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Extending the Role of Headquarters Beyond the Firm Boundary: Entrepreneurial Alliance Innovation
By: Jaeho Kim and Andy Wu
Prior research on corporate headquarters (CHQ) characteristics identifies the impact of CHQ location and composition on the innovation outcomes of internal subsidiaries. However, given that external strategic alliances with high-tech entrepreneurial firms represent a... View Details
Keywords: Alliance; Innovation; Corporate Headquarters; Geographic Proximity; Entrepreneurship; Corporate Strategy; Alliances; Joint Ventures; Innovation and Invention; Business Headquarters; Geographic Location
Kim, Jaeho, and Andy Wu. "Extending the Role of Headquarters Beyond the Firm Boundary: Entrepreneurial Alliance Innovation." Art. 15. Special Issue on Corporate Headquarters. Journal of Organization Design 8 (2019): 1–35.
- July 2000 (Revised October 2019)
- Exercise
Riggs-Vericomp Negotiation (A):Confidential Information for RIGGS ENGINEERING (Seller)
By: Michael Wheeler
The seller (Riggs Engineering) manufactures and services recycling equipment for the computer industry. The buyer (Vericomp) uses solvents in manufacturing chips. Though set in a high-tech industry, this exercise illustrates fundamental aspects of negotiation analysis... View Details
Keywords: Agreements and Arrangements; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Tactics; Value Creation; Computer Industry
Wheeler, Michael. "Riggs-Vericomp Negotiation (A):Confidential Information for RIGGS ENGINEERING (Seller)." Harvard Business School Exercise 801-096, July 2000. (Revised October 2019.)
- 2008
- Working Paper
The Future of Social Enterprise
By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Herman B. Leonard and Susan McDonald
The Future of Social Enterprise considers the confluence of forces that is shaping the field of social enterprise, changing the way that funders, practitioners, scholars, and organizations measure performance. We trace a growing pool of potential funding sources to... View Details
Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Investment; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Performance Effectiveness; Social Enterprise; Consolidation; Value
Rangan, V. Kasturi, Herman B. Leonard, and Susan McDonald. "The Future of Social Enterprise." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-103, June 2008.
- 14 Aug 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors
- 12 Sep 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
The Ethnic Composition of U.S. Inventors
Keywords: by William R. Kerr
- 06 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Critical Minutes After a Virtual Meeting That Can Build Up or Tear Down Teams
understand what makes high-performing global teams tick. Working with a high-tech company headquartered in the US, the researchers studied two pairs of teams considered stars within the company. Both global teams had a lot in common in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 21 Jun 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Multi-Sided Platforms: From Microfoundations to Design and Expansion Strategies
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
high-tech venture with a staff of 35 experiencing explosive growth, or were the resignations symptomatic of bigger issues with CloudFlare's culture and management processes? After describing CloudFlare's early history, business model,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- January 2009 (Revised January 2010)
- Case
Responding to the Wii?
By: Andrei Hagiu and Hanna Halaburda
After years of gaming console industry leadership, how should Sony respond to the overwhelming success of competitor Nintendo's user-friendly Wii over Sony's high-tech PlayStation 3? It was August 2008 and Kazuo Hirai, chief executive of Sony Computer Entertainment... View Details
Keywords: Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Two-Sided Platforms; Industry Structures; Competitive Strategy; Electronics Industry; Video Game Industry
Hagiu, Andrei, and Hanna Halaburda. "Responding to the Wii?" Harvard Business School Case 709-448, January 2009. (Revised January 2010.)
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52096 2016 Financial Market History: Reflections on the Past for Investors Today The Origins of High-Tech Venture Investing in America By: Nicholas, Tom Abstract—The United States has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Network Effect: Why Companies Should Care About Employees’ LinkedIn Connections
In today’s high-tech economy, it’s not just quant skills and R&D know-how that confer competitive advantage. Relationships still matter—maybe more than ever, as social media turbocharges old-fashioned networking. A new study mapped... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 2017
- Book
The Language of Global Success: How a Common Tongue Transforms Multinational Organizations
By: Tsedal Neeley
For nearly three decades, English has been the lingua franca of cross-border organizations, yet studies on corporate language strategies and their importance for globalization have been scarce. In The Language of Global Success, Tsedal Neeley provides an... View Details
Keywords: Communication; Residency; Corporate Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Brazil; France; Germany; Indonesia; Japan; Taiwan; Thailand; United States
Neeley, Tsedal. The Language of Global Success: How a Common Tongue Transforms Multinational Organizations. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017.
- February 2013 (Revised March 2013)
- Case
Agero: Enhancing Capabilities for Customers
By: Robert Simons and Natalie Kindred
This case illustrates the importance of choosing a primary customer as the basis for organization design. Cross Country Group managers adjusted resource allocation, organization design and performance measures over time to transform Cross Country Group from an... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Entrepreneurial Gap; Entrepreneurship; Auto Industry; Insurance; Performance Management; Performance Measurement; Performance Measures; Performance Pressure; Decisions; Family Business; Resource Allocation; Organizational Design; Customer Focus and Relationships; Performance Evaluation; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Industry
Simons, Robert, and Natalie Kindred. "Agero: Enhancing Capabilities for Customers." Harvard Business School Case 113-001, February 2013. (Revised March 2013.)
- 30 Jun 2022
- HBS Case
Peloton Changed the Exercise Game. Can the Company Push Through the Pain?
got a lot of levers to pull.” Despite the risk, Dolan believes Peloton does appear to have a future. “It’s not like they’re a high-tech company, wondering if a drug will get FDA approval,” Dolan says. “No surprises are coming down the... View Details
- 23 Nov 2021
- Book
What It Takes to Build an Organizational Culture That Wins
culture as one that provides a platform, in the high-tech sense of that word, one that is designed to foster the ability to learn, adapt, innovate, and change anything, including strategy. It is this kind of platform from which strategies... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?
Internet are bringing out a high-tech type of leadership that is common in America's high-tech sector. Entrepreneurial, innovative, hard-driving, very flexible, ambitious, optimistic, visionary in the... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 14 Feb 2023
- HBS Case
Is Sweden Still 'Sweden'? A Liberal Utopia Grapples with an Identity Crisis
Crossroads.” HBS research associate Julia M. Comeau contributed to the study, along with the School’s Europe Research Center. While the country’s well-paid, high-tech economy is humming, and the country continues to generate an outsized... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 30 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Commuting Hurts Productivity and Your Best Talent Suffers Most
Trademark Office, Dataquick, which is now owned by CoreLogic, and Data Axle USA. When measuring the number and quality of patented inventions by high-tech inventors, Wu and his colleagues found that for every 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) of... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- February 2017 (Revised December 2018)
- Case
From Start-Up to Grown-Up Nation: The Future of the Israeli Innovation Ecosystem (Abridged)
By: Elie Ofek and Margot Eiran
In June 2016, Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, wrestled with how to sustain Israel’s strong innovation track record and the country’s reputation as the “start-up nation.” Despite the economic miracle the country had wrought since its founding, he... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Management; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Government and Politics; Economy; Equality and Inequality; Israel
Ofek, Elie, and Margot Eiran. "From Start-Up to Grown-Up Nation: The Future of the Israeli Innovation Ecosystem (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 517-103, February 2017. (Revised December 2018.)
- 01 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making
Edmondson, who chairs the Doctoral Programs and teaches in the Technology and Operations Management unit. "To cite one example, former HBS doctoral student Jim Detert and I interviewed some 200 people of all ranks and functions in a View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons