Publications

SSRN

18 Apr 2024
Lecture

Innovation Opportunities Created by COVID-19 Can Help: And How to Make Them Happen

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

The crush of patients created by COVID enabled the creation of sites for care outside the traditional hospital, such as retail pharmacies, ambulatory surgery centers, urgent care centers, telemedicine, and wireless sensors. Public policy mirrored these changes by... View Details

Keywords: Policy; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Health Industry; Insurance Industry

Article

Modes of Experimentation: An Innovation Process - and Competitive - Variable

By: S. Thomke, E. von Hippel and R. Franke

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Competition

August 2022
Case

Boston Beer Company: Sustaining a Culture for Innovation and Growth

By: Gary P. Pisano

Educators

May 1994
Case

Colgate-Palmolive: Managing International Careers

Colgate-Palmolive, the U.S.-based consumer products firm, has long emphasized international experience for its managers and has developed a comprehensive policy to manage expatriate assignments. The rise in dual-career families has made some managers reluctant to... View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Personal Development and Career; Experience and Expertise; Consumer Products Industry; United States

Educators

December 2004 (Revised April 2006)
Teaching Note

Managing Diversity at Spencer Owens & Co. and Managing Diversity at Cityside Financial Services (TN)

By: Robin J. Ely

Teaching Note to (9-405-047) and (9-405-048). View Details

Keywords: Diversity

May 2017
Supplement

ATH Technologies (B)

By: Robert Simons and Jennifer Packard

Supplements the (A) case. Designed as an in-class handout. View Details

Keywords: Strategy And Execution; Management Control Systems; Performance Management; Balancing Innovation And Control; Management Systems; Performance; Health Industry

24 Jan 2013
News

Q&A: Why U.S. Companies Fail to Innovate

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark

How do once-thriving centers of innovation slow down, falter, and in some cases all but grind to a halt? That's a question that fascinates HBS professor Donald N. Sull. In a new working paper describing his... View Details

Keywords: by Donald Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

Fourth Quarter 2007
Article

Contingent Claims Approach to Measuring and Managing Sovereign Credit Risk

By: Dale . F. Gray, Robert C. Merton and Zvi Bodie

This paper proposes a new approach to measure, analyze, and manage sovereign risk based on the theory and practice of modern contingent claims analysis (CCA). The paper provides a new framework for adapting the CCA model to the sovereign balance sheet in a way that can... View Details

Keywords: Credit; Investment; Sovereign Finance; Risk Management; Emerging Markets; Market Transactions; Mathematical Methods; Valuation

January 2024 (Revised February 2024)
Supplement

Accelerating with Caution: Forecasting and Managing birddogs’ Growth

By: Mark Egan

March 2016
Case

The Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Management of Globalization

By: Julio J. Rotemberg

Educators

2007
Working Paper

Managing Proprietary and Shared Platforms: A Life-Cycle View

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann

Read Now

19 Aug 2015
HBS Conference

Technology and Operations Management (TOM) Alumni Research Workshop

17 Sep 2012
News

How to Manage a Diverse and Dispersed Team

05 Feb 2024
Research & Ideas

The Middle Manager of the Future: More Coaching, Less Commanding

fullest. Middle managers unlock innovation? Zhang identifies a correlation between collaborative job postings and innovation in firms. He examines research View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

07 May 2024
Cold Call Podcast

Lessons in Business Innovation from Legendary Restaurant elBulli

Keywords: Re: Michael I. Norton; Food & Beverage

14 Nov 2021
News

Vikram Gandhi—HBS Professor and Managing Partner at Asha Impact Fund

Article

MIT Roundtable on Corporate Risk Management

By: Robert C. Merton

Against the backdrop of financial crisis, a distinguished group of academics and practitioners discusses the contribution of financial management and innovation to corporate growth and value, along with the pitfalls and unintended consequences of such innovation.... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Market Participation; Finance; Innovation and Invention; Growth and Development Strategy; Value; Distribution; Capital Structure; Risk Management; Business Ventures; Business Model; Strategy