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- May 2017 (Revised June 2017)
- Teaching Note
Solvay Group: International Mobility and Managing Expatriates
By: Boris Groysberg, Nitin Nohria, Robin Abrahams and Kerry Herman
Teaching Note for HBS No. 409-079
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- 2017
- Book
The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return
By: Mihir Desai
The Wisdom of Finance takes well-known financial concepts and applies them to our most pressing life issues. The book is philosophical in its approach, but Desai's thesis is peppered with real-life examples of how financial types can and should see the world...
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Desai, Mihir. The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.
- 2017
- Working Paper
And the Children Shall Lead: Gender Diversity and Performance in Venture Capital
By: Paul A. Gompers and Sophie Q. Wang
With an overall lack of gender and ethnic diversity in the innovation sector documented in Gompers and Wang (2017), we ask the natural next question: Does increased diversity lead to better firm performances? In this paper, we attempt to answer this question using a...
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Gompers, Paul A., and Sophie Q. Wang. "And the Children Shall Lead: Gender Diversity and Performance in Venture Capital." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-103, May 2017.
- May 2017
- Supplement
Boston Children's Hospital Process Map Video
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Mary Witkowski
The 13 minute video simulates a discussion among orthopedic surgeons and cast room technicians about the processes and resources used when applying long leg casts for patients. The video should be used when teaching Boston Children’s Hospital (Abridged) case, #914-407,...
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Keywords:
Activity Based Costing;
Healthcare Costing;
Process Maps;
Activity Based Costing and Management;
Health Care and Treatment
Kaplan, Robert S., and Mary Witkowski. "Boston Children's Hospital Process Map Video." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 117-703, May 2017.
- Article
Third-Party Punishment as a Costly Signal of High Continuation Probabilities in Repeated Games
By: Jillian J. Jordan and David G. Rand
Why do individuals pay costs to punish selfish behavior, even as third-party observers? A large body of research suggests that reputation plays an important role in motivating such third-party punishment (TPP). Here we focus on a recently proposed reputation-based...
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Jordan, Jillian J., and David G. Rand. "Third-Party Punishment as a Costly Signal of High Continuation Probabilities in Repeated Games." Journal of Theoretical Biology 421 (May 21, 2017): 189–202.
- May 2017
- Teaching Note
The Container Store
By: Tatiana Sandino and Kyle Thomas
“The Container Store” teaching note describes how the case can be taught to MBA or executive education students who are interested in developing a strong culture, implementing strategy, and managing growth. The authors wrote the case for teaching MBA courses such as...
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- May 2017 (Revised June 2017)
- Case
ATH Technologies (A): Making the Numbers
By: Robert Simons and Jennifer Packard
An exercise that takes students through five stages of growth in an entrepreneurial start-up in the medical devices industry: 1) founding, 2) growth, 3) push to profitability, 4) refocusing process, and 5) takeover by new management. At each stage, students must...
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Keywords:
Strategy And Execution;
Management Control Systems;
Balancing Innovation And Control;
Performance Management;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Startups;
Profit;
Geographic Location;
Governance Controls;
Innovation and Invention;
Management Succession;
Performance Evaluation;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Simons, Robert, and Jennifer Packard. "ATH Technologies (A): Making the Numbers." Harvard Business School Case 117-013, May 2017. (Revised June 2017.)
- May 2017
- Supplement
ATH Technologies (B)
By: Robert Simons and Jennifer Packard
Supplements the (A) case. Designed as an in-class handout.
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Keywords:
Strategy And Execution;
Management Control Systems;
Performance Management;
Balancing Innovation And Control;
Management Systems;
Performance;
Health Industry
Simons, Robert, and Jennifer Packard. "ATH Technologies (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 117-014, May 2017.
- May 2017
- Supplement
ATH Technologies (C)
By: Robert Simons and Jennifer Packard
Supplements the (A) case. Designed as an in-class handout.
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Keywords:
Strategy And Execution;
Management Control Systems;
Performance Management;
Balancing Innovation And Control;
Management Systems;
Performance;
Health Industry
Simons, Robert, and Jennifer Packard. "ATH Technologies (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 117-015, May 2017.
- May 2017
- Supplement
ATH Technologies (D)
By: Robert Simons and Jennifer Packard
Supplements the (A) case. Designed as an on-class handout.
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Keywords:
Strategy And Execution;
Management Control Systems;
Performance Management;
Balancing Innovation And Control;
Health Industry
Simons, Robert, and Jennifer Packard. "ATH Technologies (D)." Harvard Business School Supplement 117-016, May 2017.
- May 2017
- Supplement
ATH Technologies (E)
By: Robert Simons and Jennifer Packard
Supplements the (A) case. Designed as an in-class handout.
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Keywords:
Strategy And Execution;
Management Control Systems;
Balancing Innovation And Control;
Health Industry
Simons, Robert, and Jennifer Packard. "ATH Technologies (E)." Harvard Business School Supplement 117-017, May 2017.
- May 2017 (Revised June 2017)
- Teaching Note
ATH Technologies Case Series
By: Robert Simons and Jennifer Packard
Teaching Note for HBS Nos. 117-012, 117-013, 117-014, 117-015, 117-016, and 117-017.
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- May 2017
- Case
ATH Technologies: Making the Numbers
By: Robert Simons and Jennifer Packard
An exercise that takes students through five stages of growth in an entrepreneurial start-up in the medical devices industry: 1) founding, 2) growth, 3) push to profitability, 4) relocation process, and 5) takeover by new management. At each stage, students must...
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Keywords:
Balancing Innovation And Control;
Performance Evaluation;
Strategy And Execution;
Management Control Systems;
Risk Management;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Startups;
Profit;
Geographic Location;
Governance Controls;
Innovation and Invention;
Management Succession;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Simons, Robert, and Jennifer Packard. "ATH Technologies: Making the Numbers." Harvard Business School Case 117-012, May 2017.
- Editorial
How Laws and Culture Hold Back Socially Minded Companies
By: George Serafeim, Daniela Saltzman and Bronagh Ward
Keywords:
Corporate Purpose;
Benefit Corporation;
Short-termism;
Culture;
Corporate Law;
Shareholder Activism
Serafeim, George, Daniela Saltzman, and Bronagh Ward. "How Laws and Culture Hold Back Socially Minded Companies." Harvard Business Review (website) (May 18, 2017).
- May 2017
- Teaching Note
Gender at Work
By: Boris Groysberg and Colleen Ammerman
Teaching Note for HBS No. 416-026.
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- May–June 2017
- Article
Multiple Identity Configurations: The Benefits of Focused Enhancement for Prosocial Behavior
By: Lakshmi Ramarajan, Ida Berger and Itay Greenspan
Ramarajan, Lakshmi, Ida Berger, and Itay Greenspan. "Multiple Identity Configurations: The Benefits of Focused Enhancement for Prosocial Behavior." Organization Science 28, no. 3 (May–June 2017): 495–513.
- May 2017
- Case
Rebuilding a Community: Father Vien The Nguyen
By: Ranjay Gulati, David Tannenwald and Caroline de Lacvivier
Gulati, Ranjay, David Tannenwald, and Caroline de Lacvivier. "Rebuilding a Community: Father Vien The Nguyen." Harvard Business School Case 417-066, May 2017.
- May 2017 (Revised July 2017)
- Supplement
Aadhaar: From Voluntary to Mandatory
By: Tarun Khanna, Anjali Raina and Rachna Chawla
Approximately 1.1 billion residents of India (99% of the population) had a unique biometric identity—Aadhaar—by 2017. In six years, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) had achieved an unprecedented milestone in emerging and developed markets. The...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Business and Government Relations;
Emerging Markets;
Information;
Information Technology;
Organizational Design;
Infrastructure;
Identity;
Projects;
Information Management;
Government and Politics;
Digital Platforms;
Internet and the Web;
Transformation;
Society;
Welfare;
Social Issues;
Private Sector;
Public Sector;
Information Technology Industry;
Asia;
India;
New Delhi
Khanna, Tarun, Anjali Raina, and Rachna Chawla. "Aadhaar: From Voluntary to Mandatory." Harvard Business School Supplement 717-512, May 2017. (Revised July 2017.)
- May 2017
- Case
Cambridge Franchise Partners
By: Richard Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
Two partners commence a rollup in the quick-service restaurant segment. They focus on operating improvements and spinning-off real estate.
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Keywords:
Real Estate;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Operations;
Performance Improvement;
Property;
Management
Ruback, Richard, and Royce Yudkoff. "Cambridge Franchise Partners." Harvard Business School Case 217-082, May 2017.