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Managing Health Care Delivery

Summary Today's health care organizations need leaders who can respond to the challenge of delivering greater value through a combination of higher quality, lower cost, and broader access. Managing Health Care Delivery will help you View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Health Care
  • Program

Leadership for Senior Executives

ways to lead organizational change Identify the factors that are standing in the way of innovation Learn from stories about organizations that have successfully or unsuccessfully adapted to change Strengthen... View Details
  • 22 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 22

to use credit to build assets and finance consumption. Moving Forward explores what caused the crisis and, more important, focuses on the path ahead. The challenge remains the same as ever: protect consumers, ensure fairness, and guarantee soundness of the financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Gary P. Pisano

    Gary Pisano is the Harry E. Figgie, Jr. Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School where he has been on the faculty since 1988. From 2018-2023, Pisano was Harvard Business School’s Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Promotion and... View Details

    Keywords: biotechnology; electronics; health care; manufacturing; pharmaceuticals
    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Where Strategy Matters: Evidence from a Global Startup Field Study

    By: Nataliya Langburd Wright
    The role of strategy for innovative startups is theoretically ambiguous and much debated among practitioners. I interviewed executives of 253 scaling software ventures from 34 countries and scored the alignment of their market and organizational choices to detect... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship And Strategy; Scaling Technology Ventures; Global Contextual Intelligence; Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Global Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy
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    • 08 Jan 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?

    We have written about how top NFL coaches try to stay relevant over time. Our empirical evidence supports the idea that most organizational leaders see a decline in performance as they get more tenured, but some are immune to this... View Details
    Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Abhijit Naik; Sports
    • November 2012
    • Article

    The Organization of Firms Across Countries

    By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
    We argue that social capital as proxied by trust increases aggregate productivity by affecting the organization of firms. To do this we collect new data on the decentralization of investment, hiring, production, and sales decisions from Corporate Headquarters to local... View Details
    Keywords: Decentralization; Social Capital; Theory Of The Firm; Firm Objectives, Organization, And Behavior; Business Economics; Management Of Technological Innovation And R＆D; Technological Change: Choices And Consequences; Diffusion Processes; Organizational Structure; Performance Productivity; Trust; Technology Adoption; Multinational Firms and Management
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    • September 2020 (Revised December 2020)
    • Case

    Hot Wheels at Mattel: Reinventing the Wheel

    By: Elie Ofek, Andres Terech and Nicole Tempest Keller
    In 2017, Chris Down, Global Brand General Manager for Hot Wheels, and his team from the Advanced Play Group within Mattel, Inc., were considering which innovation path to pursue in order to "future proof" the Hot Wheels franchise going forward. Hot Wheels was the... View Details
    Keywords: Toys; Industry Evolution; Innovation Strategy; Product Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Technological Innovation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Decision Making; Digital Transformation
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    • Research Summary

    Resource-Based Entrepreneurship

    By: Myra M. Hart
    Myra M. Hart is investigating the relationship between an entrepreneur's industry-specific experience and the success of large-scale startups. Her work focuses on the links between the entrepreneur's knowledge and reputation resources-developed in the same or a... View Details
    • 04 Sep 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Wellsprings of Creation: Perturbation and the Paradox of the Highly Disciplined Organization

    Keywords: by David James Brunner, Bradley R. Staats, Michael L. Tushman & David M. Upton
    • May 2016
    • Article

    'Both/And' Leadership

    By: Wendy K. Smith, Marianne Lewis and Michael Tushman
    Leaders face a multitude of strategic paradoxes—contradictory pressures that are too often viewed as "either/or" choices. There are innovation paradoxes, in which the pursuit of new offerings and processes conflicts with the mandate to sustain the tried and... View Details
    Keywords: Conflict of Interests; Goals and Objectives; Business Processes
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      Robert Simons

      Robert Simons is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School. For over 35 years, Simons has taught accounting, management control, and strategy execution courses in both the Harvard MBA and Executive Education Programs. For 2024/25, he is teaching a... View Details

        Christina R. Wing

        Christina Wing is a Senior Lecturer in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at the Harvard Business School. Her research focuses primarily on topics surrounding families in business, and the course she created, titled Demystifying the Family... View Details

        • April 2006
        • Case

        Adrian Ivinson at the Harvard Center for Neurodegeneration and Repair

        By: Robert Steven Kaplan and Ayesha Kanji
        Adrian Ivinson is the director of Harvard Center for Neurodegeneration and Repair (HCNR), a not-for-profit research center at the Harvard Medical School (HMS). The center was started in late 2000 with a gift of $37.5 million from an anonymous donor. Its mandate was to... View Details
        Keywords: Leadership Style; Power and Influence; Organizational Culture; Research and Development; Nonprofit Organizations; Motivation and Incentives; Change Management; Alignment; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Health Industry; Massachusetts
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        • April 1985 (Revised November 1987)
        • Case

        Sun Hydraulics Corp. (B)

        Fifteen years later, the company has achieved widespread recognition in the industry for its innovative designs, its quality products, and its highly ethical standards for business dealings. This case describes the organization, the plant, and current concerns. View Details
        Keywords: Technological Innovation; Ethics; Engineering; Organizational Culture; Technology Industry
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        • December 1978 (Revised January 1986)
        • Case

        Pepsi-Cola (A)

        By: Walter J. Salmon and Steven R. Palesy
        Combining aspects of a functionally organized marketing management system, with a franchised channel of distribution network. Focuses on extending an innovative promotional program to a market where competitive conditions differ. View Details
        Keywords: Innovation Strategy; Management; Marketing; Marketing Reference Programs; Network Effects; Distribution; Organizational Design; Franchise Ownership; Competition; Food and Beverage Industry
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        • 22 Aug 2011
        • Research & Ideas

        Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

        faculty across a wide spectrum of disciplines including business history, entrepreneurship, finance, and organizational behavior have made creativity and innovation primary subjects of focus. What is... View Details
        Keywords: by Michael Blanding
        • 06 Aug 2019
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Field-Level Paradox and the Co-Evolution of an Entrepreneurial Vision

        Keywords: by Ryan Raffaelli and Richard DeJordy; Manufacturing
        • June 1983 (Revised March 1985)
        • Supplement

        EMI and the CT Scanner (B)

        By: Christopher A. Bartlett
        Describes the development of the first CT Scanner by EMI, a company new to the medical industry, and EMI's entry into the U.S. market. The company's early success is threatened by the entry of a dozen competitors (some very large and experienced), by government... View Details
        Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Technological Innovation; Market Entry and Exit; Industry Structures; Product Development; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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        Do Supervisors Thrive in Participative Work Systems?

        By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Richard E. Walton
        This article presents the findings regarding the nature of the difficulties surrounding the supervisory role in participative work systems, a conceptualization of the supervisor/work group interface, and some action implications for the management of organizations.... View Details
        Keywords: Managerial Roles; Organizational Design; Management Practices and Processes; Innovation and Invention
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