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      • 2010
      • Book

      Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads

      By: Srikant M. Datar, David A. Garvin and Patrick Cullen
      "Business Schools Face Test of Faith." "Is It Time to Retrain B-Schools?" As these headlines make clear, business education is at a major crossroads. For decades, MBA graduates from top-tier schools set the standard for cutting-edge business knowledge and skills. Now... View Details
      Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Problems and Challenges
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      Datar, Srikant M., David A. Garvin, and Patrick Cullen. Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads. Boston: Harvard Business Press, 2010. (Selected by Strategy + Business as one of the Best Business Books of 2010.)
      • March 2010 (Revised October 2011)
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      Highland District County Hospital: Gastroenterology Care in Sweden

      By: Michael E. Porter, Jennifer F Baron and Martin Rejler
      Sweden's Highland District County Hospital, similar to a community hospital in the US, undertook a major restructuring to integrate care delivery for medical conditions served by the Department of Medicine. Each subspecialty within the Department would form a single,... View Details
      Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Sweden
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      Porter, Michael E., Jennifer F Baron, and Martin Rejler. "Highland District County Hospital: Gastroenterology Care in Sweden." Harvard Business School Case 710-469, March 2010. (Revised October 2011.)
      • 2010
      • Book

      Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring: Case Studies in Bankruptcies, Buyouts, and Breakups

      By: Stuart C. Gilson
      A collection of case studies illustrates real-world techniques, implementation, and strategies on corporate restructuring. Over the period 1981-1998, public companies with combined assets of over half a trillion dollars filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Over the same... View Details
      Keywords: Restructuring; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Public Ownership; Value Creation
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      Gilson, Stuart C. Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring: Case Studies in Bankruptcies, Buyouts, and Breakups. 2nd ed. John Wiley & Sons, 2010.
      • February 2010 (Revised June 2014)
      • Supplement

      CityCenter (D): Financial Crisis, Grand Opening, and a New Paradigm

      By: John D. Macomber and Griffin James
      "CityCenter (D)" follows the (A), (B), and (C) cases with subsequent chronological events through CityCenter's grand opening in December 2009 and financial results through March 2010. The case includes a simple valuation exercise intended to explore CEO Jim Murren's... View Details
      Keywords: Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Private Equity; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Decision Choices and Conditions; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Nevada; New Jersey
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      Macomber, John D., and Griffin James. "CityCenter (D): Financial Crisis, Grand Opening, and a New Paradigm." Harvard Business School Supplement 210-067, February 2010. (Revised June 2014.)
      • February 2010
      • Other Article

      The Chilling Effect of Sarbanes Oxley: A Discussion of Sarbanes-Oxley and Corporate Risk-Taking

      By: Aiyesha Dey
      Bargeron, Lehn, and Zutter [2009. Sarbanes–Oxley and corporate risk-taking. Journal of Accounting and Economics, forthcoming] document that as compared with non-US firms, risk-taking by publicly traded companies in the US declined after the passage of the... View Details
      Keywords: Risk; Corporate Risk-taking; Risky Investments; Risk and Uncertainty
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      Dey, Aiyesha. "The Chilling Effect of Sarbanes Oxley: A Discussion of Sarbanes-Oxley and Corporate Risk-Taking." Journal of Accounting & Economics 49, nos. 1-2 (February 2010): 53–57.
      • February 2010
      • Article

      The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution

      By: N. Gregory Mankiw and Matthew C. Weinzierl
      Should the income tax include a credit for short taxpayers and a surcharge for tall ones? The standard Utilitarian framework for tax analysis answers this question in the affirmative. Moreover, a plausible parameterization using data on height and wages implies a... View Details
      Keywords: Taxation; Wages; Personal Characteristics
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      Mankiw, N. Gregory, and Matthew C. Weinzierl. "The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 2, no. 1 (February 2010): 155–176.
      • 2010
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      An Organizational Approach to Undoing Gender: The Unlikely Case of Offshore Oil Platforms

      By: Robin J. Ely and Debra E. Meyerson
      This case study of two offshore oil platforms illustrates how an organizational initiative designed to enhance safety and effectiveness created a culture that unintentionally released men from societal imperatives for "manly" behavior, prompting them to let go of... View Details
      Keywords: Safety; Goals and Objectives; Behavior; Organizational Culture; Performance Effectiveness; Gender; Emotions
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      Ely, Robin J., and Debra E. Meyerson. "An Organizational Approach to Undoing Gender: The Unlikely Case of Offshore Oil Platforms." Research in Organizational Behavior 30 (2010): 3–34.
      • 2010
      • Casebook

      Global Capital and National Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture

      By: Laura Alfaro
      All managers face a business environment in which international and macroeconomic phenomena matter. International capital flows can significantly affect countries' development efforts and provide clear investment opportunities for businesses. During the 1990s and early... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Crisis; Capital; International Finance; Globalized Economies and Regions; Policy; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations
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      Alfaro, Laura. Global Capital and National Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2010.
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      Improved Bounds on the Sizes of S.P Numbers

      By: Paul Myer Kominers and Scott Duke Kominers
      A number which is S.P in base r is a positive integer which is equal to the sum of its base-r digits multiplied by the product of its base-r digits. These numbers have been studied extensively in The Mathematical Gazette. Recently, Shah Ali... View Details
      Keywords: Mathematical Methods
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      Kominers, Paul Myer, and Scott Duke Kominers. "Improved Bounds on the Sizes of S.P Numbers." Mathematical Gazette 94, no. 529 (March 2010): 127–129.
      • 2010
      • Chapter

      Revisiting the Meaning of Leadership

      By: Joel Podolny, Rakesh Khurana and Marya Hill-Popper
      During the past 50 years, organizational scholarship on leadership has shifted from a focus on the significance of leadership for meaning-making to the significance of leadership for economic performance. This shift has been problematic for two reasons. First, it has... View Details
      Keywords: Communication Intention and Meaning; Economics; Leadership; Performance Improvement; Behavior
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      Podolny, Joel, Rakesh Khurana, and Marya Hill-Popper. "Revisiting the Meaning of Leadership." Chap. 3 in Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, edited by Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana. Harvard Business Press, 2010.
      • 2010
      • Working Paper

      The Mirroring Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence and Exceptions

      By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
      The mirroring hypothesis predicts that the organizational patterns of a development project (e.g. communication links, geographic collocation, team and firm co-membership) will correspond to the technical patterns of dependency in the system under development. Scholars... View Details
      Keywords: Infrastructure; Product Design; Organizational Design; Practice; Groups and Teams; Social and Collaborative Networks; Information Technology
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      Baldwin, Carliss Y. "The Mirroring Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence and Exceptions." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-058, January 2010. (Revised June 2010.)
      • 2010
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      The Paranoid Style in the Study of American Politics

      By: David Moss and Mary Oey
      What drives policy making in a democracy? The conventional view is that political actors, like economic actors, pursue their self interest, and that special interest groups dominate the policy making process by satisfying policy makers' need for money and other forms... View Details
      Keywords: Policy; Government Legislation; Media; Interests; Power and Influence; Public Opinion; United States
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      Moss, David, and Mary Oey. "The Paranoid Style in the Study of American Politics." In Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation, edited by Edward J. Balleisen and David A. Moss. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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      Uncovering Mechanisms of Theory Development in an Academic Field: Lessons from Leadership Research

      By: Mary Ann Glynn and Ryan Raffaelli
      A long-standing debate in organization studies has centered on the tension between paradigmatic consensus and theoretical pluralism in an academic field, but little attention has been paid to the underlying processes of field development that account for this. Using a... View Details
      Keywords: Leadership; Theory
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      Glynn, Mary Ann, and Ryan Raffaelli. "Uncovering Mechanisms of Theory Development in an Academic Field: Lessons from Leadership Research." Academy of Management Annals 4 (2010): 359–401.
      • November 2009
      • Case

      The Explosion of Genetic Testing: Opportunities and Challenges

      By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Mara G. Aspinall and Rachel Gordon
      This case study invites the reader to consider genetic testing in several different lights. First, can the business of genetic testing be considered a disruptive innovation to the current drug therapy model as defined by Harvard Business School Professor Clay... View Details
      Keywords: Genetics; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Disruptive Innovation; Business Model; Biotechnology Industry; Health Industry
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      Hamermesh, Richard G., Mara G. Aspinall, and Rachel Gordon. "The Explosion of Genetic Testing: Opportunities and Challenges." Harvard Business School Case 810-067, November 2009.
      • 2009
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      The Effects of a Central Clearinghouse on Job Placement, Wages, and Hiring Practices

      By: Muriel Niederle and Alvin E. Roth
      New gastroenterologists participated in a labor market clearinghouse (a "match") from 1986 through the late 1990s, after which the match was abandoned. This provides an opportunity to study the effects of a match by observing the differences in the outcomes and... View Details
      Keywords: Labor; Market Timing; Marketplace Matching; Failure
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      Niederle, Muriel, and Alvin E. Roth. "The Effects of a Central Clearinghouse on Job Placement, Wages, and Hiring Practices." In Studies of Labor Market Intermediation, edited by David H. Autor, 273–306. University of Chicago Press, 2009.
      • October 2009 (Revised December 2010)
      • Case

      GE Money Bank: The M-Budget Card Initiative

      By: Michael L. Tushman, Sebastian Raisch and Christian Welling
      The M-Budget Card case study is about mastering the challenges of an exploratory strategic initiative in a context marked by time pressure and frequent change. M-Budget was the first of a series of highly successful projects that established GE Money Bank as a leader... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Credit Cards; Leading Change; Product Launch; Product Development; Groups and Teams; Banking Industry; Switzerland
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      Tushman, Michael L., Sebastian Raisch, and Christian Welling. "GE Money Bank: The M-Budget Card Initiative." Harvard Business School Case 410-052, October 2009. (Revised December 2010.)
      • June 2009
      • Supplement

      Executive Remuneration at Royal Dutch Shell (B)

      By: Jay W. Lorsch and Kaitlyn Simpson
      At the 2009 Shell annual meeting, the majority of shareholders vote against the exclusive pay package. The B case compares the remuneration committee perspective (and their rationale for using discretion to award the bonuses) as well as the shareholder perspective (and... View Details
      Keywords: Voting; Corporate Governance; Governance Controls; Executive Compensation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Perspective; Energy Industry
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      Lorsch, Jay W., and Kaitlyn Simpson. "Executive Remuneration at Royal Dutch Shell (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 409-127, June 2009.
      • 2009
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      Evaluating the Impact of SA8000 Certification

      By: Michael J. Hiscox, Claire Schwartz and Michael W. Toffel
      SA 8000, along with other types of certification standards and corporate codes of conduct, represents a new form of private governance of working conditions, initiated and implemented by companies, labor unions, and non-governmental activist groups. Whether these codes... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Governance; Working Conditions; Standards; Performance Evaluation
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      Hiscox, Michael J., Claire Schwartz, and Michael W. Toffel. "Evaluating the Impact of SA8000 Certification." In Social Accountability 8000: The First Decade -- Implementation, Influence, and Impact, edited by Deborah Leipziger. Greenleaf Publishing, 2009.
      • April 2009 (Revised July 2009)
      • Exercise

      Bringing AMP Home: Personal Case Study

      By: Michael L. Tushman
      This exercise helps AMP participants build their own personal case study. They develop a gap statement, do formal root cause analysis, and action planning. This exercise is done for each participant and each phase is shared with living group colleagues. View Details
      Keywords: Cases; Personal Development and Career; Education; Management
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      Tushman, Michael L. "Bringing AMP Home: Personal Case Study." Harvard Business School Exercise 409-105, April 2009. (Revised July 2009.)
      • February 2009 (Revised August 2012)
      • Background Note

      Note on Socially Responsible Investing

      By: Sandra J. Sucher, Daniela Beyersdorfer and Ian McKown Cornell
      This note describes Socially Responsible Investing, providing a brief history, description of different socially responsible investing approaches, and overview of selected players and institutions involved in the socially responsible investing field. It has been... View Details
      Keywords: Investment; Corporate Governance; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability
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      Sucher, Sandra J., Daniela Beyersdorfer, and Ian McKown Cornell. "Note on Socially Responsible Investing." Harvard Business School Background Note 609-060, February 2009. (Revised August 2012.)
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