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  • Working Paper

Diversification as an Adaptive Learning Process: An Empirical Study of General-Purpose and Market-Specific Technological Know-How in New Market Entry

By: Dominika Kinga Randle and Gary P. Pisano
An enduring trait of modern corporations is their propensity to diversify into multiple lines of business. Penrosian theories conceptualize diversification as a strategy to exploit a firm’s fungible, yet “untradeable,” resources and point to redeployment of... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Technology Adoption; Diversification; Market Entry and Exit; Transformation
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  • Research Summary

Overview

Dr. Burch’s research focuses on capitalism, work, and gender in the twentieth-century United States. Her work reinterprets the history of direct selling by placing it at the center, rather than on the margins, of narratives about advanced capitalism. Examining the... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Political Economy; Labor History; Gender; Marketing; Sales Force Management; Direct Sales; United States
  • 04 Aug 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From

We’re in the middle of a Great Resignation. This past April, 2.7 percent of Americans quit their jobs, the highest rate on record. And according to a study by Microsoft, more than 40 percent of the global... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
  • 20 Jun 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono

(about Martin Luther King Jr.). Savvy From The Start U2's business savvy in the earliest days serves as a lesson for any MBA student. In an industry notorious for its focus on short-term hits and for taking control of an artist's work... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 25 Mar 2021
  • News

Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy

School and strengthened its role in the University. Furthermore, by building the pipeline of faculty, launching new global research offices and centers, increasing financial... View Details
  • Web

The Canton Trade and The Hong Merchants System - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA Summer Venture in View Details
  • 18 Jun 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet

Manufacturing and information technology these days go together like bread and butter. But it wasn't always so. As Professor David Upton pointed out in a Global Alumni... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 13 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

Monsanto Monsanto CEO Hugh Grant must guide his global agribusiness technology company into an uncertain future where food security, food safety, sustainability, and climate change will all impact the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Boris Groysberg

    Boris Groysberg is a professor of business administration in the Organizational Behavior unit at the Harvard Business School. Currently, he teaches courses on talent management and leadership in the school's MBA and Executive Education programs. He has won numerous... View Details
    Keywords: asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management
    • Web

    VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    Involved Videos Books Value-Based Health Care Delivery – Measuring and Managing Costs The Value-Based Health Care Delivery (VBHCD) initiative, led by Harvard Business School professors Michael Porter View Details
    • 01 Feb 1997
    • News

    Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making

    negotiation has become a key part of daily management. "Instead of being an important skill for special occasions - making deals and managing disputes - negotiation is increasingly a way of life for... View Details
    Keywords: Judith A. Ross
    • 13 Sep 2018
    • HBS Seminar

    Nitin Joglekar, Boston University

    • 19 Oct 2023
    • Blog Post

    New Venture Competition 2023: Business and Environment Ventures

    by utilizing artificial intelligence to eliminate routine flaring, a key contributor to climate change. Scout - Nicholas Sehlinger (MBA 2024) - Scout is a climate management platform that helps companies measure, manage, View Details
    • 27 Dec 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015

    success, and the role of hormones in cheating. "Tell us what you think were the most significant trends, ideas, or management lessons from 2015." Also worth reading is our list of the year’s most... View Details
    • 26 Sep 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

    stylized facts about leverage and financial fragility for emerging market firms following the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Corporate debt vulnerability indicators during the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Speeding Up the Trade: Clippers and Steamships - A Chronicle of the China Trade

    and outpace the Chinese junks when smuggling opium. In the mid-1840s Augustine Heard & Co. commissioned the Gardner shipyard in Baltimore to build the vessels the Frolic and the Dart . 30 The View Details
    • 03 Aug 2015
    • Research & Ideas

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

    flexibility for firms to choose their profit foci, and creates opportunities for competing platform owners to cooperate. Our model can help managers consider such incentives,... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information; Publishing; Technology
    • March 2022
    • Teaching Note

    Farfetch: Digital Transformation for Luxury Brands

    By: Jill Avery and Sunil Gupta
    Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 522-051. Farfetch, a global luxury technology platform and digital marketplace had been surfing the wave of digital transformation in the luxury fashion industry since 2008. While the company’s stock price and market valuation had... View Details
    Keywords: Brand Management; Retailing; Two Sided Markets; SaaS; Online Marketing; Marketing; Marketing Channels; Brands and Branding; Luxury; Digital Transformation; E-commerce; Digital Marketing; Retail Industry; Fashion Industry; London; United Kingdom; Portugal
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    • 02 Jan 2018
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

    and act in a way that supports the longer-term needs of their businesses—and it’s hard to fault them. The biggest problem with a short-term approach is that managers develop blind spots around crucial... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 23 May 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

    technology firms, we show that founders who received advice from other founders with more “hands-on” management styles were more likely to reorient their own management activity and, subsequently, experience... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel