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- April 2023 (Revised April 2024)
- Teaching Note
Netflix’s Culture: Binge or Cringe?
By: Hubert Joly, Leonard A. Schlesinger, James Barnett and Stacy Straaberg
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 522-096.
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Compensation and Benefits;
Employees;
Recruitment;
Resignation and Termination;
Retention;
Selection and Staffing;
Innovation and Management;
Innovation Strategy;
Leadership Style;
Business or Company Management;
Management Style;
Media;
Business Processes;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Structure;
Performance Expectations;
Performance Productivity;
Creativity;
Business Strategy;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
Media and Broadcasting Industry;
Motion Pictures and Video Industry;
Video Game Industry;
North America;
California;
Canada;
Europe;
Middle East;
Africa;
Asia;
Latin America
- November 2003 (Revised November 2004)
- Case
Ottawa Devices, Inc. (B)
By: Henry B. Reiling and Harry Clegg Midgley IV
The Rollins family assembly was meeting to discuss and decide which one or combination from among an estate freeze, installment sale of stock, ESOP (employee stock ownership plan), leveraged capitalization, annual gifts of stock, one-time outright gift of stock, or...
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Employee Stock Ownership Plan;
Property;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Stocks;
Business Exit or Shutdown;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Family Business;
Human Needs;
Financial Strategy;
Manufacturing Industry
Reiling, Henry B., and Harry Clegg Midgley IV. "Ottawa Devices, Inc. (B)." Harvard Business School Case 204-102, November 2003. (Revised November 2004.)
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
money using their mobile phones. Mobile money has grown quickly, but high stockout rates of currency persist due to suboptimal inventory decisions made by contracted employees (called agents). In partnership with a Tanzanian mobile money...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
Unilever, and its renewal, catapulted Coty into the position of the world's largest fragrance company. The case provides an opportunity to examine the entrepreneurial, cultural, and organizational factors which enable acquired brands and View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
I test for learning vs. effort allocation effects of promotion-based incentives. I find that promotion and demotion decisions for store managers of a major U.S.-based fast-food retailer (QSR) are sensitive to nonfinancial performance measures of service quality and...
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Martha Lagace
- February 2019 (Revised May 2019)
- Case
Hot Chicken Takeover
By: William R. Kerr, Manjari Raman and Olivia Hull
By December 2018, entrepreneur Joe DeLoss’s fried chicken company, Hot Chicken Takeover, has opened three restaurants in Columbus, Ohio, using an unconventional employment model that helps people with criminal records get back on their feet. DeLoss is proud of the...
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Keywords:
Fair Chance Employment;
Fair Chance Hiring;
Open Hiring;
Inclusive Hiring;
Criminal Record;
Homelessness;
Therapeutic Employment;
Corporate Culture;
Managing The Future Of Work;
Food;
Entrepreneurship;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Values and Beliefs;
Fairness;
Human Resources;
Compensation and Benefits;
Recruitment;
Employees;
Retention;
Selection and Staffing;
Innovation Strategy;
Job Offer;
Job Interviews;
Human Capital;
Leadership;
Growth Management;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Mission and Purpose;
Social Enterprise;
Social Issues;
Poverty;
Welfare;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Ohio;
United States
Kerr, William R., Manjari Raman, and Olivia Hull. "Hot Chicken Takeover." Harvard Business School Case 819-078, February 2019. (Revised May 2019.)
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
Authors:Eric J. Van den Steen Publication:American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract This paper develops a theory of the firm in which a firm's centralized asset ownership and low-powered incentives give the manager, as an equilibrium outcome, interpersonal...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
scientists that may be due to a performance management system that leaves top performing employees slighted by the practice of uniform ratings. In an effort to retain top employees, the company institutes a forced distribution model of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
employee morale, followed by business relations and reputation, and then regulatory relations. I find that who initiated the bribery act, how it was detected, and how the firm responded after detection are all associated with the impact...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Teaching Interest
Overview
Professor Bernstein currently teaches a second-year MBA course in Managing Human Capital (MHC). He is also the faculty chair for the Harvard Business School Online Developing Yourself as a Leader course and teaches in a variety of executive education...
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Keywords:
Leadership;
Leadership Development;
Leadership Style;
Innovation Leadership;
Management Practices and Processes;
Management Succession;
Management Style;
Management Systems;
Management Teams;
Managerial Roles;
Organizations;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Design;
Organizational Structure;
Mission and Purpose;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Performance;
Information Technology;
Strategy;
Human Resources;
Compensation and Benefits;
Employees;
Recruitment;
Resignation and Termination;
Retention;
Selection and Staffing
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
the venture capitalist and the entrepreneur. Since the investor-VC contract is set before the VC finds any investments, we show that it is the entrepreneur who must compensate the venture capitalist for any extra risk in the project even...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
research typically prescribes task sequences implemented by managers. Yet employees often have discretion to deviate from their prescribed sequence. Using data from 2.4 million radiological diagnoses, we find that doctors prioritize...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
By: Deller, Carolyn, and Tatiana Sandino Abstract—Using retail chain data, we study the effects of a tournament incentive plan based primarily on objective performance, but incorporating managerial discretion in the selection of winners. In principle, such plans could...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
began to take shape, one rooted in the awareness that you can't manage creativity—you can only manage for creativity. A number of themes emerged: The leader's job is not to be the source of ideas but to encourage and champion ideas. Leaders must tap the imagination of...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which passed overwhelmingly despite the absence of any economically powerful interest group behind it; and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 (Superfund), which...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
Paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/shanson/Issuer_Quality_2013_RFS_Final.pdf The Cost of High-Powered Incentives: Employee Gaming in Enterprise Software Sales Authors:Larkin, Ian Publication:Journal of Labor Economics Abstract This paper...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
Decentralize? Authors:Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Abstract There is a widespread sense that over the last two decades firms have been decentralizing decisions to employees further down the managerial hierarchy....
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
under severe economic conditions. We show that many structured finance instruments can be characterized as economic catastrophe bonds, but offer far less compensation than alternatives with comparable payoff profiles. We argue that this...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
turnover in sales is 25% to 30%, while direct replacement costs for a telesales employee ranges from $75,000 to $90,000 and other sales positions cost as much as $300,000. Moreover, these figures do not reflect the lost sales while a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
the conception, development, and implementation of the Corporate Services Corps (CSC), an international community service assignment for high-potential IBM employees. The year 2008 was the pilot year of the CSC program, and 100 of IBM's best global View Details
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Martha Lagace