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- December 1999
- Case
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (A1): "Dot-comming" the World: Philip Nenon on a Billion Dollar Bet
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Jane Roessner
A group at Sun Microsystems, Inc. proposed that a recent acquisition that made fault-tolerant computers for telecommunications was a major opportunity for Sun. If the board provided funding to expand the acquisition's portfolio of products and make them part of the...
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- September 1998 (Revised April 2001)
- Case
Sealed Air Taiwan (A)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Robert J. Crawford
The general manager for U.S.-based Sealed Air Corp.'s Taiwan subsidiary must decide whether he's hired the right person to bridge the gap between Sealed Air's corporate culture and Taiwan's business culture. This case details Bob Kayser's experiences in trying to...
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Relationships;
Service Operations;
Motivation and Incentives;
Management Skills;
Compensation and Benefits;
Taiwan;
United States
Paine, Lynn S., and Robert J. Crawford. "Sealed Air Taiwan (A)." Harvard Business School Case 399-058, September 1998. (Revised April 2001.)
- January 1996 (Revised October 1997)
- Case
Americhem: The Gaylord Division (A)
By: David A. Garvin
The Gaylord Division of Americhem, a large chemical company, is in the midst of the first use of a new zero-base budgeting system. The general manager of the division leading the process is experiencing disagreement and conflict among the members of the senior...
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Keywords:
Budgets and Budgeting;
Leadership;
Management Practices and Processes;
Strategic Planning;
Problems and Challenges
Garvin, David A. "Americhem: The Gaylord Division (A)." Harvard Business School Case 396-180, January 1996. (Revised October 1997.)
- 29 Mar 2015
- News
Charges of sexism roil venture capital world
- October 2021 (Revised February 2022)
- Case
Hospital 57357: Aligning Performance Towards a Vision of a Cancer-Free Childhood
By: Susanna Gallani and Youssef Abdel Aal
The case follows the Children Cancer Hospital in Egypt, also known as Hospital 57357, as it goes through the roll-out of a new performance management system, which Dr. Sherif Abouel Naga, founder and CEO of the hospital, had championed. This was a critical juncture as...
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Keywords:
Healthcare;
Performance Management;
Performance Incentives;
Strategic Alignment;
Health Care and Treatment;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Strategy;
Alignment;
Performance Evaluation;
Mission and Purpose;
Change Management;
Health Industry;
Egypt;
Middle East
Gallani, Susanna, and Youssef Abdel Aal. "Hospital 57357: Aligning Performance Towards a Vision of a Cancer-Free Childhood." Harvard Business School Case 122-041, October 2021. (Revised February 2022.)
- 27 Jun 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Fiscal Rules and Sovereign Default
- September 2023
- Exercise
Irrationality in Action: Decision-Making Exercise
By: Alison Wood Brooks, Michael I. Norton and Oliver Hauser
This teaching exercise highlights the obstacle of biases in decision-making, allowing students to generate examples of potentially poor decision-making rooted in abundant and unwanted bias. This exercise has two parts: a pre-class, online survey in which students...
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Brooks, Alison Wood, Michael I. Norton, and Oliver Hauser. "Irrationality in Action: Decision-Making Exercise." Harvard Business School Exercise 924-007, September 2023.
- January–February 2014
- Article
Blame Me
By: Kevin Sharer
The author looks at the psychological side of management, discussing his realization that thinking about and acknowledging his own contributions to organizational underperformance or other work problems is critical to getting employees to improve and generating...
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Sharer, Kevin. "Blame Me." Harvard Business Review 92, nos. 1-2 (January–February 2014): 36.
- March 2011 (Revised May 2011)
- Case
Inequality in Brazil
By: Aldo Musacchio
This case examines the evolution of inequality in Brazil in the last few years and generates two debates. First, the case discusses inequality and whether it is a problem or not for capitalist societies, in this case Brazil. Second, the case discusses some of the...
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Keywords:
Economic Growth;
Economic Systems;
Policy;
Government and Politics;
Business and Government Relations;
Poverty;
Equality and Inequality;
Brazil
Musacchio, Aldo. "Inequality in Brazil." Harvard Business School Case 711-086, March 2011. (Revised May 2011.)
- March 2009 (Revised May 2009)
- Background Note
Executing Strategy
By: J. Bruce Harreld
This is a note to introduce the principles for effectively implementing a new strategy. It emphasizes the interdependence of strategy and execution in developing and sustaining superior competitive performance. Primarily based on the notion that strategy should be a...
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Harreld, J. Bruce. "Executing Strategy." Harvard Business School Background Note 809-126, March 2009. (Revised May 2009.)
- 08 Dec 2021
- News
How to Lay Off Your Employees without Totally Blowing It
- 29 Apr 2020
- News
Huawei scores chip coup against US pressure
- 12 Mar 2024
- Research & Ideas
Publish or Perish: What the Research Says About Productivity in Academia
publication outputs also works against tenured professors, who typically spend more time on longer lead-time projects, such as writing books or advising policymakers. The Harvard team looked instead at per-hour research output to test the validity of annual publication...
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- 19 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating Black History: Elevating the Voices of Our Student and Alumni Communities
We’ve enjoyed the opportunity to honor the history and legacy of Black and African American members of our community who have and continue to lay the foundation for the next generation of innovative, successful, and transformational...
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Value-Based Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
students have taken their clinical clerkships.Read More on Their WebsitePetrie-Flom Center for Health Law and Policy, Harvard Law SchoolThe Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School was founded in 2005 through a View Details
Roberto Verganti
Roberto Verganti is in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches Design Theory and Practice for the double degree program MS/MBA conducted jointly by the Harvard Business School and the... View Details
- Nov 23 2022
- Short Film
The Harvard Business School Live Online Classroom
Richard S. Tedlow
Richard S. Tedlow is the Class of 1949 Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where he is a specialist in the history of business.
Professor Tedlow received his B.A. from Yale in 1969 and his M.A. and Ph.D. in history from... View Details
- Program
Disruptive Innovation
general managers, or business owners who are responsible for setting strategic direction for their organizations. Attendance by two or more individuals from your organization will foster teamwork and enhance the program's impact. Learning...
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