Publications

Educators

22 Feb 2023
Blog Post

Meet the Disability Advocacy and Affinity Group (DAAG)

for disability justice in the workplace, and I’m now focusing on making HBS a more inclusive place for students, faculty, and staff with disabilities. Jeremy Fischer (MBA 2023) - VP of Academics and Research My primary focus within DAAG is on View Details

Web

Shad Hall | About

development initiatives, including the John Shad Professorship of Business Ethics, new required and elective MBA courses, a video archive of exemplary business practices, and an awards program honoring managers, academics, entrepreneurs,... View Details

April 1992 (Revised July 1992)
Case

U.S. Robotics, Inc.

U.S. Robotics (USR) is a fast-growing $80 million computer communications company with the aggressive growth target of becoming a $500 million company by 1995. It is widely accepted as the technology leader in its market, and relies strongly on its ability to bring... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Expansion; Product Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Computer Industry; Communications Industry; United States

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Esteves Hall | About

has produced numerous research cases and other educational materials on management and economic issues in Brazil and other countries in the region. “Education is an essential ingredient in the development of people, the growth and success... View Details

February 1984 (Revised February 1986)
Case

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.: Titanium Dioxide

By: W. Carl Kester, Robert R. Glauber, David W. Mullins Jr. and Stacy S. Dick

Disequilibrium in the $350 million TiO2 market has prompted Du Pont's Pigments Department to develop two strategies for competing in this market in the future. The growth strategy has a smaller internal rate of return than the alternative strategy due to large capital... View Details

Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Cash Flow; Investment Return; Growth and Development Strategy; Strategic Planning; Projects; Chemical Industry

Educators

2023
Book

Your True Moral Compass: Defining Reality, Responsibility, and Practicality in Your Leadership Moments

By: Joseph L. Badaracco

This book presents a new, powerful, and practical way of making final decisions on the hard, complex, uncertain problems of life and work. What if you have looked at the data, talked with trusted colleagues, and applied all the relevant managerial and ethical... View Details

Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Decisions; Work-Life Balance; Values and Beliefs

31 Jul 2023
News

Striving for Imperfection

1980s, there was much more clarity about industry boundaries and industry definition. And when you were developing strategy, you tended to know who the competitors were in your space. Fast forward 30 or 40 years, the world we’re in now is... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

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Continuing Education - Business & Environment

and learn how to incorporate them into investment decisions and measure and manage their impact. Power and Influence for Positive Impact Online Understand how power really works and develop your own to gain influence and make an impact... View Details

January 2004 (Revised November 2004)
Case

Rwandan Tea Industry, The: Looking into the Future

By: Debora L. Spar

In 2003, the Rwandan government was focused on transforming the nation's tea industry into a world-class competitor. To accomplish this objective and stave off the downward prices that plagued the international tea market, the government believed that the industry... View Details

Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Market Entry and Exit; Competitive Strategy; Privatization; Government and Politics; Developing Countries and Economies; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Rwanda

January 2023 (Revised January 2024)
Case

Digital Transformation at Tata Steel

By: Krishna Palepu, Das Narayandas, Radhika Kak and Rachna Tahilyani

T.V. Narendran, CEO of Tata Steel, India’s oldest steel manufacturing firm, had taken concrete business and cultural transformation steps to future-ready the firm since taking over in 2013. He had deleveraged and instilled financial discipline, acquired new businesses,... View Details

Keywords: Digital Transformation; Digital Strategy; Change Management; Growth and Development Strategy; E-commerce; Steel Industry; Asia; India

Educators

11 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

a company? A: The OSM is analogous to a military general's chief of staff. The general is responsible and accountable for developing the strategy to win wars and battles. But a general almost always has a chief-of-staff, often several... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

04 Apr 2024
News

The Making of a Medical Milestone

first discovered at the ALS Therapy Development Institute and in part funded by the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. The drug shows promise as a treatment for neurological diseases like ALS in addition to organ transplant. Researchers at the... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

10 Aug 2017
Cold Call Podcast

Pal's Sudden Service: Taking Fast Food to the Next Level

Keywords: Re: Gary P. Pisano; Food & Beverage

December 1988
Article

Strategic Responses to Automobile Emissions Control: A Game-Theoretic Analysis

By: Dennis Yao

This paper examines the dynamics of standard-setting regulation under technological uncertainty and asymmetric information about technological capability. A two-period model which allows fully strategic action is developed and applied to the regulation of automobile... View Details

Keywords: Transportation; Pollutants; Standards; Governance Controls; Technological Innovation; Research and Development; Mathematical Methods

09 Oct 2020
Blog Post

4 Things To Know About the MS/MBA Biotech

paying a stream of medical bills. My aversion to health care growing up, juxtaposed by the cost-free, quality care I received later in life as a US citizen, is why I want to work towards improving the health care system. I studied Biology in undergrad and View Details

22 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

Does Spirituality Drive Success?

discussed how their spirituality helped them evolve as leaders. "There are so many pressures on you as a leader to lose your compassion and develop a thick skin, to lose your capacity for doubt and curiosity," said Dr. Ronald... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace, Sean Silverthorne & Wendy Guild

17 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Being the Boss

large high-tech company told us of a discussion she once had with her head of HR. Her company had installed a program to encourage broader participation in decision making, and she was frustrated that product development seemed to be... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

March 2013
Article

Misvaluing Innovation

By: Lauren Cohen, Karl Diether and Christopher Malloy

We demonstrate that a firm's ability to innovate is predictable, persistent, and relatively simple to compute, and yet the stock market ignores the implications of past successes when valuing future innovation. We show that two firms that invest the exact same in... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; Return Predictability; R＆D; Information; Forecasting and Prediction; Research and Development; Innovation and Invention