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- June 2018 (Revised July 2023)
- Case
John Chambers, Cisco, and China: Upgrading a Golden Shield
By: Geoffrey Jones and Emily Grandjean
This case examines the role of Cisco led by John Chambers in facilitating web filtering in China. It begins by tracing the origins of Cisco as a pioneer of networking equipment. John Chambers, who had worked as a sales manager at IBM and Wang Laboratories, joined Cisco...
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Keywords:
Cisco;
Internet and the Web;
Governance Controls;
Ethics;
Rights;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Technology Industry;
China
Jones, Geoffrey, and Emily Grandjean. "John Chambers, Cisco, and China: Upgrading a Golden Shield." Harvard Business School Case 318-158, June 2018. (Revised July 2023.)
- 2009
- Book
High Commitment, High Performance: How to Build a Resilient Organization for Sustained Advantage
By: Michael Beer
Integrating knowledge from strategic management, performance management, and organization design, strategic human resource expert and Harvard Business School Professor Michael Beer outlines what the high-commitment, high-performance organization looks like and provides...
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Keywords:
Human Resources;
Leadership;
Management;
Goals and Objectives;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Design;
Organizational Structure;
Performance;
Practice;
Business Strategy;
System
Beer, Michael. High Commitment, High Performance: How to Build a Resilient Organization for Sustained Advantage. Jossey-Bass, 2009.
- 19 Apr 2017
- News
Erdogan's New Powers Do Little to Address Turkey's Old Problems
- 16 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
As AI Upends Recruiting, Job Seekers Need a Waze App for Careers
transition is urgently required if more young people are to launch successful careers that will lead to economic security. “What’s left are the things that are hard to automate, called foundational or human skills.” Even as unemployment...
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- May–June 2023
- Article
Analytics for Marketers: When to Rely on Algorithms and When to Trust Your Gut
By: Fabrizio Fantini and Das Narayandas
Advanced analytics can help companies solve a host of management problems, including those related to marketing, sales, and supply-chain operations, which can lead to a sustainable competitive advantage. But as more data becomes available and advanced analytics are...
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Fantini, Fabrizio, and Das Narayandas. "Analytics for Marketers: When to Rely on Algorithms and When to Trust Your Gut." Harvard Business Review 101, no. 3 (May–June 2023): 82–91.
- April 2022 (Revised August 2022)
- Case
Antler
By: Dennis Campbell and Iuliana Mogosanu
The case describes the founding, development, and scaling of Antler, an early-stage investment platform that invests in entrepreneurs pre-team and, in many cases, even pre-idea. The case explores the economics of venture capital investing at such an early stage and the...
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- 29 Aug 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Patent Trolls
High Commitment High Performance: How to Build A Resilient Organization for Sustained Advantage
How to create the high-performance, high-commitment organization.
Integrating knowledge from strategic management, performance management, and organization design, strategic human resource expert and Harvard Business School Professor Michael Beer outlines... View Details
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Multivoxel Patterns in Face-sensitive Temporal Regions Reveal an Encoding Schema Based on Detecting Life in a Face
By: Christine E. Looser, J. Swaroop Guntupalli and Thalia Wheatley
More than a decade of research has demonstrated that faces evoke prioritized processing in a 'core face network' of three brain regions. However, whether these regions prioritize the detection of global facial form (shared by humans and mannequins) or the detection of...
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Keywords:
Brain Imaging;
Social Psychology;
Mind Perception;
Identity;
Science;
Cognition and Thinking
Looser, Christine E., J. Swaroop Guntupalli, and Thalia Wheatley. "Multivoxel Patterns in Face-sensitive Temporal Regions Reveal an Encoding Schema Based on Detecting Life in a Face." Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 8, no. 7 (October 2013): 799–805.
- 15 Nov 2022
- Book
Stop Ignoring Bad Behavior: 6 Tips for Better Ethics at Work
something and didn't do anything.” In the new book Complicit: How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop, Bazerman points to the Purdue example as emblematic of the troubling human tendency to go along with acts of wrongdoing, and he...
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by Pamela Reynolds
- 07 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?
supply chain problem space to include, among other things, the assignment of roles and decision rights among the coordinating partners, the selection of partners, the design of incentives, and the design of processes to monitor...
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by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 12 Jul 2016
- News
The Fastest-Growing Cause for Shareholders Is Sustainability
- 25 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles
The Class of 2021 is facing a time unlike any other in human history. In these unprecedented times, we at HBS are so grateful that these students will lead us into a better future filled with possibility, inclusivity, innovation, and...
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- Blog
Crossing the Bridge from Program Learning to Practical Application
tries to bring the human side of risk management to the fore. "I recently visited our team in Singapore and used the opportunity to present some lessons I took away from the Columbia space shuttle mission case and the importance of...
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- 01 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
CEOs and Coaches: How Important is Organizational 'Fit?'
“It’s a match made in heaven!” One hears this said at weddings, at the end of mergers, at the hiring of CEOs, and, of course, at the hiring of coaches in the National Football League. Human history is rife with examples of a union of two...
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- 18 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Internet of Things Needs a Business Model. Here It Is
right number of machines and eliminate inefficiencies. Pilot programs by the company showed a huge amount of time lost, for example, while recalibrating CT machines between head and abdominal scans, each of which require very different...
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- 19 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Government 'Nudges' Motivate Good Citizen Behavior
fast and intuitive, while System 2 decision-making is slow and deliberative. As much as we might want to believe we are thoughtful, rational creatures, the truth is that humans spend most of their time in System 1 thinking. “Most of what...
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by Michael Blanding
- 2020
- White Paper
Building the On-Demand Workforce
By: Joseph B. Fuller, Manjari Raman, James Palano, Allison Bailey, Nithya Vaduganathan, Elizabeth Kaufman, Renée Laverdière and Sibley Lovett
The right talent, in the right place, at the
right time, is the equation for success in
today’s world. In an era of technological
change, demographic shifts, and economic
uncertainty, companies can enhance their
ability to compete by building a flexible...
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Keywords:
Future Of Work;
On-demand Economy;
Workforce;
On-demand Workforce;
Competitive Advantage;
Human Capital;
Talent and Talent Management;
Recruitment
Fuller, Joseph B., Manjari Raman, James Palano, Allison Bailey, Nithya Vaduganathan, Elizabeth Kaufman, Renée Laverdière, and Sibley Lovett. "Building the On-Demand Workforce." White Paper, Harvard Business School, November 2020 (Jointly published with Boston Consulting Group (BCG).)
Scarlet Letters
Organizations—particularly human resources teams—tend to address bad behaviors very quietly while raising the visibility of good ones. Indeed, the more transparent workplaces have become, the harder HR has tried to keep employee transgressions private. But this... View Details
- 01 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault
not intuitive for managers. So Simons created a solution: a free online job design optimization tool that allows companies to plug in information about a particular job to test whether the person in that role is getting the right mix of...
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by Dina Gerdeman