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Leading and Building a Culture of Innovation
thinking, rapid iteration, and learning from success and failure. You will focus on addressing one of your organization's innovation challenges—and return to work ready to foster the innovations that will drive your organization's competitive advantage and growth. This...
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- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
system rather than a government-controlled system. Book: http://www.gale.cengage.com/servlet/ItemDetailServletCr?region=9&imprint=070&titleCode=GCCL&cf=p&type=3&id=254645 Corporate Ownership Structure and Bank Loan...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Beware of Short-term Management, Not the Short-term Investor
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
examine the link between corporations and community by showing how corporate density interacts with the local social and cultural infrastructure to affect the growth and decline of the number of local...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 2023
- Working Paper
No Mask, No Service: Customer Reaction to Walmart’s 2020 National Mask Mandate
By: Innessa Colaiacovo
Multi-location firms face a complex series of economic tradeoffs when deciding whether to implement
standard processes or allow processes to vary across establishments. One element of this tradeoff is customer
response. This paper explores customer reaction to a...
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Consumer Behavior;
Geographic Location;
Policy;
Health Pandemics;
Retail Industry;
United States
Colaiacovo, Innessa. "No Mask, No Service: Customer Reaction to Walmart’s 2020 National Mask Mandate." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-004, July 2023. (Revise and Resubmit to Journal of Economics and Management Strategy.)
- Winter 2014
- Article
The Art of Strategic Renewal
By: Andy Binns, J. Bruce Harreld, Charles A. O'Reilly and Michael L. Tushman
In recent years, we have seen well-established companies such as Kodak, Blockbuster, Nokia, and BlackBerry pushed to the brink by smart competitors and changes in their industries. In each case, there were opportunities to act before a crisis engulfed the organization....
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Organizational Change and Adaptation
Binns, Andy, J. Bruce Harreld, Charles A. O'Reilly, and Michael L. Tushman. "The Art of Strategic Renewal." MIT Sloan Management Review 55, no. 2 (Winter 2014): 21–23.
- November 1993 (Revised September 2018)
- Case
Rudi Gassner and the Executive Committee of BMG International (A)
By: Linda Hill and Katherine Seger Weber
Explores the roles of CEO Rudi Gassner and the 9-person executive committee in leading BMG International. BMG International is the international music subsidiary of Bertlesmann, a German company that is the second-largest media conglomerate in the world. Describes a...
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Managerial Roles;
Management Teams;
Decision Making;
Business Plan;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Global Strategy;
Leadership Style;
Organizational Culture;
Business Subsidiaries;
Business Conglomerates;
Cost Management;
Change Management;
Music Industry;
Media and Broadcasting Industry;
Germany
Hill, Linda, and Katherine Seger Weber. "Rudi Gassner and the Executive Committee of BMG International (A)." Harvard Business School Case 494-055, November 1993. (Revised September 2018.)
- 09 Apr 2024
- Book
Why Work Rituals Bring Teams Together and Create More Meaning
philosophy, and we not only have a heck of a good time with it, we work better because of it." Other companies have adopted more intense rituals, organizing treks into the wilderness, paintball competitions, corporate retreats, and group...
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by Michael Blanding
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HBS Global Opportunity Fellowship: Making a Difference in Africa - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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- December 1998 (Revised November 2005)
- Background Note
Contribution to Capital
By: Henry B. Reiling and Mark Pollard
Distinguishes and explains the basic rules associated with two types of contributions to capital: (1) transfers of property by a government to a company to entice it to take some action such as relocate a plant, and (2) transfers of property to a corporation by...
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Reiling, Henry B., and Mark Pollard. "Contribution to Capital." Harvard Business School Background Note 299-040, December 1998. (Revised November 2005.)
- September 2015 (Revised February 2016)
- Supplement
Novell (B): Board of Directors Aftermath of Hedge Fund Attack
By: Richard L. Nolan
No corporation and its board of directors is immune to a disruptive shareholder activist attack. The Novell (A) and (B) cases take students through a shareholder activist attack and its aftermath—a saga that spanned 5 years. The cases outline the activist playbook in...
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Nolan, Richard L. "Novell (B): Board of Directors Aftermath of Hedge Fund Attack." Harvard Business School Supplement 916-405, September 2015. (Revised February 2016.)
- November 2008 (Revised February 2010)
- Case
CBS and Online Video
By: Dennis A. Yao, Francisco Pizarro Beleza Rodrigues Queiro and Julia Rozovsky
In late March 2007, CBS faces an important decision about its online video strategy. A just-announced joint online distribution venture between NBC Universal and News Corporation (Fox) is the impetus for this decision. Should CBS join forces with this new venture, come...
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Joint Ventures;
Distribution;
Business Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Cooperation;
Online Technology;
Media and Broadcasting Industry
Yao, Dennis A., Francisco Pizarro Beleza Rodrigues Queiro, and Julia Rozovsky. "CBS and Online Video." Harvard Business School Case 709-447, November 2008. (Revised February 2010.)
- 02 Jun 2015
- News
'Call Me Caitlyn' And The Jenner Brand
- 07 Aug 2011
- News
Rating Cut of U.S. Debt Echoes the Nervousness of Global Markets
- 07 Sep 2017
- News
Japan’s ‘Quality’ Index Drives Investor Returns, Study Finds
- 18 May 2017
- News
How Laws and Culture Hold Back Socially Minded Companies
- 02 Oct 2016
- News
How to Get More Out of Office Conversations
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In the area of equity valuation, Professor Wang explores how firm fundamentals and valuation models can be used to understand expected return variation, with a focus on valuation-implied cost of capital and its use as a proxy for expected returns. In his study of...
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