Publications

August 2009
Case

Life Stories of Recent MBAs: Leading an Integrated Life

By: Nitin Nohria, Daisy A Wademan Dowling and Matthew D. Breitfelder

Keywords: Business Education; Leadership

Educators

2017
Working Paper

Cross-Boundary Teaming for Innovation: Integrating Research on Teams and Knowledge in Organizations

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey

Cross-boundary teaming, within and across organizations, is an increasingly popular strategy for innovation. Knowledge diversity is seen to expand the range of views and ideas that teams can draw upon to innovate. Yet, case studies of practice reveal that teaming... View Details

Keywords: Teams; Knowledge; Innovation; Groups and Teams; Collaborative Innovation and Invention

SSRN

March 7, 2024
Article

Integrating Digital Tools into Every Stage of Your Sales Strategy

By: Frank V. Cespedes and Georg Krentzel

In their growth and customer-acquisition activities, most companies now face twin challenges: understanding and responding to omni-channel buying behavior and doing that without inadvertently decreasing sales productivity. Thirty years ago, Peter Drucker noted that... View Details

Keywords: Sales Management; Digital Tools; Sales; Marketing Channels; Technology Adoption; Brands and Branding

2005
Working Paper

On Inter-industry Variation in the Vertical Integration of Advertising Services

By: Sharon Horsky, Steven C. Michael and Alvin J. Silk

November 1991
Article

Integrating Distribution Strategy and Tactics: A Model and an Application

By: V. K. Rangan and R. Jaikumar

Keywords: Strategy; Integration

November 2011 (Revised February 2012)
Case

China Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research: Building a Sustainable, Globally Integrated Research Enterprise

By: Vicki Sato, Christoph Jaeker and Pooja Mehta Solanki

As the head of the Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research in China, En Li was shepherding a $1 billion R&D investment in China. So far he had been able to attract a large number of Chinese-born but US-trained scientists to play a critical role in establishing the... View Details

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Research; Corporate Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry; Health Industry; China

Educators

1994
Article

The Evolution of Integrative Capability: Innovation in Cardiovascular Drug Discovery

By: Rebecca M. Henderson

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Health; Integration

July 1999
Comment

Commentary: Finance Theory and Future Trends: The Shift to Integration

By: Robert C. Merton

Keywords: Theory; Finance; Trends; Change; Integration

May 2021 (Revised August 2021)
Supplement

Zara: An Integrated Store and Online Model (A) and (B)

By: Antonio Moreno and Anibha Singh

Keywords: Stores; Integration; Operations; Business Model; Strategic Planning; E-commerce; Retail Industry; Fashion Industry; Europe

December 2018
Article

Cross-boundary Teaming for Innovation: Integrating Research on Teams and Knowledge in Organizations

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey

Cross-boundary teaming, within and across organizations, is an increasingly popular strategy for innovation. Knowledge diversity is seen to expand the range of views and ideas that teams can draw upon to innovate. Yet, case studies reveal that teaming across knowledge... View Details

Keywords: Teams; Innovation; Groups and Teams; Innovation and Invention; Knowledge; Performance Effectiveness

October 2009
Teaching Note

Esquel Group: Integrating Business Strategy and Corporate Social Responsibility (TN)

By: F. Warren McFarlan

Teaching Note for [307076]. View Details

Keywords: Business Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations; Integration; Apparel and Accessories Industry; China

October 2001
Teaching Note

Gillette Singapore (A): Managing Global Business Integration on the Ground TN

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter

Teaching Note for (9-897-102). View Details

Keywords: Integration; Change Management; Globalization; Consumer Products Industry; Singapore

2021
Case

Walmart's Blockchain Quest: Integrating New Technology into a Complex Supply Chain

By: Andrew J. Hoffman

Blockchain is a digital, distributed, immutable ledger designed to build trust among parties without requiring an independent, third-party arbitrator or intermediary. The technology has potential to improve a variety of industries, including the complex, fragmented,... View Details

Keywords: Blockchain; Supply Chain Management; Technology Adoption

Article

Brand Choice, Purchase Incidence, and Segmentation: An Integrated Modeling Approach

By: Randolph E. Bucklin and Sunil Gupta

Keywords: Brands and Branding; Decision Choices and Conditions; Sales; Segmentation

2002
Working Paper

Integrated Risk Management for the Firm: A Senior Manager's Guide

2002
Working Paper

Endogenous Altruism in Buyer-Seller Relations and Its Implications for Vertical Integration

By: Julio J. Rotemberg

1980
Chapter

Information Processing as an Integrating Concept in Organizational Design

By: Michael Tushman

Keywords: Organizational Design; Knowledge Use and Leverage

September 2010
Teaching Note

Integrated Project Delivery at Autodesk, Inc. Case Series (TN)

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Faaiza Rashid

Teaching Note for 610016, 610017, and 610018. View Details

Keywords: Information Technology Industry; Boston

November 2007
Case

Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT)

By: H. Kent Bowen and Courtney Purrington

Translating innovative ideas form the clinician to the patient remains a major problem in the field of medicine. Dr. John Parrish and colleagues created an organization (CIMIT) that brings the technical, financial, and administrative resources to these innovative... View Details

Keywords: Financing and Loans; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Resource Allocation; Alliances; Research and Development; Health Industry; Service Industry