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  • 11 Feb 2019
  • News

Research: When Gender Diversity Makes Firms More Productive

    William R. Kerr

    William Kerr is the D’Arbeloff Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Bill is Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research, co-director of Harvard’s Managing the Future of Work initiative, and faculty chair of the... View Details

    Keywords: communications; computer; consulting; high technology; information technology industry; management consulting; manufacturing; telecommunications; venture capital industry
    • April 2004
    • Case

    D-Wave Systems: Building a Quantum Computer

    By: Alan D. MacCormack, Ajay Agrawal and Rebecca Henderson
    D-Wave Systems is a start-up seeking to commercialize a quantum computer. Its business model is unique: as of 2003, it had very few technical resources within the firm. Instead, it financed a series of projects undertaken at universities and government labs. In return... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Engineering; Investment; Intellectual Property; Product Development; Research and Development; Commercialization; Computer Industry
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      Roy D. Shapiro

      Roy D. Shapiro is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.  He is currently the faculty co-chair of the School's Technology and Operations Management Unit... View Details

      • 22 Feb 2022
      • News

      When Losing Money Is Strategic—and When It Isn’t

      • 21 Mar 2018
      • News

      Facebook critics assail CEO Zuckerberg

      • March 2012 (Revised April 2013)
      • Case

      Schön Klinik: Eating Disorder Care

      By: Michael E. Porter, Emma Stanton, Jessica A. Hohman and Caleb Stowell
      The Schön Klinik is a private, for-profit German hospital group trying to establish itself as a premium health care provider in a competitive German market. The case details Schön Klinik's founding, its early focus on measurement and improvement, and the design and... View Details
      Keywords: Health Care Quality; Outcomes; Quality Improvement; Strategy And Performance Measurement; Integration; Measurement and Metrics; Competition; Health Disorders; Health Care and Treatment; Outcome or Result; Performance Evaluation; Business Processes; Health Industry; Germany
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      • February 2007 (Revised August 2007)
      • Case

      Urban Video Game Academy: Getting in the Game

      By: Lynda M. Applegate and Susan Saltrick
      Urban Video Game Academy was founded to enhance the academic and career prospects of urban youth. How will its founder grow it into a sustainable business? Provides an opportunity to discuss the challenges of social entrepreneurship and how to create a sustainable... View Details
      Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Business Model; Social Enterprise; Change Management; Education; Education Industry; Video Game Industry
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      • December 2002
      • Article

      Something Old, Something New: A Longitudinal Study of Search Behavior and New Product Introduction

      By: Riitta Katila and Gautam Ahuja
      We examine how firms search, or solve problems, to create new products. According to organizational learning research, firms position themselves in a unidimensional search space that spans a spectrum from local to distant search. Our findings in the global robotics... View Details
      Keywords: Problem Solving; New Products; Organizational Learning; Uncertainty; Organizational Research; Knowledge Management; Robotics; Organizational Behavior; Organizational Effectiveness; Innovation Adoption; Strategy; Product Design; Business Processes; Product Development
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      • 18 May 2011
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Embracing Paradox

      Keywords: Re: Michael L. Tushman
      • July 2018
      • Case

      LIXIL Group Corporation: Building a New Company in an Old Industry

      By: Boris Groysberg and Akiko Kanno
      In the spring of 2018, Kinya Seto, president and CEO of LIXIL Group Corporation, a major housing and building products and services company, called a meeting at the company’s head office in central Tokyo to discuss how to implement the new three-year strategic plan.... View Details
      Keywords: Turnaround; Leadership And Change Management; Consolidation; Change Management; Leadership; Global Strategy; Business Model; Consumer Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Japan
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      • Research Summary

      Overview

      Chu's research is focused on business and low income sectors, particularly in the use of commercial platforms to deliver what has traditionally been considered public responsibilities. In the last three decades, business models have emerged to meet the underserved... View Details
      Keywords: Impact Investing; Microfinance; Base Of The Pyramid; Role Of Profit And Social Impact; Private Sector Development; Emerging Markets; Business Ventures; Health Care and Treatment; Management; Social Enterprise; Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Banking Industry; Health Industry; Latin America; North and Central America; Asia; Africa
      • January 2011 (Revised June 2011)
      • Case

      Intellectual Property Intermediaries

      By: Andrei Hagiu
      During the past 5 to 10 years, several different intermediation business models have emerged for the intellectual property (IP) market. This note describes the most prominent ones: non-practicing entities (or patent trolls), defensive patent aggregators, online IP... View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Intellectual Property; Auctions; Digital Platforms; Information Technology; Service Industry
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        Joshua D. Margolis

        Joshua Margolis is James Dinan and Elizabeth Miller Professor of Business Administration and the Unit Head for the Organizational Behavior unit. He is also Faculty Chair of the Program for Leadership Development. His research and teaching revolve around leadership... View Details

        Keywords: furniture; health care; insurance industry; nonprofit industry; pharmaceuticals
        • March–April 2014
        • Article

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

        By: Doug J. Chung, Thomas Steenburgh and K. Sudhir
        We estimate a dynamic structural model of sales force response to a bonus based compensation plan. Substantively, the paper sheds insights on how different elements of the compensation plan enhance productivity. We find evidence that: (1) bonuses enhance productivity... View Details
        Keywords: Performance Productivity; Salesforce Management; Compensation and Benefits
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        • 25 Aug 2009
        • First Look

        First Look: August 25

        business model, dominate the industry's early history. As the industry evolved, a new breed of managers emerged who built a dominant business model that enables their companies... View Details
        Keywords: Martha Lagace
        • 24 Mar 2015
        • First Look

        First Look: March 24

        http://publications.iadb.org/bitstream/handle/11319/6820/Socios%20o%20acreedores%20ENG%202-25-15%20web.pdf?sequence=1 March 2015 The Routledge Handbook of Responsible Investment Reliable Sustainability Ratings: The Influence of Business... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

          Customers As Innovators: A New Way to Create Value

          Product R&D at many companies is a major bottleneck. The difficulty is that fully understanding the needs of just a single customer can be an inexact and costly process--to say nothing of the needs of all customers or even groups of them. In the course of... View Details

            Richard S. Tedlow

            Richard S. Tedlow is the Class of 1949 Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where he is a specialist in the history of business.

            Professor Tedlow received his B.A. from Yale in 1969 and his M.A. and Ph.D. in history from... View Details

            Keywords: advertising; computer; marketing industry; retailing; semiconductor; tire
            • 27 Jan 2020
            • News

            Think Outside the Building