Publications

March 1998
Teaching Note

Linking Strategy and Innovation: Materials Technology Corporation TN

By: Clayton M. Christensen

Teaching Note for (9-696-082). View Details

Keywords: Technology Industry

12 Sep 2024
News

AI in Marketing: Transforming Strategies and Enhancing Engagement

Web

Fast Facts - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Health Care Health Care Value-Based Health Care Health Care Courses Fast Facts Fast Facts 2019 MBA FIELD GLOBAL IMMERSION LOCATIONS 13 Accra, Bangkok, Bogota, Boston, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Dar es Salaam, Helsinki, Ho Chi Minh City, Lima, New Delhi, Seoul,... View Details

Teaching Interest

Senior Executive Leadership Program - India (SELPI)

By: Stefan H. Thomke

Over the past two decades, India has emerged as one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. To seize growth opportunities in this promising economy and sustain success under shifting global business conditions, companies need executives who are exceptional... View Details

January 2009 (Revised February 2009)
Case

Pitney Bowes: Employer Health Strategy

By: Michael E. Porter and Jennifer F Baron

Pitney Bowes, a Fortune 500 mail and document management firm, offered its first health plans in the years following World War II. Over the ensuing decades, Pitney Bowes adapted its approach to employee health amid rising health care costs, shifting employer attitudes... View Details

Keywords: Cost; Insurance; Policy; Health Care and Treatment; Compensation and Benefits; Employees; Corporate Strategy

March 2002
Background Note

Incentive Strategy Within Organizations

By: Brian J. Hall

This case serves as a supplement to any course on incentive design and implementation. The analysis first locates incentive strategy within the larger structure of organizations and markets and then helps to define the central components and difficulties of incentive... View Details

Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Compensation and Benefits; Performance Evaluation; Strategy; Situation or Environment; Problems and Challenges

01 Nov 2009
News

Leadership at Harvard

Keywords: President Drew Faust, Professor Michael Porter; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

December 1997 (Revised September 2002)
Supplement

Eli Lilly and Company: Drug Development Strategy (B)

By: Stefan H. Thomke and Ashok Nimgade

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

2008
Other Teaching and Training Material

A Problem-Solving Approach to Designing and Implementing a Strategy to Improve Performance

By: Stacey Childress and Geoff Marietta

This note helps teams work through a problem-solving process that facilitates the design and implementation of a strategy for continuous improvement. View Details

Keywords: Business Processes; Performance Improvement; Problems and Challenges; Strategy

September 2013
Case

Advanced Leadership Pathways: David Weinstein and Write the World

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Juliane Calingo Schwetz and Patricia Bissett Higgins

David Weinstein, a lawyer and former Chief Administrative Officer of mutual fund giant Fidelity Investments, launched Write the World, a proprietary online platform that included a writing curriculum, essay prompts in distinct subject matter, and access to expert... View Details

Keywords: Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Expansion; Social Entrepreneurship; Education; Business Startups; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving

2016
Chapter

Navigating Natural Monopolies: Market Strategy and Nonmarket Challenges in Radio and Television Audience Measurement Markets

By: Hillary Greene and Dennis Yao

This paper explores how firms within the audience measurement industry, specifically its radio and television markets, have navigated myriad market and nonmarket challenges. The market strategies and the nonmarket forces that constrain those strategies are largely... View Details

Keywords: Measurement and Metrics; Marketing Strategy; Consumer Behavior; Monopoly; Television Entertainment; Public Opinion; Geographic Scope; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States

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21 Jun 2007
Working Paper Summaries

Multi-Sided Platforms: From Microfoundations to Design and Expansion Strategies

Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu; Technology

TeachingInterests

Driving Digital Strategy

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee

Technology, like a relentless force of nature, is reshaping industries at an unprecedented pace. It poses a threat to those who resist and fail to adapt. But it also presents unparalleled opportunities to those audacious enough to harness its... View Details

2016
Case

Advanced Leadership Pathways: Doug Rauch and the Daily Table

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Peter Zimmerman and Penelope Rossano

Former Trader Joe's President Doug Rauch developed an innovative idea to address the challenge of food insecurity, food waste, and nutrition. His concept was a new retail grocery model, offering nutritious affordable food to a food insecure population in the inner city... View Details

Keywords: Food Insecurity; Grocery; Social Entrepreneurship; Food; Health; Nonprofit Organizations; Boston