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      • February 2010 (Revised September 2011)
      • Case

      Local Motors: Designed by the Crowd, Built by the Customer

      By: Michael I. Norton and Jeremy Dann
      In the wake of the meltdown among U.S. auto manufacturers in 2009, Jay Rogers, CEO of Local Motors, has a new approach for the automotive industry: decide which models are produced through online design competitions, and then allow customers to "build their own cars"... View Details
      Keywords: Business Startups; Customer Focus and Relationships; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Product Design; Product Development; Creativity; Social and Collaborative Networks; Customization and Personalization; Auto Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States
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      Norton, Michael I., and Jeremy Dann. "Local Motors: Designed by the Crowd, Built by the Customer." Harvard Business School Case 510-062, February 2010. (Revised September 2011.)
      • February 2010 (Revised August 2010)
      • Case

      Sheikh Mohammed and the Making of 'Dubai, Inc.'

      By: Anthony Mayo, Nitin Nohria, Umaimah Mendhro and Johnathan Cromwell
      Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has converted Dubai from a sleepy little coastal village into a world-class city, famous for its ambition, drive, and economic promise. He is the founder, part-owner, and visionary behind companies such as Emirates Airlines, a... View Details
      Keywords: Development Economics; Leadership Style; Emerging Markets; Personal Development and Career; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Dubai
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      Mayo, Anthony, Nitin Nohria, Umaimah Mendhro, and Johnathan Cromwell. "Sheikh Mohammed and the Making of 'Dubai, Inc.'." Harvard Business School Case 410-063, February 2010. (Revised August 2010.)
      • 2010
      • Chapter

      Advancing Leadership Theory and Practice

      By: Rakesh Khurana and Nitin Nohria
      More than a means of getting ahead and gaining power, leadership must be understood as a serious professional and personal responsibility. In this introductory chapter, editors Nitin Nohria, the dean of Harvard Business School, and Rakesh Khurana, a professor of... View Details
      Keywords: Leadership; Practice; Research; Theory
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      Khurana, Rakesh, and Nitin Nohria. "Advancing Leadership Theory and Practice." Chap. 1 in Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, edited by Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana. Harvard Business Press, 2010.
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      Five Ways to Bungle a Job Change

      By: Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
      The article focuses on career development and job change. The challenges, transaction costs, and risks associated with job moves are discussed. The authors' research with executives is noted. The mistakes in career development that job hunters make are not doing enough... View Details
      Keywords: Change; Resignation and Termination; Job Search; Managerial Roles; Personal Development and Career; Strategic Planning
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      Groysberg, Boris, and Robin Abrahams. "Five Ways to Bungle a Job Change." Harvard Business Review 88, nos. 1/2 (January–February 2010): 137–140.
      • December 2009 (Revised June 2011)
      • Case

      Curt Schilling's Next Pitch

      By: Noam T. Wasserman, Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Rachel Gordon
      As his major-league pitching career was starting to wind down in 2006, baseball all-star Curt Schilling decided to become an entrepreneur. Looking to focus his tenacity and his passion for online role-playing games on a new challenge, he founded an online gaming... View Details
      Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Startups; Decision Choices and Conditions; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Groups and Teams; Video Game Industry
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      Wasserman, Noam T., Jeffrey J. Bussgang, and Rachel Gordon. "Curt Schilling's Next Pitch." Harvard Business School Case 810-053, December 2009. (Revised June 2011.)
      • December 2009 (Revised July 2013)
      • Case

      Iris Running Crane: December 2009

      By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
      Iris Running Crane, an MBA candidate, must choose among three different job offers in private equity. One is with a top-tier megafund buyout operation; the second with a geographically focused mid-market fund; and the third with a one-time top-tier fund that is trying... View Details
      Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Private Equity; Compensation and Benefits; Job Offer; Personal Development and Career; Financial Services Industry
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      Rhodes-Kropf, Matthew, Josh Lerner, and Ann Leamon. "Iris Running Crane: December 2009." Harvard Business School Case 810-073, December 2009. (Revised July 2013.)
      • 2009
      • Working Paper

      Assess, Don't Assume, Part I: Etiquette and National Culture in Negotiation

      By: James K. Sebenius
      When facing a cross-border negotiation, the standard preparatory assessments -- of the parties, their interests, their no-deal options, opportunities for and barriers to creating and claiming value, the most promising sequence and process design, etc. -- should be... View Details
      Keywords: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Negotiation Process; Societal Protocols; Competitive Advantage; Cooperation
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      Sebenius, James K. "Assess, Don't Assume, Part I: Etiquette and National Culture in Negotiation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-048, December 2009.
      • 2009
      • Working Paper

      Assess, Don't Assume, Part II: Negotiating Implications of Cross-Border Differences in Decision Making, Governance, and Political Economy

      By: James K. Sebenius

      When facing a cross-border negotiation, the standard preparatory assessments—of the parties, their interests, their no-deal options, opportunities for and barriers to creating and claiming value, the most promising sequence and process design, etc.—should be... View Details

      Keywords: Decision Making; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Corporate Governance; Negotiation Process; Organizational Culture; Business and Government Relations
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      Sebenius, James K. "Assess, Don't Assume, Part II: Negotiating Implications of Cross-Border Differences in Decision Making, Governance, and Political Economy." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-050, December 2009.
      • November 2009
      • Case

      The HLB Turnaround

      By: Lynda M. Applegate, Bhaskar Chakravorti and Laura Winig
      Ford Pearson has recently taken over as CEO of HLB, a Chicago-based product design and development firm (and once one of the largest in the business), to help turn it around after a series of crises that had seriously threatened its survival. Pearson has personally... View Details
      Keywords: Business Organization; Business or Company Management; Private Equity; Restructuring; Product Design; Corporate Finance
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      Applegate, Lynda M., Bhaskar Chakravorti, and Laura Winig. "The HLB Turnaround." Harvard Business School Case 810-023, November 2009.
      • November 2009 (Revised March 2010)
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      Managing Drugs on the Forefront of Personalized Medicine: The Erbitux and Vectibix Story

      By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Raju Kucherlapati and Rachel Gordon
      In May 2007, Amgen Inc. (Amgen) received disappointing news from the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) that its drug Vectibix, developed to fight metastatic colorectal cancer, had been rejected. This was especially surprising news given that a similar rival drug had... View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Health Testing and Trials; Marketing Strategy; Product Positioning; Genetics; Biotechnology Industry; Europe; United States
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      Hamermesh, Richard G., Raju Kucherlapati, and Rachel Gordon. "Managing Drugs on the Forefront of Personalized Medicine: The Erbitux and Vectibix Story." Harvard Business School Case 810-066, November 2009. (Revised March 2010.)
      • November 2009 (Revised March 2011)
      • Case

      New York Life and Immediate Annuities

      By: Julio J. Rotemberg and John T. Gourville
      By positioning Immediate Annuities as "guaranteed lifetime income," New York Life has built itself a $1.4 billion per year business by 2009. However, to make Immediate Annuities a mainstream financial product for retirees, New York Life must understand why many... View Details
      Keywords: Insurance; Personal Finance; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Retirement; Salesforce Management; Insurance Industry
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      Rotemberg, Julio J., and John T. Gourville. "New York Life and Immediate Annuities." Harvard Business School Case 510-040, November 2009. (Revised March 2011.)
      • 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).
      • 2009
      • Chapter

      Nobel Laureate Panel Discussion: What Retirement Means to Me

      By: Robert C. Merton, Paul A. Samuelson and Robert M. Solow
      Keywords: Retirement
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      Merton, Robert C., Paul A. Samuelson, and Robert M. Solow. "Nobel Laureate Panel Discussion: What Retirement Means to Me." Chap. 1 in The Future of Life-Cycle Saving and Investing: The Retirement Phase, edited by Zvi Bodie, Laurence B. Siegel, and Rodney N. Sullivan, 1–14. Charlottesville: CFA Institute, Research Foundation, 2009. (Monograph.)
      • September 2009
      • Case

      J.P. Morgan

      By: Richard S. Tedlow and David Ruben
      An account of J.P. Morgan's remarkable career in government, railroad, and industrial finance. View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business History; Personal Development and Career
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      Tedlow, Richard S., and David Ruben. "J.P. Morgan." Harvard Business School Case 810-052, September 2009.
      • August 2009
      • Exercise

      Managing Your Own Human Capital: Executive Interview Exercise (2009)

      By: Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
      This note contains instructions for an exercise in which students interview C-level executives on how they have managed their careers. View Details
      Keywords: Managerial Roles; Personal Development and Career; Strategic Planning; Personal Characteristics
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      Groysberg, Boris, and Robin Abrahams. "Managing Your Own Human Capital: Executive Interview Exercise (2009)." Harvard Business School Exercise 410-047, August 2009.
      • August 2009 (Revised February 2011)
      • Background Note

      Managing Individual Human Capital: Research Resources

      By: Boris Groysberg and Emilie Codega
      This technical note provides a list of library resources for researching executives and a bibliography of books on managing one's own career. View Details
      Keywords: Human Resources; Human Capital; Leadership; Managerial Roles; Personal Development and Career; Research
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      Groysberg, Boris, and Emilie Codega. "Managing Individual Human Capital: Research Resources." Harvard Business School Background Note 410-046, August 2009. (Revised February 2011.)
      • August 2009
      • Case

      Life Stories of Recent MBAs: Developing Self-Awareness

      By: Nitin Nohria, Matthew D. Breitfelder and Daisy A Wademan Dowling
      Keywords: Business Education; Personal Development and Career
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      Nohria, Nitin, Matthew D. Breitfelder, and Daisy A Wademan Dowling. "Life Stories of Recent MBAs: Developing Self-Awareness." Harvard Business School Case 410-030, August 2009.
      • August 2009
      • Case

      Intel NBI: Vivonic

      By: Willy C. Shih and Thomas Thurston
      Vivonic was a start-up that was part of Intel's New Business Initiatives that sought to develop and sell personal health monitoring hardware and software. When it was first funded, Intel was in the midst of record growth and was seeking diversification. But the company... View Details
      Keywords: Business Startups; Experience and Expertise; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Product Development; Failure; Diversification; Semiconductor Industry
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      Shih, Willy C., and Thomas Thurston. "Intel NBI: Vivonic." Harvard Business School Case 610-025, August 2009.
      • July 2009 (Revised December 2009)
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      Echoing Green

      By: Julie Battilana, Thomas J. DeLong and James Weber
      This case presents the leadership challenges that Cheryl Dorsey, the president of Echoing Green, faces in early 2009. Echoing Green is a fellowship program that seeks to improve society by identifying and supporting social entrepreneurs who launch organizations to... View Details
      Keywords: Change Management; Financial Crisis; Social Entrepreneurship; Leadership Style; Organizational Structure; Personal Development and Career; Social Enterprise
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      Battilana, Julie, Thomas J. DeLong, and James Weber. "Echoing Green." Harvard Business School Case 410-013, July 2009. (Revised December 2009.)
      • June 2009
      • Case

      The Rise of President Barack Hussein Obama

      By: David A. Thomas, Laura Morgan Roberts and Stephanie Creary
      This case profiles President Barack Hussein Obama's rise to the presidency as an "improbable candidate." The case illustrates the ways in which he overcame criticism from those who questioned his credibility and his values, and skepticism from those who were unsure... View Details
      Keywords: Ethnicity; Race; Political Elections; Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Creativity; Trust
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      Thomas, David A., Laura Morgan Roberts, and Stephanie Creary. "The Rise of President Barack Hussein Obama." Harvard Business School Case 409-115, June 2009.
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