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- March 2004 (Revised April 2004)
- Background Note
Seeing What's on Red Auerbach's Mind
Analysis of an interview with Red Auerbach, HBR No. 87201. Alan M. Webber, who conducted the interview, probed for the lessons that Auerbach has learned from a long and productive career coaching and managing the Boston Celtics, a professional basketball team in the...
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Keywords:
Markets;
Research;
Sports;
Product Development;
Communication Intention and Meaning;
Sports Industry
Lassiter, Joseph B., III, and John T. Gourville. "Seeing What's on Red Auerbach's Mind." Harvard Business School Background Note 804-160, March 2004. (Revised April 2004.)
- February 2004
- Article
Breakthrough Ideas for 2004: Requiem for the Public Corporation
By: Joseph B. Fuller
Fuller, Joseph B. "Breakthrough Ideas for 2004: Requiem for the Public Corporation." Harvard Business Review 82, no. 2 (February 2004): 22.
- January 2004 (Revised April 2005)
- Background Note
Personal Values and Professional Responsibilities
Describes some of the classic conflicts managers face in trying to live and work by their personal values and uses Hirschman's "exit, loyalty, and voice" framework to suggest ways for resolving these conflicts.
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Keywords:
Values and Beliefs;
Personal Development and Career;
Conflict of Interests;
Conflict and Resolution
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr. "Personal Values and Professional Responsibilities." Harvard Business School Background Note 304-070, January 2004. (Revised April 2005.)
- January 2004
- Supplement
Jack Welch General Electric-The People Factory at work: Picking My Successor at GE
By: Joseph L. Bower
Jack Welch describes the process by which Jeff Immelt was chosen. In doing so, he describes General Electric's People Factory.
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Bower, Joseph L. "Jack Welch General Electric-The People Factory at work: Picking My Successor at GE." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 304-808, January 2004.
- Article
Why Schumpeter Was Right: Innovation, Market Power and Creative Destruction in 1920s America
By: Tom Nicholas
Are firms with strong market positions powerful engines of technological progress? Joseph Schumpeter thought so, but his hypothesis has proved difficult to verify empirically. This article highlights Schumpeterian market-power and creative-destruction effects in a...
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Keywords:
Innovation and Invention;
Power and Influence;
Emerging Markets;
Rank and Position;
Status and Position;
Capital Markets;
Capital Structure;
Information Technology;
Patents;
Creativity;
Economic Systems;
Development Economics;
United States
Nicholas, Tom. "Why Schumpeter Was Right: Innovation, Market Power and Creative Destruction in 1920s America." Journal of Economic History 63, no. 4 (December 2003).
- Article
How Bigger Dividends Build Trust
By: Joseph B. Fuller
Fuller, Joseph B. "How Bigger Dividends Build Trust." Financial Times (October 7, 2003).
- June 2003 (Revised October 2004)
- Case
StorageNetworks: Restarting a Public Company (A)
By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Todd H Thedinga
Peter Bell, founder and CEO of StorageNetworks, faces the problem of "restarting" a public company by changing its business model from being a storage-services provider to being a storage software developer. The task seems challenging, but surely doable, with $200...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Diversification;
Change Management;
Cash;
Entrepreneurship;
Problems and Challenges;
Corporate Finance;
Information Technology Industry
Lassiter, Joseph B., III, and Todd H Thedinga. "StorageNetworks: Restarting a Public Company (A)." Harvard Business School Case 803-198, June 2003. (Revised October 2004.)
- 2003
- Chapter
What's a Director to Do?
By: Joseph B. Fuller and Michael C. Jensen
Fuller, Joseph B., and Michael C. Jensen. "What's a Director to Do?" In Best Practice: Ideas and Insights from the World’s Foremost Business Thinkers, edited by Tom Brown and Robert Heller, 243–250. Basic Books, 2003.
- Article
A Letter to the CEO
By: Joseph B. Fuller
Fuller, Joseph B. "A Letter to the CEO." Harvard Business Review 80, no. 10 (October 2002).
- Article
The Accounting Transparency Gap
By: Joseph B. Fuller
Fuller, Joseph B. "The Accounting Transparency Gap." Harvard Management Update 7, no. 5 (May 2002).
- Article
End the Mythmaking and Return to True Analysis
By: Joseph B. Fuller
Fuller, Joseph B. "End the Mythmaking and Return to True Analysis." Financial Times (January 22, 2002).
- Article
Just Say No to Wall Street
By: Joseph B. Fuller
Fuller, Joseph B. "Just Say No to Wall Street." Wall Street Journal (December 31, 2001).
- Article
Dare to Keep Your Stock Price Low
By: Joseph B. Fuller
Fuller, Joseph B. "Dare to Keep Your Stock Price Low." Wall Street Journal (December 31, 2001).
- November 2001
- Background Note
Global Approaches to Anti-Corruption
By: Joseph Hinsey, Guhan Subramanian and Michelle Kalka
In the 1970s, a series of unpleasant revelations about corporate conduct, culminating in the public disclosure about unsavory business practices abroad by more than 400 U.S. corporations, jarred popular perceptions concerning business ethics. Congress responded by...
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Keywords:
Crime and Corruption;
Globalization;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Laws and Statutes;
Ethics;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Information Industry;
United States
Hinsey, Joseph, Guhan Subramanian, and Michelle Kalka. "Global Approaches to Anti-Corruption." Harvard Business School Background Note 902-062, November 2001.
- Article
Overcoming the Fear of Flying: A Future for Europe's Airlines
By: Joseph B. Fuller
Fuller, Joseph B. "Overcoming the Fear of Flying: A Future for Europe's Airlines." Wall Street Journal (October 25, 2001).
- July 2001 (Revised February 2004)
- Case
Gerdau (A)
By: Joseph L. Bower, Luiz Felipe Monteiro and Sonja Ellingson Hout
Gerdau Group is a family-controlled Brazilian manufacturer and distributor of long steel products. Describes the evolution of the company's strategy, organization, and smart management, making it the No. 2 steel producer in Brazil. The company must decide whether to...
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Keywords:
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Family Business;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Globalization;
Competitive Strategy;
Steel Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
Brazil;
United States
Bower, Joseph L., Luiz Felipe Monteiro, and Sonja Ellingson Hout. "Gerdau (A)." Harvard Business School Case 302-016, July 2001. (Revised February 2004.)
- October 2000 (Revised November 2000)
- Case
New Economy Ethics: YouKnowIt.com
By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Kim Slack
Entrepreneur Janice Schwartz is hoping to grow her start-up company by creating a technical advisory board and compensating members with discounted company stock. Schwartz is considering six candidates that can help her online education company in a variety of ways: as...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Crime and Corruption;
Customers;
Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Media;
Networks;
Internet
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr., and Kim Slack. "New Economy Ethics: YouKnowIt.com." Harvard Business School Case 301-050, October 2000. (Revised November 2000.)
- August 2000 (Revised August 2018)
- Case
The Atchison Corporation (A)
By: Joseph L. Bower
A new general manager uses a profit-center-based system to shake up an old line company. He then faces the task of placating a board member upset by the human consequences. A rewritten version of an earlier case.
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Keywords:
Transformation;
Profit;
Human Resources;
Change Management;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Organizational Design
Bower, Joseph L. "The Atchison Corporation (A)." Harvard Business School Case 301-020, August 2000. (Revised August 2018.)
- October 1999 (Revised February 2000)
- Case
Steinway & Sons: Buying a Legend (A)
It is 1995 and Steinway & Sons has just been purchased by two young entrepreneurs. For 140 years, Steinway has held the reputation for making the finest quality grand pianos in the world. The past 25 years have proven to be a challenge, however. First, the company has...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Decisions;
Entrepreneurship;
Globalization;
Crisis Management;
Brands and Branding;
Marketing Strategy;
Quality;
Competitive Strategy;
Manufacturing Industry;
Japan;
New York (state, US)
Gourville, John T., and Joseph B. Lassiter III. "Steinway & Sons: Buying a Legend (A)." Harvard Business School Case 500-028, October 1999. (Revised February 2000.)
- October 1999
- Case
CIBC Corporate and Investment Banking (C): 1997-1999
By: Joseph L. Bower and Michael Raynor
By 1997 the turnaround of CIBC's troubled investment bank, Wood Gundy, and its integration with corporate banking activities was complete. Marketplace results were encouraging, but scuttled mergers and tumultuous succession issues made the future uncertain.
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Keywords:
Integration;
Investment Banking;
Success;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Management Succession;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Financial Services Industry
Bower, Joseph L., and Michael Raynor. "CIBC Corporate and Investment Banking (C): 1997-1999." Harvard Business School Case 300-043, October 1999.