Balancing Innovation And Control - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital

economy of the '90s brought a golden age and aura to VC firms in the United States. In 1999, venture capitalists controlled more than $46 billion, with skyrocketing returns to match the risks of their... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Financial Services

12 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide

on the 45 weekly SKUs went from 98.24 percent to 99.96 percent. Sales for the 45 SKUs increased by 32 percent, even while sales for the control SKUs fell by 10 percent. Why did sales rise by 32 percent rather than 1.72 percent, the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Retail; Auto

28 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur

They are eager to go to a global market by buying a global brand because they have the cash sitting on their balance sheet. So it was interesting to hear that Ranjan Kapur was on the same wavelength about brand building. Q: Digital is... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising

26 Sep 2006
First Look

First Look: September 26, 2006

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806201 Vignette: Bombay Tyre Manufacturing Ltd Harvard Business School Case 806-207 Presents a U.S.-based investor who had taken a minority position in a publicly owned manufacturer in India. The company's... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 25

describes the efforts of Beiersdorf, a worldwide leader in the cosmetics and skin care industries, to generate and commercialize new R&D through open innovation using... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’

commitments that influence the supply chain, and governments creating proper incentives and market dynamics to fuel innovation and usher in... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

03 Feb 2011
What Do You Think?

Are We Going “Back to the Future” In Researching Management?

leadership, governance, innovation management, the networking of organizations, and social responsibility—as the "single most important development(s) in the area of management in the just-ended decade... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

07 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 7, 2009

a self-reported measure. Overall, we find that debt literacy is low: only about one-third of the population seems to comprehend interest compounding or the workings of credit cards. Even after controlling for demographics, we find a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 8

supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/812116-PDF-ENG OpenIDEO Karim R. Lakhani, Anne-Laure Fayard, Natalia Levina, and Stephanie Healy PokrywaHarvard Business School Case 612-066 The case describes OpenIDEO, an online offshoot... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

10 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures

partners have a narrower view. For instance, decisions on where to source materials become more complicated if the multinational is trying to balance and manage a worldwide production process. Second, the... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

03 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 4, 2008

the model, we find that (i) the supply of long- relative to short-term bonds is positively related to the term spread, (ii) supply predicts positively long-term bonds' excess returns even after controlling for the term spread View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Financial Reporting Goes Global

chartered accountants (CAs) who practice in India and around the world. Further, the CAs in India have much more control over the standards than in many other countries, where standard setting View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell; Accounting; Financial Services

03 Mar 2014
HBS Case

Decommoditizing the Canned Tomato

its start in Parma, Italy, in 1899, when the great-grandfather of current CEO-owner Francesco Mutti canned and sold tomatoes to an illiterate rural population that identified the product by the two lions on its label. Even from the start... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Food & Beverage; Retail

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age

arise primarily from the wave of mergers and acquisitions that continue to alter the balance of power among media firms. The Walt Disney Company, for instance, in addition to owning the American Broadcasting... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Advertising

04 Feb 2015
What Do You Think?

Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?

"Time and size will see to it that the 'structure' takes control Fluctuation (innovation?) happens more at the fringes and the 'creative' parts of the company, less within... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

20 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

handles that. And can he use those negotiating skills and those communication skills and create shared value skills in a situation where there’s no walk-away option View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

officer, chief financial officer, and a senior staff executive) had final authority. This promised a far shorter deliberation process than was typical of the Innovation Board in the second period. 39 The... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough

10 Mar 2011
What Do You Think?

To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?

nervy things some CEOs and dictators do once in power." Others were more nuanced in their conclusions. For example, Ajay Kumar Gupta wondered whether the research linking jobs to changes in hormonal View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

29 Apr 2020
Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

05 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots

policies, purchasing procedures. Allocate just enough resources to keep it alive but not enough to risk its becoming an innovator — because that would require more investment. Under the banner of decentralization View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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