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- 04 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
'I Know Why You Voted for Trump' and Other Motivation Misperceptions
and environmental policy—were to their choice. Meanwhile, people who had voted for Hillary Clinton were asked how important they thought these policy issues were to “an average Trump voter.” As it turns out, Clinton voters largely...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Shared Value & Investors - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Investing The Purpose of Investing The fundamental purpose of investing for society is to allocate capital to companies who can earn an attractive return Investors create the greatest societal value by selecting companies that will use...
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- 03 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
for the international community is to keep the oil flowing. The United States and United Nations began to accomplish this by imposing selective sanctions that will allow oil to be exported but deny Gaddafi...
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- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
the interests of select stakeholders. By giving managers and entrepreneurs a "second bite at the apple" if they take reasonable risks that turn our poorly, Chapter 11 also encourages risk taking....
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- 20 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Changing the Face of Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital at Harlem Capital
to do some quick screening,” Pierre-Jacques said. “So, we always need to go back and analyze how we selected candidates subconsciously and then consciously determine how to...
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Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise Q4 - Course Catalog
the following questions, which are relevant to companies of all sizes: What does disruptive innovation really mean—and how does it work? How can entrants disrupt market leaders, and what can market leaders do to avoid disruption? Who is...
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Actions Organizations Can Take to Communicate Their Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging - Recruiting
the individuals charged with diversity and inclusion report to the CEO? Do they have the staffing and budget capacity required to make an impact not only in recruiting but also...
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- June 2012 (Revised May 2013)
- Case
A.P. Møller - Maersk Group: Evaluating Strategic Talent Management Initiatives
By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
In 2012, Bill Allen and Maria Pejter, of Maersk Group's Human Resources Department, sat down to consider some key aspects of Maersk's talent management strategy. Headquartered in Copenhagen, Maersk was a global conglomerate with large shipping and oil & gas businesses....
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Organizational Development;
Human Resource Management;
Talent Management;
Organizational Change And Transformation;
Corporate Culture;
Hiring;
Employee Training;
Strategy;
Selection and Staffing;
Talent and Talent Management;
Training;
Retention;
Diversity;
Denmark
Groysberg, Boris, and Sarah Abbott. "A.P. Møller - Maersk Group: Evaluating Strategic Talent Management Initiatives." Harvard Business School Case 412-147, June 2012. (Revised May 2013.)
- 01 May 2009
- What Do You Think?
Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?
time or another have comprised the Fortune 100 since 1955 as well as some 90 non-U.S. based corporations. From the larger base, the authors selected 50 organizations whose experiences met the criteria for a stall View Details
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by Jim Heskett
- Web
Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry - Course Catalog
offer what their guests want to eat but many are also interested in the healthiness and sustainability of their offerings. We will examine whether and how chefs lead or follow trends, how they distinguish...
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Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement
connecting patients, scientists, and clinicians, and increased multidisciplinary care at 32 Centers of Excellence at US hospitals. Cure HHT has recently turned $2M in seed grants into $51M in funding from...
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- 08 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?
just a perception influenced by selective bias, wherein the McVays and Shanahans of the world stick in our minds? We decided to examine this question by looking at NFL coach hires in the twenty first...
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- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
to break possible “virtual” silos within the organization. In companies that had to maintain physical presence in the plant, we have seen the emergence of new staffing and rotation practices as precautionary...
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- March 2016
- Supplement
Trouble at Tessei
By: Ethan Bernstein and Ryan W. Buell
In 2005, Teruo Yabe is asked to revive Tessei, the 669-person JR-East subsidiary responsible for cleaning its Shinkansen ("bullet") trains. Operational mistakes, customer complaints, safety issues, and employee turnover are at or near all-time highs, even as the...
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Service Management;
Employee Engagement;
Employee Motivation;
Leadership And Managing People;
Quality Improvement;
Efficiency;
Japan;
Operational Transparency;
Employee Coordination;
Transparency;
Leadership;
Service Delivery;
Service Operations;
Employees;
Quality;
Transportation Industry;
Japan
Bernstein, Ethan, and Ryan W. Buell. "Trouble at Tessei." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 616-706, March 2016.
- 2021
- Working Paper
Multi-location Workers in Multinational Firms? Tradeoffs in Contextual Specialization of Employees and Organizational Outcomes
We study how “contextual specialization,” the act of focusing workers’ organizational tasks within a particular locational context, and “contextual non-specialization,” the practice of diversifying workers’ organizational tasks among multiple locational contexts,...
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Talent and Talent Management;
Performance;
Experience and Expertise;
Selection and Staffing;
Strength and Weakness;
Personal Development and Career
Gibson, Hise O., Ryan W. Buell, and Prithwiraj Choudhury. "Multi-location Workers in Multinational Firms? Tradeoffs in Contextual Specialization of Employees and Organizational Outcomes." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-007, August 2021.
- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
skilled employees for three weeks to non-profit health organizations to provide pro bono consulting and technology services. It focuses on a handful of projects each year selected from an applicant pool of...
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- 13 Nov 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
The Effect of Labor on Profitability: The Role of Quality
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by Zeynep Ton
- December 8, 2022
- Article
What Companies Still Get Wrong about Layoffs
By: Sandra J. Sucher and Marilyn Morgan Westner
Research has long shown that layoffs have a detrimental effect on individuals and on corporate performance. The short-term cost savings provided by a layoff are often overshadowed by bad publicity, loss of knowledge, weakened engagement, higher voluntary turnover, and...
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Sucher, Sandra J., and Marilyn Morgan Westner. "What Companies Still Get Wrong about Layoffs." Harvard Business Review (website) (December 8, 2022).
- 2018
- Article
Cracking the Organizational Challenge of Pursuing Joint Social and Financial Goals: Social Enterprise as a Laboratory to Understand Hybrid Organizing
By: Julie Battilana
While in recent decades the social and business sectors have evolved on fairly separate tracks, today companies are increasingly expected to generate social value in addition to profit. As a result, they also increasingly face the distinct challenge of pursuing social...
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Keywords:
Hybrid Organizations;
Hybrid Organizing;
Multiple Goals;
Social Enterprise;
Goals and Objectives;
Organizational Design;
Organizational Culture
Battilana, Julie. "Cracking the Organizational Challenge of Pursuing Joint Social and Financial Goals: Social Enterprise as a Laboratory to Understand Hybrid Organizing." M@n@gement 21, no. 4 (2018): 1278–1305.
- October 1995 (Revised March 1996)
- Case
Booz.Allen & Hamilton: Vision 2000
In 1993, Booz.Allen & Hamilton forsook its previous, highly local organizational structure. It was motivated by a desire to serve multinational clients more effectively and to provide greater value to clients with more localized business by collecting best practices...
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Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Service Operations;
Service Delivery;
Organizational Structure;
Global Strategy;
Service Industry
Loveman, Gary W., and Jamie O'Connell. "Booz.Allen & Hamilton: Vision 2000." Harvard Business School Case 396-031, October 1995. (Revised March 1996.)