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- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
enough, Datar and Garvin distilled more bad news from their research. "There's an escalating drumbeat of concerns from alums, from students, and from customers—the companies that recruit MBAs,"... View Details
- 2010
- Working Paper
When Open Architecture Beats Closed: The Entrepreneurial Use of Architectural Knowledge
This paper describes how entrepreneurial firms can use superior architectural knowledge to open up a technical system to gain strategic advantage. The strategy involves, first, identifying "bottlenecks" in the existing system, and then creating a new open architecture... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Investment Return; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Design; Organizational Design; Competitive Advantage; Technology Industry
Baldwin, Carliss Y. "When Open Architecture Beats Closed: The Entrepreneurial Use of Architectural Knowledge." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-063, February 2010. (Revised July 2010, October 2010.)
- 2016
- Working Paper
Standardized Color in the Food Industry: The Co-Creation of the Food Coloring Business in the United States, 1870–1940
By: Ai Hisano
This working paper examines how, starting in the 1870s, food manufacturers in the United States began to use standardized color, achieved by synthetic dyes, as part of their marketing strategies. Food manufacturers along with dye makers and regulators co-created the... View Details
Keywords: Food; Supply and Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
Hisano, Ai. "Standardized Color in the Food Industry: The Co-Creation of the Food Coloring Business in the United States, 1870–1940." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-037, October 2016.
- February 2023
- Case
Grupo Sancor Seguros: Facing the Digital Transformation of Insurance in Argentina (A)
By: Jorge Tamayo and Jenyfeer Martínez Buitrago
In 2020, Alejandro Simón, CEO of Sancor Seguros Group, a nearly 75-year-old cooperative that had become Argentina’s insurance leader, had to decide about the Group’s digital transformation strategy. The Group’s values and history needed to be considered during the... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Digital Transformation; Organizational Culture; Cooperative Ownership; Strategy; Business Strategy; Adaptation; Technology Adoption; Insurance Industry; Latin America; South America; Argentina
Tamayo, Jorge, and Jenyfeer Martínez Buitrago. "Grupo Sancor Seguros: Facing the Digital Transformation of Insurance in Argentina (A)." Harvard Business School Case 723-422, February 2023.
- 18 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
4 Advantages of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program
MIT—undergraduate and graduate students, many of whom need the business expertise acquired at HBS. There are also hundreds (yes you read that right) of cross-school View Details
- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
build successful businesses. The desire to capture the scale of this change is the ambitious goal of Harvard Business School's Creating Emerging Markets project, whose new... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
and the brightest of the HBS faculty. This fall we tried something new and presented two Executive Education courses to returning alumni. Transitions and Transformations, led by HBS professor emeritus Carl... View Details
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing
always seeking new demand for creative projects to keep up with the supply of community members eager to take up challenges. "We're displacing a way of doing business in a big... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Nov 2016
- What Do You Think?
Are Employees Becoming Job 'Renters' Instead of 'Owners'?
who are only involved with the organization to complete one or more transactions. Owners are like found gold; great organizations seek, develop, and encourage them even though they may sometimes seem... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Jan 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Would the Leadership Style of Girl Scouts' Frances Hesselbein Fare Today?
described her organization as “mission-focused, values-based (contained in the Girl Scouts Promise and the Law), and demographics-driven” (her code word for diversity). She once described to me a teeter-totter, writing a “$24 million... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 29 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles and Research Papers of 2014
Silvia Bellezza, Francesca Gino, and Anat Keinan shows there may be prestige advantages when you stand out rather than fit in. The Role of Emotions in Effective Negotiations Senior Lecturer Andy Wasynczuk, a former negotiator for the... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
technologies could leverage their abilities. It is generally agreed that Wal-Mart would have been impossible to manage so efficiently without state of the art, computerized data processing. So Walton authorized investments in it. Wal-Mart... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 15 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprisingly Successful Marriages of Multinationals and Social Brands
attractive strategy for the "mice"? A: A carefully executed acquisition—through a well-designed agreement—can have many advantages over other ways of going to scale. Compared to organic, self-funded growth, it can allow much... View Details
- 21 Sep 2018
- News
HBS Association of Southern California Boosts Support for Startups
Clubs News Clubs News In an effort to bolster entrepreneurial activity and increase participation in the HBS New Venture Competition (NVC) among alumni in the region, the HBS... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
concerned about cash, and employees worry about their jobs. But a downturn is no time to stop spending on marketing. The key, says professor John Quelch, is to understand how the needs of your customers and partners change, and adapt your... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Mar 2016
- Blog Post
MBA/MPA-ID: The Intersection of Policy and Business
often referred to in the form of a career pursuit, but for me it is, and has been a way of life. I have lived to see Uganda’s economy transform over the years, with every trip... View Details
- 10 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing
the vendor of outsourced services can improve the efficiency and perhaps the quality of services delivered—particularly in health care, where outsourcing is on the rise. In research recently published in the... View Details
- 12 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Break the Rules of How Business is Done
letter outlines very clearly where a new hire will sit in the organization and what their first week of work will look like. They have transformed the on-boarding process by... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
- May 2024
- Article
Tepid Uptake of Digital Health Technologies in Clinical Trials by Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Firms
By: Caroline Marra and Ariel D. Stern
Digital health technologies (DHTs) can enable more patient-centric therapeutic development by generating evidence that captures how patients feel and function, enabling decentralized trial designs that increase participant inclusivity and convenience, and collecting... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Technological Innovation; Product Development; Health Testing and Trials; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
Marra, Caroline, and Ariel D. Stern. "Tepid Uptake of Digital Health Technologies in Clinical Trials by Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Firms." Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics 115, no. 5 (May 2024): 988–992.
- April 2019 (Revised April 2024)
- Case
Wendell Weeks at Corning Inc.: Extending a History of Life-Changing Innovations (A)
By: Ryan Raffaelli, David G. Fubini and Aldo Sesia
This case examines the leadership challenges associated with maintaining a culture of innovation in established organizations. It asks students to step into the shoes of a leader faced with making several tough decisions about when to invest (or to stop investing) in... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Organizational Culture; Innovation Leadership; History; Technological Innovation; Investment; Decision Making
Raffaelli, Ryan, David G. Fubini, and Aldo Sesia. "Wendell Weeks at Corning Inc.: Extending a History of Life-Changing Innovations (A)." Harvard Business School Case 419-003, April 2019. (Revised April 2024.)