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  • 01 Apr 1999
  • News

Short Takes

technology over the past forty years, Nolan offers managers who are seeking a competitive advantage the opportunity to gain insights from leaders in the IT industry who have adapted in remarkably innovative ways during their fierce... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
  • 01 Sep 2017
  • News

Inbox: From Das’s Desk

favorite professors that deals with current challenges facing managers and leaders. Other alumni in your area get the same email, plus an invitation to meet at a local café for a small-group case discussion. That process repeats a few... View Details
Keywords: Das Narayandas; HBX; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 01 Jun 2004
  • News

The Ambidextrous Organization

processes of the past, while also gazing forward, preparing for the innovations that will define the future. This mental balancing act is one of the toughest of all managerial challenges — it requires executives to explore new... View Details
Keywords: ambidextrous manager; ambidextrous organization; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 11 Oct 2022
  • News

Righting the Ship

management,” observes Stuckey. “If a process or system is not producing a desired outcome, then consider redesigning the machinery producing the outcome.” With the new model in place and execution numbers at all-time highs, says Stuckey,... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
  • 22 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 22

and adapt leadership and talent management best practices to law firm structures and challenges. Chapters cover all of the important aspects of strategic talent management and provide practical guidance from law firm talent management... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Introducing Racial Equity Fellow Victor Ray - Blog: RGE Report

and attempt to head off these patterns by thinking about potential unanticipated consequences and how race might shape processes they think of as neutral. RGE: What is one key recommendation you have for practitioners (leaders and... View Details
  • 28 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 28

is extremely limited. Theoretically, delegation of authority is expected when locally adapted choices are most important to the overall value of the firm, when local information advantages are significant, or when the cost of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 1991 (Revised February 1992)
  • Case

Appex Corp.

By: Nitin Nohria
1990 Business Week named Appex Corp. the fastest growing high-technology company in the United States. Appex provided management information systems and intercarrier network services to cellular telephone companies. During its rapid growth, the company went through... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Organizational Culture; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Performance Productivity; Problems and Challenges; Management Practices and Processes; Business Divisions; Information Management; Information Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; United States
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  • 18 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Breaking Through a Growth Stall

Skinner III, head of the Atlanta-based consultancy LCS Partners. The article discusses the importance of understanding your ideal customers; the implications for selling, cost management, growth strategy, and organizational relationships; and a View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2018
  • What Do You Think?

Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?

core (“the dominant organizations, institutions, groups, and processes of the pre-Internet era,” that, for example, produced our printed encyclopedias) to the crowd (“new participants and practices enabled by the net and its attendant... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 24 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 24

Colgate. Policy Bundling to Overcome Risk Aversion: A Method for Improving Legislative Outcomes Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Mary Carol Mazza, Lisa L. Shu, Chia-Jung Tsay, and Max H. Bazerman Publication:Organizational Behavior and Human Decision View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2017
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

The authors propose a practical and sustainable approach to one of the greatest challenges facing leaders today: transforming a business in the face of imminent disruption. They build upon the lessons of Xerox, Apple, and Barnes & Noble to describe the View Details
  • 25 Sep 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier

marketing (namely, direct mail and telemarketing). Each significantly altered the marketing communications process and, in so doing, reshaped the advertising industry. However, unlike its predecessors, digital communications promises to... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
  • 01 Dec 2017
  • News

The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job

Instead, he says, it will be able to react to shifting customer needs, with lines of wheeled Baxters and Sawyers reconfigured on the fly, based on data from both the production process and market performance. This “agile factory,” he... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
  • Web

Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change - Course Catalog

navigating the challenges of social entrepreneurship and systemic change, focusing on resilience, stakeholder engagement, and adaptive strategy. Create a community of students from across the university who are passionate about social and... View Details
  • 01 Dec 1996
  • News

Laurel without Hardy? A Lesson for Business

This column, which first appeared in the August 18, 1996, edition of the New York Times, was adapted from Adam M. Brandenburger and Barry J. Nalebuff's new book, Co-opetition, published last summer by Doubleday. To succeed in business you... View Details
  • 12 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Difficult Transition from For-Profit to Nonprofit Boards

her credibility and effectiveness in a nonprofit organization. Differences At its core the nonprofit is fundamentally different than the for-profit. At the center of the nonprofit is its social mission. Understanding the mission, helping the organization to fulfill it,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • March 1999
  • Case

Merck & Co., Inc.: Corporate Strategy, Organization and Culture (A)

By: Michael Beer and Perry Fagan
In the early 1990s, Merck faced a series of challenges because of significant changes in its competitive and regulatory environment (e.g., growth in power of pharmaceutical buyers like managed care organizations led to price pressures and President Clinton's review of... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business or Company Management; Organizational Culture; Problems and Challenges; Management Practices and Processes; Competitive Strategy; Management Teams; Health Care and Treatment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Situation or Environment; Alignment; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
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  • 06 Jun 2017
  • First Look

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

evolved and adapted in order to meet new business challenges. This ability—to rapidly update, improve, remove, replace, and reimagine the software applications that underpin a firm’s competitive position—is at the heart of what has been... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Innovation & the War Effort - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

especially effective for wartime reconnaissance. Mahler made the first Vectograph for Land in January 1938. Thousands of Vectographs with accompanying records from the corporate archives reveal that the development and refinement of the View Details