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Clusters - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

raise a company's productivity, which is influenced by local assets and the presence of like firms, institutions, and infrastructure that surround it. Key Concepts Clusters increase productivity and operational efficiency. Clusters... View Details

    Thomas R. Eisenmann

    Thomas R. Eisenmann is the Howard H. Stevenson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School; Peter O. Crisp Faculty Chair, Harvard Innovation Labs; and Unit Head of the HBS Entrepreneurial... View Details

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    Turnkey or Tailored? Relational Pluralism, Institutional Complexity, and the Organizational Adoption of More or Less Customized Practices

    By: Ryan Raffaelli and Mary Ann Glynn
    We examine how the organizational adoption of new practices is influenced by relational pluralism, i.e., an organization's multiple ties to actors inside and outside its industry. We theorize that institutional mechanisms of practice diffusion underlying relational... View Details
    Keywords: Networks; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business Processes; Adoption; Customization and Personalization
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      Winning in Emerging Markets: A Roadmap for Strategy and Execution

      Most books thus far on emerging markets are either investing-oriented, or country - or market-specific, or descriptive. No book has definitively targeted the corporate strategists who need a practical framework and assessment tools for analyzing emerging markets,... View Details

      • January 2000 (Revised April 2000)
      • Case

      StarMedia: Launching a Latin American Revolution

      By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Jon K Rust
      By the fall of 1999, StarMedia had sprinted to a sizable lead in the race to acquire Latin American Internet users. Its pan-regional, horizontal portal was the first to target Spanish- and Portuguese-language speakers on the Internet, registering 1.2 billion page views... View Details
      Keywords: Private Ownership; History; Risk Management; Business Cycles; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Infrastructure; Media; Emerging Markets; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Web; Information Technology Industry; Web Services Industry
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      • March 2007
      • Article

      Local Company Politics: A Proposal

      By: Raymond Fisman and Eric D. Werker
      Corrupt politicians, and poor government more generally, are commonly viewed as a primary barrier to economic progress. The roots to these problems run deep in many political systems across the developing world, and attempts at reform have rarely found much success.... View Details
      Keywords: Behavior
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        When Technology Gets Ahead of Society

        New technologies can be unsettling for industry incumbents, regulators, and consumers, because norms and institutions for dealing with them don't yet exist. Interestingly, businesspeople in emerging economies face similar challenges: The rules are unclear and... View Details
        • 31 Jan 2022
        • Research & Ideas

        Where Can Digital Transformation Take You? Insights from 1,700 Leaders

        Digitally mature companies have the right technical expertise (such as experienced data scientists or analysts), tools (dashboards and data visualization applications), and platforms (computing infrastructure and operating systems) to... View Details
        Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards
        • January 2009 (Revised June 2010)
        • Case

        Cisco Business Councils (2007): Unifying a Functional Enterprise with an Internal Governance System

        By: Ranjay Gulati
        In response to the 2001 market downturn, Cisco Systems implemented a major restructuring that transformed the company from a decentralized to centralized organization. While recognizing that a centralized, functional structure was necessary to avoid product and... View Details
        Keywords: Restructuring; Customer Focus and Relationships; Governing and Advisory Boards; Resource Allocation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Corporate Strategy; Technology Industry
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        Africa - Global

        other stakeholders where Prof. Macomber discussed his work on climate adaptation. Prof. Macomber’s research focuses on how companies and governments can integrate climate resilience into real estate and infrastructure projects to manage... View Details

          Nitin Nohria

          Nitin Nohria served as the tenth dean of Harvard Business School from 2010-2020. He previously served as co-chair of the Leadership Initiative, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development, and Head of the Organizational Behavior unit.

          As Dean, building on... View Details

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          Connect with Clubs - Recruiting

          Singhal ksinghal@mba2026.hbs.edu Nikole Naloy nnaloy@mba2026.hbs.edu Club Email htic@studentclubs.hbs.edu Impact Investing Club Co-Presidents Victoria Enoc-Ahiamadu venocahiamadu@mba2026.hbs.edu Julia Lawson-Johns jlawsonjohns@mba2026.hbs.edu Club Email... View Details
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          The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

          made, and the finished steel products. In the early twentieth century, steel provided the foundation for the construction of infrastructure and new cities in the West, the increased use of the automobile, and the production of materials... View Details
          • 15 Dec 2016
          • HBS Seminar

          Joel Isaac, University of Cambridge

          • 14 Feb 2022
          • Research & Ideas

          Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age

          imagine growth platforms. Build partnerships. No organization can go it alone. The COVID-19 pandemic reminds leaders of how organizational success depends on the resiliency of their ecosystems—a public sector able to provide basic View Details
          Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards; Technology
          • February 2019 (Revised May 2021)
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          Electric Car Wars, 2018

          By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
          Electric cars had long been championed by environmentalists as a superior solution to the internal combustion engine (ICE), but, despite large government incentives and strong pioneering efforts by a few automakers over the years, electric and hybrid cars and light... View Details
          Keywords: Electric Vehicle; Electric Vehicles; Electricity; Electric Motors; Electric Power Generation; Electricity Usage; Electricity Distribution; Internal Combustion Vehicle; Auto Manufacturing; Automobile Manufacturing; Automotive Industry; Tesla; General Motors; History; Nissan; Innovation; Batteries; Battery; Subsidies; Government Initiatives; Government Incentives; Political Issues; Energy Generation; Production; Infrastructure; Innovation and Invention; Government Legislation; Global Range; Business History; Auto Industry; China
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          • 15 Aug 2023
          • HBS Case

          (Virtual) Reality Check: How Long Before We Live in the 'Metaverse'?

          independent of the timing of the metaverse.” Companies like Nvidia (GPUs) and Epic Games (Unreal Engine) are doing this already, but a lot more is needed, he says. In that way, the business is actually investing in the future View Details
          Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Technology; Computer; Information Technology
          • 2024
          • Case

          EPCorp: What Story Does the Data Tell?

          By: Jacob M. Cook
          In EPCorp: What Story Does the Data Tell?, the Quick Case begins with Shivani Bahl researching problems with her company's website so that she can begin to analyze which option would help EPCorp most: selling all its products on Amazon or improving its own data... View Details
          Keywords: Distribution Channels; E-commerce; Analytics and Data Science; Decision Making
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          • 18 Sep 2012
          • News

          The Architecture of Innovation: The Economics of Creative Organizations

          • 24 Apr 2012
          • First Look

          First Look: April 24

          mitigate these frictions. Read the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-116.pdf Sustainable Cities: Oxymoron or the Shape of the Future? Authors:Robert G. Eccles, Annissa Alusi, Amy C. Edmondson, and Tiona Zuzul Publication:Chap. 18 in View Details
          Keywords: Carmen Nobel