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- 1 Feb 2010
- Conference Presentation
Language Mandates, Power & Emotions in Globally Distributed Teams
By: Tsedal Neeley
- January 2010 (Revised April 2010)
- Case
Gobi Partners and DMG
By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
Thomas G. Tsao, founding general partner of Gobi Partners, an early stage venture capital firm in China, must decide how to manage his firm's largest investment after the departure of the CEO. Tom has temporarily stepped in as CEO, but finding a replacement with the...
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Keywords:
Restructuring;
Competency and Skills;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Venture Capital;
Investment;
Business or Company Management;
Management Succession;
Emerging Markets;
Problems and Challenges;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
China
Hardymon, G. Felda, Josh Lerner, and Ann Leamon. "Gobi Partners and DMG." Harvard Business School Case 810-095, January 2010. (Revised April 2010.)
- 1 Jul 2009
- Conference Presentation
Language Matters: Lingua Franca Mandates and Status Hierarchy
By: Tsedal Neeley
- 2009
- Working Paper
Walking Through Jelly: Language Proficiency, Emotions, and Disrupted Collaboration in Global Work
By: Tsedal Beyene, Pamela J. Hinds and Catherine Durnell Cramton
In an ethnographic study comprised of interviews and concurrent observations of 145 globally distributed members of nine project teams of an organization, we found that uneven proficiency in English, the lingua franca, disrupted collaboration for both native and...
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Keywords:
Spoken Communication;
Interpersonal Communication;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Groups and Teams;
Behavior;
Emotions;
Social and Collaborative Networks
Beyene, Tsedal, Pamela J. Hinds, and Catherine Durnell Cramton. "Walking Through Jelly: Language Proficiency, Emotions, and Disrupted Collaboration in Global Work." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-138, June 2009.
- 01 May 2009
- Conference Presentation
Language Matters: Lingua Franca Mandates and Status Hierarchy
By: Tsedal Neeley
- 2009
- Chapter
On the General Relativity of Fiscal Language
By: Jerry R. Green and Lawrence Kotlikoff
A century ago, everyone thought time and distance were well defined physical concepts. But neither proved absolute. Instead, measures/reports of time and distance were found to depend on one's reference point, specifically one's direction and speed of travel, making...
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- 1 Jan 2007
- Conference Presentation
Language Proficiency as a Stigma in International Work
By: Tsedal Beyene
- 2006
- Book
Design-Inspired Innovation
By: James Utterback, Bengt–Arne Vedin, Eduardo Alvarez, Sten Ekman, Susan Walsh Sanderson, Bruce Tether and Roberto Verganti
When an innovation is inspired by design, it transcends technology and utility. The design delights the user, seamlessly integrating the physical object, a service, and its use into something whole. A design-inspired innovation is so simple that it becomes an extension...
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Utterback, James, Bengt–Arne Vedin, Eduardo Alvarez, Sten Ekman, Susan Walsh Sanderson, Bruce Tether, and Roberto Verganti. Design-Inspired Innovation. World Scientific Publishing, 2006.
- November 2006
- Article
Strategies of Innovation and Imitation of Product Languages
By: Roberto Verganti
- 29 Sep 2006
- Conference Presentation
Walking through Jelly: Uneven Language Proficiency and Disrupted Collaboration
By: Tsedal Beyene
- 2006
- Working Paper
On the General Relativity of Fiscal Language
By: Jerry R. Green and Laurence J. Kotlikoff
- 1 May 2006
- Conference Presentation
Language Proficiency as a Stigma in International Work
By: Tsedal Beyene
- 2006
- Working Paper
Identity, Interpretation and Influence: Positive Community through Language among San Pedro Longshoremen
McGinn, Kathleen L. "Identity, Interpretation and Influence: Positive Community through Language among San Pedro Longshoremen." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 06-031, January 2006.
- August 2005 (Revised July 2014)
- Case
Can Bollywood Go Global?
By: Geoffrey Jones, Namrata Arora, Surachita Mishra and Alexis Lefort
Considers the opportunities and challenges facing Indian film producers in accessing the global film market. Provides a historical context by describing the history of the cinema and the rise of Hollywood to global dominance by the 1920s. Although film industries...
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Keywords:
History;
Competition;
Film Entertainment;
Globalized Markets and Industries;
Product Development;
Motion Pictures and Video Industry;
India
Jones, Geoffrey, Namrata Arora, Surachita Mishra, and Alexis Lefort. "Can Bollywood Go Global?" Harvard Business School Case 806-040, August 2005. (Revised July 2014.)
- 5 Aug 2005 - 10 Aug 2005
- Conference Presentation
Language Challenges in International Work: The Impact of Uneven Proficiency in the Lingua Franca
By: T. Beyene, P.J. Hinds and C. D. Cramton
- March 2005 (Revised June 2006)
- Case
Sun Microsystems, Inc.: Web Services Strategy
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Fernando Suarez
Microsoft and IBM have excluded Sun Microsystems from the board of the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I), an industry consortium that will shape the evolution of Web services standards. Sun managers must decide whether to join WS-I as a contributing...
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Keywords:
Information Technology;
Standards;
Corporate Governance;
Power and Influence;
Web Services Industry;
Information Technology Industry
Eisenmann, Thomas R., and Fernando Suarez. "Sun Microsystems, Inc.: Web Services Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 805-095, March 2005. (Revised June 2006.)
- March 2004 (Revised April 2004)
- Background Note
Seeing What's on Red Auerbach's Mind
Analysis of an interview with Red Auerbach, HBR No. 87201. Alan M. Webber, who conducted the interview, probed for the lessons that Auerbach has learned from a long and productive career coaching and managing the Boston Celtics, a professional basketball team in the...
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Keywords:
Markets;
Research;
Sports;
Product Development;
Communication Intention and Meaning;
Sports Industry
Lassiter, Joseph B., III, and John T. Gourville. "Seeing What's on Red Auerbach's Mind." Harvard Business School Background Note 804-160, March 2004. (Revised April 2004.)
- December 2002 (Revised January 2014)
- Case
Matt Leeds (A)
By: Linda A. Hill
A new associate in a consulting firm attempts to navigate his way through the norms and culture of a new setting and to manage his relationships with his superiors and peers, which got off to a poor start.
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Hill, Linda A. "Matt Leeds (A)." Harvard Business School Case 403-111, December 2002. (Revised January 2014.)
- January 2002 (Revised March 2011)
- Case
Finland and Nokia: Creating the World's Most Competitive Economy
By: Michael E. Porter and Orjan Solvell
Finland, with a special language and culture, has developed as a country in between the west (the Nordic region and Europe) and the east (especially its neighbor Russia). In the 1980s, a process started of moving out of an investment-driven economy into an...
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Keywords:
Development Economics;
Economic Growth;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Industry Clusters;
Business and Government Relations;
Competitive Strategy;
Telecommunications Industry;
Finland
Porter, Michael E., and Orjan Solvell. "Finland and Nokia: Creating the World's Most Competitive Economy." Harvard Business School Case 702-427, January 2002. (Revised March 2011.)