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  • 06 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

contracts are structured as a repeated tournament with no carryover of performance across periods, we predict and find that workers subject to implicit rewards (penalties) exhibit performance reactions that counterbalance those of workers... View Details
  • 31 Mar 2002
  • Research & Ideas

You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It

departments, simplification of strategic-planning and capital budgeting processes, and massive overhauls of corporate structures and processes—all in an effort both to shift initiative to those deep in the... View Details
Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal
  • 12 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Facing the New World Order

Porter, Director of the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business School: I'd like to focus though, just to be brief here, on really some of the main findings on the microeconomic and corporate side of the equation,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 11 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The New International Style of Management

me, in either a team or a one-on-one setting." Continues Klump, "I understood enough of Chinese culture to know that you rarely, if ever, confront someone in a group setting, as maintaining face is important. So I waited to have a one-on-one session with my... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • January 1985 (Revised February 1997)
  • Case

Lotus Development Corp.

By: William A. Sahlman
Contains a description of the history and venture capital financing of Lotus Development. Focuses on issues related to the possible terms of investment in Lotus by a major venture capital firm. The pedagogic objectives in the case are: to explore the elements of the... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Business or Company Management; Venture Capital; Organizational Structure; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Outcome or Result; Corporate Finance; Planning; Computer Industry
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  • February 2020
  • Case

Klöckner & Co: Steeling for a Digital World

By: Scott Duke Kominers and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Hoping to get ahead of potential digital disruption at Klöckner & Co.—one of the world’s largest steel and metal distributors—CEO Gisbert Rühl set up both kloeckner.i (KCI), an internal transformation arm, and XOM Materials (XOM), an independent industry platform. KCI... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Market Design; Digital Platforms; Markets; Industry Structures; Supply and Industry; Technology Adoption; Transformation; Digital Transformation; Steel Industry; Information Technology Industry; Europe; Germany
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  • June 1997 (Revised February 2000)
  • Case

Walker and Company: Profit Plan Decisions

By: Robert L. Simons and Ramsey Walker
Ramsey Walker, a second-year MBA student, must decide how to control a family business as an absentee owner. After providing background details on the publishing industry, the case requires the reader to: 1) make a product segmentation decision; 2) prepare a profit... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Structure; Family and Family Relationships; Market Design; Management Systems; Planning; Profit; Performance Evaluation; Segmentation; Corporate Strategy; Investment Return; Publishing Industry
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  • March 2010
  • Case

Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2007

By: Jan W. Rivkin, Michael Roberto and Ranjay Gulati
In the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Robert Mueller, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), sought to transform the storied Bureau. The FBI had long served as both the chief law enforcement agency and the main domestic intelligence wing of the... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Organizational Structure; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Government Administration; National Security; Corporate Strategy; Knowledge Acquisition; Law Enforcement; Public Administration Industry; United States
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  • 01 Jun 1996
  • News

Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course

endeavor, McCraw and Koehn recall with a shared laugh. "We had endless debates with our colleagues inside and outside our unit about how the course should be structured and which countries should be chosen for inclusion," McCraw notes.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 06 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?

for Linux to take over Windows. The questions that we address are: Is Linux's superior demand-side learning sufficient to win out? What is the effect of forced procurement by governments and some large corporations on the long-run... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
  • 20 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

stock returns can be a consequence of commonality in trading behavior. Corporate Honesty and Business Education: A Behavioral Model Authors:Rakesh Khurana and Herbert Gintis Publication:Moral Markets: The Critical Role of Values in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • October 2017
  • Supplement

Snap Inc. Goes Public (B)

By: Lynn Sharp Paine and Will Hurwitz
Supplements the (A) case.

Snap Inc.’s chairman must decide how to address investor concerns about the company’s unprecedented plans to issue only non-voting shares in its upcoming IPO. View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Capital Structure; Corporate Accountability; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance; Going Public; Business and Shareholder Relations; Leadership; Management; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Venture Capital; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Information Technology Industry; United States; California
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  • 19 Apr 2018
  • Blog Post

Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

financing for local companies – and ultimately contribute to private sector development. Moving forward and making a big impact Through these two internships and my joint degree education, I have decided that the International Finance View Details
  • 26 May 2015
  • Blog Post

5 Ways the Case Method Changes How You Learn

support your argument. This usually involves analyzing financial statements, corporate memos, legal documents, etc. That is how part of the learning takes place. The major part of learning comes from the... View Details
  • December 2010 (Revised March 2012)
  • Teaching Note

Alibaba Group

By: Julie M. Wulf
Teaching Note for 710436. View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Business Subsidiaries; Competition; Motivation and Incentives; Internet and the Web; Growth and Development; Corporate Strategy; Organizational Structure; Retail Industry; China
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  • 04 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55322 forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Governance Through Shame and Aspiration: Index Creation and Corporate Behavior By: Chattopadhyay, Akash, Matthew D. Shaffer, and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Nov 1999
  • Lessons from the Classroom

What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century

industries that can be anybody, anywhere. While some observers have dismissed the phenomenon as exclusive to "a few crazy Internet companies in California," the reality is this: the value of corporate incumbency these days is... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 20 Sep 2016
  • First Look

September 20, 2016

visualize and communicate a wide range of patient outcomes and cost for three forms of prostate cancer treatment. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51627 Firm Selection and Corporate Cash Holdings By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 14

Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-054.pdf Diversification Create Value in the Presence of External Financing Constraints? Evidence from the 2007-2009 Financial Crisis Authors:Venkat Kuppuswamy and Belén Villalonga Abstract We show that the value of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 7

traditional corporate social responsibility, the recent wave of CEO activism focuses on social issues unrelated to their core business, ranging from environmental issues to LGBT rights and race relations. Using two field experiments we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne