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  • 23 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation

In a forthcoming paper in Management Science, Risk-Mitigating Technologies: The Case of Radiation Diagnostic Devices, based on the CT scan case, Luo and Galasso discover that the accidents, while tragic, ultimately increased innovation... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • July–August 2013
  • Article

Six Ways to Sink a Growth Initiative

By: Donald L. Laurie and J. Bruce Harreld
The conventional wisdom about how best to pursue growth—launch a slew of initiatives in high-potential areas; appoint some promising young managers to lead them; locate them safely away from the established businesses—is a recipe for failure, according to the authors.... View Details
Keywords: Failure; Growth and Development Strategy
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  • April 2021
  • Case

Zeynep Ton: The Good Jobs Strategy

By: Francesca Gino and Frances X. Frei
The link to this multimedia case should be provided to students in advance as preparation for classroom case discussion.

In Zeynop Ton’s 2014 book The Good Jobs Strategy: How the Smartest Companies Invest in Employees to Lower Costs and Boost... View Details
Keywords: Organizations; Selection and Staffing; Compensation and Benefits; Operations; Performance Effectiveness
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  • September 2010 (Revised December 2012)
  • Case

Assembling Smartphones: Takt Time ≠ Cycle Time?

By: Willy Shih and Ethan Bernstein
The case was prepared to be used as part of a process review in the first year Technology and Operations Management course at HBS. It offers students an opportunity to discuss the context of a manufacturing process choice, and then examine actual production numbers... View Details
Keywords: Cognition and Thinking; Research and Development; Design; Six Sigma; Measurement and Metrics; Production
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  • February 1995 (Revised July 1995)
  • Case

Antmobel (A)

In the midst of a sales slump brought on by a recession in Spain, Antmobel's managers are presented with an opportunity to sell a substantial quantity of furniture in Uzbekistan. Management must decide whether the order fits with the company's strategy, capabilities,... View Details
Keywords: Global Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; Uzbekistan; Spain
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  • 30 Apr 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Why Anger Makes a Wrongly Accused Person Look Guilty

opposite to others—that you’re hiding something.” If the accusation comes over email, she adds, it might be a good practice to take a break so you can respond once you’ve calmed down. On the flip side, if you are a manager and are in a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 2007
  • Book

Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector

By: Jane Wei-Skillern, James Austin, Herman Leonard and Howard Stevenson

"Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector provides an excellent overview of the many tools available to... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Society
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  • 03 Mar 2017
  • News

Hiring an Entrepreneurial Leader

  • Research Summary

Selection, Reallocation, and Spillover: Identifying the Sources of Gains from Multinational Production (with Maggie Chen)

By: Laura Alfaro

Quantifying the gains from multinational production has been a vital topic of economic research. Positive productivity gains are often attributed to knowledge spillover from multinational to domestic firms. An alternative, less stressed explanation is firm selection... View Details

Keywords: Gains From Multinational Production; Firm Selection; Knowledge Spillover
  • September 2022
  • Article

Experimentation and Start-up Performance: Evidence from A/B Testing

By: Rembrand Koning, Sharique Hasan and Aaron Chatterji
Recent scholarship has argued that experimentation should be the organizing principle for entrepreneurial strategy. Experimentation leads to organizational learning, which drives improvements in firm performance. We investigate this proposition by exploiting the... View Details
Keywords: Experimentation; A/B Testing; Data-driven Decision-making; Organizational Learning; Entrepreneurship; Strategy; Business Startups; Learning; Performance; Decision Making
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  • December 1991 (Revised October 1998)
  • Case

Eli Lilly and Co.: Manufacturing Process Technology Strategy--1991

By: Gary P. Pisano, Steven C. Wheelwright and Jonathan West
Outlines the evolution of Lilly's corporate manufacturing strategy over the past decade. The corporate vice president of manufacturing must decide on the next phase of Lilly's strategy for the early 1990s, as well as to what extent and what role process development... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Management Practices and Processes; Industry Structures; Product Development; Production; Research and Development; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Manufacturing Industry
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  • Web

Teaching by the Case Method - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Teaching by the Case Method Case Method in Practice Preparing to Teach Leading in the Classroom Providing Assessment & Feedback Sample Class Play Video Chris Christensen described case method teaching as "the art of managing... View Details
  • 2008
  • Book

Climate Change: What's Your Business Strategy?

By: Andrew J. Hoffman and John G. Woody
Climate change is one of the most pressing challenges facing the world today. And increasingly, it's become a crucial business issue. How will you and your company respond?

In Climate Change: What's Your Business Strategy? Andrew Hoffman and John... View Details
Keywords: Carbon Footprint; Climate Change; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Policy
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  • Jan 29 2015
  • Testimonial

Greater Self-Awareness for Greater Success

  • Web

Lifelong Learning - Alumni

other subject experts addressing timely topics on business and society, recorded live in Klarman Hall. Includes presentations from recent conferences, reunions and other events. Career Coaching for You, for Free An HBS career coach can guide your career View Details
  • November 2010
  • Technical Note

Technical Note: An Abridged History of the American Corporation

By: Rakesh Khurana, Andrew David Klaber and Eric Baldwin
This note examines the development of the corporate form in the United States from the eighteenth century to the present, focusing primarily on legal issues. It identifies several major trends in the history of the American corporation: the transition of corporations... View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Corporate Accountability; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; History; Code Law; Managerial Roles; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Private Ownership; United States
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Compensatory Transfers in Collective Decision Making

By: Jerry R. Green
Jerry R. Green is studying mechanisms that can be employed to promote efficient collective decisions while providing justifiable compensation to participants who favor different, less efficient alternatives. This type of decision problem is pervasive in business,... View Details
  • 22 Mar 2018
  • News

Sustainability: A New Way of Doing Business

  • Profile

Arvind Chandrababu

best approaches for pursuing my career. Initially, I thought building schools would be a nonprofit enterprise. But studying things like the rise of microfinance really changed my mind. When people develop commercial models, they can make... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Nonprofit / Government
  • 2018
  • Working Paper

Do We See the Same Hierarchy? Status Disagreement in Multicultural Teams and Its Impact on Team Performance

By: Catarina Fernandes and Sujin Jang
This paper develops and tests a theory of status disagreement in multicultural teams. We posit that, in multicultural teams, the diversity of members’ cultural backgrounds will lead to implicit disagreements about who has how much status in the team. More specifically,... View Details
Keywords: Status; Social Hierarchies; Multicultural Teams; Team Performance; Team Diversity; Status and Position; Groups and Teams; Diversity; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Performance
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