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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

    • 2016
    • Case

    Africa Strategy of China Nonferrous Metal Mining Group

    By: F. Warren McFarlan, Jie Jiao, Dayong Yang and Shanshan Cao
    Founded in 1983, China Nonferrous Metal Mining (Group) Co., Ltd. ("CNMC") is one of the earliest and largest global Chinese nonferrous metal industrial enterprises. It has investments and projects in 27 countries and trade networks in nearly 100 countries with a... View Details
    Keywords: Cross-cultural Management; Global Strategy; Globalization; International Business; Strategy Management; Africa; China
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    • June 2025
    • Article

    Outcome and Process Frames: Strategic Renewal and Capability Reprioritization at the Federal Bureau of Investigation

    By: Ryan Raffaelli, Tiona Zuzul, Ranjay Gulati and Jan Rivkin
    [Research Summary]: Framing is critical for leaders who must build support for strategic renewal. While research has concentrated on renewal that replaces one set of capabilities with another, we explore a distinctive challenge: how leaders persuade stakeholders to... View Details
    Keywords: Framing; Stakeholder Management; Capabilities; Transformation; Leading Change; Crisis Management; Resource Allocation; Government and Politics; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Public Administration Industry
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    • August 2023
    • Case

    Tenkara Outfitters

    By: Christina Wallace, Jo Tango and Johnson Elugbadebo
    After taking over from their parents, Sebastian Maxwell and Alexandra Ito, CEO and COO of Minnesota-based outdoor adventure brand Tenkara, must decide how they want to resource and grow this formerly family-run business. After outdoor activities exploded during the... View Details
    Keywords: General Management; Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Management; Family Business; Entrepreneurial Finance; Business Growth and Maturation
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    • May–June 2019
    • Article

    Cross-Silo Leadership

    By: Amy C. Edmondson, Tiziana Casciaro and Sujin Jang
    Today the most promising innovation and business opportunities require collaboration among functions, offices, and organizations. To realize them, companies must break down silos and get people working together across boundaries. But that’s a challenge for many... View Details
    Keywords: Cross-functional Management; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Groups and Teams; Employees; Attitudes
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    • January 2006 (Revised October 2009)
    • Supplement

    Negotiating Star Compensation at the USAWBL (A-2): Confidential Instructions for the Boston Sharks General Manager

    By: Ian Larkin, James K. Sebenius and Guhan Subramanian
    Keywords: Negotiation; Compensation and Benefits; Sports; Sports Industry; Boston
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    • Research Summary

    Sustainable Operations

    Professor Lee studies how operational synergies between different supply chains can be used to create economic value and improve environmental sustainability. She uses an operational lens to approach sustainability problems, focusing on the management of material flow... View Details
    Keywords: Environment; Environmental Operations; Sustainability; Operations Management; Operational Disruptions; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Food Security
    • December 2014
    • Supplement

    Interview with Anders Byriel and Mads Nygård: Kvadrat

    By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott
    Anders Byriel, CEO of the family-owned Danish textiles company, Kvadrat, and Mads Nygård, SVP of Strategy & Organization at Kvadrat, discuss the challenges and opportunities faced by the company. They elaborate on areas covered in the case including: 1.) Asia; 2.) Soft... View Details
    Keywords: General Management; Organization Behavior; Strategy; Performance Management; Leadership; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Practices and Processes; Human Resources; Manufacturing Industry; Denmark
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    • 05 Aug 2021
    • News

    Returning to the Office Will Be Hard. Here’s How Managers Can Make It Easier.

    • March 2017 (Revised April 2021)
    • Module Note

    Responsibilities to Society

    By: Nien-hê Hsieh
    This module note for students outlines an approach to help managers deliver on their responsibilities in relation to society. The approach frames these responsibilities in terms of potential harms to third parties beyond investors, customers, and employees. The... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Political Activity; Corporate Social Responsibility; Human Rights; Role Of Business In Society; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Ethics; Business and Community Relations; Rights; Society
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    • March 2013
    • Teaching Note

    Nestlé: Agricultural Material Sourcing Within the Concept of Creating Shared Value (CSV) (TN)

    By: Ray A. Goldberg and Matthew Preble
    In December 2012, Hans Jöhr, Nestlé's head of corporate agriculture, was preparing to meet with the company's board of directors to discuss its vision for the future related to sustainable agriculture. Nestlé's continued success depended on its ability to access the... View Details
    Keywords: Sustainability; Sustainability Management; Agribusiness; Environmental Sustainability; Food; Nutrition; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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    • July–August 2014
    • Article

    Becoming a First-Class Noticer: How to Spot and Prevent Ethical Failures in Your Organization

    By: Max Bazerman
    We'd like to think that no smart, upstanding manager would ever overlook or turn a blind eye to threats or wrongdoing that ultimately imperil his or her business. Yet it happens all the time. We fall prey to obstacles that obscure or drown out important signals that... View Details
    Keywords: Accountability; Business Ethics; Cognitive Psychology; Human Behavior; Personal Ethics In Business; Business or Company Management; Ethics
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    • March 7, 2024
    • Article

    Integrating Digital Tools into Every Stage of Your Sales Strategy

    By: Frank V. Cespedes and Georg Krentzel
    In their growth and customer-acquisition activities, most companies now face twin challenges: understanding and responding to omni-channel buying behavior and doing that without inadvertently decreasing sales productivity. Thirty years ago, Peter Drucker noted that... View Details
    Keywords: Sales Management; Digital Tools; Sales; Marketing Channels; Technology Adoption; Brands and Branding
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    • 2000
    • Chapter

    Leveraged Management Buyouts at KKR: Historical Perspectives on Patient Equity, Debt, Discipline, and LBO Governance.

    By: George P. Baker and George Smith
    Keywords: Governance; History; Leveraged Buyouts; Executive Compensation; Borrowing and Debt
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    • 08 Oct 2024
    • News

    The Pitfalls of Passion: How It Can Backfire at Work—and What Managers Can Do About It

    • February 2014
    • Case

    BGI: Data-driven Research

    By: Willy Shih and Sen Chai
    BGI has the largest installed gene-sequencing capacity in the world, and to Zhang Gengyun, general manager of the Life Sciences Division, this represented an opportunity to apply his training as a plant breeder and his early career work as a biochemist to improving... View Details
    Keywords: Genomics; Gene Sequencing; Life Sciences; Plant Breeding; Human Genome Program; Beijing Genomics Institute; BGI; Rice Genome; Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Research; Research and Development; Science; Genetics; Science-Based Business; Strategy; Commercialization; Corporate Strategy; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; China; United States
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    • Web

    IT Strategy: Creating a Frictionless Experience with Federated Identity and Access Management | Information Technology

    the identity and access management (IAM) landscape at HBS is complicated with manual processes, custom solutions, and isolated systems. Users are burdened with maintaining multiple sets of credentials to access different View Details
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    Overview

    Professor Goh’s primary research interest is applying mathematical models to real-world problems in health care in order to inform, improve, and enhance medical decision making and health policy. His recent work in this domain focuses on developing new methods for... View Details
    Keywords: Uncertainty; Optimization; Inventory Management; Health; Decision Making; Supply Chain
    • February 2017
    • Article

    The Throne vs. the Kingdom: Founder Control and Value Creation in Startups

    By: Noam Wasserman
    Does the degree to which founders keep control of their startups affect company value? I argue that founders face a "control dilemma" in which a startup's resource dependence drives a wedge between the startup's value and the founder's ability to retain control of... View Details
    Keywords: Founders; Entrepreneurial Management; Value Creation; Governing and Advisory Boards; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups
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    • May 2025 (Revised July 2025)
    • Case

    Mission First at Coinbase

    By: Charles C.Y. Wang and Brian K. Baik
    This case examines Coinbase’s two major organizational transformations in 2020 amid significant market volatility and social upheaval. As the leading U.S. cryptocurrency exchange prepared for its landmark IPO, CEO Brian Armstrong made two controversial decisions:... View Details
    Keywords: Cryptocurrency; Management Control; Talent and Talent Management; Business or Company Management; Management Systems; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Employee Relationship Management
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