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    Michael Beer

    MICHAEL BEER

    Mike Beer is the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations About Your Company’s... View Details

    • 11 Apr 2016
    • Blog Post

    Working With Organizations That Recruit at HBS: An Interview with Casey O'Connor

    recruiters. During that time, I developed a strong understanding of what our students are looking for, and I am excited to share my knowledge with recruiters. What about your new role are you most looking forward to? I work with... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care; Nonprofit / Government
    • December 2000 (Revised May 2002)
    • Case

    Reverend Jeffrey Brown: Cops, Kids and Ministers

    By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Alexis Lefort
    Introduces Reverend Jeffrey Brown, one of the cofounders of the Ten Point Coalition in Boston, Mass. The Ten Point Coalition, a group of ministers that worked to change the dynamics between the Boston Police Department and the kids on the street, was instrumental in... View Details
    Keywords: Change; Civil Society or Community; Alliances; Interpersonal Communication; Power and Influence; Law Enforcement; City; Boston
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    • September 2019 (Revised December 2023)
    • Case

    Accounting Fraud at Tesco Stores (A)

    By: Jonas Heese, Suraj Srinivasan and Julia Kelley
    This case describes the accounting fraud at Tesco Stores Limited (TSL), which was discovered by a senior accountant in TSL’s finance department. The accountant was concerned about TSL’s handling of commercial income, which, according to the accountant, overstated... View Details
    Keywords: Accounting; Crime and Corruption; Organizational Culture; Corporate Accountability
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    Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

    H. McArthur , edited by Thomas K. McCraw. Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, 1998. Merton, Samantha J. "Options Pricing in the Real World of Uncertainties: Educating Towards a Flexible Labor Force." B.A. thesis, View Details
    • October 1989 (Revised June 1993)
    • Case

    Texas Eastman Co.

    By: Robert S. Kaplan
    The company as part of a commitment to Total Quality Management has installed a computer system that accumulates 30,000 observations on its processes every 2-4 hours. Operating people have found the monthly summaries of financial performance not too useful in this... View Details
    Keywords: Quality; Information Technology; Reports; Business or Company Management
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    • 05 Oct 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: October 5, 2010

    minority head coaches hire more minorities for subordinate coaching jobs, but that the presence of a minority offensive or defensive coordinator (with a white head coach) is a significant, negative predictor... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • October 2004 (Revised September 2005)
    • Case

    Sonoco Products Company (A): Building a World-Class HR Organization

    By: David A. Thomas, Boris Groysberg and Cate Reavis
    Describes the steps the vice-president of human resources takes in revamping an HR function that was noncooperative and, at times, competitive and introducing the company to the notion of HR as a strategic business partner. Explores changes made to the company's... View Details
    Keywords: Human Resources; Compensation and Benefits; Management Succession; Measurement and Metrics; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance; Partners and Partnerships; Business Strategy
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    • July 2002 (Revised August 2002)
    • Case

    Washington Hospital Center (C): Progress and Prospects, 1995-2001

    By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Michelle Heskett
    Dr. Craig Feied and Dr. Mark Smith have already transformed a "worst-in-area" emergency medicine department into the best in the area. Industry-wide and hospital system-specific challenges remain, including their newest project of national importance--creating an... View Details
    Keywords: History; Higher Education; Organizational Culture; Medical Specialties; Technological Innovation; Change Management; Nonprofit Organizations; Expansion; Crisis Management; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; District of Columbia
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      V. Kasturi Rangan

      Kash Rangan is the Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing at the Harvard Business School. Formerly the chairman of the Marketing Department (1998-2002), he is now the co-chairman of the school's Social Enterprise Initiative. He has taught in a wide variety of MBA... View Details

      Keywords: advertising; agribusiness; apparel; automobiles; computer; consumer products; e-commerce industry; high technology; industrial goods; marketing industry; pharmaceuticals
      • March 2016 (Revised January 2020)
      • Teaching Note

      Behavioural Insights Team (A) and (B)

      By: Michael Luca and Patrick Rooney
      The Behavioural Insights Team case introduces students to the concept of choice architecture and the value of experimental methods (sometimes called A/B testing) within organizational contexts. The exercise provides an opportunity for students to apply these principles... View Details
      Keywords: Behavioral Economics; Experiments; Choice Architecture; Public Entrepreneurship; Decision Choices and Conditions; Mathematical Methods; United Kingdom
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      • March 2015 (Revised January 2020)
      • Supplement

      Behavioural Insights Team (B)

      By: Michael Luca and Patrick Rooney
      The Behavioural Insights Team case introduces students to the concept of choice architecture and the value of experimental methods (sometimes called A/B testing) within organizational contexts. The exercise provides an opportunity for students to apply these principles... View Details
      Keywords: Behavioral Economics; Experiments; Choice Architecture; Public Entrepreneurship; United Kingdom
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      • December 2007
      • Article

      Private Power in Indonesia

      By: Louis T. Wells
      The Asian Currency Crisis led to the collapse of agreements Indonesia had negotiated for private electric power only a few years earlier. The ensuing struggle meant bad publicity and several hundred million dollars in costs for Indonesia. As Indonesia in 2007 was... View Details
      Keywords: Energy Generation; Government Legislation; Knowledge Management; Knowledge Sharing; Risk Management; Agreements and Arrangements; Business and Government Relations; Indonesia
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      • July 2023 (Revised April 2024)
      • Case

      Raymond Jefferson: Trial by Fire

      By: Anthony Mayo and Carin-Isabel Knoop
      In the spring of 2021, Raymond (Ray) Jefferson applied for a job in President Joseph Biden’s administration. Ten years earlier, false allegations were used to force him to resign from his prior U.S. government position as Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans’... View Details
      Keywords: Leadership Style; Personal Development and Career; Ethics; Lawsuits and Litigation
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        Matthew Rabin

        Matthew Rabin is the Pershing Square Professor of Behavioral Economics in the Harvard Economics Department and Harvard Business School.

        Before that, he spent 25 years at the wonderful University of California, Berkeley Economics Department.  His research... View Details

        • March 2016
        • Case

        IC Group A/S

        By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
        IC Group owned several of Scandinavia's leading premium fashion brands. How should it respond to the decline of its primary wholesale distribution channels (independent fashion boutiques and department stores)? Should it open more physical stores or focus on... View Details
        Keywords: IC Group; IC Companys; Carli Gry; InWear; Mads Ryder; Niels Martinsen; Premium Fashion; Fast Fashion; Business Units; Business Divisions; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Profit; Revenue; Multinational Firms and Management; Business History; Business or Company Management; Acquisition; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Distribution Channels; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Problems and Challenges; Strategy; Product Positioning; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Vertical Integration; Segmentation; Web Sites; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Fashion Industry; Retail Industry; Scandinavia; Denmark; Sweden; Norway
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        • 15 Sep 2020
        • Blog Post

        One Month into the New MS/MBA Biotech

        Harvard’s new MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences joint degree program confers an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Master of Science from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Medical... View Details

          Nancy F. Koehn

          Nancy F. Koehn is a historian at the Harvard Business School where she holds the James E. Robison chair of Business Administration. Koehn's research focuses on crisis leadership and how leaders and their teams rise to the challenges of high-stakes situations. Her... View Details

          Keywords: beauty products; clothing; consumer products; entertainment; fashion; marketing industry; retailing; health care; advertising; media
          • January 2018
          • Case

          Blue Harbour's Activism at Babcock & Wilcox

          By: Suraj Srinivasan and Quinn Pitcher
          The case describes Blue Harbour Group's investment in Babcock & Wilcox and its transformation into BWX Technologies. In 2004, activist hedge fund Blue Harbour Group invested in Babcock & Wilcox, an energy and construction company. Blue Harbour developed an investment... View Details
          Keywords: Corporate Governance; Investment Activism; Leading Change; Energy Industry; Construction Industry; United States
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          • 21 Apr 2017
          • News

          Good Riddance to Big Insurance Mergers