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  • 01 Jun 1999
  • News

Sheila Lirio Marcelo

Organizational Behavior Over the past four years, Sheila Lirio Marcelo's alarm has rung at 4:00 most mornings, rousing her to start her day as a student at both Harvard's Business and Law Schools, a part-time consultant in Cambridge, and... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

Lydia M. Marshall: Gumption and Grace

admit that her leadership and organizational skills have helped the nonprofit's various constituencies work toward the common goal of increasing economic self-sufficiency and ending poverty. The exchange... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 01 Dec 1999
  • News

South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency

work and family," she notes. "I often have to make difficult choices between responsibilities at home and at the office. It's tough for a woman in a senior position." Meyer's challenges are not likely to subside. She is, however, considering taking a break from the... View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
  • 17 Nov 2015
  • Working Paper Summaries

Self-Interest: The Economist's Straitjacket

Keywords: by Robert Simons
  • June 2019 (Revised October 2019)
  • Technical Note

Note on the Future of Commerce

By: William R. Kerr, Daniel O'Connor and Nathaniel Schwalb
In 2019, the retail and consumer product industries were undergoing a significant transformation. Over the past 50 years, what was once a highly fragmented industry began to consolidate, digitize, and increase convenience while lowering costs. The winning enterprises... View Details
Keywords: Trade; Demand and Consumers; Demographics; Transformation; Global Range; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business Model; Leading Change; Retail Industry; Consumer Products Industry
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  • March 1983 (Revised January 1984)
  • Case

Merloni Group

By: Christopher A. Bartlett
The general manager of the recently-established French subsidiary of an Italian appliance company is in conflict with headquarters about unexpectedly poor financial performance. Headquarters management believes it should be able to exert more control over the... View Details
Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Trade; Organizational Structure; Performance Evaluation; Power and Influence; France; Italy
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  • 17 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 17

http://www.people.hbs.edu/shanson/shortint_text_20130814_FINAL.pdf September 2013 Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Cheating More for Less: Upward Social Comparisons Motivate the Poorly Compensated to Cheat By: John,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 5, 2006

called into question by several significant organizational stumbling blocks. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=106073   PublicationsAgency and Institutions: The Enabling Role of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 2010 (Revised June 2011)
  • Case

SEWA Trade Facilitation Center: Changing the Spool

By: Mukti Khaire and Kathleen L. McGinn
The case is about the decision to convert a not-for-profit organization into a for-profit company. SEWA Trade Facilitation Center (STFC), which is part of a larger non-profit organization—the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)—works to improve the livelihoods of... View Details
Keywords: Cooperative Ownership; For-Profit Firms; Gender; Business Model; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Nonprofit Organizations; Arts; Entrepreneurship; Economic Growth; Growth and Development Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; India
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  • 27 Sep 2016
  • First Look

September 27, 2016

programs have entered a period of rapid transformation, driven on one side by the proliferation of a new technological, cultural, and economic landscape commonly referred to as “digital disruption” and on the other by a widening gap... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jun 2016
  • First Look

June 7, 2016

May 2016 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings International Data on Measuring Management Practices By: Bloom, Nicholas, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, Daniela Scur, and John Van Reenen Abstract—We examine methods used to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part Two

How does an entrepreneur make the switch from inspiring a tiny group of followers in a metaphorical garage to leading what eventually becomes a multibillion-dollar business? The ability to translate individual creativity into sustained View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 17 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management

hypertension." Why Diabetes Is A Good Case But first, diabetes. Beaulieu chose diabetes as a context in which to spark discussion on organizational and financial systems for several reasons, she said. It is a very prevalent disease:... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
  • 01 Oct 1997
  • News

Theory & Practice

practices that will allow people to flourish - the key to organizational success. Do Lunch or Be Lunch by Howard H. Stevenson (Harvard Business School Press) According to HBS professor Howard Stevenson, most of human history and much of... View Details
  • February 2000 (Revised October 2000)
  • Case

E-commerce at Williams-Sonoma

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Daniel Galvin
Describes Williams-Sonoma's development of a third channel of business on the Internet. Describes the strategies for managing changes in the organizational, operational, and technological structure of the company. The new e-commerce division confronts challenges posed... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Internet and the Web; Trade; Corporate Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Operations; Information Technology; Technological Innovation; Information Technology Industry; Retail Industry; California
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  • 14 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 14, 2009

Working Papers The Investment Strategies of Sovereign Wealth Funds Authors: Shai Bernstein, Josh Lerner, and Antoinette Schoar Abstract This paper examines the direct private equity investment strategies across sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) and their relationship to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Apr 2002
  • News

Pamela Thomas Graham

inclusive, merit-based society," she recalls. As a Harvard undergraduate, Thomas- Graham majored in economics and briefly considered entering the Ph.D. program, but realized she was most intrigued by law and business issues. The joint... View Details
Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • March 2019
  • Supplement

KITEA (D): Further Changes

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens in February 2016, when the official date of IKEA’s store opening (March 16, 2016) is announced after a five-month delay. It reviews the changes that Amine and Othman Benkirane had made to KITEA’s workforce in the extra five months afforded by the delay... View Details
Keywords: Private Sector; For-Profit Firms; Business Strategy; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Retail Industry; Africa; North Africa; Morocco
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  • 17 Dec 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Becoming the Next Real Estate Mogul

importance of organizational behavior and human resource issues. "That's the toughest part of the business," he said. "The bad hires and arguments are what get me in the pit of my stomach." Otherwise, he continued, the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Construction; Real Estate
  • 01 Jan 2008
  • News

Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981

companies is now the world—part of a well-articulated philosophy of diversification and globalization implemented by Anand Mahindra in 1994, three years after he was appointed deputy managing director of M&M, founded by his grandfather and granduncle. The history of... View Details