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  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores

their communications media. For example, Harrah's Entertainment has built a system that recognizes high rollers whether they are on-line, on the telephone, or in any of its casinos. Lesson 8: Revisit Technologies That Failed In The Past.... View Details
Keywords: by Raymond Burke; Retail
  • February 1997 (Revised September 1998)
  • Case

American Management Systems, Inc.: The Knowledge Centers

By: Dorothy A. Leonard and Sylvia Sensiper
Senior management at AMS, a business and information technology consulting company, is growing at 28% annually and assimilating 1,800 new hires a year. AMS has recently instituted a new knowledge management strategy, a group of six knowledge centers (virtual... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Innovation and Management; Technological Innovation; Knowledge Management; Management Teams; Business Strategy; Consulting Industry; United States
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  • January 1994 (Revised August 1994)
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Ocean Spray Cranberries: Environmental Risk Management

By: Richard H.K. Vietor
Ocean Spray Cranberries, one of the nation's most successful agricultural cooperatives, faces some difficult environmental management problems associated with water usage and wetlands development. Because of federal and state wetlands laws, new bogs for expansion had... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Innovation and Invention; Risk Management; Cooperative Ownership; Environmental Sustainability; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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  • March 1996
  • Case

Erox Corporation: Leverage Marketing

Erox Corp. is a biotechnology start-up that creates products containing synthetic human pheromones. It was founded in 1989, went public in 1993, and brought in a turnaround team in 1994. Sales ramped from $110,000 in 1993 to over $1 million in 1994, with prospects for... View Details
Keywords: Marketing Communications; Entrepreneurship; Biotechnology Industry
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  • 14 Sep 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

What Do Managers Do? Exploring Persistent Performance Differences among Seemingly Similar Enterprises

An abstract is unavailable at this time. View Details
Keywords: by Robert Gibbons & Rebecca Henderson
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Technology & Operations Management - Faculty & Research

Lifshitz-Assaf, Steven Randazzo, Ethan Mollick, Fabrizio Dell'Acqua, Edward McFowland III , François Candelon and Karim R. Lakhani The literature on communities of practice demonstrates that a proven way for senior professionals to... View Details
  • January 2001 (Revised June 2001)
  • Case

COFIDIS

An offspring of French catalog marketer 3 Suisses, and a popular sponsor of Tour de France, Cofidis sells consumer credit over the phone, defying conventional banking with a product policy and a communication strategy that perfectly fits the company's comparative... View Details
Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Internet and the Web; Marketing Communications; Competitive Advantage; Product; Credit; Financial Services Industry; France
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South Asia - Global

South Asia Mumbai For the past decade the HBS community has demonstrated a strong interest in research related to South Asia. The India Research Center (IRC) was established in 2006 and is based in Mumbai. Following significant economic... View Details
  • September–October 2013
  • Article

Discretion Within Constraint: Homophily and Structure in a Formal Organization

By: Adam M. Kleinbaum, Toby E. Stuart and Michael Tushman
Homophily in social relations results from both individual preferences and selective opportunities for interaction, but how these two mechanisms interact in large, contemporary organizations is not well understood. We argue that organizational structures and geography... View Details
Keywords: Familiarity; Interpersonal Communication; Information Technology; Organizational Structure; Social and Collaborative Networks; Gender; Information Technology Industry
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  • July 1990 (Revised August 1995)
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Symantec--1982-90

By: Nitin Nohria
As Symantec grew from a small, upstart software development company to a major player in the software development industry, the channels of information flow and the internal communication needs of the company became more complex. The geographically-dispersed structure... View Details
Keywords: Applications and Software; Communication Technology; Communication; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Employee Relationship Management; Growth and Development; Knowledge Dissemination; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Management; Information Technology Industry; United States
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  • May 1994 (Revised July 1995)
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Taco Bell--1994

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger
Taco Bell CEO, John Martin, boldly proclaims a growth goal of 200,000 points of access by the year 2000 (the company had approximately 3,600 in 1991). To realize such growth, Martin embraces a philosophy of continual change. The implications for Taco Bell are dramatic... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Food; Organizational Structure; Organizational Culture; Human Resources; Brands and Branding; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Goals and Objectives; Change Management; Expansion; Business Growth and Maturation; Communication; Growth and Development Strategy; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; United States
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Entrepreneurial Management - Faculty & Research

their first two satellites, and asked themselves whether they should sprint to fly again soon. Keywords: Business Startups ; Engineering ; National Security ; Digital Platforms ; Failure ; Problems and Challenges ; Business and Government Relations ; War ; Aerospace... View Details

    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: insurance industry; insurance industry; insurance industry; insurance industry; insurance industry; insurance industry
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    MBA Experience | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

    Leadership Fellows Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship Loan Assistance Community A wide variety of clubs and activities serve as major vehicles for supporting students interested in social enterprise. Rising Leaders for Social Impact Forum... View Details

      Thomas R. Eisenmann

      Thomas R. Eisenmann is the Howard H. Stevenson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School; Peter O. Crisp Faculty Chair, Harvard Innovation Labs; and Unit Head of the HBS Entrepreneurial... View Details

      Keywords: communications; communications; communications; communications; communications; communications; communications; communications; communications; communications; communications; communications; communications; communications; communications; communications; communications; communications; communications; communications; communications; communications; communications; communications
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      Asia Pacific - Global

      change within an incumbent firm, including pulling mid-level managers out of their day jobs to help implement strategy and leveraging different communication tactics to align and inspire employees. de Meo’s unique leadership style—an... View Details
      • October 2003 (Revised March 2004)
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      Symbian: Setting the Mobility Standard

      By: Fernando F. Suarez and Thomas R. Eisenmann
      Symbian, a joint venture owned by companies who collectively sold a dominant share of the world's cell phones, faced competition from Microsoft in developing the operating system for "smartphones," which integrated mobile communications and computing functions. In... View Details
      Keywords: Competition; Joint Ventures; Information Technology; Software; Wireless Technology; Mobile Technology; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry
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      • November 2012 (Revised January 2013)
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      Companion Diagnostics: Uncertainties for Approval and Reimbursement

      By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Norman C. Selby and Phillip Andrews
      The FDA approvals of novel therapeutics were seen as signs in the personalized medicine community of real progress in the growth of personalized medicine. The FDA's approval of such drugs, along with companion diagnostics, suggested a shift in thinking and regulatory... View Details
      Keywords: Models Of Reimbursement; Personalized Medicine; Regulation; Healthcare Reform; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States
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      Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

      audiences, the case facilitates discussions on leading change amidst industry disruption, managing oneself as a leader, and navigating the dynamics of top management teams in times of transformation. Keywords: Change Management ;... View Details
      • 2012
      • Case

      Advanced Leadership Pathways: Shelly London and Ethics Education—'Strengthening Our Moral Compass'

      By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Anne Arlinghaus
      Shelly London and Ethics Education — 'Strengthening Our Moral Compass' 2009 AL Fellow
      Following a successful career as a Senior Vice President, Vice President, and Chief Communications Officer at two large corporate companies, Shelly London set out to promote... View Details
      Keywords: Leadership Skills; Ethics Education; Initiatives; Morality; Moral Compass; Prima Facie; Grassroots Movement; Ethical Reasoning; Decision-making; Social Media; Media Relations; Family Dinner Project; Public Conversations Project; Laura Chasin; Computer Games; Video Games; Quandary; Organizational Structure; Infrastructure; Ethics; Education; Moral Sensibility; Behavior; Decision Making; Leadership; Innovation and Management; Education Industry; Education Industry; North and Central America
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