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  • 20 Jul 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation

Thanks to technology and instant global communication, it has never been easier for companies to seek solutions to problems or find new ideas from sources outside their own corporate walls. But the art of managing these external innovation models is far from... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
  • 12 Feb 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Creating Value Across Borders

Europe and Africa because property rights are more difficult to enforce there. —Walter Kuemmerle The first difference is the development of capital markets and the transparency of these markets. In countries where family-owned... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • Research Summary

Developing Organizational Capabilities to Compete

By: Michael Beer

Michael Beer’s current research focuses on the question of what makes an Effective Organization. Based on his extensive research and practice about this question Beer has identified six highly interrelated core capabilities:

  1. Capacity of the... View Details
  • September 7, 2020
  • Article

Remote Networking as a Person of Color

By: Laura Morgan Roberts and Anthony J. Mayo
In remote work situations, where people cannot rely on impromptu elevator conversations or water cooler chats with coworkers, the answer isn’t to turn inward. In fact, the need for networking is even more important. In particular, our interactions with people whose... View Details
Keywords: Remote Work; Networking; Networks; Interpersonal Communication; Race
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  • 13 Jan 2021
  • Research & Ideas

How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding

capable of and what I expect from them,” he said. Flick sought many confidential conversations to restore self-confidence and harmony in the team. Especially in a diverse team of competing players, it was important to him to discuss each... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Sascha L. Schmidt, and Sebastian Flegr; Sports
  • 24 May 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends

response, it seems even more difficult to justify federal spending than otherwise. Q: What do you think your research has brought to the literature? A: The literature has had difficulty empirically identifying the effect of government... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Nov 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Decoding the Artful Sidestep

We heard question-dodging in the U.S. presidential debates not long ago. And everyone hears it in normal political discourse, in business meetings, and in typical daily life—but are people really listening? Sometimes, it seems, individuals who are asked a View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace

    Christina R. Wing

    Christina Wing is a Senior Lecturer in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. Her research focuses on families in business, and she is the creator of Demystifying the Family Enterprise, a course that explores... View Details

    • August 2012 (Revised August 2013)
    • Background Note

    Competency-Destroying Technology Transitions: Why the Transition to Digital Is Particularly Challenging

    By: Willy Shih
    Some technology transitions are exceedingly difficult for incumbent firms to execute. The bankruptcy filing by the Eastman Kodak Company highlighted the difficulty companies faced when their core business transitioned from an analog to a digital world. Kodak's business... View Details
    Keywords: Technology Transitions; Competency-destroying; Digital; Analog; Digital Transition; Modular; Modularity; Technological Change; Radical Innovation; Incremental Innovation; Architectural Innovation; Modular Innovation; Sustaining Innovation; Competency-enhancing; Noise Propagation; Perfect Copying; Digital Music; Digital Media; Consumer Electronics; Kodak; Sony; Panasonic; Disruptive Innovation; Technology Adoption; Transition; Change Management; Consumer Products Industry; United States
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    • 23 Jun 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO

    products, software, education, and media in North America and Europe, I've found the same pattern. Organizational pathologies—secrecy, blame, isolation, avoidance, passivity, and feelings of helplessness—arise during a difficult time for... View Details
    Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
    • January 2021
    • Case

    Saham Group: It's In the Genes

    By: Christina R. Wing and Gamze Yucaoglu
    The case opens in August 2020 as Moulay Mhamed Elalamy (Mhamed), CEO of the Saham Group (the Group), a pan-African investment company that operates a variety of businesses out of Morocco, contemplates the Group’s identity, its investment strategy, and how to navigate... View Details
    Keywords: Family and Family Relationships; Family Business; For-Profit Firms; Transformation; Transition; Emerging Markets; Change Management; Private Equity; Investment; Strategy; Insurance Industry; Real Estate Industry; Education Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Morocco; Africa
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    • 07 Jul 2023
    • Blog Post

    Fostering Candor in Teams and Organizations

    Candidates consider many factors when seeking new job opportunities – location, role, benefits, and compensation to name just a few. Yet there is another element that may be more difficult to explain on paper but is just as critical:... View Details
    Keywords: All Industries
    • 09 Dec 2020
    • Blog Post

    How to Create a Psychologically Safe Workplace

    Candidates consider many factors when seeking new job opportunities – location, role, benefits, and compensation to name just a few. Yet there is another element that may be more difficult to explain on paper but is just as critical –... View Details
    • 06 Oct 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea

    from Buy-IN: Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down By John P. Kotter and Lorne A. Whitehead Fear Mongering This kind of attack strategy is aimed at raising anxieties so that a thoughtful examination of a proposal is very difficult... View Details
    Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead
    • 30 Jul 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way

    But when I first started talking to doctors about a kidney exchange program, I would very quickly at the beginning of the conversation mention that I wasn't going to propose that we buy and sell kidneys—that I knew it was a felony.... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 25 Apr 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    Adjusting the Fit for Government

    society," Wagle added. "There are some very difficult places in Africa where the private sector is just not possible." Health, education and infrastructure should be under the wing of government, he said, with rules of... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 2025
    • Working Paper

    Algorithmic Assortment Curation: An Empirical Study of Buybox in Online Marketplaces

    By: Santiago Gallino, Nil Karacaoglu and Antonio Moreno
    Most online sales worldwide take place in marketplaces that connect sellers and buyers. The presence of numerous third-party sellers leads to a proliferation of listings for each product, making it difficult for customers to choose between the available options. Online... View Details
    Keywords: Algorithms; E-commerce; Sales; Digital Marketing; Internet and the Web; Customer Satisfaction
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    • 30 May 2013
    • Blog Post

    Launching into “career discovery” mode

    Phew! What a whirlwind of a month. Classes, extra-curriculars, and (more recently) Career & Professional Development (CPD) events are now in full swing here at HBS and it would be difficult to fit anything more in my calendar at this... View Details
    • May–June 2025
    • Article

    Algorithmic Assortment Curation: An Empirical Study of Buybox in Online Marketplaces

    By: Santiago Gallino, Nil Karacaoglu and Antonio Moreno
    Most online sales worldwide take place in marketplaces that connect sellers and buyers. The presence of numerous third-party sellers leads to a proliferation of listings for each product, making it difficult for customers to choose between the available options. Online... View Details
    Keywords: Algorithms; Marketplaces; Marketplace Matching; E-commerce; Demand and Consumers; Customer Focus and Relationships; Market Participation; Technology Adoption
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    • July 2020
    • Supplement

    Instabeat—Crossing the Finish Line

    By: Shikhar Ghosh, Nicole Tempest Keller and Alpana Thapar
    Lebanese entrepreneur Hind Hobeika was just 21 years old when she launched her startup, Instabeat, which had developed the first real-time bio-feedback device for swimmers to monitor and improve their performance. It had been an extremely testing 10-year journey to... View Details
    Keywords: Start-up; Wearables; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Information Technology; Information Infrastructure; Strategy; Operations; Management; United States; Lebanon
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