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• Case | HBS Case Collection | 2013 (Revised from original 2010 version)

  Baxter's Asia Pacific 'Talent Edge' Initiative

  Jordan Siegel, Mimi Xi and Christopher Poliquin

  This case examines whether multinationals have a potential competitive weapon in aggressively exploiting social schisms in host labor markets and in hiring and promoting senior managers from excluded groups.

  Keywords: Labor; Selection and Staffing; Groups and Teams;

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  Siegel, Jordan, Mimi Xi, and Christopher Poliquin. "Baxter's Asia Pacific 'Talent Edge' Initiative." Harvard Business School Case 711-408, March 2013. (Revised from original October 2010 version.)

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• Case | HBS Case Collection | 2012 (Revised from original 2012 version)

  Yum! Brands

  Jordan Siegel and Christopher Poliquin

  Yum!, the owner of KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell, asks what might be the lessons from its success in China for currently contemplated expansion into India and Africa. Also, the company contemplates whether Taco Bell can succeed abroad as part of a new expansion push. Also, the case asks what distance barriers are relevant for a fast food company specializing in part on fried chicken and Tex-Mex food.

  Keywords: international business; international marketing; Global Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; United States; Europe; Australia; Africa; Asia;

  Citation:

  Siegel, Jordan, and Christopher Poliquin. "Yum! Brands." Harvard Business School Case 712-422, October 2012. (Revised from original May 2012 version.)

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• Class Lecture | 2012

  The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work

  Teresa M. Amabile

  What really makes people happy, motivated, productive, and creative at work? Professor Amabile's research, based on analyzing nearly 12,000 daily diaries of team members working on collaborative projects, reveals some surprising answers. Inner work life--a person's day-by-day emotions, perceptions and motivation-- has a profound effect on the person's creative productivity. And, of all the good things that can boost inner work life, the single most important is simply making progress on meaningful work-even if that progress is a small step forward. This is the Progress Principle. Its implication? Sustained creative productivity and employee well-being depend less on elaborate incentive systems or performance-management processes than on techniques for facilitating the small wins that constitute daily work progress.

  Keywords: employee motivation; fostering performance; improving creativity; The importance of progress; employee attitude; enhancing work life; improving productivity; inner work life;

  Citation:

  Amabile, Teresa M. "The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work." Harvard Business School Class Lecture 813-701, July 2012.

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