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      • July 1993 (Revised April 1999)
      • Case

      ABB's Relays Business: Building and Managing a Global Matrix

      By: Christopher A. Bartlett
      Describes the development and management of the relays business area (BA) in ABB's global matrix organization. Focuses on three levels of management--corporate, BA, and operating company. Highlights the roles and responsibilities of individuals at each level as ABB... View Details
      Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Business or Company Management; Business Strategy; Organizational Structure; Managerial Roles; Management Practices and Processes; Employees; Organizational Culture; Success; Manufacturing Industry
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      Bartlett, Christopher A. "ABB's Relays Business: Building and Managing a Global Matrix." Harvard Business School Case 394-016, July 1993. (Revised April 1999.)
      • July 1993
      • Case

      Air Miles Canada

      By: Thomas O. Jones, Leonard A. Schlesinger and Roger H. Hallowell
      Air Miles Canada both increases customer loyalty by rewarding shopping frequency at specified merchants, and enables its sponsors to develop a new, more complex understanding of their customers' (and potential customers') shopping habits, thus making future customer... View Details
      Keywords: Programs; Customer Relationship Management; Information Management; Air Transportation Industry; Canada
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      Jones, Thomas O., Leonard A. Schlesinger, and Roger H. Hallowell. "Air Miles Canada." Harvard Business School Case 694-008, July 1993.
      • February 1993 (Revised June 1993)
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      Bidwell Training Center, Inc. and Manchester Craftsmen's Guild: Preparation in Pittsburgh

      By: James L. Heskett and Roger H. Hallowell
      Bill Strickland, executive director of both Bidwell Training Center and Manchester Craftsmen's Guild, has built a highly successful training organization to enable underprivileged minorities in Pittsburgh to escape the cycle of poverty. His success has led to questions... View Details
      Keywords: Training; Non-Governmental Organizations; Leadership; Society; Competency and Skills; Pittsburgh
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      Heskett, James L., and Roger H. Hallowell. "Bidwell Training Center, Inc. and Manchester Craftsmen's Guild: Preparation in Pittsburgh." Harvard Business School Case 693-087, February 1993. (Revised June 1993.)
      • October 1991
      • Background Note

      Market Research

      By: Robert J. Dolan
      Describes the major classes of market research. Provides students with an overview of methods available enabling them to select the proper set for their purposes. View Details
      Keywords: Research; Markets
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      Dolan, Robert J. "Market Research." Harvard Business School Background Note 592-034, October 1991.
      • June 1991 (Revised May 1992)
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      Lithonia Lighting

      By: Nitin Nohria
      In early 1991, Lithonia, the U.S.'s largest manufacturer of lighting fixtures, faced a major slump in the construction business that threatened to cause its first decline in revenues after over a decade of strong growth. With financial pressures from its parent company... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Structure; Industry Growth; Decision Making; Information Technology; Financial Crisis; Investment; Business Growth and Maturation; Electronics Industry; United States
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      Nohria, Nitin. "Lithonia Lighting." Harvard Business School Case 492-003, June 1991. (Revised May 1992.)
      • April 1990 (Revised August 1997)
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      Organizational Capabilities and U.S. War Production: The Controlled Materials Plan of World War II

      By: Robert D. Cuff and Richard S. Tedlow
      A vehicle for the discussion of a very important set of institutional arrangements that helped enable America to mobilize its economy for World War II. View Details
      Keywords: Economy; Production; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategic Planning; War; United States
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      Cuff, Robert D., and Richard S. Tedlow. "Organizational Capabilities and U.S. War Production: The Controlled Materials Plan of World War II." Harvard Business School Case 390-166, April 1990. (Revised August 1997.)
      • January 1989 (Revised March 1991)
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      General Electric Canada: Designing a New Organization

      By: Lynda M. Applegate and James I. Cash Jr.
      General Electric Canada used sociotechnical design techniques to restructure its financial, administrative, facilities, and information technology service from a decentralized, hierarchical organization to a centralized organization composed of self-managing,... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Design; Information Technology; Groups and Teams; Change; Communication; Information; Industrial Products Industry; Canada
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      Applegate, Lynda M., and James I. Cash Jr. "General Electric Canada: Designing a New Organization." Harvard Business School Case 189-138, January 1989. (Revised March 1991.)
      • July 1987 (Revised May 1993)
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      Atlas Copco (A): Gaining and Building Distribution Channels

      By: V. Kasturi Rangan
      Atlas Copco, a Swedish company, holds the highest market share for air compressors worldwide. However, its attempts to enter U.S. markets have been unsuccessful. The case describes a series of strategic distribution maneuvers implemented by the company which enable it... View Details
      Keywords: Growth and Development; Marketing Channels; Market Entry and Exit; Market Participation; Distribution Channels; Failure; Industrial Products Industry; Sweden; United States
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      Rangan, V. Kasturi. "Atlas Copco (A): Gaining and Building Distribution Channels." Harvard Business School Case 588-004, July 1987. (Revised May 1993.)
      • February 1985 (Revised January 2024)
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      Health Stop (A): What Type of Innovation Is It? And Six Factors Alignment

      By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Joyce Lallman, Nancy Kane, Jefferson C. Grahling and James Wallace
      How can we evaluate if innovative health care ventures can do good—benefit society—and do well—become financially viable? This question is the topic of the first module in the Innovating In Health Care course book. This note and case series enables readers to conduct... View Details
      Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Business Model; Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Strategy; Valuation; Health Industry; Retail Industry
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      Herzlinger, Regina E., Joyce Lallman, Nancy Kane, Jefferson C. Grahling, and James Wallace. "Health Stop (A): What Type of Innovation Is It? And Six Factors Alignment." Harvard Business School Case 185-084, February 1985. (Revised January 2024.)
      • December 1984
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      Expense Tracking System at Tiger Creek

      By: Shoshana Zuboff
      Mill manager Carl Adelman learns that a group of senior managers is soon to visit the Tiger Creek mill to learn more about the success of the newly implemented Expense Tracking System. The System had been installed on two paper machines to give workers real time cost... View Details
      Keywords: Management Teams; Success; Cost Management; Technology; Pulp and Paper Industry
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      Zuboff, Shoshana. "Expense Tracking System at Tiger Creek." Harvard Business School Case 485-057, December 1984.
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      3D Negotiaton

      By: James K. Sebenius

      In articles and books, often with David Lax, I have been developing a broad approach to effective negotiation that encompasses three "dimensions." In this "3D" approach, our first dimension — "tactics"-- is the most familiar territory. Tactics are the persuasive... View Details

      • Forthcoming
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      Advancing Personalization: How to Experiment, Learn & Optimize

      By: Aurelie Lemmens, Jason M.T. Roos, Sebastian Gabel, Eva Ascarza, Hernan Bruno, Elea McDonnell Feit, Brett Gordon, Ayelet Israeli, Carl F. Mela and Oded Netzer
      Personalization has become the heartbeat of modern marketing. Advances in causal inference and machine learning enable companies to understand how the same marketing action can impact the choices of individual customers differently. This article provides an academic... View Details
      Keywords: Targeting; Experiments; Observational Studies; Policy Implementation; Policy Evaluation; Customization and Personalization; Marketing Strategy; Customer Focus and Relationships; Research
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      Lemmens, Aurelie, Jason M.T. Roos, Sebastian Gabel, Eva Ascarza, Hernan Bruno, Elea McDonnell Feit, Brett Gordon, Ayelet Israeli, Carl F. Mela, and Oded Netzer. "Advancing Personalization: How to Experiment, Learn & Optimize." International Journal of Research in Marketing (forthcoming).
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      aMaze app

      By: Ethan S. Bernstein
      The aMaze app is designed to enable automated facilitation of the "Management Maze" or "Electric Maze" exercise by Amy Edmondson and Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar (see View Details
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      Asymmetric Mass Mobilization and the Vincibility of Democracy in Hungary

      By: Laura Jakli, Béla Greskovits and Jason Wittenberg
      Using an original dataset of partisan protest events in Hungary (n = 4836) spanning 1989 to 2011, we argue that left-liberal parties’ neglect in cultivating civil society during the post-communist period had deleterious downstream effects on Hungarian liberal... View Details
      Keywords: Voting; Political Elections; Civil Society or Community; Government Administration; Hungary
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      Jakli, Laura, Béla Greskovits, and Jason Wittenberg. "Asymmetric Mass Mobilization and the Vincibility of Democracy in Hungary." Comparative Political Studies (forthcoming). (Pre-published online January 10, 2025.)
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      Business Ethics

      By: Joshua D. Margolis
      Joshua Margolis is interested in how individuals can exercise leadership in the face of competing ethical and economic responsibilities, and how organizations can enable them to do that. In particular, how can managers and companies simultaneously advance... View Details
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      Competing in the Age of Digital Platforms

      By: Andy Wu
      Without exception, the most valuable companies in the world today are platforms: Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, and many other firms have built their fortunes by facilitating innovation across global ecosystems or enabling the broad exchange of goods... View Details
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      Competing in the Age of Digital Platforms—(Executive Education)

      By: David B. Yoffie
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      Without exception, the most valuable companies in the world today are platforms. Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, and many other firms have built their fortunes by facilitating innovation across global ecosystems or... View Details
      Keywords: Platforms; Technology; Strategy; Digital Business; Social Networks; Self-driving Cars; Mobile Gaming; Esports; Financial Services; Online Retail; Ride-sharing; Search; Auctions; United States; Asia; China; Europe
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      Customer-Centricity as a Vehicle for Organic Growth

      By: Ranjay Gulati
      This body of work examines the mechanics of how firms grow profitably in commoditizing markets. Underlying the "customer-centricity" that many firms embrace today is a factor that will determine their success with this effort: enabling collaboration across... View Details
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      DESIGN THEORY AND PRACTICE ES285

      By: Roberto Verganti

      Any organization, business or venture grounds its value on how “meaningful” are its products (functionally, symbolically and emotionally). Design Theory and Practice (DTP) empowers students to create products that are meaningful, to people who use them and to... View Details

      Keywords: Integrated Design; Leadership; User Experience Design; Design; Strategy; Technology; Product Design
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      Developing Organizational Capabilities to Compete

      By: Michael Beer

      Michael Beer’s current research focuses on the question of what makes an Effective Organization. Based on his extensive research and practice about this question Beer has identified six highly interrelated core capabilities:

      1. Capacity of the... View Details
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