Management Practices and Processes - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation

interaction, coordination, communication, and decision making employees use to transform resources into products and services of greater worth. A company's processes determine... View Details

Keywords: by Scott D. Anthony, Mark W. Johnson & Matt Eyring

25 Feb 2020
Research & Ideas

For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity

geographic mobility and remote work that have implications for firms and individual career outcomes. “People are not moving far away from their hometowns like they used to,” he says, “and there has been no... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

23 Jul 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn’t)

of American Independence." But Wikipedia also employs a series of consensus driven vetting processes that strive to ensure the information is accurate, is verifiable, is built on solid sources, and excludes... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Publishing

28 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur

the General Management Program at Harvard Business School. In the discussion, conducted last August in Mumbai, Kapur reflects on some 50 years in the advertising industry, starting in the “Mad Men” era of the 1960s, experiencing the dawn... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising

29 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas

more important than the physical aspect." “Companies don't fully exploit the latest ideas that their product has created” In a paper published last year in the Academy of Management Review called "The Second Face of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

04 May 2010
First Look

First Look: May 4

and on becoming the leader in the Online Care Industry? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/510061-PDF-ENG Sheila Mason & Craig Shepherd (Abridged) Michael J. RobertsHarvard Business School Case 810-114 The case... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk

divest a recent acquisition or buy other assets to build this business area would check the same column. The law partner who is thinking about retirement from a lucrative law practice and who really wants to... View Details

Keywords: by Eileen C. Shapiro & Howard H. Stevenson

02 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Explaining China's Crash

MBA 1988) is a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School. For two decades, he ran equity capital markets for Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley.... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese; Financial Services

05 Aug 2002
What Do You Think?

Is Platform Leadership Old Hat or the Wave of the Future?

Summing Up Platform leadership, the process by which base technologies are developed and on which innovations created by many entrepreneurs can be based, may be characteristic of the knowledge economy. But... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

16 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

important and contentious subjects where intellectual breakthroughs are possible. 1. Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship is an area in which business historians have made important contributions, but in which most of the recent conceptual... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman

09 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!

requirements are essential for newspapers going forward. It turns out that few companies exemplify these attributes better than Bezos's Amazon. And it's hard to think of another digital CEO who is better at View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Journalism & News; Publishing

09 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale

you say in the book that he was also a natural leader. That he was blessed with management skills, which he honed to a very fine point. What were some of the management principles that made him such a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

05 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

How to Tap the Talent Automated HR Platforms Miss

As the global staffing shortage grinds on, corporate recruiters everywhere are relying on their online hiring platforms and automated systems to deliver the candidates they need. Too often, these tools will fail them, sidelining many qualified workers in the process.... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller

March 1999 (Revised November 2001)
Case

Honda-Rover (B): Honda Draws the Line

By: Ashish Nanda, James K. Sebenius and Ron Fortgang

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Joint Ventures; Alliances; Knowledge Sharing; Strategy; Contracts; Negotiation Process; Change Management; Negotiation Tactics; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Auto Industry; United Kingdom

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23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

British Parliament replaced common land with private property--a process that prompted better management and made Great Britain the leader in the Industrial Revolution. I then... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

24 Sep 2013
First Look

First Look: September 24

trust and liking. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45471 August 2013 Journal of Economics & Management Strategy Investment Incentives in Open-Source View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jul 2019
What Do You Think?

Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?

abandon their ethics to get it.” When applied to individuals, the question prompted an interesting exchange between Sandeep and Phillippe Gouamba regarding the effect of wealth and poverty on the tendency of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Stuart Gilson

simply amazed at how frank and open the executives I worked with have been in discussing their experiences, and I do not know of another resource out there that can be used to teach students the actual View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

03 Aug 2016
What Do You Think?

How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?

more effective than what is studied and practiced now? How can we hold the “leadership industry” accountable? What do you think? Selected References: Bill George, Authentic Leadership: Rediscovering the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

03 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance

represent. Many financial practices out there excessively penalize foreign activities when these operations represent true opportunities. The best managers and firms combine a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

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