Publications

November 2005 (Revised March 2006)
Case

Nestle's Milk District Model: Economic Development for a Value-Added Food Chain and Improved Nutrition

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Kerry Herman

Nestle is the largest milk firm in the world. For over a century, it has developed a milk model procurement program that improved the well-being of the small-scale farmer and the ultimate consumer. Can it partner with other firms and institutions to make even greater... View Details

Keywords: Development Economics; Value Creation; Programs; Partners and Partnerships; Food and Beverage Industry

24 Apr 2014
News

Leading a battle against corruption, a force that slows economic development

“Business leaders must remember that, left unchecked, corruption will eventually undermine the very legitimacy of capitalism,” says Paul Healy, James R. Williston Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean for Faculty View Details

2013
Article

The Strategic Fitness Process: A Collaborative Action Research Method for Developing Organizational Prototypes and Dynamic Capabilities

By: Michael Beer

Organizations underperform and sometimes fail because their leaders are unable to learn the unvarnished truth from relevant stakeholders about how the design and behavior of the organization is misaligned with its goals and strategy. The Strategic Fitness Process (SFP)... View Details

Keywords: Organization Alignment; Dynamic Capabilities; Organization Design; Organizational Prototyping; Organizational Silence; Organizational Learning; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategic Planning; Organizational Design

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February 2014
Article

Developing a System to Track Meaningful Outcome Measures in Head and Neck Cancer Treatment

By: Ronald S. Walters, Heidi W. Albright, Randal S. Weber, Thomas W. Feeley, Ehab Y. Hanna, Scott B. Cantor, Carol M. Lewis and Thomas W. Burke

The health care industry, including consumers, providers, and payers of health care, recognize the importance of developing meaningful, patient-centered measures. This article describes our experience using an existing electronic medical record largely based on free... View Details

Keywords: Cancer Treatment; Cancer Care In The U.S.; Outcomes Measurement; Health Care and Treatment; Measurement and Metrics; Health Industry; North and Central America

February 2017
Case

Securities Exchange Board of India: Developing and Regulating India's Capital Markets

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Radhika Kak

2013
Case

Innovation and Development of China Machine Press in the New Century

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Ning Jia and Guo Jia

China Machine Press (CMP), founded in 1952, is a leading multi-field, multi-discipline and multimedia publishing group in China with large scale, comprehensive and specialized business that integrates paper media, audiovisual media and online media, and combines... View Details

Keywords: General Management; Organizational Structure; Strategy; China; China

Article

Technological Mediation and Commercial Development in the Early Internet Access Market

By: Shane Greenstein

October 2001 (Revised January 2003)
Teaching Note

Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project (A) and (B), The TN

By: Benjamin C. Esty

Teaching Note for (9-202-010) and (9-202-012). View Details

Keywords: Energy Industry; Mining Industry; Chad

June 1996 (Revised July 2004)
Case

Enron Development Corporation: The Dabhol Power Project in Maharashtra, India (C)

By: Krishna G. Palepu, V. Kasturi Rangan and Sarayu Srinivasan

Discusses the resolution of the canceled power project in Maharashtra. The contract between the American gas giant and Indian state government is renegotiated. View Details

Keywords: Negotiation Deal; Infrastructure; Outcome or Result; Performance Effectiveness; Energy Industry; United States

1 Apr 2001
Conference Presentation

Knowledge Sharing Practices and Technology Use Norms in Dispersed Development Teams

By: Deborah Soule and Lynda M. Applegate

Keywords: Knowledge Sharing; Information Technology; Management Practices and Processes; Knowledge Use and Leverage

1994
Working Paper

The Sidekick Effect: Mentoring Relationships and the Development of Social Capital

By: Monica C. Higgins and Nitin Nohria

November 1982
Case

Union Carbide Corp.: Career Development in Africa and the Middle East

28 Feb 2022
News

The Importance of the Governance Committee to a Successful Development Program

1999
Chapter

The Sidekick Effect: Mentoring Relationships and the Development of Social Capital

By: M. C. Higgins and N. Nohria

Keywords: Human Capital; Relationships; Training; Personal Development and Career; Social Psychology

March 2009 (Revised January 2025)
Background Note

A Strait of Uncertainty: Taiwan's Development in the Shadow of China

By: William C. Kirby, J. Megan Greene, Tracy Yuen Manty, Daniel Fu, Yuanzhuo Wang, Noah B. Truwit and Aqib Zakaria

Relations between the People’s Republic of China (PRC), on the Chinese Mainland, and the Republic of China (ROC), on Taiwan, had improved significantly since 2008. Taiwan investment in China had played a major role in China’s economic boom in recent decades. ... View Details

Keywords: History; Development Economics; Investment; Economic Growth; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Financial Crisis; China; Taiwan

1999
Working Paper

Development Webs: A New Paradigm in High Technology Product Development?

2004
Book

The Global Market: Developing a Strategy to Manage Across Borders

By: John A. Quelch and Rohit Deshpandé

July 2022
Supplement

Gilead Sciences: Developing a Biopharmaceutical Pipeline Through M&A (Spreadsheet Supplement)

By: Amitabh Chandra, Paul Clancy and Craig Garthwaite