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  • 20 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 20, 2016

such as EVA. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/117108-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 117-109 Management Control Systems Module 9: Building a Balanced Scorecard This module... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

    Roy D. Shapiro

    Roy D. Shapiro is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.  He is currently the faculty co-chair of the School's Technology and Operations Management Unit... View Details

    • 2008
    • Working Paper

    Modern Management: Good for the Environment or Just Hot Air?

    By: Nicholas Bloom, Christos Genakos, Ralf Martin and Raffaella Sadun
    We use an innovative methodology to measure management practices in over 300 manufacturing firms in the UK. We then match this management data to production and energy usage information for establishments owned by these firms. We find that establishments in better... View Details
    Keywords: Energy Conservation; Management Practices and Processes; Performance Productivity; Environmental Sustainability; Pollutants; Manufacturing Industry; United Kingdom
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    • 08 Apr 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care

    Care, Christensen and his coauthors, the late Jerome Grossman and Jason Hwang (MBA '06), focus not on how the United States will pay for health care in the coming decades, but rather on targeting View Details
    Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Health
    • January 2013 (Revised April 2013)
    • Case

    Microsoft Server & Tools

    By: Marco Iansiti and Alain Serels
    In 2011, Microsoft's Server & Tools Business (STB) was large, fast growing and highly profitable on the strength of traditional packaged product lines led by the Windows Server operating system. Even as the current packaged business was performing exceptionally well,... View Details
    Keywords: Technology; Computing; Enterprise Computing; Servers; Cloud Computing; Microsoft; Technology Evolution; Technological Innovation; Disruptive Innovation; Information Technology; Information Technology Industry
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    • TeachingInterests

    Founders' Dilemmas

    Founders' Dilemmas examines the early, often difficult, decisions that have important long-term consequences for founders and their ventures. Potential consequences include losing control of their ventures, breaking up of the founding team due to tensions between... View Details

    • 04 Jan 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009

    Balance Achieving a life that balances the pleasures and demands of work and life has never been easy. Here are four HBS Working Knowledge... View Details
    Keywords: by Staff
    • Teaching Interest

    Founders' Dilemmas

    By: Jeffrey F. Rayport

    This course is for students who plan to become involved in new ventures, now or at mid-career, as founders of a new venture, early hires, early advisors, or board members, or as potential investors (e.g., VCs), customers, partners, or acquirers of new venturesView Details

    • October 2009 (Revised April 2010)
    • Case

    Societe Generale (A): The Jerome Kerviel Affair

    By: Francois Brochet
    This case illustrates the tension/balance that firms with complex and risky business models must consider in designing their internal controls. It describes the environment in which a derivatives trader engaged in massive directional positions on major European stocks... View Details
    Keywords: Risk Management; Problems and Challenges; Complexity; Cost Management; Balance and Stability; Business Model; Design; Stocks; Crisis Management; Financial Markets; Consulting Industry; Europe
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    • 21 Apr 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine

    art." Choudhury recently teamed up with colleague Tarun Khanna, the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at HBS, to examine and highlight the history of herbal patent applications. From a policy perspective, they wanted to challenge a common... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Legal Services; Biotechnology
    • March 2016 (Revised August 2018)
    • Case

    JPMorgan Chase after the Financial Crisis: What Is the Optimal Scope of the Largest Bank in the U.S.?

    By: David Collis and Ashley Hartman
    When Jamie Dimon took over as CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPMorgan Chase) in 2005, he reaffirmed the commitment to pursue a "universal bank" strategy—providing a full range of products and services to both retail and wholesale clients. Yet the merits of the universal... View Details
    Keywords: Scope; Regulatory Reforms; Universal Banking; Synergy; Optimization; Simplification; Finance; Strategy; Business Strategy; Financial Crisis; Consolidation; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry
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    • 11 Feb 2019
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The IBM PC

    Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin; Computer
    • 02 Aug 2004
    • What Do You Think?

    For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?

    an entire group of lower level functions and staff." Rich Lanza pointed out that "(Section 404) is a necessary step ... (but) more continuous controls monitoring is needed that independently... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 04 Nov 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: November 4, 2008

    How should he handle other issues like the architectural designs, the construction process, and the legal process? How should he balance all the competing demands on his time? This case serves as an... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 2010
    • Book

    Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution

    By: Robert L. Simons
    To stay ahead of the pack, you must translate your organization's competitive strategy into day-to-day actions that will enable your company to win in the marketplace. This means channeling resources into the right efforts, striking a balance between innovation and... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Innovation and Management; Resource Allocation; Business Processes; Organizational Culture; Competitive Strategy
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    • March 2025
    • Case

    Harvey: AI for Lawyers

    By: Suraj Srinivasan, Charles Krumholz and Radhika Kak
    In early 2025, Winston Weinberg and Gabe Pereyra, co-founders of Harvey AI, reflected on the company’s meteoric rise as a pioneer in AI-powered legal technology. Since its founding in 2022, Harvey had transformed how lawyers approached research, drafting, and document... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation Strategy; Business Startups; AI and Machine Learning; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Positioning; Legal Services Industry; Technology Industry; New York (city, NY); San Francisco; London
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    • 25 Apr 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Incubators Take Notice: Your Entrepreneurs Are Networking with the Wrong People

    Companies and government leaders have long tried to recreate the kind of Silicon Valley innovation magic that made Facebook and Google such goldmines. Cities from Cincinnati to... View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost
    • May 2007 (Revised September 2008)
    • Case

    Biocon Limited

    By: Krishna G. Palepu and Ananth Chepuri
    Biocon Limited was facing significant pricing pressure in their cash cow business, that primarily consisted of manufacturing Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs). To combat this commoditization, Biocon's leadership had chosen an innovation-led strategy. This new... View Details
    Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Innovation and Management; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Risk Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Biotechnology Industry; India
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      Suraj Srinivasan

      Suraj Srinivasan is the Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Business Administration, a member of the Accounting and Management faculty unit, and chair of the View Details

      Keywords: accounting industry; financial services
      • 23 Jul 2001
      • Research & Ideas

      How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future

      Motor Company was founded in 1903. Ford was not a young man. At 40, he was the same age that Watson was when he took control of C-T-R. Ford exhibited the same future-mindedness, resilience, and flexibility... View Details
      Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow