by Michael Luca - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Jan 2006
What Do You Think?

Should More Transparency Extend to Education for Management?

apparently equal applicants." Anshu Vats expressed his enthusiasm by commenting, "If revealing the students' grades leads to an increasingly competitive classroom, great! Welcome to the meritocracy." Others were more... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

03 Jan 2008
What Do You Think?

Does Judgment Trump Experience?

Summing Up How is good judgment developed? Whether judgment trumps experience quickly gave way in this month's rich exchange of views to other questions about how (and the extent to which) judgment is developed. Most of those addressing the question agreed with the... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

26 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

David, Goliath, and Disruption

As elegantly described by HBS professor Clayton M. Christensen in his 1997 bestseller, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, so-called disruptive technologies are upstart innovations that manage to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

07 Jun 2004
What Do You Think?

How Important are Big Ideas?

Summing Up Judging from responses to the June column, big ideas rank high on a list including technology and intellectual property as sources of competitive advantage. But they are only a starting point, outweighed by methods and the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

24 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

Why Brexit is a Big Deal

The consequences of yesterday's vote by the British people to leave the European Union will be far-reaching, but there is no reason for global markets to panic. Brexit is a vote against the European Union. Once heralded as the engine of... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

04 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

Herzlinger: I've had it. [Laughs.] Just had it! You know, I did my doctoral thesis really by accident in a hospital. That was in 1971, 36 years ago. And at the time, I was astonished at how mismanaged that hospital was and how the most... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health

November 2003 (Revised April 2010)
Case

Flextronics International, Ltd.

By: Robert S. Huckman and Gary P. Pisano

Describes Flextronics' evolution from providing outsourced manufacturing services for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in the electronics industry to developing entire unbranded products for purchase by OEMs. In 2001, Flextronics began a development program that... View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Product Development; Production; Service Operations; Performance Effectiveness; Electronics Industry; Manufacturing Industry

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01 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care

©iStock.com/GuidoVrola The bundled payment idea is part of a larger reform proposal called Value-Based Health Care Delivery, based on research by Michael E. Porter, the Bishop William Lawrence University... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

13 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists

Later: Decreasing Impatience over Time in Online Grocery Orders" by Todd Rogers, Katherine L. Milkman, and Max H. Bazerman. TIP #2 - Put your money where your mouth is. Leslie John, now an assistant professor at HBS, led an experiment at... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

03 Apr 2009
What Do You Think?

How Much Obsolescence Can Business and Society Absorb?

Summing Up To remain sane and relevant, must we smell the flowers as well as the ozone? This month's question of how much obsolescence business and society (and by implication, we as managers) can absorb brought out both the poets and the... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Publishing; Journalism & News

30 May 2007
Research & Ideas

Health Care Under a Research Microscope

Business; and Monica Higgins, Career Imprints: Creating Leaders across an Industry; and Michael Porter coauthored Redefining Health Care. By virtually any standard, it's an underperforming industry. —Richard... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Biotechnology

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

A Fast Start on Your New Job

What are the first things you should do in your new post? In this e-mail Q&A, Michael Watkins offers strategies that he researched while preparing his new book, The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

31 Mar 2002
What Do You Think?

Is This the Decade of the Investor?

to take a longer view. One such view is provided by a recent Business Week analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics and other data. ("Restating the '90s," by Michael J.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

Competitive advantage. Corporate strategy. The competitive advantage of nations. All over the world these terms quickly bring to mind the groundbreaking work of HBS professor Michael Porter, whose two decades of research on these and... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter

20 Sep 2017
News

Harvard Business School report highlights ranked choice voting among reforms

16 Mar 2013
News

The role of government: Let 50 flowers bloom

21 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them

digital platform, and the increased fiscal pressures created by the worldwide economic crisis. Unfortunately, the educational programs for future health care leaders fail to provide many of the needed skills, according to a survey of CEOs... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health; Education

14 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Time that Government Reopens for Business

process? I think that these sorts of scenarios, along with doubts about the effectiveness of recent US foreign policy decisions regarding Syria and Iran, have had a negative effect on how we're viewed by business and government leaders in... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

21 Nov 2017
News

A Thanksgiving Recipe for Success: Ask Questions

January 2002 (Revised January 2004)
Case

Cola Wars Continue: Coke and Pepsi in the Twenty-First Century

By: David B. Yoffie and Yusi Wang

Examines the industry structure and competitive strategy of Coca-cola and Pepsi over 100 years of rivalry. New challenges of the 21st century included boosting flagging domestic cola sales and finding new revenue streams. Both firms also began to modify their bottling,... View Details