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- October 2015
- Case
A Challenger's Strategy: Pinar Abay at ING Bank Turkey
By: Paul M. Healy, Gautam Mukunda and Esel Çekin
In 2013, Pinar Abay was appointed as the CEO of ING Bank Turkey. At 34, she was the youngest bank CEO in Turkey's history. Her appointment raised eyebrows because of her youth and because her career at McKinsey had given her no day-to-day bank management experience....
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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:
- Capacity of the... View Details
- 6 PM – 7 PM EST, 04 Mar 2021
- Virtual Programming
Water & Climate Change: Innovating for Access and Efficiency
The Harvard Business School Business & Environment Initiative and Food, Agriculture, & Water Club invite you to join us for Water & Climate Change: Innovating for Access and Efficiency. This discussion will aim to highlight the connection between climate change and...
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- 05 Feb 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?
excellence does (not always) breed excellence because some of the best leaders may still not be the best selectors." Dick Meza suggested that "The issue here may be the degree to which senior management cares about...
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by Jim Heskett
- March 1990 (Revised March 1992)
- Supplement
Mary Kay Cosmetics: Sales Force Incentives (B)
By: Robert L. Simons
Details the changes made to the VIP automobile plan.
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Simons, Robert L. "Mary Kay Cosmetics: Sales Force Incentives (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 190-122, March 1990. (Revised March 1992.)
- 2023
- Working Paper
Corporate Website-based Measures of Firms' Value Drivers
By: Wei Cai, Dennis Campbell and Patrick Ferguson
We develop and validate new text-based measures of firms’ financial and non-financial value drivers. Using the Wayback Machine to access public US firms’ archived websites from 1995-2020, we scrape text from corporate homepages. We use Kaplan and Norton’s (1992)...
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Cai, Wei, Dennis Campbell, and Patrick Ferguson. "Corporate Website-based Measures of Firms' Value Drivers." SSRN Working Paper Series, No. 4413808, April 2023.
- 25 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy
changes that have revolutionized their use in practice. He contends that both serve the US economy by helping troubled companies stay viable by giving them time to find new financing, renegotiate unfavorable leases and supply contracts,...
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- Web
Required Curriculum - MBA
manager has no formal authority. The intermediate modules look at successful leaders in action to see how they: Develop a vision of the future. Align the organization behind that vision. Motivate people to achieve the vision. Design...
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Curriculum - MBA
students discuss classical and contemporary papers fundamental to the current biotechnology revolution (such as those underpinning the use of monoclonal antibodies, stem-cell transplantation, neural stimulation and regeneration, and gene therapy). Fall Term Data...
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- November 1999
- Case
Reshaping Apple Computer's Destiny 1992 (Abridged)
By: Clayton M. Christensen and Tara Donovan
Examines John Sculley's management approach toward transforming Apple Computer during the personal computer industry crisis in 1992. Focuses on Sculley's management style, his creation of a new management team, and his efforts to create a professional management system...
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Keywords:
Transformation;
Crisis Management;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Management Style;
Management Systems;
Management Teams;
Computer Industry;
California
Christensen, Clayton M., and Tara Donovan. "Reshaping Apple Computer's Destiny 1992 (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 300-002, November 1999.
- February 2003 (Revised July 2005)
- Case
British Broadcasting Corporation (A): One BBC
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Douglas A Raymond
Greg Dyke, the new director general of the British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) must decide whether to extend an already ambitious change effort at the world's largest public service broadcaster. The initial results of the effort are very positive: audience numbers are up,...
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Keywords:
Change Management;
Media;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Leadership Development;
Competition;
Creativity;
Relationships;
Media and Broadcasting Industry;
United Kingdom
Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Douglas A Raymond. "British Broadcasting Corporation (A): One BBC." Harvard Business School Case 303-075, February 2003. (Revised July 2005.)
- April 2020 (Revised April 2023)
- Case
TransDigm in 2017: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning?
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
TransDigm was a highly acquisitive company that manufactured a wide range of highly engineered aerospace parts for both military and commercial customers. Over the ten years ending in 2016, its stock price had increased ten times, and both EBITDA and revenues had grown...
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Keywords:
Value Capturing;
Pricing Strategy;
Supplier Power;
Buyer Power;
Porter's Five Forces;
Bargaining Power;
Aerospace;
Acquisition Strategy;
Value Drivers;
Ethical Behavior;
Regulation;
Growth Strategy;
Business Ethics;
Defense;
Procurement;
Sustainability;
Value-Based Business Strategy;
Acquisition;
Ethics;
Private Equity;
Financial Strategy;
Growth Management;
Performance Evaluation;
Business Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Horizontal Integration;
Value Creation;
Competitive Advantage;
Monopoly;
Aerospace Industry;
Air Transportation Industry;
United States
Esty, Benjamin C., and Daniel Fisher. "TransDigm in 2017: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning?" Harvard Business School Case 720-422, April 2020. (Revised April 2023.)
- October 1997 (Revised September 2003)
- Case
Eli Lilly and Company: Drug Development Strategy (A)
By: Stefan H. Thomke, Ashok Nimgade and Paul Pospisil
Describes how Eli Lilly and Co. tries to accelerate its new drug development process with the aid of "combinatorial chemistry"--a rapidly emerging and revolutionary approach to preclinical drug discovery. The product manager of a potential blockbuster migraine drug...
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Keywords:
Chemicals;
Finance;
Innovation and Invention;
Time Management;
Markets;
Product Development;
Organizations;
Business Processes;
Problems and Challenges;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Competition;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Thomke, Stefan H., Ashok Nimgade, and Paul Pospisil. "Eli Lilly and Company: Drug Development Strategy (A)." Harvard Business School Case 698-010, October 1997. (Revised September 2003.)
- October 2012
- Case
Global Diversity and Inclusion at Royal Dutch Shell (A)
By: Sandra J. Sucher and Elena Corsi
Royal Dutch Shell has been among the early players to implement diversity and inclusion policies in the 1990s, first in the U.S. and then globally. In May 2009, Peter Voser, CFO and soon-to-be CEO, wants to adjust the company's business, headcount, and cost levels to...
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Managerial Roles;
Restructuring;
Resignation and Termination;
Diversity;
Financial Crisis;
Energy Industry;
Netherlands
Sucher, Sandra J., and Elena Corsi. "Global Diversity and Inclusion at Royal Dutch Shell (A)." Harvard Business School Case 613-063, October 2012.
- June 2009
- Case
Plaza, the Logistics Park of Zaragoza
In the year 2000, the Government of the Autonomous Community of Aragón, Spain, made public a project for the development of a large-scale logistics park in the outskirts of the city of Zaragoza. With an area of nearly 13 square kilometers, PLAZA (an acronym for...
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Keywords:
Customer Satisfaction;
Geographic Location;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Infrastructure;
Logistics;
Supply Chain;
Transportation;
Distribution Industry;
Zaragoza
Watson, Noel H., and Santiago Kraiselburd. "Plaza, the Logistics Park of Zaragoza." Harvard Business School Case 609-113, June 2009.
- August 2012
- Case
Growing Pains at Stroz Friedberg (Abridged)
By: David A. Garvin and Michael Norris
In late spring 2009, Stroz Friedberg co-presidents Edward Stroz and Eric Friedberg had to set growth targets for 2010. The leading global consulting firm they had built specialized in managing digital risk and uncovering digital evidence and had grown very rapidly....
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Keywords:
Business Growth and Maturation;
Change Management;
Transition;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Growth Management;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Structure;
Consulting Industry
Garvin, David A., and Michael Norris. "Growing Pains at Stroz Friedberg (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 313-023, August 2012.
- April 1984 (Revised May 2011)
- Case
Mike Walker
Describes Bill Hudson's attempts to constructively deviate from and change the culture of various work units that he has worked in over 26 years with ABC Electronics.
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Keywords:
Change;
Management Skills;
Management Style;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture
Sathe, Vijay V. "Mike Walker." Harvard Business School Case 484-061, April 1984. (Revised May 2011.)
- October 2005
- Case
Saskatchewan Wheat Pool 2005
By: Ray A. Goldberg and Mary L. Shelman
CEO Mayo Schmidt had just guided his firm through five difficult years. Survival had come with the difficult decision to change the 80-year-old agricultural cooperative into a Canadian business corporation. The Saskatchewan Wheat Pool (SWP) now faced the future with a...
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Keywords:
Change Management;
Customer Value and Value Chain;
Capital;
Technological Innovation;
Leading Change;
Demand and Consumers;
Partners and Partnerships;
Expansion;
Technology Adoption;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Canada
Goldberg, Ray A., and Mary L. Shelman. "Saskatchewan Wheat Pool 2005." Harvard Business School Case 906-402, October 2005.
- 2014
- Case
Yonyou 2013
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Zheng Xiaoming and Ziqian Zhao
The case describes how a leading Chinese management software provider Yonyou (formerly known as "UFIDA") disrupted its value chain-based business model to transform itself into a platform provider. The case describes Yonyou's past success, the market forces and...
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Keywords:
Business Models;
ERP;
Platforms;
Strategy;
Transformations;
China;
Information Technology;
Applications and Software;
Digital Platforms;
China
McFarlan, F. Warren, Zheng Xiaoming, and Ziqian Zhao. "Yonyou 2013." Tsinghua University Case, 2014.
- March 2007 (Revised March 2009)
- Case
Cherrypicks
By: William R. Kerr
Cherrypicks is a Hong Kong communications start-up approaching a large Korean mobile operator for a partnership to take the operator's products to markets outside of Korea. SK Telecom's (SKT) Ring Back Tones (RBT) product is a spectacular success in South Korea, but...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Business Startups;
Communication Strategy;
Entrepreneurship;
Partners and Partnerships;
Communications Industry;
China;
Hong Kong;
South Korea
Kerr, William R. "Cherrypicks." Harvard Business School Case 807-106, March 2007. (Revised March 2009.)