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- June 1997
- Teaching Note
Innovation in Action: Product Development Projects and Action-Based Learning, Instructor's Note
By: Marco Iansiti
As a project-based course, Managing Product Development has been carefully designed so that classroom discussion and students' project team activities infuse each other: learning from course materials enhances project activities, which in turn enrich subsequent...
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- October 2023 (Revised June 2024)
- Case
Catalent: Catalyzing the Next Era of Growth
By: Satish Tadikonda, William Marks and Kevin Emancipator
Catalent's newly appointed CEO, Alessandro Maselli, experienced the highs of the pharmaceutical contract development manufacturing (CDMO) space during COVID-19 while helping Moderna and others bring vaccines to market quickly and safely. After rushing to add capacity...
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Tadikonda, Satish, William Marks, and Kevin Emancipator. "Catalent: Catalyzing the Next Era of Growth." Harvard Business School Case 824-016, October 2023. (Revised June 2024.)
- October 2023 (Revised May 2024)
- Case
JSW Steel: Balancing Growth While Decarbonizing
By: Vikram S Gandhi and Radhika Kak
Sajjan Jindal, Chairman & Managing Director of JSW Steel, India's largest steel producer by market capitalization, was facing a dilemma. Steel demand in India was expected to grow exponentially over the next decade. However, given its traditional reliance on carbon,...
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Keywords:
Decisions;
Environmental Sustainability;
Investment;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Growth and Development;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Pollutants;
Steel Industry;
India
Gandhi, Vikram S., and Radhika Kak. "JSW Steel: Balancing Growth While Decarbonizing." Harvard Business School Case 824-002, October 2023. (Revised May 2024.)
- July 2024
- Case
RMZ 4.0: 'How fast do we want to run?'
By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott
In 2023, RMZ Corporation (“RMZ”) a large family-owned real estate firm based in Bengaluru, India, announced plans to transform from a commercial real estate developer to a diversified alternative asset owner. Over the next 5 years, RMZ looked to grow its real estate...
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Keywords:
India;
Transformation;
Growth And Development Strategy;
Diversification;
Change Management;
International Expansion;
Growth Management;
Family Business;
Talent and Talent Management;
Goals and Objectives;
Real Estate Industry;
India
Groysberg, Boris, and Sarah L. Abbott. "RMZ 4.0: 'How fast do we want to run?'." Harvard Business School Case 425-010, July 2024.
- 1989
- Book
Planning and Power in Iran: Ebtehaj and Economic Development under the Shah
By: Geoffrey Jones
This book provides a biography of Abol Hassan Ebtehaj, who headed Iran's central bank and Plan Organization during the 1940s and 1950s. It provides a wide-ranging survey of the problems of modernization and economic planning in Iran. Ebtehaj was at the center of...
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Keywords:
Crime and Corruption;
Decision Making;
Economics;
Central Banking;
Policy;
Political History;
Resignation and Termination;
Biography;
Books;
Surveys;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Planning;
Iran
Jones, Geoffrey. Planning and Power in Iran: Ebtehaj and Economic Development under the Shah. London: Frank Cass, 1989.
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why Evolutionary Software Development Works
industry in which the need for a responsive development process has never been greater. The researchers analyzed data from 29 completed projects and identified the characteristics most associated with the...
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Reflections: Toward a Normative and Actionable Theory of Planned Organizational Change and Development
By: Michael Beer
A normative and actionable theory of planned organizational change and development is proposed based on fifty years of engagement by the author as a scholar-consultant. Five principles are central features of the theory and practice proposed: 1) Organizations are...
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Keywords:
Consultant;
Process;
Systems;
Silence;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Leadership;
Learning;
Management Teams
Beer, Michael. "Reflections: Toward a Normative and Actionable Theory of Planned Organizational Change and Development." Journal of Change Management 21, no. 1 (2021).
- January 1989
- Background Note
Managing Information Technology: System Development
By: James I. Cash Jr. and Thomas H. Davenport
Provides an overview of the system development process in large organizations. Describes traditional life cycle approaches as well as more recent methods, e.g., prototyping. The objective is to familiarize students with the terminology and issues involving system...
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Cash, James I., Jr., and Thomas H. Davenport. "Managing Information Technology: System Development." Harvard Business School Background Note 189-132, January 1989.
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Growth of the Social Enterprise
challenges of multi-site nonprofits and the facilitators and barriers to effectiveness of various multi-site, nonprofit structures. The goal of this research is to develop a...
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by Carla Tishler
- November 1965
- Case
Caroline Development Corp.
By: Robert O. Schlaifer and Arthur Schleifer Jr.
Schlaifer, Robert O., and Arthur Schleifer Jr. "Caroline Development Corp." Harvard Business School Case 112-022, November 1965.
- May 1997
- Teaching Note
Product Development Performance, Instructor's Note
By: Marco Iansiti
Focuses on what constitutes product development performance and how it is assessed. Performance, as explained in both the note and in the materials for this three-session module, refers to the performance of both the product and the organizational process producing it....
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- October 2001 (Revised March 2002)
- Case
Siemens AG: Global Development Strategy (A)
By: Stefan H. Thomke and Ashok Nimgade
Describes how Siemens, the German electrical engineering giant, has developed and manages global R&D in its large Information and Communications Networks (ICN) division. In 1994, Siemens opened its Bangalore (India) center, which has now grown into one of its largest...
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Keywords:
Global Strategy;
Research and Development;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Product Development;
Telecommunications Industry;
Germany;
Bangalore
Thomke, Stefan H., and Ashok Nimgade. "Siemens AG: Global Development Strategy (A)." Harvard Business School Case 602-061, October 2001. (Revised March 2002.)
- Article
Cognition and Hierarchy: Rethinking the Microfoundations of Capabilities' Development
Gavetti, G. "Cognition and Hierarchy: Rethinking the Microfoundations of Capabilities' Development." Organization Science 16, no. 6 (November–December 2005): 599–617.
- Web
Professional Development - Alumni
managerial path for yourself, Harvard ManageMentor is designed to help you achieve your goals and drive business impact. View videos, use handouts and discussion guides, and...
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- 15 Sep 2016
- News
Report: US government inaction is hampering economic growth
- August 2009 (Revised September 2009)
- Case
Tenova: Mining for Growth in an Economic Crisis
By: Gary P. Pisano, Elena Corsi and Elisa Farri
In December 2008, Gianluigi Nova, CEO of Tenova SpA, a technology and equipment supplier to the metals and mining industry, had to choose between two options. The first was to continue growing in the company's core business: equipment for the steel production. The...
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Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Financial Crisis;
Leadership;
Crisis Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Market Entry and Exit;
Diversification;
Industrial Products Industry;
Mining Industry
Pisano, Gary P., Elena Corsi, and Elisa Farri. "Tenova: Mining for Growth in an Economic Crisis." Harvard Business School Case 610-021, August 2009. (Revised September 2009.)
- Article
Young and No Money? Never Mind: The Material Impact of Social Resources on New Venture Growth
By: Mukti Khaire
Although growth is a desirable outcome for new ventures due to the many advantages of large size, most new firms fail to grow, largely due to their limited resources and adaptability. This paper addresses the question of how new ventures grow despite their limited...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Entrepreneurship;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Status and Position;
Advertising Industry;
Chicago;
New York (city, NY)
Khaire, Mukti. "Young and No Money? Never Mind: The Material Impact of Social Resources on New Venture Growth." Organization Science 21, no. 1 (January–February 2010): 168–185.
- 1997
- Book
The Service Profit Chain: How Leading Companies Link Profit and Growth to Loyalty, Satisfaction, and Value
Heskett, J., W. E. Sasser Jr., and L. Schlesinger. The Service Profit Chain: How Leading Companies Link Profit and Growth to Loyalty, Satisfaction, and Value. New York: Free Press, 1997.
- 2008
- Working Paper
The Contingent Nature of Public Policy and Growth Strategies in the Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Banking Industry
By: Christopher Marquis and Zhi Huang
While effects of public policy are one of the foundations of organizational theory, less explored is how these effects may depend on other external environmental factors. We focus on how policy is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition to understand the growth... View Details
Keywords:
Banks and Banking;
Business History;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Business and Government Relations;
Banking Industry;
United States
Marquis, Christopher, and Zhi Huang. "The Contingent Nature of Public Policy and Growth Strategies in the Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Banking Industry." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-025, August 2008.
- 06 Oct 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?
be managed effectively on a continuing basis. As Richard Eckel put it, "'Disruptive' is the clue for why the proposed method of sustained growth will fail in most organizations ... B-schools graduate View Details
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by James Heskett