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- February 2003
- Supplement
Silvio Napoli Cross Cultural Management
Presents an interview with Silvio Napoli regarding cultural aspects of an Italian manager in a Swiss company opening an Indian subsidiary. Issues range from personal and family adjustment to management style, corporate culture, and differences in national...
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Keywords:
Management Style;
Business Subsidiaries;
Nationality;
Organizational Culture;
Personal Characteristics;
Business Startups;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Italy;
Switzerland;
India
Bartlett, Christopher A. "Silvio Napoli Cross Cultural Management." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 303-806, February 2003.
- Video
Fola Folowosele
- 2010
- Working Paper
The Architecture of Complex Systems: Do Core-periphery Structures Dominate?
By: Alan MacCormack, Carliss Y. Baldwin and John Rusnak
Any complex technological system can be decomposed into a number of subsystems and associated components, some of which are core to system function while others are only peripheral. The dynamics of how such "core-periphery" structures evolve and become embedded in a... View Details
Keywords:
Innovation and Management;
Product Design;
Practice;
Core Relationships;
Software;
Information Technology Industry
MacCormack, Alan, Carliss Y. Baldwin, and John Rusnak. "The Architecture of Complex Systems: Do Core-periphery Structures Dominate?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-059, January 2010.
- 15 Aug 2023
- Cold Call Podcast
Ryan Serhant: How to Manage Your Time for Happiness
- Research Summary
STATUS
In his work on status orders, Professor Malter studies the ways in which status orders affect the returns to organizations, the incentives and opportunities in markets, social market structure, and firm decisions. Using data on a highly structured wine region of...
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- Research Summary
Overview
I am currently working on a series of projects that focus on three questions: (1) how currency fluctuations affect different types of firms across countries; (2) how various macroeconomic policies affect manufacturing growth in developing countries; (3) the...
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- March 2002 (Revised April 2002)
- Background Note
A Note on Pre-Money and Post-Money Valuation (A)
A brief introduction to the calculations inherent in pre-money and post-money valuations at multiple stages of financing. Relies on two different examples to illustrate that valuations can be calculated in a variety of ways, depending on the information provided. A...
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Cyr, Linda A. "A Note on Pre-Money and Post-Money Valuation (A)." Harvard Business School Background Note 802-179, March 2002. (Revised April 2002.)
- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers
difference in willingness to buy between the high-pay-ratio and low-pay-ratio retailers. The Price Of Counterbalance But would shoppers still favor low-pay-ratio retailers if they charged significantly...
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- February 1985 (Revised January 2024)
- Case
Health Stop (A): What Type of Innovation Is It? And Six Factors Alignment
By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Joyce Lallman, Nancy Kane, Jefferson C. Grahling and James Wallace
How can we evaluate if innovative health care ventures can do good—benefit society—and do well—become financially viable? This question is the topic of the first module in the Innovating In Health Care course book.
This note and case series enables readers to conduct...
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Keywords:
For-Profit Firms;
Business Model;
Entrepreneurship;
Health Care and Treatment;
Strategy;
Valuation;
Health Industry;
Retail Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E., Joyce Lallman, Nancy Kane, Jefferson C. Grahling, and James Wallace. "Health Stop (A): What Type of Innovation Is It? And Six Factors Alignment." Harvard Business School Case 185-084, February 1985. (Revised January 2024.)
- 2022
- Presentation
Danya Lagos presents at the 2022 Gender and Work Symposium
- 05 Jan 2021
- Video
Beatriz Fernández
Beatriz Fernández, Co-Founder and Manager of Crepes & Waffles S.A., discusses the important and vastly different roles her children play in the family business and how this has contributed to the growth of the company.
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- January 2004 (Revised February 2006)
- Case
Raymond James Financial
Raymond James Financial (RJF) currently sells financial services through two channels. It is considering adding a third in the "middle" of the other two. The current strategy has one channel with employees and another with independent contractors. These attract very...
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Salesforce Management;
Marketing;
Distribution Channels;
Human Resources;
Financial Services Industry;
Service Industry
Godes, David B. "Raymond James Financial." Harvard Business School Case 504-027, January 2004. (Revised February 2006.)
- 17 Sep 2012
- News
How to Manage a Diverse and Dispersed Team
- 17 Jan 2018
- News
GE’s chief executive opens the door to breaking up the company
- 2022
- Working Paper
Beliefs About Giving Across Contexts
By: Christine L. Exley, John-Henry Pezzuto and Marta Serra-Garcia
A rich literature investigates prosocial behavior by exploiting a variety of methods, the validity of which has been debated. While this literature has compared behavior inside and outside of the laboratory, an open question is how participants view prosocial behavior...
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Exley, Christine L., John-Henry Pezzuto, and Marta Serra-Garcia. "Beliefs About Giving Across Contexts." Working Paper, September 2022.
- January 2013
- Case
Cabot Corporation: The Fuel Cell Decision (A)
By: Willy Shih and Ying Zhou
Managers at Cabot Corporation are faced with deciding the future of its fuel cell program. The (A) case recounts the view of the business manager and the technical project lead, and the (B) case describes the perspective of a senior manager who is the head of the New...
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Keywords:
Technical Decision-making;
Decision-making Process;
Fuel Cells;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Decisions;
Judgments;
Business Plan;
Business Exit or Shutdown;
Energy Generation;
Energy Sources;
Innovation and Management;
Innovation Strategy;
Technological Innovation;
Research and Development;
Science-Based Business;
Commercialization;
Technology Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
Massachusetts;
United States
Shih, Willy, and Ying Zhou. "Cabot Corporation: The Fuel Cell Decision (A)." Harvard Business School Case 613-066, January 2013.
- 2011
- Casebook
Cases about Redefining Global Strategy
By: Pankaj Ghemawat and Jordan I. Siegel
In "Cases about Redefining Global Strategy," Pankaj Ghemawat and Jordan Siegel have assembled 26 full-length case studies as a resource for active learning about the nature of cross-border differences and strategies. As technology innovation globalizes markets and...
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Ghemawat, Pankaj, and Jordan I. Siegel. Cases about Redefining Global Strategy. Boston: Harvard Business Publishing, 2011.
- August 2011 (Revised July 2012)
- Case
Sealed Air Corporation: Deciding the Fate of VTID
By: Elie Ofek
In mid 2010 the Sealed Air Corporation has to decide on next steps for its novel video tracking technology (called VTID) after unsuccessful attempts to market it in three different industry settings. The company must determine whether its most recent target market, the...
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Keywords:
Budgets and Budgeting;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Technological Innovation;
Marketing Strategy;
Problems and Challenges;
Commercialization;
Service Industry
Ofek, Elie. "Sealed Air Corporation: Deciding the Fate of VTID." Harvard Business School Case 512-029, August 2011. (Revised July 2012.)
- May 2005 (Revised January 2006)
- Case
Mortgage Backs at Ticonderoga
Ticonderoga is a small hedge fund that trades in mortgage-backed securities--securities created from pooled mortgage loans. They often appear as straightforward so-called "pass-throughs," but can also be pooled again to create collateral for a mortgage security known...
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Chacko, George C., Peter A. Hecht, Vincent Dessain, and Anders Sjoman. "Mortgage Backs at Ticonderoga." Harvard Business School Case 205-122, May 2005. (Revised January 2006.)
Pre-colonial Ethnic Institutions and Contemporary African Development
We investigate the role of deeply-rooted pre-colonial ethnic institutions in shaping comparative regional development within African countries. We combine information on the spatial distribution of ethnicities before colonization with regional variation in... View Details