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  • 04 Mar 2013
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar

problems of a company. Naturally, the student wrote about OnStar. Captivated by the paper, Christensen decided that OnStar's growing pains would be a great HBS teaching case for the BSSE course, so he called his former classmate, who talked to his boss, who agreed to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto
  • 14 Jan 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Countries on the Cusp: The Power of Nationalism

depends on how the leaders of various societies try to construct the national identities, and interact to form national identities in relation to the global economy. It may sometimes be in a way that inhibits economic cooperation among... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 04 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 4

Harvard Business School Case 514-067 India's Amul: Keeping up with the Times Amul is an Indian dairy cooperative founded in 1947, eight months before India's independence from British rule, and owned by over three million farmers in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • 2009
  • Chapter

Collaboration Across Knowledge Boundaries within Diverse Teams: Reciprocal Expertise Affirmation as an Enabling Condition

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Kate Roloff and Lucy H. MacPhail
We review research on expertise diversity, psychological safety, team collaboration, and role identity to propose a model in which reciprocal affirmations of expertise identity among team members—a feature of the team environment that we conceptualize as a dimension of... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Experience and Expertise; Learning; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Groups and Teams; Familiarity; Identity; Cooperation
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  • September 2006 (Revised October 2007)
  • Case

Shinsei Bank: Developing an Integrated Firm

By: Thomas J. DeLong and Masako Egawa
Tom Pedersen, newly appointed chief learning officer (CLO) of Shinsei Bank in Japan, pondered how he could facilitate development of an integrated culture and transformation of the organization. Shinsei Bank had not developed longstanding tradition or a strong... View Details
Keywords: Integration; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Talent and Talent Management; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Cooperation; Diversity; Japan
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  • 11 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018

relationship that favored all parties. We discuss implications for research in the economics and management of MSPs. Specifically, we argue that the literature would benefit from work that endogenizes platform design and that considers the possible competitive and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Jul 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf

original owners of the business, which had been acquired by Becton Dickinson several years earlier. The various departments, accustomed to being directed from the top, were unable to cooperate effectively, and therefore the project... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat & Derek Schrader
  • 27 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 27, 2009

innovations that allow local sectors to catch up with frontier technology. In poor countries, catching up requires the cooperation of a foreign investor who is familiar with the frontier technology and a domestic entrepreneur who is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 26, 2008

been KPMG Chairman for a matter of days when he learns that the government is preparing to indict the firm on charges of selling illegal tax shelters. Flynn has to decide whether to fight the charges and risk the dissolution of his firm, or View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Oct 2017
  • Blog Post

Designing Internship Projects for Greater Impact

with goals in mind,” says Cotterman. “Make sure you know what these expectations are and manage them from day one.” Close cooperation “creates a better relationship and helps you get a better work product.” 2. Assign a point person: Like... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
  • 01 Dec 2001
  • News

Corporate Governance Conference Addresses Global Challenges

region, as the gathering attracted over 170 attendees. McFarlan pointed out that fostering intellectual cooperation between HBS faculty and academics and practitioners throughout the world is an important goal of the School's Global... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management
  • 02 Dec 2010
  • News

Ten Rules for Entrepreneurs

like most, failed. But the experience made him curious about the differences between entrepreneurial winners and losers. Having written a book about West Point, he resolved to turn his attention to “the West Point of capitalism”: HBS. With View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • July 2010 (Revised March 2013)
  • Case

One Firm One Future at Davis Langdon (A)

By: Robert G. Eccles and Kaitlyn A. Simpson
Senior Partner Rob Smith just led construction consultancy firm Davis Langdon through a major organizational change in Europe and the Middle East. In the past, compensation arrangements had not incentivized partners to collaborate across the firm to serve clients'... View Details
Keywords: Profit Sharing; Global Strategy; Compensation and Benefits; Leading Change; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Partners and Partnerships; Cooperation; Expansion; Consulting Industry; Europe; Middle East
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  • October 1997 (Revised March 2000)
  • Case

Oxford Health Plans: Specialty Management (A)

By: James L. Heskett, Jody H. Gittell and James Slayton
Describes an innovative approach to organizing health care proposed by Oxford CEO Steve Wiggins. Wiggins contends that the primary care physician "gatekeeper" model typically used by health maintenance organizations to control access to and coordinate specialist care... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Groups and Teams; Innovation and Management; Medical Specialties; Health Care and Treatment; Cooperation; Management Teams; Health Industry; United States
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  • March 1991 (Revised May 1995)
  • Case

Kraft General Foods: The Merger (A)

By: David J. Collis
Describes Philip Morris' acquisitions of General Foods in 1985 and Kraft, Inc. in 1989, focusing on the integration of Kraft and General Foods that forms a $30 billion food subsidiary. Details the steps required to merge these two large companies, emphasizing the... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Subsidiaries; Business or Company Management; Managerial Roles; Business Processes; Cooperation; Integration; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 30 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 30

Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/113027-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 313-107 Monique Leroux: Leading Change at Desjardins Monique Leroux led a major transformation, overcoming resistance, at a large Canadian financial View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Dec 2012
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: Against the Grain

the website, spouses Ramesh and Swati Ramanathan, use another tactic: a poster campaign in which private citizens are encouraged to report whether a bribe was demanded by an official in cooperating governments, in some South India... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Food & Beverage
  • 30 Mar 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Professional Networks in China and America

competent. This form of trust is especially important because it facilitates cooperation and enhances efficiency during business transactions. Thus, when cultivating business relationships in China, a manager may want to know as many... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

A Message from Dean Clark

initiatives in Europe and Japan, the Latin America center is part of the School's continuing strategy to deepen the international content of our curriculum and research while opening new opportunities for cooperation with business and... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
  • 27 Mar 2014
  • News

From Marx to Marketing

my long experience dealing with Soviet organizations, I knew that the way decisions were implemented and what actually happened depended more on the lowest echelon of the hierarchy than the top." In addition, Vlachoutsicos, in close View Details