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- October 1979 (Revised January 1983)
- Background Note
IBM Corp., Background Note
Describes some aspects of how the senior managers of IBM conducted its affairs. Much of this note is a factual description of the design of the organization and of the formal process by which members of the organization worked together. Also contains excerpts from... View Details
Keywords: Management Style; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Management Teams; Computer Industry; United States
Vancil, Richard F. "IBM Corp., Background Note." Harvard Business School Background Note 180-034, October 1979. (Revised January 1983.)
- May 2020
- Case
M-Lab: Enabling Innovation at Mitsubishi Corporation
By: Krishna Palepu and Allison M. Ciechanover
M-Lab’s founding goals were to infuse an innovation mindset into Mitsubishi Corporation; to catalyze new business opportunities; and to enable a dialogue between Japanese business and Silicon Valley. M-Lab housed representatives from each of Mitsubishi Corporation’s... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Disruption; Transformation; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Multinational Firms and Management; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Japan; United States
Palepu, Krishna, and Allison M. Ciechanover. "M-Lab: Enabling Innovation at Mitsubishi Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 120-061, May 2020.
- 23 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Break the Expert’s Curse
says. "Their advice reflected that." Corporate Field Studies Zhang and her faculty advisors hope to study the effects of rediscovery in a corporate setting, where mentorship and training programs are often integral to everyday operations. "We'd love to understand how... View Details
- 11 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t
“Multinationals seemed to be hiring differently in the host market than at home” But it's not a total no-brainer. Many executives at multinational corporations considered hiring Korean women into management... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- February 2002 (Revised December 2003)
- Case
H-E-B Own Brands
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Marie Bell
H-E-B is a $9 billion grocery chain located in Southwest Texas. This case focuses on H-E-B's private label strategy, a product category that accounts for 19% of H-E-B's sales and one that earns gross margins 50% higher than national brands. A leader in its markets,... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development; Market Entry and Exit; Supply Chain Management; Private Ownership; Sales; Strategy; Competitive Strategy
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Marie Bell. "H-E-B Own Brands." Harvard Business School Case 502-053, February 2002. (Revised December 2003.)
- January–February 2021
- Article
Compensation Packages That Actually Drive Performance
By: Boris Groysberg, Sarah Abbott, Michael R. Marino and Metin Aksoy
By aligning executives’ financial incentives with company strategy, a firm can inspire its management to deliver superior results. But it can be hard to get pay packages right. In this article four experts break down the key elements of compensation and explain how to... View Details
Keywords: Executive Compensation; Compensation and Benefits; Motivation and Incentives; Strategy; Performance
Groysberg, Boris, Sarah Abbott, Michael R. Marino, and Metin Aksoy. "Compensation Packages That Actually Drive Performance." Harvard Business Review 99, no. 1 (January–February 2021): 102–111.
- November 2011 (Revised August 2012)
- Background Note
Customer Discovery and Validation for Entrepreneurs
By: Frank V. Cespedes, Thomas Eisenmann and Steven G. Blank
Provides practical guidelines for conducting market research to explore and validate demand for entrepreneurial offering. Explains how the research objectives of entrepreneurs might differ from those relevant to managers evaluating product or service offerings to... View Details
Cespedes, Frank V., Thomas Eisenmann, and Steven G. Blank. "Customer Discovery and Validation for Entrepreneurs." Harvard Business School Background Note 812-097, November 2011. (Revised August 2012.)
- 18 Mar 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: LEGO
control. Finally, Knudstorp made big changes to the management team, firing five of seven manufacturing executives and appointing a new leader for the team. A psychoanalyst was brought in to teach the View Details
- November 1990 (Revised March 1994)
- Case
Digital Equipment Corp.: The Kodak Outsourcing Agreement (A)
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Herminia M. Ibarra
Describes grassroots effort which culminated in Digital's winning a competitive bid for the outsourcing of Kodak's internal telecommunications business. Describes the "Telstar" project, from the initial identification of the business opportunity to the process of... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Management; Partners and Partnerships; Leading Change; Agreements and Arrangements; Business or Company Management; Bids and Bidding; Decision Making; Management Teams; Telecommunications Industry
Applegate, Lynda M., and Herminia M. Ibarra. "Digital Equipment Corp.: The Kodak Outsourcing Agreement (A)." Harvard Business School Case 191-039, November 1990. (Revised March 1994.)
- 2023
- Working Paper
Rapport in Organizations: Evidence from Fast Food
By: Achyuta Adhvaryu, Parker Howell, Anant Nyshadham and Jorge Tamayo
Common identity often provides a foundation for workplace rapport. Though gender is perhaps the most frequently studied dimension of identity among workers, little is known about how gender match between managers and their workers might affect team performance. Using... View Details
Keywords: Management; Relationships; Gender; Labor and Management Relations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Employees; Food and Beverage Industry; Colombia
Adhvaryu, Achyuta, Parker Howell, Anant Nyshadham, and Jorge Tamayo. "Rapport in Organizations: Evidence from Fast Food." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-032, November 2023.
- Article
Investing in Distressed Situations: A Market Survey
By: S. C. Gilson
The risks of investing in distressed companies—a practice popularly known as "vulture" investing—are highly firm specific and idiosyncratic. Investors who are adept at managing these risks, who understand the legal rules that must be followed in corporate bankruptcy,... View Details
Gilson, S. C. "Investing in Distressed Situations: A Market Survey." Financial Analysts Journal 51, no. 6 (November–December 1995): 8–27.
- 2017
- Working Paper
The Effects of Media Slant on Firm Behavior
By: Vishal P. Baloria and Jonas Heese
The media can impose reputational costs on firms because of its important role as an information intermediary and its ability to negatively slant coverage. We exploit a quasi-natural experiment that holds constant the information event across firms, but varies the... View Details
Baloria, Vishal P., and Jonas Heese. "The Effects of Media Slant on Firm Behavior." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-015, August 2017.
- September 2007
- Supplement
Leadership in Law: Amy Schulman at DLA Piper (Video Supplement)
By: Boris Groysberg
What does it take to build a successful career over time? Describes Amy Schulman's career progression and role as a star senior litigator and top executive at one of the world's largest law firms. It focuses on different stages in her career and what she did to be... View Details
Keywords: Law; Personal Development and Career; Time Management; Work-Life Balance; Governing and Advisory Boards
Groysberg, Boris. "Leadership in Law: Amy Schulman at DLA Piper (Video Supplement)." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 408-701, September 2007.
- 22 May 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders
tenure as Chairman of North America at the French luxury goods conglomerate, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton. According to Brown, it’s important for senior executives to possess a combination of what she calls “aesthetic intelligence”... View Details
- 2021
- Book
Better, Simpler Strategy: A Value-Based Guide to Exceptional Performance
In nearly every business segment and corner of the world economy, the most successful companies dramatically outperform their rivals. What is their secret? In Better, Simpler Strategy, Harvard Business School professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee shows how these... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Strategic Planning; Value; Analysis; Competitive Advantage; Performance Effectiveness
Oberholzer-Gee, Felix. Better, Simpler Strategy: A Value-Based Guide to Exceptional Performance. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review Press, 2021.
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
Hill-Popper. Yet the focus on economic results usually gives a one-sided picture of what leaders can accomplish. For the well-being of business and society, the HBS scholars say, future research on leadership effectiveness should also look at leaders' View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- March 1995
- Case
Donald Salter Communications, Inc.
By: Stuart C. Gilson and Jeremy Cott
A new CEO is hired to manage the turnaround of a family-owned newspaper publisher. In a departure from previous management, he implements a new compensation scheme that explicitly ties executive pay to market-value-based measures of firm performance. Because the... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Transformation; Asset Management; Wages; Balanced Scorecard; Family Ownership; Motivation and Incentives; Valuation; Journalism and News Industry
Gilson, Stuart C., and Jeremy Cott. "Donald Salter Communications, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 295-114, March 1995.
- Article
Contextual Intelligence
By: Tarun Khanna
The author has come to a conclusion that may surprise you: trying to apply management practices uniformly across geographies is a fool's errand. Best practices simply don't travel well across borders. That's because conditions not just of economic development but of... View Details
Khanna, Tarun. "Contextual Intelligence." Harvard Business Review 92, no. 9 (September 2014): 58–68.
- June 1994
- Background Note
Scope and Challenge of Business-to-Business Marketing
Identifies six key linkages that distinguish business-to-business marketing; three with respect to the external environment (i.e., derived demand, complex buying process, and concentrated customer base) and three with respect to the internal organization (emphasis on... View Details
Keywords: Marketing; Customers; Demand and Consumers; Organizational Structure; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Technology
Rangan, V. Kasturi. "Scope and Challenge of Business-to-Business Marketing." Harvard Business School Background Note 594-125, June 1994.
- December 1997
- Case
Intercontinental Breweries (Abridged)
By: Thomas R. Piper
A senior executive of a U.S. multinational is attempting to develop a set of financial, operating, and ownership arrangements that will be acceptable to the management and employees of a major Polish company and to the Ministry of Privatization. The arrangements must... View Details
Keywords: Agreements and Arrangements; Multinational Firms and Management; Joint Ventures; Food and Beverage Industry; Poland; United States
Piper, Thomas R. "Intercontinental Breweries (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 298-090, December 1997.