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April 1999
Teaching Note

Understanding and Building Organizations' Capabilities to Innovate: Managing Innovation: Overview TN for Module 4

By: Clayton M. Christensen

An overview teaching note showing instructors how to link together the concepts students should learn from discussing the cases in the fourth module of the Managing Innovation course. Summarizes the "Resources, Processes, & Values" framework of organizational... View Details

Keywords: Competency and Skills; Framework; Innovation and Management; Management Practices and Processes; Resource Allocation; Value

February 2010 (Revised March 2012)
Case

Harvard Business School Executive Education: Balancing Online and Offline Marketing

By: John A. Deighton and Leora Kornfeld

How does a small business set its online media budget? The HBS Executive Education Division can be viewed as a small-to-medium sized business unit with annual revenues of $107 million. As we watch it change its culture, practices, and organization from offline to... View Details

Keywords: Transition; Marketing Strategy; Budgets and Budgeting; Technology Adoption; Digital Marketing; Resource Allocation; Information Technology Industry

July 1993 (Revised September 1995)
Supplement

Block 16: Environmental Groups' Perspectives

By: Malcolm S. Salter and Susan E.A. Hall

Supplements Block 16: Conoco's Green Oil Strategy (A). Provides the environmental groups' perspective on Conoco's Ecuadorian strategy. Designed to be distributed to students who will be playing the role of Ecuadorian environmentalists. View Details

Keywords: Resource Allocation; Marketing Strategy; Natural Environment; Environmental Sustainability; Perspective; Corporate Strategy

16 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 16

Categories on Resource Allocations (revised) Authors:Stephen M. Garcia, Max H. Bazerman, Shirli Kopelman, and Dale T. Miller Abstract This paper explores the influence of social categories on the perceived... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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FAQs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

also value in applying TDABC to low-volume care conditions. Since TDABC facilitates comparisons of costs with outcomes managers will be better able to make decisions about whether to expand or limit resources View Details

23 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

It’s Back to Business-Basics for Nonprofits

underlying economics of the organization," he said. In order to get a handle on how money is spent, he recommends that companies do a series of basic cost allocation exercises. One helpful exercise is for nonprofit leaders to measure... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

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The Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports - Course Catalog

those properties together introduce a unique set of challenges and opportunities for managers. Subsequent modules explore: How can entertainment businesses best allocate resources across a portfolio of... View Details

2017
Working Paper

Innovation, Reallocation and Growth

By: Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit, Harun Alp, Nicholas Bloom and William R. Kerr

We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth, and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A new and central economic force is the selection between high- and low-type firms, which differ in terms of their innovative capacity. We estimate the... View Details

Keywords: Entry; Growth; Industrial Policy; Innovation; R＆D; Reallocation; Selection; Business Ventures; Resource Allocation; Performance Productivity; Policy; Research and Development; Innovation and Invention; Growth and Development; United States

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15 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Are the Most Talented Employees the Highest Paid? Yes—If They’re Bankers

1.8 percent in the 1980s and in the 2000s, respectively. "We're observing what the market does," Vallée says. "And what the market seems to do is take the most talented engineers and allocate them to finance." View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking

01 Dec 2008
News

The CEO and the Functions of Leadership

are performed to a high standard. There is a vast literature on the choices, structures, and supporting systems involved in modern management, including strategy, organization structure, planning and resource allocation, and management... View Details

03 Jun 2014
First Look

First Look: June 3

and labor markets but find no evidence that product market efficiency affects the relative value of diversification. These results provide support for the theory of internal capital markets that argues that internal capital allocation... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

March 2008
Case

Novartis AG: Science-Based Business

By: H. Kent Bowen and Courtney Purrington

Novartis is a science-based drug company, which has important implications for its business strategy. It is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world with over $38B in sales in 2007. Pharmaceuticals account for slightly over $24B of that total. In 2007,... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Resource Allocation; Product Development; Partners and Partnerships; Research and Development; Science-Based Business; Pharmaceutical Industry

March 2000 (Revised January 2001)
Case

First USA and Internet Marketing

By: Rajiv Lal and Amy H. Nelson

Explores First USA's decision to use the Internet for acquiring customers. Tom Brenner needs to decide on the terms of the deals demanded by the portals and justify the recommendations to his boss. View Details

Keywords: Digital Marketing; Decision Choices and Conditions; Resource Allocation; Marketing Strategy; Internet and the Web

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December 2003 (Revised September 2004)
Case

Managing Segway's Early Development

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and David Kiron

Describes the early development of the Segway Human Transporter and focuses on the organizational issues that arise between the parent company and the new company that is being spun out to produce and market the Segway. Key issues are the distribution of bonuses and... View Details

Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Business Startups; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Resource Allocation; Organizational Design; Technology Adoption

23 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 23

Trichakis Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract This paper deals with a basic issue: How does one approach the problem of designing the "right" objective for a given resource View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Hacking AI with HBS IT | Information Technology

cases for the technology being discovered every day. The tech world continues to evolve, and HBS IT strives to remain at the forefront. The teams put their heads together and generated project ideas that fell into six buckets: communication, automated workflows,... View Details

06 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

For many investors planning for retirement, asset allocation is a crucial issue. How much should I put into stocks, bonds, and cash? But Harvard Business School professor Daniel Bergstresser says that households with substantial assets in... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

October 2001 (Revised September 2022)
Case

Le Petit Chef

By: Alan D. MacCormack, Sandra J. Sucher and Suraj Rangashayi

Brigitte Gagne, Le Petit Chef's director of microwave R&D, is deciding on the product development agenda for next year. She has to decide which of the available projects to fund, and evaluate the overall portfolio of projects currently under development. The recent... View Details

Keywords: Production; Product Development; Projects; Planning; Research and Development; Performance; Problems and Challenges; Management Teams; Resource Allocation