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Library Search Search Search Lehman Brothers: 1850 - 2008 Resources Baker Library Collections Unique among business school libraries, Baker Library possesses extraordinarily comprehensive and diverse... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

investors), creating philanthropic endeavors and single-mindedly pursuing her dream of building an empire, taking it public, and cashing out all the investors. Corporate and... View Details

October 2011
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Jack Hughes, Founder and Chairman of TopCoder, In-class comments 4/8/11

By: David A. Garvin

TopCoder's crowdsourcing-based business model, in which software is developed through online tournaments, is presented. The case highlights how TopCoder has created a unique two-sided innovation platform consisting of a global community of over 225,000 developers who... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Growth and Development; Technological Innovation; Problems and Challenges; Motivation and Incentives; Competition; Online Technology; Information Technology Industry

March 2023
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Innovation at Google Ads: The Sales Acceleration and Innovation Labs (SAIL) (A)

By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Tedards

In 2018, Ana Owczarzak was appointed to lead Google Ads' new innovation and accelerator team - the Sales Acceleration and Innovation Labs (SAIL). The purpose of SAIL was to offer testing and incubation services for individuals within Google Ads who were developing new... View Details

Keywords: Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Organizational Design; Technology Industry; Advertising Industry; Information Technology Industry; United States

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Control, Performance, and Knowledge Transfers in Large Multinationals: Unilever in the United States, 1945-1980

By: G. Jones

This article considers key issues relating to the organization and performance of large multinational firms in the post-Second World War period. Although foreign direct investment is defined by ownership and control, in practice the nature of that "control" is far from... View Details

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Governance Controls; Performance; Business or Company Management; Ownership; Consumer Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States

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11 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

Ramaswany's customer co-creation process might prove most relevant. If the company has distinctive capabilities in important business processes— operations management, customer data mining, or product features View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

14 Apr 2010
Working Paper Summaries

The Economic Crisis and Medical Care Usage

Keywords: by Annamaria Lusardi, Daniel Schneider & Peter Tufano; Health

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Design Thinking and Innovative Problem Solving

In their book, Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads, Professors Srikant Datar and David Garvin and researcher Patrick Cullen identified creative and innovative thinking as an essential skill for managers operating in a world of rapidly evolving... View Details

September 1982 (Revised July 2007)
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Gift and Estate Taxes

By: Henry B. Reiling and Timothy O'Brien

Identifies and discusses the major features of the federal gift and estate tax, plus major nontax implications. View Details

Keywords: Finance; Taxation; Business and Government Relations; Public Administration Industry

19 Feb 2007
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Inexperienced Investors and Market Bubbles

joining a bubble. In the recent paper, "Inexperienced Investors and Bubbles," Harvard Business School's Robin Greenwood and Stanford's Stefan Nagel compared the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

January 2010 (Revised August 2010)
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Advanced Leadership Note: An Institutional Perspective and Framework for Managing and Leading

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Rakesh Khurana

Large-scale societal issues increasingly appear on the agenda of business leaders, including poverty, health, education, business-government relations, and the degradation of the environment. These problems are not entirely new, but the forces of globalization and the... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Framework; Global Range; Leadership; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Social Enterprise; Social Issues; Complexity

01 Jun 2007
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34,000 Pages and Counting

Relations has had direct contact with more alumni — or read more birth announcements and vacation travelogues. Over the years, the Class Notes production process has evolved from handwritten View Details

Keywords: class notes; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

September 2018 (Revised March 2019)
Teaching Note

Philanthropy and Brand Building: Jeff Vinik and the Tampa Bay Lightning

By: Stephen A. Greyser and Michael Mondello

Teaching Note for HBS No. 919-403, “Philanthropy and Brand-Building: Jeff Vinik and the Tampa Bay Lightning.” Includes objectives, study questions, analysis and discussion points, and teaching plan—covering both traditional brand-building and the role of distinctive... View Details

Keywords: Brands and Branding; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Business and Community Relations; Sports Industry; Tampa

April 1996 (Revised June 1996)
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Cleveland Turnaround (C), The: Facts and Figures

By: James E. Austin and Jaan Elias

Traces the Cleveland community's efforts to move the city from economic, social, and political crisis in the late 1970s into revitalization and progress in the 1980s and 1990s. Special attention is given to the role of business leaders and the public-private... View Details

Keywords: Leading Change; Analytics and Data Science; Economic Growth; Business and Community Relations; Cleveland

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with Lehman Brothers are also part of these archives. These materials are not a comprehensive record of the company but they represent what is extant of this innovative and influential firm. The business... View Details

October 2011
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An Interview with Jack Hughes, Founder and Chairman of TopCoder

By: David A. Garvin

TopCoder's crowdsourcing-based business model, in which software is developed through online tournaments, is presented. The case highlights how TopCoder has created a unique two-sided innovation platform consisting of a global community of over 225,0000 developers who... View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development; Technological Innovation; Problems and Challenges; Motivation and Incentives; Competition; Online Technology; Information Technology Industry