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  • December 2012 (Revised April 2013)
  • Case

Olam: On a New Course

By: David E. Bell, Forest Reinhardt and Mary Shelman
From modest beginnings as a cashew trader in Nigeria, Olam, founded by Indian nationals in 1989, has grown into a leading global agricultural trading company, with annual revenues of $14 billion. The company recently has begun investing in farms and in the production... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Leadership; Customer Value and Value Chain; Corporate Strategy; Organizational Culture; Environmental Sustainability; Expansion; Competitive Advantage; Agribusiness; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Nigeria
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    Overcrowded – Designing Meaningful Products in a World Awash with Ideas

    We live in a world awash with ideas. Thanks to the web and to powerful ideation approaches such as open innovation, design thinking, or crowdsourcing, organizations have today easy access to an unprecedented amount of novel concepts. In this context, what... View Details

    • 31 Oct 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    The New CEO’s Wrong Message

    wanted to be consulted and those on which he would fully trust his managers. He created a task force to review some of the company's key management processes—planning, budgeting, performance evaluation, new View Details
    Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Jay W. Lorsch & Nitin Nohria
    • January 2019 (Revised July 2019)
    • Case

    New Balance: Managing Orders and Working Conditions

    By: Michael W. Toffel, Eileen McNeely and Matthew Preble
    New Balance Athletics, Inc., a major U.S.-based athletic footwear and apparel brand, sources most of its footwear products from independent suppliers whose factories are located in China, Indonesia, and Vietnam. Monica Gorman, vice president of responsible leadership... View Details
    Keywords: Footwear; Athletic Footwear; Manufacturing; CSR; Sustainability; Quality Management; Supply Chains; Operations; Management; Production; Working Conditions; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Labor and Management Relations; Supply Chain Management; Supply Chain; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry
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    • 26 Mar 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity

    new study of physician offices transitioning to electronic health records (EHRs) used in managing patient care. In general, larger offices in the study that employed EHRs recorded productivity gains, but... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health
    • April 2016
    • Teaching Note

    IBM and the Reinvention of High School (C): Toward P-TECH's Rapid National Expansion

    By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Kelsi Stine-Rowe
    Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 316-130. This Teaching Note accompanies the third case in a 3-case series on P-TECH and the Reinvention of High School. The case focuses on the development and early diffusion of organizational innovation—how to create pilot projects for... View Details
    Keywords: IBM; P-TECH; Stanley Litow; Robin Wilner; Cuomo; Scaling; Innovation; New York State; New York City; Business Model; Innovation Strategy; Innovation Leadership; Education; Business and Community Relations; Change; Technology Industry; New York (state, US); New York (city, NY)
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    • 2001
    • Chapter

    Publicly Funded Science and the Productivity of the Pharmaceutical Industry

    By: Rebecca Henderson and Ian Cockburn
    U.S. taxpayers funded $14.8 billion of health related research last year, four times the amount that was spent in 1970 in real terms. In this paper we evaluate the impact of these huge expenditures on the technological performance of the pharmaceutical industry. While... View Details
    Keywords: Public Sector; Science-Based Business; Research and Development; Sovereign Finance; Pharmaceutical Industry
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    • 19 Mar 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

    forthcoming Academy of Management Discoveries Creativity, Artificial Intelligence, and a World of Surprises By: Amabile, Teresa M. Abstract—In recent years, progress has been made toward AI Creativity, which I define as the production of... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 06 Nov 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

    contracted their credit to all small firms throughout the United States. However, healthy banks expanded their operations and entered new banking markets. The market share gain of these banks was a standard deviation above the long-run... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • October 2022
    • Supplement

    Framebridge (B): A New Approach

    By: Rembrand Koning and Alicia Dadlani
    In 2022, after revamping operations and expanding retail stores, Framebridge founder and CEO Susan Tynan is optimistic for the future but realizes changing market dynamics. New competitors are entering the market, and margin pressures remained. This case is part two of... View Details
    Keywords: Business Startups; Business Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Operations; Market Entry and Exit; Consumer Products Industry; United States; District of Columbia; Kentucky
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    • 18 Dec 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

    leveraging their market power to gain traction for lower quality products when they use a tying strategy. In this paper, we empirically explore this question by examining Google’s decision to tie its new... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • Research Summary

    Reinvention and “Frame Flexibility”

    By: Ryan L. Raffaelli

    Adopting a radical innovation creates pressure for leaders to reframe their mental models while they also sustain their organization's existing capabilities and product category variants. Yet at key junctures in a product class and during technological change, a... View Details

    Keywords: Institutional Change; Innovation ＆ Entrepreneurship; Diffusion Processes; Technology Adoption; Cognition and Thinking; Identity; Emotions
    • July–August 2018
    • Article

    From Niche to Mainstream (HBR Case Study)

    By: Elie Ofek
    A large Japanese snack maker faces challenges in marketing products in the US. Several options for jumpstarting sales are presented. View Details
    Keywords: New Product Marketing; Retail Trade; Private Label; International Expansion; Cultural Branding; Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG); Product Marketing; Expansion; Global Range; Brands and Branding; Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Retail Industry
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    • 17 Aug 2021
    • Blog Post

    New Associate Director: Courtney Fairbrother

    BEI recently named Courtney Fairbrother as the new Associate Director. Courtney manages student and alumni engagement and creates networks and opportunities that encourage these groups to address climate change. She also oversees the... View Details
    • May 1997 (Revised July 1997)
    • Case

    Vermeer Technologies (E): New Beginning

    By: Ashish Nanda
    The Vermeer team is pleasantly surprised by the benefits and hospitality that their new surroundings offer. Their happiness is tempered, however, by discomfort with some elements of the "Microsoft Way." As the Vermeer engineers embark on a punishing schedule for the... View Details
    Keywords: Performance Expectations; Horizontal Integration; Organizational Design; Organizational Culture; Product Development; Information Technology Industry
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    • June, 2023
    • Article

    Walking the Purpose-Talk Inside a Large Company: Sustainable Product Development as an Instance of Divergent Change

    By: Marissa Kimsey, Thijs Geradts and Julie Battilana
    There is a growing interest in large companies pursuing a new purpose—changing their core reason for being from a singular focus on financial gain to a renewed responsibility to people and the planet alongside profit. Yet knowledge of how a large company can walk that... View Details
    Keywords: Product Development; Environmental Sustainability; Mission and Purpose; Leading Change
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    • 03 Jun 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    How to Succeed With Your New Boss

    Your new boss will have more impact than anyone else over whether you succeed or fail. Your boss establishes benchmarks for your success, interprets your actions for other key players, and controls resources you need. Building a View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Watkins
    • 13 Aug 2019
    • News

    How hobbies can improve your happiness and productivity at work

    • 02 Oct 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

    https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55043 Machine Learning and Human Capital: Experimental Evidence on Productivity Complementarities By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Evan Starr, and Rajshree Agarwal Abstract—Machine learning... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 01 Jun 2000
    • News

    Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time

    authors propose that a process emphasizing learning and adaptation is the key to successful innovation in this emerging age. To understand the procedures required for product evolution in these new... View Details
    Keywords: Judith A. Ross