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    Christopher T. Stanton

    Christopher Stanton is Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. Professor Stanton's research streams focus on personnel economics, organizational economics, labor markets, and entrepreneurship. His MBA... View Details

    • 05 Jul 2006
    • Working Paper Summaries

    What’s Law Got to Do with It: A Systems Approach to Management

    Keywords: by Constance E. Bagley; Legal Services
    • 09 Jun 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: June 9, 2015

    Aligning Strategy and Sales By: Cespedes, Frank V. Abstract— Much current opinion asserts that strategy is less important (and may, in fact, be an impediment) in an era of... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 02 Jul 2024
    • Blog Post

    Climate Story #19: Nicole Neeman Brady (MBA 2008): The Critical Role of Business in Tackling Water Challenges

    ongoing board capacities. Steeped in the knowledge of what does and does not work in the quest for safe, reliable, and affordable drinking water, Nicole has been working to overcome the repeated challenges... View Details
    • March 2021
    • Article

    Experimenting During the Shift to Virtual Team Work: Learnings from How Teams Adapted Their Activities During the COVID-19 Pandemic

    By: Ashley V. Whillans, Leslie Perlow and Aurora Turek
    Past research has focused on understanding the characteristics of work that are fully virtual or fully collocated. The present study seeks to expand our understanding of team work by studying knowledge workers' experiences as they were suddenly forced to transition to... View Details
    Keywords: Team Work; Activities; Virtual Work; Digital Technologies; Groups and Teams; Health Pandemics; Internet and the Web; Adaptation
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    • August 2008
    • Article

    Ethnic Scientific Communities and International Technology Diffusion

    By: William R. Kerr
    This study explores the importance of knowledge transfer for international technology diffusion by examining ethnic scientific and entrepreneurial communities in the US and their ties to their home countries. US ethnic research communities are quantified by applying an... View Details
    Keywords: Information Technology; Ethnicity; Production; Integration; Knowledge Sharing; Patents; Employment; Performance Productivity; Entrepreneurship; Change; Developing Countries and Economies; Immigration; China; United States
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    • 27 Jan 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Hard Work Isn't Enough: How to Find Your Edge

    Passion Works Against You 6 Traits That Set Top Business Leaders Apart Why Managers Should Reveal Their Failures Related reading from the Working Knowledge Archives Looking Up and Looking Out: Career Mobility Effects View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • July 2009 (Revised August 2010)
    • Case

    Radiant Cosmetics: What's in a Pout?

    By: Robert C. Pozen and Mary Ellen Webster Hammond
    In 2006, Radiant Cosmetics president and CEO, Margaret Clark, was contemplating the launch of a new, lip-plumping product called "Four Carat Pout." Clark faced many decisions concerning the launch: marketing the product as a luxury brand or a retail item; how to... View Details
    Keywords: Global Strategy; Globalized Markets and Industries; Intellectual Property; Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
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      Julie Battilana

      Julie Battilana is the Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School and the Alan L. Gleitsman Professor of Social Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School, where she is also the founder and faculty... View Details

      • 11 Dec 2006
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Three Perspectives on Team Learning: Outcome Improvement, Task Mastery, and Group Process

      Keywords: by Amy C. Edmondson, James R. Dillon & Kathryn S. Roloff
      • 2010
      • Chapter

      Utilizing Team Member Expertise Under Pressure

      By: Heidi K. Gardner and Erin McFee
      Pressure intensifies on a strategy consulting team as they deliver a critical project, and the team manager faces a dilemma about her changing role on the team. Although she had been the key decision-maker in the early weeks of the project, Julia Narino now finds that... View Details
      Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Managerial Roles; Organizational Culture; Projects; Groups and Teams; Behavior; Customization and Personalization; Consulting Industry
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      • 28 Aug 2008
      • Working Paper Summaries

      How Can Decision Making Be Improved?

      Keywords: by Dolly Chugh, Katherine L. Milkman & Max H. Bazerman
      • 24 Sep 2001
      • Research & Ideas

      Five Questions for Debora L. Spar

      that both business and government need to realize that, at some stage, they will be working together. Smart businesses will realize that a completely apolitical strategy—a strategy that assumes governments will simply go away or get out... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
      • 22 Nov 2019
      • HBS Seminar

      Edward Glaeser (Paper Joint with Naomi Hausman), Harvard University

      • January–February 2019
      • Article

      Why Some Platforms Thrive and Others Don't

      By: Feng Zhu and Marco Iansiti
      In the digital economy, scale is no guarantee of continued success. After all, the same factors that help an online platform expand quickly—such as the low cost of adding new customers—work for challengers too. What, then, allows platforms to fight off rivals and grow... View Details
      Keywords: Digital Platforms; Competition; Network Effects; Competitive Strategy
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      • Teaching Interest

      MBA Elective Curriculum Business Marketing and Sales

      Business markets differ from consumer markets in important ways. Typically, the buying process is more complex, the buying units and purchase criteria differ, and marketing decisions are more closely interrelated with firm-wide strategic choices. In addition,... View Details

        Trading on Talent: Human Capital and Firm Performance

        How does a firm's human capital impact financial performance? By directly observing the employment and education trajectories of a significant proportion of U.S. public company employees from 1990 to the present, we explore the relationship between performance and two... View Details
        • July 2003 (Revised March 2004)
        • Case

        XM Satellite Radio (A)

        By: David B. Godes and Elie Ofek
        XM Satellite Radio is a radically new way to listen to radio. Management must develop a marketing strategy to launch the firm and the category. A crucial aspect of the strategy is to determine which of two business models the company will pursue. Should it focus... View Details
        Keywords: Advertising; Business Model; Decision Choices and Conditions; Cost Management; Marketing Channels; Marketing Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Partners and Partnerships; Sales; Competitive Strategy; Communications Industry
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          Kris Johnson Ferreira

          Kris Ferreira is the Edgerley Family Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management (TOM) Unit. She teaches the Supply Chain Management course in the MBA elective curriculum and analytics in numerous Executive Education... View Details

          Keywords: retailing
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          Fereshteh Zeineddin

          Why was earning your MBA here important to you? I was at a point in my career when I wanted to transition into brand management. I knew that to become a great brand manager, I needed to gain a better understanding of all View Details
          Keywords: Retail