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- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
those one-out-of-ten firms grow into successful, sustained enterprises? Assistant professor Mukti Khaire believes that small companies can grow by developing intangible social resources such as legitimacy, status, and reputation. In an... View Details
- 22 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies
paper, "Communication (and Coordination?) in a Modern, Complex Organization," written by Harvard Business School postdoctoral fellow Adam M. Kleinbaum, and professors Toby E. Stuart and Michael L. Tushman. In an unnamed company with over... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 16 Aug 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Introduces Marketing Analysis Tools for Managers
Harvard Business Publishing has released new toolkits to help managers make key marketing decisions on market analysis, breakeven analysis, customer lifetime value, profit and pricing, and analyzing the competitive environment. The five toolkits were developed View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 1995
- Working Paper
Channel Transformation: Improving Supply-chain Performance by Redesigning Channel Replenishment Processes
By: T. H. Clark and J. H. Hammond
- 14 Nov 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations series
Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin
- 01 Dec 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?
mind in the face of the debate over immigration and outsourcing, essentially trade in labor. And it is prompted by a new book, A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World, by Gregory View Details
Keywords: by by Jim Heskett
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
"While companies might have an intended strategy, the strategy that actually emerges can be very different," says HBS professor Clark G. Gilbert. It is a topic that Gilbert and professor Joseph L.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War
In an effort to defend their core market from attack, newspaper companies were missing the new emerging market altogether.— Clark Gilbert Gilbert: The newspaper business worked for several reasons. First,... View Details
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry
came from IBM in the early 1960s with the introduction of the System/360, the first modular family of computer systems." And it was modularity, Baldwin and Clark explain, that made all the difference. "Under this approach,... View Details
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
thinking. How Managers' Everyday Decisions Create—or Destroy—Your Company's Strategy Authors:Joseph L. Bower and Clark Gilbert Periodical:Harvard Business Review 85, no. 2 (February 2007) Abstract Senior... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative
both Clark and Pfizer. The Clark Foundation had spent 25 years funding research to prevent tropical diseases and now had an opportunity to leverage this experience and see its research applied in affected... View Details
- 14 Jun 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Evolution Analysis of Large-Scale Software Systems Using Design Structure Matrices and Design Rule Theory
- 26 May 2022
- HBS Case
Apple vs. Feds: Is iPhone Privacy a Basic Human Right?
and political issues,” says Nien-hê Hsieh, the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at HBS, who coauthored the case. Staking out a clear social position can actually help a company’s bottom line, boosting employee morale,... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 08 Dec 2022
- HBS Case
The War in Ukraine and Nestlé’s Moral Dilemma: Stay or Leave Russia?
Nestlé, the world’s largest food and beverage company, faced a difficult choice last February as Russian tanks rolled across Ukraine, and the 24/7 news and social media cycle amplified the company’s every move. CEO Mark Schneider was petitioned directly View Details
- 04 Apr 2023
- Book
Two Centuries of Business Leaders Who Took a Stand on Social Issues
While shareholders still reign supreme at many companies, a widespread shift toward more responsible business practices is driving more leaders to take a stand on social and environmental issues today, says Harvard Business School Professor Geoffrey Jones. Jones... View Details
- 02 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
10 Trends to Watch in 2024
The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 25 Oct 2010
- HBS Case
Tesco’s Stumble into the US Market
poses its own obstacles for multinationals entering new geographies. Your recent case on Tesco highlights challenges faced by companies coming to do business in the United States. Tell us about the initial strategy to conquer the United... View Details
- 18 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Stuck in Commuter Hell? You Can Still Be Productive
Employees should think about work on the way to work by mentally mapping out a plan for their day. By using the travel time as an opportunity to get into the work mindset, employees are giving themselves a... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Jun 2024
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2024
As the vacation season looms, Harvard Business School faculty members share recommendations for a little light reading. Spoiler alert: Lessons in Chemistry tops two of their beach-read lists. For those whose brains can’t—or won’t—turn off, HBS faculty also suggest some... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 12 Apr 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Productivity Suffers When Employees Are Allowed to Schedule Their Own Tasks
working paper Discretionary Task Ordering: Queue Management in Radiological Services by María R. Ibáñez, a doctoral candidate at Harvard Business School; Jonathan R. Clark , an assistant professor at the... View Details