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- October 1987
- Case
Philips Group--1987, The
By: Francis Aguilar and Michael Y. Yoshino
Discusses how Philips, a major Dutch-based multinational company, attempts to bring about a fundamental change in its strategy, organization, and culture in response to a rapidly changing market and competitive environment.
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Keywords:
Multinational Firms and Management;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Structure;
Corporate Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Markets;
Change Management;
Netherlands
Aguilar, Francis, and Michael Y. Yoshino. "Philips Group--1987, The." Harvard Business School Case 388-050, October 1987.
- November 1986 (Revised October 1995)
- Case
Suzanne de Passe at Motown Productions (A)
By: Linda A. Hill
Illustrates: 1) the impact of a manager's leadership style on corporate culture, direction, and performance; 2) the concept of fit between leadership style and the requirements of situations in which managers find themselves; and 3) the need for managers to adapt their...
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Keywords:
Management Style;
Race;
Organizational Culture;
Leadership Style;
Gender;
Management Teams;
Change Management;
Situation or Environment;
Creativity;
Relationships;
Music Industry;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry
Hill, Linda A. "Suzanne de Passe at Motown Productions (A)." Harvard Business School Case 487-042, November 1986. (Revised October 1995.)
- Article
Linking Corporate Culture to Strategic Planning
By: Rohit Deshpandé and A. Parasuraman
Deshpandé, Rohit, and A. Parasuraman. "Linking Corporate Culture to Strategic Planning." Business Horizons 29, no. 3 (May–June 1986): 28–37.
- March 1979 (Revised June 1985)
- Case
Chain Saw Industry in 1974
Describes the structure of the chain saw industry in 1974, when it is on the threshold of a major period of growth. Data are provided on each significant competitor. The discussion should center around strategies in a growing market for differently situated...
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Keywords:
Industry Growth;
Corporate Strategy;
Industry Structures;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Manufacturing Industry
Porter, Michael E. "Chain Saw Industry in 1974." Harvard Business School Case 379-157, March 1979. (Revised June 1985.)
- Research Summary
Rosabeth Moss Kanter's current research topics include: leadership for the digital age, including the circumstances that empower leaders to create change; leadership of turnarounds and other significant changes of direction; and the role, legitimacy, and impact of the...
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Building a Corporate Culture of Health
This stream of Professor Huckman's work involves developing and implementing a survey of U.S. corporations regarding their commitments to developing a “culture of health” aimed at improving well-being for employees, consumers, communities, and the environment. This...
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Credit Supply Shocks, Network Effects, and the Real Economy
By: Laura Alfaro
We consider the real effects of bank lending shocks and how they permeate the economy through buyer-supplier linkages. We combine administrative data on all firms in Spain with a matched bank-firm-loan dataset with information on the universe of corporate loans for...
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Customer-Centric Marketing Strategy
By: Rohit Deshpande
Rohit Deshpandé's research program focuses on Customer-Centricity. A stream of projects examines the interaction between corporate and national culture as they influence the development and implementation of global marketing strategies in high performance firms. This...
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Development Economics (PhD)
By: Shawn A. Cole
This course, intended for second-year PhD students in economics and related fields, is taught by Michael Kremer, Phillippe Aghion, and Shawn Cole.
Part I (Kremer) of the course will cover macro-economic topics including aggregate and non-aggregate growth...
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- Forthcoming
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ESG Amnesia in M&A Deals
By: Caley Petrucci and Guhan Subramanian
Public companies have increasingly embraced environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in the course of everyday business. However, these ESG considerations are virtually non-existent in merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions. Elon Musk’s recent acquisition...
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Keywords:
Corporate Governance;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Mergers and Acquisitions
Petrucci, Caley, and Guhan Subramanian. "ESG Amnesia in M&A Deals." Journal of Corporation Law (forthcoming).
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Financial Markets and Corporate Governance
By: Dwight B. Crane
Corporate scandals beginning in the late 1990s focused renewed attention on corporate governance, but significant cracks in the governance system also contributed to recent problems. Deregulation and growth of financial markets, as well as changes in the competitive...
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Leading Professional Service Firms
By: Andy Wu
As entry barriers rapidly disappear, competition is accelerating and reshaping the business landscape for professional service firms. Navigating this continual change successfully requires extraordinary leadership abilities. This professional service firm...
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Management of Succession
By: Joseph L. Bower
An outgrowth of the work on the corporate office has been a more focused study on the management of succession. This work identified the reasons why the management of CEO succession has proved so difficult for so many companies as well as the way the best companies are...
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Managing International Trade and Investment
By: Debora L. Spar
Introduced by Debora Spar in 1995, Managing International Trade and Investment is an elective course that prepares students to deal with the distinct set of management challenges that face cross-border businesses. Building on experience that suggests that what works...
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By: Rohit Deshpande
Customer Centricity
Rohit Deshpandé's research program focuses on Customer-Centricity. A stream of projects examines the interaction between corporate and national culture as they influence the development and implementation of global marketing strategies in high...
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Overview
By: Aiyesha Dey
Professor Dey’s research explores governance and agency conflicts, board structure, governance regulation and corporate behavior, ownership structure, and the relation between executives’ characteristics and corporate behavior. In analyzing corporate governance...
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By: Boris Vallee
Professor Vallée focuses on financial innovation, investigating it from different angles. This research thread has led him to relate the methods and insights of corporate finance and banking with those of other subfields, including household finance, public finance,...
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Research Thrust
By: Rakesh Khurana
I am trained in organizational sociology and my main areas of interest lie in macro-organizational theory and the dynamics of executive labor markets. To date, my research has focused on two themes. The first revolves around understanding the forces that govern the...
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Short Intensive Program (SIP): Effective Strategic Philanthropy
Non-profit organizations and social enterprises play an important role in every country in the world: as laboratories for social innovation, as the delivery system for critical goods and services at scale, as the stewards of our cultural heritage, and as advocates for...
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