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  • Working Paper

Diversification as an Adaptive Learning Process: An Empirical Study of General-Purpose and Market-Specific Technological Know-How in New Market Entry

By: Dominika Kinga Randle and Gary P. Pisano
An enduring trait of modern corporations is their propensity to diversify into multiple lines of business. Penrosian theories conceptualize diversification as a strategy to exploit a firm’s fungible, yet “untradeable,” resources and point to redeployment of... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Technology Adoption; Diversification; Market Entry and Exit; Transformation
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  • June 23, 2020
  • Article

Inequality in Socially Permissible Consumption

By: Serena Hagerty and Kate Barasz
Lower-income individuals are frequently criticized for their consumption decisions; this research examines why. Eleven preregistered studies document systematic differences in permissible consumption—interpersonal judgments about what is acceptable (or not) for others... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Judgments; Consumption; Economic Inequalty; Income; Equality and Inequality; Spending; Judgments
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  • July–August 2013
  • Article

Six Ways to Sink a Growth Initiative

By: Donald L. Laurie and J. Bruce Harreld
The conventional wisdom about how best to pursue growth—launch a slew of initiatives in high-potential areas; appoint some promising young managers to lead them; locate them safely away from the established businesses—is a recipe for failure, according to the authors.... View Details
Keywords: Failure; Growth and Development Strategy
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  • October 2007 (Revised June 2008)
  • Case

Leader(ship) Development

By: Scott A. Snook
Designed for use in the first year of an MBA program, can be included within a core course on leadership or used more broadly to orient students to their upcoming experience while in school. Offers a series of robust conceptual models to help students frame their... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Development; Framework; Business Education; Education Industry
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  • 28 Jun 2021
  • Blog Post

7 Things HBS Taught Me the Last 2 Years

helped enrich the class’s understanding around cases in tech, marketing, and strategy. #3 The case method teaches you to lead in the unknown. The protagonists in almost all of the 500 cases we read and discussed had imperfect information. They had to make a decision... View Details
  • 22 Apr 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Companies Can Expand Their Talent Pool by Giving Ex-Convicts a Second Chance

Employers looking to fill critical job vacancies may want to turn to a largely untapped pool of willing workers: people with criminal records. Employers are often wary of hiring workers with past convictions, leading to double-digit unemployment rates for formerly... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • May 2009 (Revised August 2010)
  • Case

The Jenner Situation

By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Andy Whittemore and Eliot Sherman
Dr. Bill Lemont is the new chief medical officer of a large academic medical center. During his first week on the job he has become aware of the abusive behavior and temper outbursts of a prominent orthopedic surgeon. How Dr. Lemont handles the situation will be... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Employee Relationship Management; Managerial Roles; Behavior; Conflict Management; Health Industry
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  • 27 May 2022
  • Blog Post

Q&A with the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association, MBA Class of 2023

and positioning, and corporate finance and fundraising. I also realized that in an academic setting, I could have additional time and resources to go deeper in certain subjects, especially if I wasn't busy putting out fires every day.... View Details
  • October 2003
  • Case

Henry Tam and the MGI Team

By: Jeffrey T. Polzer, Ingrid Vargas and Hillary Anger Elfenbein
Within a short time frame, seven diverse team members assemble to write a business plan for a new company and struggle to define their roles, make decisions together, and resolve conflict. Henry Tam, a second-year Harvard MBA student, who joins an aspiring start-up... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Business Plan; Groups and Teams; Decision Making; Jobs and Positions; Leadership Style; Human Resources; Management Teams; Conflict and Resolution; Diversity
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  • 30 Nov 2007
  • What Do You Think?

What Is Management’s Role in Innovation?

of their scarcest resources." Another senior executive will ask whether creativity scales. Can an innovator be more productive with the substantial resources that a large organization can provide? Or does the process work better in... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 16 Oct 2015
  • Blog Post

HBS and the Arts

school for EC year with the confidence of having chosen an industry I am devoted to: the arts.   I am excited to continue to mine the resources of classes, faculty, and alumni to build the skills and connections necessary for my career. I... View Details
  • 16 Mar 2009
  • Research & Ideas

When the Internet Runs Out of IP Addresses

addressing fundamentals. But the time is coming when such upgrades will be unavoidable. Usually when a resource becomes scarce, its price increases. But that hasn't happened here because IP addresses are provided at de minimis cost—a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Telecommunications
  • Web

HBS Entrepreneurship Summit - Alumni

Sessions on the technologies that will define the next decade Small-group discussions built to provide intimate support on personal challenges Programming addressing the unique challenges facing underrepresented founders For additional Summit View Details
  • 22 Oct 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Bringing ‘Lean’ Principles to Service Industries

Thanks to the pioneering success of Toyota, the concept of a "lean" operating system has been implemented in countless manufacturing companies and even adapted for industries as diverse as insurance and healthcare. With its focus on standardization, quality... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer
  • January–February 2021
  • Article

Compensation Packages That Actually Drive Performance

By: Boris Groysberg, Sarah Abbott, Michael R. Marino and Metin Aksoy
By aligning executives’ financial incentives with company strategy, a firm can inspire its management to deliver superior results. But it can be hard to get pay packages right. In this article four experts break down the key elements of compensation and explain how to... View Details
Keywords: Executive Compensation; Compensation and Benefits; Motivation and Incentives; Strategy; Performance
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  • 27 Sep 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Managers, Your Employees Don’t Want to Be Facebook ‘Friends’

Organizations and Human Resources at Université du Québec à Montréal; and Wharton doctoral candidate Serenity Lee. "Sharing information about one’s personal lifestyle and beliefs online with the wrong colleague may expose employees to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka
  • 15 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

multinational resource and related investments were highly enclavist and embedded in the institutional arrangements of Western imperialism and autocratic dictators. Western firms reinforced rather than disrupted institutional and societal... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Nov 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Do Bonuses Enhance Sales Productivity? A Dynamic Structural Analysis of Bonus-Based Compensation Plans

Keywords: by Doug J. Chung, Thomas Steenburgh & K. Sudhir
  • 28 Mar 2023
  • Research & Ideas

The FDA’s Speedy Drug Approvals Are Safe: A Win-Win for Patients and Pharma Innovation

regulatory resources on products that can either address a new medical problem or assist with an existing problem better than any available drug on the market. While COVID vaccines weren’t BTD drugs—the FDA prioritized them even further... View Details
Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Pharmaceutical
  • Web

Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About

with a distinctive bell tower and columned façade by McKim, Mead & White, Baker is the largest business library in the world. More than 600,000 volumes span seven centuries and serve as a resource for the HBS community, as well as... View Details