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  • September 2006 (Revised January 2008)
  • Case

Providian Financial Corporation

By: John R. Wells
On October 3, 2005, Washington Mutual acquired Providian Financial Corporation, the ninth-largest credit card issuer in the U.S., for $6.5 billion. At the time, Providian had approximately 10 million customer relationships and a balance of $18.6 billion. For some... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Restructuring; Customer Relationship Management; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Credit Cards; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • 03 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping

to maritime trade so phenomenal that he has been compared to the father of the steam engine, Robert Fulton. As a youth growing up on a farm in a small town of Maxton, North Carolina, McLean learned early on about the value of hard work... View Details
Keywords: by Anthony J. Mayo & Nitin Nohria; Manufacturing; Transportation; Aerospace
  • October 1991 (Revised January 2000)
  • Case

Workplace Safety at Alcoa (A)

By: Kim B. Clark and Joshua D. Margolis
Examines the challenge facing the managers of a large aluminum manufacturing plant in its drive to improve workplace safety. The CEO of the company has made safety a top priority. The plant has made good progress in reducing the injury rate, but now confronts the need... View Details
Keywords: Working Conditions; Safety; Problems and Challenges; Change Management; Operations; Resignation and Termination; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Manufacturing Industry; United States
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About - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

measure investor sentiment or risk neglect and understand its influence on security prices? Do credit market conditions reveal bubbles? How are credit market bubbles different from equity market bubbles? Regulation and Monetary Policy... View Details
  • 06 Nov 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

Diversity and Firm Performance By: Zhang, Letian Abstract—How does a firm’s gender diversity affect its performance? Existing work has shown conflicting evidence—some finding a positive effect of gender diversity while others finding a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 04 Apr 2023
  • Book

Two Centuries of Business Leaders Who Took a Stand on Social Issues

While shareholders still reign supreme at many companies, a widespread shift toward more responsible business practices is driving more leaders to take a stand on social and environmental issues today, says Harvard Business School Professor Geoffrey Jones. Jones... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Consumer Products; Fashion; Retail; Green Technology
  • 09 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

and Nohria examine how an organization built around the four-drive theory might look. The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of work. With it, life... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
  • 02 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 2

self-downloads on SSRN, the leading working paper repository in the social sciences, to show that employees higher in a hierarchy are more likely to engage in deception, particularly when the employee has enjoyed a high level of past... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • June 2002
  • Case

Oxfam America in 2002

Raymond Offenheiser, president of Oxfam America,a major international relief and development nongovernmental organization (NGO), is working with his staff to undertake a major strategic shift in the organization. The organization is placing a growing emphasis on... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business or Company Management; Decision Choices and Conditions; Non-Governmental Organizations
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  • 08 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 8

the unconscious thought condition compared to both conscious thought and mere distraction. As there were no differences in sequence memory for the film, it remains unclear what mechanism was responsible for this effect. These results... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Jun 2013
  • Research & Ideas

The Power of Rituals in Life, Death, and Business

the newly disappointed participants into two groups: The "ritual" condition group performed a series of ritualistic tasks including drawing a picture about their current state of mind, sprinkling salt on the drawing, tearing up... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Feb 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Why It's Best to Take Tests Early in the Day

conditions possible for students to learn and perform well in their school activities and tests,” Gino says. “Often these debates do not carefully consider the influence of external factors that teachers or parents can’t control.” An... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education
  • 04 Jun 2020
  • Book

It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward

to Empowering Everyone Around You, Frei and Morriss argue that a true leader is focused on empowering others, not on their own power or prowess. Through helping to unleash the full potential of those they lead, a brave leader increases safety and inclusion in the... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • February 2004 (Revised April 2005)
  • Exercise

Necessary Evils: A Diagnostic Exercise

By: Joshua D. Margolis and Andrew Molinsky
Central to the work of leaders and professionals are tasks that entail harming one party to deliver benefits or advance valued and worthy goals. Sometimes a person must, as part of his or her job, perform an act that causes emotional, material, or physical harm to... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Leadership; Problems and Challenges; Ethics; Management Skills
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  • 05 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 5, 2006

this issue. Their studies focus mainly on the organizational and organizational field levels of analysis. In this paper, I aim to complement their work by examining under what conditions individuals are more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jul 2008
  • Op-Ed

Why the U.S. Should Encourage FDI

for institutional arbitrage for multinational firms, and can lead to a successful set of foreign activities for multinational firms. The United States, in contrast, creates few such opportunities for low-hanging fruit for foreign multinational firms relative to local... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
  • April 1993 (Revised October 1995)
  • Case

ALZA and Bio-Electro Systems (A): Technological and Financial Innovation

By: Josh Lerner and Peter Tufano
To develop the next generation of risky products, ALZA, a mature and profitable biotechnology firm specializing in drug delivery systems, must raise $40 million. Organizational constraints and competitive concerns demand that the work be done inside the firm. However,... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Technological Innovation; Business Subsidiaries; Decision Choices and Conditions; Corporate Finance; Biotechnology Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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  • March 1998
  • Teaching Note

Personality Types: The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (TN)

By: David A. Thomas and Emily Heaphy
Describes a class design for teaching students about the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). The Ideal Organization exercise is the centerpiece of the class. It demonstrates that people with different cognitive types have distinct preferences for the type of... View Details
Keywords: Job Search; Working Conditions; Personal Development and Career; Situation or Environment; Perception; Integration
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  • 20 Dec 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

the limits of attempts by outside governments to improve business and political conditions in other countries. Answering them, however, required a long and detailed romp through the history of US involvement with what Secretary of War... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation
  • Web

Online Leadership Principles Course | HBS Online

out the best in others by applying and adapting your leadership style and managing the conditions that drive team performance. 6 weeks 7-9 hours per week 4 modules Self-Paced with regular deadlines This course earns you a Certificate of... View Details