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- 11 Jun 2019
- Book
These Aren't Beach Books, but Managers Should Read Them Anyway
A Good Place to Start Driving Digital StrategySunil Gupta explores how traditional businesses can make the leap into the digital age. American Capitalism: New HistoriesHistorians are taking a new look at capitalism in light of its View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
New Releases
Technology Integration by Marco Iansiti (Harvard Business School Press) In the old days, coping with technological change was simple: you kept track of developments, tried to decide if they had legs, and... View Details
Keywords: Robert Binstock
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
to demonstrate the performance implications. Market Reaction to the Adoption of IFRS in Europe Authors:Edward J. Riedl, Christopher S. Armstrong, Alan D. Jagolinzer, and Mary E. Barth Publication:The Accounting Review (forthcoming)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
discuss areas of interest ranging from opportunities in Asian markets, to managing work/life balance, to the impact of wireless technology on business strategy, to the achievements of African Americans in business. Highlights of some of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
2005) took alumni questions on the energy transition, adoption strategies, and the practical steps to a fossil fuel–free future. Nigeria is the sixth-largest producer of fossil fuel in the world, and its national economy derives 90... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Vital Signs
around for a long time but with slower adoption than what we’d like to see. COVID has provided the momentum to bring more care online as providers adapt to the situation. Especially for clinics and hospitals that are treating COVID... View Details
- June 1993 (Revised December 1995)
- Case
Frito-Lay, Inc.: The Navigator Project (A)
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Richard O. Mason and Melinda Conrad
Provides an overview of the company's recent organizational changes followed by a discussion of the company's new sales promotion software, "Promotion Planner." The president of Frito-Lay's central division must decide how he should proceed with the rollout of this new... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Trends; Innovation Strategy; Marketing Communications; Decision Choices and Conditions; Food and Beverage Industry; Manufacturing Industry
Applegate, Lynda M., Richard O. Mason, and Melinda Conrad. "Frito-Lay, Inc.: The Navigator Project (A)." Harvard Business School Case 193-025, June 1993. (Revised December 1995.)
- October 2005
- Case
Saskatchewan Wheat Pool 2005
By: Ray A. Goldberg and Mary L. Shelman
CEO Mayo Schmidt had just guided his firm through five difficult years. Survival had come with the difficult decision to change the 80-year-old agricultural cooperative into a Canadian business corporation. The Saskatchewan Wheat Pool (SWP) now faced the future with a... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Capital; Technological Innovation; Leading Change; Demand and Consumers; Partners and Partnerships; Expansion; Technology Adoption; Food and Beverage Industry; Canada
Goldberg, Ray A., and Mary L. Shelman. "Saskatchewan Wheat Pool 2005." Harvard Business School Case 906-402, October 2005.
- March 1999
- Case
City of Charlotte (B)
By: Robert S. Kaplan
This case shows how two operating departments-transportation and police-translate the high-level corporate scorecard for the city into departmental balanced scorecards. The transportation department follows a highly structured approach designed to link initiatives... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Global Strategy; National Security; Balanced Scorecard; Organizational Design; Technology Adoption; Public Administration Industry; Transportation Industry
Kaplan, Robert S. "City of Charlotte (B)." Harvard Business School Case 199-043, March 1999.
- 15 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem
color accuracy and consistency. 8 E-Color offers server-based software called True Internet Color to increase the accuracy of colors depicted online. Recent reports suggest that Bloomingdales.com, Jcrew.com, and others plan to adopt True... View Details
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
related to technological orientation. Second, we find that the adoption of customer orientation is positively related to the profitability of both Japanese and American entrepreneurial firms, although the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2024
- Working Paper
Moral Incoherence During Category Emergence: The Contentious Case of Connected Toys
By: Ryann Noe
Through a longitudinal study of the emergence of connected toys – physical toys that interact with
digital devices – I build theory about moral incoherence: when competing views about the moral
worth of a category persist over time. During the course of their... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Technology Adoption; Moral Sensibility; Market Entry and Exit; Consumer Behavior
Noe, Ryann. "Moral Incoherence During Category Emergence: The Contentious Case of Connected Toys." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-071, May 2024.
- March 2024
- Article
Differences in Care Team Response to Patient Portal Messages by Patient Race and Ethnicity
By: Mitchell Tang, Rebecca Mishuris, Lily Payvandi and Ariel Dora Stern
Importance: The COVID-19 pandemic was associated with substantial growth in patient portal messaging. Higher message volumes have largely persisted, reflecting a new normal. Prior work has documented lower message use by patients who belong to minoritized racial... View Details
Keywords: Health Pandemics; Technology Adoption; Prejudice and Bias; Equality and Inequality; Communication Technology; Race; Ethnicity; Health Industry
Tang, Mitchell, Rebecca Mishuris, Lily Payvandi, and Ariel Dora Stern. "Differences in Care Team Response to Patient Portal Messages by Patient Race and Ethnicity." JAMA Network Open 7, no. 3 (March 2024).
- 23 Aug 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?
companies within most industries adopted an increasingly similar set of sustainability practices. This study by by Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim examines the interplay between common and strategic practices. This dynamic distinction... View Details
- 14 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Web Surfers Have a Schedule and Stick to It
households has been high for years, that number still increased, reported Boik, Greenstein, and Prince. In 2007, nearly 62 million households had access to broadband; in 2013, that number has risen to 73 million, with the majority of View Details
Rick Grinnell
renamed as ClearOne), and PictureTel (acquired by Polycom). Rick is a member of the Educational Council at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a Venture Capital Advisor at the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at Harvard,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
examines August Thyssen and the management of his Thyssen & Co., Thyssen-Konzern, and Vereinigte Stahlwerke (United Steel Works) from 1871 to 1936. He disproves the idea that German business management was backward and rigid until it View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
New Releases
The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen (Harvard Business School Press) The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail demonstrates why outstanding companies that focus on competitiveness, listen... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
deep learning. “We are excited about emerging markets, where we see high adoption rates of technologies designed for the point-of-care,” she says. “In the United States, we can use deep learning to generate... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- December 2003 (Revised September 2004)
- Case
Managing Segway's Early Development
By: Richard G. Hamermesh and David Kiron
Describes the early development of the Segway Human Transporter and focuses on the organizational issues that arise between the parent company and the new company that is being spun out to produce and market the Segway. Key issues are the distribution of bonuses and... View Details
Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Business Startups; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Resource Allocation; Organizational Design; Technology Adoption
Hamermesh, Richard G., and David Kiron. "Managing Segway's Early Development." Harvard Business School Case 804-065, December 2003. (Revised September 2004.)