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  • 2007
  • Chapter

Creativity in Product Development

Managing new product development is a key area of management, straddling strategy, innovation and entrepreneurship and macro-organizational behaviour. All of the contributors in the Handbook of New Product Developmet Management are well-known and leading exponents to... View Details
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Product Development; Problems and Challenges; Research; Creativity
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    Dennis Campbell

    Dennis W. Campbell is currently the Dwight P. Robinson Jr. Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. His research and teaching activities focus broadly on how management control systems can be designed to balance short-term strategy execution... View Details

    Keywords: financial services; service industry; hotels ＆ motels; consumer products; restaurant; manufacturing; professional services
    • 02 Jul 2010
    • What Do You Think?

    Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?

    long-term effect because they are so complex, a manager's information so incomplete, the competitive environment so complicated, analytic techniques so inadequate, and the number of things over which a manager has control so limited, that... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett
    • September 2012 (Revised December 2012)
    • Case

    Addleshaw Goddard LLP (Abridged)

    By: Robert G. Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson and James Weber
    Addleshaw-Goddard (AG), the 15th largest law firm in the UK, is seeking ways to serve larger clients on more important legal matters. Part of this strategy involves its "Client Development Centre (CDC)," an innovative idea and set of services launched by Dr. Jim Hever... View Details
    Keywords: Price; Innovation and Invention; Service Operations; Partners and Partnerships; Competitive Advantage; Diversification; Legal Services Industry; United Kingdom
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      Robert S. Kaplan

      Robert S. Kaplan is Senior Fellow and Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. He joined the HBS faculty in 1984 after spending 16 years on the faculty of the business school at Carnegie-Mellon University, where he... View Details

      Keywords: health care; nonprofit industry
      • 21 Aug 2019
      • Blog Post

      Leveraging Academic Opportunities to Attain My Post-HBS Job

      immense value for businesses that need to assess an individual’s financial information, such as lenders. Ultimately, Plaid’s mission is to empower innovators by democratizing access to the financial system.   I had always been interested... View Details
      • 06 Apr 2009
      • Research & Ideas

      Cheers to the American Consumer

      countries may be the most important of all enablers of entrepreneurship and innovation in America. Why is the American consumer more venturesome? Six factors come to mind. Wealth. The average American consumer has more disposable income... View Details
      Keywords: by John Quelch
      • 22 May 2007
      • Working Paper Summaries

      The Speed of New Ideas: Trust, Institutions and the Diffusion of New Products

      Keywords: by Felix Oberholzer-Gee & Joel Waldfogel
      • March 1998 (Revised December 1999)
      • Case

      Bronner Slosberg Humphrey

      By: David E. Bell and Donald M Leavitt
      Bronner Slosberg Humphrey has succeeded by providing integrated direct marketing solutions for major service companies such as AT&T, American Express, and FedEx. A new CEO takes over from the company's founder and is wondering how to grow the company. Options include... View Details
      Keywords: Marketing; Growth and Development Strategy; Leading Change; Global Strategy; Service Operations; Competitive Strategy; Information Technology; Salesforce Management; Marketing Communications; Service Industry
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      • April 2007 (Revised June 2008)
      • Background Note

      USG

      By: Elie Ofek and Kerry Herman
      Serves as a background note for purposes of class discussion around next-generation innovation at USG. Describes the company, its products, and competitors. Of relevance is the fact that it recently filed for Chapter 11 due to litigation over asbestos-related claims.... View Details
      Keywords: Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Innovation and Invention; Lawsuits and Litigation; Competition
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      • November 2016 (Revised May 2017)
      • Case

      The Black List

      By: Henry McGee and Sarah McAra
      Franklin Leonard founded The Black List in 2005 as an innovative approach to identifying potential hit movie scripts via crowdsourcing. As the annual Black List proved to hold the scripts of some of Hollywood’s most successful films, from “Slumdog Millionaire” to... View Details
      Keywords: Screenwriting; Independent Production; Hollywood; Film Development; Film Distribution; Film Financing; Manging Uncertainty; Barriers To Entry; Globalization; Digitalization; Film Entertainment; Entrepreneurship; Marketing; Media; Strategy; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; United States
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      • January 2002
      • Background Note

      Telecommunications Act of 1996, The

      By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Daniel J. Green
      Reed Hundt, former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, reflects on the passage and implementation of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. The act was intended to stimulate competition and innovation in the telecommunications sector. Its provisions were of... View Details
      Keywords: Laws and Statutes; Policy; Business Strategy; Telecommunications Industry; United States
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      • November 2024
      • Case

      Polish Agro: Where Do We Grow From Here?

      By: Willy C. Shih, Lena Duchene and Daniela Beyersdorfer
      By July 2024, Polish Agro had grown into one of Poland’s fastest-growing agribusinesses, with €230 million in revenue, 82 employees, and operations across Northern Poland. The company supported farmers with essential agricultural inputs like fertilizers and seeds,... View Details
      Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Distribution; Volatility; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Value and Value Chain; Climate Change; Environmental Regulation; Profit; Trade; Digital Strategy; Innovation Strategy; Crisis Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Resource Allocation; Advertising; Brands and Branding; E-commerce; Business and Community Relations; Networks; Adaptation; Adoption; Competitive Advantage; Business Model; Health Pandemics; War; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Europe; Poland
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        The Transparency Trap

        To get people to be more creative and productive, managers increase transparency with open workspaces and access to real-time data. But my research shows that less-transparent work environments can actually yield more-transparent employees who solve problems more... View Details

          The Everything Token: How NFTs and Web3 Will Transform the Way We Buy, Sell, and Create

          A Harvard Business School professor and a16z crypto research partner and a career marketer and Web3 entrepreneur demystify the coming digital revolution, showing how NFTs will transform our online and offline... View Details
          • 2010
          • Working Paper

          Venture Capital Investment in the Clean Energy Sector

          By: Shikhar Ghosh and Ramana Nanda
          We examine the extent to which venture capital is adequately positioned for the rapid commercialization of clean energy technologies in the United States. While there are several startups in clean energy that are well-suited to the traditional venture capital... View Details
          Keywords: Business Startups; Energy Generation; Venture Capital; Investment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Technological Innovation; Competition; Energy Industry; Green Technology Industry; United States
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          • 04 Nov 2008
          • First Look

          First Look: November 4, 2008

          the long-run adoption of a new product or technology. The new product under consideration here is the drug-eluting stent: a device which props open a clogged artery to the heart and then releases medication that reduces the risk of artery... View Details
          Keywords: Martha Lagace
          • 2017
          • Book

          Extreme Teaming: Lessons in Complex, Cross-Sector Leadership

          By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey
          Today's global enterprises increasingly involve collaborative work by teams of experts operating across different professions, organizations, and industries. Extreme Teaming provides new insights into the world of complex, cross-industry projects and the ways... View Details
          Keywords: Groups and Teams; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Leadership; Complexity
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          • 2010
          • Working Paper

          Boundary Spanning in a For-profit Research Lab: An Exploration of the Interface Between Commerce and Academe

          By: Christopher C. Liu and Toby E. Stuart
          In innovative industries, private-sector companies increasingly are participants in open communities of science and technology. To participate in the system of exchange in such communities, firms often publicly disclose what would otherwise remain private discoveries.... View Details
          Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Higher Education; Information Publishing; Innovation and Invention; Science-Based Business; Social and Collaborative Networks; Boundaries; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
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          • 08 Nov 2021
          • Blog Post

          4 Ways the MS/MBA is Preparing Me for a Career in Health Care and the Life Sciences

          The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, focusing on neuroscience. There I was part of two academic labs, one focusing on the impact of stress on the immune system, and the other on translational bioengineering. Looking at my long-term goals, which include View Details