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      • 2008
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      Embracing Commitment and Performance: CEOs and Practices Used to Manage Paradox

      By: Tobias Fredberg, Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote and Flemming Norrgren
      We tend to assume that great leaders must make difficult choices between two or more conflicting outcomes. In an interview study with 26 CEOs of top American and European companies (incl. IKEA, Campbell Soups, Nokia, H&M), we find that instead of choosing between... View Details
      Keywords: Leadership; Managerial Roles; Performance; Strategy; Management Practices and Processes; Decision Choices and Conditions
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      Fredberg, Tobias, Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote, and Flemming Norrgren. "Embracing Commitment and Performance: CEOs and Practices Used to Manage Paradox." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-052, January 2008.
      • 2008
      • Book

      Greater Good: How Good Marketing Makes for Better Democracy

      By: John A. Quelch and Katherine E. Jocz
      Marketing has a greater purpose, and marketers, a higher calling, than simply selling more widgets, according to John Quelch and Katherine Jocz. In "Greater Good", the authors contend that marketing performs an essential societal function—and does so democratically.... View Details
      Keywords: Economic Systems; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government and Politics; Marketing; Practice; Welfare
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      Quelch, John A., and Katherine E. Jocz. Greater Good: How Good Marketing Makes for Better Democracy. Boston: Harvard Business Press, 2008.
      • 2007
      • Working Paper

      What Have We Learned From Market Design?

      By: Alvin E. Roth
      This essay discusses some things we have learned about markets, in the process of designing marketplaces to fix market failures. To work well, marketplaces have to provide thickness, i.e. they need to attract a large enough proportion of the potential participants in... View Details
      Keywords: Market Design; Market Participation; Market Transactions; Risk and Uncertainty; Safety
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      Roth, Alvin E. "What Have We Learned From Market Design?" NBER Working Paper Series, No. 13530, October 2007.
      • September 2007 (Revised March 2009)
      • Exercise

      Pitch Yourself!

      By: Thomas J. Steenburgh and Michael I. Norton
      Helps students develop an elevator pitch for their most important asset—themselves. Before class students are asked to interview a potential employer and to develop preliminary elevator pitches. Once in class, students work through an exercise that helps them refine... View Details
      Keywords: Spoken Communication; Selection and Staffing; Job Interviews; Marketing; Personal Development and Career
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      Steenburgh, Thomas J., and Michael I. Norton. "Pitch Yourself!" Harvard Business School Exercise 508-039, September 2007. (Revised March 2009.)
      • February 2007 (Revised February 2007)
      • Case

      Wikipedia (A)

      By: Karim R. Lakhani and Andrew P. McAfee
      Wikipedia has emerged as a robust model for content production by volunteers working asynchronously on the Internet with a unconventional model for distributed decision making. The "Articles for Deletion" process in Wikipedia provides unique insight into the inner... View Details
      Keywords: Information Publishing; Information Management; Internet and the Web; Information Technology; Globalization; Service Delivery; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Management; Information Industry; Information Technology Industry
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      Lakhani, Karim R., and Andrew P. McAfee. "Wikipedia (A)." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 607-712, February 2007. (Revised February 2007.)
      • November 2006
      • Exercise

      Sell Yourself!

      By: Thomas J. Steenburgh and Michael I. Norton
      Helps students develop an effective sales pitch for their greatest asset--themselves. Also, broadens their understanding of how salespeople sell products and services. Before class, students are asked to interview a potential employer and to develop a preliminary sales... View Details
      Keywords: Marketing; Sales; Product; Service Operations; Interpersonal Communication; Personal Development and Career
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      Steenburgh, Thomas J., and Michael I. Norton. "Sell Yourself!" Harvard Business School Exercise 507-045, November 2006.
      • January 2005 (Revised August 2006)
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      Lean Forward Media

      By: Teresa M. Amabile and Victoria Winston
      Jeff Norton and Michelle Crames, the co-founders of Lean Forward Media, face several options for producing the world's first interactive DVD film for children. Their vision is to build a company whose products simultaneously entertain children, engage them actively in... View Details
      Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Early Childhood Education; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Management Practices and Processes; Risk Management; Partners and Partnerships; Opportunities; Creativity
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      Amabile, Teresa M., and Victoria Winston. "Lean Forward Media." Harvard Business School Case 805-063, January 2005. (Revised August 2006.)
      • July 2004 (Revised May 2009)
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      Getting Participant-centered Learning to Work

      By: Thomas R. Piper, James L. Heskett and Gustavo Herrero
      The newly appointed dean of a South American business school is eager to transform the learning process from the traditional lecture method to one that actively engages students and contributes to the development of critical managerial skills, attitudes, and world... View Details
      Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Business Education; Leading Change; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Alliances; Education Industry; South America
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      Piper, Thomas R., James L. Heskett, and Gustavo Herrero. "Getting Participant-centered Learning to Work." Harvard Business School Case 805-007, July 2004. (Revised May 2009.)
      • August 2002
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      Creativity Under the Gun

      By: Teresa Amabile, Constance N. Hadley and Steven J. Kramer
      If you're like most managers, you've worked with people who swear they do their most creative work under tight deadlines. You may use pressure as a management technique, believing it will spur people on to great leaps of insight. You may even manage yourself this way.... View Details
      Keywords: Creativity; Innovation and Invention; Time Management; Working Conditions; Performance Evaluation
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      Amabile, Teresa, Constance N. Hadley, and Steven J. Kramer. "Creativity Under the Gun." Special Issue on The Innovative Enterprise: Turning Ideas into Profits. Harvard Business Review 80, no. 8 (August 2002): 52–61.
      • July 2002
      • Supplement

      Discount & Hawkins Openings: Video Highlights

      By: Michael A. Wheeler
      This case shows the interactions between two quite different pairs of negotiators, both engaged in working through the final leasing clause between a mall developer and its anchor tenant. It highlights the importance of openings to frame and shape the entire course of... View Details
      Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Negotiation; Leasing; Renting or Rental; Competition
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      Wheeler, Michael A. "Discount & Hawkins Openings: Video Highlights." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 903-801, July 2002.
      • December 1998
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      Pioneer Hi-Bred: Turning Seeds Into Factories

      By: F. Warren McFarlan and Melissa Dailey
      The agricultural sector is among the preeminent information technology users in our economy," exclaimed an August 1998 Forbes ASAP survey of the U.S. economy's best and worst users of information technology (IT). The survey designated Pioneer Hi-Bred International,... View Details
      Keywords: Agribusiness; Multinational Firms and Management; Information Management; Infrastructure; Business Strategy; Information Technology; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Iowa
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      McFarlan, F. Warren, and Melissa Dailey. "Pioneer Hi-Bred: Turning Seeds Into Factories." Harvard Business School Case 399-095, December 1998.
      • March 1991 (Revised August 1994)
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      Berkshire Partners

      By: Cynthia A. Montgomery
      Berkshire Partners is a limited partnership engaged in the acquisition of companies valued between $25 million and $250 million. The purpose of the case is to examine the resources of the firm and discuss the firm's competitive advantage vis-a-vis other types of... View Details
      Keywords: Working Capital; Partners and Partnerships; Competitive Advantage; Acquisition; Corporate Finance
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      Montgomery, Cynthia A. "Berkshire Partners." Harvard Business School Case 391-091, March 1991. (Revised August 1994.)
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      Business Leaders and the Social Sector

      By: James E. Austin
      This research involed a multifaceted, multi-year study of corporate and business leader involvement in the social sector. This examined: the extent and nature of, and motivation for, Harvard Business School graduates' involvement with nonprofit and social-sector ... View Details
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      Competitive Strategy

      By: Michael E. Porter

      Porter is engaged in a major new body of work on the theoretical foundations of competitive positioning and the underpinnings of sustainable competitive advantage. This research highlights the distinction between positioning and operational effectiveness; the... View Details

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      Corporate Social Entrepreneurship

      By: James E. Austin
      This research is examining the process by which companies engage in strategic corporate social responsibility as an integral part of their enterprise strategy and operations. The research has conceptualized this process as entreprenurial in nature and defined it as... View Details
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      Cultural Entrepreneurship and the Business of the Arts

      By: Rohit Deshpande
      A more recent research program focuses on creating and managing ventures connected with the arts and culture. This research extends the concept of Customer-Centricity into the context of Audience Engagement. This primarily case-based work explores how successful... View Details
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      Developing Yourself as a Leader

      By: Ethan S. Bernstein
      This course is an online leadership development program for the next generation of leaders (high-potential emerging leaders with rougly 7-15 years of work experience). Over 12 dynamic, high-impact weeks, a cohort of emerging leaders from around the globe engages... View Details
      Keywords: Leadership; Leadership Development And Career Planning; Self-assessment; Self-awareness; Design Thinking; Communication; Career Advancement; Leadership Development; Personal Development and Career
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      Hybrid organizing

      By: Julie Battilana

      While historically the commercial and social sectors have evolved on fairly separate tracks, over the last 30 years we have witnessed a blurring of the boundaries between these two sectors. In an effort to account for this transition, Professor Battilana’s second... View Details

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      Making Markets Work: An Executive Education Program for Africa

      By: Debora L. Spar
      In the last decades of the 20th century economic growth was distributed unevenly across the world. While some countries experienced sustained and unprecedented prosperity, others fell further and further behind. This widening gap was particularly evident in Africa,... View Details
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      Managing Human Capital

      By: Ethan S. Bernstein

      The Managing Human Capital course has been specifically designed to teach practical skills for the future general manager (not just the human resource practitioner) who seeks to manage both other people and her or his own career with optimal... View Details

      Keywords: Human Capital; Hiring; Socialization; Performance Management; Compensation And Benefits; Talent Development And Retention; Structure; Career Management; Human Resources; Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Organizations; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Africa; Asia; Europe; Middle East; Latin America; North and Central America; South America
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