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  • September 2016 (Revised September 2017)
  • Case

Collage.com: Scaling a Distributed Organization

By: Christopher Stanton and Shikhar Ghosh
Kevin Borders and Joe Golden, co-founders and co-CEOs of Collage.com, must decide how to grow their custom photo-products startup in the face of fierce competition. From 2011 through 2016, the business evolved from a hobby to a startup with $22 million in revenue and... View Details
Keywords: Remote Work; Internet and the Web; Organizational Structure; Competitive Strategy; Employees; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; Service Industry
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  • 30 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Readers Ask: I Need Tips for Working at Home

Shifting to remote work raises many questions for managers and employees, especially when it happens quickly as a result of a crisis. Prithwiraj “Raj” Choudhury, the Lumry Family Associate Professor of Business Administration in the View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 16 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Times Captures History of American Business

From the dawn of the U.S. transcontinental railroad in 1869 to the widespread embrace of consumer products like cell phones and iPods in our time, the story of American business is in constant motion, never at rest—or at ease. A View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News
  • August 1998
  • Case

Electronic Commerce at Air Products

By: F. Warren McFarlan and Melissa Dailey
In 1998,chief information officers (CIOs) in the highly competitive international gases and chemicals business faced the reality that electronic commerce capability was a strategic necessity. The results of annual surveys of technology officers in the chemical industry... View Details
Keywords: Management Teams; Information Technology; Globalized Markets and Industries; Infrastructure; Internet and the Web; Technology Adoption; Business Strategy; Chemical Industry; United States
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  • 09 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Location, Location, Location: The Strategy of Place

is whether the business can afford to spend the required resources—especially when it means siphoning time and attention away from an existing successful business. "When you open a new operation, it... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 2011
  • Working Paper

The Organization of Firms Across Countries

By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
We argue that social capital as proxied by trust increases aggregate productivity by affecting the organization of firms. To do this we collect new data on the decentralization of investment, hiring, production, and sales decisions from Corporate Headquarters to local... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Multinational Firms and Management; Organizational Structure; Performance Productivity; Trust; Asia; Europe; United States
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  • May 2024 (Revised July 2024)
  • Case

Lowe’s: Improving the Total Home Strategy

By: Elie Ofek, K. Shelette Stewart and Alicia Dadlani
In 2023, Marvin Ellison, CEO of Lowe’s, contemplated enhancements to the company’s Total Home Strategy to accelerate performance and grow market share. In the last five years since becoming CEO, Ellison had championed a turnaround of the company, completing a... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; E-commerce; Competition; Brands and Branding; Business Strategy; Retail Industry; United States; North Carolina
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  • 2016
  • Book

Building the Future: Big Teaming for Audacious Innovation

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Susan Salter Reynolds
Machiavelli famously wrote, "There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things." That's what this book is about—innovation far more audacious... View Details
Keywords: Teaming; Innovation; Leadership; Groups and Teams; Innovation and Invention
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  • 24 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything

As the technology wave breaks over us, some think the Internet looks to many about to wash out the established order of everything from vacation booking to the nation-state itself. But hold on a minute,... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
  • September 2019 (Revised August 2020)
  • Case

Engineering an Inclusive Bioeconomy

By: Tarun Khanna, Raffaella Sadun and Susie L. Ma
In 2019, entrepreneur Juan Carlos Castilla-Rubio was developing a project he hoped could generate and share wealth from the natural resources of the Amazon without destroying those resources. His idea, called Earth Bank of Codes (EBC), would create a library of the... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Development Economics; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Intellectual Property; Emerging Markets; Market Design; Marketplace Matching; Science; Genetics; Natural Environment; Environmental Sustainability; Climate Change; Social Enterprise; Strategy; Strategic Planning; Information Technology; Ownership; Social Psychology; Trust; Society; Biotechnology Industry; South America; Amazon Basin
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  • 21 Feb 2018
  • Research & Ideas

When a Competitor Abandons the Market, Should You Advance or Retreat?

continued after experiencing same market/same technology competitor failure news enjoy a better success rate than continuing projects that did not experience such news," Krieger says. "That implies... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Pharmaceutical; Health
  • 08 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 8, 2010

for a cure; the doubts and obstacles he experiences along the way; and the current options Kremer faces, from returning home to spend time with family to founding a new biotech venture. Through this stark,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2017
  • News

Uber Is Just Another Company To Join The Long History Of Toxic Work Environments

  • 13 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 13, 2016

North-South freight transport suggest that if the cartel were broken, railroads would have passed through 50% of their cost savings from standardization, generating a 10% increase in trade on the sampled routes. The results demonstrate... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 25 Jul 2011
  • Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University

universities. In this excerpt, they discuss the idea of a university's DNA. In the absence of a disruptive new technology, the combination of prestige and loyal support from donors and legislators has... View Details
Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen & Henry J. Eyring; Education
  • 15 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 15

Talent Recruitment at frog design Shanghai (B) Supplements 411-040. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/414024-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 714-404 New York City: Bloomberg's Strategy for Economic Development Traces the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Nov 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making

What determines whether decisions happen on the bottom, middle, or top rung of the corporate ladder? New research offers a surprising conclusion: The answer often lies in the technology that a company uses.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 27 Jun 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Gen AI Marketing: How Some 'Gibberish' Code Can Give Products an Edge

It’s the new way of comparison shopping in the age of large language models (LLM): Tapping into AI-driven search engines for research and advice on which products to buy. But can consumers trust the recommendations to be impartial? View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology

    Nitin Nohria

    Nitin Nohria served as the tenth dean of Harvard Business School from 2010-2020. He previously served as co-chair of the Leadership Initiative, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development, and Head of the Organizational Behavior unit.

    As Dean, building on... View Details

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    • 11 Apr 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    Financial Services 24/7

    their regular offerings. One of the benefits of developing Wingspanbank outside Bank One was the ability to start from scratch (a fact that Wingspanbank's advertising campaign tapped). "Sometimes a new View Details
    Keywords: by Susan Young