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    Michael A. Wheeler

    Mike Wheeler joined the HBS faculty in 1993 and has taught extensively in its MBA, Executive, and distance learning programs. His highly interactive 8-week/40-hour HBS Online Negotiation... View Details

    Keywords: arts; construction; e-commerce industry; energy; federal government; green technology; internet; legal services; nonprofit industry; petroleum; pharmaceuticals; publishing industry; real estate; service industry; sports; state government; utilities
    • 30 Apr 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Earnings Quality and Ownership Structure: The Role of Private Equity Sponsors

    Keywords: by Sharon P. Katz; Financial Services
    • October 2013
    • Case

    Oaktree and the Restructuring of CIT Group (A)

    By: Victoria Ivashina and David Scharfstein
    CIT's prepackaged bankruptcy marked the first time a major financial institution was able to successfully restructure and emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy, challenging conventional views that a financial firm could not survive bankruptcy proceedings as a going... View Details
    Keywords: Debt Securities; Restructuring; Financial Services Industry
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    • August 2012
    • Case

    Jess Westerly at Kauflauf GmbH

    By: John J. Gabarro and Colleen Kaftan
    Jess Westerly is the assistant product owner of CRM applications for computer and office supply wholesalers and retailers at Kauflauf, a fast-growing provider of subscription enterprise software headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany. Only months into her job, outsider... View Details
    Keywords: Applications and Software; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Leading Change; Behavior; Salesforce Management; Social and Collaborative Networks; Planning; Web Services Industry; Germany
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    • June 2013 (Revised October 2013)
    • Case

    Tim Blanchard at Jones Mendel & Co. (Abridged)

    By: Jay W. Lorsch and John Gabarro
    Tim Blanchard struggles to balance all the demands facing him as a partner of a consulting firm. He must decide how to serve clients, mentor his people, provide strategy and direction to the high-tech group, and spend time with family. View Details
    Keywords: Business or Company Management; Management Style; Partners and Partnerships; Work-Life Balance; Problems and Challenges; Management Teams; Consulting Industry
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    • July 2003 (Revised August 2003)
    • Case

    Global Healthcare Exchange

    By: Lynda M. Applegate and Jamie Ladge
    Founded in March 2000 at the height of the dot-com bubble, Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) was one of 90 online marketplaces in the health care industry. The company's founders were among the largest suppliers in the industry, including Johnson & Johnson, GE Medical,... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Entrepreneurship; Price; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Supply and Industry; Organizational Design; Expansion; Internet and the Web; Valuation; Health Industry
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      Learning in Action: A Guide to Putting the Learning Organization to Work

      Most managers today understand the value of building a learning organization. Their goal is to leverage knowledge and make it a key corporate asset, yet they remain uncertain about how best to get started. What they lack are guidelines and tools that transform abstract... View Details
      • December 1982 (Revised December 1984)
      • Case

      Hi-Tech Corp.

      By: Fred K. Foulkes and William E. Fruhan Jr.
      Hi-Tech examines the financial implications of a reduction in the work force via a voluntary severance program which offers up to two and a half times annual pay if an employee voluntarily terminates employment. View Details
      Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Financial Management; Retirement; Employees; Compensation and Benefits; Corporate Finance; Technology Industry; Europe
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      • February 2025
      • Supplement

      Align Partners and SM Entertainment: Korean Shareholder Activism Meets K-Pop (B)

      By: Charles C.Y. Wang and Billy Chan
      Supplements the (A) case, HBS No. 125-065. For years, institutional investors had experienced very limited success in influencing the management of listed companies through shareholder activist campaigns in Korea. The common practice of circular ownership and public... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Reporting; Public Equity; Stocks; Investment Activism; Music Entertainment; Corporate Governance; Success; Business and Shareholder Relations; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; South Korea
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      • Article

      The Persuasive 'Power' of Stigma?

      By: Michael I. Norton, Elizabeth W. Dunn, Dana R. Carney and Dan Ariely
      We predicted that able-bodied individuals and white Americans would have a difficult time saying no to persuasive appeals offered by disabled individuals and black Americans, due to their desire to make such interactions proceed smoothly. In two experiments, we show... View Details
      Keywords: Persuasion; Stigma; Interactions; Interracial Relations; Power and Influence; Personal Characteristics; Interpersonal Communication; Attitudes
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      • March 2003 (Revised October 2003)
      • Case

      Mercury Rising: Knight Ridder's Digital Venture

      Captures the efforts of newspaper publisher Knight Ridder to create a digital venture. Knight Ridder proves to be a pioneer in digital publishing, launching the first online newspaper site; builds a network of newspaper sites called Real Cities; and invests in... View Details
      Keywords: Internet and the Web; Business Growth and Maturation; Market Entry and Exit; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Newspapers; Innovation and Invention; Journalism and News Industry
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      • March 2022 (Revised February 2023)
      • Case

      Pakistan Rising: Bazaar's Growth Story (A)

      By: Paul A. Gompers and Gamze Yucaoglu
      The case opens in September 2021 as Hamza Jawaid and Saad Jangda, co-founders of Bazaar technologies (Bazaar), the Pakistani high growth B2B e-commerce marketplace, are contemplating whether the year-and-a half old startup should also venture into offering financing to... View Details
      Keywords: B2B; Business Model; Emerging Markets; For-Profit Firms; Strategy; Digital Platforms; Information Technology; Value Creation; Globalization; Competition; Expansion; Profit; Resource Allocation; Diversification; Corporate Strategy; Pakistan
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      • September 2022
      • Case

      HPP: Tapping the Netherlands’ Potential

      By: Brian Trelstad and Idelès Kaandorp
      Stichting Het Potentieel Pakken (HPP) was launched to solve a systemic problem in the Dutch Labor Market: gender inequity that was leading to a large number of women to work part-time in fields that were in desperately short supply of labor, like health care, child... View Details
      Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Grants; Scaling And Growth; Nonprofit Organizations; Opportunities; Gender; Income; Employment; Health Care and Treatment; Human Capital; Mission and Purpose; Motivation and Incentives; Growth and Development Strategy; Employment Industry; Health Industry; Education Industry; Consulting Industry; Europe; Netherlands
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      • September 1997
      • Case

      Bayer AG (B)

      By: John A. Quelch
      Bayer's senior executives detail the communications challenge program that resulted from the company's reacquisition of its brand name and trademark cross, which gave Bayer one name worldwide for the first time since World War I. View Details
      Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; War; Acquisition; Trademarks; Brands and Branding; Communication Strategy; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Germany
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      • 13 Mar 2017
      • Research & Ideas

      Hiding Products From Customers May Ultimately Boost Sales

      once, or if she sees them a few at a time throughout the season? “In product categories where the consumer is likely to purchase several products, the value of concealment tends to be positive” The answer depends on the product category,... View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail; Fashion
      • 25 Feb 2019
      • Research & Ideas

      How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence

      and math—just the fact that there’s an average male advantage in math shapes her belief that her own ability in math is lower.” Women discount positive feedback about their abilities In an experiment for Coffman’s working paper Stereotypes and Belief Updating,... View Details
      Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
      • 19 Jan 2023
      • Blog Post

      11 Ways to Reengage Employees in the New Year

      The new year is here and it’s time to “circle back,” reset, and reengage with your teams for 2023. To help you kick off the year on the right foot, here are eleven ways to keep employees motivated and engaged in the year ahead: 1. Support... View Details
      Keywords: All Industries
      • August 2019 (Revised November 2022)
      • Case

      Paradigm Capital Value Fund

      By: Luis M. Viceira and Elena Corsi
      Karl Jan Erick Hummel had founded Paradigm Capital Value Fund in 2007 together with Columbia Business School Professor Bruce Greenwald, an expert in value investing and now chairman of the fund. The fund followed the principles of value investing to their target... View Details
      Keywords: Investment Activism; Investment Portfolio; Financial Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Investment Funds; Financial Services Industry
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      • September 2019 (Revised June 2021)
      • Case

      Blenheim Chalcot

      By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
      In April 2019, Manoj Badale and Charles Mindenhall, co-founders of Blenheim Chalcot, were contemplating how they might go about developing their portfolio. Since founding the company as an internet consultancy called netdecisions in 1998, Badale and Mindenhall had... View Details
      Keywords: Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; United Kingdom; United States; India
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      Adding Value by Talking More

      By: Robert S. Kaplan, Derek A. Haas and Jonathan Warsh
      The prevailing fee-for-service payment model has led health care administrators and physician practices to impose severe constraints on the time physicians spend talking, for which they are reimbursed poorly or not at all. New value-based reimbursement models, however,... View Details
      Keywords: Value Creation; Cost Management; Health Care and Treatment; Customer Focus and Relationships; Health Industry
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