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  • May 2010
  • Article

Modern Management: Good for the Environment or Just Hot Air?

By: Nicholas Bloom, Christos Genakos, Ralf Martin and Raffaella Sadun
We use an innovative methodology to measure management practices in over 300 manufacturing firms in the U.K. We then match this management data to production and energy usage information for establishments owned by these firms. We find that establishments in better... View Details
Keywords: Energy Conservation; Management Practices and Processes; Performance Productivity; Environmental Sustainability; Pollutants; Manufacturing Industry; United Kingdom
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    Josh Lerner

    Josh Lerner graduated from Yale College with a special divisional major. He worked for several years on issues concerning technological innovation and public policy at the Brookings Institution, for a public-private task force in Chicago, and on... View Details

    Keywords: biotechnology; high technology; venture capital industry
    • April 1998 (Revised May 2000)
    • Case

    Guidant Corporation: Shaping Culture Through Systems

    By: Robert L. Simons and Antonio Davila
    Guidant is a successful IPO start-up selling pacemakers and defibrillators. The case describes how managers install systems to balance innovation and control. Three parts of a shareholder value strategy are described. Controls include incentive systems, beliefs... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Motivation and Incentives; Planning; Risk Management; Management Systems; Business Strategy; Value Creation; System; Service Industry; Financial Services Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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    • 25 Apr 2012
    • News

    What Doesn't Motivate Creativity Can Kill It

      Lauren H. Cohen

      Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

      Keywords: asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management
      • 2011
      • Book

      Accelerating Energy Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors

      By: Rebecca Henderson and Richard G. Newell
      Accelerating energy innovation could be an important part of an effective response to the threat of climate change. Written by a stellar group of experts in the field, this book complements existing research on the subject with an exploration of the role that public... View Details
      Keywords: Energy Sources; Innovation and Invention; Climate Change; Policy; Competition; Demand and Consumers; Finance; Energy Industry
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      Overview

      By: Srikant M. Datar
      Professor Datar has several research and course development interests. His initial areas of research interest were in cost management and management control, strategy implementation and governance. Over the last few years his areas of interest are management education,... View Details
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      The ESG-Innovation Disconnect: Evidence from Green Patenting

      By: Lauren Cohen, Umit G. Gurun and Quoc H. Nguyen
      No firm or sector of the global economy is untouched by innovation. In equilibrium, innovators will flock to (and innovation will occur where) the returns to innovative capital are the highest. In this paper, we document a strong empirical pattern in green patent... View Details
      Keywords: ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Investment; Decision Making; Policy; Energy; Green Technology; Technological Innovation; Patents
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      • June 1989 (Revised July 1994)
      • Case

      Ito Yokado

      By: Walter J. Salmon
      Describes the means by which management has empowered the sales clerks and part time employees of this chain of 131 department stores. They are responsible for all sales and inventory management. This empowerment has led to fewer stockouts, higher sales, lower... View Details
      Keywords: Innovation and Management; Management; Distribution; Supply Chain Management; Sales; Japan
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      • 23 Feb 2024
      • News

      Rock Center Faculty Co-Chairs Q+A

      • April 1999
      • Teaching Note

      Issues in Technology Strategy TN

      By: Clayton M. Christensen
      Provides instructors with an overview for the module in the Managing Innovation course, Issues in Technology Strategy. Provides an overview of the frameworks introduced in the module that can help managers in their efforts to formulate strategies relating to several... View Details
      Keywords: Decisions; Investment; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Research; Technology Adoption; Technology Industry
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      • 25 Mar 2011
      • News

      Necessity, not Scarcity, is the Mother of Invention

      • Article

      Making a Difference: Developing Actionable Knowledge for Practice and Theory

      By: Michael Beer
      There is a widely acknowledged gap between academic research and practice. While the field of organizational studies and development has had an impact on management practice in some organizations, it has had only a modest impact on widely accepted management practice... View Details
      Keywords: Actionable Knowledge; Actionable Practice; Normal Science; Scholar-consultant; Management Practices and Processes; Theory; Innovation Leadership; Organizations; Performance Effectiveness
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      • 11 Aug 2014
      • News

      Politics and Dirty Data

        Jeffrey T. Polzer

        Jeff Polzer is the UPS Foundation Professor of Human Resource Management in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. He studies how people collaborate in teams and across organizational networks to accomplish their individual and collective... View Details

        • 12 Nov 2019
        • Video

        Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

        Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Chairperson and Managing Director of Biocon, India’s largest biopharmaceutical company, discusses how the firm has been able to create a world class innovation center in Bangalore despite... View Details

          Joseph B. Lassiter

          Joe is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Management Practice in Environmental Management, Retired. He focuses on one of the world’s most pressing problems: developing clean, secure and carbon-neutral supplies of reliable, low-cost energy all around the world. He... View Details

          Keywords: green technology; high technology; internet; oil ＆ gas; private equity (LBO funds); utilities; software; energy

            Lynda M. Applegate

            Lynda M. Applegate is a Baker Foundation Professor at HBS and is Chair of the Advisory Committee for Harvard University’s Masters Degree of Liberal Arts in Finance and Management at the Harvard University Extension School.  She has also played a... View Details

            • 2011
            • Casebook

            Cases about Redefining Global Strategy

            By: Pankaj Ghemawat and Jordan I. Siegel
            In "Cases about Redefining Global Strategy," Pankaj Ghemawat and Jordan Siegel have assembled 26 full-length case studies as a resource for active learning about the nature of cross-border differences and strategies. As technology innovation globalizes markets and... View Details
            Keywords: Global Strategy; International Business; Cases; Strategy; Globalization
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            Transforming Customer Experiences - Executive Education

            By: Ryan W. Buell
            In today's fast-growing service sector, a new set of frameworks are required to build a robust and competitive service business. Transforming Customer Experiences draws upon the latest research and insights to equip senior managers with a new toolkit for leading... View Details