Publications

01 Sep 2023
News

History Matters

The stunning collapse of three high-profile banks in recent months—Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, and First Republic Bank—churned up a host of headlines and fears: Are these signs of major instability? The first dominos to fall? In the second edition of their... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

12 Mar 2021
News

My Favorite Case

oil industry. I came full circle with both of those cases, having spent my career in the oil industry and as CEO of a company involved in the Macondo well disaster in 2010. Going through the Macondo crisis and looking back on the... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

03 Feb 2015
First Look

First Look: February 3

field and other business fields complements the contributions from industrial organization economics (IO). These business fields also offer theoretical and empirical challenges to the IO paradigm, which dominates antitrust analysis. The... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2007
News

Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered

examined four U.S. industrial giants from the 1900s to the 1940s, focusing on the executives who devised the decentralized, multidivisional structure of the large corporation. In Scale and Scope: The... View Details

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

empirical analysis to be more than sketched in this paper. It is also a field that has not yet taken management as a central subject of empirical study. We shall therefore deal only with some of the central problems of the structure of... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

pioneered new industries, from jute manufacture in India and cotton textile manufacture in China, to the oil industry in California."The improvements in transport and communications from the 1870s resulted in opportunities and... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

Blog

Is AI Coming for Your Job?

experts perform their work. Yes, certain tasks can be completed correctly and completely by AI, but for those types of tasks we will see something like the Industrial Revolution, where people's jobs changed, and they were able to use new... View Details

June 2007 (Revised April 2016)
Case

Octone Records

By: Anita Elberse and Elie Ofek

In February 2007, Octone Records founders James Diener, Ben Berkman, and David Boxenbaum had been highly successful with the first two bands they had signed, Maroon 5 and Flyleaf. Known for its grassroots marketing campaigns, Octone operated through a unique... View Details

Keywords: Arts; Joint Ventures; Investment Return; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Product Development; Outcome or Result; Creativity; Music Industry

14 May 2013
First Look

First Look: May 14

entertainment industry really works-and how to navigate today's high-stakes business world at large. Publisher's link: http://www.blockbusters-thebook.com/ 2006 Journal of Economic Perspectives The Investment Strategies of Sovereign... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Web

6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees - Recruiting

Insights & Advice 16 Oct 2019 6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees Dina Gerdeman Author HBS Team tag All Industries All Locations Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging Recruiting Advice Recruiting Strategies To support... View Details

November 2016
Case

Transformation at Eli Lilly & Co. (A)

By: William R. Kerr and Alexis Brownell

Faced with the imminent loss of 40% of its revenues due to patent expirations, pharma giant Eli Lilly sets out on a dramatic transformation process in 2009. The case considers how Lilly restructured the organization into business areas to aid better decision-making,... View Details

Keywords: Eli Lilly; Restructuring; R＆D; Transformation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Pharmaceutical Industry; Indianapolis

Web

Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Greenstein : Winner of the 2021 Ralph Gomory Best Industry Studies Paper Award from the Industry Studies Association for "Technological Leadership (de)Concentration: Causes in Information and Communication... View Details

14 Feb 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: February 14

important role in reducing both the real and financing frictions faced by small businesses. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52278 Where Should We Build a Mall? The Formation of Market Structure and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 17

mechanics, types, and pricing. It then discusses the structure of the reinsurance industry and the impact of recent crises on this industry. Purchase this... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 28, 2009

forward? Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709404 Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation Harvard Business School Case 609-063 Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation has a horizontal firm structure in... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them

Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Green Technology

February 2015 (Revised June 2016)
Case

AltSchool: School Reimagined

By: John J-H Kim, Kyla Wilkes and Christine S. An

Max Ventilla and his team launches in 2013 AltSchool, a new network of tech-savvy independent K-8 "micro-schools." AltSchool is born out of Ventilla's frustration with the education options available for his young daughter. During his search, Ventilla comes to the... View Details

Keywords: Education Technology; School Models; Product Development; Entrepreneurship; Talent Development And Retention; Social Impact Investment; Information Technology; Business Model; Education; Business Startups; Customization and Personalization; Growth and Development Strategy; Education Industry; United States

February 2014
Article

Developing a System to Track Meaningful Outcome Measures in Head and Neck Cancer Treatment

By: Ronald S. Walters, Heidi W. Albright, Randal S. Weber, Thomas W. Feeley, Ehab Y. Hanna, Scott B. Cantor, Carol M. Lewis and Thomas W. Burke

The health care industry, including consumers, providers, and payers of health care, recognize the importance of developing meaningful, patient-centered measures. This article describes our experience using an existing electronic medical record largely based on free... View Details

Keywords: Cancer Treatment; Cancer Care In The U.S.; Outcomes Measurement; Health Care and Treatment; Measurement and Metrics; Health Industry; North and Central America