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  • 21 May 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect

In most companies, no one knows and understands your customers and their changing needs better than the marketing department. Certainly that knowledge should be routinely presented and understood by the chief executive and board of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

essentially disappeared. The largest firms in the industry in 2000 were sponsors and participants in open platform systems. I argue that the vertical-to-horizontal transition in the computer industry was an organizational response to a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Business and the Global Poor

interests align? Kash Rangan: At its core, the private sector has always been about value creation—producing goods and services valued by consumers, generating employment, and delivering profits for shareholders. Nothing has changed in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How Can Start Ups Grow?

well-established firms rather than young ones. Since well-established firms differ from young ones in their availability of resources, adaptability, and stability in the face of changing environments, the findings from those studies are... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising
  • April 2009
  • Case

Invest Early: Early Childhood Development in a Rural Community

By: Stacey M. Childress and Geoff Eckman Marietta
Invest Early was an early childhood development partnership in rural northern Minnesota between 14 different organizations, which worked together through an advisory board, governing board, and leadership team in order to deliver coordinated early childhood services to... View Details
Keywords: Early Childhood Education; Rural Scope; Management Teams; Managerial Roles; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business and Community Relations; Partners and Partnerships; Social and Collaborative Networks
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  • March 1990 (Revised June 1993)
  • Case

Analog Devices, Inc.: The Half-Life System

By: Robert S. Kaplan
The company has committed to major improvements in quality, cost, and on-time delivery performance. Despite strong senior management support, however, the actual rate of improvement was disappointing until a new measurement philosophy was introduced. The new approach... View Details
Keywords: Quality; Performance Improvement; Earnings Management; Financial Reporting; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Productivity; Business or Company Management; Cost Management; Measurement and Metrics; Management Teams; Semiconductor Industry
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  • 2005
  • Article

Increasing Exploration: Evidence from International Expansion

By: Juan Alcacer, Heather Berry and Wilbur Chung
While firms balance exploitation and exploration to maximize profits, specifics of how firms pursue this balance are scarce. We focus on how firms increase their exploration after obtaining greater capabilities and experience via sequential international expansion.... View Details
Keywords: Price Bubble; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Industry Growth; Research and Development; Profit; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Disruptive Innovation; Five Forces Framework; SWOT Analysis; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Manufacturing Industry; Japan; United States
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  • 01 Apr 2000
  • News

Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti

possible turnaround of this huge institution, one that affects everybody in the country. I saw it as an opportunity to bring about fundamental change at an agency that really needed it, to have an impact on a key function of government,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 11 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 11

across and within those markets. Recent changes in the economics of unconventional natural gas extraction-"the shale revolution"-could potentially remake those markets, steering the world toward the "golden age" of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Feb 2019
  • Blog Post

The First Five Years: '30 Under 30' Edition

be effective.” Gandhi: “I find myself referencing lessons from my time at HBS almost every day, and sharing them with my audiences across the globe. I love the lesson from negotiations about defining value in different ways, or from LEAD (Leadership and View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 08 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 8

Abstract This paper explicates the challenge of risky trust, which we define as trust that exists between parties vulnerable to high economic, legal, or reputational risks at individual or organizational levels. Drawing from analyses of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jun 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Using Competition to Reform Healthcare

Knowledge next month.How can providers compete on value? To do so, they must embrace a series of strategic and organizational imperatives, shown in Figure 5-1. We describe the imperatives in the context of hospitals and physician groups.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health
  • Web

Research Resources | Baker Library

Organizational Behavior at the Harvard Business School. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1977. Stokes, Mary Channing. “ ’Cliffe Has Business Course with Accent on Practicality,” The Harvard Crimson, October 19, 1950. Stout, Lee. A... View Details
  • Web

Past Issues - Alumni

life of the party Step Change When she came back to Egypt five years ago, investor Amal Enan embraced the chaos—and found a path to impact her country’s future Complete Table of Contents December 2022 Full Court Press With a $1 billion... View Details
  • 07 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

best-selling business fable, Who Moved My Cheese? offered its answer to the question: accept that change is inevitable and beyond your control, don't waste your time wondering why things are the way they are, keep your head down, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 1

new distribution methods, rising costs of production in China, and changing customer behavior. The company lacked a clear strategy and suffered from organizational misalignment. Rick Woldenberg, the former... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Jun 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’

However, they have been most often studied separately. Because our focus was on leadership in action, we were able to observe how these three interrelated organizational skills work in concert as leaders and their groups undertake to... View Details
Keywords: by Linda Hill; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 29 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 29, 2008

weaknesses relative to other top schools, the political challenges of organizational change, and the most appropriate strategy for the Dean to follow. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 18

despite recent problems. On a more strategic level, he needed to recommend how to take the company's Sustainability Initiative to the next level and consider whether changes were needed to its organizational... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Dec 2014
  • Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy

shop in the current low-cost location. How to organize? What are the structures, systems, and processes that need to be in place to manage a company's international strategy? Should authority be delegated to many organizational units or... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna