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      • October 2022
      • Article

      How Leaders with Divergent Visions Generate Novel Strategy: Navigating the Paradox of Preservation and Modernization in Swiss Watchmaking

      By: Ryan Raffaelli, Rich DeJordy and Rory M. McDonald
      How do leaders with divergent visions for their organization come together to create a novel strategy? This paper employs paradox as a lens to investigate how leader-dyads can integrate opposing strategies to produce a new, generative approach. Drawing on a qualitative...  View Details
      Keywords: Strategic Paradoxes; Senior Leaders; Organizational Reinvention; Leadership; Technological Innovation; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Change; Manufacturing Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Switzerland
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      Raffaelli, Ryan, Rich DeJordy, and Rory M. McDonald. "How Leaders with Divergent Visions Generate Novel Strategy: Navigating the Paradox of Preservation and Modernization in Swiss Watchmaking." Academy of Management Journal 65, no. 5 (October 2022): 1593–1622.
      • October 19, 2021
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      The Facebook Trap

      By: Andy Wu
      Facebook has a clear mission: Connect everyone in the world. Clarity is good, but in Facebook’s case, it has also put the company in a bind because the mission—and the company’s vision for creating value through network effects—has also become the source of its biggest...  View Details
      Keywords: Business And Society; Mission and Purpose; Network Effects; Value Creation; Corporate Accountability; Strategy
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      Wu, Andy. "The Facebook Trap." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (October 19, 2021).
      • August 2021
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      Rate-Amplifying Demand and the Excess Sensitivity of Long-Term Rates

      By: Samuel G. Hanson, David O. Lucca and Jonathan H. Wright
      Long-term nominal interest rates are surprisingly sensitive to high-frequency (daily or monthly) movements in short-term rates. Since 2000, this high-frequency sensitivity has grown even stronger in U.S. data. By contrast, the association between low-frequency changes...  View Details
      Keywords: Conundrum; Investor Demand; Monetary Policy Transmission; Interest Rates
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      Hanson, Samuel G., David O. Lucca, and Jonathan H. Wright. "Rate-Amplifying Demand and the Excess Sensitivity of Long-Term Rates." Quarterly Journal of Economics 136, no. 3 (August 2021): 1719–1781.
      • May–June 2020
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      The New-Market Conundrum

      By: Rory McDonald and Kathleen M. Eisenhardt
      Brand-new markets are like the wormholes of science fiction, where the usual rules of time and space do not apply. When a market has just been born, the forces of competition there are constantly in flux, it’s unclear who your customers really are, and conventional...  View Details
      Keywords: New Markets; Markets; Business Model; Strategy; Framework; Innovation and Invention; Value Creation
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      McDonald, Rory, and Kathleen M. Eisenhardt. "The New-Market Conundrum." Harvard Business Review 98, no. 3 (May–June 2020): 75–83.
      • December 2018 (Revised February 2020)
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      Cameron Mitchell: The Conundrum of Charisma

      By: Lena G. Goldberg, Michael S. Kaufman, Greta Gerazimaite, Wilson Kyi, Robert McWatters and Tuyee Yeboah
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      Goldberg, Lena G., Michael S. Kaufman, Greta Gerazimaite, Wilson Kyi, Robert McWatters, and Tuyee Yeboah. "Cameron Mitchell: The Conundrum of Charisma." Harvard Business School Case 319-079, December 2018. (Revised February 2020.)
      • June 2015
      • Teaching Plan

      Transport Corporation of India (A): The Cross-selling Conundrum

      By: V.G. Narayanan and Saloni Chaturvedi
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      Narayanan, V.G., and Saloni Chaturvedi. "Transport Corporation of India (A): The Cross-selling Conundrum." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 115-061, June 2015.
      • October 2014 (Revised February 2017)
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      Europe, Russia, and the Age of Gas Revolution

      By: Rawi Abdelal, Leonardo Maugeri and Sogomon Tarontsi
      The 2014 Ukraine crisis once again exposed the mutually limiting knot—a web of commercial relationships and oil and gas pipelines—that historically tied the European Union and Russia closely. In this crisis, a familiar conundrum preoccupied minds in the corridors of...  View Details
      Keywords: International Relations; Business and Government Relations; Energy Sources; Energy Industry; European Union; Russia; Ukraine
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      Abdelal, Rawi, Leonardo Maugeri, and Sogomon Tarontsi. "Europe, Russia, and the Age of Gas Revolution." Harvard Business School Case 715-006, October 2014. (Revised February 2017.)
      • May 2013
      • Case

      Transport Corporation of India (A): The Cross-selling Conundrum

      By: V.G. Narayanan and Saloni Chaturvedi
      Transport Corporation of India was a logistics company that provided multi-modal transport solutions to its customers. Set up in 1958, TCI had grown from a 'one man, one truck, one office' set-up to a company with revenues of $400 million in half a century. TCI's...  View Details
      Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Business Divisions; Performance; Sales; Transportation Industry; India
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      Narayanan, V.G., and Saloni Chaturvedi. "Transport Corporation of India (A): The Cross-selling Conundrum." Harvard Business School Case 113-003, May 2013.
      • March 2013 (Revised May 2013)
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      Building Innovation at Terrapin Bright Green

      By: Amy C. Edmondson, Sydney Ribot and Mary Saunders
      Describes Terrapin Bright Green, an environmental consulting and strategic planning firm, and its approach for creating integrative, systematic solutions to green-building conundrums through consulting, research, and policy-related activities. Emphasis is placed on the...  View Details
      Keywords: Integrated Design; Entrepreneurs; Creative Industries; CONSULTING Firms; Energy; Design; Governance; Growth and Development; Innovation and Invention; Knowledge; Labor; Organizations; Problems and Challenges; Research; Strategy; Value; Consulting Industry; New York (city, NY)
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      Edmondson, Amy C., Sydney Ribot, and Mary Saunders. "Building Innovation at Terrapin Bright Green." Harvard Business School Case 613-053, March 2013. (Revised May 2013.)
      • 2012
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      Talk, Inc. : How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations

      By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind
      How can leaders make their big or growing companies feel small again? How can they recapture the "magic"--the tight strategic alignment, the high level of employee engagement--that drove and animated their organization when it was a start-up? As more and more...  View Details
      Keywords: Leadership; Interpersonal Communication; Organizational Culture; Social and Collaborative Networks; Spoken Communication
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      Groysberg, Boris, and Michael Slind. Talk, Inc. How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations. Harvard Business Review Press, 2012.
      • 2011
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      'Deprival Value' vs. 'Fair Value' Measurement for Contract Liabilities: How to Resolve the 'Revenue Recognition' Conundrum

      By: Joanne Horton, Richard H. Macve and George Serafeim
      Revenue recognition and measurement principles can conflict with liability recognition and measurement principles. We explore here under different market conditions when the two measurement approaches coincide and when they conflict. We show that where entities expect...  View Details
      Keywords: Fair Value; Deprival Value; Contract Liabilities; Fair Value Accounting; Measurement and Metrics; Profit; Revenue Recognition; Assets; Performance Evaluation; Contracts
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      Horton, Joanne, Richard H. Macve, and George Serafeim. "'Deprival Value' vs. 'Fair Value' Measurement for Contract Liabilities: How to Resolve the 'Revenue Recognition' Conundrum." Accounting and Business Research 41, no. 5 (2011): 491–514.
      • 2009
      • Working Paper

      Securing Jobs or the New Protectionism?: Taxing the Overseas Activities of Multinational Firms

      By: Mihir A. Desai
      Tax policy toward American multinational firms would appear to be approaching a crossroads. The presumed linkages between domestic employment conditions and the growth of foreign operations by American firms have led to calls for increased taxation on foreign...  View Details
      Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Policy; Taxation; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; United States
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      Desai, Mihir A. "Securing Jobs or the New Protectionism?: Taxing the Overseas Activities of Multinational Firms." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-107, March 2009.
      • August 2008
      • Teaching Note

      Tad O'Malley: The Investment Conundrum (TN)

      By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
      Teaching Note for [808125].  View Details
      Keywords: Investment; Opportunities; Leveraged Buyouts; Personal Development and Career; Resource Allocation
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      Hardymon, G. Felda, Josh Lerner, and Ann Leamon. "Tad O'Malley: The Investment Conundrum (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 809-044, August 2008.
      • February 2008 (Revised May 2008)
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      Tad O'Malley: The Investment Conundrum

      By: Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
      Tad O'Malley has just started as an associate with Empire Investment Group. He must evaluate three investment opportunities facing the big leveraged buyout firm. All are global, but each pertains to different offices and each deal has different strengths and...  View Details
      Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Decision Choices and Conditions; Private Equity; Investment; Strength and Weakness; Negotiation Deal; Personal Development and Career
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      Hardymon, Felda, Josh Lerner, and Ann Leamon. "Tad O'Malley: The Investment Conundrum." Harvard Business School Case 808-125, February 2008. (Revised May 2008.)
      • 1992
      • Working Paper

      The IBM-Fujitsu Conundrum

      By: J. L. Badaracco Jr.
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      Badaracco, J. L., Jr. "The IBM-Fujitsu Conundrum." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 92-066, January 1992.
      • June 1988 (Revised February 1989)
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      Amalgamated Aluminum Pigments Division: The Technical Service Conundrum

      By: Benson P. Shapiro
      Keywords: Metals and Minerals; Manufacturing Industry
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      Shapiro, Benson P. "Amalgamated Aluminum Pigments Division: The Technical Service Conundrum." Harvard Business School Case 588-078, June 1988. (Revised February 1989.)
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