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  • June 1993 (Revised April 1998)
  • Case

COMCO Holding AG (B): COMCO Martech

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
COMCO Martech was a new breed of joint venture for COMCO Holding, a mid-sized Swiss-German company that had grown over a five-year period through tie-ups with small, start-up companies. Whereas a typical COMCO venture provided services to a large German retailer, was... View Details
Keywords: Joint Ventures; Business Startups; Trade; Operations; Environmental Sustainability; Business or Company Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Partners and Partnerships; Switzerland; United States; Europe
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  • December 1994
  • Case

AB SKA (Sweden)

By: David F. Hawkins, V.G. Narayanan and Robert L. Simons
A senior manager faces three accounting and control decisions related to a new R&D project: to expense or capitalize, how to implement management control over the R&D function, and how to use activity-based cost drivers for product costing. View Details
Keywords: Cost Accounting; Management Practices and Processes; Cost Management; Activity Based Costing and Management; Research and Development; Sweden
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  • 06 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

highlight the pros and cons of each knowledge production model, help identify the scope of the empirical generalization of prior studies comparing the information quality of the two production models, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2017
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

to think. He describes a dramatically new organizational model, based on new technologies, which will provide organizations with unprecedented levels of self-awareness and sentience, the ability to sense,... View Details
  • Web

Leading Change and Organizational Renewal | HBS Online

This course is part of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation and Leadership & Management track. Introduction to Leading Change and Organizational Renewal ENROLL NOW No application... View Details
  • 01 Feb 1997
  • News

Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making

are actively collaborating with members of the Entrepreneurial Management unit. Michael Wheeler, a lawyer and specialist in real-estate development, investigates the conflicts... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • 21 Apr 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now

leaders manage these conversations effectively. Drawing on our insights and those of others, we offer this guide to help leaders have the kinds of discussions we need to be having right now. The four I’s of... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams, and Katherine Connolly Baden
  • April 1998 (Revised September 1998)
  • Case

Classic Pen Company, The: Developing an ABC Model

By: Robert S. Kaplan
Classic Pen has diversified from its core blue and black pen business by introducing new specialized colors. But costs have risen and margins on blue and black pens are decreasing. The controller turns to activity-based costing (ABC) for an explanation. View Details
Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Manufacturing Industry
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  • 29 Mar 2023
  • News

Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria

Gumrah. “We also supported NGOs, local authorities, and municipalities based on their needs, such as hygiene products, medicines, shelters and clothes.” The company also... View Details
  • 05 Mar 2019
  • Blog Post

Part 2: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - The Path to Your Goals

and other activities to maximize your return on investment.  However, based on your experiences in the military and in life, you may feel that a... View Details
  • April 1990 (Revised April 1993)
  • Case

Bridgeton Industries: Automotive Component & Fabrication Plant

Bridgeton Industries was experiencing reduced sales. To become more competitive it introduced a classification procedure for products based upon their productivity and other factors. Products were classified into three groups: world class, potentially world class, and... View Details
Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Competition; Cost Management; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry
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  • 01 Jun 1997
  • News

Blockbuster Deals

A wave of mergers is sweeping the country, activity that recalls the 1980s, the 1960s, and even, some say, the empire-building of a century ago. In the following article, nine HBS professors comment on the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
  • 02 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

environmental regulation. Previously, it was believed that corporate managers resisted the extra costs imposed by environmental regulation from the 1960s. This argument was primarily View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Robert S. Kaplan

    Robert S. Kaplan is Senior Fellow and Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. He joined the HBS faculty in 1984 after spending 16 years on the faculty of the business school at Carnegie-Mellon University, where he... View Details

    Keywords: health care; nonprofit industry
    • 11 Nov 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers

    colleagues highlights the pivotal role played by such gatherings in creating winners and losers in the platform world. “Platform Diffusion at Temporary Gatherings: Social Coordination and Ecosystem... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology
    • 04 Oct 2024
    • In Practice

    Research-Based Advice for the Seasonally Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged

    ambition. “Hubris and the ubiquity of devices configured to interrupt us make focused work a near impossibility for many.” Time management principles at work are well understood, just terribly hard to... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 03 Oct 2023
    • Blog Post

    Hire an MBA: The Benefits and Misconceptions for Startups

    Startups are exciting to HBS MBA students for many reasons, including the opportunity for impact, exposure to multiple functions, and the ability to practice skills they are learning at HBS. But, why should a startup hire an HBS MBA?... View Details
    Keywords: All Industries; Entrepreneurship
    • Web

    Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    states. Landman has worked with health technology companies ranging from early stage to post-IPO, and he has been an active contributor to the Huffington Post, Xconomy, and the... View Details
    • 24 Mar 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility

    socially responsible a company was. Marquis and his fellow researchers based their inquiry on a similar study regarding individual decision-making done by UCLA economist Keith Chen. In a paper published in... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 01 Dec 1997
    • News

    Growing Together

    Gleason (MBA '97) is finding a way to make both a profit and a difference. Last fall, as a part of HBS associate professor Marco Iansiti's Managing Product Development course, Gleason created a model for a... View Details
    Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry