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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Barsoux asserts. 8 Doriot's students remembered the professor's distinct style: trimmed moustache, three-piece tailored suit, white handkerchief, pipe, and calm, deliberative voice delivered with a French accent. Doriot had a "studied... View Details
- July 2018
- Teaching Note
Verizon 2018
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen
Teaching Note for HBS No. 318-114. In 2018, CEO Lowell McAdam led efforts to transform Verizon through digital innovation, media acquisitions and integration, and changes to the company culture. He sought to manage change at the company as growth in traditional areas... View Details
- 2001
- Chapter
Publicly Funded Science and the Productivity of the Pharmaceutical Industry
By: Rebecca Henderson and Ian Cockburn
U.S. taxpayers funded $14.8 billion of health related research last year, four times the amount that was spent in 1970 in real terms. In this paper we evaluate the impact of these huge expenditures on the technological performance of the pharmaceutical industry. While... View Details
Keywords: Public Sector; Science-Based Business; Research and Development; Sovereign Finance; Pharmaceutical Industry
Henderson, Rebecca, and Ian Cockburn. "Publicly Funded Science and the Productivity of the Pharmaceutical Industry." In Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 1, edited by Adam B. Jaffe, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern, 1–34. MIT Press, 2001.
- Working Paper
The Composition and Dynamics of Technology-Enabled Entrepreneurship
By: Innessa Colaiacovo, Daniel P. Gross and Jorge Guzman
Using data on nearly all U.S. business registrations since the turn of the twentieth century, and a set of 386 major technologies invented over this period, we study the level, composition, and dynamics of entrepreneurial activity around new technology. We find a... View Details
Colaiacovo, Innessa, Daniel P. Gross, and Jorge Guzman. "The Composition and Dynamics of Technology-Enabled Entrepreneurship." SSRN Working Paper Series, No. 4383445, March 2023. (Revise and Resubmit: Strategic Management Journal.)
How Countries Compete: Strategy, Structure, and Government in the Global Economy
As the world globalizes, countries compete for the markets, technologies, and skills needed to raise their standards of living. These strategies can make--or break--the government's efforts to drive and sustain growth. In How Countries Compete, Richard... View Details
- 05 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008
just as they would any other asset. Harvard Business School professors Teresa Amabile, Mary Tripsas, and Mukti Khaire discuss where creativity comes from, how entrepreneurs use it, View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 24 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Can Obamacare Be Saved?
Aetna’s move is not consumer friendly, it does make financial sense–at least for the time being. According to CEO Mark Bertolini, Aetna sustained more than $430 million in pre-tax losses since January 2014 in the individual health... View Details
- 23 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'
bringing. “It’s really about reconciliation and that’s going to take seeing and admitting that everyone has contributed, and everyone can contribute.” This article originally... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 29 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It
industry like taxicabs. It can fight hard to get the rules changed,” says Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School View Details
- 01 Jul 2018
- News
Celebrating and Supporting Leadership
and business in the world; to engage with the University in mutually beneficial ways; and to increase flexible funding to support innovation at... View Details
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The Role of the Internet in Enhancing Service and Reducing Cost
Is delivering service (both internal and external) facilitated by the Internet a zero sum game in which costs associated with delivering superior service must always be passed on to customers in the form of higher prices? Does the quantity and type of service... View Details
- 17 Aug 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Corporate Governance and Networks: Bankers in the Corporate Networks of Brazil, Mexico, and the United States circa 1910
Keywords: by Aldo Musacchio
- April 1999
- Case
Steve Perlman and WebTV (B)
By: James K. Sebenius and Ron Fortgang
The dynamics of a linked series of internal and external negotiations involved in launching, growing, and selling a high-tech, Internet start-up are explored. Steve Perlman unfurled an impressive new technology, recruited a top technical and management team, secured... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Agreements and Arrangements; Negotiation Process; Value Creation; Alliances; Technological Innovation; Business Exit or Shutdown; Television Entertainment; Media and Broadcasting Industry
Sebenius, James K., and Ron Fortgang. "Steve Perlman and WebTV (B)." Harvard Business School Case 899-271, April 1999.
- September 1993 (Revised October 1994)
- Case
Environment and International Trade
During the 1990s, environmental activists became interested in trade issues for the first time. Whereas GATT, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, had previously been the province of trade specialists, a new poster popular among environmentalists depicted the... View Details
Keywords: Trade; Environmental Sustainability; Science-Based Business; Policy; Government and Politics; Agreements and Arrangements; Alliances; Globalization; International Relations; Conflict of Interests
Reinhardt, Forest L. "Environment and International Trade." Harvard Business School Case 794-018, September 1993. (Revised October 1994.)
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Diversity and Equity - Alumni
a sense of urgency and conviction, the School is strengthening its efforts to foster diversity, equity, and inclusion on campus and in business... View Details
- 09 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization
Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity. While these words seem similar in many respects, a key point of VUCA is that each of these terms describes a different situation that requires a specific response. Nathan Bennett, a professor with... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
Joy M., Liana Victorino, Ryan W. Buell, Michael J. Dixon, Susan M. Goldstein, Larry J. Menor, Madeleine E. Pullman, Aleda Roth, Enrico Secchi, and Jie Zhang Abstract—The purpose of this article is to present exciting View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- September 2020
- Case
True North: Pioneering Analytics, Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence
By: Karim R. Lakhani, Kairavi Dey and Hannah Mayer
True North was a private equity fund that specialized in the growth and buyout of mid-market, India-centric companies. The leadership team initially believed that technology was not core to traditional businesses and steered clear of new age technology-oriented... View Details
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Information Technology; Management; Operations; Organizations; Leadership; Innovation and Invention; Business Model; AI and Machine Learning; Computer Industry; Technology Industry
Lakhani, Karim R., Kairavi Dey, and Hannah Mayer. "True North: Pioneering Analytics, Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence." Harvard Business School Case 621-042, September 2020.
- 2016
- Book
Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator's Dilemma
By: Charles A. O'Reilly and Michael Tushman
In the past few years, a number of well-known firms have failed—think of Blockbuster, Kodak, and RadioShack. When we read about their demise, it often seems inevitable—a natural part of "creative destruction." But closer examination reveals a disturbing truth:... View Details
O'Reilly, Charles A., and Michael Tushman. Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator's Dilemma. Stanford, CA: Stanford Business Books, 2016.