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  • 2008
  • Working Paper

The Decentering of the Global Firm

By: Mihir A. Desai
This paper describes recent changes in the relationship between firms and nation states. Firms are typically linked to the nation in which they began and are considered to have fixed national identities. While firms have reallocated various activities around the world... View Details
Keywords: Business Headquarters; Geographic Location; Globalized Firms and Management; Policy; Business and Government Relations
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  • 26 Mar 2020
  • News

Patent protection should take a backseat in a crisis

  • 03 Oct 2016
  • News

Clayton Christensen On What He Got Wrong About Disruptive Innovation

  • 06 Oct 2009
  • First Look

First Look: October 6

http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/409038-PDF-ENG Indian Railways: Building a Permanent Legacy? Harvard Business School Case 710-008 An abstract is unavailable. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710008-PDF-ENG Urban Decay: A Great View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Sep 2023
  • HBS Case

How Will the Tech Titans Behind ChatGPT, Bard, and LLaMA Make Money?

building a centralized data store for all that data will be important.” Rand: With so much to consider, how can managers stay on top of the developments in AI? They seem to be changing so fast. Wu: I would advise managers not to play for the next year. Play for the... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology
  • 27 Nov 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Voting Democrat or Republican? The Critical Childhood Influence That's Tough to Shake

You Might Also Like: How Partisan Politics Play Out in American Boardrooms From P.T. Barnum to Mary Kay: Lessons From 5 Leaders Who Changed the World Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’ Feedback or View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • February 2008 (Revised May 2009)
  • Supplement

Avaya (D): Early Results of the Demand Generation Initiative

Avaya's top management wants to improve demand generation. This requires an improvement in the relationship between Sales and Marketing. This case series (Avaya (A)-(D)) walks the student through each phase of this process. The (A) case begins with background on the... View Details
Keywords: Marketing; Cooperation; Sales
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  • 05 Jul 2023
  • What Do You Think?

How Are Middle Managers Falling Down Most Often on Employee Inclusion?

(DEI)—the holy trinity of organizational development at present. Team members with diverse backgrounds, especially in creative types of work, have been shown to deliver better ideas and bottom-line results than those in less diverse teams... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 17 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Teaming in the Twenty-First Century

progress without a blueprint. The skill set involves interpersonal awareness, skillful inquiry, and an ability to teach others what you know. Teaming is very different from the idea of building a high-performance team to fit a known task.... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 24 Jul 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Part-Time Employees Want More Hours. Can Companies Tap This ‘Hidden’ Talent Pool?

Employees Can Apprenticeships Work in the US? Employers Seeking New Talent Pipelines Take Note Is AI Coming for Your Job? Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: iStockphoto/Portra View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 22 Feb 2024
  • Research & Ideas

How to Make AI 'Forget' All the Private Data It Shouldn't Have

information is obscured, is known as differential privacy, and is applied widely in private data analysis. That's a very simple example, but that core idea can be applied to training these models as well. “Part of the reason that... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology
  • November 2012
  • Teaching Plan

The Langer Lab: Commercializing Science (TP)

By: Vicki L. Sato and Annelena Lobb
The Langer Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was a unique operation. Its head, Robert Langer, had always focused on selecting ideas to research that would have the greatest positive impact for humanity, and he encouraged an unusual... View Details
Keywords: Computers; Industry Evolution; Entrepreneurship; Intellectual Capital; R＆D; Technology Transfer; Patents; Research and Development; Massachusetts
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  • 17 May 2022
  • News

Delivering a Personalized Shopping Experience with AI

  • 17 Dec 2018
  • News

The Hard Truth About Innovative Cultures

    The New CEO Activists

    CEOs are increasingly taking a stand on divisive social issues that don't directly affect their companies' bottom lines—a dramatic departure from tradition. This Harvard Business Review... View Details

    • 23 Nov 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care

    Despite the urgency of debate on the U.S. national stage about health-care reform, an issue now before the U.S. Senate, one crucial element of change has been less visible: advances in the delivery of medical services. Innovations in health-care delivery—applying the... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
    • 2015
    • Chapter

    What Is Regional Strategy? Lessons from Business Strategy

    By: Christian H.M. Ketels
    Regional policy, especially in Europe, makes increasing reference to the notion of strategy, a conceptual tool developed in the area of business studies. This chapter reviews some key aspects of strategy as defined by the so-called "positioning school" and discusses... View Details
    Keywords: Competitiveness; Regional Policy; Strategic Planning; Globalized Economies and Regions; Competition; Policy
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    • Article

    Employee Selection as a Control System

    By: Dennis Campbell
    Theories from the economics, management control, and organizational behavior literatures predict that when it is difficult to align incentives by contracting on output, aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a useful alternative. This study... View Details
    Keywords: Management Systems; Governance Controls; Employees; Selection and Staffing; Motivation and Incentives; Decision Making; Business Model
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    • January 2006
    • Case

    Jack Strang at SequenceLabs

    By: Mukti Khaire, John J. Gabarro and Lynda M. Applegate
    How can entrepreneur manage his firm if things go wrong despite having a great idea, a solid team, and financial backing? Jack Strang founded a biotech firm with his friend Peter Evans, to develop molecular pathway-based "cures" for metabolic disorders. The idea was... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business or Company Management; Venture Capital; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Business Growth and Maturation; Failure; Biotechnology Industry
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      Managing Growth

      But marketing was important. Even if we produced the greatest drugs in the world, we’d be in trouble if we couldn’t get doctors to prescribe them or insurers to pay for them. As for our reluctance to look outside the company for ideas, I like to say that 0.1% of the... View Details