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- 12 Apr 2016
- News
The Auto Industry's Existential Moment
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
There is electricity in the air at 7:00 a.m. at Il Fornaio, Palo Alto's hottest breakfast spot. The cappuccino maker runs nonstop, the energetic waitstaff hustles to and from the kitchen, a steady stream of Silicon Valley celebs walk in...
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Susan Young
- 12 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
The Many Languages of Medicine to Impact Care Delivery
Diversity Innovation Hub, a Mount Sinai venture addressing social and structural determinants of health in NYC. Recently, Ted was named an HBS Kaplan Fellow and RISE Fellow. While on my pediatrics rotation...
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- Winter 2021
- Article
Can Staggered Boards Improve Value? Causal Evidence from Massachusetts
By: Robert Daines, Shelley Xin Li and Charles C.Y. Wang
We study the effect of staggered boards (SBs) using a quasi-experiment: a 1990 law that imposed an SB on all Massachusetts-incorporated firms. The law led to an increase in Tobin's Q, investment in CAPEX and R&D, patents, higher-quality patented innovations, and...
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Keywords:
Staggered Board;
Entrenchment;
Life-cycle;
Tobin's Q;
Innovation;
Profitability;
Investor Composition;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Investment;
Innovation and Invention;
Institutional Investing;
Value
Daines, Robert, Shelley Xin Li, and Charles C.Y. Wang. "Can Staggered Boards Improve Value? Causal Evidence from Massachusetts." Contemporary Accounting Research 38, no. 4 (Winter 2021): 3053–3084.
- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
only have tens of dollars a year to spend, that disposable income, multiplied several billion times over, represents significant purchasing power. With this realization have come some dramatic shifts in business thinking, sparking View Details
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by Garry Emmons
- October 2018
- Case
Booking.com
By: Stefan Thomke and Daniela Beyersdorfer
The case reveals how Booking.com has become the world's leading travel accommodation platform. The company has put online experimentation at the heart of how it designs digital experiences for its customers and partners. To unlock the potential of large-scale testing,...
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Keywords:
Travel;
Product Innovation;
Experimentation;
A/B Testing;
User Experience Design;
Product Development;
Product Design;
Innovation and Management;
Transformation;
Information Technology;
Digital Transformation;
Travel Industry
Thomke, Stefan, and Daniela Beyersdorfer. "Booking.com." Harvard Business School Case 619-015, October 2018.
- November 2013
- Article
Organizational Ambidexterity: Past, Present and Future
By: Charles A. O'Reilly III and Michael Tushman
Organizational ambidexterity refers to the ability of an organization to both explore and exploit—to compete in mature technologies and markets where efficiency, control, and incremental improvement are prized and to also compete in new technologies and markets where...
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Organizational Ambidexterity;
Organization Design;
Innovation;
Leadership;
Organizational Design;
Innovation and Invention
O'Reilly, Charles A., III, and Michael Tushman. "Organizational Ambidexterity: Past, Present and Future." Academy of Management Perspectives 27, no. 4 (November 2013): 324–338.
- March 2013 (Revised April 2014)
- Case
Barnes & Noble: Managing the E-Book Revolution
By: Alan MacCormack, Brian Kimball Dunn and Chris F. Kemerer
The case describes competition in the market for E-Books, and Barnes & Noble's Strategy in this industry. As a traditional retailer, B&N was challenged by the introduction of digital technologies that allow books to be published, distributed and sold to consumers...
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Keywords:
Innovation;
Technology Strategy;
Platform Competition;
Innovation Strategy;
Information Technology;
Product Development;
Digital Platforms;
Standards;
Disruptive Innovation;
Retail Industry;
Publishing Industry;
North America
MacCormack, Alan, Brian Kimball Dunn, and Chris F. Kemerer. "Barnes & Noble: Managing the E-Book Revolution." Harvard Business School Case 613-073, March 2013. (Revised April 2014.)
Design Rules, Vol. 1: The Power of Modularity
We live in a dynamic economic and commercial world, surrounded by objects of remarkable complexity and power. In many industries, changes in products and technologies have brought with them new kinds of firms and forms of organization. We are...
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- April 2014 (Revised March 2015)
- Case
GE and the Industrial Internet
By: Karim R. Lakhani, Marco Iansiti and Kerry Herman
CEO Jeff Immelt considers whether GE is moving fast enough on its new Industrial Internet initiative. The undertaking includes building out an Industrial Internet, connecting machines and devices, collecting their data and operations, and providing services to clients...
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Keywords:
Technology;
Operations Management;
Strategy;
Big Data;
Business Analysis;
Corporate Strategy;
Digital Technology;
Digital Innovation;
General Management;
General Strategy;
Global Competitiveness;
Global Strategy;
Innovation;
Innovation And Management;
Industrial Internet;
GE;
Innovation and Invention;
Information Technology;
Analytics and Data Science;
Air Transportation Industry;
Energy Industry;
Health Industry;
Industrial Products Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Rail Industry;
Transportation Industry;
Technology Industry;
North and Central America;
Asia;
Europe;
Middle East;
Latin America
Lakhani, Karim R., Marco Iansiti, and Kerry Herman. "GE and the Industrial Internet." Harvard Business School Case 614-032, April 2014. (Revised March 2015.)
- September 2018
- Case
OYO: Creating Effective Spaces
By: Das Narayandas, Sunil Gupta, Rachna Tahilyani and Mahima Rao-Kachroo
Twenty-four-year old Ritesh Agarwal, founder and CEO of India-based online hotel branding network OYO Rooms, has tackled the issue of unreliability in India's highly fragmented budget hotel industry. In 2018, OYO branded 8,500 properties across 200 cities and managed...
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Keywords:
Technology;
Accomodation;
App Development;
Operations And Processes;
Innovation;
Strategy;
Change Management;
Entrepreneurship;
Information Technology;
Research;
Marketing;
Operations;
Innovation Strategy;
Sales;
Accommodations Industry;
India;
South Asia
Narayandas, Das, Sunil Gupta, Rachna Tahilyani, and Mahima Rao-Kachroo. "OYO: Creating Effective Spaces." Harvard Business School Case 519-023, September 2018.
- 08 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Return of the Salesman
the field of office machinery and home appliance, for instance, relied on a trained sales force to introduce their innovations to potential customers—the adding machine, cash register, typewriter,...
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- 29 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research
trying to see how this new form of organizing people is disrupting business” He shared some of the team's startling findings in his presentation, Crowdsourcing to Stimulate Innovation: Using Contests and...
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- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
within the organization warn of the impending change (and somebody nearly always does), their warnings are usually ignored. One tactic for forcing the organization to pay attention is to label the innovation...
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by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- 20 May 2013
- News
Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again
- June 2001
- Case
Competitive Dynamics in Home Video Games (E): The Rise of 3DO and 32-bit Gaming
Describes the launch of the innovative home video game company, 3DO, which had developed a groundbreaking system featuring 32-bit processing and CD-ROM software. Examines the competitive dynamics in the home video game industry from 1970 into the new millennium.
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Coughlan, Peter J. "Competitive Dynamics in Home Video Games (E): The Rise of 3DO and 32-bit Gaming." Harvard Business School Case 701-095, June 2001.
- February 2015
- Teaching Note
Eataly: Reimagining the Grocery Store
By: Sunil Gupta and Michela Addis
Within a few years of its operations, the Italian-based supermarket Eataly created a lot of buzz and excitement among consumers and media. Eataly's initial success was even more impressive in an industry known for its intense competition and low margins. How did Eataly...
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- November 2017
- Case
Passion and Strategy: Novozymes' Embrace of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
By: Andy Zelleke and Emilie Billaud
This case explores the sustainability efforts at Novozymes, the world's largest and oldest producer of industrial enzymes. In 2015, the Danish company became the world’s first company known to have crafted a new corporate strategy based on the United Nations...
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Keywords:
Corporate Governance;
Transformation;
Environmental Sustainability;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Mission and Purpose;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Business Strategy;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Biotechnology Industry;
Europe;
Denmark
Zelleke, Andy, and Emilie Billaud. "Passion and Strategy: Novozymes' Embrace of the UN Sustainable Development Goals." Harvard Business School Case 318-088, November 2017.
- April 2014
- Case
Merrimack Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (A)
By: Amy C. Edmondson, Bethany S. Gerstein and Melissa Valentine
In 2006, Merrimack Pharmaceuticals was a fast-growing biotechnology company. Its leadership team was divided over whether to keep R&D organized in functional departments or transition to interdisciplinary teams. As a small company, Merrimack's R&D organization had...
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Keywords:
Teamwork;
Interdisciplinary Collaboration;
R&D;
Biotechnology;
Complexity;
Innovation Management;
Organizational Design;
Groups and Teams;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Research and Development;
Biotechnology Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Edmondson, Amy C., Bethany S. Gerstein, and Melissa Valentine. "Merrimack Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 614-063, April 2014.
- June 2021
- Article
Short-Termism, Shareholder Payouts, and Investment in the EU
By: Jesse M. Fried and Charles C.Y. Wang
Investor-driven "short-termism" is said to harm EU public firms' ability to invest for the long term, prompting calls for the EU to better insulate managers from shareholder pressure. But the evidence offered—rising levels of repurchases and dividends—is incomplete and...
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Keywords:
Short-termism;
EU;
Payout Policy;
Innovation;
Investment;
Corporate Governance;
Investment Return;
Acquisition;
European Union
Fried, Jesse M., and Charles C.Y. Wang. "Short-Termism, Shareholder Payouts, and Investment in the EU." European Financial Management 27, no. 3 (June 2021): 389–413.