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    Frank Nagle

    Frank Nagle is an assistant professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. Professor Nagle studies how competitors can collaborate on the creation of core technologies, while still competing on the products and services built on top of them - especially... View Details

    • February 2002 (Revised May 2003)
    • Case

    Endeca Technologies (A)

    By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
    Steve Papa, CEO of Endeca Technologies, must decide among two term sheets raising the same amount of badly needed money for his young software company. One deal is led by insiders and, is offered at a lower price. It continues a board that has worked very well and... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital; Cost vs Benefits; Financial Condition; Financing and Loans; Management Skills; Financial Strategy; Corporate Finance; Decision Choices and Conditions; Information Technology Industry
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    • January 1990 (Revised September 1994)
    • Case

    Cray Research, Inc.: Preparing for the 1990s

    By: Francis Aguilar
    Describes the major changes Cray Research faced from 1985 (the time of the original case) to 1990. The dramatic decision to divide the company into two separate firms sets the stage for an analysis of the major strategic and organizational challenges facing senior... View Details
    Keywords: Policy; Management Systems; Change Management; Technology Adoption; Business Units; Organizational Structure; Business Strategy; Management Teams; Growth and Development Strategy; Information Technology
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    • 27 Jun 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    These Management Practices, Like Certain Technologies, Boost Company Performance

    captivated Harvard Business School’s Raffaella Sadun for more than a decade. “The question is, Are there certain practices that are beneficial to firm performance regardless of the industry or the country in which you use them?” says... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 2009
    • Report

    Clusters, Cluster Policy, and Swedish Competitiveness

    By: Christian H.M. Ketels
    Proximity enables firms to take advantage of knowledge spill-overs and exploit supplierdemand linkages with other entities engaged in related activities. Cluster strength thus seems to be one of the important determinants of prosperity differences across geographies.... View Details
    Keywords: Policy; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Industry Clusters; Business and Government Relations; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Sweden
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      Robert C. Merton

      Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

      Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

      Keywords: insurance industry; insurance industry; insurance industry; insurance industry; insurance industry; insurance industry
      • 25 Jan 2021
      • Book

      In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded

      How did the United States become the world’s center of business growth following its founding in 1776? Surely a number of nations had powerful natural resources, stable financial and legal institutions, and dynamic entrepreneurs over that same span. Why was American... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing
      • 14 Oct 2008
      • Research & Ideas

      Should You Bring Advertising Expertise In-House?

      reasons include structural changes in the advertising industry such as the unbundling of agency services, and improved communication tools that make it easier and more cost efficient for firms to manage some... View Details
      Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising
      • June 2001
      • Case

      AtomFilms

      By: Bharat N. Anand and Taslim Pirmohamed
      Examines the evolution of AtomFilms--one of the few companies that survived the spate of failures in digital entertainment in 2000--from the time of its founding in 1998 to its merger with Shockwave in December 2000. Within a short period of time, AtomFilms had built... View Details
      Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Resource Allocation; Brands and Branding; Organizational Structure; Problems and Challenges; Alliances; Strategy; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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      • 22 Jun 2010
      • First Look

      First Look: June 22

      integration and degree of structural differentiation together affect a firm's ability to explore and exploit. We suggest that the senior team's ability to attend to and deal with contradictory internal architectures is a crucial... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • March 2013 (Revised October 2013)
      • Case

      Corporate Solutions at Jones Lang LaSalle (2001) (A)

      By: Ranjay Gulati and Luciana Silvestri
      This case describes the strategic and organizational challenges that Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) faced at the turn of the millennium. Until then, JLL sold piecemeal commercial real estate services to its corporate clients, who maintained relationships with a variety of... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Structure; Strategy; Integration; Real Estate Industry; North America; South America; Central America
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      • March 2010 (Revised February 2011)
      • Case

      Cognizant 2.0: Embedding Community and Knowledge Into Work Processes

      By: Robert G. Eccles and Thomas H. Davenport
      Knowledge management has been a high priority for Cognizant Technology Solutions since its inception since its global delivery model requires the global sharing of knowledge. Its first major tool was called the Knowledge Management Appliance but as Web 2.0 tools came... View Details
      Keywords: Knowledge Management; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Product Development; Service Delivery; Business Processes; Organizational Structure; Cooperation; Information Technology Industry
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      • Research Summary

      Corporate Governance

      By: Charles C.Y. Wang

      The characteristics and structure of boards of directors have important implications for firm performance. Professor Wang has found that firms with well-connected boards whose members have strong network connections provide economic benefits that are not immediately... View Details

      • July 2014
      • Case

      Venture Capital at the Harvard Management Company in Historical Perspective

      By: Felda Hardymon, Tom Nicholas and Vasiliki Fouka
      The compromise between capital preservation and growth has always been central to the performance of the Harvard endowment. Setting an institutional structure for effectively governing this compromise became especially important when the Harvard Management Company... View Details
      Keywords: Venture Capital; Financial Management; Asset Management; Higher Education; Investment; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Cambridge
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      • July 2019 (Revised May 2020)
      • Supplement

      Piramal e-Swasthya (B): Considering Change

      By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Joyce J. Kim
      From 2008 to 2010 Anand Piramal ran a series of pilots for his digital healthcare startup, Piramal e-Swasthya (PeS) to “democratize healthcare” in rural areas of India. PeS ran into difficulties so Anand Piramal had to decide whether to continue the organization and,... View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneur; Healthcare; Innovation; Emerging Economies; Decision Choices and Conditions; Health Industry; India
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      • Article

      Healthy Buildings in 2070

      By: John D. Macomber and Joseph G. Allen
      Fifty years seems a very long time in the future for most industries. Not so in buildings and real estate; built structures routinely last decades if not hundreds of years, as long as they are economically competitive. Any discussion of the 50-year future has to... View Details
      Keywords: Health ＆ Wellness; Real Estate; Architectural Innovation; Public Health; Health; Buildings and Facilities; Well-being
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      • December 1991 (Revised October 1998)
      • Case

      Eli Lilly and Co.: Manufacturing Process Technology Strategy--1991

      By: Gary P. Pisano, Steven C. Wheelwright and Jonathan West
      Outlines the evolution of Lilly's corporate manufacturing strategy over the past decade. The corporate vice president of manufacturing must decide on the next phase of Lilly's strategy for the early 1990s, as well as to what extent and what role process development... View Details
      Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Management Practices and Processes; Industry Structures; Product Development; Production; Research and Development; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Manufacturing Industry
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      • October 2010 (Revised August 2012)
      • Supplement

      Harvest: Organic Waste Recycling with Energy Recovery (B)

      By: Deishin Lee, Baris Ata and Mustafa H. Tongarlak
      This case describes the waste management industry and a clean technology solution for landfill diversion and renewable energy production. The (A) case focuses on the operational characteristics of waste management and waste to energy, and the characteristics of the... View Details
      Keywords: Framework; Wastes and Waste Processing; Management; Operations; Social Issues; Problems and Challenges; Energy Generation; Renewable Energy; Quality; Industry Structures; Energy Industry
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      • 2012
      • Other Unpublished Work

      Selection, Reallocation, and Knowledge Spillover: Identifying the Sources of Productivity Gains from Multinational Activity

      By: Laura Alfaro and Maggie X. Chen
      The impact of multinational activity on host-country productivity has been a major topic of economic research. A positive impact can be attributed to knowledge spillovers from foreign multinational to domestic firms or a less stressed, alternative explanation—firm... View Details
      Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Performance Productivity; Supply and Industry; Knowledge; Manufacturing Industry
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      • July 1990 (Revised August 1995)
      • Case

      Symantec--1982-90

      By: Nitin Nohria
      As Symantec grew from a small, upstart software development company to a major player in the software development industry, the channels of information flow and the internal communication needs of the company became more complex. The geographically-dispersed structure... View Details
      Keywords: Applications and Software; Communication Technology; Communication; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Employee Relationship Management; Growth and Development; Knowledge Dissemination; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Management; Information Technology Industry; United States
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