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- 19 Feb 2013
- News
Big Deal: Reflections on the American and US Airways Megamerger
- January 2001 (Revised June 2004)
- Case
PetroChina
By: Alexander Dyck, Yasheng Huang and David Lane
In March 2000, plans for the initial public offering of shares in PetroChina were proceeding on schedule, and institutional investors were evaluating the deal. PetroChina was China's largest oil and gas company and an attractive play on China's continued economic...
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Dyck, Alexander, Yasheng Huang, and David Lane. "PetroChina." Harvard Business School Case 701-040, January 2001. (Revised June 2004.)
- June 2016
- Case
Big Spaceship: The Evolving Agency
By: Boris Groysberg and Matthew G. Preble
This case discusses the evolution of Big Spaceship, an advertising and marketing agency, from a product-focused business to a relationship-oriented one as clients seek deeper and more meaningful long-term partnerships. The 15-year-old company had already evolved...
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Keywords:
Digital Marketing;
Advertising;
Advertising Campaigns;
Marketing;
Organizational Structure;
Organizational Design;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Social Media;
Advertising Industry;
United States;
New York (city, NY)
Groysberg, Boris, and Matthew G. Preble. "Big Spaceship: The Evolving Agency." Harvard Business School Case 416-003, June 2016.
- 17 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
2+2 Students Discuss the Value of an MBA
years (maximum of four years) working in a professional position in the public, private, or nonprofit sector. We encourage students from STEM and humanities disciplines to apply, but the 2+2 Program attracts accomplished students from all...
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- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
Publications 2013 pub Rx: Human Nature: How Behavioral Economics Is Promoting Better Health Around the World By: Ashraf, Nava Abstract—Why doesn't a woman who continues to have unwanted pregnancies avail herself of the free contraception...
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Anna Secino
- May 2009
- Article
Authority versus Persuasion
This paper studies a manager's trade-off between using persuasion and using interpersonal authority to get an employee to 'do the right thing' from the manager's perspective (when the manager and employee disagree on the right course of action). It...
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Keywords:
Employee Relationship Management;
Managerial Roles;
Projects;
Motivation and Incentives;
Power and Influence
Van den Steen, Eric J. "Authority versus Persuasion." American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 99, no. 2 (May 2009): 448–453.
- 2009
- Working Paper
Authority versus Persuasion
This paper studies a principal's trade-off between using persuasion versus using interpersonal authority to get the agent to "do the right thing"; from the principal's perspective (when the principal and agent openly disagree on the right course of action). It shows...
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Keywords:
Employee Relationship Management;
Managerial Roles;
Projects;
Motivation and Incentives;
Power and Influence
Van den Steen, Eric J. "Authority versus Persuasion." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-085, January 2009.
- February 2006 (Revised November 2012)
- Case
Corporate Responsibility & Community Engagement at the Tintaya Copper Mine (A)
By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Brooke Barton and Ezequiel Reficco
Located in the highlands of Peru, the Tintaya copper mine has long been a source of intense conflict between local community members and mine operators. The mine, which was owned and managed first by the Peruvian state and later by BHP Billiton, stands on 2,300...
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Keywords:
Developing Countries and Economies;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Agreements and Arrangements;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Business and Community Relations;
Non-Governmental Organizations;
Conflict Management;
Mining Industry;
Australia;
Peru
Rangan, V. Kasturi, Brooke Barton, and Ezequiel Reficco. "Corporate Responsibility & Community Engagement at the Tintaya Copper Mine (A)." Harvard Business School Case 506-023, February 2006. (Revised November 2012.)
- 2022
- Chapter
Sustainability for People and the Planet: Placing Workers at the Center of Sustainability Research
By: Julie Yen, Julie Battilana and Emilie Aguirre
Though workers face a series of critical challenges in contemporary work organizations, they are often overlooked in conversations about sustainable business. In this chapter, we argue that prioritizing the rights and well-being of workers is a core dimension of...
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Keywords:
Environmental Sustainability;
Employees;
Well-being;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Organizational Structure;
Social Issues
Yen, Julie, Julie Battilana, and Emilie Aguirre. "Sustainability for People and the Planet: Placing Workers at the Center of Sustainability Research." Chap. 11 in Handbook on the Business of Sustainability: The Organization, Implementation, and Practice of Sustainable Growth, edited by Gerard George, Martine R. Haas, Havovi Joshi, Anita M. McGahan, and Paul Tracey, 189–214. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022.
- 31 Mar 2008
- HBS Case
JetBlue’s Valentine’s Day Crisis
good reputation and simply apologized without creating such a specific document. Flight Plan For The Future Finally, students discuss the longer-term changes they would recommend for JetBlue's operating strategy while analyzing new systems being implemented in View Details
- 17 Nov 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design
managers allow so-called support function employees to become catalysts for change. Key concepts include: Marketers, human resources managers, finance managers, and other so-called support function employees often have trouble defining...
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Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun
- 17 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Being the Boss
report to you. But unless you manage the context in which your team resides, there's no way that your team can be successful. So you have to understand the political dynamics, you have to understand how to build a network with peers and bosses, and you have to set the...
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by Carmen Nobel
- February 1998 (Revised March 2000)
- Case
Burma Pipeline, The
By: Debora L. Spar and Lane LaMure
In 1996, Unocal Corp. joined forces with the French Total company to construct an ambitious natural gas pipeline from the Andaman Sea across the southern tip of Burma and into Thailand. At an estimated cost of $1.2 billion, the pipeline was designed to bring sorely...
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Keywords:
Political Risk;
Risk Management;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Social Issues;
Foreign Direct Investment;
Energy Industry;
Asia
Spar, Debora L., and Lane LaMure. "Burma Pipeline, The." Harvard Business School Case 798-078, February 1998. (Revised March 2000.)
- 10 Jul 2018
- Blog Post
Successful Internship Matchmaking: “With Citadel, I could be myself.”
(MBA 2009), head of talent strategy at Citadel, recognized Sarah’s deep appreciation for talent. “I could see that she was interested in human capital, right off the bat,” he says. “We’re always looking for...
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- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
and connected and OPTIMISTIC in appropriate measure while so many have so many competing personal and business and health and family issues right now.” Meanwhile, cost-cutting, uncertainty, and the necessities of social distancing...
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All Industries
- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
and connected and OPTIMISTIC in appropriate measure while so many have so many competing personal and business and health and family issues right now.” Meanwhile, cost-cutting, uncertainty, and the necessities of social distancing...
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- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
Published Papers Do the Right Firms Survive Bankruptcy? Journal of Financial Economics Samuel Antill “In United States, Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases, firms are either reorganized, acquired, or liquidated. I show that decisions to liquidate...
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- 14 Sep 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO
correctness, free speech, or affirmative action. It is relating to people as authentic human beings, not as representatives of a group or class. Great harm is done when groups of people are stereotyped as having certain characteristics,...
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by Bill George
- Article
How to Tackle Your Toughest Decisions
The toughest calls managers have to make come in situations when they have worked hard to gather the facts and have done the best analysis they can, but they still don’t know what to do. Then judgment—a fusion of thinking, feelings, experience, imagination, and...
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Badaracco, Joseph L. "How to Tackle Your Toughest Decisions." Harvard Business Review 94, no. 9 (September 2016): 104–107.
- September 2022
- Case
Deciding When to Engage on Societal Issues
By: Hubert Joly and Amram Migdal
This case provides brief descriptions of 18 examples of corporate leaders confronting questions of whether and how to engage with societal issues, including social, political, and environmental issues. Social issues include COVID-19; social and racial justice;...
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Keywords:
Political Issues;
Social Justice;
Racial Justice;
Environmental Issues;
Social Issues;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Values and Beliefs
Joly, Hubert, and Amram Migdal. "Deciding When to Engage on Societal Issues." Harvard Business School Case 523-045, September 2022.