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  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Organizational Responses to Product Cycles

By: Achyuta Adhvaryu, Vittorio Bassi, Anant Nyshadham, Jorge Tamayo and Nicolas Torres
Product cycles entail the mass production of new—and often increasingly complex—products on a regular basis. How do firms manage these changes? We use granular daily data from a leading automobile manufacturer to study the organizational impacts of introducing new... View Details
Keywords: Training; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Knowledge Management; Production; Product; Organizational Structure; Auto Industry; Argentina
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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Iterative Coordination and Innovation

By: Sourobh Ghosh and Andy Wu
Agile management practices from the software industry continue to transform the way organizations innovate across industries, yet they remain understudied in the organizations literature. We investigate the widespread Agile practice of iterative coordination: frequent... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Goals; Specialization; Coordination; Field Experiment; Software Development; Organizations; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Goals and Objectives; Integration; Software
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  • July – August 2009
  • Article

Restoring American Competitiveness

By: Gary P. Pisano and Willy C. Shih
For decades, U.S. companies have been outsourcing manufacturing in the belief that it held no competitive advantage. That's been a disaster, maintain Harvard professors Pisano and Shih, because today's low-value manufacturing operations hold the seeds of tomorrow's... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Value; Production; Innovation and Invention; Product Development; Government and Politics; Social Issues; Management Practices and Processes; Investment; Research and Development; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Competency and Skills; Service Industry; United States
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  • 15 Nov 2022
  • Op-Ed

Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)

Indonesia that enables merchants and creators to showcase and sell products promoted by creators. YouTube, Instagram, and Pinterest all have shoppable posts. Longer-form content. TikTok began with a 15-second limit. It announced in... View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
  • 03 Jan 2023
  • Book

Confront Workplace Inequity in 2023: Dig Deep, Build Bridges, Take Collective Action

inequities, Opie says companies need to dig deep, build bridges, and take collective action. Step 1: Digging deep Opie says leaders need to confront the entrenched beliefs that reinforce the pay and promotion gaps playing out around them.... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • 08 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 8

his predecessor, and he must decide whether to continue to promote the firm's emphasis on global diversity and inclusion while it restructures its business and reduces its managerial workforce. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Team - Case Method Project

and has been passionate about pedagogy from a young age, always reflecting on her own educational experiences. She is excited to enrich those of other students through promoting adoption of the case method. Outside of work, she spends as... View Details
  • 01 Oct 1997
  • News

J. Hughes Norton III

There will be endless meetings with tournament promoters and sponsors from around the world, with representatives from the companies whose products his clients endorse, and with Tiger and his other player-clients. "To be successful,"... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Breaking the Code of Change

Leadership Top-down Participative Focus Structure and systems Culture Planning Programmatic Emergent Motivation Incentives lead Incentives lag Consultants Large/ knowledge-driven Small/ process-driven That is, each of them does promote... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria
  • 28 Mar 2016
  • Research & Ideas

What's a Boss Worth?

chain of command—not just upper managers or C-level executives—can have on worker performance. “If you recognize that,” says Stanton, “it should inform how you recruit people, promote people, and structure trial periods.” Especially in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Service
  • 04 Jan 2024
  • News

Great Heights

In 2019, after more than a decade scaling the heights of product management in Silicon Valley, Lisa Kostova (MBA 2009) decided to take on a different kind of climb. Over a sabbatical year, Kostova trained for and summited Denali, which, at 20,310 feet, is the tallest... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
  • 08 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team

sales managers hire in their own image because how each manager achieved that performance is what got him or her promoted and in a position to hire. But the best results, by far, occur when recruiters can observe the relevant job... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • Web

Courses - Business History

Courses Since 1927, Harvard Business School has been a pioneer in teaching business history. The Business History Initiative continues this tradition and seeks to facilitate and promote course development in business history globally. We... View Details
  • 21 Aug 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Inside the OR: Disrupted Routines and New Technologies

leaders in technical firms, which increasingly rely on teams to carry out strategically important projects, including adopting external innovations and developing new technologies internally. "As teams become even more widely used to View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
  • 01 Oct 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making

made the discussion, and hence the ultimate decision, much better," George says. "You need to reward and promote the mavericks or else the organization will lose its creative edge. You try to create tension inside because the... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • Web

Reconceiving Products & Markets - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

spanned 16 countries in 2013, promotes the benefits of handwashing to rural communities. So far, Unilever has changed the behaviors of 130 million people. Businesses have the potential to be more effective than governments and NGOs in... View Details
  • 07 Mar 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Effective Leaders Share the Spotlight with Their Teams

own professional rewards, with the research showing they are twice as likely as the average manager to be promoted to CEO. And when they reach the CEO spot, they tend to boost returns for their firms. While sharing the spotlight may be a... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • Web

About the Center - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

About the Center The C. Roland Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning was established in 2004 to promote and support teaching excellence and innovation within Harvard Business School. It also provides leadership and expertise about... View Details
  • 08 Oct 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

motivation—are: Acquire. Obtain scarce goods, including intangibles such as social status. Bond. Form connections with individuals and groups. Comprehend. Satisfy our curiosity and master the world around us. Defend. Protect against external threats and View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
  • 28 Mar 2024
  • News

Rooms with a View

the highest and lowest paid in the hospitality. Data science can take the internal politics and implicit bias out of hiring and promotion and it can also help investors see where a brand’s true value lies. Traditionally, hotel brands have... View Details
Keywords: April White; photos by Christina Gandolfo; Hospitality