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  • January 2015 (Revised September 2017)
  • Case

Omar Selim: Building a Values-Based Asset Management Firm (A)

By: George Serafeim, Rebecca Henderson and Shannon Gombos
The sustainable investing market was a recent phenomenon in the first decade of the 21st century. However, an increasing number of investors began to integrated Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues in investment decisions. At Barclays Capital, Omar Selim... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability; ESG; Social Business; Entrepreneurs; Scaling; Emerging Market Entrepreneurship; Not For Profit; Entrepreneurial Finance; Mentoring; Business Networks; Hybrid Nonprofit Funding; Investing; Investment Management; Asset Management; Values and Beliefs; Religion; Personal Development and Career; Business Startups; Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Financial Services Industry; Europe; Germany; United Kingdom
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Serafeim, George, Rebecca Henderson, and Shannon Gombos. "Omar Selim: Building a Values-Based Asset Management Firm (A)." Harvard Business School Case 115-021, January 2015. (Revised September 2017.)
  • August 1994
  • Case

Kyocera Corporation: The Amoeba Management System

Describes Kyocera's unusual approach to profit centers. The firm's basic units of operation are profit centers called "amoebas," which are sales or manufacturing units with full responsibility for their planning, decision making, and administration. Amoebas are... View Details
Keywords: Cost Management; Organizational Structure; Profit; Management Systems; Manufacturing Industry
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Cooper, Robin. "Kyocera Corporation: The Amoeba Management System." Harvard Business School Case 195-064, August 1994.
  • 2022
  • Book

Productive Tensions: How Every Leader Can Tackle Innovation's Toughest Trade-Offs

By: Chris Bingham and Rory McDonald
Why is leading innovation in nascent business environments so distressingly hit-or-miss? More than 90% of high-potential ventures don’t reach their projected targets. Surveys show that 80% of executives consider innovation crucial to their growth strategy, but only 6%... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Innovation and Management; Organizational Culture; Leadership Style; Decision Making
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Bingham, Chris, and Rory McDonald. Productive Tensions: How Every Leader Can Tackle Innovation's Toughest Trade-Offs. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2022.
  • June 2023
  • Article

Regulatory Limits to Risk Management

By: Ishita Sen
Variable annuities, the largest liability of U.S. life insurers, are investment products containing long-dated minimum return guarantees. I show that guarantees with similar economic risks are treated differently by regulation and these differences impact insurers’... View Details
Keywords: Interest Rate Risk; Variable Annuities; Capital Regulation; Reinsurance; Derivatives; Risk Management; Interest Rates; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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Sen, Ishita. "Regulatory Limits to Risk Management." Review of Financial Studies 36, no. 6 (June 2023): 2175–2223. (Lead Article and Editor's Choice, Winner of the RFS Rising Scholar Award 2024.)
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Industrial Production & Materials - Business & Environment

management all conserve water—increasingly important steps as droughts become more frequent. Innovation Transitioning away from carbon-intensive energy to power industrial production, designing products with... View Details
  • April 2011 (Revised September 2011)
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Willy Jacobsohn and Beiersdorf: Managing Expropriation and Anti-Semitism

By: Geoffrey G. Jones and Christina Lubinski
This case examines the management of home and host country risk by Beiersdorf during the interwar years. It can be used both in business history courses and more generally to teach political risk management by multinational corporations. Beiersdorf, a German personal... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; War; Business History; Multinational Firms and Management; Global Strategy; Ownership; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations; Consumer Products Industry; Germany
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Jones, Geoffrey G., and Christina Lubinski. "Willy Jacobsohn and Beiersdorf: Managing Expropriation and Anti-Semitism." Harvard Business School Case 811-060, April 2011. (Revised September 2011.)
  • 2015
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Toxic Workers

By: Michael Housman and Dylan Minor
While there has been a strong focus in past research on discovering and developing top performers in the workplace, less attention has been paid to the question of how to manage those workers on the opposite side of the spectrum: those who are harmful to organizational... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Human Resource Management; Misconduct; Worker Productivity; Superstar; Ethics; Performance Productivity; Personal Characteristics; Employees
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Housman, Michael, and Dylan Minor. "Toxic Workers." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-057, October 2015. (Revised November 2015.)
  • August 2020
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Strategies for Managing the Privacy Landscape

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Andres Hervas-Drane
Firms use consumer personal information to improve their products and services. Personal information is open to misuse, however, and when exploited for undesired or unexpected purposes reduces consumer’s trust in the firm and their willingness to provide personal... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Privacy; Privacy Threats; Strategy Framework; Strategy Interactions; Customers; Information; Management; Strategy; Technology Industry
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Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Andres Hervas-Drane. "Strategies for Managing the Privacy Landscape." Long Range Planning 53, no. 4 (August 2020).
  • 28 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Meeting China’s Need for Management Education

practices in management education. "Overall, we were delighted to see the impact that PCMPCL is having in the area and on these leading schools of business," Wheelwright says. Report: Q: What general advice would you give our... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education
  • 07 Jan 2013
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Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs

Professor Mukti Khaire's challenge to management students is lofty, even by Harvard MBA standards. Don't just change the way people live, change the way they think. Change culture. In her new elective course, Creative High-Impact... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics; Food & Beverage; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing
  • 04 May 2020
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The right way to use experiments to create better products more quickly

  • 01 Mar 2023
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The Exchange: Micro Management

match the cash flows of their business with their repayment obligations. If you are a tailor and you’re switching from sewing by hand to using a sewing machine, you have to learn how to use the machine and make sure your customers are going to like the View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • 16 Jan 2013
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The Messy Link Between Slave Owners and Modern Management

data to calculate punishment, meting out whippings according to how many pounds each picker fell short. Similar incentive plans reappeared in early twentieth-century factories, with managers dangling the promise of cash rewards if their... View Details
Keywords: by Katie Johnston
  • April 1995 (Revised May 1995)
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Metsa-Serla: Environmental Labels in the European Forest Products Markets

By: Forest L. Reinhardt and Pat Markovich
Keywords: Labels; Environmental Sustainability; Forest Products Industry; Europe
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Reinhardt, Forest L., and Pat Markovich. "Metsa-Serla: Environmental Labels in the European Forest Products Markets." Harvard Business School Case 795-148, April 1995. (Revised May 1995.)
  • July 1997
  • Supplement

Allentown Materials Corporation: The Electronic Products Division (C)

By: Michael Beer
Supplements the (A) and (B) cases. Designed as an in-class handout. A rewritten version of an earlier supplement. View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Electronics Industry; United States
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Beer, Michael. "Allentown Materials Corporation: The Electronic Products Division (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 498-025, July 1997.
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Do Private Equity Firms Have Better Management Practices?

By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
Using an innovative survey measure of management practices on over 15,000 firms, we find private equity firms are better managed than government, family, and privately owned firms, and have similar management to publicly listed firms. This is true both in developed and... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Management Practices and Processes
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Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "Do Private Equity Firms Have Better Management Practices?" American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 105, no. 5 (May 2015): 442–446.
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Managing the Operating Role of Customers

By: Frances X. Frei
Customers in operating roles introduce considerable variability into the production environment including differences in the demands they impose on the environment and the unpredictability of those demands. When customers are the source of production variability, the... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2000
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Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time

approached as a series of experiments. You don't know what tasks are needed to complete the product, but you can still plan which sequence of trials to run. Developing products in a turbulent setting requires a process that does not avoid... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • 30 Apr 2024
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When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners

organization, says Paine, a Baker Foundation Professor. In fact, the fault often lies with managers who set unrealistic deadlines, production targets, or other objectives that lead decent people to take... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • April 2021
  • Background Note

HEAD vs. LEAD: Disruptions Originating at the High- vs. Low-End of the Market

By: Elie Ofek, Olivier Toubia and Didier Toubia
Twenty five years after it was initially proposed, Clay Christensen’s theory of disruptive innovation continues to be a major reference for entrepreneurs, corporate innovators, and investors. However, the term “disruptive innovation” is often used in ways and contexts... View Details
Keywords: Market Entry; New Product Management; Targeting; Disruptive Innovation; Market Entry and Exit; Entrepreneurship; Product; Management; Innovation Strategy; Technology
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Ofek, Elie, Olivier Toubia, and Didier Toubia. "HEAD vs. LEAD: Disruptions Originating at the High- vs. Low-End of the Market." Harvard Business School Background Note 521-104, April 2021.
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