Publications

01 Jun 2001
News

Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century

different could things be?” It’s only been thirteen years since I graduated from HBS, and we in the Class of 1988 were remarkably forward-thinking about technology. Ours was the first class to have a subject called Management Information... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

June 2016
Teaching Note

N12 Technologies: Building an Organization and Building a Business

By: David A. Garvin

N12 Technologies was a startup founded in 2010 that employed nanotechnology to manufacture a patented material to improve the performance of carbon fiber composites, which were used in a wide variety of products, ranging from bicycles to automobiles to aircraft parts.... View Details

Keywords: Startup; Organizational Structure; Nanotechnology; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Management Systems; Commercialization; Industrial Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; Bicycle Industry; Transportation Industry; United States

28 Jan 2014
News

The Good Jobs Strategy

19 Feb 2021
News

3 Steps to Better Virtual Meetings

01 Jun 2006
News

Getting on Board

come to them,” notes Susan Stautberg, president of PartnerCom Corporation, which assembles and manages advisory boards. “Before Sarbanes-Oxley and the outcry for better governance, you might have been tapped just because you knew... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Management; Management; Management

1998
Chapter

Commentary: Strategic Flexibility, Firm Organization, and Managerial Work in Dynamic Models

By: C. A. Bartlett

Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business or Company Management; Management Practices and Processes

October 1984
Teaching Note

NIKE (D): Leisure Shoes, Teaching Note

Teaching Note for (9-385-031). View Details

Keywords: Luxury; Decisions; Performance Effectiveness; Management Practices and Processes; Management Teams; Apparel and Accessories Industry

06 Oct 2003
What Do You Think?

Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?

Summing Up In the judgment of respondents to the October column, repeating the development of disruptive technologies is an admirable but elusive target. Respondents commonly asked whether it is a process disrupted by too many... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

17 Apr 2019
News

Give It to Me Straight

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Early on in Kim Scott’s career, she had a few wake-up calls that set her on a mission to become a better boss—a leader who was highly effective but still very human. She began to develop a... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

May 2008
Article

Working in the Gray Zone

By: Michel Anteby

Supervisors often turn a blind eye when employees use company resources and time to work on personal projects. They realize that stamping out such behavior may do more harm than good. View Details

Keywords: Employee Relationship Management; Management Practices and Processes; Performance Effectiveness; Behavior

Find at Harvard

August 2000
Case

Belmont Industries, Inc. (C)

By: Joseph L. Bower

Supplements the (A) case. A rewritten version of an earlier supplement. View Details

Keywords: Wages; Managerial Roles; Management Practices and Processes; Performance; Goals and Objectives; Labor and Management Relations

April 2000
Case

Professionals' Quandaries

By: Ashish Nanda, Thomas J. DeLong and Scot H. Landry

Presents five situations in which professionals face ethical dilemmas. View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Personal Development and Career; Human Resources; Management Practices and Processes; Situation or Environment

2007
Working Paper

Incompatible Assumptions: Barriers to Producing Multidisciplinary Knowledge in Communities of Scholarship

By: Corinne Bendersky and Kathleen L. McGinn

Co-locating knowledge workers from different disciplines may be a necessary but insufficient step to generating multidisciplinary knowledge. We explore the role of assumptions underlying knowledge creation within the field of organizational studies, and investigate how... View Details

Keywords: Knowledge Management; Knowledge Sharing; Business Processes; Groups and Teams

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January 2007 (Revised November 2007)
Case

Organic Growth at Wal-Mart

By: Jan W. Rivkin and Troy Smith

In 2005, an executive vice president at Wal-Mart must decide whether to expand the retailer's selection of organic food. The decision is made in the context of wider attempts to move the giant retailer slightly upscale and to focus on environmental sustainability. View Details

Keywords: Food; Growth and Development Strategy; Product; Business Processes; Environmental Sustainability; Expansion; Retail Industry; United States

1 Apr 2001
Conference Presentation

Knowledge Sharing Practices and Technology Use Norms in Dispersed Development Teams

By: Deborah Soule and Lynda M. Applegate

Keywords: Knowledge Sharing; Information Technology; Management Practices and Processes; Knowledge Use and Leverage

August 2000
Case

Belmont Industries, Inc. (D)

By: Joseph L. Bower

Supplements the (A) case. A rewritten version of an earlier supplement. View Details

Keywords: Wages; Managerial Roles; Management Practices and Processes; Performance; Goals and Objectives; Labor and Management Relations

May 1982 (Revised May 1985)
Case

Human Resources at Hewlett-Packard

By: Michael Beer and Richard O. von Werssowetz

Provides an overview of all the human resource policies and practices applied by Hewlett-Packard. As such, it is an opportunity to analyze Hewlett-Packard's practices in all four policy areas; stakeholder influence, flows, rewards, and work systems. View Details

Keywords: Human Resources; Management Practices and Processes; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Working Conditions; Policy