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George Serafeim
George Serafeim is the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He co-leads a Lab, within Harvard's Digital, Data, Design Institute, that focuses on organizational transformation through major shifts, including those brought about by climate-related concerns, and how to maintain competitive performance while seizing new growth opportunities. He teaches...
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George C. Lodge
Professor Lodge had been a member of the Harvard Business School faculty since 1963. Before his retirement in 1997, he taught a number of courses in the MBA Master's Program and in various HBS executive programs. in the MBA program these included: Business, Government and the International Economy; Comparative Government Business Relations; Human Resources Management; Leadership, Values and...
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George A. Riedel
George A. Riedel is the Henry B. Arthur Fellow and Senior Lecturer in the General Management Unit, where he currently teaches TEM (The Entrepreneurial Manager) and acts as a Section Chair in the Required Curriculum (RC). He has also taught TOM (Technology and Operations Management) and LCA (Leadership and Corporate Accountability), each for several years in the RC. He was a co-founder to build...
- June 2002
- Case
Tale of Two Airlines in the Network Age: Or Why the Spirit of King George III Is Alive and Well!
Describes an airline service incident that ought not to have happened in the network age. Inadequate use of available technology creates service problems. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details
Keywords: Air Transportation; Information Management; Information Technology; Service Delivery; Problems and Challenges; Air Transportation Industry
McFarlan, F. Warren. "Tale of Two Airlines in the Network Age: Or Why the Spirit of King George III Is Alive and Well!" Harvard Business School Case 302-128, June 2002.
- December 1995 (Revised September 2001)
- Teaching Note
Tale of Two Airlines in the Information Age: Or Why the Spirit of King George III Is Alive and Well! TN
Teaching Note for (9-195-240). View Details
- July 2002
- Teaching Note
Tale of Two Airlines in the Network Age: Or Why the Spirit of King George III is Alive and Well!, TN
Teaching Note for (9-302-128). A rewritten version of an earlier teaching note. View Details
Keywords: Air Transportation Industry
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Survivorship and the Economic Grim Reaper
Robert E. Kennedy and George P. Baker III are studying the long-term equity market performance of firms that are no longer public entities. Firms are delisted for a variety of reasons, including liquidation, merger, and leveraged buyout. Although the short-term... View Details
- 23 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Founder of Modern Venture Capital
The exhibition, at Baker Library on the HBS campus, features selections from the Georges F. Doriot Collection—on permanent loan from the French Cultural Center, Boston—that... View Details
- 15 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next
centers into more nimble operations that can sustain its renewed brands far into the 21st Century. Nancy F. Koehn, James E. Robison Professor Of Business Administration: General Motors was formed in 1908, the same year Henry Ford brought... View Details
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
would always remind his visitors that good source material was the key to good history and would want to know what research collection they were using at Baker Library. His enthusiasm for the subject of business history, and for history... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- August 1989
- Case
McMullen and Worby (A) (Abridged)
By: George P. Baker III
Baker, George P., III. "McMullen and Worby (A) (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 190-025, August 1989.
- January 1990 (Revised October 1999)
- Teaching Note
RKO Warner Video, Inc.: Incentive Compensation Plan TN
By: George P. Baker III
Teaching Note for (9-190-067). View Details
- May 1989 (Revised March 1990)
- Case
Charles River Co.
By: George P. Baker III
Baker, George P., III. "Charles River Co." Harvard Business School Case 189-179, May 1989. (Revised March 1990.)
- September 1994 (Revised November 1997)
- Exercise
Employment and Social Welfare
By: George P. Baker III
Baker, George P., III. "Employment and Social Welfare." Harvard Business School Exercise 195-128, September 1994. (Revised November 1997.)
- April 1988 (Revised April 1988)
- Teaching Note
Wilkinson Transport (A) and (B), Teaching Note
By: George P. Baker III
Keywords: Transportation Industry
- October 1989 (Revised June 1993)
- Case
RKO Warner Video, Inc.: Incentive Compensation Plan
By: George P. Baker III
Details the design and implementation of an incentive bonus plan for video store managers. The problem for top management of the chain is to induce the store managers to "sweat the details," to keep the stores neat and well organized, and to deal courteously and... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Change; Strategic Planning; Performance Improvement; Sales; Management; Employee Relationship Management; Situation or Environment; Success; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
Baker, George P., III. "RKO Warner Video, Inc.: Incentive Compensation Plan." Harvard Business School Case 190-067, October 1989. (Revised June 1993.)
- March 1990 (Revised November 2004)
- Case
O.M. Scott & Sons Co. Leveraged Buyout
By: George P. Baker III and Karen Wruck
Documents the organizational changes that took place at O.M. Scott & Sons Co. in response to their leveraged buyout. Provides the opportunity for students to discuss the effects of high leverage on management decision making, and the differences between operating as a... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Capital Structure; Borrowing and Debt; Organizational Structure; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Management; Business Conglomerates; Cost of Capital; Financial Services Industry
Baker, George P., III, and Karen Wruck. "O.M. Scott & Sons Co. Leveraged Buyout." Harvard Business School Case 190-148, March 1990. (Revised November 2004.)
- June 1995
- Teaching Note
San Francisco Bay Consulting TN
By: George P. Baker III and Karin B Monsler
Teaching Note for (9-195-096). View Details
- June 1991
- Teaching Note
O.M. Scott & Sons Co. Leveraged Buyout, Teaching Note
By: George P. Baker III and Karen Wruck
Teaching Note for (9-190-148). View Details
Keywords: Financial Services Industry
- October 1994 (Revised April 1995)
- Case
Visionary Design Systems: Are Incentives Enough?
By: George P. Baker III and Karin B Monsler
A compensation case about Visionary Design Systems (VDS), a small, high-tech full service systems integration firm based in Silicon Valley with eleven offices throughout the country. All employees, including engineers, administrators, and receptionists, received a... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits; Compensation and Benefits; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; San Francisco
Baker, George P., III, and Karin B Monsler. "Visionary Design Systems: Are Incentives Enough?" Harvard Business School Case 495-011, October 1994. (Revised April 1995.)
- July 1994 (Revised April 1995)
- Case
San Francisco Bay Consulting
By: George P. Baker III and Karin B Monsler
San Francisco Bay Consulting leads the field of economic consulting and litigation support in the application of powerful computers and cutting edge software to manipulate and analyze large data sets. The transfer pricing system, used to facilitate the purchasing and... View Details
Keywords: Fair Value Accounting; Profit; Marketing; Fluctuation; Consulting Industry; Computer Industry
Baker, George P., III, and Karin B Monsler. "San Francisco Bay Consulting." Harvard Business School Case 195-096, July 1994. (Revised April 1995.)