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  • October 2009
  • Article

Making Time Off Predictable—and Required

By: Leslie Perlow and Jessica L. Porter
People in professional services believe a 24/7 work ethic is essential for getting ahead—and so they work 60-plus hours a week and stay tethered to their BlackBerrys. This perpetuates a vicious cycle: Responsiveness breeds the need for more responsiveness. When people... View Details
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Performance Expectations; Performance Productivity; Work-Life Balance; Service Industry
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Perlow, Leslie, and Jessica L. Porter. "Making Time Off Predictable—and Required." Harvard Business Review 87, no. 10 (October 2009).
  • 09 Dec 2022
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US Railroads and the Pitfalls of Systematic Understaffing

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Evan Rachlin

motivate others to perform at their peak." Experiencing management in action Evan applied to the joint MD/MBA program to "learn how to work in and manage large teams," a necessary prerequisite... View Details
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Trade Catalogs - The Art of American Advertising

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA Summer Venture in View Details
  • 15 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 15

Harmony: Peer Comparison and Executive Compensation By: Gartenberg, Claudine, and Julie Wulf Abstract—This study suggests that peer comparison affects both wage setting and productivity within firms. We report three changes in division... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Charles H. Revson

    Known for his autocratic and direct management style, Revson built Revlon into the second largest cosmetics company in the U.S. Revson's unique talent of grasping the female psyche, bolstered by his fiercely competitive nature, allowed... View Details
    Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
    • March 2022 (Revised December 2022)
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    Perch

    By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Stacy Straaberg and Julia Kelley
    In May 2021, Perch CEO Chris Bell needed to decide whether his e-commerce aggregator company, which bought and scaled Amazon Marketplace brands, should acquire up to three acquisition targets. The prospective acquisitions, Web Deals Direct, HomeCo, and Future Brands,... View Details
    Keywords: Business Ventures; Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Strategy; Business Strategy; Integration; E-commerce; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; North America; United States; Massachusetts; Boston; California; Asia; Philippines
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    Rayport, Jeffrey F., Stacy Straaberg, and Julia Kelley. "Perch." Harvard Business School Case 822-087, March 2022. (Revised December 2022.)
    • 01 Dec 2006
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    Not a Regular Joe

    Wilson was a principled and driven executive who transformed a small company called Haloid in Rochester, New York, into one that became synonymous with photocopying. Ellis, former managing partner of Greenwich Associates, offers a... View Details
    Keywords: Lewis I. Rice; Joe Wilson; Xerox; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
    • February 1996 (Revised May 2002)
    • Teaching Note

    Xerox: Outsourcing Global Information Technology Resources TN

    By: F. Warren McFarlan
    Teaching Note for (9-195-158). View Details
    Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Information Technology; Global Range; Resource Allocation; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry
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    McFarlan, F. Warren. "Xerox: Outsourcing Global Information Technology Resources TN." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 196-086, February 1996. (Revised May 2002.)
    • 01 Dec 2015
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    Complements to the Case Method

    Learning by Doing: Stock Pitching When it comes to getting an edge in a stock trade, HBS finance professors Lauren Cohen and Christopher Malloy urge students to go straight to the source. “We encourage them to get out in the field and talk to View Details
    • November 2009
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    Finance Myopia in a Systems Business

    By: J. Bruce Harreld
    This short case describes the tensions that often arise between finance executives attempting to curtail unproductive activities and strategy executives trying to optimize overall firm performance. View Details
    Keywords: Finance; Managerial Roles; Performance Improvement; Performance Productivity; Conflict and Resolution; Strategy; Competition
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    Harreld, J. Bruce. "Finance Myopia in a Systems Business." Harvard Business School Case 810-071, November 2009.
    • March 2011
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    MorphoSys AG: The Evolution of a Biotechnology Business Model

    By: Gary P. Pisano, Ryan Johnson and Carin-Isabel Knoop
    In the biotech world, the 18-year-old Munich-based company MorphoSys was a rarity: it was profitable. The company achieved this profitability not by developing and selling its own drugs, but by licensing access to its proprietary library of human antibodies. Recently,... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Profit; Intellectual Property; Rights; Risk Management; Digital Platforms; Product Development; Business and Shareholder Relations; Vertical Integration; Biotechnology Industry; Munich
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    Pisano, Gary P., Ryan Johnson, and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "MorphoSys AG: The Evolution of a Biotechnology Business Model." Harvard Business School Case 611-046, March 2011.
    • 25 Jul 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    An Organization Your Customers Understand

    If customers were unhappy, they reasoned, the product should be changed. Militant demands displaced an environment of mutual respect and shared learning. Needless to say, the practice of telling students they were customers was quickly... View Details
    Keywords: by Robert Simons
    • 01 Mar 2006
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    Fast Lane to Country Lane

    feel like everything I’ve done has been leading to this,” says Lackley, who manages business operations for Mark Lackley Furniture Maker (www.lackley.com), a high-end furniture company in Quechee, Vermont. Lackley began her “training” for... View Details
    Keywords: Margie Kelley; Furniture and Home Furnishings Stores; Retail Trade
    • 02 Sep 2019
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    Are Overlooked Forces Shielding the US from Severe Economic Downturns?

    given the length of the economic recovery from the depths of 2008. But are several basic forces at work that put the notion of an imminent recession to rest? In the early 1960s, in a class on business logistics at The Ohio State University, I ran an experiment in which... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Service
    • 01 Jun 2005
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    Cultural Revolution at GE

    hiring outsiders for its top management ranks and stopped the merry-go-round of promotions and relocations for top managers. Immelt now wants managers to stay put and become experts in their industries, not... View Details
    Keywords: GE; General Electric; Jack Welch; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing
    • 01 Dec 2006
    • News

    Inside Intel

    was taken with the opening of Fab 3 in Livermore, California, in April 1973. It was here that the now familiar “bunny suit” was introduced. “The bunny suits and the whole routine were a huge joke around the company for years,” according to manufacturing View Details
    Keywords: Richard S. Tedlow; Hanna, Julia; technology; manufacturing; innovation; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
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    Bryan Guerra

    Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? Prior to business school at HBS, the majority of my educational experience had taken place largely within a lecture-based setting. While this approach had provided a solid foundation of knowledge, in deciding to enroll... View Details
    Keywords: Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products
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    Scaling Technology Ventures - Course Catalog

    investor, cases in the course frame many of the critical opportunities and challenges associated with activating exponential growth and managing through the extrapolation phase as a venture scales. Scaling situations are presented through... View Details
    • 01 Sep 2016
    • News

    How I Got to Google

    Prem Ramaswami (MBA 2013) (courtesy Prem Ramaswami) Prem Ramaswami (MBA 2013) (courtesy Prem Ramaswami) Shireen Soheili (MBA 2016) (courtesy Shireen Soheili) Shireen Soheili (MBA 2016) (courtesy Shireen Soheili) During her job hunt for a View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna
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