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- August 2019
- Supplement
Rand Fishkin at Moz (C)
Supplements the (A) case.
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Keywords:
Startups;
Scaling;
Entrepreneurship;
Failure;
Business Startups;
Diversification;
Growth Management
Eisenmann, Thomas R. "Rand Fishkin at Moz (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 820-004, August 2019.
- Article
181 Top CEOs Have Realized Companies Need a Purpose Beyond Profit
By: Claudine Gartenberg and George Serafeim
On August 19, 2019, the Business Roundtable (BR) issued a memo entitled “Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation.” The Business Roundtable, one of the most preeminent business lobbies in the United States, includes 192 CEOs of leading U.S. companies from Apple to...
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Keywords:
Purpose;
Corporate Purpose;
Stakeholder Management;
CEO;
Mission and Purpose;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Strategy
Gartenberg, Claudine, and George Serafeim. "181 Top CEOs Have Realized Companies Need a Purpose Beyond Profit." Harvard Business Review (website) (August 20, 2019).
- August 20, 2019
- Other Article
An Encouraging Step to Reorient Corporate Purpose
By: Peter Tufano
Tufano, Peter. "An Encouraging Step to Reorient Corporate Purpose." LinkedIn Pulse (August 20, 2019).
- August 2019
- Teaching Note
Creating Accountability in Afghanistan
By: Jonas Heese, Gerardo Pérez Cavazos, Eugene F. Soltes and Grace Liu
Teaching Note for HBS No. 120-024.
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- August 2019
- Background Note
Note on Shared Ownership
By: Ethan Bernstein and Nick Rekenthaler
While several tactics can drive company performance by instilling a sense of shared ownership among employees, perhaps the most direct is to actually share ownership with employees. Many public and private companies across industries have done just that, and studies...
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Keywords:
Employee Stock Ownership Plan;
Human Resources;
Employees;
Human Capital;
Ownership;
Cooperative Ownership;
Employee Ownership;
Customer Ownership;
Governance
Bernstein, Ethan, and Nick Rekenthaler. "Note on Shared Ownership." Harvard Business School Background Note 420-030, August 2019.
- August 2019 (Revised March 2020)
- Background Note
Note on Structured Interviewing
By: Ethan Bernstein and Amy Ross
Making good hiring decisions is a critical management activity, yet many leaders just “wing it” when interviewing candidates to fill openings by having an organic conversation to assess the candidate’s fit, unknowingly subjecting the process to unconscious bias....
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Bernstein, Ethan, and Amy Ross. "Note on Structured Interviewing." Harvard Business School Background Note 420-032, August 2019. (Revised March 2020.)
- August 2019 (Revised February 2020)
- Teaching Note
Sidewalk Labs: Privacy in a City Built from the Internet Up
By: Leslie John and Mitch Weiss
Email mking@hbs.edu for a courtesy copy.
The case serves as a microcosm of issues of digital privacy: the availability of data – personal data in particular – has tremendous potential to improve people’s lives... View Details
The case serves as a microcosm of issues of digital privacy: the availability of data – personal data in particular – has tremendous potential to improve people’s lives... View Details
Keywords:
Privacy;
Privacy By Design;
Privacy Regulation;
Platforms;
Data;
Data Security;
Behavioral Science;
Analytics and Data Science;
Safety;
Entrepreneurship;
Business and Government Relations;
Consumer Behavior;
Digital Platforms
John, Leslie, and Mitch Weiss. "Sidewalk Labs: Privacy in a City Built from the Internet Up." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 820-023, August 2019. (Revised February 2020.) (Email mking@hbs.edu for a courtesy copy.)
- August 2019
- Case
Simón Cohen at Henco: Sustaining 'High Performance, Happy People'
By: Francesca Gino, Jeff Steiner, Arianna Camacho and Paul Green
Simón Cohen—Founder of Henco Logistics—transformed a small Mexican logistics company into a major player within the industry. Cohen credits the firm’s focus on employee happiness as the key ingredient to its success, an approach he developed following a personal...
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Keywords:
Work/life Balance;
Growth Strategy;
Corporate Culture;
Motivation;
Values;
Authentic Leadership Development;
Leadership;
Personal Development and Career;
Motivation and Incentives;
Values and Beliefs;
Service Operations;
Organizational Culture;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Service Industry
Gino, Francesca, Jeff Steiner, Arianna Camacho, and Paul Green. "Simón Cohen at Henco: Sustaining 'High Performance, Happy People'." Harvard Business School Case 920-005, August 2019.
- August 2019 (Revised July 2023)
- Course Overview Note
Demystifying the Family Enterprise
By: Christina R. Wing and Madeline Keulen
90% of the GDP in the world is created through family-owned businesses. Family businesses are frequently thought to be exclusively mom-and-pop, small businesses. Most fail to realize that Walmart, Fidelity, Cargill, Koch Industries, and Ford, to name a few, are all...
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Wing, Christina R., and Madeline Keulen. "Demystifying the Family Enterprise." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 620-030, August 2019. (Revised July 2023.)
- August 2019 (Revised July 2023)
- Module Note
Demystifying the Family Enterprise: Module 1 - The Family
By: Christina R. Wing, Madeline Keulen and Vicki Morton
Module 1 of Demystifying Families in Business focuses on the Family. The Family unit forms the bedrock of the organizations that comprise the collective Family organization, specifically, the virtues that define the Family members’ rules of engagement, and the...
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Keywords:
Family Business;
Family and Family Relationships;
Governance;
Values and Beliefs;
Business Organization
Wing, Christina R., Madeline Keulen, and Vicki Morton. "Demystifying the Family Enterprise: Module 1 - The Family." Harvard Business School Module Note 620-031, August 2019. (Revised July 2023.)
- August 2019 (Revised July 2024)
- Module Note
Demystifying the Family Enterprise: Module 2 - The Operating Company
By: Christina R. Wing, Madeline Keulen and Vicki Morton
Wing, Christina R., Madeline Keulen, and Vicki Morton. "Demystifying the Family Enterprise: Module 2 - The Operating Company." Harvard Business School Module Note 620-037, August 2019. (Revised July 2024.)
- August 2019 (Revised December 2022)
- Case
Endeavor in 2019: Leading Through Inflections
Applegate, Lynda M. "Endeavor in 2019: Leading Through Inflections." Harvard Business School Case 820-031, August 2019. (Revised December 2022.)
- Article
Why ‘Tell Them Something They Don't Know’ Is Bad Advice in B2B Sales
By: Frank V. Cespedes and Tracy DeCicco
Common advice in sales is to provide insights to customers during sales calls. But this advice generally stays at the level of “tell people something they don’t already know” and results in sales conversations littered with many irrelevant factoids. This article...
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Cespedes, Frank V., and Tracy DeCicco. "Why ‘Tell Them Something They Don't Know’ Is Bad Advice in B2B Sales." Harvard Business Review (website) (August 19, 2019).
- August 2019
- Case
Huawei and the U.S.-China Trade War
By: Elie Ofek and John Masko
In 2019, Chinese smartphone maker and telecommunications empire Huawei was preparing to launch its new flagship smartphone series, the Mate 30. After years of explosive growth, the previous 18 months had been a challenge for the company. In early 2018, Huawei’s planned...
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Keywords:
Trade;
Global Strategy;
International Relations;
National Security;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Information Infrastructure;
Volatility;
Adaptation;
Telecommunications Industry;
China;
United States;
European Union
Ofek, Elie, and John Masko. "Huawei and the U.S.-China Trade War." Harvard Business School Case 520-017, August 2019.
- August 16, 2019
- Article
I Walked across Spain. Here's What I Learned.
By: Arthur C. Brooks
Brooks, Arthur C. "I Walked across Spain. Here's What I Learned." Washington Post (August 16, 2019).
- August 2019 (Revised November 2019)
- Teaching Note
Road Rage at the DMV
By: Katherine Baldiga Coffman, Andrew Wasynczuk and Karim Sameh
Teaching Note for HBS No. 918-013.
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- August 14, 2019
- Article
Is It Time to Let Employees Work From Anywhere?
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Barbara Z. Larson and Cirrus Foroughi
Keywords:
Managing People
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Barbara Z. Larson, and Cirrus Foroughi. "Is It Time to Let Employees Work From Anywhere?" Harvard Business Review (website) (August 14, 2019).
- August 2019
- Supplement
Legal Time - Confidential Information for the Defense Attorney (Drew Davis)
By: Christine L. Exley, Katherine B. Coffman and Joshua Schwartzstein
Legal Time is a two-party dynamic negotiation simulation. Students take the role of either the prosecution or the defense in a case that centers on a client who has been accused of spear-heading a conspiracy to commit wire fraud. This conflict-resolution scenario gives...
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Keywords:
Conflict Resolution;
Time Stress;
Negotiation;
Conflict and Resolution;
Fairness;
Learning
Exley, Christine L., Katherine B. Coffman, and Joshua Schwartzstein. "Legal Time - Confidential Information for the Defense Attorney (Drew Davis)." Harvard Business School Supplement 920-011, August 2019.
- August 2019
- Supplement
Legal Time - Confidential Information for the Prosecution (AUSA Prescott)
By: Christine L. Exley, Katherine B. Coffman and Joshua Schwartzstein
Legal Time is a two-party dynamic negotiation simulation. Students take the role of either the prosecution or the defense in a case that centers on a client who has been accused of spear-heading a conspiracy to commit wire fraud. This conflict-resolution scenario gives...
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Keywords:
Conflict Resolution;
Time Stress;
Negotiation;
Conflict and Resolution;
Fairness;
Learning
Exley, Christine L., Katherine B. Coffman, and Joshua Schwartzstein. "Legal Time - Confidential Information for the Prosecution (AUSA Prescott)." Harvard Business School Supplement 920-012, August 2019.
- August 2019 (Revised September 2019)
- Teaching Note
Legal Time Case
By: Christine L. Exley, Katherine B. Coffman and Joshua Schwartzstein
Legal Time is a two-party dynamic negotiation simulation. Students take the role of either the prosecution or the defense in a case that centers on a client who has been accused of spear-heading a conspiracy to commit wire fraud. This conflict-resolution scenario gives...
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Keywords:
Conflict Resolution;
Time Stress;
Negotiation;
Conflict and Resolution;
Fairness;
Learning