Publications

13 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

The Inner Life of Leaders

disaster. Editorial writers took no pains to spare McNamara's feelings. The moral I took away from his story is to avoid the perils of the hedgehog and its reliance on a single belief, in this case... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO

industrial and energy services—and was close to defaulting on its financial obligations. Some managers felt the company was also bankrupt in terms of ideas. There was... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

March 2000 (Revised January 2001)
Case

First USA and Internet Marketing

By: Rajiv Lal and Amy H. Nelson

Explores First USA's decision to use the Internet for acquiring customers. Tom Brenner needs to decide on the terms of the deals demanded by the portals and justify the recommendations to his boss. View Details

Keywords: Digital Marketing; Decision Choices and Conditions; Resource Allocation; Marketing Strategy; Internet and the Web

Article

Vertical Merger, Collusion, and Disruptive Buyers

By: Volker Nocke and Lucy White

In a repeated game setting of a vertically related industry, we study the collusive effects of vertical mergers. We show that any vertical merger facilitates upstream collusion, no matter how large (in terms of capacity or size of product portfolio) the integrated... View Details

Keywords: Stock Options; Disruptive Innovation; Five Forces Framework; United States

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30 Nov 2019
News

CIOs concerned IT not providing enough of a competitive edge

14 Mar 2019
News

The Merchant of Osaka

Mediva (for Medical Innovation and Value-Added). The medical branch remains a legally separate nonprofit, according to Japanese regulation, but in practice the two entities operate as one: Mediva handles... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2024
News

Quantum Leap

“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen; quantum computing; innovation; leadership; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

24 Sep 2019
News

Connecting Patients and Providers

10 months with her family. And it inspired Jarzabek to create Trustedoctor. The digital healthcare startup “focuses on the first half mile of the patient and provider journey,”... View Details

2020
Book

The Power of Experiments: Decision-Making in a Data-Driven World

By: Michael Luca and Max H. Bazerman

Have you logged into Facebook recently? Searched for something on Google? Chosen a movie on Netflix? If so, you've probably been an unwitting participant in a variety of experiments—also known as randomized controlled trials—designed to test the impact of changes to an... View Details

Keywords: Experiments; Randomized Controlled Trials; Organizations; Decision Making; Analytics and Data Science; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques

Blog

HBS Online and Executive Education Leadership: Q+A with Patrick Mullane and Luis Viceira

the potential of this union? (PM): First, having multi-modal ways of delivering learning when corporations come to the School asking to educate their managers or leaders in a... View Details

31 Oct 2023
Research & Ideas

Beyond the 'Business Case' in DEI: 6 Steps Toward Meaningful Change

committed over time—and that commitment can withstand turnover among both management and frontline ranks. Know that it is not an easy task to combat generations of subconscious... View Details

Keywords: by Katherine Hutt Scott and Barbara DeLollis

August 2013 (Revised October 2013)
Case

Modern Family Planning: The Business of Circle Surrogacy

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Blake Landro

The business of surrogacy, a boutique practice with client costs upwards of $100,000, allowed couples and individuals from a variety of backgrounds, ages, and sexual orientations to build families. This case examines Circle Surrogacy (CS), one of the premier surrogacy... View Details

Keywords: Family Planning; Platform; Competitive Advantage; Law; Globalization; Competitive Strategy; Digital Platforms; United States; Ukraine

Article

Improving the Rhythm of Your Collaboration

By: Ethan S. Bernstein, Jesse Shore and David Lazer

In this article, we summarize our research on the value of intermittency for complex problem solving at work and give practical advice on how organizations can improve the rhythm of their people's collaboration. Executives have been counseled to be collaborative... View Details

Keywords: Problem Solving; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Internet and the Web; Leadership

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November 2017 (Revised September 2020)
Supplement

Miami's Tech Future (C): Reaching Another Miami

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter

The effects of Miami’s startup scene have not reached many “left-behind” lower-income Black communities, which are disproportionately affected by problems such as segregation and racial discrimination, lack of transportation access, crime, education quality, government... View Details

19 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

September 2017 Management Science Channel Integration, Sales Dispersion, and Inventory Management By: Gallino, Santiago, Antonio Moreno, and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

March 2015 (Revised June 2015)
Case

Medalogix

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Matthew G. Preble

This case examines an exciting new approach to health care that will help care providers identify when hospice services are the appropriate type of care for patients. The company, Medalogix, already has a product on the market that uses a proprietary algorithm to... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Health Care Entrepreneurship; Health Care Services; Implementing Strategy; Dissemination; Innovation; Market Selection; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Analytics and Data Science; Marketing Strategy; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Health Industry; United States

December 2012 (Revised November 2014)
Case

Lit Motors

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Alex Godden

In mid-2012 Lit Motors had created both engineering and design prototypes and conducted initial customer tests on less than $750,000 of investment. Lit Motors' founder, Daniel Kim, had started the company to design and manufacture an efficient electric 2-wheeled... View Details

Keywords: Lean Startup; Prototyping; Electric Vehicle; Urban Vehicle; Customer Tests; Gyroscope; Entrepreneurs; Development Stage Enterprises; Creativity; Disruptive Technologies; Consumer Surveys; Market Segmentation; Manufacturing Costs; Entrepreneurship; Auto Industry; United States; California