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- 08 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs
potential profit drivers rather than the first troops to cut in a downturn. Ton's working paper, "The Effect of Labor on Profitability: The Role of Quality", examines how mundane activities such as stocking shelves, setting up displays,...
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- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
will do a much cheaper, faster job of attacking our energy and environment problems than having politicians and regulators try to solve them by selecting technologies or...
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- February 2011
- Case
ABICI
By: Mukti Khaire, Elena Corsi and Elisa Farri
The co-founder of an Italian, design based bicycle manufacturer evaluates if reducing costs by outsourcing would impact its brand. The company was founded in 2005 in Italy by three friends and in its first five years, it had enjoyed steady growth and built a strong...
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- 1997
- Chapter
Environmental Determinants of Work Motivation, Creativity, and Innovation: The Case of R&D Downsizing
By: T. M. Amabile and R. Conti
Keywords:
Job Cuts and Outsourcing;
Research and Development;
Working Conditions;
Motivation and Incentives;
Creativity;
Innovation and Invention
Amabile, T. M., and R. Conti. "Environmental Determinants of Work Motivation, Creativity, and Innovation: The Case of R&D Downsizing." In Technological Innovation: Oversights and Foresights, edited by Raghu Garud, Praveen Rattan Nayyar, and Zur Baruch Shapira. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
- January 2003 (Revised April 2004)
- Case
Cat is out of the Bag, The: KANA and the Layoff Gone Awry (A)
By: Leslie A. Perlow and David Ager
Vicki Amon-Higa, vice president of KANA, a publicly traded, midsize development company, was working with Bryan Kettle, KANA's CFO, to plan a layoff in which KANA would reduce the size of its workforce by nearly 40%. Despite the best of intentions, news of the layoff...
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Keywords:
Crisis Management;
Employees;
Job Cuts and Outsourcing;
Problems and Challenges;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Conflict Management
Perlow, Leslie A., and David Ager. "Cat is out of the Bag, The: KANA and the Layoff Gone Awry (A)." Harvard Business School Case 403-117, January 2003. (Revised April 2004.)
- 09 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
"A Balance Between Autonomy and Resources to Help Me Learn."
supply chain. Reflecting on the search experience, Jon noted “The big, important thing was figuring out what I was most interested in. There are a lot of things you can prioritize, like lining up your first job after graduation, or...
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Manufacturing
- August 2012
- Case
Danshui Plant No. 2
By: William Bruns, Julie H. Hertenstein and Kelvin Liu
Danshui Plant No. 2 in southern China has a one-year contract with Apple Inc. to assemble 2.4 million iPhones. In the first three months of the contract, the plant is unable to assemble as many phones as expected and is operating at a loss. The plant manager must...
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Keywords:
Job Cuts and Outsourcing;
Production;
Budgets and Budgeting;
Manufacturing Industry;
Electronics Industry;
China
Bruns, William, Julie H. Hertenstein, and Kelvin Liu. "Danshui Plant No. 2." Harvard Business School Brief Case 913-525, August 2012.
- December 2010 (Revised June 2014)
- Supplement
eBay Partner Network — slide supplement
By: Benjamin Edelman
eBay considers adjustments to the structure and rules of its affiliate marketing program, eBay Partner Network (ePN). In particular, eBay reevaluates affiliate compensation structure, the role of bonuses for especially productive affiliates, and the overall rationale...
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- 19 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2023
story. How KKR Got More by Giving Ownership to the Factory Floor: ‘My Kids Are Going to College!’KKR turned around a struggling door company and sold it for 10 times its investment—giving factory workers a life-changing View Details
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by Danielle Kost
- 01 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?
At age 32—feeling far removed from the violent street crimes that had consumed his teens and 20s—Larry Miller just knew he was nailing a job interview with a senior partner at Arthur Andersen. That is, until...
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- 08 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?
quality nowadays. That young candidates are being selected for the most prestigious and critical positions in the NFL means, to some extent, that they are bypassing older colleagues for job opportunities....
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- September 2008 (Revised October 2012)
- Case
Tong Lung Metal Industry Co., Ltd.
By: Willy C. Shih, Chintay Shih, Chen-Fu Chien, Ho Howard Yu and Yu-Shian Chiang
Develop its own branded line, or continue as an original design manufacturer (ODM)? Tung Lung Metal Industries Co. Ltd. is a Taiwanese maker of door lock hardware that is faced with the question of whether to continue to focus on its ODM business or start placing more...
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Keywords:
Globalized Markets and Industries;
Job Cuts and Outsourcing;
Brands and Branding;
Corporate Strategy;
Industrial Products Industry;
Taiwan
Shih, Willy C., Chintay Shih, Chen-Fu Chien, Ho Howard Yu, and Yu-Shian Chiang. "Tong Lung Metal Industry Co., Ltd." Harvard Business School Case 609-034, September 2008. (Revised October 2012.)
- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
can earn in an hour of work. Therefore, if height is taxed, you are taxing ability directly, so you can cut the economic pie more equally without it shrinking." Both topping six feet, Weinzierl and...
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by Martha Lagace
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
year we set up a recording tent on Spangler lawn and asked alumni returning for reunions a simple question. What was your first job and what did it teach you? The first...
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- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
utilize diverse levels of analysis. Paper: http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/obo/page/management Learning from Customers: Individual and Organizational Effects in Outsourced Radiological Services...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
It’s also about a movement of people away from jobs where they’re not sure they are innovating to jobs at startups where they can be entrepreneurial.” -Diane Hessan (MBA 1977), CEO, Startup Institute...
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- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
about these ideas. We gathered thirty years of U.S. patent data and wrote up some code that identifies the inventors and links them to each other for three million patents and...
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- March 2013 (Revised October 2013)
- Case
Corporate Solutions at Jones Lang LaSalle (2001) (A)
By: Ranjay Gulati and Luciana Silvestri
This case describes the strategic and organizational challenges that Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) faced at the turn of the millennium. Until then, JLL sold piecemeal commercial real estate services to its corporate clients, who maintained relationships with a variety of...
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Keywords:
Organizational Structure;
Strategy;
Integration;
Real Estate Industry;
North America;
South America;
Central America
Gulati, Ranjay, and Luciana Silvestri. "Corporate Solutions at Jones Lang LaSalle (2001) (A)." Harvard Business School Case 113-114, March 2013. (Revised October 2013.)
- June 2014
- Supplement
eBay Partner Network — slide supplement (widescreen)
By: Benjamin Edelman
eBay considers adjustments to the structure and rules of its affiliate marketing program, eBay Partner Network (ePN). In particular, eBay reevaluates affiliate compensation structure, the role of bonuses for especially productive affiliates, and the overall rationale...
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- 25 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway
People make snap judgments all the time. That woman in the sharp business suit must be intelligent and successful; the driver who just cut me off is a rude jerk. These instant assessments, when we attribute...
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