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      • February 2009 (Revised February 2022)
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      Fannie Mae: Public or Private?

      By: David A. Moss, Cole Bolton and Kimberly Hagan
      In 1987, President Ronald Reagan established the President's Commission on Privatization to identify federal government functions that could be shifted to the private sector. One agency that the Commission considered was the Federal National Mortgage Association, or... View Details
      Keywords: Restructuring; Financial Institutions; Mortgages; Government and Politics; Business History; Privatization; Private Sector; Laws and Statutes; United States
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      Moss, David A., Cole Bolton, and Kimberly Hagan. "Fannie Mae: Public or Private?" Harvard Business School Case 709-025, February 2009. (Revised February 2022.)
      • February 2009 (Revised June 2019)
      • Case

      Cleveland Clinic: Transformation and Growth 2015

      By: Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth O. Teisberg
      The Cleveland Clinic's health care services are internationally renowned for quality. In 2008, The Clinic began to restructure the organization into teams defined around patient needs, rather than traditional medical specialties. "Patients First!" takes shape as the... View Details
      Keywords: Health; Health Care Operations; Health Care Quality; Health Care; Strategy And Leadership; Strategy Development; Health Care and Treatment; Leading Change; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Measurement and Metrics; Service Delivery; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Outcome or Result; Health Industry; Cleveland
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      Porter, Michael E., and Elizabeth O. Teisberg. "Cleveland Clinic: Transformation and Growth 2015." Harvard Business School Case 709-473, February 2009. (Revised June 2019.)
      • February 2009
      • Article

      Goals Gone Wild: The Systematic Side Effects of Over-Prescribing Goal Setting

      By: Lisa D. Ordonez, Maurice E. Schweitzer, Adam D. Galinsky and Max H. Bazerman
      Goal setting is one of the most replicated and influential paradigms in the management literature. Hundreds of studies conducted in numerous countries and contexts have consistently demonstrated that setting specific, challenging goals can powerfully drive behavior and... View Details
      Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Performance Improvement; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives
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      Ordonez, Lisa D., Maurice E. Schweitzer, Adam D. Galinsky, and Max H. Bazerman. "Goals Gone Wild: The Systematic Side Effects of Over-Prescribing Goal Setting." Academy of Management Perspectives 23, no. 1 (February 2009).
      • January 2009 (Revised March 2010)
      • Case

      LeBron James

      By: Anita Elberse and Jeff McCall
      In 2005, to the astonishment of many sports industry insiders, superstar basketball player LeBron James fired his agent and established his own firm, LRMR, to handle all aspects of his business ventures and marketing activities and named his childhood friend Maverick... View Details
      Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Compensation and Benefits; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Sports; Sports Industry
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      Elberse, Anita, and Jeff McCall. "LeBron James." Harvard Business School Case 509-050, January 2009. (Revised March 2010.)
      • January 2009
      • Supplement

      The Tip of the Iceberg: JP Morgan Chase and Bear Stearns (B2)

      By: Clayton S. Rose, Daniel Baird Bergstresser and David Lane
      Bear Stearns & Co burned through nearly all of its $18 billion in cash reserves during the week of March 10, 2008, and an unprecedented provision of liquidity support from the Federal Reserve on Friday March 13 was insufficient to reverse the decline in Bear's... View Details
      Keywords: Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Capital; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Liquidity; Banks and Banking; Governance; Crisis Management; Goals and Objectives; System; Valuation; New York (state, US)
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      Rose, Clayton S., Daniel Baird Bergstresser, and David Lane. "The Tip of the Iceberg: JP Morgan Chase and Bear Stearns (B2)." Harvard Business School Supplement 309-091, January 2009.
      • January 2009 (Revised April 2009)
      • Case

      The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board

      By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
      The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is one of the largest and fastest-growing pools of investment capital in the world and follows an unusually active program of investment management. In the market turmoil of late 2008, Mark Wiseman, Senior Vice President of the... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Crisis; Asset Management; Capital; Financial Management; Investment; Financial Services Industry; Canada
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      Hardymon, G. Felda, Josh Lerner, and Ann Leamon. "The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board." Harvard Business School Case 809-073, January 2009. (Revised April 2009.)
      • 2009
      • Working Paper

      Goals Gone Wild: The Systematic Side Effects of Over-Prescribing Goal Setting

      By: Lisa D. Ordonez, Maurice E. Schweitzer, Adam D. Galinsky and Max H. Bazerman
      Goal setting is one of the most replicated and influential paradigms in the management literature. Hundreds of studies conducted in numerous countries and contexts have consistently demonstrated that setting specific, challenging goals can powerfully drive behavior and... View Details
      Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Performance Improvement; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives
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      Ordonez, Lisa D., Maurice E. Schweitzer, Adam D. Galinsky, and Max H. Bazerman. "Goals Gone Wild: The Systematic Side Effects of Over-Prescribing Goal Setting." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-083, January 2009.
      • 2009
      • Article

      Implicit Affect in Organizations

      By: Sigal G. Barsade, Lakshmi Ramarajan and Drew Westen
      Our goal is to integrate the construct of implicit affect—affective processes activated or processed outside of conscious awareness that influence ongoing thought, behavior, and conscious emotional experience—into the field of organizational behavior. We begin by... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Framework; Organizational Culture; Behavior; Cognition and Thinking; Emotions; Motivation and Incentives; Perspective
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      Barsade, Sigal G., Lakshmi Ramarajan, and Drew Westen. "Implicit Affect in Organizations." Research in Organizational Behavior 29 (2009): 135–162.
      • December 2008
      • Case

      The Financial Crisis of 2008

      By: J. Gunnar Trumbull
      This case presents excerpts from the speeches of observers to the 2008 financial crisis, including former and current central bankers, a private banker, and a Nobel-prize winning economist. They present different interpretations of the causes of the financial crisis... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Crisis; Financial Management; Policy; History; Perspective
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      Trumbull, J. Gunnar. "The Financial Crisis of 2008." Harvard Business School Case 709-036, December 2008.
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      In Microfinance, Clients Must Come First

      By: Srikant M. Datar, Marc J. Epstein and Kristi Yuthas
      In the debate over whether microfinance works, few microfinance institutions articulate what, exactly, their ultimate goals are and how, exactly, they will achieve them. The authors cut through the confusion by mapping a clear theory of change for microfinance. If the... View Details
      Keywords: Business Startups; Customer Focus and Relationships; Social Entrepreneurship; Microfinance; Goals and Objectives; Success; Social Enterprise; Poverty
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      Datar, Srikant M., Marc J. Epstein, and Kristi Yuthas. "In Microfinance, Clients Must Come First." Stanford Social Innovation Review 6, no. 1 (Winter 2008).
      • 2008
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      On Competition

      By: M. E. Porter
      Competition is one of society's most powerful forces for making things better in many fields of human endeavor. The study of competition and the creation of value, in their full richness, have preoccupied me for several decades. Competition is pervasive, whether it... View Details
      Keywords: Leadership; Practice; Competitive Strategy; Theory; Value Creation
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      Porter, M. E. On Competition. Updated and Expanded Ed. Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing, 2008.
      • December 2008
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      The Teaching of Strategy: From General Manager to Analyst and Back Again?

      By: Joseph L. Bower
      Courses in strategy are an outgrowth of the business policy course first taught at Harvard Business School in 1912. This article examines how the teaching of a course concerned with the development and implementation of the goals and policies of a firm changed during... View Details
      Keywords: Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Teaching; Policy; Business History; Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy
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      Bower, Joseph L. "The Teaching of Strategy: From General Manager to Analyst and Back Again?" Journal of Management Inquiry 17, no. 4 (December 2008).
      • November 2008 (Revised February 2009)
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      Omron: Sensing Society

      By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Ethan S Bernstein
      "Leading profitable growth is only part of the goal. We cannot live without breathing, but we do not live in order to take a breath,” said Omron's President and CEO, Hisao Sakuta, in 2008. Omron, a $7B global supplier of sensors, control system components, advanced... View Details
      Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Competitive Advantage; Leadership; Goals and Objectives; Globalized Firms and Management; Innovation and Invention; Values and Beliefs; Mission and Purpose; Electronics Industry
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      Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Ethan S Bernstein. "Omron: Sensing Society." Harvard Business School Case 309-066, November 2008. (Revised February 2009.)
      • October 2008
      • Supplement

      John and Andrea Rice: Entrepreneurship and Life

      By: Howard H. Stevenson and Shirley M. Spence
      Video of an interview conducted by Professor Howard Stevenson with John and Andrea Rice. It presents their views on their notions of career success, finding happiness in life, managing their competitiveness, their goals for the next ten years, and the pursuit of... View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Success; Personal Development and Career; Opportunities; Happiness; Competitive Strategy
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      Stevenson, Howard H., and Shirley M. Spence. "John and Andrea Rice: Entrepreneurship and Life." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 509-715, October 2008.
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      MIT Roundtable on Corporate Risk Management

      By: Robert C. Merton

      Against the backdrop of financial crisis, a distinguished group of academics and practitioners discusses the contribution of financial management and innovation to corporate growth and value, along with the pitfalls and unintended consequences of such innovation.... View Details

      Keywords: Financial Crisis; Market Participation; Finance; Innovation and Invention; Growth and Development Strategy; Value; Distribution; Capital Structure; Risk Management; Business Ventures; Business Model; Strategy
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      Merton, Robert C. "MIT Roundtable on Corporate Risk Management." Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 20, no. 4 (Fall 2008): 20–38.
      • 2008
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      The Artful Dodger: Answering the Wrong Question the Right Way

      By: Todd Rogers and Michael I. Norton
      What happens when people try to "dodge" a question they would rather not answer by answering a different question? In four online studies using paid participants, we show that listeners can fail to detect dodges when speakers answer similar—but objectively... View Details
      Keywords: Communication Strategy; Interpersonal Communication; Judgments; Perception
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      Rogers, Todd, and Michael I. Norton. "The Artful Dodger: Answering the Wrong Question the Right Way." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-048, September 2008. (Revised September 2010.)
      • July 2008
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      Leading from the Side

      By: Thomas J. DeLong
      Harriet Cornwall, a partner at the law firm of Kensington Palmer, LLP, is made lead over a fellow group of attorneys. Put in charge of guiding her colleagues in their annual goal-setting initiative, she notices four that need special attention. Cornwall must address... View Details
      Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Managerial Roles; Performance Evaluation; Partners and Partnerships
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      DeLong, Thomas J. "Leading from the Side." Harvard Business School Case 409-023, July 2008.
      • 2008
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      Financial Development, Bank Ownership, and Growth. Or, Does Quantity Imply Quality?

      By: Shawn A. Cole
      In 1980, India nationalized its large private banks. This induced different bank ownership patterns across different towns, allowing credible identification of the effects of bank ownership on financial development, lending rates, and the quality of intermediation, as... View Details
      Keywords: Economic Growth; Credit; Banks and Banking; Interest Rates; State Ownership; Private Ownership; Banking Industry; India
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      Cole, Shawn A. "Financial Development, Bank Ownership, and Growth. Or, Does Quantity Imply Quality?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-002, July 2008.
      • 2008
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      Managing Up

      By: Linda A. Hill
      Managing up is not political game playing. Rather, it's a conscious approach to working with your supervisor toward goals that are important to both of you. Through managing up, you build a productive working relationship with your boss and create a way to use the... View Details
      Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Employees; Managerial Roles; Alliances; Value Creation
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      Hill, Linda A. Managing Up. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Press, 2008. (Mentor.)
      • June 2008 (Revised July 2009)
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      COFCO Xinjiang Tunhe Co., Ltd.

      By: David E. Bell and Aldo Sesia
      In 2005, COFCO Ltd., one of China's largest and most successful companies, acquired Xinjiang Tunhe, a tomato processing firm, which had been, in recent years, poorly managed. COFCO changed Tunhe's management team and set out to create a culture of professionalism and... View Details
      Keywords: Agribusiness; Customer Relationship Management; Rural Scope; Supply Chain Management; Performance Consistency; Safety; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; China
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      Bell, David E., and Aldo Sesia. "COFCO Xinjiang Tunhe Co., Ltd." Harvard Business School Case 508-079, June 2008. (Revised July 2009.)
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