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- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
the size and role of corporate headquarters in the company he had reshaped as a "premium conglomerate." During his tenure, Andersen had divided what had previously been operated as almost a single entity into separate lines of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- June 2010
- Teaching Note
Sheikh Mohammed and the Making of "Dubai, Inc." (TN)
By: Anthony Mayo and Johnathan Cromwell
Teaching Note for 410063. View Details
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
Chain Planning: A Case Study of Sales and Operations Planning (revised) Authors: Rogelio Oliva and Noel H. Watson Abstract In most organizations, supply chain planning is a cross-functional effort. Functional areas such as sales,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
through three examples: the design of medical residency matching programs, a scrip system to allocate food donations to food banks, and the recent "Incentive Auction" that reallocated wireless spectrum from television broadcasters to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Aug 2006
- Op-Ed
The Compensation Game
interests, the processes that make it difficult for shareholders to remove directors should be dismantled. Most of the public criticism of executive pay is not an attack on the capitalist system or the View Details
Keywords: by Lucian Bebchuk & Rakesh Khurana
- 09 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen
Technologies' Systems Generation and Delivery Unit (SGDU), was charged with creating a single global company from a set of fragmented businesses in Asia, Europe, and the United States. To gain control over product decisions being made by... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
organized systems for improvement. Traditional structures and cultures within AHCs, although well suited to the tripartite missions of teaching, research, and clinical care, are not easily adaptable to the tasks of measuring, reporting,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
relies on Costco as a distributional partner, which adds credibility as well as helps to the brand without overspending on advertising. A logistics system allows Vizio to import televisions from a manufacturer in China in just-in-time... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
Sciences Modularity and Organizations By: Baldwin, Carliss Y Abstract—Modularity describes the degree to which a complex system can be broken apart into subunits (modules) that can be recombined in various ways. Modularity is important... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
and our empirical observations, we distinguish between influence activities to which toolmaking was not central and those to which toolmaking was important. As for the influence activities that imply toolmaking, we can outline the contours of three modes of operation,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
do everything your way. Not to mention being best at every activity of your life, from tennis to cooking to managing your portfolio. For this kind of mix, maximization will not work as an operating paradigm. How can you maximize four... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
been priorities in national initiatives. Conclusions. Our study suggests an underutilized strategy for improving patient safety and staff efficiency: leveraging frontline staff experiences with work systems to identify and remove View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- January 2023
- Case
Natura: Weathering the Pandemic at Brazil's Cosmetic Giant
By: Brian Trelstad, Pedro Levindo and Carla Larangeira
Brazil's Natura, a multi-brand cosmetics group, has taken several measures to safeguard the livelihoods of its thousands of employees and millions of sales representatives during the COVID-19 health and economic crisis. The company has also made strides in its efforts... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; ESG Reporting; Acquisition; Customer Focus and Relationships; Decision Making; Social Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Environmental Management; Climate Change; Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Global Strategy; Corporate Governance; Health Pandemics; Human Resources; Human Capital; Crisis Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing; Distribution Channels; Supply Chain; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Customer Ownership; Relationships; Business and Community Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Networks; Partners and Partnerships; Science-Based Business; Reputation; Human Needs; Social Issues; Strategy; Equality and Inequality; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Brazil; Latin America
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
operating in manufacturing and electronics. The increasing impact of digital technologies on all of its business units had prompted CEO Joe Kaeser and his team to put digitalization at the core of the new corporate strategy, alongside... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
notably higher entry rates and increases in plant productivity. These results are not present for districts located on another major highway system, the North-South East-West corridor (NS-EW). Improvements for portions of the NS-EW system... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
practices of their portfolio firms. Prior research documents that PE firms create economic value in portfolio firms through effective governance, financial, and operational engineering. Given PE firms' focus on value creation, we examine... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
that avoids liquidation of human and cultural assets." The book looks broadly at what it takes to build a high commitment, high performance (HCHP) system inside companies. It asks and answers questions such as: What outcomes must... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
China Harvard Business School Case 209-021 The Chubb Corporation, headquartered in the U.S., was the holding company for a number of property and casualty insurance companies which operated in 29 countries. In 1979, the Chinese... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
is likely to have a meaningful effect on health care spending patterns. In addition, precision medicines can change the expected profitability of therapies both by allowing more sophisticated pricing systems and potentially decreasing the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel