Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (5,779) Arrow Down
Filter Results: (5,779) Arrow Down Arrow Up

Show Results For

Show Results For

← Page 60 of 5,779 Results →
  • 2008
  • Simulation

Strategic Innovation Simulation: Back Bay Battery

By: Willy C. Shih and Clayton Christensen
This online simulation allows students to play the role of a business unit manager at Back Bay Battery Company who faces the dilemma of balancing a portfolio of investment strategies across products in the rechargeable battery space. Players have to manage R&D... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Disruptive Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Innovation and Management; Investment; Product Development; Research and Development; Battery Industry
Related
  • 2021
  • Book

The Heart of Business—Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism

By: Hubert Joly and Caroline Lambert
A remarkable turnaround by a leader with a remarkable philosophy: Find your noble purpose. Put people at the center. Unleash human magic.
"It was fall in Minnesota. It was getting cold and we were supposed to die." This is how Hubert Joly describes the early,... View Details
Keywords: Capitalism; Leadership; Mission and Purpose; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Leading Change
Related

    Frances X. Frei

    Frances Frei is a Professor of Technology and Operations Management at Harvard Business School. Her research investigates how leaders accelerate performance and design for excellence in leadership, strategy, and operations. She regularly advises senior executives... View Details

    Keywords: airline; banking; fast food; financial services; health care; hotels ＆ motels; management consulting; media; nonprofit industry; professional services; retail financial services; service industry; sports; telecommunications; tourism; travel
    • 17 Nov 2021
    • News

    How Much 'Radical Transparency' in a Workplace is Too Much?

      Paul Hamilton

      Paul studies the economic complements needed for firms to realize productivity gains from machine learning and artificial intelligence. These complements include data, human capital & skills, organizational processes, and business models. 
      View Details
      • September 2003
      • Case

      Allscripts, Inc.

      By: William A. Sahlman and Laurence E. Katz
      Describes a set of decisions confronting an entrepreneurial team that is considering taking managerial control of Allscripts, a health care venture. The company has gone through nine rounds of external financing and has changed its business model several times. View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Business or Company Management; Venture Capital; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Corporate Finance; Health Industry
      Related
      • September 2009 (Revised February 2011)
      • Case

      Intellectual Ventures

      By: Andrei Hagiu, David B. Yoffie and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
      Intellectual Ventures creates and acquires intellectual property, which it then seeks to monetize through non-exclusive licensing. In early 2009, as an increasing number of companies were trying to position themselves as leading intermediaries in the market for... View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Innovation and Invention; Intellectual Property; Rights; Service Operations; Research and Development; Technology; Service Industry
      Related
      • 06 Feb 2016
      • News

      Ascension seeks productivity elixir from its joint venture in Cayman Islands

      • November 2022 (Revised December 2024)
      • Case

      Hugging Face (A): Serving AI on a Platform

      By: Shane Greenstein, Daniel Yue, Sarah Gulick and Kerry Herman
      It is fall 2022, and open-source AI model company Hugging Face is considering its three areas of priorities: platform development, supporting the open-source community, and pursuing cutting-edge scientific research. As it expands services for enterprise clients, which... View Details
      Keywords: Community; Open-source; AI and Machine Learning; Product Development; Networks; Service Delivery; Research; Governance; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Information Industry; Technology Industry; United States
      Related
      • 28 Aug 2014
      • News

      How the Internet Saved Handmade Goods

      • 02 Apr 2019
      • News

      The Right Way to Get Your First 1,000 Customers

      • June 2003 (Revised October 2004)
      • Case

      StorageNetworks: Restarting a Public Company (A)

      By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Todd H Thedinga
      Peter Bell, founder and CEO of StorageNetworks, faces the problem of "restarting" a public company by changing its business model from being a storage-services provider to being a storage software developer. The task seems challenging, but surely doable, with $200... View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Diversification; Change Management; Cash; Entrepreneurship; Problems and Challenges; Corporate Finance; Information Technology Industry
      Related
      • 09 May 2012
      • Research & Ideas

      Clayton Christensen’s “How Will You Measure Your Life?”

      called Netflix emerged in the 1990s with a novel idea: rather than make people go to the video store, why don't we mail DVDs to them? Netflix's business model made profit in just the opposite way to... View Details
      • December 2017 (Revised January 2018)
      • Case

      NatureSweet

      By: Jose Alvarez, Forest Reinhardt and Natalie Kindred
      This case describes the business model and workplace philosophy of NatureSweet, a privately owned, vertically integrated greenhouse grower and marketer of fresh tomatoes with sales across the United States and $329 million in 2016 revenues. CEO Bryant Ambelang treated... View Details
      Keywords: NatureSweet; Tomatoes; Agriculture; Greenhouse; Ambelang; Cherry Tomatoes; Incentives; Worker Empowerment; Empowerment; Toyota Production System; Leadership; Branding; Produce; Manufacturing; Organizational Change; Agribusiness; Business Model; Employee Relationship Management; Working Conditions; Organizational Culture; Success; Problems and Challenges; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States; Mexico; North America
      Related
      • June 2005 (Revised July 2006)
      • Background Note

      Note on the Convergence Between Genomics & Information Technology

      By: David B. Yoffie, Dharmesh M Mehta and Rachel Sha
      Focuses on the convergence between the genomics and semiconductor industries, in particular organ printing, DNA computing, biomolecular sensory networks, and DNA microarrays. Explains what this newly converged world looks like based on current research and findings in... View Details
      Keywords: Genetics; Information Technology; Business Model; Disruptive Innovation; Biotechnology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Semiconductor Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
      Related

        Jorge Tamayo

        Jorge Tamayo is an assistant professor of business administration in the Strategy Unit. He teaches the Strategy course in the MBA required curriculum.

        Professor Tamayo is an applied microeconomist primarily interested in industrial organization and... View Details

        • 12 Apr 2013
        • News

        Conversations Can Save Companies

        • 19 Jul 2018
        • News

        Research Says This Type of Video Closes More B2B Sales

        • 2015
        • Other Teaching and Training Material

        Innovating in Healthcare

        By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Margo I. Seltzer and Kevin Schulman
        With over 71,000 past enrollees, Innovating in Healthcare investigates the issues of health care spending, quality, and access that continue to plague America and global nations alike. With U.S. health care costs trending toward $4 trillion in 2020, the need to... View Details
        Keywords: edX; Healthcare; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Business Model
        Related
        • Research Summary

        Overview

        Chu's research is focused on business and low income sectors, particularly in the use of commercial platforms to deliver what has traditionally been considered public responsibilities. In the last three decades, business models have emerged to meet the underserved... View Details
        Keywords: Impact Investing; Microfinance; Base Of The Pyramid; Role Of Profit And Social Impact; Private Sector Development; Emerging Markets; Business Ventures; Health Care and Treatment; Management; Social Enterprise; Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Banking Industry; Health Industry; Latin America; North and Central America; Asia; Africa