Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (945) Arrow Down

Show Results For

← Page 21 of 945 Results →
  • 14 Sep 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Working Moms Are Mostly Thriving Again. Can We Finally Achieve Gender Parity?

Feldberg embarked upon a new survey of parents in two-earner households with kids under 18 at home. Across several papers recently presented at the Academy of Management meetings in Boston, they sought to understand how parents allocated... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • November 1992 (Revised May 1993)
  • Case

American Mobile Satellite Corporation

By: Frank V. Cespedes and Laura Goode
American Mobile Satellite Corp. (AMSC) has a license to provide wireless mobile communications via satellite throughout the United States and 200 miles of coastal waters. The first satellite launch is scheduled for 1994 and, in the interim, AMSC is providing limited... View Details
Keywords: Wireless Technology; Decisions; Distribution Channels; Marketing Strategy; Product Development; Sales; Emerging Markets; Resource Allocation; Performance Capacity; Communications Industry; Information Technology Industry; United States
Related

    Srikant M. Datar

    Srikant M. Datar became the eleventh dean of Harvard Business School on 1 January 2021. During his tenure as a faculty member, he served as Senior Associate Dean for University Affairs (including Faculty Chair of the Harvard Innovation Lab), for Research, for... View Details

    Keywords: accounting industry; airline; automobiles; banking; biotechnology; communications; consumer products; e-commerce industry; health care; high technology; investment banking industry; management consulting; manufacturing; pharmaceuticals; venture capital industry
    • Article

    Organizational Ambidexterity in Action: How Managers Explore and Exploit

    By: Charles A. O'Reilly III and Michael L. Tushman
    Dynamic capabilities have been proposed as a useful way to understand how organizations are able to adapt to changes in technology and markets. Organizational ambidexterity, the ability of senior managers to seize opportunities through the orchestration and integration... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Management Practices and Processes; Resource Allocation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Opportunities
    Related
    • 30 Jun 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: June 30, 2015

    Case 815-124 Yale University Investments Office: February 2015 David Swensen and the Investments Office staff must decide whether to continue to allocate the bulk of the university's endowment to illiquid investments-hedge funds, private... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • September 2011
    • Module Note

    Orientation to Leadership Intelligence Days, 2011

    By: Joshua D. Margolis and Anthony J. Mayo
    Julie Bornstein, senior vice president of Sephora Direct, is seeking to double her budget for social media and other digital marketing initiatives for 2011. A number of digital efforts implemented in the past two years seem to be bearing fruit and there is a desire to... View Details
    Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Borrowing and Debt; Investment Return; Resource Allocation; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Consumer Behavior; Online Technology; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
    Related
    • December 2009 (Revised May 2010)
    • Case

    Codevasf

    By: David E. Bell, Marcos Fava Neves, Luciano Thome e Castro and Natalie Kindred
    With many countries facing scarcity of freshwater and farmable land, Brazil decided to leverage its wealth of both resources to attract global agribusiness players to the historically poor Sao Francisco Valley (SFV) in the country's northeast. To do so, Brazil was... View Details
    Keywords: Agribusiness; Resource Allocation; Bids and Bidding; Infrastructure; Supply Chain; Business and Government Relations; Natural Environment; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Brazil
    Related
    • 2010
    • Working Paper

    Specialization and Variety in Repetitive Tasks: Evidence from a Japanese Bank

    By: Bradley R. Staats and Francesca Gino
    Sustaining operational productivity in the completion of repetitive tasks is critical to many organizations' success. Yet research points to two different work-design related strategies for accomplishing this goal: specialization to capture the benefits of repetition... View Details
    Keywords: Employees; Working Conditions; Service Delivery; Performance Productivity; Financial Services Industry; Japan
    Related
    • 2025
    • Working Paper

    How Do Nonprofits Use Cash Windfalls? Evidence from $5B in Unrestricted Donations

    By: Jennifer Walsh
    How do nonprofits use unrestricted gifts? Donations to 501(c)(3)'s are increasingly given unrestricted due to concerns that restrictions on use unduly constrain nonprofits. I study the effect of such funding on recipients using a $5B sample of MacKenzie Scott's gifts... View Details
    Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Budgets and Budgeting; Compensation and Benefits
    Related
    • September 2004 (Revised August 2007)
    • Case

    Enterprise IT at Cisco (2004)

    By: Andrew P. McAfee, F. Warren McFarlan and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
    Illustrates the challenges associated with centralizing IT decisions at Cisco after a decade of decentralized planning and project funding. When Brad Boston became Cisco's new CIO in 2001, he found that managers were starting to get frustrated with the results of their... View Details
    Keywords: Management; Resource Allocation; Information Technology; Problems and Challenges; Business Ventures; Change Management; Entrepreneurship; Projects; Planning; Corporate Finance; Information Technology Industry
    Related

      Rakesh Khurana

      Rakesh Khurana is the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development at the Harvard Business School. He is also Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, co-Master of Cabot House at Harvard College, and the Danoff Dean of Harvard College. 

      Professor... View Details

      Keywords: executive search
      • Web

      Accounting & Management - Faculty & Research

      access capital, Measure and evaluate their firms' economic performance, Improve resource allocation and strategy implementation within their firms, and Build accountability for performance through effective... View Details
      • February 2013 (Revised March 2013)
      • Case

      Agero: Enhancing Capabilities for Customers

      By: Robert Simons and Natalie Kindred

      This case illustrates the importance of choosing a primary customer as the basis for organization design. Cross Country Group managers adjusted resource allocation, organization design and performance measures over time to transform Cross Country Group from an... View Details

      Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Entrepreneurial Gap; Entrepreneurship; Auto Industry; Insurance; Performance Management; Performance Measurement; Performance Measures; Performance Pressure; Decisions; Family Business; Resource Allocation; Organizational Design; Customer Focus and Relationships; Performance Evaluation; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Industry
      Related
      • 17 Aug 2010
      • First Look

      First Look: August 17

      journalists who had joined partly because of the promise of editorial latitude they were offered. As Engelberg weighed his various options, he knew all the major U.S. newsrooms were heading full speed to allocate View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • Web

      Organizational Behavior - Faculty & Research

      can build stakeholder support for complex resource reprioritization efforts. Keywords: Framing ; Stakeholder Management ; Capabilities ; Transformation ; Leading Change ; Crisis Management ; Resource View Details
      • 26 Aug 2020
      • Blog Post

      Two sides, same coin: How I left the Bay Area as an operator and returned as an investor

      prior experience) to make full use of the resources at HBS, such as the Rock Venture Partners Program and the Rock Accelerator, to explore and develop their interest in venture capital and entrepreneurship, as she would love to see more... View Details
      • Web

      Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

      capacity cost rates to allocate resource costs, has become the gold standard in measuring the true costs of health care delivery and well described in a growing literature. Currently, process mapping in... View Details
      • December 2014
      • Article

      No Margin, No Mission? A Field Experiment on Incentives for Public Services Delivery

      By: Nava Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera and B. Kelsey Jack
      A substantial body of research investigates the effect of pay for performance in firms, yet less is known about the effect of non-financial rewards, especially in organizations that hire individuals to perform tasks with positive social spillovers. We conduct a field... View Details
      Keywords: Incentives; Non-monetary Rewards; Intrinsic Motivation; Motivation and Incentives; Employees; Service Industry; Health Industry
      Related
      • Research Summary

      Managing Processes

      David A. Garvin is examining the nature and use of managerial and organizational processes—the means by which work is accomplished—including strategic processes that chart corporate direction, resource allocation processes that distribute funds,... View Details
      • 22 Nov 2010
      • Research & Ideas

      Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution

      their planning processes and make smart choices. Here's an excerpt outlining the seven questions every manager should ask. 1. Who Is Your Primary Customer? The first imperative—and the heart of every successful strategy implementation—is View Details
      Keywords: by Robert Simons