Publications

29 Sep 2015
First Look

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/315098-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 916-402 KidZania: Shaping a Strategic Service Vision for the Future Late in 2013, KidZania’s management team is meeting at... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation

coming up with a solution that could be off-the-shelf. So when they actually see solutions from this type of method, they're blown away. Recently, an internal science team at a U.S.-based major biotechnology firm was assigned to develop a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

Traditional investment criteria such as proprietary technologies and experienced management teams are also important in social purpose investing. The most important finding was that if investors follow a... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

November 2002 (Revised August 2003)
Case

MedSource Technologies

By: Robert S. Huckman

Considers the issues facing Richard Effress, MedSource's chairman and CEO, as the firm approaches the Precision Cut project--the first test of MedSource's capabilities as an integrated, contract manufacturer in the medical device industry. MedSource Technologies was... View Details

Keywords: Product Development; Production; Mergers and Acquisitions; Product Design; Supply Chain Management; Management Teams; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States

April 1991 (Revised July 1991)
Case

RJR Nabisco Board: Guardians of the Gate? (A)

By: Jay W. Lorsch

Charles Hugel, the chairman of RJR Nabisco, receives a call from RJR Nabisco's CEO, Ross Johnson; Johnson plans to present an LBO plan to the board of directors at the board meeting the following week. The case details Hugel's actions as chairman, and describes the... View Details

Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Situation or Environment; Bids and Bidding; Decision Making; Managerial Roles; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Teams; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry

11 Jun 2020
In Practice

Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?

industry. That said, technology will be most powerfully utilized during the pandemic by those firms who apply it organization-wide to create more nimble, efficient organizations, more capable of managing the factors of production (e.g.,... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

26 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way to Go to Market

partners, and the channel steward. Q: Who in an organization needs to be responsible for creating and implementing a channel steward strategy? How does the CEO fit in? A: It has to be the responsibility of the senior marketing management... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

18 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'

Management Unit at Harvard Business School. Perhaps even more surprising was what came next. Seeing the success, American researchers began investigating the use of turmeric as well, combining it with other chemicals to file their own... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Food & Beverage; Accounting

November 1995
Case

InterZine Productions, Inc.

By: William A. Sahlman and Jason Green

Brian Henley founded InterZine Productions to develop interactive multimedia content for America Online (AOL) and the Internet. With funding and support from AOL's Greenhouse program, Henley has launched Golf, a unique interactive golf service. While he has operated on... View Details

Keywords: Business Ventures; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Capital; Financing and Loans; Internet and the Web; Management Teams; Innovation and Invention; Media and Broadcasting Industry

Find at Harvard

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Right from the Start: Common Traps for the New Leader

hesitate to share information if they believe the new leader's mind is already made up. Typically, the result is less support for change. Sticking With The Existing Team Too Long Many new leaders believe subordinates they inherit deserve... View Details

Keywords: by Dan Ciampa & Michael D. Watkins

03 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Fierce Competitors Apple and Amazon Became ’Frenemies’ Over eReaders

Let's get one thing straight from the start: Apple and Amazon are not friends. If they were high school students, they'd be mean girls glaring at each other from opposite sides of the cafeteria, jealously forcing their friends to pick sides between View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information; Publishing; Technology

August 1975 (Revised July 1993)
Case

Acton-Burnett, Inc.

By: John J. Gabarro

Describes the formation, selection, and experience of a task force with multidepartmental membership. The problems faced by the task force leader at the end of the case raise issues of who does the selection; the establishment of group norms, values, and goals; the... View Details

Keywords: Employees; Leadership; Problems and Challenges; Groups and Teams; Conflict Management

25 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

being able to put the team in place," as she put it, Polished could not take root. But by last December, Polished seemed closer to its initial destination. Rhyne had secured a lease at Boston's Logan Airport, begun building the first... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

07 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

The Quest for Better Layoffs

company ravaged by a massive fire. "They were very upset," says Sucher, the MBA Class of 1966 Professor of Management Practice and Joseph L. Rice, III Faculty Fellow at HBS. "What upset them was how cavalier they thought... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

23 Mar 2021
Book

Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World

other cities and other countries,” Neeley points out. Despite these upsides, however, shifting to working remotely is not without its challenges, especially when it comes to communication and coordination among managers and employees.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

April 1997
Case

Romeo Engine Plant (Abridged)

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Amy P. Hutton

A newly reopened automobile engine plant has been organized along total quality and teamwork principles. Employees now solve problems and ensure quality, rather than watch parts being produced. New operating and financial systems have been installed to promote... View Details

Keywords: Cost Accounting; Cost Management; Groups and Teams; Employees; Performance Improvement; Auto Industry

September 2003 (Revised March 2004)
Compilation

PEARL Project, The: Work Patterns at Ditto (A)

By: Leslie A. Perlow

Describes life on a product development team, the behaviors that are rewarded, and the difficult tradeoffs members often have to make as a result. This is a rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details

Keywords: Product Development; Time Management; Groups and Teams; Work-Life Balance; Motivation and Incentives; Information Technology Industry