Publications

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December 2001 (Revised March 2003)
Case

Ben Fiorentino: Selling the Family Business

The caseescribes the challenges Ben Fiorentino, the second-generation head of a family-run equipment business, must deal with as he decides whether and how to sell the business. The business is encountering classic problems that confront family-owned firms: The third... View Details

Keywords: Family Business; Negotiation; Business Exit or Shutdown; Management Teams; Agency Theory

25 Sep 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Colocation and Scientific Collaboration: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Keywords: by Kevin Boudreau, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva Guinan & Karim Lakhani; Health

April 2024 (Revised December 2024)
Case

Anthropic: Building Safe AI

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai

In late 2024, Anthropic, a leading AI safety and research company, achieved a significant breakthrough with computer use capabilities that allowed AI to interact with computers like humans. Co-founded by former OpenAI employees and known for its generative AI... View Details

Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business Growth and Maturation; Corporate Strategy; Technology Industry; United States

May 1998 (Revised October 1998)
Case

Komatsu and Dresser: Putting Two Plus Two Together

By: Ashish Nanda

In 1987, Komatsu Ltd., looking to expand its presence in the U.S. earth-moving equipment (EME) industry, enters into a 50-50 joint venture with Dresser. The management of the Komatsu Dresser joint venture faces difficulty in bringing the two halves together. The rift... View Details

Keywords: Integration; Machinery and Machining; Restructuring; Joint Ventures; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Construction Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Japan; United States

13 Jun 2017
Blog Post

MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences – A Q&A with Professor Robert Howe

pursued research that is relevant to practitioners, in contrast to the work of many scholars at other business schools, who give priority to generating and validating theory of... View Details

02 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019

perverse effect of perpetuating the problem. Drawing on a case study of a professional service firm, we develop a multilevel theory to explain why organizations are caught in... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

05 Feb 2009
What Do You Think?

Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?

Summing Up How do we close the gap between theory and results in selecting leaders? In discussing why our achievements in selecting leaders are less than stellar, contributors offered a rich set of ideas.... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Mar 2015
News

Committed To HBS’s Success

added to his MBA fellowship fund, which has benefited about 50 students from the San Francisco area since it was established in 1990. “HBS aims to be close to practice,” says Tukman. “Often in business, practice leads the way and theory... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

26 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire

In the early 1950s, two scientists at McGill University inadvertently discovered an area of the rodent brain dubbed "the pleasure center," located deep in the nucleus accumbens. When a group of lab... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

19 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems

the clashing logics of banks, governments, and the general goal of poverty alleviation. The paper sets out to increase rigor of institutional complexity View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino

26 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

forthcoming Journal of International Business Studies Organizational Innovation in the Multinational Enterprise: Internalization Theory and Business History By: da Silva Lopes, Teresa, Mark Casson, and G.... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

29 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

trace the theory’s evolution from a technology-change framework—essentially descriptive and relatively limited in scope—to a more broadly explanatory causal theory of innovation and competitive response.... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

27 Jun 2017
Blog Post

Why I Would Have Applied to the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

think the technical SEAS programming would have been a value add to your MBA? "I think the technical programming would have added huge value. Many of the methods in data science and machine learning... View Details

21 Sep 2010
First Look

First Look: September 21, 2010

dataset of firms from the U.S. and seven European countries we study the impact of ICT on worker autonomy, plant manager autonomy, and span of control. Consistent with the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

December 1999 (Revised March 2001)
Case

Machinery International (A)

By: David F. Hawkins

A U.S. company must decide how to translate its German subsidiary's DM financial statements into U.S. dollars for public and internal reporting purposes. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details

Keywords: Machinery and Machining; Financial Statements; Financial Reporting; Currency; Money; Accounting; Valuation; Manufacturing Industry; Accounting Industry; United States