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Valero Energy Corporation and Tight Oil
Vietor, Richard H.K.; Adamson, Eric; Byrd, Aaron; Chiverton, Ned; Meier, Mariko; Rain, RobCase HBS-713083-EEconomicsTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. Valero Energy, an incredibly successful US refiner, needs to make some decisions about tight oil. As production of light tight oil increases-from Eagle Ford, Bakken and elsewhere-Valero considers whether to add topping capacity to handle it, on top of its recent investments for heavy oil. Political decisions, however, are pending on Keystone XL, on crude oil exports, and on ...Starting at €8.20
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Novozymes: Establishing the Cellulosic Ethanol Value Chain
Shih, Willy; Chai, SenCase HBS-614001-EService and Operations ManagementTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. As the world's largest producer of industrial enzymes, Novozymes had invested heavily for many years to bio-engineer enzymes that could break down cellulose into fermentable sugar. In 2010, the company had launched what it thought would become a breakthrough product for the conversion of crop residues from corn into fermentable sugars for the production of motor fuels. But t...Starting at €8.20
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Big Chairs Create Big Cheats
Yap, AndyArticle HBS-F1311D-EA new study shows that large office furniture makes people feel powerful--and that may make them more dishonest.Starting at €8.20
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To Raise Productivity, Let More Employees Work from Home
Bloom, NicholasArticle HBS-F1401D-ELeadership and People ManagementWhen a travel company tried cutting office overhead by allowing call center reps to do their jobs at home, it realized some unexpected results.Starting at €8.20
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The Transparency Trap
Bernstein, Ethan S.Article HBS-R1410D-ELeadership and People ManagementTo promote accountability, productivity, and shared learning, many organizations create open work environments and gather reams of data on how individuals spend their time. A few years ago, HBS professor Ethan Bernstein set out to find empirical evidence that such approaches improve organizational performance. What he discovered is that this kind of transparency often has an unintended consequence: It can leave employees feeling vulnerable and ex...Starting at €8.20
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Balancing "We" and "Me": The Best Collaborative Spaces Also Support Solitude
Congdon, Christine; Flynn, Donna; Redman, MelanieArticle HBS-R1410C-EService and Operations ManagementThe open office is the dominant form of workspace design for good reason: It fosters collaboration, promotes learning, and nurtures strong culture. But what most companies fail to realize is that collaboration has a natural rhythm that requires both interaction and private contemplation. Companies have been trying for decades to find the balance between public and private workspace that best supports collaboration. In 1980 52% of U.S. employees l...Starting at €8.20
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Workspaces That Move People
Waber, Ben; Magnolfi, Jennifer; Lindsay, GregArticle HBS-R1410E-EFew companies measure whether the design of their workspaces helps or hurts performance, but they should. The authors have collected data that capture individuals' interactions, communications, and location information. They've learned that face-to-face interactions are by far the most important activity in an office; creating chance encounters between knowledge workers, both inside and outside the organization, improves performance. The Norwegia...Starting at €8.20
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Luxury Branding Below the Radar
Harvard Business ReviewArticle HBS-F1509A-EMarketing"Inconspicuous consumption"--elite consumers' affinity for discreet rather than traditionally branded luxuries--has become a global phenomenon. Work by researchers at Royal Holloway, University of London and elsewhere has identified two best practices that can help companies get out in front of the trend. Firms can redesign offerings to be less conspicuous; Louis Vuitton, Michael Kors, Tesla, and Audi, for example, have begun downsizing or even h...Starting at €8.20
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Manage Your Emotional Culture
Barsade, Sigal; O'Neill, Olivia A.Article HBS-R1601C-ELeadership and People ManagementMost companies don't realize how central emotions are to building the right culture. They tend to focus on "cognitive culture": the shared intellectual values, norms, artifacts, and assumptions that set the overall tone for how employees think and behave at work. Though that's incredibly important, the authors' research shows that it's only part of the story. The other critical part is the "emotional culture," which governs which feelings people ...Starting at €8.20
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An Antidote to Incivility
Porath, ChristineArticle HBS-R1604J-E"It is almost impossible to progress through a career untouched by incivility," the author writes. Over the past 20 years she has polled thousands of workers: 98% have experienced uncivil behavior, and 99% have witnessed it. In 2011 half said they were treated rudely at least once a week--up from a quarter in 1998. Rude behavior ranged from outright nastiness and undermining to ignoring people's opinions to checking e-mail during meetings. Observ...Starting at €8.20