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  • May 2004 (Revised December 2004)
  • Case

Slingshot Technology, Inc. (B)

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Elizabeth Collins
Slingshot Technology Inc. (STI) is a privately held software start-up founded in 1995 focused on identifying emerging spaces in the IT services industry and partnering with vendors selling promising but unproven technologies in those spaces. The vendors used STI to... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Private Ownership; Opportunities; Partners and Partnerships; Information Technology; Entrepreneurship; Applications and Software; Intellectual Property; Business Startups; Information Technology Industry
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Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry General Management Michael S. Kaufman , Andy Pforzheimer Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders Accounting & Management, General Management, View Details
  • 10 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 10

Organizational Capabilities Authors:Robert Gibbons and Rebecca Henderson Publication:Organization Science (forthcoming) Abstract A large literature identifies unique organizational capabilities as a potent... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Jun 2013
  • News

Minding The Gap

"The professors at Harvard don't try to tell us how to run our schools like a business. They push us to consider possible applications of business models and methods in our work, but they understand that the organizational complexities we... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Blagg, Deborah; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services
  • 06 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

help the USPTO achieve its joint goals of processing patent applications more quickly and granting better quality patents. But the new tools and organizational changes would bring challenges, too. Any View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

What Really Drives Your Strategy?

and boot it up and all of a sudden it works. It's anything but that. Q: In your preface, you explain that there has been less progress in the strategy field understanding the interaction between economic forces and organizational... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 15 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 15

improvements in expenditures on education per capita, literacy, and schools per children. Yet we also find that such improvements did not take place in states that had more slaves before abolition or those that cultivated cotton during colonial times. Thus, we explain... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 4, 2008

had changed radically in March, and the Moody's team was fearful that the situation could spiral out of control. The Moody's team knew that carry traders increased Iceland's vulnerability to a confidence crisis because they were quick to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 20

consistency across the hotel properties in the brand portfolio. Competition was heating up, and Paul had a goal to expand her hotel portfolio to twenty properties in the next ten years. Paul knew that she had to make some major changes to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30

Despite recent advances in our understanding of how locations impact the creation and appropriation of value by firms, the speed of these changes has often surpassed the speed of research on the connections between geography and firms.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Sep 2024
  • Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces 2024 Goldsmith Fellows

the Goldsmith Fellowship, I hope contribute to a community of practitioners dedicated to innovating and scaling social change interventions,” he said. Danno Lemu. A joint degree student at HBS and HKS, Danno’s career has spanned housing... View Details
  • Web

Turning a Moment into a Movement: How the Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to Do Their Part - Recruiting

inclusion a specific yearly company goal treats it as a business issue. Just like setting sales goals tied to consequences for not meeting those goals, increasing diversity in your workforce is something measurable and it is tied to View Details
  • April 2009
  • Case

Invest Early: Early Childhood Development in a Rural Community

By: Stacey M. Childress and Geoff Eckman Marietta
Invest Early was an early childhood development partnership in rural northern Minnesota between 14 different organizations, which worked together through an advisory board, governing board, and leadership team in order to deliver coordinated early childhood services to... View Details
Keywords: Early Childhood Education; Rural Scope; Management Teams; Managerial Roles; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business and Community Relations; Partners and Partnerships; Social and Collaborative Networks
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  • March 1990 (Revised June 1993)
  • Case

Analog Devices, Inc.: The Half-Life System

By: Robert S. Kaplan
The company has committed to major improvements in quality, cost, and on-time delivery performance. Despite strong senior management support, however, the actual rate of improvement was disappointing until a new measurement philosophy was introduced. The new approach... View Details
Keywords: Quality; Performance Improvement; Earnings Management; Financial Reporting; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Productivity; Business or Company Management; Cost Management; Measurement and Metrics; Management Teams; Semiconductor Industry
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  • 27 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 27, 2009

Publisher's Abstract Most organizational change initiatives fail spectacularly (at worst) or deliver lukewarm results (at best). In his international bestseller Leading Change, John Kotter revealed why View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jul 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard

The News Corporation/News of the World scandal has been described as a case study in bad management. What was there about the company's organizational culture that led to "Murdoch's Mess"? Professor Michel Anteby, who studies... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Journalism & News; Publishing
  • 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55632 forthcoming Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Active Choice, Implicit Defaults, and the Incentive to Choose By: Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Oct 2015
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October 13, 2015

James Heppelmann looked at how this shift is changing the structure of industries and forcing firms to rethink their strategies. In this companion article, the authors look at the effects inside firms, examining the impact that smart,... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2020
  • Blog Post

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

as their mental well-being—a forthcoming article in American Psychologist examines current organizational psychology research to help business leaders manage COVID-related fallout in the workplace and develop solutions to ease the stress... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 08 Dec 2014
  • Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy

shop in the current low-cost location. How to organize? What are the structures, systems, and processes that need to be in place to manage a company's international strategy? Should authority be delegated to many organizational units or... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna