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- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
of one of the top pharmaceutical companies in the world. Vasella, an avowed advocate of diversification, had expanded the scope of the company and structured it into 16 distinct business units ranging from animal health to oncology while... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
projects are typically the ones where customization is most critical. But there are ways for teams to handle this situation. The team leader can manage, and even leverage, pressure by designing meetings with controls in place—built-in... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
Breaks Let You Rest, but Not Lose Focus By: Pendem, Pradeep, Paul Green, Bradley R. Staats, and Francesca Gino Abstract—How best to structure the work day is an important operational question for organizations. A key View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
enterprises seem incapable of transformative innovation, it is due to how we design and manage them, rather than anything inherent in their scale. In fact, Creative Construction argues, if used properly, scale can be an asset, rather than... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
- 21 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect
measuring "innovative beverages" as a key metric. As a result, their efforts were focused on designing complex drinks that ultimately slowed their operations. They subsequently learned that customers valued fast service more... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
Expenditure Panel Survey and joint probabilities of workplace exposures from the General Social Survey, and we conducted a meta-analysis of the epidemiological literature to estimate the relative risks of poor health outcomes associated with exposure to these... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
strategy that actually emerges can be very different. A lot of our book is about understanding (a) that realized strategy is often different from intended strategy, and (b) there are forces that shape strategy in unintended ways. This second point highlights that the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Borders and the Self By Chinwe Ajena-Sagna (MBA 2003) Masobe Books “Who are you?” Every border tells a story. Every story has its origins. Tracing a cultural lineage from the beginnings of Igbo history in the ninth century by delineating... View Details
- 06 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Circularity in Denmark
there were two main takeaways: the use of a foundation and co-op corporate structures to better enable progress towards sustainability goals, and the distribution of sustainability roles across multiple departments within companies.... View Details
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
products are developed. This article introduces a fundamental tension between incentives and improvement in the provision of feedback. Using a sample of 4,294 commercial logo design tournaments, I show that feedback reduces participation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Case Study: Sweat the Technique
completely different product design (electronics), manufacturing process, and software. Consider setting up a different brand or structure to go after this opportunity. —Mark Gallion (MBA 1989) Got a case?... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
individuals clearly poses an extraordinary challenge. We refer to it as “leadership without control.” Explain the concept of alignment. Lorsch: Alignment refers to the ongoing process of designing organizational practices and View Details
- 15 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 15, 2015
pricing decisions on a daily basis. Rue La La is in the online fashion sample sales industry, where they offer extremely limited-time discounts on designer apparel and accessories. One of the retailer's main challenges is pricing and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
regulatory, normative, and cognitive factors in shaping firms' decisions to adopt specific organizational practices, above and beyond their technical efficiency. Similarly, institutional theory emphasizes legitimation processes and the tendency for institutionalized... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 22, 2008
approach is the assumption that teams are stable in their membership and internal organization. In practice, however, such stability is rare, as the composition and structure of teams often changes over time or between projects. In this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation
manufactuer's 787 Dreamliner, designed and built using more than 100 outside partners, is perhaps the most-watched example of the use of innovation networks. But already almost two years late, the project was dealt another blow last month... View Details
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Executive Education Courses - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
participate in an Executive Education program on the HBS campus , you enter an immersive experience where every aspect of the learning model has been carefully designed to facilitate your growth. Your learning will take place on your own,... View Details
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
which these issues can be addressed. The course provides students with a framework for analyzing how family ownership, control, and management affect value and whether and how more value can be created for the various stakeholders in family firms. The course is View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
Working PapersEquity-Debtholder Conflicts and Capital Structure Authors:Bo Becker and Per Strömberg Abstract We use an important legal event as a natural experiment to examine equity-debt conflicts in the vicinity of financial distress.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace