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  • 2012
  • Book

The Architecture of Innovation: The Economics of Creative Organizations

By: Josh Lerner
Innovation is a much-used buzzword these days, but when it comes to creating and implementing a new idea, many companies miss the mark—plans backfire, consumer preferences shift, or tried-and-true practices fail to work in a new context. So is innovation just a... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Innovation Strategy; Innovation and Management; Organizational Structure; Microeconomics
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  • Web

Organizational Behavior Faculty - Faculty & Research

Battilana Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration Ethan S. Bernstein Edward W. Conard Associate Professor of Business Administration Anjali M. Bhatt Assistant Professor of Business Administration Thomas J. DeLong Baker Foundation Professor of View Details
  • 09 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Challenge of the Multi-site Nonprofit

management techniques developed for for-profit companies. "We say this is not a good approach," said Grossman. Instead, nonprofits need their own management practices... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Impact Investments

investing and green bonds. The UN launched its six Principles for Responsible Investment in 2006 in order to promote greater commitment to ESG issues amongst global investors, garnering 100 signatories. By the start of 2020, more than 3,000 organizations View Details
  • 04 Mar 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Don’t Lose Money With Customers

however, that most companies that claim to practice customer relationship management actually focus on managing individual customer interactions. While they think they are... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
  • March 22, 2012
  • Article

Global Team Leaders Must Deliberately Create 'Moments'

By: Tsedal Neeley
Global teams face the challenge of having to operate with limited face-to-face contact and across vast distances, time zones, language backgrounds, and contexts, as well as cultural differences. In turn, these differences generate disruptions to team cohesion and top... View Details
Keywords: Global Range; Groups and Teams; Management Practices and Processes
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  • 27 Aug 2014
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery

Takeuchi, a professor of management practice who leads the annual excursion. He tells students that the course "focuses on the links between strategy and innovation that prove useful in rebuilding a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities; Retail
  • February 2020
  • Supplement

Indigo Agriculture: Harnessing Nature

By: Michael W. Toffel and James Barnett
Indigo Agriculture used a digital-enabled research and development (R&D) process to launch its initial product, microbial coatings for agricultural seeds, which increase crop yields while reducing the need for fertilizers. In doing so, the company developed direct... View Details
Keywords: Operations; Supply Chain; Social Enterprise; Product Development; Distribution Channels; Business Strategy; Digital Platforms; Environmental Sustainability; Science-Based Business; Climate Change; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Green Technology Industry; United States; Massachusetts
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  • 29 Oct 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Estimating the Effects of Large Shareholders Using a Geographic Instrument

Keywords: by Bo Becker, Henrik Cronqvist & Rüdiger Fahlenbrach
  • Web

Health Care Courses - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Value-Based Health Care Courses Strategy for Health Care Delivery (In-Person) November 5th - 8th, 2023 The leadership workshop on Strategy for Health Care Delivery brings together top management and senior physician leaders from health... View Details
  • Research Summary

My research draws upon social and cultural theories to address three important topics in marketing: branding strategy, organizing to deliver creative content, and cultural consumer behavior:

1)Branding Strategy: How are iconic brands built?

I have... View Details

  • December 2004 (Revised October 2005)
  • Case

Innovation Corrupted: The Rise and Fall of Enron (B)

By: Malcolm S. Salter
Presents a brief historical overview of Enron's rise, its strategic successes and failures, the evolution of its business model, and the organizational processes relied upon by Enron's management to drive and monitor the business. A rewritten version of an earlier... View Details
Keywords: Transition; Risk Management; Management Practices and Processes; Success; Business Model; Strategy; Business History; Governance Controls; Innovation and Management; Failure; Business Processes; Energy Industry; United States
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  • 2003
  • Case

E-Business Innovation at Cisco

By: Vijay Govindarajan, Philip Anderson, Chris Trimble and Katrina Veerman
As of March 2001, Cisco Systems prides itself as an "end-to-end networking company." The phrase describes not only their product line but the way they run their business. They created many of the e-business practices that later became cornerstones of the software... View Details
Keywords: Technology Networks; Technological Innovation; Innovation and Management; Business Strategy; Web Services Industry
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  • April 2011 (Revised May 2012)
  • Case

City Year: The Journey

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and James Weber
Throughout its first two decades, City Year, a non-profit organization, was dedicated to recruiting young adults to give a year of public service. It had passed through several growth phases but by 2010 a new challenge, and opportunity, had arisen when City Year and... View Details
Keywords: Education; Service Operations; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth and Development Strategy; Performance Efficiency; Resource Allocation
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1.6 Degree Requirements - MBA

or her career. The candidate must have acquired a body of knowledge, skills, and techniques appropriate to the practice of business administration. The candidate must have demonstrated—by a commitment to the work, a sense of... View Details
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Making the Numbers? 'Short Termism' and the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster

By: Nelson P. Repenning and Rebecca Henderson
Much recent work in strategy and popular discussion suggests that an excessive focus on "managing the numbers"—delivering quarterly earnings at the expense of longer-term investments—makes it difficult for firms to make the investments necessary to build competitive... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Performance Improvement; Competitive Advantage; Earnings Management; Management Practices and Processes; Revenue; Quality; Competency and Skills; Motivation and Incentives; Auto Industry; United States
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  • 04 Sep 2013
  • What Do You Think?

How Relevant is Long-Range Strategic Planning?

"What organizations need to do is break old habits of practicing planning as ceremonial processes that are conducted periodically. That'll probably happen Those that don't just won't survive." This led to the question of why... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 27 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 27, 2007

  Working PapersFrom Manufacturing to Design: An Essay on the Work of Kim B. Clark Authors:Sylvain Lenfle and Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract Kim Clark occupies a unique place in management scholarship. As a member of the Technology and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Jun 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Does ‘Could’ Lead to Good? Toward a Theory of Moral Insight

Keywords: by Ting Zhang, Francesca Gino & Joshua D. Margolis
  • 18 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 18, 2008

other reasons. Implications for the link between religion and pro-social behavior are discussed. No PDF is available at this time.   Cases & Course MaterialsExecutive Pay and the Credit Crisis of 2008 Harvard Business School Case 109-036 The credit crisis of 2008... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace