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  • 14 Oct 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Should You Bring Advertising Expertise In-House?

services in-house? Are there cost benefits, and do they depend on size? A: Previous research has shown that advertising agency operations are subject to economies of scale, and hence the advertiser faces a major tradeoff in choosing... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising
  • 07 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 7, 2007

notion that pricing can transform, as well as capture, the utility of an offer. Interdisciplinary Research Within a Modified Competing Values Model of Organizational Performance: Results from Brazil... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

this information would help managers better understand their big-picture role and perhaps lead to more ethical conduct in business. Manda Salls: What did you learn from your look at organizational research, and how has this View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 07 Mar 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Rise of Innovation in Asia

Although Asian countries have been able to use cost advantages and software coding prowess to attract outsource business from around the world, the region is quickly moving up the value chain to challenge America's leadership in innovation. Or, as HBS professor Warren... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • July – August 2011
  • Article

The Paradox of Samsung's Rise

By: Tarun Khanna, Jaeyong Song and Kyungmook Lee
Twenty years ago, few people would have predicted that Samsung could transform itself from a low-cost original equipment manufacturer to a world leader in R&D, marketing, and design, with a brand more valuable than Pepsi, Nike, or American Express. Fewer still would... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Design; Research and Development; Marketing; Business Processes; Brands and Branding; System; Globalized Markets and Industries; Transformation; Cost; Forecasting and Prediction; Production; Quality; China; India; Turkey
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  • 27 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses

Education offerings that teach scientists business and organizational fundamentals? What about joint MBA/Ph.D. programs? How about science/business seminars, more science-based cases, and more science-savvy faculty to teach them? We don't... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Biotechnology; Health
  • 25 Nov 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity

control so no problems are hidden." But recent research proves the virtue of letting employees do at least some work unobserved. In a series of studies, Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Ethan S. Bernstein shows that... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing
  • 13 Dec 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How Leaders Create Winning Streaks

Presentation date: November 2, 2004 The following is a summary of the virtual seminar covering: The definition, levels, and cycles of confidence. How leaders prevent losing streaks and instill organizational confidence. The keys to... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
  • 10 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt--‘Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World’

Otherwise it can die, and rather quickly. But in most cases-especially when we are talking about more mature and larger organizations-sufficient leadership just isn't there. There is a substantial volume of research that draws this... View Details
Keywords: Re: John P. Kotter
  • March 2011 (Revised February 2012)
  • Case

Innovation and Growth at Actelion Ltd.

By: Gary P. Pisano, Daniela Beyersdorfer and Ruth Dittrich
In late 2010, Jean-Paul Clozel, CEO of the Swiss biotech pharmaceuticals firm Actelion, looks back on a successful decade. The small venture that he had started with a few of his scientist colleagues in the late 1990s to discover novel medicine in a research-driven... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Talent and Talent Management; Innovation and Management; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Development; Organizational Culture; Research and Development; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Switzerland
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  • 18 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Breaking Through a Growth Stall

Skinner III, head of the Atlanta-based consultancy LCS Partners. The article discusses the importance of understanding your ideal customers; the implications for selling, cost management, growth strategy, and organizational relationships;... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
  • 23 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money

after an event passes, according to recent research based on a survey examining French firms with fewer than 250 employees during the global financial crisis last decade. Conducted over a seven-year period starting in 2008, the View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
  • 24 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 24, 2009

  Working PapersLearn-how to Improve Collaboration and Performance Authors:Ingrid M. Nembhard, Anita L. Tucker, Richard M.J. Bohmer, Joseph H. Carpenter, and Jeffrey D. Horbar Abstract Organizational learning, a prerequisite for high... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

the conditions to thrive tomorrow. We argue that organizational sustainability depends on attending to strategic paradox, engaging contradictory yet interrelated strategies simultaneously. Drawing on our View Details
  • 07 Feb 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

with each other than might have been the case had they simply been industry contacts. Their formative career experiences had created strong peer networks that were and remain truly developmental in nature. Finally, my research suggests... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
  • May 1988
  • Background Note

Roles and Relationships of Business and Government

By: George C. Lodge
Synthesizes a wide range of literature and experience concerning comparative government-business relations, focusing especially on Japan, Europe, and the United States with some references to Brazil and Mexico. Designed for discussion in two consecutive class sessions.... View Details
Keywords: Economic Systems; Framework; Government and Politics; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Structure; Business and Government Relations; Mathematical Methods; System; Japan; Europe; Mexico; United States; Brazil
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  • 23 Jul 2018
  • Research & Ideas

The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far

newest issue of the renowned British research journal, the oldest scholarly journal in the world dating back to the 1600s. This latest issue was organized around the theme of how architecture impacts collective behavior. As its title... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein
  • 15 Feb 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Right Connections

From genome research to e-commerce, new ventures are popping up everywhere, competing for the cash needed to turn them into successful enterprises. But when vying against others in industries where high uncertainty, long development... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
  • 16 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Confronting the Reality of Web Services

Knowledge. "The organizational challenge comes as all stakeholders get together and hammer out common definitions. This might not seem like the kind of work that leads to disputes, but it is," he says. Sara Grant: In looking at... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant

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