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  • December 2005 (Revised May 2009)
  • Case

C.R. Smith and the Birth of American Airlines

By: Anthony Mayo and Laura Gaie Singleton
Presents an overview of the path that C.R. Smith pursued to build American Airlines into one of the largest airlines in the world in the 20th century. Over the course of his 30-year tenure as president of American Airlines, Smith deployed a three-pronged... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Style; Growth and Development Strategy; Industry Growth; Operations; Air Transportation Industry; United States
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  • 2014
  • Other Teaching and Training Material

Entrepreneurship Reading: Financing Entrepreneurial Ventures

By: William R. Kerr, Ramana Nanda and James McQuade
"Financing Entrepreneurial Ventures" introduces students to the key issues involved in the financing of entrepreneurial enterprises. The Reading begins by examining how business models shape external financing requirements. It then contrasts the choice to bootstrap... View Details
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    Leemore S. Dafny

    Leemore Dafny is the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration and the Mary Ellen Jay and Jeffrey Jay Fellow at the Harvard Business School, and Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Dafny is an applied microeconomist whose... View Details

    Keywords: health care
    • 2008
    • Other Unpublished Work

    Accounting, Risk Management and the Aftermath of a Control Debacle

    By: Anette Mikes
    Despite the widespread adoption of risk management systems in the financial services industry, recent control debacles highlight the apparent lack of top managerial attention to risk controls. Yet in order to understand the workings and uses of risk controls (or any... View Details
    Keywords: Risk Management; Governance Controls; Management Systems; Accounting; Conflict and Resolution; Trends; Financial Services Industry
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    • 11 May 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Creating an R&D Strategy

    Keywords: by Gary P. Pisano
    • Summer 2014
    • Article

    Taiwan's PC Industry, 1976–2010: The Evolution of Organizational Capabilities

    By: Howard H. Yu and Willy C. Shih
    The stellar growth of Taiwan's personal computer (PC) industry over the past three decades represents a paradox. Participating in the global production system, local firms in Taiwan grew in association with established firms in the West. Despite their technical... View Details
    Keywords: Personal Computer; PC; PC Industry; Taiwan PC Industry; Taiwan PC Manufacturers; Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Industry Clusters; Industry Growth; Industry Structures; Information Technology; Technological Innovation; Mobile Technology; Information Technology Industry; Taiwan
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    • 2013
    • Working Paper

    Who Is Governing Whom? Executives, Governance and the Structure of Generosity in Large U.S. Firms

    By: Christopher Marquis and Matthew Lee
    We examine how organizational structure influences strategies over which corporate leaders have significant discretion. Corporate philanthropy is our setting to study how a differentiated structural element—the corporate foundation—constrains the influence of... View Details
    Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Leadership; Managerial Roles; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Structure; Corporate Strategy; United States
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    • 22 Sep 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies

    across the organization. In short, most people tended to communicate with others in their own group or with peers. Among the exceptions: women. "We were surprised by how little interaction occurs across three major boundaries: the View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
    • 14 Mar 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need

    training in leadership and management skills, such as supply chain management, interpersonal communication, and strategic planning. Yet these skills are important for the well-being of doctors and their colleagues and can mean the... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health
    • August 2017
    • Article

    A Formal Theory of Strategy

    By: Eric J. Van den Steen
    What makes a decision strategic? When is strategy most important? This paper formally studies these questions, starting from a (functional) definition of strategy as “the smallest set of choices to optimally guide (or force) other choices.” The paper shows that this... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy Development; Strategy; Decisions
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    • October 2018
    • Article

    Strategy and the Strategist: How it Matters Who Develops the Strategy

    By: Eric J. Van den Steen
    This paper addresses primarily two questions. First, when (and why) should a company’s strategy be developed by its CEO versus by some outside analyst or other insider? Second, how does strategy interact with vision (in the sense of a strong belief about the right... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy And Leadership; Strategy And Execution; Strategy; Leadership
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    • April 2013
    • Article

    Who Is Governing Whom? Executives, Governance, and the Structure of Generosity in Large U.S. Firms

    By: Christopher Marquis and Matthew Lee
    We examine how organizational structure influences strategies over which corporate leaders have significant discretion. Corporate philanthropy is our setting to study how a differentiated structural element—the corporate foundation—constrains the influence of... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Structure; Corporate Strategy; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Leadership; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; United States
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    • 09 Jan 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Location, Location, Location: The Strategy of Place

    companies that take a strategic view also realize that the new territory should increase a firm's competitive advantage by complementing and adding value to its current business. After all, the strategic... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 24 Oct 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Platform Rules: Multi-Sided Platforms as Regulators

    Keywords: by Kevin J. Boudreau & Andrei Hagiu; Technology
    • 2007
    • Working Paper

    Global Competitors as Next-Door Neighbors: Competition and Geographic Concentration in the Semiconductor Industry

    By: Minyuan Zhao and Juan Alcacer
    Despite the many advantages offered by technology clusters, firms located in them face the risk of losing valuable knowledge to nearby competitors. In this study, we argue that multi-location firms strategically organize their R&D activities to appropriate the value of... View Details
    Keywords: Information Technology; Industry Clusters; Innovation and Invention; Geographic Location; Competitive Strategy; Globalization; Semiconductor Industry
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      Anthony Mayo

      Tony Mayo is the Thomas S. Murphy Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator in the Organizational Behavior Unit of Harvard Business School (HBS).  He currently teaches and serves as the course head for... View Details

      Keywords: advertising; airline; education industry; nonprofit industry; publishing industry; service industry
      • Summer 2017
      • Article

      Measuring Consumer Preferences for Video Content Provision via Cord-Cutting Behavior

      By: Jeffrey Prince and Shane Greenstein
      The television industry is undergoing a generational shift in structure; however, many demand-side determinants are still not well understood. We model how consumers choose video content provision among over-the-air (OTA), paid subscription to cable or satellite, and... View Details
      Keywords: Information Technology; Service Delivery; Consumer Behavior; Television Entertainment; Service Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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      • 2015
      • Chapter

      The Business Model: Nature and Benefits

      By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and John Heilbron
      This paper considers the nature of the business model and its strategic relevance to negotiations. We elaborate a substantive definition of the business model as decisions enforced by the authority of the firm; this definition enables the analysis of business models... View Details
      Keywords: Business Models; Value Capture; Value-Based Business Strategy; Ambivalent Value; Business Model; Value; Negotiation Deal
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        Robert Simons

        Robert Simons is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School. For over 35 years, Simons has taught accounting, management control, and strategy execution courses in both the Harvard MBA and Executive Education Programs. For 2024/25, he is teaching a... View Details

        • Research Summary

        Overview

        Professor MacKay combines theory and measurement to deliver new insights about price competition and consumer preferences. In current and published papers, his research addresses how strategic pricing decisions may be influenced by algorithms, long-term contracts,... View Details

        Keywords: Price Effects; Competition Policy; Algorithms; Online Competition; Dynamic Pricing; Beliefs; Preferences; Preference Heterogeneity; Preference Measurement; Competition; Microeconomics; Strategy; Integration; Cooperation