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  • Spring 2023
  • Article

Incentive Contract Design and Employee-Initiated Innovation: Evidence from the Field

By: Wei Cai, Susanna Gallani and Jee-Eun Shin
This study examines how the design of incentive contracts for tasks defined as workers’ official responsibilities (i.e., standard tasks) influences workers’ propensity to engage in employee-initiated innovation (EII). EII corresponds to innovation activities that are... View Details
Keywords: Employee-initiated Innovation; Contract Design; Rank-and-file; Extra-role Behaviors; Compensation and Benefits; Motivation and Incentives; Innovation and Management
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  • 1 Mar 2013 - 2 Mar 2013
  • Conference Presentation

The Value of Flexibility in Baseball Roster Construction

By: Timothy Chan and Douglas S. Fearing
Drawing inspiration from the theory of production flexibility in manufacturing networks, we provide the first optimization-based analysis of the value of positional flexibility (the ability of a player to play multiple positions) for a major league baseball team in the... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Design; Production; Resource Allocation; Groups and Teams; Adaptation; Sports
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  • December 2005 (Revised April 2011)
  • Case

General Electric's 20th Century CEOs

By: Nitin Nohria, Anthony Mayo and Mark Benson
General Electric thrived in every decade of the 20th century. Since its founding in 1892, GE has placed a high value on picking and training the best people. Staff members worked with other scientists in the company's research lab to design and manufacture new and... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Leadership Style; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Style
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    Contextual Intelligence

    https://hbr.org/resources/images/article_assets/hbr/1409/R1409C_SARACENO.jpgI have come to a conclusion that may surprise you: trying to apply management practices... View Details

    • 2009
    • Article

    India Transformed: Insights from the Firm Level 1988–2007

    By: Laura Alfaro and Anusha Chari
    Using firm-level data, this paper analyzes the transformation of India's economic structure following the implementation of economic reforms. The focus of the study is on publicly listed and unlisted firms from across a wide spectrum of manufacturing and services... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Statements; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Transformation; Economics; Ownership; Assets; Sales; Profit; Stock Shares; Private Sector; Investment Return; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; India
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    • 10 May 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: May 10

    of an Italian design based bicycle manufacturer evaluates if reducing costs by outsourcing would impact its brand. The company was founded in 2005 in Italy by three friends, and in its first five years it had enjoyed steady growth and... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 05 Jul 2022
    • What Do You Think?

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

    distribution channel. Fluctuating demand at the retail level would generate exaggerated fluctuations—a “whipsaw” effect—in expected demand and inventory planning at the back end, or manufacturing level, in an effort to meet possible... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing
    • August 2015 (Revised June 2021)
    • Case

    Amazon.com, 2021

    By: John R. Wells, Benjamin Weinstock, Gabriel Ellsworth and Galen Danskin
    In February 2021, Amazon announced 2020 operating profits of $22,899 million, up from $2,233 million in 2015, on sales of $386 billion, up from $107 billion five years earlier (see Exhibit 1). The shareholders expressed their satisfaction (see Exhibit 2), but not all... View Details
    Keywords: Strategic Analysis; Retail; E-commerce; Amazon; Internet; Amazon.com; AmazonFresh; Jeff Bezos; Cloud Computing; Marketplaces; Streaming; E-reader Market; Digital Media; Mobile App; Online Retail; Shipping; Database; Tablet; Kindle; Kindle Fire; Smartphone; Delivery; Digital Platforms; Competition; Internet and the Web; Corporate Strategy; Digital Marketing; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Film Entertainment; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Music Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Profit; Revenue; Global Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Taxation; Business History; Human Resources; Resignation and Termination; Books; Human Capital; Working Conditions; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Practices and Processes; Industry Growth; Industry Structures; Media; Distribution; Distribution Channels; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Infrastructure; Logistics; Product Development; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Organizational Culture; Public Ownership; Work-Life Balance; Problems and Challenges; Labor and Management Relations; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Diversification; Expansion; Integration; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Price; Applications and Software; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Working Capital; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Value and Value Chain; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States; Washington (state, US); Seattle
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    • Web

    Business History - Faculty & Research

    forward as well as what Nippon Steel's strategy might or should be. Keywords: Disruptive Innovation ; Mergers and Acquisitions ; Factories, Labs, and Plants ; Business History ; Technological Innovation ; Business Strategy ; Manufacturing... View Details
    • 30 Jun 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: June 30

    http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1162226 Restoring American Competitiveness Authors:Gary P. Pisano and Willy C. Shih Publication:Harvard Business Review 87, nos. 7-8 (July-August 2009) Abstract For decades, U.S. companies have been outsourcing View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 01 Sep 2023
    • News

    Returning to the Roots

    It’s not a role he sought or expected. But when his brother died of a brain tumor late last year, Florent Latour (MBA 1999) became CEO of Maison Louis Latour, a winemaker established in 1797 in the Burgundy region of France. The 11th generation of his family to lead... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna; wine; entrepreneurship; family business; innovation; climate change; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing
    • 16 Jan 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    The Messy Link Between Slave Owners and Modern Management

    monitoring their profits—often using even more sophisticated methods than manufacturers in the North. Several of the slave owners' practices, such as incentivizing workers (in this case, to get them to pick more cotton) and depreciating... View Details
    Keywords: by Katie Johnston
    • 01 Dec 2023
    • News

    Joint Venture

    meaningful role. After completing his MBA, Surakanti took a position at Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories, a multinational manufacturer of affordable generic pharmaceuticals. When he emerged with a decade’s worth of investigation into issues like... View Details
    Keywords: Shoshi Parks
    • Profile

    Brice Fodouop

    The son of a food and beverage importer based in Cameroon, Brice Fodouop is keenly aware of his nation’s struggle to develop its own consumer goods manufacturing sector. “Many of the food and beverage products in Cameroon are imported... View Details
    • 2014
    • Working Paper

    Management Practices, Relational Contracts and the Decline of General Motors

    By: Susan Helper and Rebecca Henderson
    General Motors was once regarded as one of the best managed and most successful firms in the world, but between 1980 and 2009 its share of the US market fell from 62.6 to 19.8 percent, and in 2009 the firm went bankrupt. In this paper we argue that the conventional... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Structure; Decision Making; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry
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    • 15 Sep 2015
    • First Look

    September 15, 2015

    2015 Research Handbook on Shareholder Power Thirty Years of Evolution in the Roles of Institutional Investors in Corporate Governance By: Coates, John C. Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=48729 forthcoming... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 22 Feb 2018
    • Book

    The New History of American Capitalism

    Since the start of the 2000s, historians have renewed their interest in capitalism, two Harvard professors observe in their new book, American Capitalism: New Histories. One of the primary contributing factors for this, according to Sven Beckert and Christine Desan, is... View Details
    Keywords: Manufacturing
    • Web

    Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

    We document this mechanism in the case of rare earth elements (REEs)—critical inputs for manufacturing at the knowledge frontier, with low elasticity of substitution, inelastic supply, and high production and processing concentration. To... View Details
    • 07 Apr 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Consequences of Financial Innovation: A Counterfactual Research Agenda

    Keywords: by Josh Lerner & Peter Tufano
    • October 2023 (Revised February 2024)
    • Case

    Bizongo and e-B2B in India

    By: Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui and Radhika Kak
    Bizongo, an Indian e-B2B platform was co-founded by three college graduates in 2015 with the goal of creating the "Alibaba of India" when the B2B e-commerce landscape was practically non-existent. The founders saw a significant opportunity in connecting mid-sized... View Details
    Keywords: Business Startups; Decision Choices and Conditions; Entrepreneurship; Digital Platforms; E-commerce; Business Strategy; India
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