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- 11 Jul 2022
- News
The Digital Nomad Visas Luring Workers Overseas
- May 2002 (Revised May 2002)
- Case
Tim Blanchard at Jones Mendel & Co.
By: John J. Gabarro
Tim Blanchard struggles to balance all the demands facing him as a partner of a consulting firm. He must decide how to serve clients, mentor his people, provide strategy and direction to the high-tech group, and spend time with family. A rewritten version of an earlier...
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Keywords:
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Managerial Roles;
Work-Life Balance;
Consulting Industry
Gabarro, John J. "Tim Blanchard at Jones Mendel & Co." Harvard Business School Case 402-052, May 2002. (Revised May 2002.)
- March 2002 (Revised May 2003)
- Case
NeoPets, Inc.
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Elizabeth Kind
NeoPets, a rapidly growing Internet start-up, faces decisions about its international expansion strategy--whether to enter a joint venture with a conglomerate in Singapore to exploit Asian markets as well as which other regions to target. NeoPets allows its...
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Keywords:
Expansion;
Global Strategy;
Network Effects;
Joint Ventures;
Business Conglomerates;
Age;
Internet and the Web;
Product Positioning;
Digital Marketing;
Internet and the Web;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Information Technology Industry;
Asia;
Singapore
Eisenmann, Thomas R., and Elizabeth Kind. "NeoPets, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 802-100, March 2002. (Revised May 2003.)
- 31 Mar 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
What Do CEOs Do?
- 05 Jul 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is “Executive Intelligence” for Leaders?
Summing Up Judging from the number of responses to the July column, Justin Menkes, author of the book Executive Intelligence, appears to have tapped into a hot issue with his concern that what he terms "executive intelligence" is underrated, under-measured,...
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by James Heskett
- 19 Jun 2020
- News
Pandemic Prises Open Inflation Information Gap
- 06 Apr 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
A General Theory of Identification
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by Iavor Bojinov and Guillaume Basse
- 19 Jul 2011
- News
A debt plan Republicans can support
- 28 Jun 2020
- News
Prices are rising faster than official figures suggest
- February 2011 (Revised May 2011)
- Case
Marlin & Associates and the Sale of Riverview Technologies
By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
Riverview Technologies was a Stockholm, Sweden-based company that had developed software hedge funds. After spending more than a year in an organized sale process, the winning bidder had become increasingly difficult to work with and the closing had been substantially...
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Keywords:
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Entrepreneurship;
Negotiation Deal;
Negotiation Offer;
Negotiation Process;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Financial Services Industry
Ruback, Richard S., and Royce Yudkoff. "Marlin & Associates and the Sale of Riverview Technologies." Harvard Business School Case 211-083, February 2011. (Revised May 2011.)
- March 2011
- Article
The New M&A Playbook
By: Clayton M. Christensen, Richard Alton, Curtis Rising and Andrew Waldeck
Companies spend more than $2 trillion on acquisitions every year, yet the M&A failure rate is between 70% and 90%. Executives can dramatically increase their odds of success, the authors argue, if they understand how to select targets, how much to pay for them, and...
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Keywords:
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Business Model;
Disruptive Innovation;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Integration
Christensen, Clayton M., Richard Alton, Curtis Rising, and Andrew Waldeck. "The New M&A Playbook." Harvard Business Review 89, no. 3 (March 2011).
Summer R. Jackson
Summer Jackson is an Assistant Professor of Management in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches LEAD in the MBA required curriculum.
Professor Jackson is an organizational ethnographer and field researcher... View Details
- 03 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Homeland Security: A Ready-made Market
September 11 and the establishment of a Department for Homeland Security (along with a budget of nearly $38 billion for FY 2003) have created immediate opportunities and challenges for the industry, according to HBS associate professor Scott Snook. Given the realities...
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- 28 Apr 2020
- News
Is the Healthiest Building in the World Worth the Rent?
- 30 Sep 2019
- News
WeWork Needs Cash as Botched IPO Scuttles Planned Infusion
- 30 Dec 2011
- News
Five Resolutions for Aspiring Leaders
- 02 Jul 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
Mums the Word! Cross-national Effects of Maternal Employment on Gender Inequalities at Work and at Home
- October 2011
- Case
Raleigh & Rosse: Measures to Motivate Exceptional Service
By: Robert Simons and Michael Mahoney
In January 2010, U.S. luxury goods retailer Raleigh & Rosse is being sued by its employees for encouraging "off the clock" hours. At the center of the class action lawsuit is the famous Raleigh & Rosse performance measurement system previously thought to be the core of...
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Keywords:
Control Systems;
Performance Measurement;
Goal Setting;
Compensation;
Incentives;
Motivation;
Sales Compensation;
Motivation and Incentives;
Goals and Objectives;
Growth Management;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Organizational Culture;
Management Systems;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Employees;
Performance Evaluation;
Compensation and Benefits;
Retail Industry;
United States
Simons, Robert, and Michael Mahoney. "Raleigh & Rosse: Measures to Motivate Exceptional Service." Harvard Business School Brief Case 114-353, October 2011.