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  • June 1999 (Revised November 2006)
  • Case

Basil "Buzz" Hargrove and de Havilland, Inc. (A)

By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Angela Keros
Buzz Hargrove, national president of the Canadian Auto Workers, needs to find a way to secure an agreement from a negotiated contract with de Havilland, Inc. Local union leaders feel the deal is not good enough, but Hargrove is convinced management will close the plant... View Details
Keywords: Media; Power and Influence; Negotiation Deal; Leadership; Agreements and Arrangements; Business Exit or Shutdown; Labor Unions; Negotiation Types; Management Teams; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; Canada
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  • Research Summary

Institutions and Firm Strategy at the Bottom of the Pyramid: The Case of Business Formalization in Vietnam

In this paper, written together with Edmund Malesky (UCSD), we test a series of hypotheses about how institutions shape a strategic decision of significant importance to the evolution of inclusive markets: registration as companies by previously informal businesses at... View Details
  • 18 Jan 2023
  • Blog Post

Career Planning and Development: Interview with Career Coach Wendi Zhang (MBA/MPP 2013)

complimentary sessions each calendar year. That is an amazing lifetime benefit! How has your MBA experience influenced your career path? My HBS MBA education gave me the opportunity to: Explore many career paths: The case method made it... View Details
  • 31 Mar 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?

By the early 1980s, several high-income countries—including Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand—had universal health insurance covering 100 percent of the population. Meanwhile, 40 years later, the United... View Details
Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Insurance; Health
  • May 2013
  • Article

Sweatshop Labor Is Wrong Unless the Shoes Are Cute: Cognition Can Both Hurt and Help Motivated Moral Reasoning

By: Neeru Paharia, Kathleen Vohs and Rohit Deshpandé
The present research investigated the dual role of cognition as either an enabler of moral reasoning or self-interested motivated reasoning for endorsing sweatshop labor. Experiment 1A showed motivated reasoning: participants were more likely to endorse the use of... View Details
Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Motivation and Incentives; Working Conditions; Cognition and Thinking
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  • Web

Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online

Course – 2 modules Personal Branding Personal Branding explores the concept of personal branding, why it’s important, and how to leverage it to enhance your career. You’ll define what a successful personal brand is View Details
  • Web

Employers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Employers Suppliers Policymakers Employers Employers Employers have the motivation and the clout to drive value improvement in the health care system, and reinforce the shift to value-based competition.... View Details
  • 04 Sep 2019
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019

and Forever by Greg Hadley (OPM 5, 1981) Self Published Since we can only influence the current moment, now is the time to adjust our attitude, mood and connection to those... View Details
  • October 2017
  • Article

Toward a Prescriptive Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategic Choice, Learning, and Competition

By: Gary P. Pisano
The field of strategy has mounted an enormous effort to understand, define, predict, and measure how organizational capabilities shape competitive advantage. While the notion that capabilities influence strategy dates back to the work of Andrews (1971, The Concept... View Details
Keywords: Business Admnistration; Market Structure; Firm Structure; Market Efficiency; Competency and Skills; Organizational Structure; Strategy
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  • 2019
  • Working Paper

From Know-It-Alls to Learn-It-Alls: Executive Development in the Era of Self-Refining Algorithms, Collaborative Filtering and Wearable Computing

By: Mihnea Moldoveanu and Das Narayandas
We examine the future of executive education on a technological and cultural landscape that is imminent but different to the one we are accustomed to. We show how the contextualization, socialization and personalization of learning—avowed but distal goals of current... View Details
Keywords: Executive Education; Leadership Development; Technological Innovation; Customization and Personalization; Management Skills; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Sharing
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  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019

Amazon, research shows how AI-driven processes are vastly more scalable than traditional processes, allow massive scope increase, enabling companies to straddle industry boundaries, and create powerful... View Details
  • April 2022
  • Article

Going Out or Opting Out? Capital, Political Vulnerability, and the State in China's Outward Investment

By: Meg Rithmire
How do state-business relations interact with outward investment in authoritarian regimes? This paper examines this question in the context of China’s rapid transformation into a major capital exporter. While most political economy scholarship focuses on firms’... View Details
Keywords: Outward Investment; Capital Controls; Corruption; Foreign Direct Investment; Political Economy; State-owned Enterprises; Investment; Global Range; Capital; Globalization; Policy; Government and Politics; China
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  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Going Out or Opting Out? Capital, Political Vulnerability, and the State in China's Outward Investment

By: Meg Rithmire
How do state-business relations interact with outward investment in authoritarian regimes? This paper examines this question in the context of China’s rapid transformation into major capital exporter. While most political economy scholarship focuses on firms’ economic... View Details
Keywords: Outward Investment; Capital Controls; Investment; Global Range; Capital; Globalization; Policy; Government and Politics; China
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  • 30 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds

M. Viceira, the George E. Bates Professor and senior associate dean for International Development at Harvard Business School. “That raises the question, who is exercising control in these corporations?” In traditional mutual funds, View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 5 Ecosystems and Complementarities

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
The purpose of this chapter is to introduce two new building blocks to the theory of how technology shapes organizations. The first is a new layer of organization structure: a business “ecosystem.” The second is the economic concept of “complementarity.” Ecosystems are... View Details
Keywords: Business Ecosystems; Complementarity; Modularity; Information Technology; Organizations
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  • 03 Sep 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

How the Zebra Got Its Stripes: Imprinting of Individuals and Hybrid Social Ventures

Keywords: by Matthew Lee & Julie Battilana
  • 01 Jun 2014
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014

1977) (Logos Press) By focusing on three areas—vision, process, and output—managers can improve their performance and satisfaction within their businesses and in their personal... View Details
  • January 2020 (Revised July 2020)
  • Supplement

MoviePass: The 'Get Big Fast' Strategy

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
In August 2017, MoviePass dramatically lowered its subscription price from $50 per month to just $10 for up to one movie per day. The idea was to rapidly scale the business to the point where they could generate incremental revenue streams form related businesses... View Details
Keywords: Market Entry; Growth Strategy; Profit Vs. Growth; Subscription Business; Cash Burn; Data Analytics; Get-big-fast; Buyer Power; Strategy Implementation; Movie Industry; Racing; Business Strategy; Value Creation; Consolidation; Cash Flow; Growth Management; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Disruptive Innovation; Mobile Technology; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; United States
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  • May 2008
  • Teaching Note

Thomas Green: Power, Office Politics, and a Career in Crisis (Brief Case)

By: W. Earl Sasser Jr. and Heather Beckham
Teaching Note for 2095. View Details
Keywords: Superior ＆ Subordinate; Performance Management; Personal Strategy ＆ Style; Conflict Management; Communication; Personal Development and Career; Rank and Position; Performance; Power and Influence
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  • 01 Feb 1998
  • News

Women at the Top

goals in guiding our specific tactics and approaches." Bourneuf says she not only found the classroom learning valuable but was also struck by the powerful networks that were created among the participants.... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young