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  • June 2014
  • Supplement

Merrimack Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (B)

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Bethany Gerstein and Melissa Valentine
In 2006, the leadership team at Merrimack Pharmaceuticals, Inc. had to decide whether to keep its R&D organization in functional departments or restructure it into interdisciplinary teams. This case follows the outcomes of this decision from 2006 to mid-2014, and... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Design; Groups and Teams; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Research and Development; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • July 1990 (Revised October 1992)
  • Case

Consolidated Equipment Co.

By: Samuel L. Hayes III
A mature company seeks to rejuvenate itself with internal R&D and external acquisitions. It has developed a DCK model for analyzing the value of a proposed acquisition. A rewritten version of an earlier case by J.K. Butters. View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Valuation; Business Growth and Maturation; Research and Development; Acquisition; Capital Budgeting
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  • 09 Feb 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen

Despite widespread rhetoric about the need for organizational agility, an astonishing number of businesses stay stuck in neutral when they need to implement a new strategy. Consider the situation that Lynne Camp faced in July 2000. Camp,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
  • 31 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 31

global marketplace, we have done extensive research and found that names can play an enormous role in a product's success. Teams Have Changed: Catching Up to the Future Authors:Heidi K. Gardner, Ruth Wageman, and Mark Mortensen... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Jul 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark

Akron, Ohio tire cluster—to try to discover how Akron companies turned into what he calls a "community of inertia." Drawing as well on research by other scholars, including Harvard University Professor Michael E. Porter, Sull's... View Details
Keywords: by Donald Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto
  • 02 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 2

Evidence from a Field Experiment Authors: Kevin Boudreau, Tom Brady, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva Guinan, Karim Lakhani, and Tony Hollenberg Abstract We present the results of a field experiment conducted within the Harvard Medical School system of hospitals and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care

knowledge to solving the problems of individual patients—offer enormous potential to help patients and the U.S. health-care system overall, says HBS senior lecturer Richard M.J. Bohmer, a physician and researcher on the intersection of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
  • 27 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 27

Intervention Method, Empirical Evidence, and Theory Author:Michael Beer Publication:In Research in Organizational Change and Development. Vol. 19, edited by Richard Woodman, William Pasmore, and Abraham B.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 May 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Are You Managing To a ‘T’? Time To Break With Tradition

conditions, it also can lead to competition between units, which may hoard, rather than share, expertise. By encouraging collaboration, a T-shaped management system can be a powerful counterbalance to such negative behavior. Our research... View Details
Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen & Bolko Von Oetinger
  • 30 Dec 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2013

productivity and quality of care can be increased by uncovering organizational factors associated with operational failures so that hospitals can reduce the frequency with which these failures occur. View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • March 2008 (Revised June 2008)
  • Case

The Broad Institute: Applying the Power of Genomics to Medicine

By: Vicki L. Sato and Rachel Gordon
In June 2003, Harvard University and MIT announced an unprecedented partnership to create a biomedical institute, The Broad Institute. The culture of the Broad centered on science, and those involved considered it to be at the edge of the scientific frontier. In just... View Details
Keywords: Education; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Culture; Partners and Partnerships; Research and Development; Genetics
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  • 08 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity

This article is part of a continuing series on faculty research and teaching commemorating the 50th anniversary of the first women to enter Harvard Business School's two-year MBA program. As the first longitudinal examination of the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting
  • 22 Jan 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Why You Are Unhappy at Work

feeling. What can be done to improve the office environment? Research by Harvard Business School professors suggests these problems are not only common—but solvable. Here are some of our most insightful stories about unmotivated employees... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Feb 2020
  • Research & Ideas

For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity

Freedom to use vacation time to attend celebrations with family and friends helps improve performance for employees who work far away from their hometowns, new research by Prithwiraj Choudhury suggests. When employees move away from their... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 31 Jan 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies

amount of anxiety for people," says Lakshmi Ramarajan, an assistant professor of organizational behavior at Harvard Business School. "A lot of times the context of the conversation is around diversity as a problem—isolation,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 29 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future

Date: December 7-8, 2007 Faculty Chairs: Teresa Amabile, Mukti Khaire Faculty Summary Report: What were the overall goals of the event? To elucidate the antecedents, facilitators, and consequences of creativity in the organizational... View Details
Keywords: by Teresa M. Amabile & Mukti Khaire
  • 04 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 4

particular context such as a workplace. First explored by pioneering organizational scholars in the 1960s, psychological safety experienced a renaissance starting in the 1990s and continuing to the present. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • July 2011 (Revised September 2012)
  • Case

Intraoperative Radiotherapy for Breast Cancer (A)

By: Willy Shih
"This trial is going to take longer." Those were words that Michael Kaschke, CEO of Carl Zeiss AG, was not surprised to hear as he nurtured the intraoperative radiotherapy business inside his company's microsurgery unit. But he also didn't expect it to take 13 years to... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Business History; Disruptive Innovation; Emerging Markets; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Research and Development; Safety
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  • 04 Feb 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector

cover in one of the chapters in the book. A network approach requires leaders to focus not only on management challenges and opportunities at an organizational level, but also more broadly on how to mobilize resources both within and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Nov 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Creating a Global Business Code

investigate corporate conduct standards around the world. But what started as a seemingly straightforward search soon grew into a major undertaking that required a dedicated server to process multilingual data from thousands of employees at four large global firms. The... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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