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  • 09 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 9, 2010

versus exploitation innovations impact economic growth through a tractable endogenous growth framework that contains multiple innovation sizes, multi-product firms, and entry/exit. Firms invest in exploration R&D to acquire new View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment

Evolutionary Nature of Breakthrough Innovation: Re-Evaluating the Exploration vs. Exploitation Dichotomy Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas Engineering Serendipity: The Role of Cognitive Similarity in Knowledge Sharing... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Aerospace
  • 13 Dec 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Public Health for the Poor

Microfinance—essentially small loans that help impoverished individuals create jobs, small businesses, and stronger communities—may offer a window on new methods for widening access to healthcare for the poor. Led by Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 1

channel offers potential benefits in selling to customer segments that value the convenience of online shopping, but it also raises new challenges. These include the higher likelihood of costly product... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Buy Now, Pay Later &mdash Easy Payments: The Rise of Installment Selling

in installments is an ancient one. In 1641, when the Pilgrims consolidated the “heavy burthens” they owed London creditors, they arranged to pay their debts in four annual “estallments.” 18 But it was mechanization and the mass production... View Details
  • 29 Nov 2021
  • Research & Ideas

How Bonuses Get Employees to Choose Work Over Family

results are outlined in a May article published in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes called Are They Useful? The Effects of Performance Incentives on the Prioritization of Work Versus Personal Ties. Whillans coauthored the research with Julia Hur,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka
  • 05 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 5, 2007

that interactions of producers, users and institutions shape the development of collective frames around the meaning of new technologies. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/04-039.pdf The Malleability of Environmentalism... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • September 1990 (Revised April 1993)
  • Case

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.

By: William J. Bruns Jr.
Following the company's purchase as a part of a leveraged buyout, the new management team of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. had to decide what to do about the build-up of excess inventory of its independent wholesale customers. The case introduces students to the problems... View Details
Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Customer Satisfaction; Business or Company Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Consumer Products Industry
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  • 06 Oct 2020
  • Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

should focus on providing real solutions to the crisis rather than hard-core selling, with the request that brands work to connect their products and services to the alleviation of crisis-related suffering and challenges. 54 percent of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • March 1997 (Revised December 1999)
  • Case

Alden Products, Inc.--European Manufacturing

By: Robert H. Hayes
The European organization of Alden Products, Inc. is contemplating a doubling of unit sales over the next ten years. Their largest plant, located in Holland, was set up 25 years earlier to supply all demands of the EEC countries on the continent. It has since expanded... View Details
Keywords: Production; Growth Management; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Strategic Planning; Performance Capacity; Business Strategy; Netherlands; Europe
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  • February 2010 (Revised March 2012)
  • Case

Harvard Business School Executive Education: Balancing Online and Offline Marketing

By: John A. Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
How does a small business set its online media budget? The HBS Executive Education Division can be viewed as a small-to-medium sized business unit with annual revenues of $107 million. As we watch it change its culture, practices, and organization from offline to... View Details
Keywords: Transition; Marketing Strategy; Budgets and Budgeting; Technology Adoption; Digital Marketing; Resource Allocation; Information Technology Industry
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  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Throwing Your Opponent: Strategies for the Internet Age

change their ideas constantly while they are trying to build complex new products and technologies." In addition, by making it possible to "organize businesses in new ways,... View Details
Keywords: by Daniel Penrice
  • Research Summary

Management Control Systems in Multiunit Companies

By: Tatiana Sandino

Professor Sandino conducts research on early-stage multiunit companies that introduce management control systems to help maintain operations, as well as company culture, as they grow, but also to enable adaptation to the different markets that they serve. Building... View Details

  • 16 Nov 2015
  • HBS Seminar

Vish Krishnan, Professor of Innovation, Technology & Operations, University of California San Diego Rady School of Man

  • May 2023 (Revised June 2023)
  • Supplement

Novartis (B): Reimagining Medicine

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Claudio Feser, Karolin Frankenberger and David Redaschi
This case unfolds around the first-ever approved personalized cancer treatment, how Novartis wrapped it into a new business model design, and how Novartis scaled it. Novartis — one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world — is, among other ventures,... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Business Model; Production; Business Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • 23 Nov 1999
  • Research & Ideas

What’s Your Strategy for Managing Knowledge?

collectively arrive at deeper insights by going back and forth on problems they need to solve. Marcia Blenko, for example, a partner in Bain's London office, had to consider a difficult strategy problem for a large British financial institution. The client wanted Bain... View Details
Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen, Nitin Nohria & Thomas Tierney; Consulting
  • July 1996
  • Case

Bayside Controls, Inc.

By: H. Kent Bowen, Jennifer Kochman and Sylvie Ryckebusch
Two recent MBA graduates acquire a small and ailing metal-machining company that had manufactured small aerospace components. Through clever application of state-of-the-art manufacturing, engineering, and marketing/sales concepts, they turned the company into a growing... View Details
Keywords: Business Earnings; Leveraged Buyouts; Machinery and Machining; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Production; Personal Development and Career; Sales; Aerospace Industry
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  • 11 Oct 2013
  • HBS Seminar

Sen Chai, Post-Doc Labor & Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School, and NBER

  • 17 Feb 2022
  • Book

When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed

What’s a company’s purpose? Too often it has been hijacked by one extreme or the other claiming it’s either the unbridled pursuit of profit on behalf of shareholders or it’s anything but profit. I also take issue with the idea that purpose is enshrined in a company’s... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
  • 12 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser

productive relationships. However, every year, a few thousand customers file new arbitration cases with Finra, the US brokerage industry’s regulatory organization, alleging everything from negligence to... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services