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  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

The Meaning of Ramadi

Campbell (MBA '07) Courtesy Donovan Campbell One day in April 2007, my phone started ringing during a customer analytics class at HBS. I kept hitting silence, but the phone kept ringing. Thirteen calls and one very annoyed professor later, I got the hard news: The... View Details
Keywords: Donovan Campbell; National Security and International Affairs; Government
  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

Taking That Hill

Niekamp “Honestly I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about being a woman in a male industry,” Cynthia Niekamp (MBA 1983) told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (April 27, 2011). “It’s just my life; it’s been my life.” Niekamp, who as a student worked during summer... View Details
Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Manufacturing; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade
  • 17 May 2011
  • News

From Banking to Baubles

Keywords: jewelry; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade
  • 2012
  • Working Paper

Expertise Dissensus: A Multi-level Model of Teams' Differing Perceptions about Member Expertise

By: Heidi K. Gardner and Lisa Kwan
Why are some teams more effective than others at using their members' expertise to achieve short-term performance and longer term developmental benefits? We propose that a critical factor is expertise dissensus-members' differing perceptions of each other's level of... View Details
Keywords: Groups and Teams; Failure; Experience and Expertise; Research; Performance Effectiveness; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Perception; Personal Development and Career
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  • May 2010 (Revised June 2012)
  • Case

From Imitation to Innovation: Zongshen Industrial Group

By: Willy Shih and Nancy Hua Dai
As Zuo Zongshen drove the transformation of the Zongshen Industrial Group from an early imitator in the motorcycle business to a company that increasingly focused on innovation as a way to get out of the hyper-competitive commodity business, he continually faced new... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Learning; Investment; Disruptive Innovation; Knowledge Acquisition; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Competitive Strategy; Manufacturing Industry; Motorcycle Industry; China
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  • Article

Lone Inventors as Sources of Technological Breakthroughs: Myth or Reality?

Are lone inventors more or less likely to invent breakthroughs? Recent research has attempted to resolve this question by considering the variance of creative outcome distributions. It has implicitly assumed a symmetric thickening or thinning of both tails, i.e., that... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Independent Innovation and Invention; Patents; Groups and Teams; Creativity
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  • December 2010
  • Article

Acquisitions as Exaptation: The Legacy of Founding Institutions in the U.S. Commercial Banking Industry

By: Christopher Marquis and Zhi Huang
This study focuses on the imprinting of institutional environments, particularly how founding institutions impact intra-organizational capabilities and how such imprints may have different external manifestations in subsequent historical eras. We introduce the concept... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Commercial Banking; Organizations; Theory; Policy; Government and Politics; Management Practices and Processes; Strategy; Competency and Skills; United States
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  • September 2008
  • Teaching Note

Chi Mei Optoelectronics (TN)

By: Willy C. Shih
Teaching Note for [608-123]. View Details
Keywords: Diversification; Information Technology; Market Entry and Exit; Standards; Industry Clusters; Supply Chain; Production; Experience and Expertise; Biotechnology Industry; Chemical Industry; Taiwan; Asia; Korean Peninsula; China
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  • November 2003 (Revised March 2004)
  • Supplement

GE's Talent Machine: The Making of a CEO

By: Christopher A. Bartlett
CEO Jeff Immelt, ex-CEO Jack Welch, and HR Chief Bill Conaty discuss how GE has made talent development a source of sustainable competitive advantage. Immelt describes GE's deeply embedded philosophy around its people and how it has allowed the company to add value... View Details
Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Talent and Talent Management; Human Resources; Business or Company Management; Performance Capacity; Performance Effectiveness; Competitive Advantage; System; Value
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  • 21 Oct 2010
  • News

D.I.Y. Foreign Aid

Keywords: hygiene; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • 01 May 2020
  • In Practice

COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change

The coronavirus pandemic caught the business world by surprise, but the catastrophe might force companies to face a crisis that has been unfolding in plain sight: climate change.  We asked faculty members affiliated with the Business and Environment Initiative at... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 22 Apr 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment

other schools competing for the best students. Hayes drew a line between personal investing—he himself is a socially responsible investor, he said—and other types of investment vehicles. Several audience members questioned Hayes on that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2018
  • News

The Evolution of Modern Pricing Models

models—we need to go back to when consumers started paying attention to pricing online. The internet becomes widespread starting in 1994, and suddenly you can know the price of something with very minimal effort. And so companies needed to View Details
  • 2003
  • Report

UK Competitiveness: Moving to the Next Stage

By: Michael E. Porter and Christian H.M. Ketels

In October 2002, the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) appointed Professor Michael Porter and his team to conduct a brief, three-month review of the existing evidence on UK competitiveness. The effort was funded jointly by the ESRC and the Department of... View Details

Keywords: Competition; Economics; Performance Productivity; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Research and Development; Competency and Skills; Investment; Assets; Corporate Strategy; Policy; Management; Knowledge Use and Leverage; United Kingdom; United States
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  • 07 Dec 2016
  • Blog Post

Marketing Reimagined: A Recap of the 2016 Marketing Innovation Conference

competition. Twenty-two teams from over 15 MBA programs competed for a grand prize of $2,500 plus bragging rights. The top two teams, Michigan’s Ross School of Business and Boston University’s Questrom School of Business, presented in... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports
  • 10 Sep 2020
  • Blog Post

Founding a Company at the Intersection of Medicine and Technology

feedback I received from the judges of the New Venture Competition and the flood of alumni interest that came from winning the grand prize. Although it was odd to compete and present remotely during the early weeks of COVID-19, this... View Details
  • Web

Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise - Course Catalog

does it work? How can entrants disrupt market leaders, and what can market leaders do to avoid disruption? Who is our ideal customer, and how can selecting the wrong customers derail your growth? What’s the hidden danger of core View Details
  • 03 Sep 2020
  • Op-Ed

Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC

services of unknown quality. The lack of transparency protects providers and insurers from needing to compete on the price and quality of their services. Lack of competition, in turn, inflates the cost and probably also diminishes the... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger; Health
  • 18 Apr 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Selling Luxury to Everyone

lifespan in the fashion industry. "What used to be a six-month turnaround in fashion is now six weeks," she said. Morse said his company is competing with an ever-more crowded market in cosmetics, a high-margin business that has... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette; Consumer Products
  • 05 Aug 2002
  • What Do You Think?

Is Platform Leadership Old Hat or the Wave of the Future?

parts to design complementary products that fitted together. Successful platform leaders exert a great deal of influence. At times, they must build trust among those that choose to utilize the platform as partners. At other times, they may choose to View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett