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  • 01 Nov 2016
  • First Look

First Look - November 1, 2016

it comes not from mimicking competitors' best practices, but from seeing functional connections—choices that are part of a connected whole. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51850 October 11, 2016... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • May 1994 (Revised August 1994)
  • Case

Motorola-Elma

By: Shoshana Zuboff and Janis Lee Gogan
Motorola's old automative electronics plant in Arcade, outside Buffalo, New York, faced the prospect of closure in the mid-1980s, but leading customers persuaded Motorola to give the plant a second chance. The new plant manager, Dennis Fiehn, recognized that existing... View Details
Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Business Exit or Shutdown; Customers; Leading Change; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Organizational Structure; Competitive Strategy; Expansion; Telecommunications Industry; New York (state, US)
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Zuboff, Shoshana, and Janis Lee Gogan. "Motorola-Elma." Harvard Business School Case 494-136, May 1994. (Revised August 1994.)
  • September 2019 (Revised May 2021)
  • Case

pymetrics: Early Days

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In 2013, CEO Frida Polli was contemplating the next steps for her start-up business, pymetrics. After receiving her PhD in neuropsychology and MBA from HBS, she was determined to put her scientific and academic knowledge to work to build a business solving real world... View Details
Keywords: BrainTech; Psychology; Hiring; Games; Entrepreneur; Start-up; Start-up Growth; Strategic Change; Strategy Formulation; Recruiting; Corporate Culture; Hiring Of Employees; Start-ups; Startup; Startups; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Business Startups; Strategy; Competition; Organizational Culture
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Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "pymetrics: Early Days." Harvard Business School Case 720-374, September 2019. (Revised May 2021.)

    Jan W. Rivkin

    Jan W. Rivkin is a Professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. In the past, he has served as Faculty Chair of the MBA Program, Senior Associate Dean for Research, and head of the Strategy Unit. His research, course development, and teaching focus on... View Details

    Keywords: airline; computer; internet; music; transportation
    • Research Summary

    A Consistent Weighted Ranking Scheme with an Application to NCAA College Football Rankings (with Chaim Fershtman and Neil Gandal)

    The NCAA college football ratings, in which the so-called national champion is determined, has been plagued by controversies the last few years. The difficulty arises because there is a need to make a complete ranking of teams even though each team has a different... View Details
    • 02 Apr 2007
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Making the Move to General Manager

    this transition into general management." For new general managers—or just as likely in companies these days, senior functional managers who operate as part of an executive team or who have important... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • February 2009 (Revised September 2011)
    • Case

    Big Spaceship: Ready to Go Big?

    By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind
    Big Spaceship, a digital marketing agency, faced a rather big challenge: How to scale the distinctive culture that was essential to its competitive strategy? Renowned for the cutting-edge websites that it developed to market major Hollywood movies and leading consumer... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Management; Human Capital; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Groups and Teams; Competitive Strategy; Value Creation
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    Groysberg, Boris, and Michael Slind. "Big Spaceship: Ready to Go Big?" Harvard Business School Case 409-047, February 2009. (Revised September 2011.)
    • July 1997 (Revised October 2003)
    • Case

    Chattanooga Ice Cream Division,The

    By: Carl S. Sloane
    Senior functional officers (marketing, manufacturing, research & development, control, and human resources) clash over alternative ideas for turning around a business in decline. The general manager is faced not only with choosing between competing ideas, but also... View Details
    Keywords: Management Style; Management Teams; Groups and Teams; Managerial Roles; Conflict Management; Decisions; Performance
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    Sloane, Carl S. "Chattanooga Ice Cream Division,The." Harvard Business School Case 498-001, July 1997. (Revised October 2003.)
    • 01 Oct 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making

    Everest, several climbers, including two of the world's most experienced professionals, died in part because junior team members didn't speak up when their expert leaders ignored their own core operating principles surrounding safety. In... View Details
    Keywords: by Garry Emmons
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    Cathy Hutchinson

    Cathy (Kellogg '01) is a member of the Career & Professional Development team and coaches students and alumni interested in entertainment/ media & technology career paths.  In addition to managing external marketing,... View Details
    Keywords: Entertainment / Media; Sports; Telecommunications; Technology
    • 12 Oct 1999
    • Research & Ideas

    A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy

    professor Michael Beer says companies should do on a regular basis. "Business success is a function of fit between a host of key variables within an organization," he says. "Strategy, values, culture, employees, systems,... View Details
    Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
    • 12 May 2020
    • Blog Post

    The Importance of Coordination: Apoorva Pasricha Reflects on Crisis Leadership

    schools transitioned to online learning, “the pandemic highlighted digital inequities around devices and connectivity and created a greater sense of urgency,” says Pasricha. Suddenly, Pasricha and her colleagues had to reorganize their View Details
    Keywords: Social Enterprise; Technology; Nonprofit / Government
    • 28 Apr 2020
    • Blog Post

    The Importance of Coordination: Apoorva Pasricha Reflects on Crisis Leadership

    schools transitioned to online learning, “the pandemic highlighted digital inequities around devices and connectivity and created a greater sense of urgency,” says Pasricha. Suddenly, Pasricha and her colleagues had to reorganize their View Details
    • September–October 2016
    • Article

    What Senior Executives Should Know About Sales

    By: Frank V. Cespedes
    Business is more complex, data more abundant, and more specialists are needed to stay up-to-date with functional best practices. As a senior executive, you can worry all you want about disruption, but you need a salesforce aligned with strategy to do something about... View Details
    Keywords: Salesforce Management; Management Teams
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    Cespedes, Frank V. "What Senior Executives Should Know About Sales." European Business Review (September–October 2016): 10–13.
    • 18 May 2017
    • Blog Post

    Why We Recruit: Hilton

    warmth of hospitality unites us as a team to create remarkable hospitality experiences around the world every day. And, our amazing Team Members are at the heart of it all! How long has your organization... View Details
    Keywords: Hospitality
    • February 2009 (Revised April 2011)
    • Case

    Mistry Architects (A)

    By: Amy C. Edmondson, Robert G. Eccles and Mona Sinha
    Describes an architecture firm founded and run by a husband and wife team, Sharukh and Renu Mistry, that emphasizes "green" building. The firm presents an unusual mix of projects-spanning the spectrum from larger corporate projects to small private homes. The mix also... View Details
    Keywords: Family Business; Customer Focus and Relationships; Design; Housing; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Community Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Nonprofit Organizations; Conflict and Resolution
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    Edmondson, Amy C., Robert G. Eccles, and Mona Sinha. "Mistry Architects (A)." Harvard Business School Case 609-044, February 2009. (Revised April 2011.)
    • 29 Sep 2020
    • Blog Post

    New Life for Old Tech: Startup Provides Network Security Solutions for Obsolete Devices

    option, so how can hospitals eliminate the vulnerabilities that come from security-obsolete devices? Perigee is helping companies answer that question. The startup, founded by Mollie Breen, works with companies to build a 360-degree security layer tailored to the View Details

      Strategic Brew: A Market Simulation

      Strategic Brew simulates real life challenges facing the strategist. It allows users to experience and internalize the process of strategy formulation, execution, and communication in a simulated context and to see how these processes interplay with other... View Details
      • 26 Nov 2013
      • First Look

      First Look: November 26

      concerning whether patents are a creative or a destructive influence on the process of technological development. In this paper I examine the basic patent tradeoff between incentives and monopoly distortions in light of recent contributions to the literature. I outline... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 05 May 2009
      • First Look

      First Look: May 5, 2009

      http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-127.pdf Feeling the Heat: The Effects of Performance Pressure on Teams' Knowledge Use and Performance Author:Heidi K. Gardner Abstract Why do some teams fail to use their members' knowledge effectively,... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
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