli, Ryan, Tiona Zuzul, Ranjay Gulati, and Jan Rivkin. "Transforming the Federal Bureau of Investigation: Outcome and Process Framing." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-084. (Revise and Resubmit.)
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      The Corporate Brand Identity and Reputation Matrix—The Case of the Nobel Prize

      By: Mats Urde and Stephen A. Greyser
      The purpose of this article is to explore corporate brand identity and reputation, with the aim of integrating them into a single managerial framework. The Nobel Prize serves as an in-depth field-based case study and is analysed using the Corporate Brand Identity and... View Details
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      Urde, Mats, and Stephen A. Greyser. "The Corporate Brand Identity and Reputation Matrix—The Case of the Nobel Prize." Journal of Brand Management 23, no. 1 (January 2016): 89–117.
      • 2015
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      "Level II" Negotiation Strategies: Advance Your Interests by Helping to Solve Their Internal Problems

      By: James K. Sebenius
      Many negotiators have constituencies that must formally or informally approve an agreement. Traditionally, it is the responsibility of each negotiator to manage the internal conflicts and constituencies on his or her own side. Far less familiar are the many valuable... View Details
      Keywords: Negotiation Tactics; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Deal
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      Sebenius, James K. "Level II" Negotiation Strategies: Advance Your Interests by Helping to Solve Their Internal Problems. In Negotiating in Times of Conflict, edited by Gilead Sher and Anat Kurz, 107–124. Tel Aviv: Institute for National Security Studies, 2015. Electronic.
      • 2015
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      Managerial Responsibility and the Purpose of Business: Doing One's Job Well

      By: Nien-he Hsieh
      Business managers routinely make decisions that significantly affect the lives of others in both positive and negative ways. In the light of these wide-ranging effects, much scholarship has been devoted to specifying the responsibilities of managers of for-profit... View Details
      Keywords: Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives
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      Hsieh, Nien-he. "Managerial Responsibility and the Purpose of Business: Doing One's Job Well." Chap. 5 in Ethical Innovation in Business and the Economy, edited by Georges Enderle and Patrick E. Murphy, 95–118. Studies in Transatlantic Business Ethics. Northhampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015.
      • Article

      The Social Contract Model of Corporate Purpose and Responsibility

      By: Nien-he Hsieh
      Of the many developments in business ethics that Thomas Donaldson has helped pioneer, one is the application of social contract theory to address questions about the responsibilities of business actors. In Corporations and Morality, Donaldson develops one of the... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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      Hsieh, Nien-he. "The Social Contract Model of Corporate Purpose and Responsibility." Business Ethics Quarterly 25, no. 4 (October 2015): 433–460. (DOI: 10.1017/beq.2016.1.)
      • September 2015 (Revised February 2017)
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      MOD Pizza: A Winning Recipe?

      By: Boris Groysberg, John D. Vaughan and Matthew Preble
      Scott and Ally Svenson, the founders of MOD Pizza, had to make a number of decisions in planning how to scale their small company. They wanted to grow MOD from 45 stores as of May 2015 to 200 stores by the end of 2016, and while the two believed that MOD could manage... View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Selection and Staffing; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing; Service Delivery; Organizational Culture; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Service Industry; United States
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      Groysberg, Boris, John D. Vaughan, and Matthew Preble. "MOD Pizza: A Winning Recipe?" Harvard Business School Case 416-004, September 2015. (Revised February 2017.)
      • 2015
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      How Leaders Use Values-based Guidance Systems to Create Dynamic Capabilities

      By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Matthew Bird, Ethan Bernstein and Ryan Raffaelli
      How do strategic leaders create change-adept organizations? Based on qualitative field research, this chapter argues that well-defined institutionalized purpose, values, and principles act as an organizational guidance system that integrates and strengthens the... View Details
      Keywords: Dynamic Capabilities; Field Research; Intrinsic Motivation; Organizational Identity; Ecosystem; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Mission and Purpose; Motivation and Incentives; Research; Management Systems; Change
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      Kanter, Rosabeth M., Matthew Bird, Ethan Bernstein, and Ryan Raffaelli. "How Leaders Use Values-based Guidance Systems to Create Dynamic Capabilities." Chap. 2 in The Oxford Handbook of Dynamic Capabilities, edited by David J. Teece and Sohvi Leih. Oxford University Press, 2015. Electronic.
      • 2015
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      The Nobel Prize: The Identity of a Corporate Heritage Brand

      By: Mats Urde and Stephen A. Greyser
      Purpose—The purpose of this study is to understand the identity of the Nobel Prize as a corporate heritage brand and its management challenges.
      Design/methodology/approach—An in-depth case study analysed within a heritage brand model and a corporate... View Details
      Keywords: Nobel Prize; Brand Stewardship; Corporate Brand Identity; Corporate Heritage Brand; Heritage Brand Identity Process; Networked Brand; Organizations; Brands and Branding
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      Urde, Mats, and Stephen A. Greyser. "The Nobel Prize: The Identity of a Corporate Heritage Brand." Journal of Product & Brand Management 24, no. 4 (2015): 318–332.
      • 2015
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      Reliable Sustainability Ratings: The Influence of Business Models on Information Intermediaries

      By: Robert G. Eccles, Jock Herron and George Serafeim
      A new generation of corporate reporting—integrated reporting—is emerging that will help investors and other key stakeholders such as employees, customers, suppliers, and NGOs develop a deeper and more comprehensive appreciation of corporate performance than what is... View Details
      Keywords: Sustainability; Business Models; Business Model
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      Eccles, Robert G., Jock Herron, and George Serafeim. "Reliable Sustainability Ratings: The Influence of Business Models on Information Intermediaries." Chap. 48 in The Routledge Handbook of Responsible Investment, edited by Tessa Hebb, James Hawley, Andreas Hoepner, Agnes Neher, and David Wood. Routledge, 2015.
      • July 2015 (Revised April 2016)
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      Lomography: Analog in a Digital World

      By: John T. Gourville, Karol Misztal and Emer Moloney
      In spite of the world's move to digital photography, in 2013 Lomography continues to design and offer analog (film) cameras to a loyal following of artistic photographers. Now it must decide whether to stick to its traditional offerings, to expand into artistic lenses... View Details
      Keywords: Positioning; Product Lines; Product Line Management; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Technological Innovation; Brands and Branding; Fine Arts Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Technology Industry
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      Gourville, John T., Karol Misztal, and Emer Moloney. "Lomography: Analog in a Digital World." Harvard Business School Case 516-006, July 2015. (Revised April 2016.)
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      Professionalism, Fiduciary Duty, and Health-Related Business Leadership

      By: Joshua D. Margolis
      Expanding fiduciary duty to leaders of health-related businesses can help leaders meet the challenges of caring for not only the corporation and shareholders but also the patients and medical professionals. How should leaders of health-related businesses weigh the... View Details
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      Margolis, Joshua D. "Professionalism, Fiduciary Duty, and Health-Related Business Leadership." JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association 313, no. 18 (May 12, 2015): 1819–1820.
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      Why Do Firms Have 'Purpose'? The Firm's Role as a Carrier of Identity and Reputation

      By: Rebecca Henderson and Eric Van den Steen
      Why do so many firms publicly espouse a "purpose" beyond simple profit maximization? And why do so many managers and employees appear to care deeply about this purpose and to believe that it is critically important? In this paper we argue that the conventional answers... View Details
      Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Identity; Reputation
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      Henderson, Rebecca, and Eric Van den Steen. "Why Do Firms Have 'Purpose'? The Firm's Role as a Carrier of Identity and Reputation." American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 105, no. 5 (May 2015): 326–330.
      • 2015
      • Report

      Decoding the Iran Nuclear Deal: Key Questions, Points of Divergence, Pros and Cons, Pending Legislation, and Essential Facts

      By: Gary Samore, Graham T. Allison, Matthew Bunn, Nicholas Burns, Shai Feldman, Chuck Freilich, Olli Heinonen, Martin B. Malin, Steven E. Miller, Payam Mohseni, Laura Rockwood, James K. Sebenius and William Tobey
      On April 2, 2015, the EU (on behalf of the P5+1 countries) and Iran announced agreement on "key parameters" for a comprehensive nuclear deal with Iran. The EU-Iran Joint Statement is buttressed by unilateral fact sheets issued by the U.S. and Iran, which provide... View Details
      Keywords: Negotiation; International Relations; Iran; United States; European Union
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      Samore, Gary, Graham T. Allison, Matthew Bunn, Nicholas Burns, Shai Feldman, Chuck Freilich, Olli Heinonen, Martin B. Malin, Steven E. Miller, Payam Mohseni, Laura Rockwood, James K. Sebenius, and William Tobey., ed. "Decoding the Iran Nuclear Deal: Key Questions, Points of Divergence, Pros and Cons, Pending Legislation, and Essential Facts." Report, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, April 2015.
      • March 2015
      • Teaching Note

      McKinsey & Co.—Protecting its Reputation (A) and (B)

      By: Jay Lorsch and Emily McTague
      McKinsey & Co—Protecting its Reputation (A&B) is a field case written from the perspective of the Firm's Managing Director Dominic Barton. The two cases describe the actions McKinsey & Co took to protect the firm's reputation after the Rajat Gupta matter.
      The... View Details
      Keywords: Consulting Firms; Leadership & Corporate Accountability; Leadership And Change Management; Leadership And Managing People; Leading A Global Business; Corporate Culture; Professional Service Firms; Professional Service Firm; Leadership; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Consulting Industry; United States
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      Lorsch, Jay, and Emily McTague. "McKinsey & Co.—Protecting its Reputation (A) and (B)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 415-067, March 2015.
      • 2015
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      Staying the Same While Changing: Organizational Identity in the Face of Environmental Challenges

      By: Mary Ann Glynn, Christi Lockwood and Ryan Raffaelli
      We explore the role of organizational identity in the adoption of new sustainability practices, focusing on how identity functions as a driver of (or sometimes a drag on) adoption. Drawing on illustrations from the U.S. hotel industry, we examine how sustainability... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Environmental Sustainability; Adoption; Accommodations Industry; United States
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      Glynn, Mary Ann, Christi Lockwood, and Ryan Raffaelli. "Staying the Same While Changing: Organizational Identity in the Face of Environmental Challenges." In Leading Sustainable Change: An Organizational Perspective, edited by Rebecca Henderson, Ranjay Gulati, and Michael Tushman. Oxford University Press, 2015.
      • 2015
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      The Role of Multiplier Firms and Megaprojects in Leading Change for Sustainability

      By: Amy C. Edmondson, Martine Haas, John D. Macomber and Tiona Zuzul
      In both the private and public sectors, organizations around the world face increasingly pressing questions about how to stimulate and manage change for long-term environmental, social, and economic sustainability. The purpose of this chapter is to highlight the roles... View Details
      Keywords: Blueprint Logic; Learning Logic; Megaprojects; Multiplier Firms; Leading Change; Environmental Sustainability
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      Edmondson, Amy C., Martine Haas, John D. Macomber, and Tiona Zuzul. "The Role of Multiplier Firms and Megaprojects in Leading Change for Sustainability." Chap. 11 in Leading Sustainable Change: An Organizational Perspective, edited by Rebecca Henderson, Ranjay Gulati, and Michael Tushman. Oxford University Press, 2015.
      • 2014
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      Higher-Ambition CEOs Need Higher-Ambition Boards

      By: Edward Ludwig, Elise Walton and Michael Beer
      Over the past years, forward-looking CEOs have adopted a higher-ambition approach to strategy and leadership. These "higher-ambition CEOs" are driven by a sense of purpose that goes beyond achieving financial success. They aspire to build organizations that succeed in... View Details
      Keywords: Strategy; Leadership Style; Management Teams
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      Ludwig, Edward, Elise Walton, and Michael Beer. "Higher-Ambition CEOs Need Higher-Ambition Boards." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-052, December 2014.
      • December 2014 (Revised January 2018)
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      Troubled Marriages

      By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Daniel Fox
      Compilation of articles looking at merger integration strategies: "business marriages." Problems of culture, management style, and business goals are revealed. View Details
      Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Goals and Objectives; Management Style; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Problems and Challenges
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      Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Daniel Fox. "Troubled Marriages." Harvard Business School Background Note 315-058, December 2014. (Revised January 2018.)
      • 2014
      • Other Teaching and Training Material

      Marketing Reading: Creating Customer Value

      By: Sunil Gupta
      This Reading explores how firms can create value for their customers. The goal of any business is to delight customers by understanding its customers' needs and to provide products and services to meet those needs. As a result, it is critical to understand what... View Details
      Keywords: Consumer Behavior; Consumer Marketing; Customer Experience; Network Effects; Service Profit Chain; Total Customer Value
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      Gupta, Sunil. "Marketing Reading: Creating Customer Value." Core Curriculum Readings Series. Boston: Harvard Business Publishing 8176, 2014.
      • 2014
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      The NTU-Value of Stochastic Games

      By: Elon Kohlberg and Abraham Neyman
      Since the seminal paper of Shapley, the theory of stochastic games has been developed in many different directions. However, there has been practically no work on the interplay between stochastic games and cooperative game theory. Our purpose here is to make a first... View Details
      Keywords: Strategy; Game Theory
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      Kohlberg, Elon, and Abraham Neyman. "The NTU-Value of Stochastic Games." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-014, September 2014.
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