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Online Management Course | HBS Online

practitioners. I thought I knew the subject relatively well and it would be a refresher. I was in for a surprise. After the first module, I realized that I did many things wrong. The most chilling thought was about missed opportunities. The course is giving me a good... View Details
  • 22 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 22

Carliss Baldwin, and John Rusnak Publication:In Design Structure Matrix Methods and Applications, edited by S.D. Eppinger and T.R. Browning. The MIT Press, forthcoming Abstract An abstract is unavailable at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Management Practices, Relational Contracts and the Decline of General Motors

By: Susan Helper and Rebecca Henderson
General Motors was once regarded as one of the best managed and most successful firms in the world, but between 1980 and 2009 its share of the US market fell from 62.6 to 19.8 percent, and in 2009 the firm went bankrupt. In this paper we argue that the conventional... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Structure; Decision Making; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry
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  • 06 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 6

were making decisions that made them more acceptable to customers given the particular social, cultural, and economic contexts within which they were embedded. Ownership Structure and the Cost of Corporate Borrowing Authors: Chen Lin, Yue... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 18

account for horizontal peer comparison when designing executive wage contracts and that this comparison has productivity consequences for firms. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=43633 How Do Risk Managers Become... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • March 2011
  • Case

United Cereal: Lora Brill's Eurobrand Challenge

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Carole Carlson
The case, set within the European organization of a giant multinational breakfast foods company, describes a launch decision for a new cereal product. As the case evolves, the decision has major strategic and organizational implications for Lora Brill, European VP. The... View Details
Keywords: Subsidiaries; Market Entry; Multinational Corporations; Strategy; Business Subsidiaries; Managerial Roles; Multinational Firms and Management; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Marketing Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Product Launch; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Europe
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  • 26 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 26

managers have responsibilities to the system itself, and, in particular, should these responsibilities shape their behavior when they are attempting to structure those institutions of capitalism that are determined through a political... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2007
  • What Do You Think?

How Should Pay Be Linked to Performance?

performance." Generally speaking, respondents favored schemes designed to reward long-term as well as short-term performance, encourage retention, recognize special needs of an organization, be based on the achievement of both... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 11 May 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?

room for improvement” in the process, Buell says. “I’m happy with the car, but it was a roller coaster of emotions going through the experience.” What’s the problem here? The professors agree that the industry has a structural problem:... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Auto
  • Web

Strategy & IT - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Technology Three waves of IT-driven competition have radically reshaped competition in the past 50 years. The first wave of IT, during the 1960s and 1970s, automated individual activities in the value chain, ranging from order processing and bill paying to... View Details
  • 22 Oct 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Use Artificial Intelligence to Set Sales Targets That Motivate

data, the algorithm learns to predict the outcome from the input data. Unsupervised learning. In this case, using unlabeled data, the algorithm learns the inherent structure from the input data. Either machine learning approach is only as... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14

http://www.people.hbs.edu/mrhodeskropf/GovernanceCEOTurnoverMS.pdf 2006 Journal of Law, Economics & Organization Contractual Incompleteness, Contingent Control Rights, and the Design of Internet Portal Alliances By: Lerner, Josh, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • June 2022
  • Case

Business Implications from Regulating Carbon Emissions in the EU

By: George Serafeim and Benjamin Maletta
In the beginning of the 21st century, the European Union (the EU) had led the global fight against climate change with a wide array of policy measures. The EU’s primary approach to climate policy had been taxation via the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU... View Details
Keywords: Regulation; Carbon Emissions; Trade; Sustainability; Decarbonization; Performance; Climate Change; Analysis; Strategy; Taxation; Policy; Environmental Regulation; Industry Structures; European Union
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  • October 2018
  • Case

P-Will at DISCO

By: Ethan Bernstein, Naoko Jinjo and Yuna Sakuma
From the outside, DISCO—a Japan-based manufacturer of precision tools for semiconductor production devices—appeared to be a rather ordinary company that had achieved rather extraordinary success: it had simultaneously achieved 70% global market share, had lifted its... View Details
Keywords: Human Capital; P-Will; DISCO; Semiconductors; Self-Managed Organizations; Governance; Human Resources; Selection and Staffing; Management Practices and Processes; Management Systems; Organizational Structure; Organizational Design; Semiconductor Industry; Japan
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  • 23 Jun 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Role of Institutional Development in the Prevalence and Value of Family Firms

Keywords: by Raphael Amit, Yuan Ding, Belén Villalonga & Hua Zhang
  • Web

Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online

Execution equips you with the tools, skills, and frameworks to allocate resources, measure performance, manage risk, and successfully implement strategy. You’ll explore common challenges that prevent or derail execution and learn how to View Details
  • 05 Feb 2019
  • News

The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)

the fact that it is sustainable and eco-friendly, immediately struck a chord with her, and the idea to create a luxury brand was born! After two years of research and hard work, we officially launched MAYU in November 2018. “Fashion and View Details
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Teele Hall | About

2000 in honor of Dean Stanley F. Teele (1906–1967), the modern brick, concrete, and glass structure was designed by Goody & Clancy and constructed in 1985. The 49,000-square-foot building has five floors and... View Details
  • 02 Aug 2020
  • What Do You Think?

Is the 'Experimentation Organization' Becoming the Competitive Gold Standard?

seed the concept more broadly.” But Ana Frony reminded us to “never forget that even trainees must have some intuition and poetry to develop a hypotheses and design an experiment.” Nick C raised the question of just how far the practice... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology
  • Blog

Is AI Coming for Your Job?

Ayelet Israeli is the Marvin Bower Associate Professor in the Marketing Unit and cofounder of the Customer Intelligence Lab at the Digital, Data, and Design (D) Institute at HBS. Iavor Bojinov: Those who resist AI risk falling behind Like... View Details