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  • 11 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

Conference Proceedings More Amazon Effects: Online Competition and Pricing Behaviors By: Cavallo, Alberto Abstract—I study how online competition, with its shrinking margins, algorithmic pricing technologies, and the transparency of the web, can View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Sep 2003
  • Research & Ideas

How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS

factors that inhibit trust formation and those are easier to identify—but the ones that work may be a bit harder," he said. A corporate structure containing relatively few layers of authority is also more conducive to trust formation... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Aug 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’

barrier is not new. It has been a concern for years because it often necessitates a change in leadership and form of organization, something many founders and their organizations are unwilling to undertake. The second data point is the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing; Financial Services
  • 29 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 29, 2007

change in the organization? Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807149 Habitat for Humanity—Egypt Harvard Business School Case 307-001 Habitat for Humanity—Egypt (HFHE), has grown in just... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society

technological disruptions. Scholars such as HBS professors Clayton M. Christensen, well known for his research on disruptive technological change and author of The Innovator's Dilemma, and Dorothy Leonard, whose idea of "core... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • October 2008 (Revised December 2010)
  • Case

Intel NBI: Intel Corporation's New Business Initiatives (A)

By: Willy C. Shih and Thomas Thurston
For Intel Corporation, the processes and priorities that have made it so successful are difficult to overcome as the company tries to diversify away from its core. The case examines the history and evolution of the New Business Initiatives (NBI) group, as the leader... View Details
Keywords: Business Divisions; Transition; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business History; Management Practices and Processes; Resource Allocation; Organizational Structure; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty
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  • 26 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way to Go to Market

channel institutions. As a result, channel managers can evolve and change their fulfillment of customer needs without having to change channel structure all at once. Of course,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 24

definition of profit by changing accounting rules. On one level, this corporate behavior embodies the capitalist spirit articulated by Milton Friedman: "The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits." But the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Nov 2014
  • What Do You Think?

Are We Entering an Era of Neuromanagement?

our choice(s) in life." Henry Kwok commented, "The field of neuroscience and brain scanning will only get more advanced, and thus we can expect better reading However, the job of managing and leading will be evolving in a fast View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 20 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

description in which the company, organization, or enterprise runs as a kind of military operation in which everyone lines up and falls in line. Although in the early 20th century many businesses were structured along such lines, “command... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
  • 16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008

platform and its evolution. We describe three ways of representing platform architectures: network graphs, design structure matrices, and layer maps. We conclude by addressing a number of fundamental strategic questions suggested by a... View Details
  • 08 Jan 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Who Rises to Power in American Business?

the airline industry, looking at how its leadership changed during the course of the twentieth century and how contextual intelligence or lack thereof influenced industry evolution. We are particularly interested in the co-evolution of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Research Links: Records of Railroad Companies & Personal Papers - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

study of change in business structure and managerial organization. He wrote his dissertation on Henry Varnum Poor, a railroad journalist and economist (also his great-grandfather), which was published in... View Details
  • 15 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 15

standard preferences and show that the endogenous structure of the network is conducive to sharing by a significant number of peers, even if sharing is costlier than freeriding. We build on this model of p2p to analyze the optimal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • January 2020 (Revised December 2024)
  • Case

Governing PG&E

By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz
The five commissioners of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) listened intently at a public forum in April 2019 as PG&E Corporation’s out-going chairman Richard Kelly described the company’s proposed new board. PG&E, which provided electricity and natural... View Details
Keywords: Bankruptcy; Board Of Directors; Board Dynamics; Business Ethics; Business Model Innovation; Corporate Boards; Energy Efficiency; Environmental And Social Sustainability; Government And Business; Hedge Funds; Institutional Investors; Legal Aspects Of Business; Regulated Monopolies; Regulation; Shareholders; Stakeholder Management; Strategy And Execution; Utilities; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Governing and Advisory Boards; Ethics; Capital Structure; Climate Change; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Environmental Sustainability; Executive Compensation; Leadership; Management; Safety; Business and Government Relations; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry; California; United States
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  • June 2010
  • Teaching Note

Ebro Puleva (TN)

By: David E. Bell and Mary Louise Shelman
Teaching Note for 510026. View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Transformation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Business or Company Management; Strategy; Brands and Branding; Financial Crisis; Business Exit or Shutdown; Organizational Structure; Globalization; Food and Beverage Industry; Spain
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  • 23 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy for Small Fish

a fundamental change in technology strategy models. In a vertically integrated setting, a company needs to develop into a massive organization and cover a broad variety of business areas in order to scale and survive. This makes scaling... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
  • June 2022 (Revised January 2023)
  • Case

Buurtzorg

By: Ethan Bernstein, Tatiana Sandino, Joost Minnaar and Annelena Lobb
As co-founders of home nursing company Buurtzorg, Jos de Blok and Gonnie Kronenberg prized both self-management and organizational learning. Buurtzorg’s 10,000 nurses across 950 neighborhood nursing teams in the Netherlands were empowered to manage themselves, both in... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare; Best Practices; Best Practices Transfer; Flat Organization; Self-Managed Organizations; Self-Managed Teams; Organizational Learning; Knowledge Management; Learning; Management Practices and Processes; Human Resources; Communication; Organizational Structure; Organizational Design; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Groups and Teams; Networks; Health Industry; Netherlands; Europe
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  • 28 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy

not force the disparate CSR programs into their business strategies. Instead, the goal should be to "bring discipline and structure to the many fragmented components. [The] components will in some cases support the core strategy and in... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 13 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Inner Life of Leaders

disguise their character, their traits are recognizable to others. Character is on display as leaders structure their organizations and go about making decisions. Some prefer to be intimately involved in the decision process. Others... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace