METHODS SERIES CASE Series Editors LEONARD BICKMAN, Peabody College, Vandelbilt University. Nashvine DEBRA J. ROO. Vanderbilt UnillelSity. Washington. DC I. SURVEY RESEARCH METHODS (ThIrd Edition) by FlOYD J. FOWLER, Jr. 2. SYNTHESIZING RESEARCH (ThIrd edition) by HARRIS COOPER 3. METHODS FOR POUCY RESEARCH by ANN MAJCHRZAK 4. SECONDARY RESEARCH (Second Edition) by DAVID W. STEWART and MICHAEL A. KAMINS 5. CASE sruDY RESEARCH
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environment. Your team must both formulate a comprehensive strategic plan and propose specific actions to counter the threats posed by Apple, Amazon and Facebook to Google’s dominance of the world’s digital infrastructure as described in the assigned cases. Your team will present its strategic recommendations to senior executives at the Gideon Putnam Resort on Friday, April 25, 2014. Your presentation (not to exceed 25 minutes) will be followed by questions from the executives. These executives will
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The berkman center for internet & society at harvard law school; the berkman center announces formation of internet safety task force to identify and develop online safety tools. (2008). Internet Business Newsweekly, , 13. The safety concerns posed by the Internet are part and parcel of the safety concerns that arise in human interactions in the physical world. These concerns are not unique to any one service or technology platform; they are shared by the companies that provide Internet services
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average girl then at the age of eleven she was hit by a car. The accident left her paralyzed from the neck down and dependent on a ventilator. This adversity did not stop her from continuing her life. She was destined for greatness and graduated from Harvard Law School. Would these talents and achievements have arisen were it not for the accident? Possibly, but Horace makes a good point when he states that adversity “has the effect of eliciting talents.” In other words, challenges bring forth talents
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The global manager operates as an "insider" in every market Managing in a Borderless World by Kenichi Ohmae Most managers are nearsighted. Even though today's competitive landscape often stretches to a global horizon, they see best what they know best: the customers geographically closest to home. These managers may have factories or laboratories in a dozen countries. They may have joint ventures in a dozen more. They may source materials and sell in markets all over the world. But when push
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The Work of Leadership by Ronald A. Heifetz and Donald L. Laurie Reprint r0111k December 2001 Required Reading Barbara Kellerman r0111a r0111b HBR Survey Personal Histories: Leaders Remember the Moments and People That Shaped Them Primal Leadership: The Hidden Driver of Great Performance Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee r0111c HBR Roundtable All in a Day’s Work A roundtable with Raymond Gilmartin, Frances Hesselbein, Frederick Smith, Lionel Tiger, Cynthia
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politics can be fruitfully applied simultaneously, we describe and analyze a case of a hospital administration engaged in budgeting games and illusion making. The data for the case were collected using naturalistic inquiry and multiple methods including structured and unstructured interviews, review of documents, observation of meetings and casual interaction facilitated by frequent visits over a ten-month period. The case revolves around the hospital administrators' attempts to deal with what they
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9 -4 0 4 -0 6 8 OCTOBER 20, 2003 JEFFREY T. POLZER INGRID VARGAS HILLARY ANGER ELFENBEIN Henry Tam and the MGI Team Henry Tam felt tired and extremely frustrated. He was halfway through his final semester in the MBA program at Harvard Business School (HBS), and things were not going as expected. Spring break was about to start, but Henry, like many others in the class of 2002, was feeling the pain of the worst job market in over a decade. Henry recalled the troubled sentiment around campus:
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Harvard Business Review May 2010 Beating the Odds When You Launch a New Venture by Clark G. Gilbert and Matthew J. Eyring Smart entrepreneurs aren’t cowboys—they’re methodical managers of risk. For nearly 20 years the case study used to introduce Harvard Business School’s Entrepreneurial Management course has been Howard Stevenson’s “R&R.” It looks at Bob Reiss, an entrepreneur who launches a venture in the board-game industry. Students are encouraged to explore all the production, development
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profitable growth for yourself. One company that manufactured resins used in exterior paints discovered this firsthand. By researching the needs of commercial painting contractors—a key customer segment—the company learned that labor constituted the lion’s share of contractors’ costs, while paint made up just 15% of costs. Armed with this insight, the resin maker emphasized that its product dried so fast that contractors could apply two coats in one day—substantially lowering labor costs
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