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  • March 2022 (Revised January 2023)
  • Case

Innovation at Moog Inc.

By: Brian J. Hall, Ashley V. Whillans, Davis Heniford, Dominika Randle and Caroline Witten
This case focuses on the challenges of incentivizing innovation within Moog, an engineering company based in New York state that designs and builds guidance systems for space, air, and land-based travel. The case enables students to grapple with the challenges of using... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Innovation Lab; Innovation Management; Motivation; Incentives; Culture; Compensation; Compensation And Benefits; Scalability; Business Growth and Maturation; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Independent Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Organizational Culture; Performance Consistency; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Efficiency; Performance Productivity; Performance Evaluation; Creativity; Motivation and Incentives; Aerospace Industry; Transportation Industry; United States
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Hall, Brian J., Ashley V. Whillans, Davis Heniford, Dominika Randle, and Caroline Witten. "Innovation at Moog Inc." Harvard Business School Case 922-040, March 2022. (Revised January 2023.)
  • February 1998 (Revised November 1998)
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Novartis (A): Being a Global Leader

By: Srikant M. Datar and Carin-Isabel Knoop
For the Novartis leaders, the decision to "use stretch budgets again next year" highlights the tension between candor and empowerment and command-and-control, between the new and the old, between high performance and business as usual, between Ciba and Sandoz.... View Details
Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Leading Change; Organizational Culture; Performance; Budgets and Budgeting
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Datar, Srikant M., and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "Novartis (A): Being a Global Leader." Harvard Business School Case 198-041, February 1998. (Revised November 1998.)
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Relational Contracts

George Baker is exploring (with Robert Gibbons of MIT and Kevin Murphy of the USC) how relational contracts--contracts secured by reputation and trust, rather than by legal enforcement--affect the performance and boundaries of firms. Such relational contracts are... View Details

    Causes and Consequences of Firm Disclosures of Anticorruption Efforts

    Multinationals frequently operate in locations where laws against corruption are not widely enforced. We examine ratings of self-reported anticorruption efforts for 480 multinationals to better understand what factors underlie their efforts and their performance... View Details
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    Financial Incentives

    My research examines how the performance effects of internal governance and the design of compensation vary by managerial position. For example, I document links between innovation and stock options for corporate R&D heads;... View Details

    • September 1996 (Revised December 1997)
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    Cytec Industries' Spin-Off (A): Sink or Swim?

    In the wake of market pressure to restructure, American Cyanamid spun off its poorly performing Chemicals Unit into a new publicly traded corporation, Cytec Industries. In addition to weak operations, Cytec inherited the bulk of Cyanamid's environmental and... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Management Practices and Processes; Restructuring; Performance Improvement; Chemical Industry; United States
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    Wruck, Karen, and Sherry P. Roper. "Cytec Industries' Spin-Off (A): Sink or Swim?" Harvard Business School Case 897-053, September 1996. (Revised December 1997.)
    • January 2002 (Revised October 2007)
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    Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co., 2001

    By: Joshua Musher and Andre F. Perold
    Asset manager GMO underperforms the market during the 1996-2000 stock market bubble because of the focus on absolute risk. After suffering significant client withdrawals, performance again shines when the bubble collapses. Did they win the battle only to lose the war?... View Details
    Keywords: Customers; Asset Management; Stocks; Investment; Price Bubble; Mathematical Methods; Risk and Uncertainty
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    Musher, Joshua, and Andre F. Perold. "Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co., 2001." Harvard Business School Case 202-049, January 2002. (Revised October 2007.)
    • 25 Apr 2012
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    The Importance of Teaming

    performing together. Members of these teams learn how to interact. They've developed trust and know each other's roles. Advocating stable boundaries, well-designed tasks, and thoughtfully composed membership, many seminal theories of... View Details
    Keywords: Re: Amy C. Edmondson
    • 17 Mar 2010
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    Conceptual Foundations of the Balanced Scorecard

    Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
    • May 2011
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    The Growing Power of Non-financial Reports

    By: Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim
    We are exploring the value of forcing corporations to issue sustainability reports, which provide information about corporate performance in terms of social, environmental and governance issues. In a breakthrough study they asked, what is the effect of mandatory... View Details
    Keywords: Value; Reports; Performance; Management Practices and Processes; Globalization; Power and Influence; Natural Environment; Governance; Social Issues
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    Ioannou, Ioannis, and George Serafeim. "The Growing Power of Non-financial Reports." Business Strategy Review (May 2011).
    • February 1997 (Revised March 1998)
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    Smith Breeden Associates: The Equity Plus Fund (A)

    By: Robert C. Merton and Alberto Moel
    In early 1997, Smith Breeden Associates, a money management and consulting firm, was pondering the future of the Equity Plus Fund. The Equity Plus Fund was an S&P enhanced-index fund that tried to outperform the S&P Index by replicating the index using low-cost... View Details
    Keywords: Assets; Cash; Financial Markets; Financial Strategy; Mortgages; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Marketing; Performance; Consulting Industry
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    Merton, Robert C., and Alberto Moel. "Smith Breeden Associates: The Equity Plus Fund (A)." Harvard Business School Case 297-089, February 1997. (Revised March 1998.)
    • March–April 2019
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    Operational Transparency: Make Your Processes Visible to Customers and Your Customers Visible to Employees

    By: Ryan W. Buell
    Conventional wisdom holds that the more contact an operation has with its customers, the less efficiently it will run. But when customers are partitioned away from the operation, they are less likely to fully understand and appreciate the work going on behind the... View Details
    Keywords: Operational Transparency; Customers; Services; Operations; Customer Focus and Relationships; Employees; Customer Satisfaction; Behavior; Service Industry
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    Buell, Ryan W. "Operational Transparency: Make Your Processes Visible to Customers and Your Customers Visible to Employees." R1902H. Harvard Business Review 97, no. 4 (March–April 2019): 102–113.
    • May 2011
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    The Morrison Company (Brief Case)

    By: Steven C. Wheelwright and Paul Meyers
    Teaching Note for 4564. View Details
    Keywords: Quantitative Analysis; Technology; Operations Management; Product Lines; Manufacturing; Capacity Planning; Production Planning; Information Technology; Production; Mathematical Methods; Performance Capacity; Product Development; Planning; Manufacturing Industry
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    Wheelwright, Steven C., and Paul Meyers. "The Morrison Company (Brief Case)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 114-565, May 2011.
    • June 2005
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    Transformation of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. 2005 (A)

    By: Michael Y. Yoshino and Yukihiko Endo
    The company, once an outstanding Japan-based global leader in electronics and major appliances, suffered poor performance during the 1990s. Kunio Nakamura became CEO in 2001 and sought to transform the company in a fundamental way. Examines the company's history,... View Details
    Keywords: Transformation; Business History; Leading Change; Management Systems; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Performance Improvement; Electronics Industry; Japan
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    Yoshino, Michael Y., and Yukihiko Endo. "Transformation of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. 2005 (A)." Harvard Business School Case 905-412, June 2005.
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    Current Research

    By: Thomas J. DeLong
    I'm currently studying how global organizations organize talent management systems in order to maintain and enhance the performance of professionals.  I'm also interested in the socialization process of organizations based on size and focus of the... View Details
    • April 1996
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    Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group

    Examines two dilemmas often faced by an operations consultant. First, the dual responsibility to both client and consulting firm. Second, the management of the often competing pressure to deliver immediate results, at the same time laying the foundation for long-term... View Details
    Keywords: Operations; Problems and Challenges; Consulting Industry
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    Upton, David M., and Christine Steinman. "Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group." Harvard Business School Case 696-096, April 1996.
    • March 1994
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    Bose Corp.: The JIT II Program (A)

    By: Roy D. Shapiro and Bruce Isaacson
    Bose Corp. is evaluating an unusual plan to manage relationships with vendors that supply components for Bose speakers. The company must decide: 1) which planning and ordering activities should be performed by Bose and which can be performed by vendors, 2) how much... View Details
    Keywords: Supply Chain Management; Planning; Production; Alliances; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Electronics Industry
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    Shapiro, Roy D., and Bruce Isaacson. "Bose Corp.: The JIT II Program (A)." Harvard Business School Case 694-001, March 1994.
    • 29 Jan 2020
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    Study: How Schmoozing Helps Men Get Ahead

    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    Accounting for Product Impact in the Water Utilities Industry

    By: George Serafeim and Katie Trinh
    We apply the product impact measurement framework of the Impact-Weighted Accounts Initiative (IWAI) in two competitor companies within the water utilities industry. We design a monetization methodology that allows us to calculate monetary impact estimates of water... View Details
    Keywords: Product Innovation; Impact; Impact Investing; Impact Measurement; ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; ESG Ratings; Social Corporate Responsibility; Corporate Social Responsibility; Social Impact; Water; Utilities; Product Design; Product Positioning; Society; Product; Environmental Sustainability; Measurement and Metrics; Framework; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Utilities Industry
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    Serafeim, George, and Katie Trinh. "Accounting for Product Impact in the Water Utilities Industry." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-104, March 2021.
    • July–August 2011
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    Putting Business Models Under the Microscope

    By: K. Merchant, Tatiana Sandino and D. Huelsbeck
    The article provides advice for financial managers on evaluating business models for corporate performance measurement. Emphasis is given to a study sponsored by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) that examined the business model of a medical... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Financial Management; Performance Evaluation
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    Merchant, K., Tatiana Sandino, and D. Huelsbeck. "Putting Business Models Under the Microscope." Financial Management (CIMA) (July–August 2011), 54–55.
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