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      Beyond the Reach of the Invisible Hand: Impediments to Economic Activity, Market Failures, and Profitability

      By: Dennis Yao
      In this paper it is argued that failures of the competitive market are necessary conditions for supranormal profitability. Three fundamental causes of these market failures-production economies and sunk costs, transactions costs, and imperfect information-are developed... View Details
      Keywords: Economics; Markets; Failure; Profit; Cost; Information; Market Transactions; Competition; Strategy; Production
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      Yao, Dennis. "Beyond the Reach of the Invisible Hand: Impediments to Economic Activity, Market Failures, and Profitability." Strategic Management Journal 9 (Summer 1988): 59–70. (Harvard users click here for full text.)
      • February 1988 (Revised August 2000)
      • Background Note

      Note on the U.S. Freight Transportation Industry

      By: Janice H. Hammond and John E. P. Morrison
      Describes the major modes of domestic freight transportation (motor carrier, rail, air, water, and pipelines). Examines the characteristics of the transportation service that each mode provides and discusses changes in the industry that have resulted from recent... View Details
      Keywords: Change; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Industry Structures; Logistics; Service Operations; Transportation; United States
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      Hammond, Janice H., and John E. P. Morrison. "Note on the U.S. Freight Transportation Industry." Harvard Business School Background Note 688-080, February 1988. (Revised August 2000.)
      • February 1988
      • Case

      Crown Cork & Seal Co., Inc. (Condensed)

      By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Richard S. Rosenbloom
      A condensed version of Crown Cork & Seal Co., Inc. The principal changes are the elimination of details about the early history of the company and condensation of the final section, Outlook for the Future. View Details
      Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Industry Growth; Environmental Sustainability; Business Strategy; Trends; Manufacturing Industry
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      Hamermesh, Richard G., and Richard S. Rosenbloom. "Crown Cork & Seal Co., Inc. (Condensed)." Harvard Business School Case 388-096, February 1988.
      • 2000
      • Chapter

      A Model of Creativity and Innovation in Organizations

      By: T. M. Amabile
      Keywords: Creativity; Innovation and Invention; Organizational Design; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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      Amabile, T. M. "A Model of Creativity and Innovation in Organizations." In Research in Organizational Behavior. Vol. 22, edited by B. Staw and R. Sutton. Elsevier Science, 2000.
      • January 1988 (Revised January 2007)
      • Background Note

      Leading Change

      By: Michael Beer
      Presents a conceptual framework for understanding the process of leading organizational change. Change leaders must create dissatisfaction with the status quo, develop a vision of the future state, and manage a process that sequences and orchestrates events and changes... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Leading Change
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      Beer, Michael. "Leading Change." Harvard Business School Background Note 488-037, January 1988. (Revised January 2007.)
      • November 1987 (Revised June 1988)
      • Case

      ServiceMaster Industries, Inc.

      By: James L. Heskett
      The CEO of ServiceMaster Industries has convened an internal task force to come up with ideas for reorganizing the company to accommodate unusually fast growth. In developing both alternatives and criteria for appraising them, the task force has to keep in mind the... View Details
      Keywords: Restructuring; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Culture
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      Heskett, James L. "ServiceMaster Industries, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 388-064, November 1987. (Revised June 1988.)
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      'Making Book Against Oneself,' the Independence Axiom, and Non-Linear Utility Theory

      By: Jerry R. Green
      An individual with known preferences over lotteries can be led to accept random wealth distributions different from his initial endowment by a sequential process in which some uncertainty is resolved and he is offered a new lottery in place of the remaining... View Details
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      Green, Jerry R. "'Making Book Against Oneself,' the Independence Axiom, and Non-Linear Utility Theory." Quarterly Journal of Economics 102, no. 4 (November 1987): 785–796.
      • October 1987 (Revised October 1989)
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      Moving Ideas into Action: Mastering the Art of Change

      By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
      Discusses elements in organizing a large scale change effort: defining a shared vision, coalition building, management structure and process, communication and education, local participation and innovation, standards and measures, and symbols and signals. View Details
      Keywords: Change Management; Communication; Policy; Innovation and Invention; Standards; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategy
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      Kanter, Rosabeth M. "Moving Ideas into Action: Mastering the Art of Change." Harvard Business School Background Note 388-002, October 1987. (Revised October 1989.)
      • October 1987 (Revised January 2013)
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      Note on Free Cash Flow Valuation Models

      By: William A. Sahlman
      Explores some of the issues involved in valuing cash flow streams. A simple model is presented that reveals the effect on value of changing assumptions about the appropriate discount rate, the level of profitability, the growth rate of sales, the asset intensity ratio,... View Details
      Keywords: Cash Flow; Valuation
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      Sahlman, William A. "Note on Free Cash Flow Valuation Models." Harvard Business School Background Note 288-023, October 1987. (Revised January 2013.)
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      Measurement of Productivity Improvements: An Empirical Analysis

      By: R. Banker, S. Datar and M. Rajan
      Keywords: Measurement and Metrics; Theory
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      Banker, R., S. Datar, and M. Rajan. "Measurement of Productivity Improvements: An Empirical Analysis." Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance 2, no. 4 (Fall 1987): 319–347.
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      Review of Implementing New Technologies: Choice, Decision and Change in Manufacturing, edited by E. Rhodes and D. Wield

      By: Dorothy A. Leonard
      Keywords: Information Technology; Decision Choices and Conditions; Change; Production
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      Leonard, Dorothy A. "Review of Implementing New Technologies: Choice, Decision and Change in Manufacturing, edited by E. Rhodes and D. Wield." Administrative Science Quarterly 32, no. 3 (September 1987).
      • July 1987
      • Case

      Altoona Corp.: Computer Products Division

      By: Roger E. Bohn and Robert H. Hayes
      A relatively small manufacturer of computer memory disks has achieved a major market position through the use of its statistical quality control (SQC) program. It is now expanding the production of a new line of disks and is encountering problems getting the process... View Details
      Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Volatility; Performance Consistency; Performance Improvement; Performance Productivity; Quality; Mathematical Methods; Hardware; Manufacturing Industry
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      Bohn, Roger E., and Robert H. Hayes. "Altoona Corp.: Computer Products Division." Harvard Business School Case 688-010, July 1987.
      • 1987
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      The Institutionalization of Wealth: Changing Patterns of Investment Decision-Making

      By: André Perold and Jay O. Light
      Keywords: Decision Making; Trends; Investment; Wealth
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      Perold, André, and Jay O. Light. "The Institutionalization of Wealth: Changing Patterns of Investment Decision-Making." In Wall Street and Regulation, edited by Samuel L. Hayes III, 97–126. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1987.
      • April 1987 (Revised April 1987)
      • Case

      Tiberg Co.

      By: Michael Beer and Daniel J. Isenberg
      Describes the efforts of a vice president of purchasing to coordinate and centralize purchasing procedures in a multinational company. He encounters a lack of active cooperation. A rewritten version of an earlier case by G. Lombard. View Details
      Keywords: Cost Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Governance Controls; Managerial Roles; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Power and Influence
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      Beer, Michael, and Daniel J. Isenberg. "Tiberg Co." Harvard Business School Case 487-079, April 1987. (Revised April 1987.)
      • April 1987
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      The Effect of Accounting Procedure Changes on CEO's Cash Salary and Bonus Compensation

      By: Paul M. Healy, Sok-Hyon Kang and Krishna G. Palepu
      Keywords: Accounting; Change; Compensation and Benefits
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      Healy, Paul M., Sok-Hyon Kang, and Krishna G. Palepu. "The Effect of Accounting Procedure Changes on CEO's Cash Salary and Bonus Compensation." Journal of Accounting & Economics 9, no. 1 (April 1987): 7–34.
      • 1987
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      Ideology and National Competitiveness : An Analysis of Nine Countries

      By: George C. Lodge and Ezra F. Vogel
      Keywords: Competition; Government and Politics; Theory
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      Lodge, George C., and Ezra F. Vogel. Ideology and National Competitiveness : An Analysis of Nine Countries. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1987.
      • January 1987
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      From Status to Contribution: Organizational Implications of the Changing Basis for Pay

      By: R. M. Kanter
      Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Change
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      Kanter, R. M. "From Status to Contribution: Organizational Implications of the Changing Basis for Pay." Personnel (January 1987). (Reprinted as "How the New Pay Plans Stack Up." Best of Business Quarterly (fall 1987). Reprintings inlcude: Selected Readings in Strategic Human Resources Management, edited by F.K. Foulkes Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1989; Current Approaches to Pay and Benefits, edited by J.N. Matzer Washington, D.C.: International City Management Association, 1988.)
      • January 1987
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      Posterior Implementability in a Two-person Decision Problem

      By: Jerry R. Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont
      When a decision rule is implemented using a Bayesian incentive compatible mechanism in which the messages are publicly observable, the players' information is augmented by their observation of each others' strategies. In this paper we study the set of Bayesian... View Details
      Keywords: Incentives; Commitment; Mechanism Design; Decision Making; Information
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      Green, Jerry R., and Jean-Jacques Laffont. "Posterior Implementability in a Two-person Decision Problem." Econometrica 55, no. 1 (January 1987): 69–94.
      • 1987
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      Tests of Excess Forecast Volatility in the Foreign Exchange and Stock Markets

      By: K. A. Froot
      Simple regression tests that have power against the alternatives that asset prices and expected future asset returns are excessively volatile are developed and performed for the foreign exchange and stock markets. These tests have a number of advantages over... View Details
      Keywords: Risk Aversion; Risk; International Investing; International Finance; Risk and Uncertainty; Asset Pricing; Financial Markets; Investment; Behavioral Finance; Volatility
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      Froot, K. A. "Tests of Excess Forecast Volatility in the Foreign Exchange and Stock Markets." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 2362, August 1987.
      • January 1987
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      The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting

      By: Robert S. Kaplan
      Keywords: Management; Accounting; Change
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      Kaplan, Robert S. "The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting." Management Accounting (January 1987): 22–30.
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