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  • 18 Sep 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals

Editor's note: Building and landscape design can do much more for an organization than provide an inspirational headquarters or appealing work spaces. At Harvard Business School, the leafy, orderly, community setting helps reinforce a set... View Details
Keywords: Education
  • 20 Feb 2006
  • HBS Case

Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive

a unique perspective about leaders and leadership in the twenty-first century. "I think she's a great bellwether for the future of business," Koehn says. "Maybe she and her organization are on a path that a lot of leaders... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation
  • October 2023 (Revised January 2024)
  • Case

SEK: Reimagining Spanish Higher Education at Universidad Camilo José Cela (UCJC)

By: John J-H Kim, Mary C. Sauer and Emilie Billaud
In 2023, Nieves Segovia, President of the SEK Education Group in Spain, contemplates the future of her family's for-profit education company, which includes K-12 schools and the newly established UCJC university. Renowned for its innovation in education, SEK faces... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Curriculum and Courses; Higher Education; Teaching; Digital Strategy; Disruptive Innovation; Knowledge Dissemination; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Succession; Resource Allocation; Organizational Structure; Education Industry; Europe; Spain
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  • July 2005
  • Article

Price Improvement in Dealership Markets

By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
Price improvement refers to the practice whereby dealers order executions that improve on quoted prices. Why are these improvements given? Standard thinking is that competition causes dealers to give better prices to customers with less information. This paper... View Details
Keywords: Price; Markets; Competition; Information; Customers; Negotiation; Mission and Purpose; Practice; Theory; Performance Improvement; Bids and Bidding; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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  • October 2000 (Revised October 2000)
  • Case

3PLex.com

By: Myra M. Hart and Judith Marie Dror
A start-up team is faced with the challenge of building a senior management team with relevant industry experience. The marriage of e-commerce and the transportation logistics industry creates unusual problems in blending "old economy" employees and employee practices... View Details
Keywords: Management Teams; Executive Compensation; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Organizational Culture; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Technology Adoption; Transportation Industry
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  • 20 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 20, 2016

years, this paper presents a significant revision of the model of creativity and innovation in organizations published in Research in Organizational Behavior in 1988. This update focuses primarily on the individual-level psychological... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

early-life-cycle firms facing high information asymmetries benefit from protections against the market for corporate control by making more valuable long-term investments and reducing myopic behavior. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 06 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

highlight the pros and cons of each knowledge production model, help identify the scope of the empirical generalization of prior studies comparing the information quality of the two production models, and offer implications for View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019

to soup, to fast-casual restaurants. His businesses activities are divided among three separate entities—Wolfgang Puck Fine Dining Group, Wolfgang Puck Catering, and Wolfgang Puck Worldwide—that share some formal and informal linkages.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Apr 2002
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught

enough good information to continue? HS: The running of the experiments is actually part of the resource acquisition strategy. Starting with a belief and an idea, how does the entrepreneur prove a project's viability to potential backers?... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 03 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 3

Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 5 (May 2011) Abstract The financial meltdown made clear that the executives of many major financial institutions were operating with inadequate or distorted information about the values and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite

putting their proteges in high-trust positions, these mentors sent a message to the rest of the organization that they were considered high performers and important to the success of the organization, thereby helping to develop or... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
  • 06 Apr 2016
  • What Do You Think?

As Tim Cook, How Would You Tackle Apple's Next Challenge?

not be the FBI but the very advances in information technology on which Apple prides itself. The question was whether Apple was like the boy with his finger in the dike trying to hold back the water as it refused the US government’s... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer
  • 15 Aug 2024
  • Op-Ed

Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience

or so-called “tabletop” exercises. Technology: Equip your organization with capabilities to trace and provide necessary information during investigations, facilitating quick and accurate error correction.... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch
  • 31 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 31, 2009

process. Provides in-depth information on three endorsement opportunities that each represents a common way in which talent can (choose to) get compensated: through a fixed-fee payment, a bonus payment structure, or a revenue-sharing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 2

over consensus forecasts would be large in the next fiscal year. Our results show that historical inventory and gross margin contain information useful to forecast sales, and that equity analysts do not fully utilize this View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

essential research tools—Markov decision process, game theory and information economics, queueing games, econometric methods, and data science—by illustrating their uses and applicability on examples from diverse healthcare settings, thus... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 06 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 6

competition for the past 20 years: an ad hoc, laissez-faire vision promoted by the United States versus a managed vision relying on multilateral rules and international organizations promoted by the European Union. Although the American... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 12, 2008

that Enhance the Effectiveness of Workforce Diversity Initiatives in Knowledge Intensive Firms Authors: Modupe N. Akinola, David A. Thomas Abstract Workforce diversity continues to be a key focus for organizations, driven by globalization of the U.S. economy and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 3, 2006

allocating resources is distributed across all levels of the company. Those activities go on simultaneously. As a consequence, the way in which the structure divides up responsibility and the way the processes of the organization... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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