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  • May 1997
  • Teaching Note

Product Development Process, Organization and Improvement, Instructor's Note

By: Marco Iansiti
Explores how development projects fit (or do not fit) within a firm's development strategy and its wider competitive goals. Module materials, and this note, focus on two broad approaches to process design (sequential and flexible) that were originally introduced in the... View Details
Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Management Practices and Processes; Product Development; Performance Improvement; Competition
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Iansiti, Marco. "Product Development Process, Organization and Improvement, Instructor's Note." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 697-106, May 1997.
  • 2009
  • Report

Clusters and Dubai's Competitiveness

By: Christian H.M. Ketels
The Dubai Cluster Competitiveness Report presents a consistent analysis of the four clusters that currently dominate the Dubai economy: construction, financial services, tourism, and transportation and logistics. Each of the four cluster chapter provides a profile of... View Details
Keywords: Economy; Industry Clusters; Performance Evaluation; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Construction Industry; Financial Services Industry; Tourism Industry; Transportation Industry; Dubai
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Ketels, Christian H.M. "Clusters and Dubai's Competitiveness." Report, Dubai Economic Council, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, October 2009.
  • June 2005
  • Tutorial

Prematriculation Financial Accounting Tutorial/Module

By: David F. Hawkins, Paul M. Healy and Ratna G. Sarkar
The Financial Accounting course is an introduction to the fundamental concepts of financial accounting in a management context. The course describes the business activities for Global Grocer, a small retail franchise specializing in gourmet foods and specialty kitchen... View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Performance; Financial Statements
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"Prematriculation Financial Accounting Tutorial/Module." Harvard Business School Tutorial 105-708, June 2005.
  • March 2022 (Revised January 2023)
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Innovation at Moog Inc.

By: Brian J. Hall, Ashley V. Whillans, Davis Heniford, Dominika Randle and Caroline Witten
This case focuses on the challenges of incentivizing innovation within Moog, an engineering company based in New York state that designs and builds guidance systems for space, air, and land-based travel. The case enables students to grapple with the challenges of using... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Innovation Lab; Innovation Management; Motivation; Incentives; Culture; Compensation; Compensation And Benefits; Scalability; Business Growth and Maturation; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Independent Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Organizational Culture; Performance Consistency; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Efficiency; Performance Productivity; Performance Evaluation; Creativity; Motivation and Incentives; Aerospace Industry; Transportation Industry; United States
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Hall, Brian J., Ashley V. Whillans, Davis Heniford, Dominika Randle, and Caroline Witten. "Innovation at Moog Inc." Harvard Business School Case 922-040, March 2022. (Revised January 2023.)
  • 12 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 12

clients. A critical component of the One-Firm initiative was a technology-enabled performance management system that articulated metrics for individual and group performance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2011 (Revised June 2011)
  • Supplement

Arck Systems (B)

By: Ian Larkin
The Arck Systems series of cases describes the dilemmas faced by a senior sales manager in determining a sales compensation plan at an enterprise software company. The existing compensation plan is aggressive and highly rewards "star" performers. The cases track a... View Details
Keywords: Change; Framework; Compensation and Benefits; Management; Organizational Design; Outcome or Result; Performance Evaluation; Sales; Motivation and Incentives; System; Software
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Larkin, Ian. "Arck Systems (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 911-057, March 2011. (Revised June 2011.)
  • 18 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Ideas, April 18

terms of the proposed JV, Merck would pay Bayer $1 billion upfront for access to their pipeline of drugs and could pay up to another $1.2 billion in contingent payments based... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016

issue high-headline-rate and more complex products in low-rate environments. Finally, we find that high-headline-rate and more complex products are more profitable for banks, and that their ex post View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29

Pvt. Ltd. (formerly SET Pvt. Ltd.), a leading television broadcaster in India. Describes Singh's decision to evaluate employees based on values as well as performance and the management committee's response. Allows View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2000
  • Other Unpublished Work

Career Concerns and Staged Investment: Evidence from the Venture Capital Industry

By: Malcolm Baker
I develop a model in which career concerns lead to inefficient reinvestment decisions. Managers have incentives to inflate interim returns by continuing bad projects and delaying write-offs. In the venture capital industry, the syndication of follow-on investments can... View Details
Keywords: Performance Efficiency; Valuation; Venture Capital; Investment; Decisions; Motivation and Incentives; Quality
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Baker, Malcolm. "Career Concerns and Staged Investment: Evidence from the Venture Capital Industry." 2000. (First draft in 2000.)
  • 03 Feb 2015
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pay to the plan. We document an oppositional reaction: the presence of peer information decreased the savings of nonparticipants who were ineligible for 401(k) automatic enrollment, and higher observed peer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Research Summary

Overview

I am a field researcher studying the relational nature of work. Organizations are inherently social institutions and provide myriad opportunities for relationship formation. My work begins with the simple insight that all relationships are not equal: interpersonal... View Details
Keywords: Prosocial Motivation; Feedback; Personal Development; Needs; Organizational Design; Performance Productivity; Social and Collaborative Networks; Networks; Groups and Teams; Family and Family Relationships; Food and Beverage Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Consulting Industry; Consumer Products Industry
  • 02 Apr 2013
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of executing on its recently refined strategy. Opinions ranged across the following strategic issues: growing the firm's Asian footprint versus remaining focused in Europe; aiming to be a top performing mid-market firm or focusing on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Varied Experience, Team Familiarity, and Learning: The Mediating Role of Psychological Safety

By: Bradley R. Staats, Francesca Gino and Gary P. Pisano
Prior work examining the relationship of varied experience (i.e., the concurrent completion of multiple tasks) and learning by groups finds inconsistent results. We hypothesize that team familiarity, i.e, individuals' prior shared work experience, may help explain this... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Learning; Performance Effectiveness; Groups and Teams; Social Psychology; Familiarity
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Staats, Bradley R., Francesca Gino, and Gary P. Pisano. "Varied Experience, Team Familiarity, and Learning: The Mediating Role of Psychological Safety." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-016, August 2009. (Revised May 2010, previously titled "Repetition of Interaction and Learning: An Experimental Analysis.")
  • August 2006 (Revised May 2007)
  • Case

Management Levels at Staples (A): Company and Organization

By: David A. Garvin and Lynne Levesque
One of six cases that describe the roles and responsibilities of managers at each of the hierarchical levels of management within the U.S. Stores business unit of Staples, the world's largest office supply company. Together, the cases form a complete integrated... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Leadership; Management Practices and Processes; Managerial Roles; Operations; Performance Effectiveness; Strategic Planning; Perspective; Retail Industry
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Garvin, David A., and Lynne Levesque. "Management Levels at Staples (A): Company and Organization." Harvard Business School Case 307-037, August 2006. (Revised May 2007.)
  • May 2007 (Revised April 2020)
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Ernesto Tornquist: Making a Fortune on the Pampas

By: Geoffrey Jones and Andrea Lluch
Examines the career of Ernesto Tornquist, a cosmopolitan financier considered to be the most significant entrepreneur in Argentina at the end of the 19th century. Tornquist created a diversified business group, linked to the political elite, which integrated Argentina... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Development Economics; Partners and Partnerships; Personal Development and Career; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Trade; Globalized Markets and Industries; Economy; Performance; Argentina
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Jones, Geoffrey, and Andrea Lluch. "Ernesto Tornquist: Making a Fortune on the Pampas." Harvard Business School Case 807-155, May 2007. (Revised April 2020.)
  • 22 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 22

Compensation and Firm Performance Authors:Joanne Horton, Yuval Millo, and George Serafeim Publication:Journal of Business Finance and Accounting (forthcoming) Abstract Using a sample of 4,278 listed U.K. firms, we construct a social... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Dec 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?

greater in countries with good and already-established public transportation infrastructures as compared with, say, the United States, where most citizens like and need their automobiles? A: Certainly Americans like cars. Although no one likes traffic jams, shoveling... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Transportation
  • April 2006
  • Article

Competitive Advantage and the Value Network Configuration: Making Decisions at a Swedish Life Insurance Company

By: Øystein D. Fjeldstad and Christian H.M. Ketels
When the Swedish Life Insurers Förenade Liv found themselves in difficulties in a rapidly changing market, their response was to call in the consultants. And one of the consultant's first suggestions was to use the Value Network, not the Value Chain, as a new... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Fluctuation; Networks; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Value; Quality; Decision Making; Market Transactions; Performance Effectiveness; Customers; Insurance Industry; Sweden
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Fjeldstad, Øystein D., and Christian H.M. Ketels. "Competitive Advantage and the Value Network Configuration: Making Decisions at a Swedish Life Insurance Company." Long Range Planning 39, no. 2 (April 2006): 109–131.
  • 31 Mar 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

What Do CEOs Do?

Keywords: by Oriana Bandiera, Luigi Guiso, Andrea Prat & Raffaella Sadun
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