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The Business of Business Schools: Restoring a Focus on Competing to Win

By: Robert Simons
As business leaders worry about the decline of American competitiveness, business schools are responding by changing their curriculums. But are the topics and approaches taught in today's business schools part of the solution or part of the problem? In this paper, I... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools; Purpose Of Business Schools; Management Education; Business School Curriculum; Strategy Execution; U.S. Competitiveness; Capitalism; Management Profession; Innovation; Competing To Win; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Trends; Customer Focus and Relationships; Decision Making; Design; Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Innovation and Management
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    Roy D. Shapiro

    Roy D. Shapiro is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.  He is currently the faculty co-chair of the School's Technology and Operations Management Unit... View Details

    • 2008
    • Book

    Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage

    By: Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton
    In a world of stiffening competition, business strategy is more crucial than ever. Yet most organizations struggle in this area--not with formulating strategy but with executing it, or putting their strategy into action. Owing to execution failures, companies realize... View Details
    Keywords: Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Operations; Performance; Strategic Planning; Business Strategy
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    • December 2014 (Revised February 2020)
    • Case

    Compass Group: The Ascension Health Decision

    By: Ryan W. Buell
    In 2012, Compass Group (Compass) was on the verge of closing a $2 billion deal with Ascension Health (Ascension), one of the largest healthcare systems in the United States. Under the deal, Compass would provide foodservice management and cleaning services for 86 of... View Details
    Keywords: Operations Strategy; Sectorization; Operational Focus; Customer Compatibility; Service Operations; Service Delivery; Operations; Strategy; Customer Focus and Relationships; Service Industry; Health Industry; United States
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    • Research Summary

    Innovations in Logistics: The Impact of Channel Coordination

    By: Roy D. Shapiro
    Roy D. Shapiro is studying innovative systems and management approaches that integrate and coordinate material and information flows through the supply chain so as to reduce or eliminate the redundant activities that tend to characterize these channels. His research... View Details
    • 10 May 2018
    • News

    'Candy Crush' Was a Blockbuster; Can King Digital Capitalize?

    • December 2002 (Revised January 2014)
    • Case

    Matt Leeds (A)

    By: Linda A. Hill

    A new associate in a consulting firm attempts to navigate his way through the norms and culture of a new setting and to manage his relationships with his superiors and peers, which got off to a poor start.

    PLEASE NOTE: This case was revised in January 2014.... View Details

    Keywords: Power and Influence; Rank and Position; Organizational Culture; Consulting Industry
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    • 17 Aug 2010
    • News

    HBS professor nabs lifetime achievement award from NVCA

    • January 2024 (Revised February 2024)
    • Case

    TPG Rise Climate: Deploying 'Climate Capital'

    By: Vikram S. Gandhi, David Allen, Sarah Mehta and Shannon Roche
    This case is about TPG Rise Climate, a $7.3 billion climate impact fund launched in 2021 by alternative asset manager TPG. Climate investing is a complex, capital-intensive endeavor; entering it has forced TPG to think and act differently. Relative to other funds, Rise... View Details
    Keywords: Energy; Environmental Management; Ownership; Science; Value; Asset Management; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Financial Markets; Financial Services Industry; California; San Francisco; New York (city, NY)
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    • January 1992 (Revised April 1993)
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    FBO, Inc.

    By: Steven C. Wheelwright
    FBO, Inc. is a fixed-base operator at a large metropolitan airport. The general manager must decide if the current pooling format is the appropriate way to staff the commercial refueling operations. If pooling is deemed inappropriate then the implementation of a... View Details
    Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Labor Unions; Operations; Labor and Management Relations; Aerospace Industry
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    • 02 Dec 2021
    • News

    Harvard’s Dr. Frank Cespedes as a Guest Speaker at WU on Salesperson Performance and Compensation

    • 28 Jun 2011
    • News

    Turn Your Group into a True Team

    • November 2016
    • Article

    Corporate Sustainability: First Evidence on Materiality

    By: Mozaffar Khan, George Serafeim and Aaron Yoon
    Using newly available materiality classifications of sustainability topics, we develop a novel dataset by hand-mapping sustainability investments classified as material for each industry into firm-specific sustainability ratings. This allows us to present new evidence... View Details
    Keywords: Sustainability; Investments; Corporate Social Responsibility; Accounting; Corporate Reporting; Regulation; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Investment; Corporate Governance
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    • March 2021 (Revised December 2021)
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    Cedar Environmental: Innovation vs. Corruption in Lebanon?

    By: Nien-hê Hsieh and Youssef Abdel Aal
    The case follows Ziad Abi Chaker, founder and CEO of Cedar Environmental, as he weighs options for how to grow the company in the face of growing economic and political instability in Lebanon in 2019.

    Founded after the Lebanese civil war, Cedar... View Details
    Keywords: Waste Management; Recycling; Corruption; Leadership & Corporate Accountability; Business And Government; Social Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Pollution; Entrepreneurship; Business and Government Relations; Crime and Corruption; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Expansion; Corporate Accountability; Green Technology Industry; Middle East; Lebanon
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    • 29 Apr 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: April 29, 2008

      Working PapersNone this week   Cases & Course MaterialsAvaya (A) Harvard Business School Case 508-048 Avaya's top management wants to improve demand generation. This requires an improvement in the View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • February 2004 (Revised August 2004)
    • Case

    National Semiconductor's India Design Center

    By: Jeffrey T. Polzer and Elizabeth Kind
    The senior managers of the India Design Center used 360-degree feedback to develop their team competencies. Now, three new managers are about to join their management team, and Ashok Kumar, director of the center, must decide how to integrate the new managers in a way... View Details
    Keywords: Groups and Teams; Information Technology Industry; India
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    • March 1990 (Revised October 1990)
    • Case

    Liz Claiborne, Inc. and Ruentex Industries Ltd.

    Describes Liz Claiborne, Inc.'s manufacturing and marketing strategy and details the significance of its supplier selection strategy. It begins to describe the company's relationship with Ruentex Industries Ltd., its largest supplier of piece goods. When used with... View Details
    Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Supply Chain Management; Relationships; Cooperation; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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    • 30 Jul 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Fluid Teams and Fluid Tasks: The Impact of Team Familiarity and Variation in Experience

    Keywords: by Robert S. Huckman & Bradley R. Staats; Video Game; Web Services
    • 27 Sep 2012
    • News

    Guanxi or关系: one word, many interpretations

    • December 2019
    • Article

    The Ethical Perils of Personal, Communal Relations: A Language Perspective

    By: Maryam Kouchaki, Francesca Gino and Yuval Feldman
    The current paper focuses on how the type of relationship that exists between a group and its members influences misconduct by fostering certain perceptions of the group. Using multiple methods, lab- and field-based experiments (N = 1,679), and a large dataset of S&P... View Details
    Keywords: Language; Codes Of Conduct; Ethics; Communication; Perception; Behavior
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