Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (817) Arrow Down
Filter Results: (817) Arrow Down Arrow Up

Show Results For

Show Results For

← Page 3 of 817 Results →
  • May–June 2018
  • Article

Layoffs That Don't Break Your Company: Better Approaches to Workforce Transition

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
Today layoffs have become companies’ default response to the challenges created by advances in technology and global competition. Yet research shows that job cuts rarely help senior leaders achieve their goals. Too often, they’re done for short-term gain, but the cost... View Details
Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Employees; Transition; Strategic Planning
Related
  • November 2015 (Revised April 2018)
  • Case

Flipkart (A): Transitioning to a Marketplace Model

By: Das Narayandas, Sunil Gupta and Rachna Tahilyani
In 2015, Sachin and Binny Bansal, co-founders of India’s largest e-commerce company, are wondering if it is time to move from a hybrid model to a full marketplace. While Amazon runs a hybrid model, Alibaba operates a marketplace. In addition, Flipkart has been losing... View Details
Keywords: Marketplaces; Online Retail; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Emerging Markets; E-commerce; Retail Industry; India
Related
  • 09 Jan 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Economic Transition and Private-Sector Labor Demand: Evidence from Urban China

Keywords: by Lakshmi Iyer, Xin Meng, Nancy Qian & Xiaoxue Zhao
  • October 2023 (Revised March 2024)
  • Case

KOKO Networks: Bridging Energy Transition and Affordability with Carbon Financing

By: George Serafeim, Siko Sikochi and Namrata Arora
The problem was massive: two million hectares of African forests were lost annually to charcoal production for cooking, an area equivalent to 13 times Greater London, resulting in one billion tons of carbon emissions yearly. At the same time, an estimated 700,000... View Details
Keywords: Clean Tech; Digital; Carbon Credits; Carbon Offsetting; Africa; Emerging Markets; Energy; Climate Change; Entrepreneurship; Energy Sources; Environmental Sustainability; Health; Market Design; Business Startups; Transition; Environmental Regulation; Policy; Energy Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Africa; Kenya; Rwanda
Related
  • 04 Aug 2014
  • Video

Andres Sarmiento describes his experience founding a technology start-up

  • March – April 2008
  • Article

Customer Preference Discontinuities: A Trigger for Radical Technological Change

By: Mary Tripsas
What factors cause a mature industry to re-enter a period of technological turbulence? This paper addresses this question by developing a model of technological evolution that incorporates both technological trajectories and a new concept: preference trajectories, ... View Details
Keywords: History; Technology; Transition; Consumer Behavior; Industry Structures; Product Development
Related
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Senior Team Emotional Dynamics and Strategic Decision Making at a Platform Transition

By: Timo O. Vuori and Michael L. Tushman
Based on an inductive case study, we develop an emotional-temporal process model of an incumbent’s strategic decision making at a platform transition. We describe the senior team’s emotional response to this transition and the impact of these emotions on their... View Details
Keywords: Emotions; Decision Choices and Conditions; Transition; Digital Platforms
Related
  • 2024
  • Report

The Eco-Digital EraTM: The Dual Transition to a Sustainable and Digital Economy

By: Suraj Srinivasan, Andy Feinstein, Amol Khadikar, Jiani Zhang, Noémie Lauer, Hiral Shah, Sally Epstein, Jerome Buvat and Vaishnavee Ananth
Since the proliferation of smartphones and social media in the late 2000s, digital has captured an increasingly large portion of the economy. In this Capgemini Research Institute report, The Eco-Digital EraTM: The dual transition to a sustainable and... View Details
Keywords: Technology Adoption; Digital Transformation; Environmental Sustainability; Trends
Related
  • July 1981
  • Background Note

Competitive Status of the U.S. Automobile Industry--1981: Crisis and Transition

By: Kim B. Clark
Examines the competitive status of the U.S. auto industry in 1979-80. Provides information on the historical background of the current crisis using data on the United States and Japan. Discusses the competitive position of the U.S. industry in terms of productivity,... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Auto Industry
Related
  • 21 Nov 2019
  • Blog Post

The Power of Business in the Energy Transition

approached with pragmatism, innovation, and broad coalitions in order to deliver the optionality that different countries and regions need to meet aggressive goals. A wide range of technologies must continue to be invested in and... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing; Energy / Cleantech
  • September 2024 (Revised March 2025)
  • Case

Epic: The Future of Health Information Technology

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Brian L. Walker
How should the founder and leadership team of a health IT company with more than 45 years of market leadership prepare for the future, while navigating founder transitions and industry changes? Founded by Judy Faulkner in the late 1970s, Epic pioneered electronic... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Private Ownership; Customer Focus and Relationships; Information Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competition; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry
Related
  • December 2022
  • Technical Note

Risks and Opportunities from the Transition to a Low Carbon Economy: A Business Analysis Framework

By: George Serafeim
The transition to a low carbon economy introduces many risks and opportunities for businesses. Risks emerge from regulatory actions, such as carbon taxes and cap and trade systems, technological innovation that develop alternatives for customers making existing... View Details
Keywords: Risk Assessment; Opportunities; Environmental Sustainability; Carbon Footprint; Risk Management; Competitive Dynamics; Business Analysis; Climate Change; Accounting; Finance; Valuation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Technological Innovation; Transition; Product Positioning; Renewable Energy; Analysis
Related
  • May 2017 (Revised May 2019)
  • Supplement

Intuit: QuickBooks (B)

By: David Yoffie and Nicole Tempest Keller
This short case updates the earlier Intuit case on transitioning from a product company into a platform company. In addition to providing information on the recent successes and challenges of the business, it also explores a new challenge of building a platform with a... View Details
Keywords: Platform; Strategic Transition; Strategy; Digital Platforms; Transition
Related
  • October 1989
  • Case

Olivetti (C): The Transition Concerto, 1st and 2nd Movements

By: Malcolm S. Salter and Roy V. Eales
Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Information Technology Industry
Related
  • January 2018 (Revised May 2018)
  • Case

AT&T Managing Technological Change and the Future of Telephone Operators in the 20th Century

By: Daniel P. Gross and William R. Kerr
By the 1930s, AT&T dominated the American phone industry, serving 10 million telephones and employing over 100,000 switchboard operators. But beginning in the mid-1910s, the company began changing from manually operated switchboards to mechanical switching systems that... View Details
Keywords: AT＆T; Bell Telephone; Phone Lines; Phone Operators; Mechanical Switching; Layoffs; Technological Change; Transition; History; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Disruption; Change Management; Communications Industry; Telecommunications Industry; United States
Related
  • 22 Jan 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China

technology transfer? It is one of the easiest policy levers we have to influence our nation's rate of innovation. A: Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, and similar smaller economies have achieved a full View Details
Keywords: Re: William R. Kerr; Technology; Technology
  • 16 Nov 2021
  • Blog Post

How HBS Supported My Career Transitions During and After Graduation

important foundation, as I work with a large variety of platforms in different verticals. EC (second) year, I took Strategy & Technology with Professor Yoffie, which was my first introduction to the power of the platform business... View Details
  • Web

Tulsa Massacre | Information Technology

Leadership, Culture, and Transition at lululemon Professor Michael L. Tushman, Ruth Page, Tom Ryder Terror at the Taj Professor Rohit Deshpande Lupoli Companies: Riverwalk - Making an Impact Professors Richard Ruback and Marco Di Maggio,... View Details
  • Web

Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s Leadership View Details
  • Web

Featured Cases | Information Technology

Ryan Raffaelli, Dave Habeeb, Ruth Page Terror at the Taj Bombay Professor Rohit Deshpande Leadership, Culture, and Transition at lululemon Professor Michael L. Tushman, Ruth Page, Tom Ryder View Details