Publications

01 Mar 2004
News

New Horizons for Iraq

’91), an expert in project finance, studies how firms structure, value, and finance very large capital investments such as oil fields, mines, and power plants. His research covers both developed and developing countries, including financing View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; James E. Aisner; Julia Hanna; National Security and International Affairs; Government

March 2016
Case

IC Group A/S

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

IC Group owned several of Scandinavia's leading premium fashion brands. How should it respond to the decline of its primary wholesale distribution channels (independent fashion boutiques and department stores)? Should it open more physical stores or focus on... View Details

July 2015 (Revised October 2015)
Case

Building Strong Partnerships at the Inter-American Development Bank

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Erin L. Henry, Andreas Georgoulias and Natalie Bartlett

Building Strong Partnerships at the Inter-American Development Bank details the development of the bank's new Office of Outreach Partnerships to sustain a culture of innovation through maintaining and generating partnerships in order to fulfill the bank's greater... View Details

12 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers

View Video Video by Amelia Kundhardt They keep on coming—corporate scandals involving revelations of deplorable working conditions at overseas factories. If it’s not the Foxconn factories that Apple employs in China, then it’s Gap’s garment workers in Bangladesh. When... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

23 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 23

other sources of entrepreneurial influence: we find that peer influences are strongest for those who have less exposure to entrepreneurship in other aspects of their lives. Family Control of Firms and Industries Authors: Belén Villalonga... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Dec 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

scientific collaborators. We generated exogenous variation in search costs for pairs of potential collaborators by randomly assigning individuals to 90-minute structured information-sharing sessions as part of a grant funding opportunity.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation

after identifying a structural weakness. “Apple has shown the way in how to build a market of external innovators.” According to Harvard Business School professor Karim R. Lakhani, Boeing's approach is an excellent example of how not to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

20 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

job machine started sputtering around 2000. There's something structural here, because it started before the recent downturn. Moreover, we and others discovered that virtually all the net new jobs created over the last decade were in... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin

01 Dec 2016
News

Alumni Books of 2016

Leading Strategic Change in an Era of Healthcare Transformation edited by Jim Austin, Judith Bentkover, and Laurence Chait (MBA 1965) (Springer) This book focuses on how to lead transformative and strategic change in the healthcare View Details

January 2025
Supplement

Go Mobile: Aligning District Managers and Store Teams (B)

By: Tatiana Sandino and Samuel Grad

In January 2025, Modi reflects on the past decade of Go Mobile and looks ahead to new growth strategies. View Details

Keywords: Employee Relationship Management; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Growth Management; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Salesforce Management; Motivation and Incentives; Management Practices and Processes; Growth and Development Strategy; Telecommunications Industry; India

01 Mar 2023
News

March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books

is structured for ease of learning and referencing, and full of examples. To inspire learning, each chapter is preceded by a personal anecdote. Leading Diversity for Competitive Advantage: The Twelve Strategic Competencies By Peter Linkow... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)

21 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

How can we profit from the structural reality of emerging markets by identifying opportunities to fill voids, serving as market intermediaries? For Khanna and Palepu, an emerging market is anyplace where buyers and sellers cannot easily... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 Apr 2023
News

Step Change

congressional committees and the general power structure in Washington," Harmon says. "Enan's ability to relate to people and explain opportunities in Egypt to members of Congress who hadn't spent much—if any—time there, was exactly what... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

24 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

on, it pays its key cast and crew members the minimum salary stipulated by industry unions and only pays out sizeable bonuses if a movie’s box-office reaches certain levels, it gives its directors a great deal of creative control, and it... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Jun 1996
News

1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"

to take the information revolution very seriously. Echoing Rudenstine's re-marks on the aptness of the word "revolution," McFarlan declared, "The changes are that fundamental and dramatic. Products, services, and industry View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

Web

2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Flora Taylor, Zachary Green, and Diane Forbes Berthoud discuss where the ivory tower meets industry at the 2018 Gender & Work Symposium In this interview at the 2018 Gender and Work Symposium, Flora Taylor, Zachary Green, and Diane Forbes... View Details

October 2023 (Revised January 2024)
Case

SEK: Reimagining Spanish Higher Education at Universidad Camilo José Cela (UCJC)

By: John J-H Kim, Mary C. Sauer and Emilie Billaud

In 2023, Nieves Segovia, President of the SEK Education Group in Spain, contemplates the future of her family's for-profit education company, which includes K-12 schools and the newly established UCJC university. Renowned for its innovation in education, SEK faces... View Details

Keywords: Family Business; Curriculum and Courses; Higher Education; Teaching; Digital Strategy; Disruptive Innovation; Knowledge Dissemination; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Succession; Resource Allocation; Organizational Structure; Education Industry; Europe; Spain