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  • September 2002 (Revised December 2005)
  • Case

DaimlerChrysler Post-Merger Integration (A)

By: Richard F. Meyer, Michael G. Rukstad, Peter J. Coughlan and Stephan A. Jansen
Describes the background, process, and aftermath of the merger between Daimler-Benz of Germany and Chrysler Corp. of America. Describes the economic structure and trends of the world automobile industry at the turn of the century as well as the individual histories and... View Details
Keywords: Integration; Negotiation Process; Corporate Strategy; Mergers and Acquisitions; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Auto Industry; Germany; United States
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    Innovating for Sustainability

    Every major company is grappling with the meaning and application of sustainability in relation to its geographic location, industry and business model. Similarly, more and more institutional investors are incorporating sustainability into their... View Details

    • 28 Aug 2020
    • News

    Rethinking Work During and After Lockdown

      Michael Beer

      MICHAEL BEER

      Mike Beer is the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations About Your Company’s... View Details

      • 2015
      • Other Teaching and Training Material

      Entrepreneurship Reading: Launching Global Ventures

      By: William R. Kerr
      Core Curriculum in Entrepreneurship is a series of Readings that cover fundamental course material in Entrepreneurship. Readings include Interactive Illustrations which help students master complex concepts quickly.
      Global ventures are those that weave... View Details
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      • March 2018 (Revised September 2019)
      • Case

      Chewy.com (A)

      By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Matthew G. Preble
      In late 2013, Ryan Cohen, cofounder and CEO of online pet products retailer Chewy.com, faces a “bet the company decision”—whether to stay with a third-party logistics provider (3PL) for all of its e-commerce fulfillment or to take the function in house. Cohen worries... View Details
      Keywords: Pet Food; Pet Products; Retail; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Operations; Decision Choices and Conditions; E-commerce; Retail Industry; Service Industry; Florida; United States
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      • July 1996 (Revised December 2001)
      • Case

      Becton Dickinson--Designing the New Strategic, Operational, and Financial Planning Process

      By: Robert L. Simons, Antonio Davila and Afroze A Mohammed
      Describes management's attempts to design and install a sophisticated planning and control system in an international company as it changes its strategy. Issues of strategy implementation, accountability, and performance measurement are at the core of the analysis, as... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategy; Business or Company Management; Corporate Accountability; Governance Controls; System; Performance Evaluation
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      • 2010
      • Other Paper

      Clear and Present Danger: Planning and New Venture Survival Amid Political and Civil Violence

      By: Shon R. Hiatt and Wesley Sine
      Prior strategy research is divided on the utility of new-venture planning. Some scholars argue that planning enhances new-firm performance and others make the opposite argument. This paper attempts to reconcile these contradictory views by exploring the extent of... View Details
      Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Government and Politics; Success; Performance Effectiveness; Strategic Planning; Business and Government Relations; Colombia
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      • January 2008 (Revised November 2009)
      • Case

      Linear Air: Creating the Air Taxi Industry

      Linear Air is an air taxi start-up established to take advantage of the emergence of Very Light Jets, which incorporate new technology that cuts jet operating costs by about 40%. Air taxis could make use of the 5400 smaller regional airports throughout the US,... View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Disruptive Innovation; Product Launch; Industry Structures; Competition; Air Transportation Industry
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      • 2009
      • Book

      High Commitment, High Performance: How to Build a Resilient Organization for Sustained Advantage

      By: Michael Beer
      Integrating knowledge from strategic management, performance management, and organization design, strategic human resource expert and Harvard Business School Professor Michael Beer outlines what the high-commitment, high-performance organization looks like and provides... View Details
      Keywords: Human Resources; Leadership; Management; Goals and Objectives; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Performance; Practice; Business Strategy; System
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      • September 2013 (Revised August 2024)
      • Exercise

      Process Analytics Simulation: Solutions

      By: Robert S. Huckman, Aizan Radzi, Willy Shih, Roy D. Shapiro and Michael W. Toffel
      A set of exercises and instructions to be used with the Process Simulator software made by Pro Model. These exercises allow students to investigate the impact of variable processing times on the performance of simple in-line processes. Includes color exhibits. View Details
      Keywords: Operations; Business Processes; Performance; Measurement and Metrics
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      • 20 Sep 2010
      • Research & Ideas

      Power Posing: Fake It Until You Make It

      legs crossed tightly. Saliva samples taken before and after the posing measured testosterone and cortisol levels. To evaluate risk tolerance, participants were given $2 and told they could roll a die for even odds of winning $4. Finally,... View Details
      Keywords: by Julia Hanna
      • February 2020
      • Supplement

      Coaching Makena Lane

      By: Ethan Bernstein
      Video Supplement for "Coaching Makena Lane," product number 418-031. Videos include a collection of ~3 minute animated videos of 5 celebrity coaches answering the same 2 questions participants are asked in the teaching plan: 1. How would you evaluate Makena Lane’s... View Details
      Keywords: Executive Coaching; Leadership Style; Performance Evaluation; Personal Development and Career
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      • May 2021
      • Article

      Value-Based Healthcare in Urology: A Collaborative Review

      By: Chanan Reitblat, Paul A. Bain, Michael E. Porter, David N. Bernstein, Thomas W. Feeley, Markus Graefen, Santosh Iyer, Matthew J. Resnick, C.J. Stimson, Quoc-Dien Trinh and Boris Gershman
      Context:
      In response to growing concerns over rising costs and major variation in quality, improving value for patients has been proposed as a fundamentally new strategy for how healthcare should be delivered, measured, and... View Details
      Keywords: Value-based Healthcare; Integrated Practice Units; Outcome Measurement; Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Health Care and Treatment; Value; Cost Management; Strategy; Outcome or Result; Measurement and Metrics
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      • 22 Dec 2015
      • News

      Algorithms Need Managers, Too

      • TeachingInterests

      Program for Leadership Development

      By: Michael L. Tushman
      Accelerating the Careers of High-Potential Leaders

      Successful businesses know that investing in the next generation of leaders is critical to sustaining competitive advantage and achieving corporate growth over the long term. The Program for Leadership... View Details
      • October 2013 (Revised November 2021)
      • Case

      Cynthia Carroll at Anglo American (A)

      By: Gautam Mukunda, Lisa Mazzanti and Aldo Sesia
      In 2007, Cynthia Carroll, the newly-appointed chief executive of mining giant Anglo American, was considering shutting down mines in South Africa for safety reasons, namely worker fatalities. No company had ever done so before. Carroll felt that operating a company... View Details
      Keywords: Culture; Leadership; Gender; Safety; Working Conditions; Business Exit or Shutdown; Organizational Culture; Change Management; Mining; Mining Industry; South Africa
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      • April 2015 (Revised December 2015)
      • Case

      Resuscitating Monitter

      By: Benjamin Edelman and Wei Sun
      After a Twitter API change and policy change block his fledgling startup, solo entrepreneur Alex Holt evaluates his options. Should he double-down with a major investment in new servers, rewriting his app from scratch, and charging users for a service that he had... View Details
      Keywords: Platform Strategy; Envelopment; Dependence; Social Media; Business Strategy; Vertical Integration; Information Technology; Digital Platforms; Advertising Industry; Information Technology Industry; Australia
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      • Article

      The Learning Effects of Monitoring

      By: Dennis Campbell, Marc Epstein and F. Asis Martinez-Jerez
      This paper investigates the relationship between monitoring, decision making, and learning among lower-level employees. We exploit a field-research setting in which business units vary in the "tightness" with which they monitor employee decisions. We find that tighter... View Details
      Keywords: Learning; Business or Company Management; Decision Making; Employees; Research; Resignation and Termination; Rights; Business Units; Governance Controls; Performance; Motivation and Incentives
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      • 28 Feb 2018
      • Sharpening Your Skills

      Master the Team Meeting

      overhauling your meeting process won’t necessarily show positive results the very next meeting, and changing it too often could cause unrest, and even distrust if the rules of engagement keep changing. Have at least four to six meetings for a new routine to set in and... View Details
      Keywords: by Julia Austin