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      Organizational Structure: Articles, Research, & Case Studies on Organizational Structure– HBS Working Knowledge
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      • December 2020
      • Supplement

      Tokio Marine Group (B)

      By: David J. Collis and Akiko Kanno
      Updates the Tokio Marine A case by providing information on the organisation structure adopted by the Japanese insurance firm as it moved to integrate its global operations, along with changes in HR policies that sought to balance traditional Japanese practices with...  View Details
      Keywords: Global Strategy; Organisational Design; Organization Structure; Culture; Global Strategy; organizational Design; organizational structure; Culture; Insurance Industry; Japan
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      Collis, David J., and Akiko Kanno. "Tokio Marine Group (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 721-418, December 2020.
      • December 2020
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      Tokio Marine Group (A)

      By: David J. Collis and Akiko Kanno
      Tokio Marine, Japan's leading insurance company, has spent nearly two decades building a global footprint in different insurance businesses around the world. As the company becomes majority non-domestic it has to make a choice of what organisation structure to adopt to...  View Details
      Keywords: Global Strategy; Organisational Design; Culture; Values; Global Strategy; organizational structure; Culture; Values And Beliefs; Insurance Industry; Japan
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      Collis, David J., and Akiko Kanno. "Tokio Marine Group (A)." Harvard Business School Case 721-417, December 2020.
      • November 2020
      • Supplement

      Integrating Beam Suntory (B)

      By: David G. Fubini, Rawi Abdelal and David Lane
      Supplements (A) case: The spring 2014 acquisition of U.S. alcoholic spirits maker Beam Inc. by Japan’s Suntory Holdings vaulted Suntory from 15th to third-largest international spirits company in the world. Yet Suntory had borrowed nearly the entire $16 billion...  View Details
      Keywords: Family Business; Communication; Borrowing And Debt; Globalization; Corporate Governance; Governing And Advisory Boards; Retention; Leadership; Supply Chain; organizational structure; Ownership; Relationships; Conflict And Resolution; Integration; Value Creation; Food And Beverage Industry; Japan; United States; Chicago
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      Fubini, David G., Rawi Abdelal, and David Lane. "Integrating Beam Suntory (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 421-004, November 2020.
      • November 2020
      • Case

      Integrating Beam Suntory (A)

      By: David G. Fubini, Rawi Abdelal and David Lane
      The spring 2014 acquisition of U.S. alcoholic spirits maker Beam Inc. by Japan’s Suntory Holdings vaulted Suntory from 15th to third-largest international spirits company in the world. Yet Suntory had borrowed nearly the entire $16 billion purchase price, and relied on...  View Details
      Keywords: Family Business; Communication; Borrowing And Debt; Globalization; Corporate Governance; Governing And Advisory Boards; Retention; Leadership; Supply Chain; organizational structure; Ownership; Relationships; Conflict And Resolution; Integration; Value Creation; Food And Beverage Industry; Japan; United States; Chicago
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      Fubini, David G., Rawi Abdelal, and David Lane. "Integrating Beam Suntory (A)." Harvard Business School Case 421-003, November 2020.
      • November 2020
      • Teaching Note

      Unilever's Response to the Future of Work

      By: William R. Kerr and Bailey McAfee
      Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 820-104.  View Details
      Keywords: Change Management; Human Capital; organizational Change And Adaptation; Mission And Purpose; organizational structure; Transformation; Human Resources; Consumer Products Industry; Europe
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      Kerr, William R., and Bailey McAfee. "Unilever's Response to the Future of Work." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 821-042, November 2020.
      • November 2020
      • Case

      The 1,000-Year Plan: Lee Kum Kee and Sustaining a Family Culture

      By: Lauren Cohen, Dawn H. Lau and Billy Chan
      The Lee family, whose Hong Kong-based Lee Kum Kee company has established itself as a legend within the Chinese and Asian sauce world, sets out to create a daring new vision of what family legacy means. With the family business having been established in 1888, and by...  View Details
      Keywords: Family Business; Mission And Purpose; Values And Beliefs; Business And Community Relations; organizational structure; Strategic Planning
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      Cohen, Lauren, Dawn H. Lau, and Billy Chan. "The 1,000-Year Plan: Lee Kum Kee and Sustaining a Family Culture." Harvard Business School Case 221-047, November 2020.
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      Corporate Headquarters in the Twenty-first Century: An Organization Design Perspective

      By: Sven Kunisch, Markus Menz and David J. Collis
      The corporate headquarters (CHQ) of the multi-business enterprise, which emerged as the dominant organizational form for the conduct of business in the twentieth century, has attracted considerable scholarly attention. As the business environment undergoes a...  View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Strategy; organizational Design; organizational structure; Business Headquarters
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      Kunisch, Sven, Markus Menz, and David J. Collis. "Corporate Headquarters in the Twenty-first Century: An Organization Design Perspective." Art. 22. Journal of Organization Design 9 (2020): 1–32.
      • October 2020
      • Article

      Corporate Legal Structure and Bank Loan Spread

      By: Anywhere (Siko) Sikochi
      This study examines how a corporate legal structure may affect borrowing costs. Corporate legal structure refers to the legal fragmentation of a firm into multiple, separately incorporated entities. This fragmentation is bound to be a factor when lenders determine the...  View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Legal Structure; Subsidiaries; Bank Loans; Minority Interest; Credit Risk; organizational structure; Business Subsidiaries; Financing And Loans
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      Sikochi, Anywhere (Siko). "Corporate Legal Structure and Bank Loan Spread." Journal of Corporate Finance 64 (October 2020).
      • September 2020
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      The Indian Premier League, 2020

      By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
      Since its founding in 2008, the Indian Premier League (IPL), India’s eight-week Twenty20 (T20) cricket competition, had become one of the most popular and lucrative sporting leagues in the world. In 2019, the IPL attracted 462 million TV viewers and 300 million digital...  View Details
      Keywords: Sports; organizational structure; Marketing; Health Pandemics; organizational Change And Adaptation; Growth And Development Strategy; Sports Industry; India
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      Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "The Indian Premier League, 2020." Harvard Business School Case 721-362, September 2020.
      • September 2020 (Revised October 2020)
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      Moderna (A)

      By: Marco Iansiti, Karim R. Lakhani, Hannah Mayer and Kerry Herman
      In summer 2020, Stephane Bancel, CEO of biotech firm Moderna, faces several challenges as his company races to develop a vaccine for COVID-19. The case explores how a company builds a digital organization, and leverages artificial intelligence and other digital...  View Details
      Keywords: Covid-19; Vaccine; Digital Organizations; organizational structure; Operations; Management; Health Pandemics; Research And Development; Goals And Objectives
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      Iansiti, Marco, Karim R. Lakhani, Hannah Mayer, and Kerry Herman. "Moderna (A)." Harvard Business School Case 621-032, September 2020. (Revised October 2020.)
      • September 2020 (Revised December 2020)
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      Hitachi Rail Limited (B)

      By: David J. Collis, Akiko Kanno and Nobuo Sato
      Describes the strategy and organisation changes made by British executive, Alistair Domer, after he is made head of Hitachi Rail's global business. The company acquires an Italian company, continues to win contracts in the UK, but struggles to bring its greenfield...  View Details
      Keywords: Organization Structure; Leader Selection; Mergers & Acquisitions; Strategy; Global Strategy; organizational structure; Leadership; Integration; Values And Beliefs; Rail Industry; Japan
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      Collis, David J., Akiko Kanno, and Nobuo Sato. "Hitachi Rail Limited (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 721-365, September 2020. (Revised December 2020.)
      • September 2020
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      Hitachi Rail Limited (A)

      By: David J. Collis, Akiko Kanno and Nobuo Sato
      Hitachi must decide whether to make a British executive, who has successfully built its European rail business from scratch, head of its global rail division even though the bulk of revenues for the unit still come from Japan. The case describes, the history of Hitachi...  View Details
      Keywords: Global Strategy; Leadership; Values And Beliefs; Human Resources; Globalized Firms And Management; organizational structure; Rail Industry; Japan
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      Collis, David J., Akiko Kanno, and Nobuo Sato. "Hitachi Rail Limited (A)." Harvard Business School Case 721-364, September 2020.
      • August 2020 (Revised August 2020)
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      Just Arrived: Integrating Refugees in Sweden

      By: Brian Trelstad, Emilie Billaud and Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej
      In April 2020, Lisa Tengberg, Harvard Business School MBA Candidate, submitted a paper on Just Arrived, an online platform which matched newly-arrived immigrants with employers in Sweden. The case describes the European refugee crisis and different approaches in...  View Details
      Keywords: Immigration; Employment; Integration; Business Model; Social Entrepreneurship; Growth And Development Strategy; Employment Industry; Sweden; Italy; Germany
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      Trelstad, Brian, Emilie Billaud, and Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej. "Just Arrived: Integrating Refugees in Sweden." Harvard Business School Case 321-040, August 2020. (Revised August 2020.)
      • July 2020 (Revised September 2020)
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      Property Finder's Strategy for Online Classifieds in the MENA Region

      By: Krishna G. Palepu, Gamze Yucaoglu and Fares Khrais
      The case opens in 2020 as Michael Lahyani, founder and CEO of Property Finder, Dubai’s leading online real estate classifieds portal, contemplates the company’s five-year growth strategy.
      Since its founding in 2005 in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Property...  View Details
      Keywords: General Business; Real Estate; Entrepreneurship; Property; Strategy; Emerging Markets; Growth Management; Real Estate Industry; Technology Industry; United Arab Emirates; Saudi Arabia; Egypt; Turkey
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      Palepu, Krishna G., Gamze Yucaoglu, and Fares Khrais. "Property Finder's Strategy for Online Classifieds in the MENA Region." Harvard Business School Case 321-009, July 2020. (Revised September 2020.)
      • July 2020
      • Case

      King's College Hospital in Crisis

      By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
      On December 11, 2017, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (King’s), one of London’s leading teaching hospital groups, was put into “special measures” by NHS Improvement (NHSI), the financial regulator of England’s National Health Service (NHS). The future of...  View Details
      Keywords: Hospitals; Financing; Health Care And Treatment; Financial Condition; Crisis Management; organizational structure; Transformation; Strategic Planning; United Kingdom
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      Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "King's College Hospital in Crisis." Harvard Business School Case 721-356, July 2020.
      • June 2020 (Revised October 2020)
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      What Went Wrong with Boeing's 737 Max?

      By: William W. George and Amram Migdal
      This case describes the development of the Boeing 737 Max airplane model and the events leading up to two tragic plane crashes, in which a total of 346 people died: the crash of Lion Air flight 610 on October 29, 2018, in Indonesia, and the crash of Ethiopian Airlines...  View Details
      Keywords: Communication; Communication Intention And Meaning; Communication Strategy; Forms Of Communication; Announcements; Decision Making; Decision Choices And Conditions; Judgments; Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Values And Beliefs; Globalization; Global Strategy; Governance; Corporate Accountability; Governance Controls; Human Resources; Resignation And Termination; Leadership; Leadership Style; Management; Business Or Company Management; Crisis Management; Management Practices And Processes; Management Skills; Management Style; Management Systems; Risk Management; Time Management; Markets; Demand And Consumers; Market Platforms; Supply And Industry; Duopoly And Oligopoly; Industry structures; Operations; Product Development; Organizations; organizational Change And Adaptation; organizational Culture; Outcome Or Result; Failure; Success; Planning; Strategic Planning; Problems And Challenges; Relationships; Business And Community Relations; Business And Government Relations; Business And Stakeholder Relations; Risk And Uncertainty; Safety; Strategy; Transportation; Air Transportation; Aerospace Industry; Air Transportation Industry; Africa; Ethiopia; Asia; Indonesia; North And Central America; United States; Seattle; Chicago
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      George, William W., and Amram Migdal. "What Went Wrong with Boeing's 737 Max?" Harvard Business School Case 320-104, June 2020. (Revised October 2020.)
      • June 2020
      • Case

      Agile Consumer Product Innovation with Alibaba's Tmall Innovation Center

      By: William R. Kerr, Daniel O'Connor and James Palano
      Consumer products companies were beset by changes on all sides during the 2010s. Customers were increasingly turning to ecommerce platforms rather than shopping in-store. Meanwhile, nimble, digitally-savvy competitors were gaining market share by capitalizing on the...  View Details
      Keywords: Future Of Work; Retail; Ecommerce; Alibaba; Consumer Products; Innovation; Innovation And Invention; Product Development; Consumer Behavior; Consumer Products Industry; Retail Industry; China
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      Kerr, William R., Daniel O'Connor, and James Palano. "Agile Consumer Product Innovation with Alibaba's Tmall Innovation Center." Harvard Business School Case 820-087, June 2020.
      • June 2020
      • Supplement

      RBC: Transforming Transformation (B)

      By: Ethan Bernstein, Francesca Gino and Aldo Sesia
      In 2017, the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), a Canadian financial icon, mandated a swat team of “enablers of collaboration” (their job description) to support the personal and commercial bank in the enterprise-wide RBC Cultural Transformation initiative. Historically,...  View Details
      Keywords: Service Delivery; Technology; Transformation; Change Management; Collaborative Innovation And Invention; Innovation And Management; Decision Making; Human Resources; Management Systems; organizational Design; organizational structure; Groups And Teams; Management Teams; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Canada
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      Bernstein, Ethan, Francesca Gino, and Aldo Sesia. "RBC: Transforming Transformation (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 920-045, June 2020.
      • June 2020
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      RBC: Transforming Transformation (A)

      By: Ethan Bernstein, Francesca Gino and Aldo Sesia
      In 2017, the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), a Canadian financial icon, mandated a swat team of “enablers of collaboration” (their job description) to support the personal and commercial bank in the enterprise-wide RBC Cultural Transformation initiative. Historically,...  View Details
      Keywords: Service Delivery; Technology; Transformation; Change Management; Collaborative Innovation And Invention; Innovation And Management; Decision Making; Human Resources; Management Systems; organizational Design; organizational structure; Groups And Teams; Management Teams; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Canada
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      Bernstein, Ethan, Francesca Gino, and Aldo Sesia. "RBC: Transforming Transformation (A)." Harvard Business School Case 920-008, June 2020.
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      Are Cost Advantages from a Modern Indian Hospital Transferable to the United States?

      By: R. S. Kaplan, F. Erhun, V.G. Narayanan, B. Mistry and K. Brayton, et al
      We use time-driven activity-based costing to estimate the cost of personnel and space for an elective coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery at two U.S. hospitals, Intermountain and Baylor Heart, and Narayana Health (NH), in India. All three hospitals use modern...  View Details
      Keywords: Time-driven Activity-based Costing; Health Care And Treatment; Cost; organizational structure; Performance Efficiency; India; United States
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      Kaplan, R. S., F. Erhun, V.G. Narayanan, B. Mistry, and K. Brayton, et al. "Are Cost Advantages from a Modern Indian Hospital Transferable to the United States?" American Heart Journal 224 (June 2020): 148–155.
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