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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: On the Fly
industry. Would the industry be best served by a model in which these three entities operate under one umbrella? —Marguerite Soeteman-Reijnen (AMP 190, 2016) CARTY: The growth and development View Details
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Julia Hanna
- March 1996 (Revised November 1997)
- Case
Dewar's (A): Brand Repositioning in the 1990's
By: Alvin J. Silk and Lisa Klein Pearo
Dewar's, a major brand of Scotch whisky, produced by United Distillers of the U.K., and the U.S. leader in the Scotch category with a 15% market share, faced a declining market among traditional consumers of distilled spirits. Given the growing societal, legal, and...
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Advertising;
Customers;
Brands and Branding;
Marketing Strategy;
Market Participation;
Strategic Planning;
Opportunities;
Consumer Products Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
United Kingdom;
United States
Silk, Alvin J., and Lisa Klein Pearo. "Dewar's (A): Brand Repositioning in the 1990's." Harvard Business School Case 596-076, March 1996. (Revised November 1997.)
- February 2022
- Article
Taxation and Innovation in the 20th Century
By: Ufuk Akcigit, John Grigsby, Tom Nicholas and Stefanie Stantcheva
This paper studies the effect of corporate and personal taxes on innovation in the United States over the twentieth century. We build a panel of the universe of inventors who patent since 1920, and a historical state-level corporate tax database with corporate tax...
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Innovation;
Income Taxes;
Corporate Taxation;
Firms;
Inventors;
State Taxation;
Business Taxation;
R&D Tax Credits;
Taxation;
Innovation and Invention;
History;
United States
Akcigit, Ufuk, John Grigsby, Tom Nicholas, and Stefanie Stantcheva. "Taxation and Innovation in the 20th Century." Quarterly Journal of Economics 137, no. 1 (February 2022): 329–385.
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Bridging the ESG Data Gap
Megan Murday The idea for a digital platform to help venture capitalists calculate, benchmark, and improve portfolio ESG performance crystallized while Megan Murday (MBA 2021) was studying at HBS. Now the...
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Deborah Blagg
- Web
About the Program - Summer Venture in Management
looking for students who are curious and interested in making a difference in the world. Participants are selected based on academic achievement, demonstrated leadership and their impact in View Details
- 2010
- Working Paper
The Mirroring Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence and Exceptions
The mirroring hypothesis predicts that the organizational patterns of a development project (e.g. communication links, geographic collocation, team and firm co-membership) will correspond to the technical patterns of dependency in the system under development. Scholars...
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Infrastructure;
Product Design;
Organizational Design;
Practice;
Groups and Teams;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Information Technology
Baldwin, Carliss Y. "The Mirroring Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence and Exceptions." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-058, January 2010. (Revised June 2010.)
- February 2010 (Revised June 2011)
- Case
SEWA Trade Facilitation Center: Changing the Spool
By: Mukti Khaire and Kathleen L. McGinn
The case is about the decision to convert a not-for-profit organization into a for-profit company. SEWA Trade Facilitation Center (STFC), which is part of a larger non-profit organization—the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)—works to improve the livelihoods of...
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Cooperative Ownership;
For-Profit Firms;
Gender;
Business Model;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Arts;
Entrepreneurship;
Economic Growth;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Consumer Products Industry;
India
Khaire, Mukti, and Kathleen L. McGinn. "SEWA Trade Facilitation Center: Changing the Spool." Harvard Business School Case 810-044, February 2010. (Revised June 2011.)
- 11 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
A World of Difference: What Keeps Companies from Becoming More Inclusive
Frances Frei, the UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management, is an expert in the intersection of leadership and inclusion. Francesca Gino,...
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by Jen McFarland Flint
- 18 Feb 2020
- News
Global Ocean Trust: Protecting the Blue Planet in New Ways
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
based on its current regulatory tools and mandate; however, it clearly needs additional financial resources. 9,000 employees cannot ensure the safety of $1.5 trillion View Details
- 09 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm
with better ideas? When Koning and Hasan examined the ideas based on the personalities of those who generated them, they found that all else...
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by Michael Blanding
- Web
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Reflections: Toward a Normative and Actionable Theory of Planned Organizational Change and Development
By: Michael Beer
A normative and actionable theory of planned organizational change and development is proposed based on fifty years of engagement by the author as a scholar-consultant. Five principles are central features of the theory and practice proposed: 1) Organizations are...
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Consultant;
Process;
Systems;
Silence;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Leadership;
Learning;
Management Teams
Beer, Michael. "Reflections: Toward a Normative and Actionable Theory of Planned Organizational Change and Development." Journal of Change Management 21, no. 1 (2021).
- February 2010 (Revised May 2010)
- Case
Bardhaman (A): Shrachi and the West Bengal Housing Board
By: John D. Macomber and Viraal Balsari
A real estate developer decides whether to enter into a public private partnership with the government of West Bengal to develop a township on farmland. The decisions include whether to expand operations from the company's base in Kolkata to Bardhaman, 100 km away;...
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Keywords:
Development Economics;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Business and Government Relations;
Decisions;
Private Equity;
Design;
Housing;
Infrastructure;
Projects;
Real Estate Industry;
West Bengal
Macomber, John D., and Viraal Balsari. "Bardhaman (A): Shrachi and the West Bengal Housing Board." Harvard Business School Case 210-062, February 2010. (Revised May 2010.)
- March 2002 (Revised July 2004)
- Case
RWE and the Proposal for a German Electricity Regulator
In April 2001, Dietmar Kuhnt, CEO of the German energy giant RWE, had to make a decision that would affect his company's future. Profits in the electricity sector depended heavily on regulatory rules that influenced industry structure and pricing. RWE had emerged...
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Dyck, Alexander, Jose Gomez-Ibanez, and Christoph Meier. "RWE and the Proposal for a German Electricity Regulator." Harvard Business School Case 702-053, March 2002. (Revised July 2004.)
- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
turnover or asset utilization tends to be higher. Disruptive innovations tend to be off-the-shelf products, in which the customer turns either to a group of specialist firms or to themselves to provide...
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- 27 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Recovering from the Need to Achieve
Start Of The Journey The book is no quick fix, but it is a start to a lifelong journey for high need to achieve types who must work through destructive tendencies every day....
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by Kim Girard
- 13 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Case Against Racial Colorblindness
hired to watch videos of the sessions on mute, rating the perceived friendliness of the white participants View Details
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by Carmen Nobel
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
iStock MESSAGE FROM DEAN SRIKANT DATAR On February 27, Dean Srikant Datar sent a message to the HBS community regarding the invasion of Ukraine, noting View Details
The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City
Rapid urbanization and rampant resource scarcity pose problems – and opportunities – for businesses and governments all over the world. The world’s existing population centers cannot absorb all the migration, prompting the need for hundreds of new cities. This... View Details