SATs - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

Creating Value Across Borders

Business sat down with HBS associate professor Walter Kuemmerle to discuss the entrepreneurial process in an international setting. Kuemmerle, a Novartis Fellow, holds a joint appointment in Entrepreneurial and Service Management and... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

25 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry

management, and Professor Baldwin, an authority on finance, recently sat down for a discussion of their work. Kim Clark: We write in the book about a design becoming "truly modular." Let me begin by clarifying how we define... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Computer; Consumer Products; Technology

04 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

Think of it as Professors in Cars Having Coffee

Oberholzer-Gee: “One of the fascinating things about newspaper economics is that, if you could magically jump into an all-digital future, you actually don’t need that big of an audience in order to survive.” Working Knowledge sat down... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education; Entertainment & Recreation

24 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

Is Your iPhone Turning You Into a Wimp?

them to perform a series of tasks on one of four devices, each successively larger than the next: an iPod Touch (which looks like an iPhone), an iPad, a MacBook Pro laptop, or an iMac desktop computer. Each participant sat alone in a room... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Consumer Products

27 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Horrible Boss Workarounds

"What's horrible is often in the eye of the beholder," she says. "There are many people who complain about their bosses without taking a look at themselves, and vice versa." Kanter recently sat down with HBS Working... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

12 Nov 2008
First Look

First Look: November 12, 2008

front of him. As he sat back in his chair and looked out the window, he began to take stock of how his life had taken such a dramatic path over the last few years. Life was good for the founder and CEO of Lammtara Pictures, the United... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity

publisher of Harvard Business School's NewBusiness, recently sat down with Tripsas to learn more about her research. Michael J. Roberts: How would you define the territory your work covers? Mary Tripsas: Essentially I look at the creation... View Details

Keywords: by Michael J. Roberts; Technology

04 Mar 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar

Kaurman and Derek C.M. van Bever, also senior lecturers with prior leadership experience in the private sector. Huber recently sat down with Harvard Business School Working Knowledge to discuss how an automotive executive ended up... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto

14 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

Creating a Global Business Code

an article that explores various uses of the corporate assessment tool that they developed for their research. They recently sat down with HBS Working Knowledge to discuss the origins of the project, and where they plan to take it from... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

09 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen

describes a strategic meeting at which managers sat at a large conference table with scores of assistants behind them, all listening to a PowerPoint presentation and engaging in little or no discussion. He was so frustrated by the lack of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat

08 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 8, 2008

pressure, other circumstances, and Grady's level of creativity. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808075 D2Hawkeye: Growing the Medical IT Enterprise Harvard Business School Case 808-006 In mid-March 2007, Chris Kryder... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Nov 2019
Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

Fellow at HBS, were fortunate to have access to the family leadership and archives of the Koç group through the intervention of the late former Dean of the School, John H. McArthur, who sat on the Board of the holding company. The career... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

The Knowledge Coach

intuits a developing bottleneck in the assembly line and creates a fix before a problem occurs. It's also the CEO who draws on years of experience to solve a strategy imbroglio that has paralyzed top staff. It's the venture capitalist—who has View Details

Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap

01 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care

the White House. They've had conversations with multiple officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Most recently, Feeley sat down with US Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Mathews Burwell—who published... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

03 Mar 2015
First Look

First Look: March 3

industries such as agriculture and biofuels. As GenapSys came closer to releasing its product, Esfandyarpour and his Senior Director of Operations and Strategy, Leila Rastegar (HBS '11), sat down to decide which of three business models... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 24

table in their San Francisco apartment. It was March of 2009. A single sheet of paper sat on the table in front of them. The three founders were on the verge of finishing the three month program at YCombinator (YC), a business accelerator... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

02 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019

Harvard Business School Case 119-029 Revenue Recognition at HBP In early 2014, Paul Bills, CFO of Harvard Business Publishing (HBP), sat down with David Wan, the company’s CEO, to discuss budget preparations for the coming year. Bills... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO

and jeopardizing the next quarter's sales. Meanwhile, because the executives in different product groups and locations rarely sat in the same meetings, initiatives in their various areas were not coordinated. SKUs (stockkeeping units, or... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

What Really Drives Your Strategy?

Strategy, published by Oxford University Press. Contributors to the book include Harvard Business School's Clayton M. Christensen, Walter Kuemmerle, and Thomas R. Eisenmann, as well as nine other scholars. Bower and Gilbert recently sat... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

11 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

When Business Competition Harms Society

Last winter, a senior admissions officer at Claremont McKenna College resigned, after admitting to inflating reported SAT scores of the incoming class for six years and sending the falsified reports to U.S. News and World Report. “It's... View Details