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    Michael Beer

    MICHAEL BEER

    Mike Beer is the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations About Your Company’s... View Details

    • Article

    Lessons From Hollywood: A New Approach To Funding R&D

    By: Gary P. Pisano and Andrew W. Lo
    Companies find it increasingly difficult to justify long-term, risky R&D investments—particularly in science-based fields such as biotechnology, advanced materials, and energy. We argue in this article that the traditional venture model has limits for such investments... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Innovation; Financial Strategy; Project Management; R＆D; Start-up; Innovation Strategy; Business Model; Research and Development; Financial Management; Risk Management; Strategy
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    • May 2008
    • Article

    Why Doesn't Capital Flow from Rich to Poor Countries? An Empirical Investigation

    By: Laura Alfaro, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Vadym Volosovych
    We examine the empirical role of different explanations for the lack of capital flows from rich to poor countries—the "Lucas Paradox." The theoretical explanations include cross country differences in fundamentals affecting productivity and capital market... View Details
    Keywords: International Finance; Wealth and Poverty; Development Economics; Income; Capital Markets; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Australia; Peru
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    • November 1990 (Revised April 1999)
    • Case

    General Motors: Packard Electric Division

    By: Steven C. Wheelwright
    Packard Electric is the division of General Motors (GM) that does all of the electrical wiring and cabling for GM automobiles. They developed a new approach for passing the cables through the firewall between the engine and passenger compartments. The new technology... View Details
    Keywords: Business Divisions; Cost; Management Style; Product Design; Product Development; Production; Projects; Groups and Teams; Conflict and Resolution; Technology; Auto Industry
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    • October 1995
    • Case

    Centex Telemanagement, Inc. (B)

    By: William A. Sahlman and Andrew S. Janower
    Contains a description of the events surrounding the financing of Centex Telemanagement, Inc. by Sierra Ventures, a venture capital fund. The case is written from the perspective of the venture capitalists and is designed to teach students about the process of venture... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital; Financing and Loans; Financial Institutions; Business Startups
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    • 2001
    • Book

    The Performing Arts in a New Era

    By: Kevin F. McCarthy, Arthur C. Brooks, Julia Lowell and Laura Zakaras
    This book examines recent trends in the performing arts and discusses how the arts are likely to evolve in the future. It is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of the performing arts, including analysis of opera, theater, dance, and music, in both their... View Details
    Keywords: Performing Arts; United States
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    • December 2020 (Revised March 2022)
    • Teaching Note

    Forecasting ClimaCell

    By: Joshua Lev Krieger, Christopher Stanton and James Barnett
    A weather technology startup, ClimaCell considers the R&D trade-offs and financing implications of pursuing a proposed contract with a major automobile maker, rather than continuing its focus on building a scalable, all-purpose weather prediction engine. View Details
    Keywords: Weather; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Startups; Research and Development; Finance; Cost vs Benefits; Decision Making; Strategy; United States; Israel; Massachusetts; Colorado
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    • October 2003 (Revised November 2006)
    • Case

    GE's Talent Machine: The Making of a CEO

    By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Andrew N. McLean
    GE believes its ability to develop management talent is a core competency that represents a source of sustainable competitive advantage. This case traces the development of GE's rich system of human resource policies and practices under five CEOs in the post-war era,... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Capital; Selection and Staffing; Leadership Development; Management Succession; Corporate Strategy
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    • 13 Jul 2017
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Catering Through Disclosure: Evidence from Shanghai-Hong Kong Connect

    Keywords: by Aaron S. Yoon

      Derek C. M. van Bever

      Derek van Bever is a Senior Lecturer in the General Management Unit of Harvard Business School. He teaches courses in both years of the MBA program (“Leadership and Corporate Accountability” in the first-year required curriculum and “Building and Sustaining a... View Details

      • 01 Jul 2013
      • Research & Ideas

      Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?

      through the crowd to lesser-known microfinance borrowers in developing countries. Nanda puts most current crowdfunding platforms such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo in the equivalent of the donation or lending category. Kickstarter began as... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
      • May 2024
      • Article

      Financial Innovation in the 21st Century: Evidence from U.S. Patents

      By: Josh Lerner, Amit Seru, Nick Short and Yuan Sun
      We develop a unique dataset of 24 thousand U.S. finance patents granted over the last two decades to explore the evolution and production of financial innovation. We use machine learning to identify the financial patents and extensively audit the results to ensure... View Details
      Keywords: Banking; Investment Banks; Information Technology; Regulation; Patents; Innovation and Invention; Trends
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      • June 2015
      • Article

      The Organization of Enterprise in Japan

      By: Tom Nicholas
      Recent research reveals that the joint stock corporation was not a superior form of business organization in many countries historically. In Japan, however, it played a more fundamental role. Between 1896 and 1939 joint stock enterprises accounted for 44 percent of... View Details
      Keywords: Japan; Legal Form; Enterprise; Modernization; Business Organization; Entrepreneurship; Japan
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      • 16 Apr 2001
      • Research & Ideas

      Breaking the Code of Change

      want to develop business organizations that satisfy shareholders and yet have the capacity to adapt and survive as viable institutions in the long run. Theory E In 1994 Al Dunlap became CEO of troubled Scott... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria
      • 2008
      • Casebook

      The Rules of Globalization: Case Book

      By: Rawi Abdelal
      This is a book about the politics of the global economy — about how firms prosper by understanding those politics, or fail by misunderstanding them. Understanding the politics of globalization may once have been a luxury; it is now, for most high-level managers, simply... View Details
      Keywords: Trade; International Finance; Globalized Economies and Regions; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations
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      • 03 Oct 2013
      • Research & Ideas

      Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?

      system is in better shape. Professors Victoria Ivashina, David Scharfstein, and Arthur Segel, all members of the Harvard Business School Finance Unit, examine the current state of affairs. victoria Ivashina Is the US financial system in... View Details
      Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Banking; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate
      • 2011
      • Chapter

      The Embeddedness of Social Entrepreneurship: Understanding Variation across Local Communities

      By: Christian Seelos, Johanna Mair, Julie Battilana and M. Tina Dacin
      Social enterprise organizations (SEOs) arise from entrepreneurial activities with the aim to achieve social goals. SEOs have been identified as alternative and/or complementary to the actions of governments and international organizations to address poverty and... View Details
      Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Civil Society or Community; Local Range
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      • April 2012
      • Article

      Change Agents, Networks, and Institutions: A Contingency Theory of Organizational Change

      By: Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro
      We develop a contingency theory for how structural closure in a network, defined as the extent to which an actor's network contacts are connected to one another, affects the initiation and adoption of change in organizations. Using longitudinal survey data supplemented... View Details
      Keywords: Networks; Theory; Organizations; Change
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      • May 2002
      • Case

      Aspen Financial

      By: Arthur I Segel and Melissa Yin-Yin Lam
      Jack and Bruce Aspen must decide how they want to grow their commercial real estate finance company during a time of tremendous change in the industry. View Details
      Keywords: History; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Growth and Development; Real Estate Industry
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      • February 28, 2020
      • Article

      How Tesla Sets Itself Apart

      By: Lou Shipley
      Tesla and its flamboyant, and sometimes erratic, innovator Elon Musk have turned the more than a century old industry upside down in a mere 16 years. Traditional automakers are ill prepared to compete in today’s software-centered world. Unlike nimble Tesla, they are... View Details
      Keywords: Strategy; Information Technology; Transportation; Business Model; Technological Innovation; Disruption; Auto Industry
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