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- 10 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt--‘Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World’
book excerpt Management Is Not Leadership From Chapter 4, Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World By John Kotter Listen to how most people talk in everyday conversation, and you'll find that they often use the words "management" and... View Details
Keywords: Re: John P. Kotter
- 04 Nov 2002
- What Do You Think?
What’s Best for the Corporate Brain?
Summing Up Those offering insights into ways to make the corporate brain function more effectively suggest that the corporate brain may be as complex as its biological counterpart. Respondents alternatively focused on learning, constant usage, and memory. Where... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Teaching Interest
Overview
Luciana has taught in front of MBA, Master of International Business and Economics, and Executive Education students. At HBS, she was a teaching fellow in "Managing Innovation" (taught in the MBA program by Professor Karim Lakhani) and co-developed most teaching... View Details
- June 2025
- Article
Collusion in Brokered Markets
By: John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers and Richard Lowery
High commissions in the U.S. residential real estate agency market present a puzzle for economic theory because brokerage is not a concentrated industry. We model brokered markets as a game in which agents post prices for customers and then choose which other agents to... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate Agents; Real Estate; Realtors; Broker Networks; Brokerage; Brokerage Commissions; ＂Brokerage Industry; Brokered Markets; Brokering; Brokers; Industrial Organization; Repeated Game Framework; ＂Repeated Games＂; Collusion; Antitrust; Microeconomics; Market Design; Theory; Game Theory; Real Estate Industry
Hatfield, John William, Scott Duke Kominers, and Richard Lowery. "Collusion in Brokered Markets." Journal of Finance 80, no. 3 (June 2025): 1417–1462.
- May 2017
- Supplement
Betfair (B)
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, John Heilbron and Neil Campbell
Buoyed by success in the market for gambling contracts, Betfair attempts to enter the market for financial products using its exchange model. View Details
Keywords: Betfair; Exchange; Business Model; Betting; Leisure Industry; Market Design; Digital Platforms; Diversification; Financial Services Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Europe
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, John Heilbron, and Neil Campbell. "Betfair (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 717-517, May 2017.
- October 2017
- Case
Shift Technologies, Inc.
By: Thomas Eisenmann and Nicole Tempest Keller
In 2017, management at Shift, an online marketplace that uses a “high touch,” concierge approach to buy and sell used cars, was formulating plans for the San Francisco–based startup’s next phase of expansion. One option was to preserve Shift’s current business model... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Market Design; Multi-Sided Platforms; Marketplace Matching; Growth and Development Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Auto Industry; Retail Industry; United States
Eisenmann, Thomas, and Nicole Tempest Keller. "Shift Technologies, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 818-002, October 2017.
- 29 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Story of Why Humans Are So Careless With Their Phones
Silvia Bellezza is an assistant professor of marketing at Columbia Business School. Joshua M. Ackerman is an assistant professor of psychology at University of Michigan. Francesca Gino is the Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard... View Details
- August 1995
- Case
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.: IT Organization and Architecture Challenges
By: Richard L. Nolan
Presents the outcome of Air Products ICON decentralization projects. New issues are explored, including the challenges of having a decentralized MIS staff, global network, client/server architecture, new data center issues, outsourcing, a new highly strategic customer... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Organizational Design; Problems and Challenges
Nolan, Richard L. "Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.: IT Organization and Architecture Challenges." Harvard Business School Case 196-017, August 1995.
- Web
Site Credits - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration Tom Nicholas Associate Professor of Business Administration Emma Rothschild Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History Website Design and Production : Alex Taylor, Big Ring View Details
- Web
HBS & the Case Method Site Credits | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Credits Site Credits Curatorial Team Melissa Banta Rachel Wise Laura Linard Exhibition Team Kate Neptune Heather Oswald Melissa Murphy Margaret Dalton Annie Boniface Clarissa Yingling Conservation Team Lisa Clark Debra Cuoco Editing Kristen Senz Catalog View Details
- 1992
- Chapter
Performance Evaluation and Managers' Description of Tasks and Activities
By: W. J. Bruns Jr. and S. M. McKinnon
- January 2021
- Article
Turbulence, Firm Decentralization and Growth in Bad Times
By: Philippe Aghion, Nicholas Bloom, Brian Lucking, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
What is the optimal form of firm organization during “bad times”? We present a model of delegation within the firm to show that the effect is ambiguous. The greater turbulence following macro shocks may benefit decentralized firms because the value of local information... View Details
Keywords: Decentralization; Growth; Turbulence; Great Recession; Organizational Design; System Shocks; Economic Growth; Performance
Aghion, Philippe, Nicholas Bloom, Brian Lucking, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "Turbulence, Firm Decentralization and Growth in Bad Times." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 13, no. 1 (January 2021): 133–169.
- 2013
- Working Paper
Imprinting: Toward A Multilevel Theory
By: Christopher Marquis and Andras Tilcsik
The concept of imprinting has attracted considerable interest in numerous fields—including organizational ecology, institutional theory, network analysis, and career research—and has been applied at several levels of analysis, from the industry to the individual. This... View Details
Marquis, Christopher, and Andras Tilcsik. "Imprinting: Toward A Multilevel Theory." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-061, January 2013. (Forthcoming in Academy of Management Annals.)
- 2004
- Chapter
Strategic Advantage and the Dynamics of Organizational Competence
Henderson, Rebecca M. "Strategic Advantage and the Dynamics of Organizational Competence." Chap. 17 in Next Generation Business Handbook: New Strategies from Tomorrow's Business Leaders, edited by Subir Chowdhury, 294–312. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2004.
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Future Tech Leaders Dive into New Program
Students in the new joint MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program have the opportunity to participate in five design cycles, which build the skills needed to take a product concept from hunch to launch. Students in the new joint MS/MBA:... View Details
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Design: At, Into, & Beyond - Race, Gender & Equity
design, and diversity work. In our design track, we highlight the importance of radical curiosity, humility, and an approach to engaging with underrepresented community members as partners and co-designers, among other fascinating topics.... View Details
- 29 Jun 2016
- News
The Latest Local Motor: A Self-Driving Bus
(photo by Local Motors) (photo by Local Motors) The Jetsonian era may be upon us. A recent NPR piece details how 24-year-old Colombia native Edgar Sarmiento worked with Local Motors to build a vehicle called Olli—a self-driving electric minibus. Sarmiento’s View Details