Filter Results
:
(8,948)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(8,948)
- People (49)
- News (2,240)
- Research (4,813)
- Events (31)
- Multimedia (50)
- Faculty Publications (2,868)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(8,948)
- People (49)
- News (2,240)
- Research (4,813)
- Events (31)
- Multimedia (50)
- Faculty Publications (2,868)
- 2016
- Working Paper
Pivoting Isn't Enough: Principled Pragmatism and Strategic Reorientation in New Ventures
By: Rory McDonald and Cheng Gao
New technology ventures often experience deviations from their original plans that oblige them to reorient in pursuit of better fit between their evolving products and target customers. Yet research is largely silent on how entrepreneurs explain and justify their...
View Details
Keywords:
Strategic Reorientation;
Technology Entrepreneurship;
Innovation;
Product Development Processes;
Organizational Adaptation;
Qualitative Methods (General);
Information Technology;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Communication;
Entrepreneurship;
Alignment;
Innovation and Invention;
Product Development
- 2010
- Book
The Comingled Code: Open Source and Economic Development
By: Josh Lerner and Mark Schankerman
Discussions of the economic impact of open source software often generate more heat than light. Advocates passionately assert the benefits of open source, while critics decry its effects. Missing from the debate is rigorous economic analysis and systematic...
View Details
Keywords:
Development Economics;
Economic Growth;
Policy;
Government and Politics;
Open Source Distribution;
Software
Lerner, Josh, and Mark Schankerman. The Comingled Code: Open Source and Economic Development. MIT Press, 2010.
- November 1998 (Revised December 1998)
- Case
Amul and India's National Dairy Development Board
By: Ray A. Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Srinivas Sunder
Amul Dairy has been a successful change maker in India's dairy system. How does it move from this success to the new challenges facing the Indian food system--is it an appropriate model?
View Details
Keywords:
Business Model;
Leading Change;
Success;
Cooperative Ownership;
Problems and Challenges;
Food and Beverage Industry;
India
Goldberg, Ray A., Carin-Isabel Knoop, and Srinivas Sunder. "Amul and India's National Dairy Development Board." Harvard Business School Case 599-060, November 1998. (Revised December 1998.)
- 2024
- Working Paper
Appropriate Entrepreneurship? The Rise of China and the Developing World
By: Josh Lerner, Junxi Liu, Jacob Moscona and David Yang
Global innovation and entrepreneurship has traditionally been dominated by a handful
of high-income countries, especially the US. This paper investigates the international
consequences of the rise of a new hub for innovation, focusing on the dramatic
growth of...
View Details
Lerner, Josh, Junxi Liu, Jacob Moscona, and David Yang. "Appropriate Entrepreneurship? The Rise of China and the Developing World." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-061, March 2024.
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
New Releases
with quality. Reinhardt reminds managers that social concerns about the environment will not go away and that the underlying conditions that made the environment relevant to business in the first place are intensifying. Down to Earth provides guidance to business...
View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
New Releases
research has led to the development of a new organizational framework - the differentiated network - that will enable MNCs to succeed. Through systematic examination of MNCs, Nohria and Ghoshal show that...
View Details
Keywords:
Judith A. Ross
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
New Releases
in the financial management field. Over the last fifteen years, they have developed and described key concepts, such as activity-based costing (ABC), activity-based management, operational systems for learning and improvement, and target...
View Details
- Article
Making a Difference: Developing Actionable Knowledge for Practice and Theory
By: Michael Beer
There is a widely acknowledged gap between academic research and practice. While the field of organizational studies and development has had an impact on management practice in some organizations, it has had only a modest impact on widely accepted management practice...
View Details
Keywords:
Actionable Knowledge;
Actionable Practice;
Normal Science;
Scholar-consultant;
Management Practices and Processes;
Theory;
Innovation Leadership;
Organizations;
Performance Effectiveness
Beer, Michael. "Making a Difference: Developing Actionable Knowledge for Practice and Theory." Journal of Applied Behavioral Science 56, no. 4 (December 2020): 506–520.
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
New Releases
Franchise Organizations by Jeffrey L. Bradach (Harvard Business School Press) How much impact do chains such as Pizza Hut and McDonald's have on today's economy? Here are some telling numbers: a new franchise opens in the United States...
View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
New Releases
new book, Leading Change, Kotter, one of the world's foremost experts on leadership, examines the efforts of more than one hundred companies as they attempt to make themselves stronger competitors. He identifies the most common mistakes...
View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
New Releases
Abraham Zaleznik. Grouped in three sections that address the future of organizations, the process of change, and the new role of management, the articles address topics such as how networks reshape organizations, why transformation...
View Details
- 07 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Pathlight: Reimagining the Developer Onboarding Experience
by the time effort. These problems have been intensified by the pandemic and the new hybrid workforce model. What is your solution? Pathlight is an engineer onboarding tool that quickly integrates new hires...
View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
New Art
in 1995, Schwartz inaugurated an annual gallery trip to New York to purchase contemporary art for HBS — an ongoing tradition that continues to change the look and feel of community space where students, faculty, and staff come together....
View Details
- April 2020
- Case
The Board's Role in Refocusing Bahrain Development Bank
By: Paul M. Healy and Alpana Thapar
In March 2016, Bahrain Development Bank’s (BDB) existing board term came to an end and Khalid Al Rumaihi was appointed the new chairman. Determining a need for change, he immediately overhauled the board and replaced BDB’s long-standing CEO. The new board quickly...
View Details
Keywords:
Board Of Directors;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Change Management;
Banking Industry;
Bahrain
Healy, Paul M., and Alpana Thapar. "The Board's Role in Refocusing Bahrain Development Bank." Harvard Business School Case 120-099, April 2020.
- February 2006 (Revised August 2006)
- Case
deCODE Genetics: Hunting for Genes to Develop Drugs
By: Debora L. Spar
In 1996, Kari Stefansson launched a new kind of biotechnology company and a whole new way of attacking diseases. Based in Iceland, his firm, deCODE Genetics, plans to identify the individual genetic markers that lead to society's most prevalent diseases. To do so, it...
View Details
Keywords:
Information;
Innovation Strategy;
Genetics;
Ethics;
Health Disorders;
Biotechnology Industry;
Iceland
Spar, Debora L., and Chris Bebenek. "deCODE Genetics: Hunting for Genes to Develop Drugs." Harvard Business School Case 706-040, February 2006. (Revised August 2006.)
- Fall 2015
- Article
Doing Well by Doing Good? Community Development Venture Capital
By: Josh Lerner and Anna Kovner
This paper examines the investments and performance of community development venture capital (CDVC). We find substantial differences between CDVC and traditional venture capital (VC) investments: CDVC investments are far more likely to be in nonmetropolitan regions and...
View Details
Lerner, Josh, and Anna Kovner. "Doing Well by Doing Good? Community Development Venture Capital." Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 24, no. 3 (Fall 2015): 643–663.
- January 1997 (Revised September 1997)
- Case
Improving the Product Development Process at Kirkham Instruments Corp.
By: Clayton M. Christensen
Describes the efforts of a manufacturer of scientific instruments to implement new methods of managing new product development, which its executives had learned in a Harvard Business School seminar. The executives left the seminar excited to implement a new way of...
View Details
Keywords:
Change Management;
Product Launch;
Innovation and Invention;
Product Development;
Manufacturing Industry;
Technology Industry;
United States
Christensen, Clayton M. "Improving the Product Development Process at Kirkham Instruments Corp." Harvard Business School Case 697-058, January 1997. (Revised September 1997.)
- January 2014
- Technical Note
Learning From Extreme Consumers
By: Jill Avery and Michael Norton
Traditional market research methods focus on understanding the average experiences of average consumers. This focus leads to gaps in our knowledge of consumer behavior and often fails to uncover insights that can drive revolutionary, rather than evolutionary...
View Details
Keywords:
Market Research;
Ethnography;
Design Thinking;
Innovation;
New Product Development;
Research;
Marketing;
Consumer Behavior;
Innovation and Invention
Avery, Jill, and Michael Norton. "Learning From Extreme Consumers." Harvard Business School Technical Note 314-086, January 2014.
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
New Releases
Technology Fountainheads by E. Raymond Corey (Harvard Business School Press) As corporate research and development costs rise, many firms choose to participate in R&D; consortia - collaborative ventures with academic institutions and...
View Details