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  • 2022
  • Working Paper

When the Journey—And Not Just the Destination—Matters: How Internationalization Shapes Entrepreneurial Experimentation

By: Nataliya Langburd Wright and Laura Huang
Internationalization—gaining exposure to cross-border markets—is often the result of an entrepreneur’s experimentation and strategy around their core business. Scholars have shown how entrepreneurs develop products or services, and after achieving some traction, turn... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship And Strategy; Entrepreneurial Ventures; Entrepreneurial Journey; International Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Global Range; Strategy
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  • 02 Apr 2007
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Making the Move to General Manager

to go in the future." Launched in autumn 2006, GMP is a new executive education comprehensive leadership program designed to address the needs and concerns of precisely these managers. GMP's innovative... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • Research Summary

Learning Organizations

David A. Garvin is studying how companies pursue improvement and change through efforts to stimulate organizational learning. He has found the following activities to be common in learning organizations: intelligence gathering; experimentation; learning from... View Details

  • March 2013
  • Case

An Entrepreneur's New Product Development Journey

By: Elie Ofek
This case tracks the new product development process undertaken by Gauri Nanda, the founder and CEO of Nanda Home, as she ventures to innovate beyond her initial product launches. Having achieved commercial success with her first product Clocky, a roll away alarm clock... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Decision Making; Product Development; Manufacturing Industry; Consumer Products Industry
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  • 08 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Decision Rights: Who Gives the Green Light?

How a company decides who is authorized to make what types of decisions can have a profound effect on its business, both in terms of everyday effectiveness and the bottom line. Consider the experience View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
  • April 2018
  • Case

Hawk Electronics, Inc.

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and John J. Lafkas
Hawk Electronics ("Hawk") presents the problems that a company can encounter when its divisions have distinct strategies, especially when one division has been favored at another's expense. It also highlights how such problems can reflect cognitive biases, which... View Details
Keywords: Business Divisions; Resource Allocation; Strategy; Innovation and Management
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  • 17 Jan 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Being the Boss

shaking your head, so I have to ask, actively, if everything is OK. Q: What are you working on next? A: My next book is on leadership for innovation—on what kind of leadership is most appropriate if sustained breakthrough View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • Teaching Interest

DESIGN THEORY AND PRACTICE ES285

By: Roberto Verganti

Any organization, business or venture grounds its value on how “meaningful” are its products (functionally, symbolically and emotionally). Design Theory and Practice (DTP) empowers students to create products that are meaningful, to people who use them and to... View Details

Keywords: Integrated Design; Leadership; User Experience Design; Design; Strategy; Technology; Product Design
  • Web

Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

diffused into the image layer at the end of processing to neutralize the residual reagent, bring the processing action to a stop, form a protective surface layer, and create a stable, long-lasting print. The... View Details
  • 26 Jun 2017
  • Research & Ideas

How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food

That happened partly due to advances in refrigeration cases, but largely thanks to innovations in cellophane. What you don’t know about meat coloration chemistry might surprise you Hisano explains the situation with a brief chemistry... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Retail; Advertising
  • Blog

Leading in Tough Times: HBS Faculty Member Amy C. Edmondson on Psychological Safety

offer ideas. To avoid being branded as negative, we don't criticize the status quo. But every time we withhold our thoughts, we rob ourselves and our colleagues of small moments of learning. This stifles... View Details
  • Research Summary

Sustainability and Integrated Reporting

A sustainable strategy for a company is one that enables it to create value for shareholders over the long term while contributing to a sustainable society. In doing so, it must balance the needs of different types of providers of financial capital (e.g.,... View Details

Keywords: Sustainability; Sustainability Reporting
  • May 2023 (Revised June 2023)
  • Supplement

Novartis (C): Reimagining Medicine

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Claudio Feser, Karolin Frankenberger and David Redaschi
This case unfolds around the first-ever approved personalized cancer treatment, how Novartis wrapped it into a new business model design, and how Novartis scaled it. Novartis — one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world — is, among other ventures,... View Details
Keywords: Health Testing and Trials; Health Care and Treatment; Business Model; Problems and Challenges; Pharmaceutical Industry; Switzerland
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  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Business and Sustainability: New Business History Perspectives

By: Ann-Kristin Bergquist
This working paper provides a long-term business history perspective on environmental sustainability. For a long time, the central issues addressed in the discipline of business history concerned how business enterprises innovated and created wealth, as well as... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Business History; Perspective
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  • Web

Becoming an Entrepreneur - Alumni

emotional sustenance, and a team of expert advisors who can help you blaze your trail and stay on the path. Entrepreneurship at HBS Harvard Innovation Labs Harvard Innovation... View Details
  • Web

Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

This course is part of the CLIMB program and Strategy track. Introduction to Business Strategy ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your journey today! Business Strategy $1,850 Next 7-week session starts... View Details
  • May 2020
  • Article

Value-Based Health Care in Undergraduate Medical Education

By: Jessica N. Holtzman, Bhushan R. Deshpande, Jessica C. Stuart, Thomas W. Feeley, Mary Witkowski, Edward M. Hundert and Jennifer Kasper
Problem: Value-based health care (VBHC) is an innovative framework for redesigning care delivery to achieve better outcomes for patients and reduce cost; however, providing students with the skills to understand and engage with these topics is a challenge to... View Details
Keywords: Value-based Health Care; Health Care and Treatment; Higher Education; Curriculum and Courses
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  • Web

Nonprofit Strategy & Governance | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

performance measurement to drive innovation and have an outsized impact in a rapidly changing world. Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management Designed to strengthen the capacity of nonprofit CEOs and... View Details
  • 2017
  • Book

Entering StartUpLand: An Essential Guide to Finding the Right Job

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang
Many professionals aspire to work for startups. Executives from large companies view them as models to help them adapt to today's dynamic innovation economy, while freshly minted MBAs see magic in founding something new. Yes, startups look magical, but they can also be... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Managerial Roles; Job Search
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  • 03 Apr 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018

2018 London: Bloomsbury Academic Global History, Globally: Research and Practice Around the World By: Beckert, Sven, and Dominic Sachsenmaier, eds. Abstract— In recent years historians in many different parts of the world have sought to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne