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  • 16 Nov 1999
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Leading Change and Organizational Renewal

A member of the Executive Education staff spoke recently with HBS Professors Michael Tushman and Charles O'Reilly, developers of the program Leading Change and Organizational Renewal. In that discussion they describe their thinking about... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 25 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 25

  Working PapersAnger and Regulation Authors:Rafael Di Tella and Juan DubraNBER Working Paper Series, No. 15201, August 2009 Abstract We propose a model where voters experience an emotional cost when they observe a firm that has displayed insufficient concern for other... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Jul 2006
  • Working Paper Summaries

A Gentler Capitalism: Black Business Leadership in the New South Africa

Keywords: by Linda A. Hill & Maria Farkas; Communications; Telecommunications
  • 02 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

the trends of yesteryear, we ask that you also turn your thoughts to 2012. What do you think will be the top areas of concern for managers in the coming months? Please share your thoughts in the comments section, and have a happy new... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 12 Jan 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Does Your HQ Operation Fit With Corporate Strategy?

sizes because companies are not required to report that level of detail. As a result, a survey is the only way to collect the data. Corporate headquarters need to be carefully designed to fit with the strategy. We were really trying to do... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 29 Dec 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles and Research Papers of 2014

case on the rebirth of Starbucks under Howard Schultz "distills 20 years of my thinking about the most important lessons of strategy, leadership, and managing in turbulence." The Manager in Red Sneakers Wearing the corporate... View Details
  • 15 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 15, 2008

product design, production, distribution, and system integration may be split up among hundreds or even thousands of firms. Different firms will design and produce the different components of a complex artifact (like the processor,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • November 2012
  • Case

CSIRO: The Light Metals Flagship Decision

By: Willy Shih, Margaret P. Pierson and Dawn Lau
This case explores the challenge of investing in basic research as a public good. CSIRO was Australia's leading science and research agency, and it was chartered to enhance national prosperity through R&D. Its Flagships program was designed to align research interests... View Details
Keywords: R＆D; Basic Research; Government-funded Research; Public Goods; Extractive Industries; Metals; Metals Processing; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Globalized Markets and Industries; Growth and Development; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Research and Development; Science-Based Business; Technology Adoption; Technology Platform; Manufacturing Industry; Mining Industry; Oceania; Australia
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  • 25 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

An Organization Your Customers Understand

its administrative heritage; also, the "fit" or alignment among important organization design elements such as structure, business systems, staffing, rewards, and tasks.1 In other words, the problem is too difficult. There is no... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
  • 11 May 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

the story. We've had students at undergraduate, graduate, and executive levels telling us that they couldn't stop reading because they were eager to know what would happen next. In addition, chapters of the book are designed like teaching... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • April 2006
  • Background Note

Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World: Module 1: Innovation and Uncertainty

By: Alan D. MacCormack
Describes the first module of a Harvard Business School 30-session elective course called Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World. The course helps students understand the challenges that uncertainty implies for innovation and how to overcome these challenges. The... View Details
Keywords: Design; Curriculum and Courses; Innovation and Management; Projects; Opportunities; Perspective
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  • 04 Dec 2007
  • First Look

First Look: December 4, 2007

that the buyer's plans will go awry. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208060 Fu Ji Food and Catering Harvard Business School Case 208-004 Fu Ji, the largest corporate caterer in China, is View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • April 2011 (Revised April 2011)
  • Exercise

Raptor Oil Company: An Exercise

The exercise, which adapts a famous experiment by experimental psychologist Thomas Gilovich, is designed to show both the ubiquity of analogy or associative thinking more generally and its potential perils. Students are presented with a scenario in which an oil company... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Cognition and Thinking; Prejudice and Bias; Strategy
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  • 2022
  • Working Paper

Stories, Statistics and Memory

By: Thomas Graeber, Christopher Roth and Florian Zimmermann
For most decisions, we rely on information encountered over the course of days, months or years. We consume this information in various forms, including abstract summaries of multiple data points – statistics – and contextualized anecdotes about individual instances... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Information Types; Media; Cognition and Thinking
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  • 07 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 7, 2015

Successful Products for Emerging Markets By: Winter, Amos, and Vijay Govindarajan Abstract—Multinationals are starting to catch on to the logic of reverse innovation, in which products are designed first for consumers in low-income... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2014 (Revised January 2017)
  • Supplement

Nivea (B)

By: Karim R. Lakhani, Johann Fuller, Volker Bilgram and Greta Friar
This supplementary case follows up on an innovative R&D approach by Beiersdorf,a skin care and cosmetics company. The case relates what happened to the product launched by Beiersdorf, to its Nivea line, following the events of the A case, and how the commercial success... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Innovation Management; Marketing; Innovation Strategy; Innovation and Management; Research and Development; Product Design; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Consumer Products Industry
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  • 14 Nov 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

suited for a young, entrepreneurial organization. Start-up joiners need to do three things well: manage uncertainty, push the limits, and think like an owner. He then outlines four steps for choosing the right company: Pick a domain (find... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 07 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure

Schumpeter's thinking about capitalism. It moved him to a more historical and empirical approach that shaped nearly all his subsequent work. And second, much of the book constitutes a preview of modern, rigorous business history. This... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
  • 22 Dec 2003
  • Research & Ideas

How to Build a Better Board

these things do we want to do which define our role?" Having done that, they then can think more intelligently about how they want to design the board itself and answer questions such as "Who do we... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 24 Sep 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

“I read Playboy for the articles”: Justifying and Rationalizing Questionable Preferences

Keywords: by Zoë Chance & Michael I. Norton

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