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  • November 2001 (Revised April 2002)
  • Case

Taking Charge at Dogus Holding (A)

By: Rakesh Khurana, Gina Carioggia and Simon Johnson
Describes 37-year-old Ferit Sahenk's challenges in taking over his father's traditionally managed $14 billion Turkish conglomerate in a period of economic instability. Leading the large holding company into the 21st century will require the establishment of a more... View Details
Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Trade; Competitive Strategy; Decision Making; Leadership; Performance Effectiveness; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Family Business; Change Management; Turkey
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  • Profile

Aline Camargo

MBA. With that deeper knowledge about my personality, I could plan more precisely a career path to leverage my strengths and I started working on improving some of my weaknesses that could affect my effectiveness as a professional going... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products; Retail; Entertainment / Media
  • November 1998 (Revised December 1998)
  • Case

Asea Brown Boveri (Condensed)

By: Robert L. Simons
The merger of Asea AB and BBC Brown Boveri required a restructuring of operations and a change in organizational cultures. Competitive success also necessitated the benefits of scale while remaining "local" for political and customer-responsiveness reasons. The case... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Mergers and Acquisitions; Restructuring; Cost vs Benefits; Competitive Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Growth and Development; Performance Effectiveness; Consumer Products Industry
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  • February 2004 (Revised January 2005)
  • Case

Hewlett-Packard: Culture in Changing Times

By: Michael Beer, Rakesh Khurana and James Weber
HP had been a highly successful and respected company for decades. It was well known for its company culture and management practices--the HP way--which emphasized both profits and people. Changing markets, strong competitors, and the growth of its computer business,... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Decision Choices and Conditions; Human Resources; Leading Change; Managerial Roles; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Performance Effectiveness; Adoption; Competition
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  • 13 Oct 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders

Women don't have a problem developing an effective leadership style. What they do struggle with more than men, however, is claiming the authority to lead, according to Hannah Riley Bowles and Kathleen L. McGinn. The gender gap in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 29 Dec 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Read Our Most Popular Research Stories of 2019

dynamic distinction helps for understanding whether and how sustainability practices can help companies establish a competitive advantage over time. The Economic Effects of Private Equity Buyouts This study of 6,000 private equity buyouts... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • April 2007
  • Article

Wintel: Cooperation and Conflict

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and David B. Yoffie
We study competitive interactions between Intel and Microsoft, two producers of complementary products. In a system of complements, like the PC, the value of the final product depends on how well the different components work together. This, in turn, depends on the... View Details
Keywords: Conflict and Resolution; Competition; Cooperation; Value; Performance Effectiveness; Research and Development; Motivation and Incentives; Investment; Price; Product Launch; Product
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  • January 2010
  • Teaching Note

Transforming ASUSTeK: Breaking from the Past (TN)

By: Willy C. Shih
Teaching Note for [610041]. View Details
Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Transformation; Contracts; Production; Product Design; Customers; Competition; Management Practices and Processes; Value; Performance Effectiveness; Brands and Branding; Disruptive Innovation; Computer Industry; Electronics Industry
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  • 01 Sep 2018
  • News

Research Brief: Where Top-Down Tops Out

Raffaella Sadun (photo by Russ Campbell) Raffaella Sadun (photo by Russ Campbell) In the face of economic challenges, hospitals in the English National Health Service have turned to a strategy that has proven effective for small private... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
  • 05 Jun 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Fixing the ‘I Hate Work’ Blues

solution to this dilemma? I believe we need to restructure large organizations by giving much more responsibility and authority to first-line workers and paying them accordingly—with appropriate performance incentives. We need to trust... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 22 Jan 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Why You Are Unhappy at Work

importance of being supportive. Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers A productive workplace can be easily disrupted by one unruly employee. Here's what companies can do to detox the problem-makers. If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 24

Search Engine Results By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Zhenyu Lai Abstract—The authors examine prominent placement of search engines' own services and effects on users' choices. Evaluating a natural experiment in which different results were... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Mar 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down

mountaineering expeditions and firefighting crews. We've found that for change to stick, leaders must design and run an effective persuasion campaign—one that begins weeks or months before the actual turnaround plan is set in concrete.... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
  • 02 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Success of Persistent Entrepreneurs

likely to be successful in their next venture-backed firm. “There is support for the view that some component of performance persistence stems from 'success breeding success.'” These effects are large and... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 01 Jun 1998
  • News

Short Takes

positive motivational value, how employees at lower levels viewed the fairness of incentive plans, and whether incentives had an effect on corporate performance. The results were surprising. Most noteworthy: making pay contingent on View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
  • 19 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

arise from operating performance, leverage, and the effect of large cash holdings (in Bata). In doing so, students learn the components of the traditional and modified DuPont frameworks and how to analyze financial statements to better... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 30 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 30, 2016

variation generated by the experimental treatments, we model sales force performance to identify the effectiveness of various forms of conditional and unconditional compensation. We account for salesperson... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Dec 2011
  • News

Faculty Books

organizational performance is substantial and quantifiable. An effective business culture can account for up to half of the performance differential between organizations in... View Details
Keywords: Utilities
  • 10 Jun 2021
  • Blog Post

Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Cofounders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke

trends emerging. “Most companies I worked with received an increasing amount of inbound questions for greater disclosure on their ESG performance from their lenders, shareholders and regulators, but were often ill-equipped to provide... View Details
  • Web

Rewiring the Workplace: Behavioral Economics and the Future of Inclusive Organizations - Blog: RGE Report

performance . So, both of these studies show us that beliefs have a reciprocal effect between employee and employer, wherein both reinforce problematic stereotypes about themselves and others. Though these... View Details