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  • 16 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Are You a Strategist?

academic research that started to take hold in the 1980s and '90s. The work brought much-needed economic thinking to strategy's underpinnings. It armed legions of MBAs and strategy consultants with frameworks and techniques to help... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 17

in goods, services, investments, and ideas led by multinational firms. Extensive research has sought to understand the geographic patterns of foreign direct investment (FDI). This chapter reviews existing theories and evidence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • September 1993
  • Case

Manufacturing at ALZA: The Right Prescription? (A)

By: Dorothy A. Leonard
ALZA, a company specializing in drug delivery systems such as transdermal patches, considers manufacturing its own products. Until now, the company has conducted research and development on its patented system but has then licensed the technology to client-partner... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Technological Innovation; Innovation and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Production; Research and Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Pharmaceutical Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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  • 25 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 25

Organizational Learning from Error Authors:Lucy H. MacPhail and Amy C. Edmondson Publication:In Errors in Organizations, edited by D. Hoffman and M. Frese. Routledge, forthcoming An abstract is not available at this time. Publisher's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

bores you, and which the world does not need—this life is hell. —W.E.B. Du Bois In the organizational context, the four-drive theory implies that every person, from the CEO to the most junior employee will bring a predictable set of... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
  • 01 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 1

http://www.people.hbs.edu/liyer/BCCI_JEBO_Final_Sept2013.pdf August 2013 Contemporary Accounting Research The Role of Performance Measures in the Intertemporal Decisions of Business Unit Managers By: Bouwens, Jan, Margaret A. Abernethy,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 2019 (Revised April 2021)
  • Case

Honda Innovations: Leveraging External Insights to Accelerate Creation

By: Antonio Davila
Nick Sugimoto, CEO of Honda Innovations—the open innovation organization of Honda, has to decide how to extend his organization’s approach to innovation across the world. Honda Innovations dates back to 2000 when Honda created Honda Research Institute in Silicon... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Radical Innovation; Corporate Venturing; Corporate Innovation; Organization Structure; Management Control; Business Units; Disruption; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Global Strategy; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Organizational Structure; Strategy; Auto Industry; San Francisco; Japan
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  • 10 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

indicate that patient demand is relatively unimportant in explaining variations. Physician organizational factors matter, but the most important factor is physician beliefs about treatment. In Medicare, we estimate that 35% of spending... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Feb 2020
  • In Practice

6 Ways That Emerging Technology Is Disrupting Business Strategy

serve, the skills they employ, and their organizational structures. The latter approach involves higher costs and time horizons, but most likely also much higher returns.” Raffaella Sadun (@raffasadun), a professor of business... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 07 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: February 7

variety, process flexibility and even the path of industry evolution. We explore this relationship in the software industry. Our research takes advantage of a natural experiment, in that we observe products that fulfill the same function... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 5, 2006

Manly Men: The Organizational Reconstruction of Men's Identity R. Ely and Debra E. Meyerson Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management (forthcoming). This paper presents a case study of offshore oil platforms—a workplace that has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 22, 2016

investor's financial returns. Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in Emerging Markets brings together a series of Harvard Business School case studies on emerging markets. This book is an invaluable resource for View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers

research has focused on the underuse of incident-reporting systems. After all, the thinking went, a system used to collect and report incidents will only help an organization learn from its mistakes and lead to better safety results—to... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health
  • 11 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 11

Perspectives on Organizational Social Networks Bringing Agency Back Into Network Research: Constrained Agency and Network Action By: Gulati, Ranjay, and Sameer B. Srivastava Abstract—We propose a framework of constrained agency grounded... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Nov 2015
  • First Look

November 3, 2015

Workers By: Housman, Michael, and Dylan Minor Abstract—While there has been a lot of research on finding and developing top performers in the workplace, less attention has been paid to the question of how to manage those workers who are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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 develop an View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 18 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 18

the existing evidence only weakly supports this causal claim. Research in psychology, economics, and neuroscience exploring the benefits of charitable giving has been largely correlational, leaving open the question of whether giving... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Feb 2022
  • Book

Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed

president for research when she launched what proved to be the company's most successful "emerging business opportunity," the Life Sciences venture. She disrupted IBM's staid model by hiring genetic scientists and other specialists, and... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 2017
  • Article

Natural Environmental Responsibility in Indian Corporations: A Mixed Method Study

By: Shashank Shah
The world is going through unprecedented environmental crisis. The type of destruction and dissolution of natural resources and elements by individuals and institutions that has been witnessed in the last century is much more than that witnessed in the previous... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Natural Environment; Management Practices and Processes; Research; Framework; India
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  • 20 Nov 2017
  • Research & Ideas

How Independent Bookstores Have Thrived in Spite of Amazon.com

stores to 2,227. This surprising resurgence piqued the interest of Ryan Raffaelli, an assistant professor in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School, who studies how mature organizations and industries faced with... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel (with video by Amelia Kunhardt); Retail

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