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  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Taking a 'Deep Dive': What Only a Top Leader Can Do

By: Howard H. Yu and Joseph L. Bower
Unlike most historical accounts of strategic change inside large firms, empirical research on strategic management rarely uses the day-to-day behaviors of top executives as the unit of analysis. By examining the resource allocation process closely, we introduce the... View Details
Keywords: Leading Change; Management Practices and Processes; Resource Allocation; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure
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    Krishna G. Palepu

    KRISHNA G. PALEPU is the Ross Graham Walker Professor of Business Administration, and has served previously as Senior Advisor to the President of Harvard University, and Senior Associate Dean... View Details

    Keywords: accounting industry; banking; financial services; information technology industry; pharmaceuticals; retailing
    • 27 Jan 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: January 27, 2009

    Alejandro Ruzzier Abstract It is often argued that competition forces managers to make better choices, thus favoring managerial autonomy in decision making. I formalize and challenge this idea. Suppose that View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace

      Anita Elberse

      Anita Elberse is the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

      Professor Elberse develops and teaches an MBA course covering the "Businesses of Entertainment, Media, and Sports," which ranks among the most sought-after... View Details

      Keywords: advertising; arts; broadcasting; communications; consumer products; e-commerce industry; electronics; entertainment; fashion; home video games; information; marketing industry; motion pictures; music; publishing industry; sports; telecommunications; video games
      • 2009
      • Chapter

      Becoming the Lamp Bearer: The Emerging Roles of the Chief Risk Officer

      By: Anette Mikes
      Enterprise risk management, under the leadership of chief risk officers (CROs), has the promise to bring enterprise-wide risks, which threaten the achievement of the firm's strategic objectives, into the open and under control. Its organizational significance is... View Details
      Keywords: Governance Controls; Managerial Roles; Risk Management; Business Processes; Risk and Uncertainty
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      • 04 May 2017
      • HBS Seminar

      Nicholas G. Hall, The Ohio State University

      • 05 Jul 2022
      • What Do You Think?

      Have We Seen the Peak of Just-in-Time Inventory Management?

      distribution channel on overall inventory levels and costs. One thing that may have helped generate the HBS offer was an experiment I performed using my own crude version of what would become known as the “beer game.” In my approach, my... View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation
      • 07 Jun 2004
      • Research & Ideas

      What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?

      To err is human, but most research on supply chain management doesn't take psychological, functional, incentive-related, and other biases into account. HBS professors Rogelio Oliva and Noel Watson have devised their latest research to... View Details
      Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
      • 22 Sep 2010
      • Working Paper Summaries

      The Task and Temporal Microstructure of Productivity: Evidence from Japanese Financial Services

      Keywords: by Bradley R. Staats & Francesca Gino; Banking
      • July 2011 (Revised January 2013)
      • Case

      Digital Microscopy Is Making Me Crazy!

      By: Willy Shih
      For Carl Zeiss Microimaging, modular hardware and software enabled customers to tailor Zeiss's broad range of microscopy systems hardware and software to meet a wide range of needs from basic scientific research in the biological and medical sciences to clinical... View Details
      Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Corporate Strategy; Disruptive Innovation; Science-Based Business; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Business Conglomerates; Digital Platforms; Opportunities; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Computer Industry
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      • January 2002 (Revised March 2004)
      • Case

      Computer Associates International, Inc.

      In late 2000, Computer Associates (CA) changed its business model and the way it recognized revenue, ostensibly to better serve its stakeholders. The new subscription-based license model offered customers greater flexibility. Clients could subscribe to any CA software... View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Valuation; Corporate Disclosure; Revenue Recognition; Corporate Governance; Technology Industry
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        Robert C. Merton

        Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

        Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

        Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
        • March 2018 (Revised September 2019)
        • Case

        Chewy.com (A)

        By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Matthew G. Preble
        In late 2013, Ryan Cohen, cofounder and CEO of online pet products retailer Chewy.com, faces a “bet the company decision”—whether to stay with a third-party logistics provider (3PL) for all of its e-commerce fulfillment or to take the function in house. Cohen worries... View Details
        Keywords: Pet Food; Pet Products; Retail; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Operations; Decision Choices and Conditions; E-commerce; Retail Industry; Service Industry; Florida; United States
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        • 16 Nov 2010
        • Lessons from the Classroom

        Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation

        Innovation happens fast and slowly. The GPS applications so prevalent today to guide us from Point A to Point B took their first baby steps nearly three decades ago when President Ronald Reagan encouraged the release of military GPS... View Details
        Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology
        • 13 Sep 2011
        • First Look

        First Look: September 13

        of the most successful and insightful leaders of our time, the CEOs from companies as diverse as Standard Chartered Bank, Infosys, Nokia, Cummins, IKEA, Tata, and Campbell's Soup. The authors reveal how these leaders from around the world are converging on a new View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • Article

        Creating Firm Disclosures

        By: Amir Amel-Zadeh, Alexandra Scherf and Eugene F. Soltes
        Managers expend significant time and effort preparing disclosures about firm performance and strategy. Although prior literature has explored how variation in the style and presentation of disclosures impacts investors' perceptions of firms, little is known about how... View Details
        Keywords: Disclosure; Earnings Conference Call; Field Study; MD＆A; Textual Analysis; Corporate Disclosure
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        • 02 Aug 2016
        • First Look

        August 2, 2016

        company. Additionally, top management introduced a new product profitability criterion to be used in support of strategic decisions related to the composition of the product mix offering. The application of... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • November – December 2007
        • Article

        Fundamentally Flawed Indexing

        By: Andre F. Perold
        A new theory of finance is being advanced as providing definitive proof that holding stocks in proportion to their market capitalizations is an inferior investment strategy. The claim is that capitalization weighting necessarily invests more in overvalued stocks and... View Details
        Keywords: Investment; Capital Markets; Financial Strategy; Stocks; Financial Management; Valuation
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        • 05 Jul 2006
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Improving Corporate Governance with the Balanced Scorecard

        Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Michael E. Nagel
        • Program

        Competing in the Age of AI—Virtual

        will delve into diverse applications of AI, machine learning, predictive modeling, and data science; explore network effects and platform strategies; and learn how to build an AI factory that enables your company to compete successfully... View Details