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- 05 Aug 2014
- News
A Diversified Portfolio
extensive strategic and financial experience included consulting at McKinsey, investment banking at Salomon Brothers, and leading business development at several Internet and media companies. The pair started investigating and found a lot...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 02 Oct 2013
- News
The Management Stylings of Harvard Business School
- Blog
In-Person Programs: Q&A with Portfolio Directors
After a long hiatus, HBS programs have started to return to campus. Vicki Good and Lisa Hughes, portfolio directors for the Advanced Management Program (AMP) and the Program for Leadership Development (PLD)...
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- February 1994 (Revised September 1995)
- Case
Leland O'Brien Rubinstein Associates, Inc.: Portfolio Insurance
By: Peter Tufano
Leland O'Brien Rubinstein Associates, a small financial advisory firm founded in 1980, has created a successful business by selling a product commonly known as portfolio insurance. Portfolio insurance is a trading strategy that institutional investors use to establish...
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Tufano, Peter, and Barbara Kyrillos. "Leland O'Brien Rubinstein Associates, Inc.: Portfolio Insurance." Harvard Business School Case 294-061, February 1994. (Revised September 1995.)
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
executives is to imply that business management itself is a profession—but is it? Sociologists who study the professions have employed a wide range of perspectives and criteria...
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- 09 Jun 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: Enterprise Risk Management
Editor's Note: This is a summary of an HBS Business Summit presentation. View a full summary and video of the event on the HBS Centennial Web site linked below. Date View Details
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Re: Robert S. Kaplan
- May 2003
- Background Note
Customer Management Strategy in Business Markets
By: Das Narayandas
Describes in detail customer management strategies in business markets, including selection decisions, design and management of customer relationship strategies, monitoring the health of customer relations, and linking the vendors' customer management effort to...
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Keywords:
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Customer Relationship Management;
Decision Making;
Networks;
Customization and Personalization;
Manufacturing Industry
Narayandas, Das. "Customer Management Strategy in Business Markets." Harvard Business School Background Note 503-060, May 2003.
- 24 Aug 2013
- Panel Discussion
Global Responsibilities of Business
By: Lynn S. Paine, Wang Shi and Steve Luckzo
- November 1999 (Revised June 2000)
- Case
FairMarket: Managing Business Development
By: William A. Sahlman, Michael J. Roberts and Cathy Taylor
Describes the evolution of FairMarket, a provider of turnkey auction services to community and merchant Web sites. Describes several deals that the CEO must negotiate, requiring a view of the company's valuation.
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Partners and Partnerships;
Internet and the Web;
Valuation;
Negotiation Deal;
Auctions;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Web Services Industry
Sahlman, William A., Michael J. Roberts, and Cathy Taylor. "FairMarket: Managing Business Development." Harvard Business School Case 800-212, November 1999. (Revised June 2000.)
- May 06 2021
- Tout
Earn a Certificate of Management Excellence
- April 2013 (Revised October 2013)
- Case
Google's Project Oxygen: Do Managers Matter?
By: David A. Garvin, Alison Berkley Wagonfeld and Liz Kind
Google's Project Oxygen started with a fundamental question raised by executives in the early 2000s: do managers matter? The topic generated a multi-year research project that ultimately led to a comprehensive program, built around eight key management attributes,...
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Organizational Behavior;
Business Policy;
General Management;
Human Resource Management;
Management;
Leadership;
Human Resources
Garvin, David A., Alison Berkley Wagonfeld, and Liz Kind. "Google's Project Oxygen: Do Managers Matter?" Harvard Business School Case 313-110, April 2013. (Revised October 2013.)
The Emergence of Charismatic Business Leadership
The Emergence of Charismatic Business Leadership is an examination of how the role of the business leader in the U.S. has changed from World War II to the present. A small number of high-profile individuals have transformed the face of modern-day... View Details
- December 2014 (Revised January 2015)
- Supplement
Vehbi Koç and the Making of Turkey's Largest Business Group (B)
By: Asli M. Colpan and Geoffrey Jones
The case builds on the earlier (A) case, which described the origins of the Turkish business group established by Vehbi Koç before 1988. This case takes the story forward to 2012 as the Koç group was led by Vehbi's son Rahmi followed by his grandson Mustafa. It...
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Business Groups;
Turkey;
Entrepreneurship;
Management;
Manufacturing Industry;
Transportation Industry;
Auto Industry;
Central Asia;
Middle East
Colpan, Asli M., and Geoffrey Jones. "Vehbi Koç and the Making of Turkey's Largest Business Group (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 815-078, December 2014. (Revised January 2015.)
- March 2018
- Teaching Note
Project Titan at Northrop Grumman
By: C. Fritz Foley, Lauren G. Pickle, David Lane and F. Katelynn Boland
Teaching Note for HBS No. 215-001. In March of 2011, Northrop Grumman divested shipbuilding assets through the spin-off of Huntington Ingalls Industries. This case reviews many of the key questions faced by Northrop's CEO, CFO, and top management team during this...
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- 17 Apr 2020
- News
Small Business Support in a Time of Covid-19
- Fall 2013
- Article
The Role of Performance Measures in the Intertemporal Decisions of Business Unit Managers
Accounting performance measures are often argued to lead to short-sighted behavior by managers facing intertemporal decisions. We assess the association between different types of performance measures and the time horizon of business unit managers who have profit...
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Bouwens, Jan, Margaret A. Abernethy, and Laurence van Lent. "The Role of Performance Measures in the Intertemporal Decisions of Business Unit Managers." Contemporary Accounting Research 30, no. 3 (Fall 2013): 925–961.
- 12 Dec 2014
- News
The Paradox of Managing Creativity
- February 2020
- Technical Note
Talent Management and the Future of Work
By: William R. Kerr and Gorick Ng
The nature of work is changing—and it is changing rapidly. Few days go by without industry giants such as Amazon and AT&T announcing plans to invest billions of dollars towards retraining nearly half of their respective workforces for jobs of the future. What changes...
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Keywords:
Human Resource Management;
Human Capital Development;
Human Resource Practices;
Talent;
Talent Acquisition;
Talent Development;
Talent Development And Retention;
Talent Management;
Talent Retention;
Labor Flows;
Labor Management;
Labor Market;
Strategy Development;
Strategy Management;
Strategy Execution;
Strategy And Execution;
Strategic Change;
Transformations;
Organization;
Organization Alignment;
Organization Design;
Organizational Adaptation;
Organizational Effectiveness;
Management Challenges;
Management Of Business And Political Risk;
Change Leadership;
Future Of Work;
Future;
Skills Gap;
Skills Development;
Skills;
Offshoring And Outsourcing;
Investment;
Capital Allocation;
Work;
Work Culture;
Work Force Management;
Work/life Balance;
Work/family Balance;
Work-family Boundary Management;
Workers;
Worker Productivity;
Worker Performance;
Work Engagement;
Work Environment;
Work Environments;
Productivity;
Organization Culture;
Soft Skills;
Technology Management;
Technological Change;
Technological Change: Choices And Consequences;
Technology Diffusion;
Disruptive Technology;
Global Business;
Global;
Workplace;
Workplace Context;
Workplace Culture;
Workplace Wellness;
Collaboration;
Competencies;
Productivity Gains;
Digital;
Digital Transition;
Competitive Dynamics;
Competitiveness;
Competitive Strategy;
Data Analytics;
Data;
Data Management;
Data Strategy;
Data Protection;
Aging Society;
Diversity;
Diversity Management;
Millennials;
Communication Complexity;
Communication Technologies;
International Business;
Work Sharing;
Global Competitiveness;
Global Corporate Cultures;
Intellectual Property;
Intellectual Property Management;
Intellectual Property Protection;
Intellectual Capital And Property Issues;
Globalization Of Supply Chain;
Inequality;
Recruiting;
Hiring;
Hiring Of Employees;
Training;
Job Cuts And Outsourcing;
Job Performance;
Job Search;
Job Design;
Job Satisfaction;
Jobs;
Employee Engagement;
Employee Attitude;
Employee Benefits;
Employee Compensation;
Employee Fairness;
Employee Relationship Management;
Employee Retention;
Employee Selection;
Employee Motivation;
Employee Feedback;
Employee Coordination;
Employee Performance Management;
Employee Socialization;
Process Improvement;
Application Performance Management;
Stigma;
Institutional Change;
Candidates;
Digital Enterprise;
Cultural Adaptation;
Cultural Change;
Cultural Diversity;
Cultural Context;
Cultural Strategies;
Cultural Psychology;
Cultural Reform;
Performance;
Performance Effectiveness;
Performance Management;
Performance Evaluation;
Performance Appraisal;
Performance Feedback;
Performance Measurement;
Performance Metrics;
Performance Measures;
Performance Efficiency;
Efficiency;
Performance Analysis;
Performance Appraisals;
Performance Improvement;
Automation;
Artificial Intelligence;
Technology Companies;
Managerial Processes;
Skilled Migration;
Assessment;
Human Resources;
Management;
Human Capital;
Talent and Talent Management;
Retention;
Demographics;
Labor;
Strategy;
Change;
Change Management;
Transformation;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Working Conditions;
Information Technology;
Technology Adoption;
Disruption;
Economy;
Competition;
Globalization;
AI and Machine Learning;
Digital Transformation
Kerr, William R., and Gorick Ng. "Talent Management and the Future of Work." Harvard Business School Technical Note 820-084, February 2020.
- 2017
- Other Article
Designing an Agile Software Portfolio Architecture: The Impact of Coupling on Performance
By: Alan MacCormack and Robert Lagerstrom
The modern industrial corporation encompasses a myriad of different software applications, each of which must work in concert to deliver functionality to end-users. However, the increasingly complex and dynamic nature of competition in today’s product-markets dictates...
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Keywords:
Applications and Software;
Design;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Performance Effectiveness
MacCormack, Alan, and Robert Lagerstrom. "Designing an Agile Software Portfolio Architecture: The Impact of Coupling on Performance." Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings (2017). (doi:10.5465/AMBPP.2017.297, ISSN 2151-6561.)
- March – April 1976
- Article
Business Needs a New Breed of EDP Manager
By: R. L. Nolan
Keywords:
Management
Nolan, R. L. "Business Needs a New Breed of EDP Manager." Harvard Business Review 54, no. 2 (March–April 1976).