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  • November–December 2023
  • Article

Keep Your AI Projects on Track

By: Iavor Bojinov
AI—and especially its newest star, generative AI—is today a central theme in corporate boardrooms, leadership discussions, and casual exchanges among employees eager to supercharge their productivity. Sadly, beneath the aspirational headlines and tantalizing potential... View Details
Keywords: Generative Models; AI and Machine Learning; Success; Failure; Product Development; Technology Adoption
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  • 25 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 25

reduction in monopoly price leads to the production of units that cost less than their value to consumers (standard channel); (ii) regulation calms down existing consumers because a reduction in the profits of an "unkind" firm... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • April 2011 (Revised April 2011)
  • Supplement

Fleet Oil Company: An Exercise

The exercise, which adapts a famous experiment by experimental psychologist Thomas Gilovich, is designed to show both the ubiquity of analogy or associative thinking more generally and its potential perils. Students are presented with a scenario in which an oil company... View Details
Keywords: Business Headquarters; Crime and Corruption; Decisions; Non-Renewable Energy; Cost; Production; Performance Productivity; Research and Development; Energy Industry; Atlanta; Houston
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  • 21 Feb 2005
  • Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

such as Michael Jensen and Oliver Williamson began, in the 1970s, to develop a new theory of the firm that treated it not as a "black box" that converted inputs into outputs but rather as an... View Details
Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice
  • Research Summary

Overview

By: Andy Wu
How can technology entrepreneurs build competitive advantage from the ground up? Professor Andy Wu conducts scholarly research and develops course materials that document how technology entrepreneurs can (1) organize for innovation to create new market opportunities... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Growth Management; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Technology Platform; Technological Innovation; Information Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Video Game Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States; China; Southeast Asia; South Asia

    Benjamin (Ben) Creo

    Benjamin Creo co-teaches the Innovating in Health Care course alongside its founder, Prof. Regina E. Herzlinger. While many courses in healthcare innovation focus on where to innovate, this course focuses on how to innovate. Its four modules discuss how to evaluate... View Details

    • 01 Mar 2024
    • News

    Giving All Stakeholders a Voice

    traditional approaches in building enterprises, their governance, and growth.’’ The technology is open source, so different teams can build together. Participants value open information flow, universal accessibility, and decentralized governance of businesses and View Details
    Keywords: April White
    • 2009
    • Working Paper

    When Does Domestic Saving Matter for Economic Growth?

    By: Philippe Aghion, Diego A. Comin, Peter Howitt and Isabel Tecu
    Can a country grow faster by saving more? We address this question both theoretically and empirically. In our theoretical model, growth results from innovations that allow local sectors to catch up with frontier technology. In poor countries, catching up requires the... View Details
    Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Entrepreneurship; Foreign Direct Investment; Saving; Technological Innovation; Mathematical Methods
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    • August 2008 (Revised October 2011)
    • Case

    The Redgrove Axial Workshop

    By: Michel Anteby and Mikell Hyman
    Marc Fontaine, a new manager at a global manufacturing concern, is on a fast-track to a senior managerial position. One morning, in a storage room, he discovers some ornamental artifacts made with the same materials used for official production. He suspects workers... View Details
    Keywords: Ethics; Managerial Roles; Production; Groups and Teams; Behavior
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    • 17 Jul 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: July 17, 2007

    shared platform, such as Visa, DVD, or Linux, multiple firms collaborate in developing the platform's technology then compete in offering users different but compatible versions of the platform. This article examines factors that favor... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Research Summary

    Overview of Research

    My research examines approaches to improving the performance of our health care delivery system with a primary focus on health information technology. Reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of my program, my dissertation draws upon theories and insights from... View Details

    • 01 Jan 2013
    • News

    Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987

    is spectacularly good at opening people's ears to others and requiring them to make an articulate argument," she observes. Having discovered a passion for marketing at HBS, Jacobson moved to New York to join Colgate-Palmolive and was... View Details
    Keywords: Susan Young
    • Research Summary

    Leadership and Leadership Development: An Ontological Approach

    This summarizes my research program over the last twelve years (with my co-investigators Werner Erhard, Steve Zaffron, and more recently Kari Granger) in which the objective has been to rigorously distinguish leader and leadership and to create a technology for... View Details

    • 15 Sep 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: September 15

    Abstract This paper presents an endogenous growth model that explains the evolution of the first and second moments of productivity growth at the aggregate and firm level during the post-war period. Growth is driven by the View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 12 Apr 2022
    • Blog Post

    The Many Languages of Medicine to Impact Care Delivery

    Biotechnology: Life Sciences joint degree program. To many, the idea of halting my medical school education so close to the finish line seemed misaligned. To most, the simultaneous pursuit of three degrees appeared unnecessary. To me, I saw an opportunity to View Details
    • July 2012 (Revised June 2018)
    • Case

    MC Tool

    By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
    Two partners acquired MC Tool in October 2007 for $5 million. The company was a machine shop that manufactured parts for a wide variety of applications in the energy, automotive, and industrial equipment industries. In their first year of ownership, the partners... View Details
    Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Risk Management; Risk and Uncertainty; Problems and Challenges; Transformation; Production; Business Strategy; Manufacturing Industry; United States
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    • 07 Jun 2016
    • First Look

    June 7, 2016

    closed question–based surveys. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50727 June 2016 Journal of Finance Local Currency Sovereign Risk By: Du, Wenxin, and Jesse Schreger Abstract—We introduce a new measure of... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 15 Oct 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: October 15, 2008

    had established a reputation as a provider of some of the district's best-prepared new teachers. Yet Solomon wondered if their approach so far was optimal going forward. Carol Johnson, the new superintendent... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Web

    Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

    selected for the 2022 Books of the Year by New Statesman . Caroline M. Elkins : Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire (Alfred A. Knopf, 2022) was included in The New York Times ' 100 Notable... View Details
    • 10 Nov 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Globalization: The Strategy of Differences

    independently from the way it chooses to compete in product markets. Some companies have gone further. Consider the case of GE Medical Systems (GEMS), the division that Jeffrey Immelt built up between 1997 and 2000 before he was tapped to... View Details
    Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat