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  • September 2004 (Revised August 2007)
  • Case

Enterprise IT at Cisco (2004)

By: Andrew P. McAfee, F. Warren McFarlan and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
Illustrates the challenges associated with centralizing IT decisions at Cisco after a decade of decentralized planning and project funding. When Brad Boston became Cisco's new CIO in 2001, he found that managers were starting to get frustrated with the results of their... View Details
Keywords: Management; Resource Allocation; Information Technology; Problems and Challenges; Business Ventures; Change Management; Entrepreneurship; Projects; Planning; Corporate Finance; Information Technology Industry
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  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Taking a 'Deep Dive': What Only a Top Leader Can Do

By: Howard H. Yu and Joseph L. Bower
Unlike most historical accounts of strategic change inside large firms, empirical research on strategic management rarely uses the day-to-day behaviors of top executives as the unit of analysis. By examining the resource allocation process closely, we introduce the... View Details
Keywords: Leading Change; Management Practices and Processes; Resource Allocation; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure
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Articles - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Involved Videos Books Articles PUBLICATIONS: Articles HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW How to Solve the Cost Crisis in Health Care HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW (September 2011) Robert S. Kaplan and Michael E. Porter This pivotal article presents the... View Details

    Do Experts or Collective Intelligence Write with More Bias?

    Co-authored by Feng Zhu

    Which source of information contains greater bias and slant-text written by an expert or that constructed via collective intelligence? Do the costs of acquiring, storing, displaying, and revising information shape those... View Details
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    By: Reshmaan N. Hussam

    Engaged with field work in South Asia and East Africa, Professor Hussam places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the economics literature as well as relevant downstream policy implications. Her research spans four broad interests.... View Details

    • 18 Sep 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

    of capital commitments) were in such alternative vehicles; the allocation increased by more than 10 percentage points over the last decade. Alternative vehicles were far more likely to be offered by larger View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 07 Nov 2017
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

    Students learn to (1) carefully articulate the business ask; (2) reason carefully from the ask, through metrics and models, and outputs; and (3) View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 18 May 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth

    research has evaluated this alternative view and developed a theory based on the effect of past savings on growth through the adoption of new technologies (mostly through foreign direct investment: FDI). Q:... View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
    • 12 Mar 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Publish or Perish: What the Research Says About Productivity in Academia

    understand what factors make scientists more willing to take those risks and what could be done to identify and support them. Overall, the study seeks to acknowledge that “we need to View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand; Education
    • 29 Mar 2023
    • News

    Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria

    saving the lives of 117 of our citizens.” Şen notes that the Koç Group has also donated more than $12.7 million to urgent needs and allocated another $95 million for long-term View Details
    • 14 Feb 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age

    they serve (customers and key stakeholders). As much as leaders must be open to new ideas and changing circumstances, those without a sense of purpose will struggle, participants said. After all, diverting... View Details
    Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards; Technology
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    Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online

    Time allocation exercise Identify key contextual factors shaping your organization Video upload: Record yourself communicating direction and evaluate the effectiveness of you... View Details
    • October 1987 (Revised January 1989)
    • Background Note

    Purchasing a Business: The Search Process

    Describes the steps necessary to purchase a small to medium size company. Provides an eight-part analytical framework. Issues covered in the framework include the following: the self-assessment, deal criteria, deal sources, resources necessary to purchase a business,... View Details
    Keywords: Acquisition; Framework; Resource Allocation; Negotiation Deal; Business Processes; Valuation
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    • 01 Mar 2017
    • News

    Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

    approach. The authors draw on years of research and teaching to deliver a truly interactive learning experience. The case studies cover all areas of corporate finance, including capital structure, financing needs, View Details
    • 27 Nov 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution

    attempt was made to justify the investment for automakers on economic grounds. The projected return on the investment to serve Detroit was 6.5 percent, which fell below the investment hurdle rate of 8 to 10 percent used to View Details
    Keywords: by Donald N. Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation
    • March 2018 (Revised August 2018)
    • Case

    Matching Markets for Googlers

    By: Bo Cowgill and Rembrand Koning
    This case describes how Google designed and launched an internal matching market to assign individual workers with projects and managers. The case evaluates how marketplace design considerations—and several alternative staffing models—could affect the company’s goals... View Details
    Keywords: People Analytics; Google; Labor Market; Staffing; Market Design; Marketplace Matching; Selection and Staffing; Goals and Objectives; Technology Industry; United States
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    Business and Climate Change Course | HBS Online

    Exercises Evaluate how your company measures its emissions and how it might reduce them Identify key emissions sources and variables companies should consider when selecting a... View Details
    • 13 Jun 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

    also became the first district to use a mechanism based on Top Trading Cycles (TTC) in a real-life allocation problem. Since TTC was originally devised for settings in which agents have endowments, there is no formal rationale for TTC in... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Feb 1997
    • News

    Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

    Bhide's Entrepreneurial Management course gives his students a feel for the skills they will need as entrepreneurs. The course, first offered in 1983 and currently taught by Bhide and Assistant Professor... View Details
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    By: Natalia Rigol
    My research focuses primarily on how to design, target, and deliver financial products to the poor, and, in particular, how financial inclusion can improve the socio-economic position of women. My projects have analyzed how the design and delivery of microfinance... View Details