Shaping the Waves - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

What Really Drives Your Strategy?

Professor Bower, since 1970 you have articulated views on the resource allocation process and how it fundamentally shapes corporate strategy. Could you give us a brief overview of View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

29 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

Our results have important implications for understanding how feedback shapes gender gaps in self-assessments. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55540 The Impact of... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

26 Sep 2007
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Negotiation

Negotiation, describes how you can shape important deals through tactics, deal design, and set-up, and why three dimensions are more powerful than one. Key concepts include: Three-D negotiation comprises tactics, deal design, and set-up.... View Details

19 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Ground-Floor Opportunities for Retail in India

Rangan brought together veterans of the retail world to share strategies for cashing in on what could be a new wave of organized retail in India. The discussion took place... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products; Retail

02 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping

States. At the same time, his family received food purchasing assistance from the Food Stamp program. He's pretty sure that these safety nets helped lead to the formation of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

05 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity

strategies of companies within those industries. In particular, I focus on how an industry gets defined: how consumers and other industry players make sense of, or frame, the industry, and the way that... View Details

Keywords: by Michael J. Roberts; Technology

26 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

A Clear Eye for Innovation

its own R&D, finance, and marketing functions, and he chose the project leaders for their willingness to challenge the status quo and their ability to operate independently. Given View Details

Keywords: by Charles A. O'Reilly III & Michael L. Tushman

05 Feb 2001
What Do You Think?

Do MBA Programs Face “The Innovator’s Dilemma”?

students." In his words, this behavior should characterize well-respected programs. He asks, "Isn't 'adapting to change' almost a synonym for learning?" Little attention was given to the influence of alumni in View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

22 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

When Protestors Knock at Your Door

As globalization trends increase, so does the ability of non-governmental organizations such as Greenpeace, Oxfam International, and the World Wildlife Fund to shape public and... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

07 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

Corporate Tax Strategies Mirror Personal Returns of Top Execs

definitely shape how they are structured. I think there is a lot of value for MBAs to understand how taxes or tax changes affect the design of optimal transactions.” View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

04 Dec 2007
First Look

First Look: December 4, 2007

Periodical:Organization Science (forthcoming) Abstract Research has long shown that organizations shape members' identities. However, the possibility that these identities might also be desired and that... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Private Sector, Public Good

Public Sector seminar series, which runs through May, is designed to induce lively conversation, build a community of scholars, and create a research agenda exploring the possible role of the private sector... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

06 May 2002
Research & Ideas

A Toolkit for Customer Innovation

"Listen carefully to what your customers want and then respond with new products that meet or exceed their needs." That mantra has dominated many a business, and it has undoubtedly led to great products and has even shaped... View Details

Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel

12 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

School in 1963 I have been trying to find ways to teach about the political, social, economic, and cultural environment of business, the context that shapes corporate purpose,... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

31 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It

expertise. But senior managers also must rethink their role in shaping strategic direction. Their main contribution has shifted from deciding the strategic content to framing View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

06 Aug 2018
Research & Ideas

Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels

something into mechanisms within that machine that allow the process to become routine and repeatable. Let’s use an example. Many of us have seen glassblowers who manipulate a glowing hot lump of molten glass and View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing; Electronics

25 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

An Organization Your Customers Understand

consumer products. Finally, a series of cubes represents major customers. The shapes lie scattered on your desk. Your job is to fit the pieces together. Do you place View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

02 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Explaining China's Crash

will be a natural counterbalance to the slowdown in industry. Second, China is in good shape from a fiscal standpoint. They have a budget deficit target of 2.3 percent this year, but are currently in... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese; Financial Services

02 Sep 2002
What Do You Think?

What Can Business Schools Do to Avoid Bad Apples?

graduates. In business, we "hire for attitude and train for skills" because it is very difficult to shape attitudes in adults. An MBA program can provide an opportunity to discuss and make us aware of View Details