Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (6,355) Arrow Down
Filter Results: (6,355) Arrow Down Arrow Up

Show Results For

Show Results For

← Page 121 of 6,355 Results →
  • 17 Jun 2015
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Excellence Comes From Saying No

We all know people who seem able to perform at a higher level than those around them; and we've all had moments ourselves where we are firing on all cylinders and everything just seems to work. But how do you achieve that kind of excellence on a consistent basis, day... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 26 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

increases demand. Results also show that small third-party sellers affected by Amazon's entry appear to be discouraged from growing their businesses on the platform subsequently. The results have... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • Research Summary

Distributed Innovation in Open Systems—The Role of Modularity

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
Distributed innovation in open systems is an important trend in the modern global economy. As education levels rise and communication costs fall, more people have the means and motivation to innovate. Supply chains now stretch around the world as firms outsource... View Details
  • September–October 2017
  • Article

The Surprising Power of Online Experiments: Getting the Most Out of A/B and Other Controlled Tests

By: Ron Kohavi and Stefan Thomke
In the fast-moving digital world, even experts have a hard time assessing new ideas. Case in point: At Bing, a small headline change an employee proposed was deemed a low priority and shelved for months until one engineer decided to do a quick online controlled... View Details
Keywords: Experiments; A/B Testing; Research; Consumer Behavior
Related

    What is Disruptive Innovation?

    For the past 20 years, the theory of disruptive innovation has been enormously influential in business circles and a powerful tool for predicting which industry entrants will succeed. Unfortunately, the theory has also been widely misunderstood, and the "disruptive"... View Details

    • December 2006 (Revised February 2009)
    • Case

    China Merchants Bank: Here Just For You

    By: F. Warren McFarlan, GuoQing Chen, HengYuan Zhu, Bin Yang, Michael Shih-ta Chen, G.A. Donovan, Waishun Lo and Yan Yang
    Founded in 1987, China Merchants Bank (CMB) is a pioneer in the use of technical innovation and IT as a competitive tool in the rapidly evolving Chinese banking sector. With a relatively small branch network when compared to its larger competitors, CMB uses an... View Details
    Keywords: Credit Cards; Information Technology; Technological Innovation; Innovation Leadership; Competitive Strategy; Initial Public Offering; Emerging Markets; Opportunities; Banking Industry; China; Hong Kong
    Related
    • 02 May 2022
    • What Do You Think?

    Can the Case Method Survive Another Hundred Years?

    (Susan Young/Harvard Business School) “What do you think?” is a question that has graced case method discussions at the Harvard Business School for the past 100 years. The question reflects long-held beliefs... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Education
    • March 2021 (Revised January 2023)
    • Case

    The Trouble with TCE

    By: Vincent Pons, Rafael Di Tella and Galit Goldstein
    Trichloroethylene, or TCE, was a chemical used by tens of thousands of businesses in the United States. It was an affordable tool for many. Yet, TCE had been associated with important health risks, including cancer and autoimmune disease. TCE potentially posed other... View Details
    Keywords: Trichloroethylene; Toxicity; Lobbying; Chemicals; Health Disorders; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Ethics; Business and Government Relations; Chemical Industry; United States
    Related
    • 28 Jan 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India

    these processes are unfolding not just in the mainstream business sector but in society writ large and even in politics and civil society," says Khanna. Khanna's book Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 01 Oct 2024
    • Cold Call Podcast

    Choosing Passion: A Founder’s Mission to Meet a Need for Obesity Care

    Keywords: Re: Jon M. Jachimowicz; Health

      Robert C. Merton

      Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

      Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

      Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
      • 2010
      • Working Paper

      Growth through Heterogeneous Innovations

      By: Ufuk Akcigit and William R. Kerr
      We study how exploration versus exploitation innovations impact economic growth through a tractable endogenous growth framework that contains multiple innovation sizes, multi-product firms, and entry/exit. Firms invest in exploration R&D to acquire new product lines... View Details
      Keywords: Business Ventures; Decision Choices and Conditions; Economic Growth; Investment; Innovation and Invention; Patents; Size; Research and Development; United States
      Related
      • Program

      Senior Executive Leadership Program—China

      Summary Today's global business environment offers many exciting prospects for talented executives and ambitious organizations. To take full advantage of emerging opportunities in China and beyond, View Details
      • July 2002 (Revised March 2003)
      • Case

      Restructuring Bulong's Project Debt

      By: Benjamin C. Esty and Michael Kane
      Preston Resources, a small Australian gold mining company, bought the Bulong nickel mine for A$319 million in November 1998 and financed the acquisition by issuing a US$185 million (A$294 million) project bond. At the time, mining had been underway for several months,... View Details
      Keywords: Finance; Projects; Restructuring; Bonds; Borrowing and Debt; Business Startups; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Valuation; Mining Industry; Australia
      Related
      • 14 Nov 2023
      • Research & Ideas

      The Network Effect: Why Companies Should Care About Employees’ LinkedIn Connections

      conclusion—professional social networks “may have potential benefits to companies, and not only to the individual,” says Frank Nagle, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School. “What we’re trying to say is there are many more jobs... View Details
      Keywords: by Ben Rand
      • Web

      Marketing Faculty - Faculty & Research

      Business Administration Eva Ascarza Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business Administration Jill J. Avery Senior Lecturer of View Details
      • 08 Sep 2010
      • News

      Emerging Scholar Award

      • July 2002 (Revised April 2003)
      • Case

      QuickMedx Inc.

      By: Richard M.J. Bohmer and Jonathan P Groberg
      QuickMedx has created a chain of small kiosks, located in drugstores and shopping malls in the Minneapolis area, that cater to patients with a limited range of very simple primary care conditions. Service is rapid and cheap and patients wait only a few minutes to be... View Details
      Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Decision Making; Disruptive Innovation; Expansion; Service Delivery; Business Processes; Design; Management; Health Industry
      Related
      • Web

      School Leadership | About

      School Leadership Faculty Leadership Srikant M. Datar George F. Baker Professor of Administration Dean of the Faculty C. Fritz Foley André R. Jakurski Professor of Business View Details
      • March 1985 (Revised November 1988)
      • Case

      Precision Parts, Inc. (A)

      By: William A. Sahlman
      Contains a description of a decision confronting two entrepreneurs in mid-1981. They are considering purchasing a small manufacturer of precision electromechanical parts. Among the issues in the case are the following: 1) Should Taylor and Grayson buy Precision Parts,... View Details
      Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Venture Capital; Financing and Loans; Cost vs Benefits; Investment Return; Strategy; Management Practices and Processes; Risk and Uncertainty; Outcome or Result; Manufacturing Industry
      Related