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  • 02 Apr 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Employees Out Sick? Inside One Company's Creative Approach to Staying Productive

put the data in the system.” Sickness wasn’t the only reason for absences. Factory workers, who came to the city from rural areas all over the country, each celebrated holidays by attending cultural festivals, which varied depending on... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Fashion
  • December 2015
  • Article

Entrepreneurial Imagination and a Demand and Supply-side Perspective on the MNE and Cross-border Organization

By: Geoffrey Jones and Christos Pitelis
This article explores the role of entrepreneurial imagination on the international expansion of multinational enterprises. The focus is on supply- and demand-side factors that help explicate cross-border expansion. The article explores how appropriability-informed and... View Details
Keywords: Imagination; Globalization; History; Entrepreneurship; Multinational Firms and Management; Africa; Asia; Europe; North and Central America
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Jones, Geoffrey, and Christos Pitelis. "Entrepreneurial Imagination and a Demand and Supply-side Perspective on the MNE and Cross-border Organization." Journal of International Management 21, no. 4 (December 2015): 309–321.
  • 2009
  • Case

What People Want (and How to Predict It)

By: Thomas H. Davenport and Jeanne G. Harris
Historically, neither the creators nor the distributors of cultural products such as books or movies have used analytics -- data, statistics, predictive modeling -- to determine the likely success of their offerings. Instead, companies relied on the brilliance of... View Details
Keywords: Product Development; Creativity; Customer Satisfaction; Forecasting and Prediction; Markets; Business Model; Publishing Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry
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Davenport, Thomas H., and Jeanne G. Harris. "What People Want (and How to Predict It)." 2009.
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Globalization and innovation are two key forces that will shape individual and business success in the 21st century. To thrive, individuals and organizations must collaborate effectively across cultural lines to solve pressing business problems and develop new products... View Details
  • November 2020 (Revised March 2022)
  • Teaching Note

Social Salary Setting at Spiber

By: Ashley Whillans and John Beshears
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 920-050. The case tells the story of Spiber, a Japanese technology start-up company. To reflect the company’s values, the leadership team implemented a new and unique salary-setting process: each employee had the authority to choose their... View Details
Keywords: Compensation; General Management; Employee Benefits; Incentives; Motivation; Compensation and Benefits; Fairness; Motivation and Incentives; Management; Happiness; Negotiation; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Japan
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Whillans, Ashley, and John Beshears. "Social Salary Setting at Spiber." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 921-014, November 2020. (Revised March 2022.)

    Emily Tedards

    Emily Tedards is a Doctoral Student in the Organizational Behavior program at Harvard Business School and a Doctoral Fellow for the Reimagining the Economy Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School. Emily is interested in interorganizational networks, alliances, and the... View Details

    • 08 Aug 2006
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    Entrepreneurship and Business History: Renewing the Research Agenda

    Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & R. Daniel Wadhwani
    • July 2002
    • Case

    Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago's Mentoring Program, The (A)

    By: David A. Thomas and Gina Carioggia
    Describes steps taken to implement and manage a successful employee mentoring program at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. A cultural change at the bank provided the context out of which the program grew. The case describes the development of the program,... View Details
    Keywords: Design; Training; Human Resources; Employee Relationship Management; Public Ownership; Planning
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    Thomas, David A., and Gina Carioggia. "Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago's Mentoring Program, The (A)." Harvard Business School Case 403-019, July 2002.
    • 04 Apr 2011
    • HBS Case

    Reinventing the National Geographic Society

    emerging. Various units operated as independent fiefdoms. In 1998, Fahey was named CEO, and the task was clear: build an organization to thrive for the next 100 years. To do so, he "assembled a management team of diverse backgrounds to transform the Society's... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Publishing
    • June 2000 (Revised July 2000)
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    ORIX KK

    By: Malcolm S. Salter and Andrew Eggers
    Describes the challenges facing a Japanese financial services company as it attempts to maintain its ability to attract and retain talented employees. The CEO's ideas of corporate governance and evidence from the competitive labor environment suggest the need for more... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Governance; Compensation and Benefits; Motivation and Incentives; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Geographic Location; Financial Services Industry; Japan
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    Salter, Malcolm S., and Andrew Eggers. "ORIX KK." Harvard Business School Case 800-272, June 2000. (Revised July 2000.)
    • 17 Feb 2022
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    When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed

    compartmentalize their work as separate from the rest of their lives. And so, it is incumbent upon leaders to find ways to create a positive work context in which employees not only feel inspired but also feel there is a way for them to... View Details
    Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
    • December 2010
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    Leadership, Culture, and Transition at lululemon

    By: Michael Tushman, Ruth Page and Tom Ryder
    The case examines leadership and organizational change within a strong culture context through a multimedia study of lululemon, a specialty retailer of high-end athletic apparel. Video segments trace the company's history from its founding in 1998 as a single retail... View Details
    Keywords: Leading Change; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Transition; Growth Management; Management Teams; Organizational Structure; Governing and Advisory Boards; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Retail Industry; Vancouver; United States
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    Tushman, Michael, Ruth Page, and Tom Ryder. "Leadership, Culture, and Transition at lululemon." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 410-705, December 2010.
    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Where Strategy Matters: Evidence from a Global Startup Field Study

    By: Nataliya Langburd Wright
    The role of strategy for innovative startups is theoretically ambiguous and much debated among practitioners. I interviewed executives of 253 scaling software ventures from 34 countries and scored the alignment of their market and organizational choices to detect... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship And Strategy; Scaling Technology Ventures; Global Contextual Intelligence; Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Global Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy
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    Wright, Nataliya Langburd. "Where Strategy Matters: Evidence from a Global Startup Field Study." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-041, January 2023. (Revised July 2023.)
    • September 2014 (Revised December 2014)
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    The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art

    By: Mukti Khaire and Nancy Hua Dai
    Since its opening in Beijing in November 2007 as the first non-profit art center in China, UCCA had been operating with the mission to "promote the continued development of the Chinese art scene, foster international exchange, and showcase the latest in art and culture... View Details
    Keywords: Art World; Art Gallery; Art Market; Arts; Nonprofit Organizations; Entrepreneurship; China
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    Khaire, Mukti, and Nancy Hua Dai. "The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art." Harvard Business School Case 815-022, September 2014. (Revised December 2014.)
    • September 2012 (Revised September 2014)
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    Doing Business in Brazil

    By: Aldo Musacchio, Gustavo A. Herrero, Ricardo Reisen de Pinho, Cintra Scott and Jill Avery
    This case examines the challenges and opportunities of doing business in Brazil. It highlights Brazil's ongoing economic transformation in the decades leading up to 2014 in the context of its historical, political, and cultural background. The case summarizes some of... View Details
    Keywords: Emerging Market Finance; Emergent Countries; Business History; Economic History; Emerging Markets; Business Ventures; Strategy; Brazil
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    Musacchio, Aldo, Gustavo A. Herrero, Ricardo Reisen de Pinho, Cintra Scott, and Jill Avery. "Doing Business in Brazil." Harvard Business School Case 713-426, September 2012. (Revised September 2014.)
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    By: Rohit Deshpande
    Customer Centricity Rohit Deshpandé's research program focuses on Customer-Centricity. A stream of projects examines the interaction between corporate and national culture as they influence the development and implementation of global marketing strategies in high... View Details
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    Contextual Intelligence

    By: Tarun Khanna
    The author has come to a conclusion that may surprise you: trying to apply management practices uniformly across geographies is a fool's errand. Best practices simply don't travel well across borders. That's because conditions not just of economic development but of... View Details
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    Khanna, Tarun. "Contextual Intelligence." Harvard Business Review 92, no. 9 (September 2014): 58–68.
    • 2025
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    Negotiation: The Game Has Changed

    By: Max Bazerman
    The world has changed dramatically in just the past few years—and so has the game of negotiation. COVID-19, Zoom, political polarization, the online economy, increasing economic globalization, and greater workplace diversity—all have transformed the who, what, where,... View Details
    Keywords: Negotiation; Change
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    Bazerman, Max. Negotiation: The Game Has Changed. Princeton University Press, 2025.
    • February 1991 (Revised February 1992)
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    Appex Corp.

    By: Nitin Nohria
    1990 Business Week named Appex Corp. the fastest growing high-technology company in the United States. Appex provided management information systems and intercarrier network services to cellular telephone companies. During its rapid growth, the company went through... View Details
    Keywords: Information Technology; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Organizational Culture; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Performance Productivity; Problems and Challenges; Management Practices and Processes; Business Divisions; Information Management; Information Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; United States
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    Nohria, Nitin. "Appex Corp." Harvard Business School Case 491-082, February 1991. (Revised February 1992.)
    • 20 Oct 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    The Seven Things That Surprise New CEOs

    connected to the company. Implications For Ceo Leadership Taken together, the seven surprises carry some important and subtle implications for how a new CEO should define his job. First, the CEO must learn to manage organizational context... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Jay W. Lorsch & Nitin Nohria
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