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  • Research Summary

Formulating technology commercialization strategies

Even if young organizations succeed in acquiring the specialized talent necessary to further develop a recently-discovered technology, they may face an uncertain path in commercializing the original invention. Initial conceptions of what might constitute a useful... View Details

  • 15 Dec 2015
  • News

The Year in Ideas 2015

medical innovations. Jessica Beck and Marcela Sapone (both MBA 2015) launched the automated “personal butler” service Hello Alfred in a crowded on-demand marketplace. The service corrals other on-demand services, offering customers both a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

MLS as a Sports Product—The Prominence of the World's Game in the U.S.

By: Stephen A. Greyser and Kenneth Cortsen
The purpose of this Working Paper is to analyze how soccer at the professional level in the U.S., with Major League Soccer as a focal point, has developed over the span of a quarter of a century. It is worthwhile to examine the growth of Major League Soccer (MLS) from... View Details
Keywords: Soccer; Major League Soccer; Sports; Growth and Development; Organizational Structure; Business Model; Sports Industry; United States
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  • 27 Feb 2023
  • Research & Ideas

How One Late Employee Can Hurt Your Business: Data from 25 Million Timecards

control of store owners: Employees showing up late—or sometimes not at all. Managers are aware that employee lateness and absenteeism is prevalent and expensive to their... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Retail
  • January – February 2011
  • Article

Stop Holding Yourself Back

By: Anne Morriss, Robin J. Ely and Frances X. Frei
After working with hundreds of leaders in a wide variety of organizations and in countries all over the globe, the authors found one very clear pattern: when it comes to meeting their leadership potential, many people unintentionally get in their own way. Five barriers... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Personal Characteristics
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    Anita Elberse

    Anita Elberse is the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

    Professor Elberse develops and teaches an MBA course covering the "Businesses of Entertainment, Media, and Sports," which ranks among the most sought-after... View Details

    Keywords: advertising; arts; broadcasting; communications; consumer products; e-commerce industry; electronics; entertainment; fashion; home video games; information; marketing industry; motion pictures; music; publishing industry; sports; telecommunications; video games
    • 09 Apr 2025
    • Podcast

    Redrawing the map to tech careers: Per Scholas CEO Plinio Ayala on skills, mobility, and AI

    After decades preparing workers from underserved communities for well-paid tech jobs, the workforce nonprofit is expanding its training, footprint, and funding strategy for its tuition-free programs. As AI redefines positions across the org chart, can bootcamps plus... View Details
    • 10 May 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Flattened Firm—Not as Advertised

    Keywords: by Julie Wulf
    • Research Summary

    Research Summaries

    Sameer's research examines the dynamics of social networks inside organizations and their consequences for individual attainment and organizational success.  His research encompasses three broad streams of activity.


    Social Capital... View Details

    • March 2018
    • Exercise

    Does It Hurt To Ask?

    By: Alison Wood Brooks
    Does It Hurt To Ask? (DIHTA) is an interactive exercise that pairs students (in groups of two) for a brief, spontaneous, open-ended conversation during class. Each student is given instructions to ask many questions (as many as possible) or few questions (ideally zero)... View Details
    Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Communication Strategy; Perception; Information; Power and Influence
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    • January 2014
    • Case

    The Weather Company

    By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
    New CEO David Kenny transformed The Weather Company in less than two years from a primary identity as a cable television channel to a multi-platform digital company innovating in the uses of weather data. He assesses progress and considers strategic choices and... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation; Strategy; Strategic Change; Change Management; Expansion; Weather; Growth and Development Strategy; Innovation and Invention; Technology Industry
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    • November 2017 (Revised June 2019)
    • Case

    JOE & THE JUICE Crosses the Atlantic (with video link)

    By: Ethan Rouen and Suraj Srinivasan
    As JOE & THE JUICE began its rapid U.S. expansion in 2017, its founder and CEO, Kaspar Basse, fretted about how he could keep his employees feeling like they were doing meaningful work. Founded in 2001, JOE & THE JUICE had always focused on making healthy juices,... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Culture; Employees; Retention; Expansion; Growth Management
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    • March 2014
    • Teaching Note

    The Weather Company

    By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
    New CEO David Kenny transformed The Weather Company in less than two years from a primary identity as a cable television channel to a multi-platform digital company innovating in the uses of weather data. He assesses progress and considers strategic choices and... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership; Strategic Change; Technology; Digital; Weather; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Digital Platforms; Change Management; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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    • October 2007
    • Article

    The Effectiveness of Pre-Release Advertising for Motion Pictures: An Empirical Investigation Using a Simulated Market

    By: Anita Elberse and Bharat N. Anand
    One of the most visible and publicized trends in the movie industry is the escalation in movie advertising expenditures over time. Yet, the returns to movie advertising are poorly understood. The main reason is that disentangling the causal effect of advertising on... View Details
    Keywords: Advertising; Stocks; Investment Return; Price; Revenue; Quality; Mathematical Methods; Motion Pictures and Video Industry
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    • 2013
    • Teaching Note

    Xinhua Hospital: Implementation of EMR Project (TN)

    By: F. Warren McFarlan, Ning Jia, Weiqi Liu and Shanshan Cao
    Established in 1958, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine (hereafter referred to as "Xinhua Hospital") is an integrated modern teaching and research hospital with a comprehensive set of disciplines and a specialization in... View Details
    Keywords: China; Hospitals; China
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    • 2013
    • Case

    Xinhua Hospital: Implementation of EMR Project

    By: F. Warren McFarlan, Ning Jia, Weiqi Liu and Shanshan Cao
    Established in 1958, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine (hereafter referred to as "Xinhua Hospital") is an integrated modern teaching and research hospital with a comprehensive set of disciplines and a specialization in... View Details
    Keywords: China; Hospitals; China
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    • 02 Apr 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Employees Out Sick? Inside One Company's Creative Approach to Staying Productive

    absences every day and were managing to keep production running, so the CEO called in Tamayo and his colleagues to understand how. “They realized, if you help me today, then... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Fashion
    • March 2004 (Revised February 2005)
    • Case

    Emerging Business Opportunities at IBM (A)

    By: David A. Garvin and Lynne Levesque
    By June 2003, IBM had made significant progress in changing the way it managed new, emerging businesses. Describes the development of a separate management program at IBM designed to identify, fund, and shepherd new businesses through growth. Traces the history of the... View Details
    Keywords: History; Business or Company Management; Talent and Talent Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Corporate Strategy
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    • 19 Sep 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Rethinking Company Loyalty

    companies are willing to rethink how they define loyalty and how they manage their people. Reevaluating Loyalty Loyalty should not be viewed as an either/or proposition. It's true, the experts say, that to... View Details
    Keywords: by Lauren Keller Johnson
    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Through the Grapevine: Network Effects on the Design of Executive Compensation Contracts

    By: Susanna Gallani
    Effective design of executive compensation contracts involves choosing and weighting performance measures, as well as defining the mix between fixed and incentive-based pay components, with a view to fostering talent retention and goal congruence. The variability in... View Details
    Keywords: Compensation Design; Board Interlocks; Compensation Consultants; Network Centrality; Homophily; Quadratic Assignment Procedure; Blockholders; Executive Compensation
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