Publications

Educators

April 1990 (Revised April 1992)
Supplement

Ad Council's AIDS Campaign (B): Program Adoption

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Janet Montgomery

The answer to the (A) case. Explains Ad Council's plan. Outlines alliance with American Advertising Federation to enlist support of local Ad clubs, media presentation, and implementation strategy. View Details

Keywords: Health Disorders; Advertising Campaigns; Advertising Industry

September 1999
Case

Hewlett-Packard Global Alliance Program (B): Managing Alliances

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter

Keywords: Alliances; Information Technology Industry

March 1994
Supplement

Bose Corp.: The JIT II Program (D)

By: Roy D. Shapiro and Bruce Isaacson

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Electronics Industry

2008
Working Paper

Resolving Information Asymmetries in Markets: The Role of Certified Management Programs

By: Michael W. Toffel

Firms and regulators are increasingly relying on voluntary mechanisms to signal and infer quality of difficult-to-observe management practices. Prior evaluations of voluntary management programs have focused on those that lack verification mechanisms and have found... View Details

Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Information; Standards; Performance Improvement; Programs; Environmental Sustainability; Manufacturing Industry; United States

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May 2018 (Revised January 2019)
Teaching Note

Designing a Compliance Program at AB InBev

By: Eugene Soltes

Teaching Note for HBS No. 118-071. View Details

Keywords: Governance; Crime and Corruption; Governance Compliance; Consumer Products Industry; Africa; Europe; India; North America

August 1994
Case

Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.: The Kaizen Program

By: Robin Cooper and Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Energy Industry

November 1987 (Revised January 1988)
Case

Wickes Lumber: The Affordable Homes Program (B)

June 1986 (Revised January 1988)
Case

Wickes Lumber: The Affordable Homes Program (A)

March 1994
Case

Bose Corp.: The JIT II Program (A)

By: Roy D. Shapiro and Bruce Isaacson

Bose Corp. is evaluating an unusual plan to manage relationships with vendors that supply components for Bose speakers. The company must decide: 1) which planning and ordering activities should be performed by Bose and which can be performed by vendors, 2) how much... View Details

Keywords: Supply Chain Management; Planning; Production; Alliances; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Electronics Industry

Educators

January 1993
Supplement

MCC: The Packaging and Interconnect Program (B)

By: Dorothy A. Leonard

September 1977
Supplement

Managing the U.S. Supersonic Transport Program (B)

August 2006 (Revised March 2007)
Background Note

Developing an Effective Living Group in the General Management Program

By: Michael Beer and John J. Gabarro

Discusses the importance of living room groups (eight participants who share a living room) at Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program developing into effective learning groups. The diversity of the groups is a strength, but only a conscious and concerted... View Details

Keywords: Groups and Teams

2003
Article

A-12 Termination Sets Harmful Precedent for Defense Programs

By: J. Ronald Fox

Keywords: Programs

29 Nov 2016
Working Paper Summaries

Fiscal Risk and the Portfolio of Government Programs

Keywords: by Samuel G. Hanson, David S. Scharfstein, and Adi Sunderam

August 2017 (Revised September 2018)
Case

Accounting Turbulence at Boeing

By: Jonas Heese, Suraj Srinivasan, David Lane and James Barnett

Unlike its rival Airbus, Boeing had used a practice called program accounting to record its commercial aircraft expenses since the 1980s. Program accounting allowed Boeing to expense estimated average costs instead of the actual production costs of an aircraft. This... View Details

Keywords: Asset Recognition; Program Accounting; Airline Industry; Accounting; Production; Cost; Air Transportation Industry

Educators

1980
Book

Confronting Urban Malnutrition: the design of nutrition programs

By: James E. Austin

Keywords: Urban Scope; Food; Nutrition; Programs

August 1994 (Revised May 1999)
Teaching Note

Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.: The Kaizen Program TN

By: Robin Cooper and Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Programs; Energy Industry

Article

Why Compliance Programs Fail: And How to Fix Them

By: Hui Chen and Eugene Soltes

Firms spend millions of dollars annually on whistle-blower hotlines, training, and other efforts to ensure adherence to laws, regulations, and company policies. Yet malfeasance remains entrenched in the corporate world. Why? Too many firms treat compliance as a... View Details

Keywords: Governance Compliance; Programs; Employees; Training; Performance Effectiveness; Measurement and Metrics

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September 2021
Article

Kidney Exchange: An Operations Perspective

By: Itai Ashlagi and Alvin E. Roth

Many patients in need of a kidney transplant have a willing but incompatible (or poorly matched) living donor. Kidney exchange programs arrange exchanges among such patient-donor pairs, in cycles and chains of exchange, so each patient receives a compatible kidney.... View Details

Keywords: Kidney Exchange Programs; Matching; Health Disorders; Health Care and Treatment; Programs; Design