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  • June 2013 (Revised January 2014)
  • Case

S&P Indices and the Indexing Business in 2012

By: Luis Viceira and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
In June 2012, Standard & Poor's Indices is finalizing a deal with the CME Group, the largest global exchange for futures and options and majority owner of Dow Jones Indexes, to combine their respective indices business into a new joint venture called S&P Dow Jones... View Details
Keywords: Indexing; Business Model; Joint Ventures; Financial Markets; Standards; Financial Services Industry
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  • October 2009 (Revised April 2010)
  • Supplement

Societe Generale (B): The Jerome Kerviel Affair

By: Francois Brochet
This case illustrates the tension/balance that firms with complex and risky business models must consider in designing their internal controls. It describes the environment in which a derivatives trader engaged in massive directional positions on major European stocks... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Governance Controls; Crisis Management; Financial Services Industry
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  • September 2009 (Revised February 2011)
  • Case

Eden McCallum: A Network-Based Consulting Firm (A)

By: Heidi K. Gardner and Robert G. Eccles
Eden McCallum pioneered the network-based ("virtual") consulting firm model in the U.K. Contracting freelance consultants on a per-project basis keeps overheads lean so that Eden McCallum's fees are a fraction of the big firms' rates. Their flexible, low-cost model has... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Crisis; Growth and Development Strategy; Expansion; Consulting Industry; United Kingdom
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Overview

By: John Beshears
In his research, Professor Beshears shows how managers can influence the behavior of customers and employees by changing the decision-making environment to call attention to a decision, to use psychological framing to shape assessments of options, or to help... View Details
Keywords: Behavioral Economics; Consumer Finance; Household Finance; Health Care; Organizational Economics; Decision Making; Economics; Negotiation; Behavioral Finance

    Beyond the Holacracy Hype

    Holacracy and other forms of self-organization have received a lot of press. Proponents hail them as "flat" environments that foster flexibility, engagement, productivity, and efficiency. Critics say they're naive, unrealistic experiments. My coauthors and I argue,... View Details

    • March 2015
    • Article

    Institutional Theory and the Natural Environment: Research in (and on) the Anthropocene

    By: Andrew J. Hoffman and P. Devereaux Jennings
    This review article summarizes the main tenets of institutional theory as they apply to the topic of the Anthropocene in the domain of organization and the natural environment. But our review is distinctive for two reasons: First, it is focused on providing avenues... View Details
    Keywords: Institutional Theory; Natural Environment; Society
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      Jay W. Lorsch

      Jay W. Lorsch is the Louis Kirstein Professor of Human Relations at the Harvard Business School. He is editor of View Details

      • January 10, 2022
      • Article

      The Secret Ingredient of Thriving Companies? Human Magic

      By: Hubert Joly
      The traditional corporate approach to motivating people has been a combination of carrots and sticks: a system of financial incentives designed to mobilize everyone around a plan designed by a few smart people at the top. Multiple studies have confirmed that, for any... View Details
      Keywords: Meaning; Purpose; Organizational Culture; Employees; Motivation and Incentives; Performance
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      • February 2017 (Revised May 2018)
      • Case

      The Flint, Michigan Sit-Down Strike

      By: Tom Nicholas, Christopher T. Stanton and Matthew Preble
      For roughly six weeks between late December 1936 and February 1937, a major strike at several critical General Motors (GM) plants in Flint, Michigan, essentially halted the corporation’s U.S. production and resulted in significant gains for the nascent United... View Details
      Keywords: Industrial Unionism; Craft Unionism; Welfare Capitalism; General Motors; Labor; Labor Unions; Labor and Management Relations; Wages; Working Conditions; Government Legislation; Business History; Business and Government Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business and Community Relations; Auto Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Mining Industry; Steel Industry; United States; Michigan
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      • October 2014
      • Article

      The Transparency Trap

      By: Ethan Bernstein
      To get people to be more creative and productive, managers increase transparency with open workspaces and access to real-time data. But less transparent work environments can yield more-transparent employees. Employees perform better when they can try out new ideas and... View Details
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      • June 2012 (Revised August 2014)
      • Supplement

      Foreign Direct Investment and South Africa (B)

      By: Eric Werker and Ian McKown Cornell
      Incoming and outgoing foreign direct investment in an environment of politics, geography, globalization, and history. Updates the 2006 case to 2012. The subsequent six years only reinforce the message of the original case. Since the end of apartheid, South Africa had... View Details
      Keywords: Global Business; Developing Countries; Business Government Relations; Economic Growth; Foreign Direct Investment; Globalized Markets and Industries; Developing Countries and Economies; Business and Government Relations; South Africa
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      • March 2009 (Revised October 2010)
      • Case

      Tokyo AFM

      By: Francois Brochet
      This case was written as the financial accounting portion of the final exam for a first-year MBA course at Harvard Business School. The goal was to test students' ability to apply major concepts taught during the course to an industry which they had not covered, but... View Details
      Keywords: Accounting; Decision Choices and Conditions; Economics; Insurance; Insurance Industry; Japan
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      • October 2008 (Revised February 2014)
      • Case

      The Northwest Passage

      By: Herman B. Leonard and Peter Brannen
      Following dozens of failed expeditions to "discover" the NW passage, a Norwegian adventurer employs a new approach that emphasizes rigorous preparation, a lighter, quicker style, and a willingness to adapt to the inhospitable Arctic environment and its people. The case... View Details
      Keywords: Independent Innovation and Invention; Planning; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty; Decision Choices and Conditions; Leadership Style; Adaptation; Canada
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      • 14 Jun 2023
      • Research & Ideas

      Four Steps to Building the Psychological Safety That High-Performing Teams Need

      environments where candor is expected and where employees can speak up without fear of retribution. When employees feel psychologically safe, they’re empowered to iterate and take risks—leading to better team performance. “You no longer... View Details
      Keywords: by Kara Baskin
      • Web

      About the Program - Summer Venture in Management

      church, or soccer team. Examples of leadership and impact in or outside of the college campus environment include, but are not limited to: Serving in student government positions Leading a student association or club Volunteering in... View Details
      • 15 Jul 2011
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Poultry in Motion: A Study of International Trade Finance Practices

      Keywords: by Pol Antras & C. Fritz Foley; Agriculture & Agribusiness
      • 04 Sep 2007
      • Research & Ideas

      Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage

      the business environment cause economic shifts that destabilize industries, companies, and even countries. They allow new entrants or forward-thinking established players to introduce innovations—in products, markets, or processes—that... View Details
      Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
      • February 2005
      • Article

      Managing the Ecosystem

      By: Marco Iansiti
      The days of the corporate lone wolf are over. In our increasingly interconnected world, standing alone is no longer a viable business model. Instead, smart companies rely heavily on networks of partners, suppliers, and customers to achieve market success and sustain... View Details
      Keywords: Integrated Corporate Reporting; Partners and Partnerships; Industry Clusters; Customers; Markets; Situation or Environment; Banks and Banking; Insurance; Software
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      • Program

      Managing Turbulence

      all-out war for scarce talent. How do the best business leaders manage through these disruptions? What strategies have proven successful in unstable environments with few certainties? How do leaders continue to grow when faced with... View Details
      • October 2015
      • Article

      How Smart, Connected Products Are Transforming Companies

      By: Michael E. Porter and James E. Heppelmann
      The evolution of products into intelligent, connected devices is revolutionizing business. In a November 2014 article, "How Smart, Connected Products Are Transforming Competition," Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter and PTC president and CEO James... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Organizational Structure; Operations; Business Strategy
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