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  • 2014
  • Discussion Paper

Do High Feed-in Tariffs for Solar PV Panels Hinder Competition (Japanese)

By: Koji Nomura and Tomomichi Amano
In Japan, feed-in-tariffs (FIT) are a key policy tool that has been deployed to produce the mass diffusion of photovoltaices (PV). In this study, we argue that this policy is unlikely to induce sustainable economic growth, which some use as a justification for FIT. We... View Details
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Contextual Intelligence

By: Tarun Khanna
The author has come to a conclusion that may surprise you: trying to apply management practices uniformly across geographies is a fool's errand. Best practices simply don't travel well across borders. That's because conditions not just of economic development but of... View Details
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  • May–June 2021
  • Article

Why Start-ups Fail

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann
If you’re launching a business, the odds are against you: Two-thirds of start-ups never show a positive return. Unnerved by that statistic, a professor of entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School set out to discover why. Based on interviews and surveys with hundreds... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Problems and Challenges; Failure
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  • June 2015
  • Article

You Need an Innovation Strategy

By: Gary P. Pisano
Why is it so hard to build and maintain the capacity to innovate? The reason is not simply a failure to execute but a failure to articulate an innovation strategy that aligns innovation efforts with the overall business strategy. Without such a strategy, companies will... View Details
Keywords: Innovation Strategy
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    Michael Beer

    MICHAEL BEER

    Mike Beer is the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations About Your Company’s... View Details

    • September–October 2022
    • Article

    Case Study: What's the Right Career Move After a Public Failure?

    By: Jon M. Jachimowicz and Francesca Gino
    “Reunions are for happy people,” Mariani Kallis said to her friend Whitney on the phone. “I’m not going.” “Come on, it won’t be the same without you,” Whitney pleaded. “Besides, no one is happy right now. Everyone’s life is a mess.” “I’m pretty sure none of our... View Details
    Keywords: Career Decisions; Personal Development and Career
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    • January 2023
    • Case

    Proday: Calling the Right Play

    By: Lindsay N. Hyde, Thomas R. Eisenmann and Tom Quinn
    Sarah Kunst knew the elements of a successful startup from her tenure at venture capital firms. In April 2018, however, her own app – Proday, a home fitness platform featuring exercises filmed by professional sports stars – was floundering. Kunst theorized that... View Details
    Keywords: Social Media; Entrepreneurship; Advertising; Digital Marketing; Product Launch; Social Marketing; Failure; Sports; Applications and Software; Business Startups; Technology Industry; United States
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    • April 2006
    • Case

    Managing a Public Image: Cheri Mack

    By: Robin J. Ely and Ingrid Vargas
    Cheri Mack, an African-American woman, has just arrived at Harvard Business School after working for three years at a major consulting firm where she learned to adopt the demeanor of her male colleagues in order to fit in. Some of her male classmates are critical of... View Details
    Keywords: Management Style; Race; Reputation; Personal Development and Career; Leadership Style; Gender; Massachusetts
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    • Article

    Beyond Good Intentions: Prompting People to Make Plans Improves Follow-through on Important Tasks

    By: Todd Rogers, Katherine L Milkman, Leslie K. John and Michael I. Norton
    Many intend to stay fit but fail to exercise or eat healthfully; students intend to earn good grades but study too little; citizens intend to vote but fail to turnout. How can policymakers help people follow through on intentions like these? Plan-making, a tool that... View Details
    Keywords: Behavior; Success; Planning
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    • March 2009 (Revised July 2010)
    • Case

    IBM: The Corporate Service Corps

    By: Christopher Marquis and Rosabeth M. Kanter
    Describes the conception, development, and implementation of the Corporate Services Corps (CSC), an international community service assignment for high-potential IBM employees. The year 2008 was the pilot year of the CSC program, and 100 of IBM's best global employees... View Details
    Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Global Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Structure; Partners and Partnerships; Non-Governmental Organizations
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    • January–February 2018
    • Article

    The Leader's Guide to Corporate Culture: How to Manage the Eight Critical Elements of Organizational Life

    By: Boris Groysberg, Jeremiah Lee, Jesse Price and J. Yo-Jud Cheng
    Executives are often confounded by culture, because much of it is anchored in unspoken behaviors, mindsets, and social patterns. But when properly managed, culture can help them achieve change and build organizations that will thrive in even the most trying times. In... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Culture; Performance Effectiveness; Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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    • May 1997
    • Teaching Note

    Product Development Process, Organization and Improvement, Instructor's Note

    By: Marco Iansiti
    Explores how development projects fit (or do not fit) within a firm's development strategy and its wider competitive goals. Module materials, and this note, focus on two broad approaches to process design (sequential and flexible) that were originally introduced in the... View Details
    Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Management Practices and Processes; Product Development; Performance Improvement; Competition
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    • 15 Jul 2022
    • News

    The Right Step: Q+A With Rakoh Founder Raphael Kohlberg (MBA 2018)

    • 12 Nov 2020
    • News

    Commutes

    • 15 Nov 2016
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Algorithmic Foundations for Business Strategy

    Keywords: by Mihnea Moldoveanu
    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Interest-Rate Risk and Household Portfolios

    By: Sylvain Catherine, Max Miller, James Paron and Natasha Sarin
    How are households exposed to interest-rate risk? When rates fall, households face lower future expected returns but those holding long-term assets—disproportionately the wealthy and middle-aged—experience capital gains. We study the hedging demand for long-term assets... View Details
    Keywords: Portfolio Choice; Social Security; Interest Rates; Investment Portfolio; Equality and Inequality; Welfare
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      "Using Models to Persuade"

      We present a framework where "model persuaders" influence receivers’ beliefs by proposing models that organize past data to make predictions. Receivers are assumed to find models more compelling when they better explain the data, fixing receivers’ prior beliefs.... View Details

        Large Shocks Travel Fast

        We leverage the inflation upswing of 2022 and various granular datasets to identify robust price-setting patterns following a large supply shock. We show that the frequency of price changes increases dramatically after a large shock. We set up a parsimonious New... View Details
        • October 1995 (Revised June 1996)
        • Case

        Li & Fung (Trading) Ltd.

        Li & Fung, one of the largest export trading companies in Asia, works primarily as an agent to connect U.S. and European manufacturers and retailers of nondurable, mass-market consumer goods with suppliers located all over East Asia who manufacture products according... View Details
        Keywords: Networks; Marketplace Matching; Supply Chain Management; Trade; Manufacturing Industry; Retail Industry; Asia; United States; Europe
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        • January 2021
        • Article

        Using Models to Persuade

        By: Joshua Schwartzstein and Adi Sunderam
        We present a framework where "model persuaders" influence receivers’ beliefs by proposing models that organize past data to make predictions. Receivers are assumed to find models more compelling when they better explain the data, fixing receivers’ prior beliefs. Model... View Details
        Keywords: Model Persuasion; Analytics and Data Science; Forecasting and Prediction; Mathematical Methods; Framework
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