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  • January 2007
  • Article

Acquisitions and Firm Growth: Creating Unilever's Ice Cream and Tea Business

By: G. Jones and Peter Miskell
This article provides a longitudinal case study of the use of acquisitions by the Anglo-Dutch multinational Unilever to build the world's largest ice cream and tea businesses. The study supports recent resource-based theory which argues that complementary rather than... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Integration; Value; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Business and Shareholder Relations; Interests; Business Ventures; Employees; Food and Beverage Industry
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    Bharat N. Anand

    Bharat N. Anand is the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning at Harvard University, and the Henry R. Byers Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

    Professor Anand is an expert in digital strategy, media and... View Details

    Keywords: broadcasting; entertainment; information; media; motion pictures; music; publishing industry; sports; television
    • 2018
    • Book

    Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and Life

    By: F. Gino
    The world’s best chef.
    An airline captain who brought his flight to safety in a daring water landing.
    A magician known for his sensational escape acts.
    A computer scientist who founded a world-renowned animation studio.
    What do all of these... View Details
    Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Personal Characteristics; Success; Behavior
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    • Article

    Measuring the Scientific Effectiveness of Contact Tracing: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

    By: Thiemo Fetzer and Thomas Graeber
    Contact tracing has for decades been a cornerstone of the public health approach to epidemics, including Ebola, severe acute respiratory syndrome, and now COVID-19. It has not yet been possible, however, to causally assess the method’s effectiveness using a randomized... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19; Contact Tracing; Public Health; Infectious Diseases; Health Pandemics
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    • 14 May 2012
    • News

    Learning curve

    • 31 Jan 2014
    • News

    Starbucks Looks Towards a More Digital Cup of Coffee

    • May 2014
    • Case

    Health Care Accountability: Examples in Cancer Treatment

    By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Natalie Kindred
    This case is designed to support a discussion of the importance of outcomes evidence in empowering the public to make better health care decisions, the desired level of transparency and accountability for health care providers, and the issues with current measuring and... View Details
    Keywords: Accountability; Health Care; Cancer; Cancer Treatment; Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Cancer Treatment Centers Of America; Vantage Oncology; Radiology; Risk Adjustment; Treatment Outcomes; Health Care Outcomes; Prostate Cancer; Transparency; Health Care and Treatment; Risk Management; Outcome or Result; Health Industry; United States
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    • 21 Mar 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research, March 21

    hiring manager, which in turn lead to less support for the hiring decision. We find support for our model in two experimental studies and two field studies. We discuss implications for the literature on referral practices, ethics, and... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 12 Oct 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: October 12, 2006

    Environmental Strengths, in contrast, do not accurately predict the outcomes. We discuss the implications of our findings for advocates and opponents of corporate social responsibility, as well as for studies relating social... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

      Gary P. Pisano

      Gary Pisano is the Harry E. Figgie, Jr. Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School where he has been on the faculty since 1988. From 2018-2023, Pisano was Harvard Business School’s Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Promotion and... View Details

      Keywords: biotechnology; electronics; health care; manufacturing; pharmaceuticals
      • 03 May 2010
      • Research & Ideas

      What Is the Future of MBA Education?

      the limitations of models and markets. At these crossroads, how should business education proceed? We wrote the book to outline the needs and to explain how schools are addressing them in surprisingly innovative ways. We include in-depth View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
      • June 2002
      • Background Note

      Complexity Theory and Negotiation

      By: Michael A. Wheeler and Gillian Morris
      This case highlights an application of current thoughts in complexity science to negotiation theory. It emphasizes a provocative approach that questions much of traditional negotiation research thus far. The case explains the roots of complexity science and some broad... View Details
      Keywords: Complexity; Negotiation Tactics; Outcome or Result; Interpersonal Communication
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      • 08 Mar 2022
      • Blog Post

      Recalling My First Cold Call: A Conversation with Second-Year Students

      method we start with a problem, something to solve, or a decision to make. In real life that’s how problems occur, without a theoretical exercise that has a formula to give you the answer. In a case study we... View Details
      • 24 Apr 2018
      • First Look

      First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

      Evidence on Attitudes, Behavior, and Cognitive Biases By: Carpena, Fenella, Shawn A. Cole, Jeremy Shapiro, and Bilal Zia Abstract—This paper uses a large-scale field experiment in India to study attitudinal, behavioral, and cognitive... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • Research Summary

      The Equilibrium Concept in Game Theory

      By: Elon Kohlberg
      Elon Kohlberg is studying the foundations of the equilibrium concept in game theory, which is to the study of economic systems what the notion of "equilibrium of forces" is to the study of mechanical systems. Although much of economic theory can be viewed in... View Details
      • January 2017
      • Teaching Note

      Transition at DataCo?

      By: Frank V. Cespedes
      The founder of a data analytics company has several issues with his key business developer, an early hire who has been instrumental in building the firm. The DataCo case study illustrates a common situation in entrepreneurial ventures: an early sales hire does well but... View Details
      Keywords: Sales Management; Selling; Entrepreneurial Ventures; Performance Management; Professional Services; Salesforce Management; Sales; Marketing; Performance; Consulting Industry; United States; France
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      • January–February 2014
      • Article

      Can a Strong Culture Be Too Strong?

      By: David A. Garvin
      The article presents a case study of a business enterprise with high employee turnover that is considering adopting a personnel management innovation, referred to as People Support, involving a group of managers whose role is to listen to and help resolve employees'... View Details
      Keywords: Employee Relationship Management; Retention; Organizational Culture
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      • August 2003 (Revised January 2013)
      • Case

      Multinational Corporations in Apartheid-era South Africa: The Issue of Reparations

      By: Geoffrey Jones and Cate Reavis
      Considers the lawsuits filed on behalf of victims of apartheid against multinationals who operated in South Africa prior to 1994. Reviews the debates about divestment from and sanctions against South Africa from the 1950s. Includes case studies of companies that... View Details
      Keywords: Ethics; Multinational Firms and Management; Government Legislation; Lawsuits and Litigation; Business and Government Relations; Prejudice and Bias; South Africa
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      • 16 Jul 2021
      • News

      What Ever Happened to IBM’s Watson?

      • 10 Jul 2018
      • First Look

      New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

      Manage Time By: Porter, Michael E., and Nitin Nohria Abstract—In 2006 Harvard Business School’s Michael E. Porter and Nitin Nohria launched a study tracking how large companies’ CEOs spent their time, 24/7, for 13 weeks: where they were,... View Details
      Keywords: Dina Gerdeman