Publications

Educators

2005
Class Lecture

Leadership Is a Choice: The General Manager in the Middle

Keywords: Leadership; Managerial Roles

May 1997 (Revised March 1998)
Case

Teradyne: Managing Disruptive Change

Three cases deal with the introduction of a new product to Teradyne's line of semiconductor test equipment. Teradyne: Managing Strategic Change provides historic and administrative background for the other two cases. Teradyne: The Aurora Project deals with the problems... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Disruption; Management; Market Entry and Exit; Product; Product Development; Problems and Challenges; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Technology

Educators

February 1996 (Revised November 1998)
Case

Brown Group, Inc.--The Dividend Decision

Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Restructuring; Investment Return

February 1996 (Revised April 2003)
Case

WPP--Integrating Icons to Leverage Knowledge

Martin Sorrell has used WPP to acquire a large portfolio of marketing service firms including J. Walter Thompson and Ogilvy & Mather. How did he make this minnow-swallows-many-whales trick work, and can he make the whole into something bigger than the parts? View Details

Keywords: Knowledge Use and Leverage; Leadership; Marketing; Networks; Diversification

Educators

June 1995
Teaching Note

Gurcharan Das's Career Choices TN

2002
Working Paper

When We Study M&A, What Are We Learning?

1986
Article

L'Etat et l'entreprise: la guerre de cent ans

1986
Book

When Markets Quake

Keywords: Markets

October 1989
Case

PaineWebber: Institutional Equity Division

Keywords: Financial Services Industry

November 1988 (Revised July 1990)
Case

Montedison--1986

June 1986
Teaching Note

Continental Airlines (A), (B), and Video, Teaching Note

August 1984
Case

Competitive Positioning in the Dishwasher Industry (D): General Electric (GE)

Keywords: Product Positioning; Competitive Strategy; Consumer Products Industry

August 1984
Case

Competitive Positioning in the Dishwasher Industry (A): The Dishwasher Market

Keywords: Product Positioning; Competitive Strategy; Consumer Products Industry

Web

Impact on Research & Curriculum | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Professor Joseph L. Bower noted: “With Professor C. Roland Christensen and others, Ken Andrews built the field of business policy, which laid the foundation for what we now... View Details

2023
Article

A Randomized Trial of Behavioral Nudges Delivered through Text Messages to Increase Influenza Vaccination among Patients with an Upcoming Primary Care Visit

By: Mitesh S. Patel, Katherine L. Milkman, Linnea Gandhi, Heather N. Graci, Dena Gromet, Hung Ho, Joseph S. Kay, Timothy W. Lee, Jake Rothschild, Modupe Akinola, John Beshears, Jonathan E. Bogard, Alison Buttenheim, Christopher Chabris, Gretchen B. Chapman, James J. Choi, Hengchen Dai, Craig R. Fox, Amir Goren, Matthew D. Hilchey, Jillian Hmurovic, Leslie John, Dean Karlan, Melanie Kim, David Laibson, Cait Lamberton, Brigitte C. Madrian, Michelle N. Meyer, Maria Modanu, Jimin Nam, Todd Rogers, Renante Rondina, Silvia Saccardo, Maheen Shermohammed, Dilip Soman, Jehan Sparks, Caleb Warren, Megan Weber, Ron Berman, Chalanda N. Evans, Seung Hyeong Lee, Christopher K. Snider, Eli Tsukayama, Christophe Van den Bulte, Kevin G. Volpp and Angela L. Duckworth

Purpose: To evaluate if nudges delivered by text message prior to an upcoming primary care visit can increase influenza vaccination rates.
Design: Randomized, controlled trial.
Setting: Two health systems in the Northeastern US between September 2020 and... View Details

Keywords: Vaccination; Health Care and Treatment; Interpersonal Communication; Communication Technology; Behavior; Health Industry

Research Summary

The Future of Market Capitalism