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- July 2000 (Revised June 2002)
- Case
Dawn Riley at America True (A)
By: Linda A. Hill and Kristin Doughty
Dawn Riley is the CEO/Captain of America True, the first coed syndicate to race for the America's Cup. Over three years, based on her vision for America True, she built the syndicate from scratch, bringing on investors and sponsors, designing and building a boat, and... View Details
Keywords: Management Style; Leadership; Problems and Challenges; Sports; Gender; Business Startups; North and Central America; New Zealand; San Francisco
Hill, Linda A., and Kristin Doughty. "Dawn Riley at America True (A)." Harvard Business School Case 401-006, July 2000. (Revised June 2002.)
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
drives wealthy and powerful people to white-collar crime? I draw from extensive personal interaction and correspondence with nearly fifty former executives as well as research in psychology, criminology, and economics to investigate how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2006
- Working Paper
Worse but Equal: The Influence of Social Categories on Resource Allocations
By: Stephen M. Garcia, Max H. Bazerman, Shirli Kopelman and Dale T. Miller
This paper explores the influence of social categories on the perceived trade-off between relatively bad but equal distribution of resources between two parties and profit maximizing, yet asymmetric payoffs. Study 1 and 2 showed that people prefer to maximize profits... View Details
Garcia, Stephen M., Max H. Bazerman, Shirli Kopelman, and Dale T. Miller. "Worse but Equal: The Influence of Social Categories on Resource Allocations." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 06-033, February 2006. (Revised September 2008, June 2009. In press.)
- 02 Aug 2004
- What Do You Think?
For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?
broken. It is really about people and ethics." B. V. Krishnamurthy concurred, saying "... the Act ... is unlikely to result in any radical transformation of the system. Such a transformation has to be an internal process with... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn’t)
with timing, in that this article appeared about my Enterprise 2.0 concept." Into The Thicket In May 2006, someone unknown to McAfee, but who had read his seminal article "Enterprise 2.0: The Dawn of Emergent Collaboration" in the MIT Sloan View Details
- December 1996 (Revised June 1998)
- Case
Midnight Networks, Inc.
By: H. Kent Bowen and Marilyn Matis
Midnight Networks, Inc., is a small computer network validation company. This case describes how the five founders built their business from operations earnings and how they established "best practices" operational processes to run their firm successfully. Operational... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business or Company Management; Operations; Organizational Culture; Applications and Software; Business Startups; Business Growth and Maturation; Information Technology Industry; Massachusetts
Bowen, H. Kent, and Marilyn Matis. "Midnight Networks, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 697-019, December 1996. (Revised June 1998.)
- 26 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises
crying, thanking us for opening,” one store manager said. In addition, Yanai wanted to set an example by making the first major individual cash donation to the relief effort, “so that other rich people like... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
California - Global
and managing partner of Primetime Partners, was preparing to raise a second fund. Founded in 2020 with veteran investor Alan Patricof, Primetime was a horizontal fund focused on early-stage companies serving older adults, the fast-growing... View Details
- May 2020
- Teaching Note
Chem-Ecol
By: Richard S. Ruback, Royce Yudkoff and Ahron Rosenfeld
Dahra Allen acquired Chem-Ecol, a machine oil recycling business, for C$13.3 million in December of 2012. Allen decided to hire a sales director and the case discussion largely focuses on selecting the sales director from her short-list of five candidates. During the... View Details
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Be an Angel Investor
will do well to manage your time carefully. Some angels think that evaluation starts with the first meeting and continues right up to the moment of writing the check. In order to structure this book effectively, we address evaluation as a... View Details
Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson
- 30 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Your Crisis Response Plan: The Ten Effective Elements
responses. Response modules might include: facility lockdown, police or fire response, evacuation, isolation (preventing people from entering facilities), medical containment (response to significant epidemic), grief management, as well... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
- 14 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Amazon vs. Whole Foods: When Cultures Collide
bad guy" Harvard Business School professors Dennis Campbell and Tatiana Sandino took notice, suspecting a clash of corporate cultures was at work. Their forthcoming case study discusses the limits of trying to force one culture or View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Failing to Learn and Learning to Fail (Intelligently): How Great Organizations Put Failure to Work to Improve and Innovate
Keywords: by Mark D. Cannon & Amy C. Edmondson
- 2022
- Conference Presentation
Organizational Competition: A Catalyst for Workplace Diversity and Desires for Uniqueness
By: Samantha N. Smith, Edward H. Chang, Erika L. Kirgios and Katherine L. Milkman
Competition is prevalent in organizations. For example, people often compete against their colleagues for status and recognition in the workplace or for opportunities for advancement. Workers also compete against others to get hired into organizations in the first... View Details
Smith, Samantha N., Edward H. Chang, Erika L. Kirgios, and Katherine L. Milkman. "Organizational Competition: A Catalyst for Workplace Diversity and Desires for Uniqueness." In The Consequences of Competition in Organizations. Paper presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Joint Symposium, Seattle, WA, USA, 2022.
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Career Change
says. “What’s important is how you take charge of your career.” Now, Tanaka is helping others take charge. In March 2023, she became the country manager of LinkedIn Japan. Though the professional networking platform opened its first... View Details
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
"knight" managers rather than develop people in roles. I think that's a huge cultural difference in the sectors. The issue is particularly pronounced in foundations. Q: Give us a sense of new developments in... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Solving for Z
The up-and-coming generation is really focused on flexibility. They’re really focused on diversity. They’re really focused on purpose,” Breitfelder says. “And most of the people leading these companies never had any flexibility in that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions
A couple of years ago, hip-hop artist Macklemore topped the Billboard 100 chart with Thrift Shop, a paean to buying inexpensive used clothing from Goodwill Industries. Indeed, like the rapper, millions of people know Goodwill primarily as... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 05 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
5 Companies Where Employees Move Up the Ladder Fast
Worker Advancement,” a worker’s choice of company has considerable bearing on how fast they climb the ranks, how likely they are to land a better job elsewhere, and whether they’ll be hired and promoted. The study specifically looks at roles that were open to View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- Web
Key Concepts - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
delivery are widely touted as critical to improving the health outcomes of patients worldwide and controlling runaway health care costs. Value-based health care’s central tenant is that value for patients must be the overarching principle in the organization and View Details