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- January 2006
- Case
Ron Perez (A)
By: Lynn S. Paine
The division human resources officer must decide whether to discipline a long-time employee for misusing company time and for improperly filling out time cards for his work on government contracts. Intended to focus on the various factors relevant to disciplining... View Details
- January 2006 (Revised March 2006)
- Teaching Note
Advanced Competitive Strategy, Notes for Educators 7. Tools and Techniques, Plus Practice
By: Jan W. Rivkin
- 2006
- Case
In Reach Care of the Elderly: Moss Valley Medical Practice
By: Julie Battilana, A. M. Cagna and T. D'Aunno
- December 2005 (Revised March 2006)
- Background Note
Advanced Competitive Strategy, Notes for Educators: 1. An Overview of the Course
By: Jan W. Rivkin
Captures for educators the concepts, tools, and practice conveyed to students in the Harvard Business School elective course Advanced Competitive Strategy: Integrating the Enterprise. Intended to hone students as integrators. View Details
- November 2005 (Revised July 2006)
- Case
Two Tough Calls (A)
A young female manager must decide whether to terminate two poorly performing managers who work for her. Shows the practical and ethical issues involved in firing decisions. View Details
- November 2005 (Revised July 2006)
- Background Note
Understanding Economic Value Added
By: Mihir A. Desai, Fabrizio Ferri and Steve Treadwell
Explores the concept of economic value added (EVA) and its practical applications as a management control system for performance measurement and incentive compensation. Explains how EVA is measured and explores some of the adjustments to financial statements that are... View Details
Keywords: Value
- November 2005
- Article
Importation as Innovation: Transposing managerial practices across fields
By: Eva Boxenbaum and Julie Battilana
- August 2005 (Revised August 2006)
- Exercise
People Management
By: Boris Groysberg and David Lane
Highlights critical gaps between research and practice in the field of strategic human resources management. Also, aims to debunk some myths and preconceptions that general managers bring to their HR decisions. Before class, participants fill out a true-or-false... View Details
- July 2005
- Case
Harvard Business School and the Making of a New Profession
By: Rakesh Khurana, Tarun Khanna and Daniel Penrice
Since its founding in 1908, Harvard Business School's mission has been to perform a much-needed service for American society by turning business management into a profession. One of the most important factors in the founding of HBS and the nation's other new business... View Details
- July 2005 (Revised February 2011)
- Case
Tanpin Kanri: Retail Practice at Seven-Eleven Japan
By: Rajiv Lal and Arar Han
Toshifumi Suzuki, chairman and CEO of Seven and I Holding Co., was widely credited as the mastermind behind Seven-Eleven Japan's spectacular rise. Although Seven-Eleven Japan began as a small licensee of U.S. convenience store chain 7-Eleven, Inc. (then Southland... View Details
- June 2005 (Revised September 2005)
- Case
Accounting at MacCloud Winery
By: David F. Hawkins, Robert S. Kaplan and Gregory S. Miller
Uses a fictional new winery to introduce accounting concepts and practices such as assets, liabilities, expenses, the matching principle, and contingent activities. Designed to approach the subject at a conceptual level, allowing class discussion to focus on the... View Details
- June 2005 (Revised March 2006)
- Background Note
Delivering Strategic Human Resource Management
By: Boris Groysberg, Andrew N. McLean and Cate Reavis
This note reviews the history of the human resources (HR) function and the strategic human resources management (SHRM) movement, wherein HR managers' aspired to be strategic partners with line managers. Reviews practices for implementing a strategic-business-partner... View Details
Keywords: Human Resources
- 1 Jun 2005
- Other Presentation
Value-Based Competition in Health Care: Implications for Physician Practices
This presentation draws on a forthcoming book with Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg (Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, Harvard Business School Press). Earlier publications about the work include the Harvard Business Review article... View Details
- 2005
- Book
Make Your Own Luck: 12 Practical Steps to Taking Smarter Risks in Business
By: H. Stevenson and Eileen C. Shapiro
- May 2005
- Supplement
Otis Elevator: An Interview with Ari Bousbib (video)
By: F. Warren McFarlan and Brian DeLacey
CEO Ari Bousbib talks about how IT is transforming Otis and the practical challenges they are overcoming. Visibly demonstrates what appropriate CEO involvement is in an IT-enabled business transformation. View Details
- April 2005
- Module Note
Team Processes: Instructor's Overview
Describes the cases and exercises that comprise the Team Processes module of the Leading Teams course. Also describes the sequence in which the materials are used, along with the connections and transitions among the materials. View Details
- March 2005 (Revised March 2006)
- Background Note
Activity-Based Costing and Capacity
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Discusses the use of budgeted rather than historical data in an activity-based costing (ABC) model and argues for calculating rates using practical capacity, not actual utilization. An ABC model need not be limited to analysis of historical data. When cost driver rates... View Details