Culture And Community - Publications - Faculty & Research

May 2018
Case

The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation's Answer Fund

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Matthew G. Preble

19 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature

Despite its name, the Great Wall of China began as a series of smaller, isolated defensive fortifications. Those structures grew and were later unified into the imposing structure that exists today. The Great Wall is a great metaphor for the Chinese economy. By... View Details

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Manufacturing

1997
Chapter

The Politicization of Organizational Life

By: R. M. Kanter

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Power and Influence

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07 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

The Organizational Model for Open Source

foundations in the hacker culture appears to be a contradiction in terms? O'Mahony: The hacker culture prizes autonomy and self-determination. Eric Raymond defines hackers as... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

November 1991
Case

Investor Relations at Work: Situations in the Financial Marketplace

By: Stephen A. Greyser

Keywords: Business and Shareholder Relations; Communication

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November 2012
Teaching Note

On Weldon's Watch: Recalls at Johnson & Johnson from 2009 to 2010 (TN)

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Clayton S. Rose

Teaching Note for On Weldon's Watch: Recalls at Johnson & Johnson from 2009 to 2010 HBS case 311-029. View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Values and Beliefs; Leadership; Crisis Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Quality; Pharmaceutical Industry

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13 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future

investments became productive. Unfortunately, communicating with public investors is often hard to do, none the least because public-firm managers are not allowed to talk to investors privately. And once... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

18 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

has perhaps skewed its enrollment more toward international, minority, and women students, who perceive opportunities to start new businesses in underserved communities earlier in their careers than ever... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

09 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools

sponsor of the National Math and Science Initiative, helped to scale two projects: one focusing on improved training for science, technology, and math teachers, the other on improving advanced placement test... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

06 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

mutually assured destruction. What America requires is a new security concept that the authors call "strategic independence" to enable keeping the peace in dangerous times and foster new generations of leaders capable of acting... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups

testing the idea with an experiment. Cook felt bad about his initial response not because the idea ended up succeeding—it didn't—but because he believes strongly in cultivating and maintaining a culture of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

June 2008
Teaching Note

The Treadway Tire Company: Trouble at the Lima Tire Plant (Brief Case)

By: C. Wickham Skinner and Heather Beckham

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Keywords: Superior ＆ Subordinate; Labor Relations; Work Force Management; Human Resource Management; Hiring; Job Satisfaction; Leadership; Selection and Staffing; Change Management; Satisfaction; Organizational Culture; Rank and Position; Labor and Management Relations

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January 2006 (Revised June 2008)
Case

Lehman Brothers (A): Rise of the Equity Research Department

By: Ashish Nanda, Boris Groysberg and Lauren Prusiner

Under Jack Rivkin's leadership, Shearson Lehman's research department rose from relative obscurity to the highest ranking research department on Wall Street within three years. When Rivkin is promoted to head of equity, he wonders how to succeed in his new position. A... View Details

Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Leadership; Service Operations; Organizational Culture; Research; Alignment

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