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  • May 2006 (Revised November 2006)
  • Case

IKEA's Global Sourcing Challenge: Indian Rugs and Child Labor (A)

By: Christopher A. Bartlett, Vincent Marie Dessain and Anders Sjoman
Traces the history of IKEA's response to a TV report that its Indian carpet suppliers were using child labor. Describes IKEA's growth, including the importance of a sourcing strategy based on its close relationships with suppliers in developing countries. Details the... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Moral Sensibility; Policy; Employment; Contracts; Supply Chain Management; Organizational Culture; Natural Environment; Non-Governmental Organizations; Social Issues
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  • 08 Nov 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How to Fix a Broken Marketplace

An economic handyman of sorts, Alvin E. Roth fixes broken markets. As a Nobel Prize-winning pioneer in the field of market design, the Harvard Business School professor cofounded a kidney donation matching system for New England,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • January 2023 (Revised June 2024)
  • Case

Adams + Beasley Associates

By: Dennis Campbell and Iuliana Mogosanu
This case illustrates how a strong culture, founder-led SME designed and used a unique performance metric—the job security index—to manage through periods of economic uncertainty. The case centers specifically on how the job security index was used in an interactive... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Measurement and Metrics; Employee Ownership; Risk and Uncertainty; Small Business; Leadership; Organizational Culture
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Technology & Operations Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Management PhD in Organizational Behavior PhD in Health Policy Management PhD in Business Economics Executive Education PLD Module 5 20 MAY–25 JUL 2025 Authentic Leader Development 01–06 JUN 2025 View Details
  • Web

Skydeck - Alumni

Conn (MBA 1990) offers problem-solving mindsets for uncertain times Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations Chris Marinak (MBA 2008) , Chief Operations and Strategy Officer at Major League Baseball, on building and nurturing an View Details

    Alan D. MacCormack

    Alan MacCormack is the MBA Class of 1949 Adjunct Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, a member of The Digital, Data, and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard, and a core faculty member... View Details

    Keywords: automotive; communications; computer; e-commerce industry; electronics; high technology; information technology industry; internet; semiconductor; software; telecommunications; venture capital industry
    • 10 Feb 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: February 10

      Publications February 2015 RAND Journal of Economics Performance Responses to Competition Across Skill-Levels in Rank Order Tournaments: Field Evidence and Implications for Tournament Design By: Boudreau, Kevin J., Karim R. Lakhani, and... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 09 Jul 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization

    [Editor’s note: This is the third installment of a continuing series on issues that 600 CEOs told us keeps them awake at night. Today's topic: The challenges of making organizational decisions in this uncertain environment.] While we may... View Details
    Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
    • Web

    Strategy Curriculum - Faculty & Research

    Japan's Innovation Ecosystem (also listed under Marketing) Ramon Casadesus-Masanell January 2025 J 3.0 IFC: Saudi Arabia; Economic Diversification Tarun Khanna January 2025 J 3.0 Innovating at Scale Rebecca Karp Spring 2025 Q3 1.5 Leading... View Details
    • 16 Nov 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: November 16, 2010

    Publication:Journal of Public Economics (forthcoming) Abstract It is often difficult for donors to predict the value of charitable giving because they know little about the persons who receive their help. This concern is particularly... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 06 Apr 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: April 6

    Publications Managed Globalization: Doctrine, Practice, and Promise Authors: Rawi Abdelal and Sophie Meunier Publication: Journal of European Public Policy 17, no. 3 (April 2010): 349-366 Abstract Two alternate visions for shaping and explaining the governance of View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 2011
    • Working Paper

    The Institutional Logic of Great Global Firms

    By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
    Theories of the firm have been dominated by a legacy of ideas from early industrialization that pose zero-sum opposition between capital and labor (or capital and nearly everything else), differentiating the economy from society and often posing irreconcilable... View Details
    Keywords: Economy; Capital; Globalized Firms and Management; Labor; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Practice; Conflict of Interests; Social Issues; Theory
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    • 03 Feb 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: February 3, 2009

    behavior, distorted risk preferences, corrosion of organizational culture, and reduced intrinsic motivation. Rather than dispensing goal setting as a benign, over-the-counter treatment for motivation, managers and scholars need to... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 26 Mar 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

    March 2019 Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Thin Slices of Workgroups By: Satterstrom, Patricia, Jeffrey T. Polzer, Lisa Kwan, Oliver P. Hauser, Wannawiruch Wiruchnipawan, and Marina Burke Abstract—In this paper, we... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 11 Dec 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: December 11, 2007

    review classical and contemporary research from organizational theory, sociology and economics that have focused on geographic influences on organizations. We adapt Scott's (2001) influential three pillars... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 11 Mar 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: March 11, 2008

    technological outcome predicted by purely economic or organizational models. We also show that interactions of producers, users and institutions shape the development of collective frames around the meaning... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Web

    Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

    positive spillovers inside firms, while seeking to understand how technology is changing the ability to fragment work beyond traditional organizational boundaries. In addition to his position at HBS, Professor Stanton is a Faculty... View Details
    • March 2020
    • Case

    Voi Technology

    By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Olivia Hull
    Voi Technology, a fast-growing start-up out of Sweden, is competing in the highly contested European e-scooter sharing market. With a presence in nearly 40 cities in Europe by February 2020, the firm is working hard to improve its unit economics to reach profitability.... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Strategy; Technology Adoption; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Marketing Strategy; Business Plan; Product Marketing; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Energy Conservation; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Globalized Economies and Regions; Innovation Leadership; Human Capital; Laws and Statutes; Growth Management; Operations; Logistics; Service Operations; Supply Chain Management; Organizational Culture; Information Infrastructure; Transportation; Transportation Industry; Technology Industry; Europe
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    • 07 Mar 2023
    • Blog Post

    Deconstructing LEGO’s Decarbonization

    Group taught us some lessons that could be applied more broadly regarding scaling sustainable production: Spillover effects: Sustainability efforts often contain tradeoffs that have implications and externalities for other environmental efforts and View Details
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    2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

    economic inequality, driving environmental destruction, and sustaining systems of racial injustice. Join Professor Debora Spar and a panel of fellow alumni for a discussion about where business and society interact and occasionally... View Details