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  • July 2000 (Revised September 2005)
  • Case

Madison Avenue: Digital Media Services (A)

Introduces a "new-economy" company, Madison Avenue, facing challenges of mega-success. In the two years since its founding, the company's revenues have grown from zero to nearly $30 million, head count has swollen from the start-up handful to more than 200, and the... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Online Advertising; Advertising Industry
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  • 10 Aug 2009
  • Research & Ideas

High Commitment, High Performance Management

value, though they all understand profit as an essential outcome. HCHP firms are able to show sustained performance because they achieve the following three paradoxical goals: Performance alignment: Managing with their head, leaders View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace

    Omar Olivarez

    Omar Olivarez is a doctoral candidate in the Technology & Operations Management unit. His interests lie at the intersection of automation, labor, innovation, and managerial views of the firm. Omar received his BBA in Management Information Systems from The... View Details
    • September 1990 (Revised March 1993)
    • Case

    General Electric Plastics: Organizing the Marketing Function

    By: V. Kasturi Rangan
    Describes the rapid growth of General Electric Plastics for over the last decade to a $5 billion (sales) company. The accompanying organizational transitions are described. The task is to design a marketing organization for the coming decade given the anticipated... View Details
    Keywords: Transition; Marketing Strategy; Organizational Design; Growth and Development Strategy
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    • Article

    The Importance of Being Causal

    By: Iavor I Bojinov, Albert Chen and Min Liu
    Causal inference is the study of how actions, interventions, or treatments affect outcomes of interest. The methods that have received the lion’s share of attention in the data science literature for establishing causation are variations of randomized experiments.... View Details
    Keywords: Causal Inference; Observational Studies; Cross-sectional Studies; Panel Studies; Interrupted Time-series; Instrumental Variables
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    • 2013
    • Case

    Ningbo FOTILE Kitchen Ware Co., Ltd.

    By: F. Warren McFarlan, Zheng Xiaoming, Yuren Fang and Hong Zhang
    Since 2008, FOTILE has actively introduced philosophies of the traditional Chinese culture—such as benevolence, justice, courtesy, wisdom and faith—into its management, which it believes to compensate for deficiencies in Western management concepts and creates a new... View Details
    Keywords: Human Resource Management; China; Human Resources; Leadership; Management; Strategy; China
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      Reza R. Satchu

      Reza Satchu is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurship Management Unit at the Harvard Business School where he teaches The Entrepreneurial Manager, The Founder Mindset and Founder Launch. He is also the Founder, Managing Partner and majority shareholder of... View Details

      • 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM EDT, 30 Apr 2019
      • HBS Online

      HBS Online Scaling Ventures

      Scaling Ventures is for startup founders and senior leaders who have achieved product-market fit and now need to successfully guide their company through cycles of rapid growth and organizational change. Program Dates: April 30, 2019 - June 18, 2019 (Every Tuesday from... View Details
      • 27 Mar 2019
      • HBS Seminar

      Caitlin Rosenthal, UC Berkeley, Department of History

      • 11 May 2009
      • Research & Ideas

      The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

      a host of dynamic multimedia material competing for his or her attention, we wanted to create a high-quality, engaging classroom experience. Both plot and character development in the book are inspired by a popular storytelling structure... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace
      • 16 Oct 2012
      • First Look

      First Look: October 16

      experiment, in that we observe products that fulfill the same function being developed by very different organizational forms. At one extreme are commercial software firms, in which the View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 07 Jul 2023
      • Blog Post

      Fostering Candor in Teams and Organizations

      Candidates consider many factors when seeking new job opportunities – location, role, benefits, and compensation to name just a few. Yet there is another element that may be more difficult to explain on paper but is just as critical: View Details
      Keywords: All Industries
      • October 2009 (Revised December 2010)
      • Case

      GE Money Bank: The M-Budget Card Initiative

      By: Michael L. Tushman, Sebastian Raisch and Christian Welling
      The M-Budget Card case study is about mastering the challenges of an exploratory strategic initiative in a context marked by time pressure and frequent change. M-Budget was the first of a series of highly successful projects that established GE Money Bank as a leader... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Credit Cards; Leading Change; Product Launch; Product Development; Groups and Teams; Banking Industry; Switzerland
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      • Teaching

      Overview

      By: Ethan S. Bernstein
      Professor Bernstein currently teaches a second-year MBA course in Managing Human Capital (MHC). He is also the faculty chair for the Harvard Business School Online Developing Yourself as a Leader course and teaches in a variety of executive education... View Details
      • 2018
      • Chapter

      The United States in Contemporary Perspectives: Evolving Forms, Strategy, and Performance

      By: David J. Collis, Bharat Anand and J. Yo-Jud Cheng
      BOOK ABSTRACT: In spite of surging interest in the business group organization among business scholars, economists, and historians in recent years, academic research on business groups has, to date, remained within the boundary of emerging markets. The major aim of... View Details
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      • March 2003 (Revised October 2003)
      • Case

      Campbell Soup Company: Transforming for the 21st Century

      By: Lynda M. Applegate and Jamie Ladge
      In July 2001, Campbell Soup's newly appointed CEO, Douglas R. Conant, addressed a group of Wall Street analysts and unveiled his plan to kick-start growth. His plan called for organizational renewal and revitalization, redesign of core customer-facing processes... View Details
      Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Industry Structures; Production; Supply Chain Management; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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      • 25 Nov 2008
      • First Look

      First Look: November 25, 2008

      http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14483 The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition: The Effect of Trade Liberalization Authors: Maria Guadalupe and Julie M. Wulf Abstract This paper establishes a causal effect of competition from trade liberalization on various... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • Teaching Interest

      Short Intensive Program (SIP): Agile at Scale: From OKR's and Agile to Execution Excellence

      What do you want to get out of your remaining time at HBS, your career and life-plan to make an impact, starting from Day 1 post-HBS? By developing tools to drive your personal success and strategy at HBS, in this interactive immersion, we will dive into how the... View Details
      • 2007
      • Working Paper

      Innovation through Global Collaboration: A New Source of Competitive Advantage

      By: Alan MacCormack, Theodore Forbath, Peter Brooks and Patrick Kalaher
      Many recent studies highlight the need to rethink the way we manage innovation. Traditional approaches, based on the assumption that the creation and pursuit of new ideas is best accomplished by a centralized and collocated R&D team, are rapidly becoming outdated.... View Details
      Keywords: Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Groups and Teams; Research and Development; Performance Improvement; Management Practices and Processes; Partners and Partnerships; Competency and Skills; Framework; Competitive Advantage; Global Strategy; Opportunities; Cost
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      • 2022
      • Working Paper

      Category Kings or Commoners? Marketing Shaping and Its Consequences in Nascent Categories

      By: Rory McDonald
      For a new market category to materialize, someone must actively bring it into existence. Yet it remains a mystery how entrepreneurs, whose resources are stretched thin, can accomplish this task. Prior research emphasizes the importance of market-shaping... View Details
      Keywords: Nascent Markets; New Categories; Innovation; Qualitative Methods; Emerging Markets; Strategy; Cultural Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention
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