Publications

Educators

March 2000
Supplement

Types of Learning Processes

By: David A. Garvin and Jeffrey Berger

November 1992
Supplement

PPG: Developing a Self-Directed Work Force (C)

By: David A. Garvin and Norman Klein

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

January 1991
Teaching Note

Day at Midwest Equipment Corp., Teaching Note

By: David A. Garvin and Norman Klein

December 1990
Teaching Note

American Food and Grains: Commodity and Ingredient Procurement, Teaching Note

By: David A. Garvin and Norman Klein

October 1997 (Revised May 1998)
Case

Decision Making at the Top: The All-Star Sports Catalog Division

By: David A. Garvin and Michael Roberto

Describes a senior management team's strategic decision-making process. The division president faces three options for redesigning the process to address several key concerns. The president has extensive quantitative and qualitative data about the process to guide him... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Management Teams; Performance Improvement; Planning; Mathematical Methods; Strategy

Educators

November 1996 (Revised December 1996)
Case

SAP America

By: David A. Garvin and Artemis March

SAP America has grown at an explosive rate. This case describes the company's strategy, organization, and culture, with special attention to its approach to partnering and its sales and consulting process, which have been instrumental in allowing growth to proceed. Now... View Details

Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Change Management; Entrepreneurship; Growth Management; Demand and Consumers; Organizational Culture; Alliances; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; United States

August 1996 (Revised February 2000)
Exercise

Decision-Making Exercise (C)

By: David A. Garvin and Michael Roberto

Provides questionnaires so students can compare their experiences with different decison-making processes. Students read "Growing Pains," a Harvard Business Review (HBR) case study, and then work in teams to come up with recommendations using a consensus approach to... View Details

Keywords: Conflict Management; Decision Making; Management Skills

September 15, 2021
Article

Improving Deconvolution Methods in Biology Through Open Innovation Competitions: An Application to the Connectivity Map

By: Andrea Blasco, Ted Natoli, Michael G. Endres, Rinat A. Sergeev, Steven Randazzo, Jin Hyun Paik, N.J. Maximilian Macaluso, Rajiv Narayan, Xiaodong Lu, David Peck, Karim R. Lakhani and Aravind Subramanian

A recurring problem in biomedical research is how to isolate signals of distinct populations (cell types, tissues, and genes) from composite measures obtained by a single analyte or sensor. Existing computational deconvolution approaches work well in many specific... View Details

Keywords: Deconvolution; Methods; Open Innovation Competition; Genomics; Research; Innovation and Invention

Read Now

January 2012 (Revised March 2013)
Case

Ctrip: Scientifically Managing Travel Services

By: David A. Garvin and Nancy Hua Dai

Ctrip is a $437 million Chinese on-line travel services company with a scientific, data driven approach to management. The case explores Ctrip's founding and early growth, its expansion into multiple market segments including hotel reservations, air ticketing, leisure... View Details

Keywords: Scientific Management; Data-driven Management; Management; Expansion; Business Growth and Maturation; Market Entry and Exit; Mathematical Methods; Business Processes; Information Management; Travel Industry; China

Educators

May 2010
Teaching Note

The Center for Creative Leadership (TN)

By: Srikant M. Datar and David A. Garvin

Teaching Note for [308013]. View Details

Keywords: Creativity; Leadership Development; Problems and Challenges; Organizations; Research; Programs; Design; Service Delivery; Business Education

October 2006
Article

Meeting the Challenge of Corporate Entrepreneurship

By: David A. Garvin and Lynne C. Levesque

Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Entrepreneurship; Business Ventures

March 1982
Background Note

Discounting Concept and Industrial Disinvestment

By: Robert H. Hayes and David A. Garvin

Keywords: Investment

23 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

in press Journal of Experimental Psychology: General Pseudo-Set Framing By: Barasz, Kate, Leslie John, Elizabeth A. Keenan, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Pseudo-set framing—arbitrarily grouping items or tasks together as part of an... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

2007
Working Paper

Is Yours a Learning Organization?

By: Amy Edmondson, David A. Garvin and Francesca Gino