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  • 15 Sep 2003
  • Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act

features described by Donham. Typically, they average 10 to 20 pages of text, with 5 to 10 additional pages of numerical exhibits. The best cases describe real, not fictitious, organizations and real business issues. "A good... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin

    Ranjay Gulati

    Ranjay Gulati is the Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration and the former Unit Head of the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. He is an expert on leadership, strategy, and organizational issues... View Details

    Keywords: biotechnology; computer; financial services; industrial goods; information technology industry; pharmaceuticals; professional services; retailing
    • 02 Jan 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Most Popular Articles of 2011

    fact, this redundant communication works to get projects completed quickly, according to new research by Harvard Business School professor Tsedal B. Neeley and Northwestern University's Paul M. Leonardi and... View Details
    Keywords: by Staff
    • 12 Nov 2021
    • Op-Ed

    Can Our Parenting Struggles Make Us Better Leaders?

    winning formula. This article originally appeared on LinkedIn. Follow Ranjay Gulati to read more of his posts. About the Author Ranjay Gulati is the Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class... View Details
    Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati; Air Transportation
    • 02 Jan 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2017

    Battilana. Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores In an age of time scarcity, buying our way out of the negative moments in the day is an important key to happiness, according to research by Ashley V. Whillans,... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 20 Oct 2010
    • Op-Ed

    Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

    Editor's Note: Christian Ketels wrote this paper for the World Bank's Development Debate, "What Do We Mean by Export Competitiveness and How Do Countries Achieve it in an Uncertain World?" held March 29, 2010. Ketels is... View Details
    Keywords: by Christian Ketels
    • 12 Jul 2020
    • Book

    The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

    What They Are Reading Jeff Bussgang Two of my books during the “summer of COVID” have been a deep case study into perhaps history’s greatest leader in crisis, The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz View Details
    Keywords: by Staff
    • 04 Oct 2007
    • What Do You Think?

    Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?

    Summing Up The clear consensus of those responding to this month's column is that managerial capitalism, as John Bogle terms it, has peaked. But what will follow it is less clear. Many doubt that the form of owners' capitalism represented View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett
    • 22 Aug 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

    funded by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, had spent more than double that to produce the spaceship, but it was worth it, they said, for the bragging rights. “The prizes had a real impact" —Josh Lerner... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 13 Jul 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative

    onto patients. To work, a public plan must be regulated and have independent governance, and, if it is well-designed, it might inspire competition from private insurers—leading to better value for patients. Regina E. Herzlinger, The Nancy View Details
    Keywords: by Staff; Health
    • 19 Oct 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

    went to Washington, I saw a tremendous need for fact-based analysis to inform policymaking” Last spring, Toffel sought to change that by taking the unusual step of convening academics and government regulators in the same room for a... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • November 2015 (Revised October 2017)
    • Case

    Nestle's Creating Shared Value Strategy

    By: Michael E. Porter, Mark R. Kramer, Kerry Herman and Sarah McAra
    This case considers Nestlé’s creating shared value (CSV) strategy, which focused on the three categories of nutrition, water, and rural development. In the packaged food and beverage industry, pressure had mounted since the 1990s to improve supply chain sustainability... View Details
    Keywords: Shared Value; Health And Wellness; Nutrition; Health; Labor; Environmental Sustainability; Strategy; Operations; Food and Beverage Industry; Switzerland; Europe; Africa; Latin America; North America; Asia
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    • 07 May 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    The Intellectual History of Harvard Business School

    theory" as advanced in the classic by Paul Lawrence and Jay Lorsch, Organization and Environment. This extraordinarily rich heritage has exercised an impact around the... View Details
    Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow; Education
    • 16 Jun 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

    Twenty years has provided time to judge the success or failure of Theodore Levitt's predictions of a global economy populated by standardized products and marketing approaches. For the colloquium, a number of Harvard Business School and... View Details
    Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
    • 04 Apr 2008
    • What Do You Think?

    Who Owns Intellectual Property?

    Summing Up Is intellectual property becoming community property? Is a new generation of users and consumers of intellectual property produced by new technologies bringing totally different assumptions and attitudes to bear on its... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett
    • 19 Jun 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems

    Paul R. Lawrence Conference: Connecting Rigor and Relevance in Institutional Analysis honored the memory of a prolific scholar and longtime HBS faculty member who, at the time... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
    • 12 Dec 2017
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

    Overall Cost Comparison of Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Procedures with Endoscopist- or Anesthesia-Supported Sedation by Activity-Based Costing Techniques By: Helmers, Richard A., James A. Dilling, Christopher View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • October 2016
    • Case

    The Quiet Ascension of LA Fitness

    By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
    In 2016, LA Fitness was the largest chain of non-franchised fitness clubs in North America, operating 676 clubs, serving 4.9 million members, and generating revenues of over $1.9 billion. Founded by Chinyol Yi, Louis Welch, and Paul Norris in 1984, the privately held... View Details
    Keywords: LA Fitness; Health Clubs; Fitness; Gyms; Chain; Exercise; Personal Training; Retention; Bally Total Fitness; 24 Hour Fitness; Planet Fitness; Buildings and Facilities; Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Customers; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Demographics; Age; Gender; Income; Residency; Borrowing and Debt; Capital; Capital Structure; Cash; Cash Flow; Cost; Private Equity; Financial Condition; Financial Liquidity; Financing and Loans; Investment Return; Price; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Location; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Business History; Employees; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Human Capital; Contracts; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Operations; Service Operations; Leasing; Private Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Sales; Salesforce Management; Situation or Environment; Opportunities; Sports; Strategy; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Segmentation; Information Technology; Mobile Technology; Technology Platform; Health Industry; United States; California; Los Angeles
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    • 13 Oct 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: October 13, 2010

    in use two years after the intervention. Business Groups in Emerging Markets: Paragons or Parasites? Authors:Tarun Khanna and Yishay Yafeh Publication:Chap. 20 in The Oxford Handbook of Business Groups, edited by Asli M. Colpan, Takashi... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 12 Jul 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: July 12

      PublicationsBlending Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Organizational Research Authors:Amy C. Edmondson and Tiona Zuzul Publication:In Encyclopedia of Strategic Management, edited by D. Teece and M. Augier. London: Palgrave,... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel