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  • June 2017 (Revised October 2017)
  • Case

Becton Dickinson: Innovation and Growth (A)

By: Raffaella Sadun, Michael Beer and James Weber
In late 2015, CEO Vince Forlenza was reviewing Becton Dickinson’s transformation efforts designed to enable the company to innovate and grow in a changing environment. Becton Dickinson had been a successful medical device company for over 100 years. In recent years,... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Change Management; Innovation Leadership; Mergers and Acquisitions; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Health Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States
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  • May 1982 (Revised May 1985)
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Human Resources at Hewlett-Packard

By: Michael Beer and Richard O. von Werssowetz
Provides an overview of all the human resource policies and practices applied by Hewlett-Packard. As such, it is an opportunity to analyze Hewlett-Packard's practices in all four policy areas; stakeholder influence, flows, rewards, and work systems. View Details
Keywords: Human Resources; Management Practices and Processes; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Working Conditions; Policy
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  • 02 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 2

Company Authors:Michael Beer and Magnus Finnstrom Publication:Leadership in Action, November-December 2009 Abstract Traditional leadership development programs often fail to achieve the desired results because they don't focus on learning... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2016
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016

precipitate a war between the countries. Quench Your Own Thirst: Business Lessons Learned over a Beer or Two by Jim Koch (JD/MBA 1978) (Flatiron Books) The founder of the Boston Beer Company, makers of... View Details
  • November – December 1993
  • Article

Rethinking Rewards

By: Stewart Bennett III, Eileen Appelbaum, M. Beer and Andrew Lebby
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives
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  • 13 Jun 2017
  • News

Finding Common Ground

ways it’s easier to do our collaborative work in Africa and Asia, because they insist upon building relationships. You’re not going to do business together until the third time you’ve gotten together for beer or for tea.” After college,... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
  • 18 Sep 2008
  • News

HBS Olympians

slalom in the 1952 Olympics in Oslo and in men’s slalom and giant slalom in the 1956 Olympics in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. More information here. David Hawkins (MBA 1958) swam the 200 meter breaststroke for the Australian team at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. More... View Details
Keywords: Keith Larson; Olympics; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 29 Jan 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Creating the Perfect Super Bowl Ad

study show that Pepsi does not always maximize its entertainment/purchase intent balance, he says. Pepsi MAX's Torpedo Cooler ad (also known as "Catch"), for example, featuring a beer can-shooting ice chest, scored low (13th percentile)... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting
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Democratizing development: Inequality in Latin America | Institute for Business in Global Society

institutions have helped to harness the benefits that the foreign investor--here, the giant De Beers company--has brought. Also, examines how Botswana was able to avoid the natural resource curse that has haunted so many other... View Details
  • 19 Dec 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy

for gasoline in the United States to consist of five distinct regions. Other large markets where transport costs are relatively high in relation to product value, such as cement in Brazil or beer in China, can be similarly broken down.... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
  • 17 Sep 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry

successful, but there are probably lots of great things that will have this kind of excitement and get a lot of traction. Would it be more effective to spend my money online rather than in another car or beer ad on television?... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting; Publishing
  • 12 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch

it's just funny—evoking small moments of giggly joy, culminating in the big moment when everyone is rewarded with a beer bash. Teixeira notes that Budweiser has garnered similar surprise-inducing success by featuring barely censored... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products
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Photograph Albums - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

Mine.--Flat sheet of 800 foot level, bottom of rock shaft (underground). Illustrations of Diamond Industry from “Mining the Ground” Mss: 375 1892 M627 1 album, 24 photographs This souvenir album illustrates the diamond mining operations of the De View Details
  • 1977
  • Book

Matrix

By: Stanley Davis, Paul Lawrence, Harvey Kolodny and Michael Beer
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  • 31 Jul 2007
  • First Look

First Look: July 31, 2007

world's greatest economist, lover, and horseman—and admitted to failure only with the horses. Collaborative R&D in Management: The Practical Experience of Fenix and TruePoint in Bridging the Divide Between Scientific and Managerial Goals Authors:Michael View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2025
  • News

Keeping the Faith

It has been said that the note of a Tibetan singing bowl is the sound of inner peace. That’s not something you might expect to hear in the MBA classroom. But it rings through Hawes Hall at the beginning of each session of The Spiritual Lives of Leaders, a second-year... View Details
Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace; Illustrations by Victo ngai
  • 13 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 13

Higher-Ambition CEOs Need Higher-Ambition Boards By: Ludwig, Edward J., Anna Elise Walton, and Michael Beer Abstract—Over the past years, forward-looking CEOs have adopted a higher-ambition approach to strategy and leadership. These... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 14, 2007

Beers at the Millennium Harvard Business School Case 706-518 At the time of the millennium, diamond demand was threatened by an increasing awareness among jewelry customers that diamond production and trading in some countries was being... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2020
  • News

How Sports Should Use Its Timeout

when we get out of this, laying that groundwork for safety reasons today will pay dividends tomorrow in terms of fan engagement. This fluid fan wants to have that personalized experience in the venue. They want you to know what kind of View Details
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Cristina Ros Blankfein

more from a wishful conversation over cocktails than the classic Aha! moment often associated with compelling concepts. Being part of the Millennial generation that has embraced craft beers and innovative cocktails, the pair wondered... View Details