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  • 14 Aug 2024
  • Video

2024 BiGS Global Leadership Roundtable in Washington, D.C.: A conversation with changemakers

    How Robust Is Your Climate Governance?

    During the past few years, as evidence of climate change and its effects has mounted, many corporate boards have added climate governance to their agendas. But the maturity of boards’ climate-oversight processes and activities varies widely. To better... View Details

    • January 2016 (Revised February 2016)
    • Case

    Citizens United and Corporate Speech

    By: David Moss and Marc Campasano
    The story of Citizens United began in late 2007, as leading members of the Republican and Democratic parties were preparing for the 2008 presidential primaries. Democrats expected a three-way contest in their party between Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, Senator (and... View Details
    Keywords: Rights; Internet and the Web; Political Elections; Lawsuits and Litigation; Business and Government Relations
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    • Program

    Disruptive Innovation

    Implementing a strategy of low-cost positioning Scaling fast to take advantage of network effects Outsourcing activities that are not your current core competence Sourcing new leaders from inside the firm Expand your personal and... View Details
    • 30 May 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30

    diverse methodology to understand the relationships between firm boundaries, firm activities, and geographic borders. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52688 2017 Geography, Location, and Strategy. Multinational View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • October 2020
    • Article

    The Supply Chain Economy: A New Industry Categorization for Understanding Innovation in Services

    By: Mercedes Delgado and Karen G. Mills
    An active debate has centered on the importance of manufacturing for driving innovation in the U.S. economy. This paper offers an alternative framework that focuses on the role of suppliers of goods and services (the “supply chain economy”) in national performance. We... View Details
    Keywords: Supply Chain Industries; Business-to-consumer Industries; Services; Innovation; Economy; Framework; Supply Chain; Service Operations; Innovation and Invention; Economic Growth; United States
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    • April 2017
    • Case

    China Hospitals Inc.: The Growth of Private Hospitals in China

    By: Kevin Schulman, Xiao Yu and Ariel Hwang
    This case examines the privatization of hospitals in China. China Hospitals, Inc. has become the largest for-profit hospital company in China, purchasing government owned hospitals in Tier 2 cities. The case profiles CEO Frank Hu. To build his company, he has to... View Details
    Keywords: Privatization; For-Profit Firms; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Model; Health Industry; China
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    • February 2003 (Revised March 2006)
    • Case

    Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique (CSEM)

    By: Michael E. Porter, Willis M. Emmons III and Christian Fenner
    Le Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique S.A. (CSEM)--the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology--was a major nonprofit research institution located in Neuchatel, Switzerland, with roots in the Swiss watch industry. CSEM maintained close links to... View Details
    Keywords: Cooperation; Information Technology; Alliances; Research and Development; Performance Productivity; Innovation and Invention; Nonprofit Organizations; Electronics Industry; Switzerland
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    • May 1997
    • Teaching Note

    Product Development Foundations, Instructor's Note

    By: Marco Iansiti
    As emphasized in the course overview, excellence in product development is built on three foundations: the activities aimed at generating, retaining, and integrating knowledge. They form the critical building blocks for the conceptualization and implementation of any... View Details
    Keywords: Knowledge Management; Product Launch; Infrastructure; Product Development
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    • February 1999 (Revised July 2004)
    • Case

    Life as a Minor League CEO Frank Burke and The Chattanooga Lookouts

    By: Stephen A. Greyser and Kirk A. Goldman
    A "slice of life" depiction of the range of issues and activities experienced by Frank Burke (HBS MBA 1987), the president of a minor league baseball team (the Chattanooga Lookouts). Raises questions of the applicability of MBA skills in this role and the "quotient of... View Details
    Keywords: Happiness; Managerial Roles; Entrepreneurship; Business or Company Management; Marketing; Cost Management; Cost vs Benefits; Operations; Sports; Business Education; Sports Industry; Tennessee
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      Richard G. Hamermesh

      Richard Hamermesh was the MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School. While at HBS Richard served as co-chair of the HBS Healthcare... View Details

      Keywords: health care

        Roy D. Shapiro

        Roy D. Shapiro is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.  He is currently the faculty co-chair of the School's Technology and Operations Management Unit... View Details

        • 09 Apr 2024
        • Book

        Why Work Rituals Bring Teams Together and Create More Meaning

        the morning—and if it would feel weird to switch the order. If the order doesn’t matter, it’s likely a habit, but if you can’t conceive of doing the activities the opposite way, you’ve probably turned that habit into a ritual. In addition... View Details
        Keywords: by Michael Blanding
        • October 2021 (Revised May 2023)
        • Case

        Project Maji: Pricing Water in Sub-Saharan Africa

        By: Elie Ofek, Marco Bertini, Dilyana Karadzhova Botha and Esel Çekin
        In July 2021, Sunil Lalvani, founder and CEO of Project Maji, a non-profit social enterprise headquartered in Dubai that had already provided sustainable, clean water solutions to 80,000 people living in rural communities across Ghana and Kenya, was facing an important... View Details
        Keywords: Water; Pricing; Nonprofit Organizations; Projects; Price; Decision Making; Social Enterprise; Growth and Development Strategy; Equity; Green Technology; Social and Collaborative Networks; Africa; Dubai
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        • Web

        Program for Research in Markets & Organizations - Doctoral

        campus housing, a partial board plan, and a modest research stipend. As part of the community of researchers, students will participate in enrichment activities such as faculty lectures, professional development workshops, presentation... View Details
        • October 2015
        • Article

        How Smart, Connected Products Are Transforming Companies

        By: Michael E. Porter and James E. Heppelmann
        The evolution of products into intelligent, connected devices is revolutionizing business. In a November 2014 article, "How Smart, Connected Products Are Transforming Competition," Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter and PTC president and CEO James... View Details
        Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Organizational Structure; Operations; Business Strategy
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        • 2012
        • Chapter

        The Confederacy of Heterogeneous Software Organizations and Heterogeneous Developers: Field Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Worker Effort

        By: Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani
        Software development occurs in a patchwork or "confederacy" of different types of institutions (universities, small start-ups, multinational enterprises, government agencies, etc.) utilizing varied work approaches. Here we speculate on one possible explanation for this... View Details
        Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Applications and Software; Product Development; Organizations; Employees; Behavior; Competition; Cooperation; Creativity; Information Technology Industry
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        • 10 Mar 2010
        • Working Paper Summaries

        A Reexamination of Tunneling and Business Groups: New Data and New Methods

        Keywords: by Jordan I. Siegel & Prithwiraj Choudhury
        • 2017
        • Chapter

        High Stakes Negotiation: Indian Gaming and Tribal/State Compacts

        By: Gavin Clarkson and James K. Sebenius
        Although Indian tribes and the surrounding states were often bitter enemies throughout much of the history of the United States, recently tribes and states have been able to work cooperatively in a number of areas. In some instances, Congress has mandated such... View Details
        Keywords: Indian Gaming; Negotiation; Regulation; Tribal Sovereignty; Sovereign Finance; Negotiation Participants; Relationships; Cooperation; Connecticut
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        • Web

        Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

        redistributes job functions Influence: Low 90 1990 Reengineering Record high employment Service sector outpaces manufacturing in new job creation Influence: Low 1900 19 U.S. begins construction of Panama Canal Influence: High 10 1910 19 War Industries Board coordinates... View Details