Publications

01 Mar 2015
News

Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow

polarizing barrier to collaboration,” Neeley says. “But no one was looking at that, even as global organizations were rapidly moving toward making English their lingua franca.” Since joining the HBS Organizational Behavior Unit nearly... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

October 2000 (Revised October 2000)
Case

3PLex.com

By: Myra M. Hart and Judith Marie Dror

A start-up team is faced with the challenge of building a senior management team with relevant industry experience. The marriage of e-commerce and the transportation logistics industry creates unusual problems in blending "old economy" employees and employee practices... View Details

Keywords: Management Teams; Executive Compensation; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Organizational Culture; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Technology Adoption; Transportation Industry

23 Aug 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?

the de facto expression of the institutional purpose guiding many managers’ decision making. Malcolm Salter proposes an alternative, justice-based guideline for corporate purpose based on established moral and organizational principles.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Green Technology

01 Feb 2000
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

HBS Working Knowledge Web site (www.hbsworking knowledge.hbs.edu). In particular, it recommended adopting an aggressive strategy for promoting the site. Ideally, the committee would like to see more hands-on computer training for alumni,... View Details

Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)

Web

Modern Corporate Strategy: Revitalizing the Corporation - Course Catalog

delegation of authority, approaches to resource allocation, and corporate initiatives. The module concludes with cases on corporate transformation, highlighting the challenge of realigning resources, organizational structure, and scope to... View Details

01 Sep 2017
News

Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?

organizational aspect that need to be addressed.” But if adoption spreads, blockchain could become what he calls a “foundational technology,” with the potential to undergird the world’s economic and social... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

September 2011 (Revised January 2012)
Case

Telemonitoring at Visiting Nurse Health System

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Mark Keil and Mala Kaul

The Telemonitoring at Visiting Nurse Health System case presents one home healthcare organization's efforts to use telemonitoring to improve the quality of care provided to at-risk patients who were discharged from hospitals and needed home care. After two years of... View Details

Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Cost vs Benefits; Risk Management; Technology Adoption; Technological Innovation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Competitive Strategy; Health Industry; Technology Industry

14 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

Creating a Global Business Code

interest among multinational firms, including, Margolis observes, those that hesitated to participate in the initial survey. In focusing on the perceived differences between what a company should do and what it actually does do, this research has yielded a valuable... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

21 Oct 2014
First Look

First Look: October 21

compensation and incentives, performance reviews, and measuring sales effectiveness. Part 4 examines broader organizational requirements for effective selling and strategy implementation: developing sales managers who can manage and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2008
News

A Binary Formula

Executive Education offerings that teach scientists business and organizational fundamentals? What about joint MBA/Ph.D. programs? How about science/business seminars, more science-based cases, and more science-savvy faculty to teach... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; science; research; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

18 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Breaking Through a Growth Stall

Skinner III, head of the Atlanta-based consultancy LCS Partners. The article discusses the importance of understanding your ideal customers; the implications for selling, cost management, growth strategy, and organizational relationships;... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

26 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

Best Practices of Global Innovators

work? A: Many firms adopt what we call a "production outsourcing" mindset to collaboration. This is typified by a focus on lowering cost at the expense of other potentially more valuable benefits. These firms view collaboration as a form... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

Blog

Lessons from Jazz in the Live Online Classroom

the Executive Education program Developing Yourself as a Leader—Virtual, organizational behavior expert Frank Barrett encouraged executives to embrace Davis's mindset, reducing their reliance on the tried-and-true in the effort to allow... View Details

27 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 27, 2009

to demonstrate the performance implications. Market Reaction to the Adoption of IFRS in Europe Authors:Edward J. Riedl, Christopher S. Armstrong, Alan D. Jagolinzer, and Mary E. Barth Publication:The Accounting Review (forthcoming)... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses

Education offerings that teach scientists business and organizational fundamentals? What about joint MBA/Ph.D. programs? How about science/business seminars, more science-based cases, and more science-savvy faculty to teach them? We don't... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Biotechnology; Health

September 2003 (Revised November 2005)
Case

Best Buy Co., Inc. (A): An Innovator's Journey

By: Dorothy A. Leonard and Brian DeLacey

The CEO of Best Buy, a hugely successful retailing company, has hired consulting firm Strategos to imbue the company with an improved innovative capability. The six-month program of experimental learning yields new business ideas and also trains Best Buy employees as... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Management Teams; Creativity; Adoption; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Employees; Learning; Training; Programs; Retail Industry; United States