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- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”
parks his Fiesta next to the independent venture capitalists' Ferraris, the temptation to go elsewhere becomes too great." In other words, companies who create internal venture teams to fuel their research and development must not... View Details
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
more cooperative activity among companies. Europe has spent billions of dollars sponsoring cooperative research with little to show for it. The U.S. initiated a range of R&D consortia and relaxed its antitrust laws to encourage... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- June 2024
- Case
SnapTravel: Betting on 'Super.com'
By: Reza Satchu and Tom Quinn
This case explores SnapTravel, a travel startup offering discounted hotel rooms, and its founders’ desire to pivot to a “super app” that saved customers money across many different purchase types. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Hussein Fazal and Henry Shi saw SnapTravel... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Plan; Business Startups; Change Management; Disruption; Transformation; Volatility; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Value and Value Chain; Decisions; Income; Entrepreneurship; Geographic Scope; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Health Pandemics; Surveys; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Leading Change; Crisis Management; Goals and Objectives; Risk Management; Consumer Behavior; Game Theory; Risk and Uncertainty; Adaptation; Diversification; Expansion; System Shocks; Accommodations Industry; Technology Industry; Canada; United States; Las Vegas
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
Obstacles facing companies in today's hyper-competitive global markets are seemingly more complex than ever, to the point that managers must rethink many of the basic principles of good operations management, says Robert Hayes. In a new... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wired and Black: Focus on Careers
sometimes may need to be convinced. "You may find yourself selling what an MBA can do at some smaller companies," he said. Big or small, Butler and the other panelists said job applicants should carefully research any company... View Details
Keywords: by Carrie Levine
- April 2025
- Case
Lisa Su and AMD (A)
By: Joshua D. Margolis, Matthew Preble and Dave Habeeb
This multimedia case study focuses on CEO Lisa Su’s turnaround and subsequent transformation of the technology company Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD). When Su accepted the top position in 2014, AMD was on the verge of collapse. Su focused the company’s culture,... View Details
Keywords: Turnaround; Artificial Intelligence; Semiconductors; Change Management; Transformation; Decision Making; Globalized Markets and Industries; Government and Politics; AI and Machine Learning; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Innovation Leadership; Leadership; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Management; Product Design; Product Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Strategic Planning; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Research and Development; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Semiconductor Industry; Computer Industry; United States; California; Texas
Margolis, Joshua D., Matthew Preble, and Dave Habeeb. "Lisa Su and AMD (A)." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 425-704, April 2025.
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
Count: The Role of Reflection in Individual Learning By: Di Stefano, Giada, Francesca Gino, Gary P. Pisano, and Bradley Staats Abstract—How do organizations learn? In this paper, we build on research on the microfoundations of strategy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
will in fact homogenize consumption patterns, and a few superstar products will emerge as winners in the market place. In this study, using two large customer transactions data sets obtained from an online music service and an online DVD... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
express a high-level set of principles that employees are expected to abide by, but what the court effectively said is, ‘This is akin to marketing material that people don’t take literally word-for-word.” So do company ethics codes have... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 09 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
In This Classroom, Beer Can Improve Your Grade
Universidad Catolica de Chile. In 2013, these two research collaborators came up with the idea of creating a simulation. The resulting technical manual (which they make available to players) contains all the equations used to make the... View Details
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
innovation in a wide range of other industries, including pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, IT and telecommunications, defense, chemicals, and agriculture. We believe that there are valuable lessons in this research for the energy... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
you're taking to business value creation, then asking for your customers' opinions and desires is not the way to go. In another case, David Lewis, the chief designer of Bang & Olufsen, said in an interview, "I don't believe in View Details
- 16 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology
scale?" That's the problem he explores in the HBS Teaching Note, Technology Innovations in K-12 Education, cowritten with Roniesha Copeland (HBS MBA '14), and research assistant Christine S. An. The report reviews the burgeoning... View Details
- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
relies heavily on foreign debt. Access to such debt is suddenly curtailed when there is a downturn in market sentiment regarding the Icelandic economy as a whole. Students will reflect on the essential elements of a communications... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
Research Triangle in North Carolina think very hard about focus in order to create a virtuous cycle of complementary successful ventures. The results have been extraordinary. A generation ago, it would have seemed farfetched to predict... View Details
- 04 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering
Depression during the financial crisis of 2008, with the failures consisting mostly of community banks. This environment—where troubled local banks appear unable to meet re-emerging small firm credit needs—would be an ideal market for new... View Details
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
markets, these are the kinds of concerns you should think about when setting payment terms and dealing directly with suppliers. One tool to deter fraud: pay later. Edelman's new research on a major advertising affiliate network... View Details
- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
Star-Kist was under fire because its fishing practices for tuna in the eastern tropical Pacific involved accidental deaths of many dolphins, since tuna typically swim under schools of dolphins. Preliminary marketing View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Race Does Matter in Mentoring
In a three-year research project, I studied the career trajectories of minority and white professionals at three major U.S. corporations. The story of one of the participants—Stephen Williams—sheds light on many of the differences in... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
blood and hustle might come crashing down was a nontrivial possibility. But so was an increase in revenue that would elevate the company to a whole new league of wealth and market share. Founder and CEO Dal LaMagna chafed at the potential... View Details