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- 13 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Do Private Equity Buyouts Get a Bad Rap?
firms often hunt for target companies they see as undervalued. By cutting costs or reorganizing, the acquirer can improve productivity and position the firm for profitable operations or a future sale. In some quarters, fears persist that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The War Within
Many communities view mental health disorders as a symbol of weakness, and older generations distrust the psychiatric system with cause. Prior to 1991, the Soviets used it as a suppressive tool, diagnosing dissidents with mental illness... View Details
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
two bands they had signed, Maroon 5 and Flyleaf. Known for its grassroots marketing campaigns, Octone operated through a unique joint-venture model with SonyBMG Music Entertainment's RCA Music Group, which enabled the nimble record label... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Aug 2023
- Blog Post
Aaron Sabin (MS/MBA 2023): Engineering a Climate Change Solution by Cutting the Cost of Carbon Capture
it. Next, the liquid flows through a second cell, where it is deactivated, separating the CO2. Finally, the pure carbon dioxide gas is released from the system and sequestered underground while the solution cycles through the process... View Details
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
NOV 2020 In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the financial and legal system will need to deal with a surge of financial distress in the business sector. In this paper, the authors try to size up the coming surge of financial distress,... View Details
- 21 Jun 2022
- HBS Case
Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams
Salesforce, which acquired the firm in 2021. Microsoft, meanwhile, was finally able to draw users to Teams, the free business communication platform it introduced in 2017 as part of Office 365. "Can these collaborative software platforms become an View Details
- 25 May 2023
- News
Brazil’s Nubank Turns 10
is Guilherme Lago (MBA 2005). Nubank launched in 2013 in São Paulo, Brazil, a country whose banking system has been known for its high fees and low-tech approach. Now half of all adults in Brazil use Nubank, thanks in part to an expanding... View Details
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
buell) is the Finnegan Family Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management Unit. Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury: Remote work will become strategic I’ve been studying remote work for years now,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Who Rises to Power in American Business?
have far greater access to opportunities. But, who has access to these elite programs? Are they simply part of a long feeder system for the privileged class that starts in private nursery schools? Are they truly open to all? Education has... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why IT Does Matter
effectiveness has come the ability to do things truly differently. American Hospital Supply's distribution software and American Airlines' SABRE reservation system are examples of victories in past technologies. The firms were the first... View Details
Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan
- March 2023
- Teaching Note
VideaHealth: Building the AI Factory
By: Karim R. Lakhani
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 621-021. The case “VideaHealth: Building the AI Factory” examines the creation of dental startup VideaHealth (Videa) and the development of its artificial intelligence (AI)-led business strategy through the eyes of founder and CEO Florian... View Details
- 21 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Common Strategy Mistakes
to understanding everything from the free enterprise system to the individual motivations of managers. Why are some companies more profitable than others? In this excerpt from an interview between Porter and Magretta, Porter discusses the... View Details
Keywords: by Joan Magretta
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
management. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2400618 October 2014 Leading Sustainable Change: An Organizational Perspective How Purpose-based Companies Master Change for Sustainability: A Systemic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- March 2019 (Revised June 2019)
- Case
Global Sourcing at Nike
By: Nien-hê Hsieh, Michael W. Toffel and Olivia Hull
This case explores the evolution of Nike’s global product sourcing strategy, in particular ongoing efforts to improve working conditions at its suppliers’ factories. When the case opens in July 2018, Vice President of Sourcing Amanda Tucker and her colleagues in Nike’s... View Details
Keywords: Sourcing; Factory Conditions; Trade; Geography; Geographic Scope; Globalized Firms and Management; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Governance Compliance; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy; Labor; Human Capital; Working Conditions; Supply Chain Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Labor and Management Relations; Complexity; Sports Industry; Fashion Industry; Oregon; Portland; Asia; North and Central America
Hsieh, Nien-hê, Michael W. Toffel, and Olivia Hull. "Global Sourcing at Nike." Harvard Business School Case 619-008, March 2019. (Revised June 2019.)
- 2016
- Article
The Mirroring Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence, and Exceptions
By: Lyra J. Colfer and Carliss Y. Baldwin
The mirroring hypothesis predicts that organizational ties within a project, firm, or group of firms (e.g., communication, collocation, employment) will correspond to the technical dependencies in the work being performed. This article presents a unified picture of... View Details
Keywords: Modularity; Mirroring Hypothesis; Organization Design; Conway's Law; Knowledge Boundaries; Relational Contracts; Open Source Software; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Boundaries; Knowledge Management; Applications and Software
Colfer, Lyra J., and Carliss Y. Baldwin. "The Mirroring Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence, and Exceptions." Industrial and Corporate Change 25, no. 5 (2016): 709–738. (Lead Article.)
- Web
Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
copies, enlargements, or negatives of their prints. Polaroid advertising copy highlighted the wonder, ease, and instant rewards of a revolutionary system that "telescopes all the developing, fixing and stabilizing View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
formulate strategy in large, evolving technical systems. I argue that the points of value creation and value capture in a technical system are the system’s bottlenecks. Bottlenecks arise first as important technical problems to be solved.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
When the Internet Runs Out of IP Addresses
we running out of IPv4 addresses? Ben Edelman: In this respect, the Internet is a victim of its own success. The IP address system was never designed for the large, complicated, widely used Internet we enjoy today. We're fortunate in that... View Details
- 20 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Language Wars Divide Global Companies
As global companies increasingly adopt a dominant language, usually English, which all employees must use to simplify communications and increase collaboration, many are dismayed to find an unexpected outcome. Results are exactly opposite of what was intended. Instead... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
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Research - Health Care
health care delivery: rapidly growing costs, inconsistent quality, and inadequate and unequal access to primary and other types of care. However, if retailers and health systems were to form strong... Load More Initiative Leadership... View Details