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      • 19 Nov 2004
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      Excellence in practice: unsolved mysteries and research questions from the field." Presenter. "The 2004 Ruffin Lectures: Business Ethics and Business Excellence

      By: Lynn S. Paine
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      Paine, Lynn S. Excellence in practice: unsolved mysteries and research questions from the field." Presenter. "The 2004 Ruffin Lectures: Business Ethics and Business Excellence. , Charlottesville, VA, November 19, 2004.
      • 2003
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      Equity Financing

      By: Paul Gompers and Joshua Lerner
      Equity financing for entrepreneurial firms has attracted increasing attention in both the popular press and academic literature. The dramatic growth in the venture capital industry in the past two decades has been accompanied by new academic research that explores... View Details
      Keywords: Angel Investors; Financing and Loans; Equity; Venture Capital; Business Startups
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      Gompers, Paul, and Joshua Lerner. "Equity Financing." In Handbook of Entrepreneurship Research: An Interdisciplinary Survey and Introduction, by Zoltan J. Acs and David B. Audretsch, 267–298. Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003.
      • December 2002
      • Article

      Business Enterprises and Global Worlds

      By: G. Jones
      The role of business enterprise in integrating economies is one of the central historical themes of the last two centuries. Although globalization—both in its current iteration and in its nineteenth-century form—has been widely studied, the role of the firm, as opposed... View Details
      Keywords: Macroeconomics; Multinational Firms and Management; Organizations; Emerging Markets; Behavior; Business Ventures; United States
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      Jones, G. "Business Enterprises and Global Worlds." Enterprise & Society 3, no. 4 (December 2002): 581–605.
      • November 2002 (Revised March 2010)
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      The Newsprint Industry

      By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Nabil I. Al-Najjar and James Pyke
      Describes the 1990s consolidation on the newsprint industry. Questions whether consolidation will ever deliver on its promise. Whereas some industry observers maintain that the effects of consolidation are already visible, others argue that further consolidation is... View Details
      Keywords: Five Forces Framework; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Monopoly; Mathematical Methods; Competition; Consolidation; Pulp and Paper Industry
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      Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, Nabil I. Al-Najjar, and James Pyke. "The Newsprint Industry." Harvard Business School Case 703-404, November 2002. (Revised March 2010.)
      • July 2002 (Revised March 2005)
      • Case

      Kendall Square Research Corporation (A) (Abridged)

      By: William J. Bruns Jr. and F. Warren McFarlan
      Kendall Square Research was a small competitor in the supercomputer industry. Sales grew rapidly in 1992 and early 1993, and the company sold stock to the public for the first time. Analysts forecasted higher earnings for 1993, then the company's revenue recognition... View Details
      Keywords: Revenue Recognition; Standards; Accounting Audits; Computer Industry
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      Bruns, William J., Jr., and F. Warren McFarlan. "Kendall Square Research Corporation (A) (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 303-036, July 2002. (Revised March 2005.)
      • June 2002
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      Complexity Theory and Negotiation

      By: Michael A. Wheeler and Gillian Morris
      This case highlights an application of current thoughts in complexity science to negotiation theory. It emphasizes a provocative approach that questions much of traditional negotiation research thus far. The case explains the roots of complexity science and some broad... View Details
      Keywords: Complexity; Negotiation Tactics; Outcome or Result; Interpersonal Communication
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      Wheeler, Michael A., and Gillian Morris. "Complexity Theory and Negotiation." Harvard Business School Background Note 902-230, June 2002.
      • November 2001 (Revised December 2002)
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      Tracking Stocks at Genzyme (A)

      By: Malcolm S. Salter
      Genzyme, a tracking stock pioneer, has used its innovative capital structure as a way to frame and grow its R&D-intensive business. Facing the question of how best to integrate a new acquisition into its tracking stock structure, Genzyme's top management is forced to... View Details
      Keywords: Integration; Value Creation; Motivation and Incentives; Conflict of Interests; Stocks; Capital Structure; Research and Development; Corporate Governance; Biotechnology Industry
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      Salter, Malcolm S. "Tracking Stocks at Genzyme (A)." Harvard Business School Case 902-023, November 2001. (Revised December 2002.)
      • May 2001
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      The Open Source Movement: Key Research Questions

      By: Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole
      The paper analyzes the incentives of individual programmers and of commercial companies to participate in open source projects. While these incentives are in our opinion well accounted for by the economic paradigm, much empirical and theoretical work is still needed to... View Details
      Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Open Source Distribution
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      Lerner, Josh, and Jean Tirole. "The Open Source Movement: Key Research Questions." Special Issue on Papers and Proceedings of the 15th Congress of the European Economic Association European Economic Review 45, nos. 4-6 (May 2001): 819–826.
      • October 1998
      • Background Note

      Welfare-to-Work Information and Statistics

      By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Ellen Pruyne
      Summarizes information on the national issue of hiring people from the welfare roles. Organized by topics relevant to business, this note reviews research findings and statistics and poses questions to assist business decision-makers in assessing a company's current or... View Details
      Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Recruitment; Risk Management; Planning; Programs; Research; Welfare
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      Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Ellen Pruyne. "Welfare-to-Work Information and Statistics." Harvard Business School Background Note 399-064, October 1998.
      • May 1998
      • Teaching Note

      Development Relationships TN

      By: David A. Thomas and Emily Heaphy
      The final class of the Career Development module of the Self-Assessment and Career Development course (SACD) uses the topic of mentoring and developmental relationships to encourage students to think beyond the point of finding and accepting a suitable job offer. The... View Details
      Keywords: Decisions; Curriculum and Courses; Job Offer; Personal Development and Career; Relationships; Strategy
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      Thomas, David A., and Emily Heaphy. "Development Relationships TN." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 498-071, May 1998.
      • September 1993 (Revised June 1994)
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      Hewlett-Packard: Singapore (A)

      By: Dorothy A. Leonard
      In the over 20 years since Hewlett-Packard (HP) set up a manufacturing site in Singapore to produce calculators, HP has invested managerial talent and resources in developing its licensor into a technology development partner. The case details the growth of high-volume... View Details
      Keywords: Information Technology; Multinational Firms and Management; Market Entry and Exit; Competency and Skills; Research and Development; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Product Development; Computer Industry; Singapore
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      Leonard, Dorothy A. "Hewlett-Packard: Singapore (A)." Harvard Business School Case 694-035, September 1993. (Revised June 1994.)
      • February 1985 (Revised September 1988)
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      Caterpillar Tractor Co.

      By: Christopher A. Bartlett
      Describes the structure and evolution of the earth moving equipment industry worldwide in the post war era, particularly focusing on developments in the 1960s and 1970s. Describes Caterpillar's strategy in becoming the dominant worldwide competitor (industry market... View Details
      Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Strategy; Manufacturing Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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      Bartlett, Christopher A. "Caterpillar Tractor Co." Harvard Business School Case 385-276, February 1985. (Revised September 1988.)
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      AI Companions Reduce Loneliness

      By: Julian De Freitas, Zeliha Oğuz-Uğuralp, Ahmet K. Uğuralp and Stefano Puntoni
      Chatbots are now able to engage in sophisticated conversations with consumers in the domain of relationships, providing a potential coping solution to widescale societal loneliness. Behavioral research provides little insight into whether these applications are... View Details
      Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Well-being; Emotions; Applications and Software
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      De Freitas, Julian, Zeliha Oğuz-Uğuralp, Ahmet K. Uğuralp, and Stefano Puntoni. "AI Companions Reduce Loneliness." Journal of Consumer Research (in press).
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      Compensatory Transfers in Collective Decision Making

      By: Jerry R. Green
      Jerry R. Green is studying mechanisms that can be employed to promote efficient collective decisions while providing justifiable compensation to participants who favor different, less efficient alternatives. This type of decision problem is pervasive in business,... View Details
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      Competing business models

      By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell
      Building on the literatures on competitive positioning and the theory of industrial organization, my work seeks to tackle previously unaddressed questions by studying situations where firms compete in dissimilar ways. Some examples of these questions include:View Details
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      Current Research

      By: Leslie K. John

      Professor John is a behavioral scientist who uses both laboratory and field experiments to investigate questions that are at the intersection of marketing, organizational behavior, and public policy.

      Professor John’s work has been published in leading... View Details

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      Developing Organizational Capabilities to Compete

      By: Michael Beer

      Michael Beer’s current research focuses on the question of what makes an Effective Organization. Based on his extensive research and practice about this question Beer has identified six highly interrelated core capabilities:

      1. Capacity of the... View Details
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      Digital Transformation

      By: Sunil Gupta

      The fact that digital technology disrupts existing businesses is no longer news. We have seen and heard many case studies of incumbents struggling in the digital age as new and nimble players emerge with innovative business models. How should large established... View Details

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      Financing New Business Formation

      By: Paul A. Gompers
      New business creation has become a potent force for economicdevelopment in the United States. Prior to 1980, large firms created the majority of new jobs in the American economy. While considerable debate rages over whether small firms are the source of recent job... View Details
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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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