Publications

March 2021
Supplement

Toyota and Its Labor Union in Argentina (C)

By: Jorge Tamayo, Erik Snowberg and Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago

Toyota Argentina (TASA) and the union representing automotive industry workers in the country had been working together since 2011 to address the challenges faced by Toyota’s manufacturing plant in Zárate (Argentina). In 2019, after achieving all the goals set forward... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Alignment; Cooperation; Negotiation; Agreements and Arrangements; Labor Unions; Labor and Management Relations; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Goals and Objectives; Auto Industry; Latin America; South America; Argentina

January 27, 2024
Editorial

Critics of D.E.I. Forget That It Works

By: Caroline M. Elkins, Frances X. Frei and Anne Morriss

Keywords: Diversity

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October 2014
Article

Should a Female Director “Tone It Down”?

By: Boris Groysberg and Deborah Bell

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Article

Facebook Knows It Can't Offer More Privacy

By: Scott Duke Kominers

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August 1988
Case

ESAB AB: Toughing It Out (A) (Condensed)

May – June 1981
Article

Is Your Stock Worth Its Market Price?

By: W. E. Fruhan Jr. and Thomas R. Piper

Keywords: Stocks; Price; Value

September 2006 (Revised August 2007)
Case

The Dubai Ports World Debacle and its Aftermath

By: Julio J. Rotemberg

Describes the political ramifications in the United States of Dubai-based DP World's acquisition of London-based Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O). Because P&O operated some port terminals in the United States, DP World obtained clearance from the... View Details

Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Multinational Firms and Management; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government Legislation; National Security; Business and Government Relations; Ship Transportation; Dubai; United States

January 2021
Case

Toyota and Its Labor Union in Argentina (A)

By: Jorge Tamayo, Erik Snowberg and Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago

In 2011, Daniel Herrero, CEO of Toyota Argentina (TASA) since 2010, was about to meet with the Secretary-General of the union representing automotive industry workers in the country. The company produced vehicles in Argentina since 1997 at their plant at Zárate, and,... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing Performance; Bargaining; Production; Performance; Labor Unions; Labor and Management Relations; Fairness; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Auto Industry; Argentina

Aug 2017
Conference Presentation

Phd Life Lab—Treat It Like a Job

By: Hise O. Gibson, T. Johnson and T. Hewlin

1 Jan 1991
Conference Presentation

Gender Difference: What Difference Does it Make?

By: R. J. Ely

Keywords: Gender

Article

The Feeling of Not Knowing It All

By: Haiyang Yang, Ziv Carmon, Dan Ariely and Michael I. Norton

How do consumers assess their mastery of knowledge they have learned? We explore this question by investigating a common knowledge consumption situation: encountering opportunities for further learning. We argue and show that such opportunities can trigger a... View Details

Keywords: Knowledge Consumption; Consumption Of Learning; Judgment Of Knowledge; Feeling Ofknowing; Confidence In Knowledge; WYSIATI; FONKIA; Knowledge Acquisition; Learning; Perception

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November 2015
Article

Is a Start-Up's Strength Becoming Its Weakness?

By: Ramana Nanda and Liz Kind

June 1995 (Revised August 1995)
Background Note

Managing IT in the 1990s: Communications Technology

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Geoffrey Bock

Provides an overview of the basic technologies that comprise the communications infrastructure of a firm. Network architecture, wide area networks, local area networks, communication media, network protocols, and basic principles of data transmission over networks are... View Details

Keywords: Management; Information Technology; Communication Technology

November 1994 (Revised October 1995)
Case

Canadian Airlines: Reservations About Its Future (A)

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Duncan G. Copeland and Chris L Marshall

Keywords: Information Technology; Air Transportation Industry; Canada

March 1990 (Revised April 1990)
Supplement

IBM Corp.: ""Make It Your Business"" (B)

By: Robert L. Simons

Reveals the system changes that IBM adopted. Designed as an in-class handout after discussion of the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: System; Change; Computer Industry

April 1987 (Revised January 1988)
Background Note

Managing Information Technology: IT Organization and Leadership

By: Lynda M. Applegate

Keywords: Information Technology; Management; Infrastructure; Leadership

1996
Other Unpublished Work

Value-Added: How Your Customers Can Grasp It

By: Frank V. Cespedes

Keywords: Value Creation; Customers

November 2001
Article

Corporate Budgeting Is Broken, Let's Fix It

By: M. C. Jensen

Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Corporate Finance

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