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  • 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... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

    Rosabeth M. Kanter

    Rosabeth Moss Kanter holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School, specializing in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. Her strategic and practical insights guide leaders worldwide through teaching, writing, and direct... View Details

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    • October 1981 (Revised April 1984)
    • Case

    H.J. Heinz Co.: The Administration of Policy (A)

    Relates the April 1979 discovery of improper income transferal practices used at the H.J. Heinz Co. Background data on the company is presented, along with a detailed description of the organizational practices, the management incentive system, and the corporate... View Details
    Keywords: Ethics; Business Processes; Compensation and Benefits; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry
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      Howard H. Stevenson

      Howard H. Stevenson is Sarofim-Rock Baker Foundation Professor emeritus, former Senior Associate Dean, Director of Publishing, and Chair of the Harvard Business Publishing Company board. The Sarofim-Rock Chair was established in 1982 to provide a continuing base for... View Details

      Keywords: forest products; forest products; forest products; forest products; forest products; forest products; forest products; forest products; forest products; forest products; forest products; forest products; forest products; forest products; forest products; forest products; forest products; forest products
      • 18 May 2012
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Organization Design for Distributed Innovation

      Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin
      • 27 Aug 2007
      • Op-Ed

      Mattel: Getting a Toy Recall Right

      problem themselves rather than clog customer service desks at Mattel's retail outlets, which would strain Mattel's dealer relations and cost the company extra dollars in processing fees. Mattel's recall Web... View Details
      Keywords: by John Quelch; Consumer Products
      • 14 Sep 2007
      • Research & Ideas

      How to Profit from Scarcity

      company. It wasn't just direct sales of these two products that benefited from the scarcity illusion, however: The heavy crowds drove sales of related products in Apple stores... View Details
      Keywords: by John Quelch; Consumer Products; Consumer Products
      • September 2003
      • Case

      Executive Compensation at Reckitt Benckiser plc

      By: V.G. Narayanan, Krishna G. Palepu and Lisa Brem
      Investors felt betrayed by the increasingly lucrative pay packages awarded to CEOs and other top executives at multinational companies. Yet, board members charged with adequately rewarding executives were forced to compete with rising packages of salaries and stock... View Details
      Keywords: Design; Stock Options; Investment Activism; Corporate Accountability; Compensation and Benefits; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Management Teams; Business and Shareholder Relations; Consumer Products Industry; Netherlands; United States
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      • November 1987 (Revised January 1988)
      • Case

      Groen: A Dover Industries Company

      By: Francis Aguilar
      Describes the challenges facing the president of an old-line foodservice and food processing equipment manufacturing company as it attempted to accelerate sales and profit growth through the introduction of innovative products. The introduction of a "revolutionary"... View Details
      Keywords: Business or Company Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Labor and Management Relations; Machinery and Machining; Management Style; Management Teams; Performance Efficiency; Technological Innovation; Product Development; Organizational Culture
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      • 26 Jul 2006
      • Research & Ideas

      The Strategic Way to Go to Market

      Is there any distribution system more poorly conceived than the one used by most U.S. car manufacturers and dealers? In the prevailing system, car prices are initially jacked up by locked-in labor... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
      • Research Summary

      Overview

      I am a field researcher studying the relational nature of work. Organizations are inherently social institutions and provide myriad opportunities for relationship formation. My work begins with the simple insight that all relationships are not equal: interpersonal... View Details
      Keywords: Prosocial Motivation; Feedback; Personal Development; Needs; Organizational Design; Performance Productivity; Social and Collaborative Networks; Networks; Groups and Teams; Family and Family Relationships; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
      • 05 Apr 2016
      • First Look

      April 5, 2016

      politicians in the years after its publication. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50916 Creativity Under Fire: The Effects of Competition on Creative Production By: Gross, Daniel P. Abstract—Though... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
      • 02 Jan 2024
      • Research & Ideas

      10 Trends to Watch in 2024

      The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne
      • 24 Jul 2006
      • Research & Ideas

      How Kayak Users Built a New Industry

      fourth stages. Communities always form, although sometimes they dissolve when competition between manufacturers heats up. But you don't always see user-manufacturers, and in some cases, you don't see a... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation
      • 09 Jan 2024
      • Research & Ideas

      Could Clean Hydrogen Become Affordable at Scale by 2030?

      Society (BiGS). Hydrogen is an energy carrier with the potential to power long-haul travel and shipping, or energy-intensive manufacturing—without producing carbon dioxide emissions. The hitch: expanding hydrogen View Details
      Keywords: by Desmond Dodd; Energy; Green Technology
      • 06 Nov 2012
      • First Look

      First Look: November 6

      improvements in outcomes such as productivity and longevity, and that good nuts-and-bolts management at individual firms shapes national performance. At 14 textile View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 20 Jan 2010
      • First Look

      First Look: Jan. 20

      decentralization decisions—across a large range of industries and countries. In this paper we investigate whether greater product market competition increases decentralization. For example, tougher... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 30 Jun 2022
      • HBS Case

      Peloton Changed the Exercise Game. Can the Company Push Through the Pain?

      demand, which led to shipment delays, followed by pricing confusion and a series of public relations bungles—just as the pandemic eased and people began returning to gyms.... View Details
      Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Media & Broadcasting; Health; Bicycle
      • 09 Dec 2002
      • Research & Ideas

      Unilever—A Case Study

      This article considers key issues relating to the organization and performance of large multinational firms in the post-Second World War period. Although foreign direct investment is defined by ownership... View Details
      Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products
      • 28 Aug 2012
      • First Look

      First Look: August 28

      of 10‐year sustainability‐related goals. In an effort to meet such goals, the company invested a total of $1 billion in environmentally beneficial products such as new seeds and traits in Dow's AgroSciences... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne