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Harvard Business School and Polaroid - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

consolidation, and growth of the Polaroid Corporation. The company, which continued to produce a unique product offered by no other competitor, reached, at its height, annual net sales of more than $2 billion. 88 Concurrently another intersection—facilitated by View Details

14 Jan 2002
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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

February 2010
Teaching Note

SEWA Trade Facilitation Center: Changing the Spool (TN)

By: Mukti Khaire

Teaching Note for [810044]. View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Welfare or Wellbeing; Sales; Financing and Loans; Transformation; Decision Making; For-Profit Firms; Poverty; Rural Scope; Urban Scope; Cooperative Ownership; Customers

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2007
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Perspectives on Risk and Regulation: The FDA at 100

By: Arthur A. Daemmrich and Joanna Radin

Perspectives on Risk and Regulation: The FDA at 100 brings together the viewpoints of Food and Drug Administration officials and industry leaders on the future of regulating food, drugs, medical devices, and dietary supplements. In a period of rapid scientific... View Details

Keywords: Private Sector; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Health Care and Treatment; Business and Government Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Cooperation

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28 Jul 2014
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Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing

to get involved in a national consumer awareness campaign aimed at protecting consumers from gas can explosions. Elmburg felt he needed Walmart's cooperation because the gas cans produced by Blitz and sold through Walmart had been... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman; Retail

July 2008 (Revised October 2012)
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Affinity Plus (A)

By: Dennis Campbell and Peter Tufano

The executive team at Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union has pushed the concept of members first deeply throughout the organization, empowering employees to put member-owners' interests ahead of either the organization's interests or their own interests. As a result of... View Details

Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Financial Institutions; Financing and Loans; Profit; Cooperative Ownership; Conflict of Interests; Strategy

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01 Oct 2000
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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
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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

July 2013 (Revised June 2014)
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Collaborating for Growth: Duane Morris in a Turbulent Legal Sector

By: Heidi K. Gardner and Annelena Lobb

By the late 2000s, the law firm Duane Morris had transformed itself from a growing U.S. law firm to a significant global player. The firm's uniquely collaborative organizational culture, which featured a transparent, data-driven compensation system, practice-group... View Details

Keywords: Professional Service Firm; Collaboration; Performance Management; Risk and Uncertainty; Competition; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Structure; Groups and Teams; Organizational Culture; Performance; Cooperation; Globalized Firms and Management; Compensation and Benefits; Volatility; Growth and Development Strategy; Legal Services Industry; United States

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21 Dec 2010
First Look

First Look: December 21

Purchase this supplement (B):http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/711407-PDF-ENG Mid-Missouri Energy: Ethanol from Corn Forest Reinhardt, Noel Michele Holbrook, James Weber, and Karla SartorHarvard Business School Case 711-004 Mid-Missouri Energy (MME) is a... View Details

10 Sep 2014
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Become a Value Creator

motivations at the door." More Pie For Everyone In general, value creators work cooperatively with others to make the corporate pie bigger for all, whereas value claimers focus on taking more of the pie for themselves—like a thief... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

27 Aug 2012
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Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work

senior management cooperation and more doing than analyzing, the findings yield several other practical applications. For one, process improvement appears to be like a muscle, Tucker says. The more you exercise it the stronger it becomes.... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry

15 May 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Women Find New Path to Work

had sessions on IT—how does a manager use the current information technology to really run his or her business, and how can I think about new tools in a strategic way? We had sessions on negotiations and those negotiations within the workplace. How do I think about... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

10 May 2004
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Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures

such far-flung but tightly integrated subsidiaries? How do you ensure that financial reporting is effective while simultaneously optimizing your tax position? How do you design compensation systems that provide for local accountability but don't make View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

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Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

support the war effort.... [T]he Military Planning Division was a key component, benefiting from what proved to be a novel cooperation among science, industry, and the military." Christopher G. Hartman, Advance Man: The Life and Times of... View Details

05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5

this case:http://hbr.org/search/312109-PDF-ENG Credit Unions: The Future of the Cooperative Financial Institution Robert C. Pozen and Grace HouHarvard Business School Case 312-131 Credit unions are a specialized type of depository... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Jul 2015
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Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster

players," Pisano says. Government-created initiatives engender cooperation rather than competition. "All of these clusters, even in Italy, are very, very competitive." Executives whose firms are already in a cluster need to ask themselves... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Manufacturing; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion

05 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 5

School Supplement 811-051 Fox Island Wind Cooperative faces criticism from local residents. Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811051-PDF-ENG Zopa: The Power of Peer-to-Peer Lending Mikołaj Jan Piskorski,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

March 1993
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Note on Information Technology and Strategy

By: Richard L. Nolan and Katherine Seger

Provides a context for the evolution of information technology in business organizations, explains the emergence of information as an important resource to be managed, and provides a framework for assessing the strategic potential of information in the firm. View Details

Keywords: Information; Information Management; Information Technology; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Cooperation; Adoption; Body of Literature; Archives; Annual Reports; Information Technology Industry

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Delegation in Multi-Establishment Firms: Evidence from I.T. Purchasing

By: Kristina McElheran

Recent contributions to a growing theory literature have focused on the tradeoff between adaptation and coordination in determining delegation within firms. Empirical evidence, however, is limited. Using establishment-level data on decision rights over information... View Details

Keywords: Business Units; Business Headquarters; Decision Choices and Conditions; Operations; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Power and Influence; Adaptation; Cooperation

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