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- 09 Jan 2020
- Book
Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI
more akin to an Apple, a Tesla, or a Nest, or a GoPro—where it’s a consumer product that has the foundation of sexy hardware technology and sexy software technology,” he is quoted in a book published today, Competing in the Age View Details
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by Dina Gerdeman
- Fall 2017
- Article
An Empirical Analysis of Investment Return Dispersion in Emerging Markets Private Equity
By: Josh Lerner and Mark Baker
The authors use transaction-level data to compare the dispersion of private equity (PE) returns in emerging markets (EMs) to the same in developed markets (DMs). They regress within-market absolute deviation from the mean on an EM indicator and controls. They find...
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Lerner, Josh, and Mark Baker. "An Empirical Analysis of Investment Return Dispersion in Emerging Markets Private Equity." Journal of Private Equity 20, no. 4 (Fall 2017): 15–24.
- May 2021
- Article
Making Doctors Effective Managers and Leaders: A Matter of Health and Well-Being
By: Lisa Rotenstein, Robert S. Huckman and Christine K. Cassel
The COVID-19 crisis has forced physicians to make daily decisions that require knowledge and skills they did not acquire as part of their biomedical training. Physicians are being called upon to be both managers—able to set processes and structures—and leaders—capable...
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Rotenstein, Lisa, Robert S. Huckman, and Christine K. Cassel. "Making Doctors Effective Managers and Leaders: A Matter of Health and Well-Being." Academic Medicine 96, no. 5 (May 2021).
- November 2016 (Revised December 2017)
- Case
Blake Sports Apparel and Switch Activewear: Bringing the Executive Team Together
By: Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden
Cameron (Cam) Barker, founder and CEO of Blake Sports Apparel and Switch Activewear, manufacturers and distributers of sports apparel and accessories, was facing a challenge with his executive team. Their inability to work together on seemingly simple issues was a...
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Keywords:
Team Dynamics;
Team Management;
Team Effectiveness;
Team Performance;
Executive Leadership;
Groups and Teams;
Leadership;
Performance Effectiveness;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
United Kingdom
Groysberg, Boris, and Katherine Connolly Baden. "Blake Sports Apparel and Switch Activewear: Bringing the Executive Team Together." Harvard Business School Case 417-048, November 2016. (Revised December 2017.)
- September–October 2018
- Article
Online MAP Enforcement: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment
By: Ayelet Israeli
This paper investigates a manufacturer’s ability to influence compliance rates among its authorized online retailers by exploiting changes in the Minimum Advertised Price (MAP) policy and in dealer agreements. MAP is a pricing policy widely used by manufacturers to...
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Keywords:
Pricing Policies;
Pricing;
Channel Management;
Legal Aspects Of Business;
Retail;
Price;
Policy;
Governance Compliance;
Distribution Channels;
Management;
Retail Industry
Israeli, Ayelet. "Online MAP Enforcement: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment." Marketing Science 37, no. 5 (September–October 2018): 710–732.
- 20 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Three Types of Leaders Who Create Radical Change
long-time scholar of institutional change, has identified common themes among those social movements that don't merely broadcast the need for a social change, but actually create long-term impact. According to Battilana, every successful...
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by Carmen Nobel
- Working Paper
Trade and Geography in the Origins and Spread of Islam
By: Stelios Michalopoulos, Alireza Naghavi and Giovanni Prarolo
This study examines the spatial distribution of Muslim societies shedding light on its geographic origins. The empirical analysis conducted across countries, virtual countries, and ethnicities establishes that geographic inequality and proximity to pre-Islamic trade...
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Michalopoulos, Stelios, Alireza Naghavi, and Giovanni Prarolo. "Trade and Geography in the Origins and Spread of Islam." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 18438, October 2013.
- 21 Nov 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
The Decoupling Effect of Digital Disruptors
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by Thales S. Teixeira & Peter Jamieson
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
landscape of business is shifting from leaders who had high authority and faced low conflict to leaders who have lower authority and face greater conflict. View Details
- 14 Jul 2015
- News
Everybody has a slice of genius
- June 2012
- Case
Microsoft IT India
By: Willy C. Shih, Margaret Pierson, Alexander Down, William Gustave Jair-Shemuel Jurist, Diego Medicina and Helen Wang
Raj Biyani faced tough challenges managing Microsoft IT India: leading a remote development organization in which key decisions were made in Redmond, and managing an organization that was perceived as less strategic than its sister Microsoft India Development Center...
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Keywords:
Organizational Development;
Cross-functional Management;
Foreign Subsidiaries;
Strategy Alignment;
Organizational Behavior;
Indian Software Development;
Global Distributed R&D;
Software Industry;
Organizational Structure;
Research and Development;
Operations;
Leadership;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Business Subsidiaries;
Information Technology;
Applications and Software;
Technology Industry;
India
Shih, Willy C., Margaret Pierson, Alexander Down, William Gustave Jair-Shemuel Jurist, Diego Medicina, and Helen Wang. "Microsoft IT India ." Harvard Business School Case 612-078, June 2012.
The Art of Giving and Receiving Advice
Seeking and giving advice are central to effective leadership and decision making, and they require emotional intelligence, self-awareness, restraint, diplomacy, and patience on both sides. But managers tend to view these competencies as “gifts” that one either has... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
1933: “The most pressing question in America today is, Can American business leadership rise to its opportunities and responsibilities?” Noting the relevance of these words 75 years later, Faust added her...
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- June 2013
- Supplement
Montague Corporation: Unfolding the Future in Cycling (Video Supplement)
By: Jim Sharpe
This is the Video Supplement for Montague Corporation: Unfolding the Future in Cycling
(HBS Case #808087).
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurs;
Consumer Products;
Innovation & Entrepreneurship;
Innovation;
General Managers;
Growth;
Growth Management;
International;
Consumer Behavior;
Marketing Channels;
Founding;
Channels Of Distribution;
Entrepreneurship;
Marketing;
Leadership;
Bicycle Industry;
United States
Sharpe, Jim. "Montague Corporation: Unfolding the Future in Cycling (Video Supplement)." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 813-720, June 2013.
- October 2008
- Article
Creativity and the Role of the Leader
By: Teresa M. Amabile and Mukti Khaire
In today's innovation-driven economy, understanding how to generate great ideas has become an urgent managerial priority. Suddenly, the spotlight has turned on the academics who've studied creativity for decades. How relevant is their research to the practical...
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Keywords:
Leadership;
Commercialization;
Managerial Roles;
Creativity;
Innovation and Management;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Diversity
Amabile, Teresa M., and Mukti Khaire. "Creativity and the Role of the Leader." Harvard Business Review 86, no. 10 (October 2008).
- 22 Jul 2012
- News
In the company of women
- April 2002 (Revised September 2002)
- Case
Transformation of Seattle Public Schools, 1995-2002
Investigates the reform of the Seattle Public Schools from 1995 to 2002. To initiate reform in 1995, the district hired John Stanford, an Army general, and Joseph Olchefske, an investment banker, as the district's superintendent and chief financial officer,...
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Keywords:
Management;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Leading Change;
Organizational Structure;
Education;
Business Strategy;
Public Administration Industry;
Education Industry;
Seattle
Leschly, Stig. "Transformation of Seattle Public Schools, 1995-2002." Harvard Business School Case 802-197, April 2002. (Revised September 2002.)
- 06 Aug 2021
- News
Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO
- June 2013
- Supplement
Montague Corporation: Unfolding the Future in Cycling (Spreadsheet Supplement)
By: Jim Sharpe
This is the Spreadsheet Supplement for Montague Corporation: Unfolding the Future in Cycling (Case #808087). Includes Exhibit 3, Exhibit 5, Exhibit 6, and Exhibit 8.
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurs;
Consumer Products;
Innovation & Entrepreneurship;
Innovation;
General Managers;
Growth;
Growth Management;
International;
Consumer Behavior;
Marketing Channels;
Founding;
Channels Of Distribution;
Bicycles;
Entrepreneurship;
Marketing;
Leadership;
Bicycle Industry;
United States