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- August 1998
- Supplement
Cleveland Tomorrow, Video
By: James E. Austin and Rosabeth M. Kanter
As part of Cleveland's turnaround, Cleveland Tomorrow creates new investment funds to stimulate new business development. This development is designed to earn a profit and bring new benefits to the community. Part of the HBS Social Enterprise Video Series on Business...
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Keywords:
Investment Funds;
Leadership;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Business and Community Relations;
Social Enterprise
Austin, James E., and Rosabeth M. Kanter. "Cleveland Tomorrow, Video." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 399-507, August 1998.
- July 1998 (Revised January 2009)
- Case
Display Technologies, Inc. (Abridged)
By: H. Kent Bowen and Jonathan West
Display Technologies, Inc. (DTI) is a new joint venture between Toshiba and IBM Japan that is manufacturing the most advanced form of flat panel displays. With success in achieving significant production volumes, DTI has been asked to double its output as quickly as...
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Keywords:
Joint Ventures;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Leadership Style;
Production;
Outcome or Result;
Performance Capacity;
Strategy;
Hardware;
Electronics Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
Japan
Bowen, H. Kent, and Jonathan West. "Display Technologies, Inc. (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 699-006, July 1998. (Revised January 2009.)
- July 1998
- Supplement
Bell Atlantic in Union City
In this pioneering project to wire a school for the Internet and put computers in students' homes, Bell Atlantic combined its need for a beta site for a technology trial with the school reform efforts of the Union City, New Jersey public schools, under the leadership...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Social Enterprise;
Internet and the Web;
Education;
Business and Community Relations;
Education Industry;
New Jersey
Kanter, Rosabeth M. "Bell Atlantic in Union City." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 399-501, July 1998.
- July 1998
- Article
On the Power of a Clear Definition of Rationality
By: M. H. Bazerman and D. M. Messick
Bazerman, M. H., and D. M. Messick. "On the Power of a Clear Definition of Rationality." Business Ethics Quarterly 8, no. 3 (July 1998): 477–480.
- June 1998 (Revised December 2006)
- Case
Clear Communications Ltd. vs. Telecom Corporation of New Zealand Ltd. (A)
By: Willis M. Emmons III and Martin Calles
Features the challenges facing an entrant in the New Zealand telecommunications market during the period 1989-1994. Clear Communications Ltd. (CCL), a joint venture owned by Bell Canada, MCI, New Zealand Television Corp., and Todd Companies, begins offering long...
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Keywords:
Market Entry and Exit;
Competition;
Emerging Markets;
Privatization;
Monopoly;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Corporate Strategy;
Business or Company Management;
Expansion;
Law;
Telecommunications Industry;
New Zealand
Emmons, Willis M., III, and Martin Calles. "Clear Communications Ltd. vs. Telecom Corporation of New Zealand Ltd. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 798-085, June 1998. (Revised December 2006.)
- June 1998 (Revised August 2001)
- Case
Wells Fargo Online Financial Services (A)
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Nicole Tempest
Wells Fargo, the industry leader in electronic banking, has implemented a Balanced Scorecard in its online financial services group (OFS) to track and measure performance. The OFS group develops and supports services that allow existing and future banking customers to...
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Keywords:
Balanced Scorecard;
Internet and the Web;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Corporate Strategy;
Performance Evaluation;
Finance;
Change;
Situation or Environment;
Measurement and Metrics;
Banking Industry;
Financial Services Industry
Kaplan, Robert S., and Nicole Tempest. "Wells Fargo Online Financial Services (A)." Harvard Business School Case 198-146, June 1998. (Revised August 2001.)
- June 1998
- Article
The Coevolution of Community Networks and Technology: Lessons From the Flight Simulation Industry
By: L. Rosenkopf and Michael Tushman
Rosenkopf, L., and Michael Tushman. "The Coevolution of Community Networks and Technology: Lessons From the Flight Simulation Industry." Industrial and Corporate Change 7, no. 2 (June 1998): 311–346.
- May 1998 (Revised May 1999)
- Case
Biopure Corp.
It is early 1998 and Biopure Corp., a small biopharmaceutical firm with no sales revenues in its ten-year history, has just received government approval to release Oxyglobin, a revolutionary new "blood substitute" designed to replace the need for donated animal blood...
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Keywords:
Segmentation;
Marketing Strategy;
Engineering;
Budgets and Budgeting;
Sales;
Transformation;
Markets;
Debates;
Product Launch;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Gourville, John T. "Biopure Corp." Harvard Business School Case 598-150, May 1998. (Revised May 1999.)
- May 1998
- Background Note
Note on the Retailing Industry
By: David E. Bell and Ann Leamon
Presents a survey discussion of retailing and current issues. Examines the impact of changing consumer attitudes on the industry and outlines the industry's response: consolidation, adoption of technology, use of brands and private labels, and changing relationships...
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Keywords:
Transformation;
Debates;
Customers;
Surveys;
Partners and Partnerships;
Attitudes;
Adoption;
Consolidation;
Retail Industry
Bell, David E., and Ann Leamon. "Note on the Retailing Industry." Harvard Business School Background Note 598-148, May 1998.
- May 1998
- Teaching Note
Development Relationships TN
By: David A. Thomas and Emily Heaphy
The final class of the Career Development module of the Self-Assessment and Career Development course (SACD) uses the topic of mentoring and developmental relationships to encourage students to think beyond the point of finding and accepting a suitable job offer. The...
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- April 1998 (Revised July 1998)
- Supplement
Clear Communications Ltd. vs. Telecom Corp. of New Zealand Ltd. (B)
By: Willis M. Emmons III and Martin Calles
Supplements the (A) case.
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Emmons, Willis M., III, and Martin Calles. "Clear Communications Ltd. vs. Telecom Corp. of New Zealand Ltd. (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 798-091, April 1998. (Revised July 1998.)
- March 1998 (Revised October 1999)
- Case
Electronic Data Systems (EDS)
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Thomas Dretler
Explores a global program of Electronic Data Systems (EDS) called "Global Volunteer Day" and examines the activities and business situation of the company in four countries. Asks students to address whether American values like "volunteerism" can be exported.
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Keywords:
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Business and Community Relations;
Information Technology Industry;
United States
Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Thomas Dretler. "Electronic Data Systems (EDS)." Harvard Business School Case 398-072, March 1998. (Revised October 1999.)
- March 1998 (Revised July 1998)
- Case
United Way Community Services
Describes in detail the fund development and distribution system of United Way Community Services. A key question is how to measure the outcome/impact of the work done by the agencies that receive United Way funding. A follow-on question is how to reinvent the...
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Keywords:
Capital;
Management Systems;
Measurement and Metrics;
Distribution Channels;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Outcome or Result;
Nonprofit Organizations
Rangan, V. Kasturi. "United Way Community Services." Harvard Business School Case 598-138, March 1998. (Revised July 1998.)
- March 1998 (Revised August 1998)
- Case
BSkyB
By: Debora L. Spar
In 1983, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. bought a floundering two-year-old British company called Satellite Television plc. and renamed it Sky. Without external financing, without having been allocated any space on Britain's existing satellites, and over the opposition of...
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Keywords:
Information Technology;
Change Management;
Television Entertainment;
Media and Broadcasting Industry;
Great Britain
Spar, Debora L., and Paula Zakaria. "BSkyB." Harvard Business School Case 798-077, March 1998. (Revised August 1998.)
- 1998
- Working Paper
Outperforming Equilibrium Models of Communication in Bargaining Games
By: Kathleen L. McGinn, Leigh Thompson, Robert Gibbons and Max Bazerman
- February 1998
- Article
'A Matter of Trust': Effects of Communication on the Efficiency and Distribution of Outcomes
By: K. L. McGinn, J. Moag and M. H. Bazerman
McGinn, K. L., J. Moag, and M. H. Bazerman. "'A Matter of Trust': Effects of Communication on the Efficiency and Distribution of Outcomes." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 34, no. 2 (February 1998): 211–238.
- 1998
- Chapter
The Converging Worlds of Telecommunications, Computing and Entertainment
By: David J. Collis, Stephen P. Bradley and P. William Bane Jr.
Keywords:
Communication Technology;
Information Technology;
Entertainment;
Telecommunications Industry;
Computer Industry;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry
Collis, David J., Stephen P. Bradley, and P. William Bane Jr. "The Converging Worlds of Telecommunications, Computing and Entertainment." In Sense and Respond: Capturing Value in the Network Era, edited by Stephen P. Bradley and Richard L. Nolan, 31–62. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1998.
- 1998
- Chapter
The Converging Worlds of Telecommunications, Computing, and Entertainment
By: P. W. Bane, S. P. Bradley and D. J. Collins
- January 1998 (Revised May 1999)
- Case
General Scanning, Inc. (B)
By: H. Kent Bowen, Sean McClenaghan and Charles Tillen
After meeting with a mediator, Montagu and Davis decided their goals were not in accordance, and Davis left General Scanning. Montagu and Brosens wrote three-year objectives for the company and proceeded to search for a new professional manager. Chuck Winston took on...
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Keywords:
Business Units;
Restructuring;
Change;
Business or Company Management;
Ownership Stake;
Strategic Planning;
Hardware
Bowen, H. Kent, Sean McClenaghan, and Charles Tillen. "General Scanning, Inc. (B)." Harvard Business School Case 698-037, January 1998. (Revised May 1999.)
- 1998
- Article
Looking Inside the Fishbowl of Creativity: Verbal and Behavioral Predictors of Creative Performance
By: J. Ruscio, D. M. Whitney and T. M. Amabile
This study set out to identify specific task behaviors that predict observable product creativity in three domains and to identify which of those behaviors mediate the well-established link between intrinsic motivation and creativity. One-hundred fifty-one...
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Ruscio, J., D. M. Whitney, and T. M. Amabile. "Looking Inside the Fishbowl of Creativity: Verbal and Behavioral Predictors of Creative Performance." Creativity Research Journal 11, no. 3 (1998): 243–263.