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- February 2008 (Revised May 2008)
- Supplement
Lincoln Financial Group (C)
LFG reorganizes its business in order to improve customer intimacy. However, to implement the strategy, they need to effect significant changes in the skills of their salespeople. This case series straddles human resource management, corporate strategy, and sales...
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Salesforce Management;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Financial Services Industry
Godes, David B., and David Lane. "Lincoln Financial Group (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 508-030, February 2008. (Revised May 2008.)
- August 2003 (Revised November 2003)
- Background Note
Working Effectively with Counsel
Popular stereotypes of lawyers include "overhead," "Dr. No," "internal cop," "keep us out of trouble!" and "get us out of trouble!" Focus groups of business leaders queried in a survey by the Case Western Reserve University Law School associated the word "lawyer" with...
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Bagley, Constance E. "Working Effectively with Counsel." Harvard Business School Background Note 804-007, August 2003. (Revised November 2003.)
- February 2008 (Revised May 2008)
- Case
Lincoln Financial Group (A)
Lincoln Financial Group (LFG) reorganizes its business in order to improve customer intimacy. However, to implement the strategy, they need to effect significant changes in the skills of their salespeople. This case series straddles human resource management, corporate...
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Keywords:
Competency and Skills;
Customer Relationship Management;
Training;
Selection and Staffing;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Performance Evaluation;
Sales;
Corporate Strategy
Godes, David B., and David Lane. "Lincoln Financial Group (A)." Harvard Business School Case 508-028, February 2008. (Revised May 2008.)
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
The Network Effect
Raj Kapoor (MBA 1996) Raj Kapoor (MBA 1996) Each year Lyft’s Chief Strategy Officer Raj Kapoor (MBA 1996) and several of his HBS classmates gather for an informal reunion. After catching up in Aspen in early March, the group dispersed...
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- Web
Affinity Groups - Employment
interest groups that employees can take part in. HBS Office for Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging Harvard Business School announced that Terrill L. Drake has been named as the School’s first chief diversity and inclusion officer (CDIO),...
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- 1980
- Article
The Effect of Group Size and Communication Availability on Coalition Bargaining in a Veto Game
By: J. K. Murnighan and A. E. Roth
Murnighan, J. K., and A. E. Roth. "The Effect of Group Size and Communication Availability on Coalition Bargaining in a Veto Game." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 39 (1980): 92–103.
- September 2011
- Case
The Wen Group
By: John A. Davis and Matthew G. Pillar
Three brothers that own and lead a second-generation family business in Hong Kong, encounter problems of nepotism and governance, and endure considerable conflict. The case asks how to resolve these family and business issues.
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Keywords:
Family Business;
Performance Effectiveness;
Crisis Management;
Business or Company Management;
Conflict Management;
Corporate Governance;
Leadership Development;
Hong Kong
Davis, John A., and Matthew G. Pillar. "The Wen Group." Harvard Business School Case 812-034, September 2011.
- Research Summary
Thin Slices of Groups [Under Review]
In this paper with Jeff Polzer, Lisa Kwan, Wannawiruch Wiruchnipawan, and Marina Miloslavsky, we extend research on “thin slices” by testing and determining that perceivers are able to accurately judge the effectiveness of small, task-performing groups... View Details
- January 2003 (Revised February 2004)
- Case
The Credit Suisse Group
By: Ashish Nanda and Kelley Elizabeth Morrell
On September 19, 2002, Lukas Muhlemann announced that he would step down as chairman and CEO of the Credit Suisse Group, effective January 1, 2003. The bank had progressed from a small Swiss start-up 150 years ago to a global banking powerhouse. Over the past 5 years,...
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Keywords:
Change Management;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Management Succession;
Problems and Challenges;
Business Startups;
Banks and Banking;
Banking Industry;
Switzerland
Nanda, Ashish, and Kelley Elizabeth Morrell. "The Credit Suisse Group." Harvard Business School Case 903-087, January 2003. (Revised February 2004.)
- November 2021
- Supplement
Ant Group (B)
By: Krishna G. Palepu, Feng Zhu and Susie L. Ma
Keywords:
Information Technology;
Value Creation;
Network Effects;
Strategy;
Disruptive Innovation;
Technology Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
China
Palepu, Krishna G., Feng Zhu, and Susie L. Ma. "Ant Group (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 122-040, November 2021.
- 2019
- Working Paper
The (Heterogenous) Economic Effects of Private Equity Buyouts
By: Steven J. Davis, John Haltiwanger, Kyle Handley, Ben Lipsius, Josh Lerner and Javier Miranda
The effects of private equity buyouts on employment, productivity, and job reallocation vary
tremendously with macroeconomic and credit conditions, across private equity groups, and by
type of buyout. We reach this conclusion by examining the most extensive...
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Keywords:
Private Equity Buyouts;
Impact;
Private Equity;
Economics;
Employment;
Performance Productivity;
Wages
Davis, Steven J., John Haltiwanger, Kyle Handley, Ben Lipsius, Josh Lerner, and Javier Miranda. "The (Heterogenous) Economic Effects of Private Equity Buyouts." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-046, October 2019. (Revised July 2021. NBER Working Paper 26371.)
- 28 Jun 2011
- News
Turn Your Group into a True Team
- Program
Making Corporate Boards More Effective
resilience, strategic direction, executive compensation, and regulatory compliance. At the same time, you will learn how to work more effectively with fellow directors and company management to strengthen governance, manage unexpected...
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- June 2016
- Case
Publicis Groupe 2016: Maurice and the Millennials
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen
Having built Publicis Groupe through acquisitions maintained as separate brands, CEO Maurice Lévy wanted to transform the advertising and marketing firm to an integrated digital-ready enterprise to address industry changes. In early 2016, following a reorganization, he...
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Keywords:
Managing Change;
Transformations;
Digital;
Millennials;
Change;
Innovation;
Acquisitions;
Merger;
Culture;
Advertising Agency;
Reorganization;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Information Technology;
Change Management;
Restructuring;
Management Succession;
Marketing;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Transformation;
Innovation and Invention;
Digital Marketing;
Advertising Industry
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Jonathan Cohen. "Publicis Groupe 2016: Maurice and the Millennials." Harvard Business School Case 316-127, June 2016.
- 2002
- Working Paper
Rational Ambivalence: Asymmetric Effects of Work Group Demography on Men and Women's Responses to Being in the Minority
Chatman, Jennifer A., and Charles A. OReilly. "Rational Ambivalence: Asymmetric Effects of Work Group Demography on Men and Women's Responses to Being in the Minority." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 02-055, January 2002.
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
Schaffner (MBA ’09): “During my first year, a coed group of friends often went to Shad and did separate workouts, then walked over to Spangler for what soon became known as ‘family dinner.’ We talked about life and classes, game-planned...
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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Effective Leadership and Decision-Making
far more effective and better served when they act as facilitators orchestrating a group search to find the best possible solution to a problem. The effort should be conducted as an inquiry process, rather...
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- 2022
- Working Paper
Hate Crime Increases with Minoritized Group Rank
People are on the move in unprecedented numbers within and between countries. How does demographic change affect local intergroup dynamics? In complement to accounts that emphasize stereotypical features of groups as determinants of their treatment, we propose the...
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- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Group Therapy: The Role of Business Groups in Emerging Economies
consequences of group affiliation in Asia and Latin America for several years, often with HBS professor Krishna G. Palepu. His current research focuses on several important aspects of business groups: their View Details
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Inaccurate Group Meta-Perceptions Drive Negative Out-Group Attributions in Competitive Contexts
By: J. Lees and M. Cikara
Across seven experiments and one survey (n = 4,282), people consistently overestimated out-group negativity towards the collective behaviour of their in-group. This negativity bias in group meta-perception was present across multiple competitive (but not cooperative)...
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Lees, J., and M. Cikara. "Inaccurate Group Meta-Perceptions Drive Negative Out-Group Attributions in Competitive Contexts." Nature Human Behaviour 4, no. 3 (March 2020): 279–286.