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  • February 1992
  • Background Note

Resources: The Essence of Corporate Advantage

By: Cynthia A. Montgomery
Introduces the idea that a firm's resources are at the heart of corporate advantage. Identifies six characteristics of a resource that together describe its potential for creating value for the firm. View Details
Keywords: Resource Allocation; Competitive Advantage; Value Creation
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  • 08 Apr 2016
  • News

Corporate Activism and the Rise of the Outspoken CEO

  • July 2020 (Revised July 2023)
  • Case

Live Nation and Pharrell Williams

By: Anita Elberse and Kate Christensen
“We’re in business together, and whether we lose a few million dollars or make a few million dollars, let’s do this. If you think you can pull it off, I’m behind you.” Michael Rapino, chief executive officer of Live Nation, the world’s leading live entertainment... View Details
Keywords: Music; Entertainment; Superstars; Talent; Labor Economics; General Management; Music Entertainment; Media; Talent and Talent Management; Joint Ventures; Marketing; Strategy; Music Industry
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  • 2007
  • Book

A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics: What Managers, Executives, and Students Need to Know

By: David A. Moss
Now more than ever before, executives and managers need to understand their larger economic context. In The Concise Guide to Macroeconomics, David Moss leverages his many years of teaching experience at Harvard Business School to lay out important macroeconomic... View Details
Keywords: Macroeconomics; Money; Investment; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques
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  • 05 Jul 2006
  • News

Corporate Governance Activists are Headed in the Wrong Direction

  • 03 Apr 2015
  • News

Let's talk climate change

  • 27 Apr 2016
  • News

Health Care Takes Center Stage at Finale of New Venture Competition

  • March 1991 (Revised May 1991)
  • Case

TBIRD: The Thai Business Initiative in Rural Development

By: V. Kasturi Rangan
During the period of 1987 to 1990, while Thailand had one of the fastest growing economies in the world (average growth rate of 12%), the income disparity between its rural and urban population (especially Bangkok City) was growing increasingly worse. Mechai... View Details
Keywords: Economic Growth; Management Skills; Programs; Wealth and Poverty; Thailand
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  • 21 Jul 2016
  • Cold Call Podcast

How Small Investors Can Bet Big on Brands They Love

Keywords: Re: Luis M. Viceira; Financial Services
  • 30 Nov 2010
  • News

4 ways to get what you want

  • 13 Aug 2015
  • News

The Example Larry and Sergey Should Follow (It’s Not Buffett)

  • 13 Nov 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action

concept of a learning organization is one that is "skilled at creating, acquiring, interpreting, transferring, and retaining knowledge and at purposefully modifying its behavior to reflect new knowledge and insights." Although new View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
  • 06 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Behavioral Finance—Benefiting from Irrational Investors

and the title of a second-year course he teaches at HBS. "At the foundation of finance is the idea that investors and managers act rationally, so that capital market prices reflect fundamentals and managers respond to incentives in... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 03 Sep 2013
  • News

Congress to Decide U.S. Involvement in Syria as World Watches

  • 15 Dec 2014
  • News

The Benefits of Cost Transparency

  • September 2007
  • Article

Collaborative Brokerage, Generative Creativity, and Creative Success

Analyzing data on utility patents from 1975 to 2002 in the careers of 35,400 collaborative inventors, this study examines the influence of brokered versus cohesive collaborative social structures on an individual's creativity. We test the hypothesis that... View Details
Keywords: Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Patents; Personal Development and Career; Creativity; Power and Influence; Social and Collaborative Networks
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  • 12 Aug 2019
  • News

World in Motion

  • September 1998
  • Case

McDonald's: International Expansion Strategy

By: Gary W. Loveman and Sabina M. Ciminero
James Cantalupo, CEO of McDonald's International, and top management have a few months to decide how the McDonald's brand should be transferred into India. Faced with the challenges presented by the Indian market--80% of Indians are Hindus and cherish cows as sacred... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Expansion; Brands and Branding; Strategy; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Service Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States; India
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  • 2022
  • Working Paper

Developing a Sustainable High Commitment, High Performance System of Organizing, Managing, and Leading: An Actionable Systems Theory of Change and Development

By: Michael Beer
This paper presents a theory for developing an adaptive high commitment, high performance system of organizing, managing, and leading. It is a synthesis of my 50 years of action and field research presented in my books and articles. It operationalized and makes... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Learning; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership; Management Practices and Processes
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    Rembrand M. Koning

    Rem Koning is the Mary V. and Mark A. Stevens Associate Professor at Harvard Business School. He researches and teaches entrepreneurship, exploring the biases and frictions that shape how founders and markets learn. His current research explores... View Details

    Keywords: high technology; software; biotechnology