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- October 2022
- Article
How Leaders with Divergent Visions Generate Novel Strategy: Navigating the Paradox of Preservation and Modernization in Swiss Watchmaking
By: Ryan Raffaelli, Rich DeJordy and Rory M. McDonald
How do leaders with divergent visions for their organization come together to create a novel strategy? This paper employs paradox as a lens to investigate how leader-dyads can integrate opposing strategies to produce a new, generative approach. Drawing on a qualitative... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Paradoxes; Senior Leaders; Organizational Reinvention; Leadership; Technological Innovation; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Change; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Switzerland
Raffaelli, Ryan, Rich DeJordy, and Rory M. McDonald. "How Leaders with Divergent Visions Generate Novel Strategy: Navigating the Paradox of Preservation and Modernization in Swiss Watchmaking." Academy of Management Journal 65, no. 5 (October 2022): 1593–1622.
- January 1991
- Supplement
Suzuki Samurai, Supplement
By: John A. Quelch
A condensed version of Suzuki Samurai: The Rollover Crisis. Suzuki management must plan a response to a Consumers Union demand for a recall of the Samurai on grounds of its unacceptable propensity to roll over. View Details
Quelch, John A. "Suzuki Samurai, Supplement." Harvard Business School Supplement 591-040, January 1991.
- 23 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
A Summer of Peaks and Swells: Interning at Patagonia
Before arriving to Harvard Business School, I had built my career around bringing crazy ideas to life at Google in a variety of operations, strategy, and design roles. I was surrounded by incredible people, learned from world class... View Details
- 2009
- Working Paper
Endowments, Fiscal Federalism, and the Cost of Capital for States: Evidence from Brazil, 1891-1930
By: Andre C. Martinez Fritscher and Aldo Musacchio
There is a large amount of literature that aims to explain what determines country risk (defined as the difference between the yield of a sovereign's bonds and the risk free rate). In this paper, we contribute to the discussion by arguing that an important explanatory... View Details
Keywords: Trade; Cost of Capital; Revenue; Sovereign Finance; Goods and Commodities; Taxation; Business History; Risk and Uncertainty; Brazil
Martinez Fritscher, Andre C., and Aldo Musacchio. "Endowments, Fiscal Federalism, and the Cost of Capital for States: Evidence from Brazil, 1891-1930." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-027, October 2009. (Revised December 2009.)
- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
the world that will exist at that time. The navy is clear eyed about the challenges climate change poses. It knows that the effects of a warmer world will expand the geographic scope of its mission and increase View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- August 2018
- Case
Four Products: Predicting Diffusion (2018)
By: John Gourville
One job of product managers, marketers, strategic planners, and other corporate executives is to predict what the demand will be for a new product. This task is easier for certain classes of new products than for others. For new consumer package goods, for instance,... View Details
Keywords: Diffusion Processes; Product Adoption; Marketing; Forecasting and Prediction; Demand and Consumers; Adoption; Product Launch
Gourville, John. "Four Products: Predicting Diffusion (2018)." Harvard Business School Case 519-018, August 2018.
- Web
FAQs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
utilities); equipment (location, cost rate); consumables (purchase price, cost per item); pharmaceuticals; and/or allocated overhead costs. Q: What is the purpose of the financial model? A: The financial model combines inputs from process... View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2017
discusses what that means for consumer marketing. . Courage: The Defining Characteristic of Great Leaders Courageous leaders inspire employees, energize customers, and position their companies on the front... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- February 2013
- Article
Commercial Property Rent Dynamics in U.S. Metropolitan Areas: An Examination of Office, Industrial, Flex and Retail Space
By: Maria Ibanez and Anthony Pennington-Cross
This paper is concerned with the market rental rate for space offered by commercial property and how that rental rate evolves over time. Rental rates reflect the value of the services provided by the property and can have a significant impact on the ability of its... View Details
Keywords: Commercial Real Estate; Rent Dynamics; Office Property; Flex Property; Retail Property; Industrial Property; Property; Real Estate Industry; United States
Ibanez, Maria, and Anthony Pennington-Cross. "Commercial Property Rent Dynamics in U.S. Metropolitan Areas: An Examination of Office, Industrial, Flex and Retail Space." Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics 46, no. 2 (February 2013): 232–259.
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Sustaining Business And Society For The Long Term
clean energy technology, and customer demand for products and services. Another case looks at Norsk Gjenvinning, Norway’s largest supplier of recycling View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation
Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin & Eric von Hippel
- 17 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2024: Business and Environment Ventures
efficiency on both sides and accelerating the energy transition. PARTICIPANTS - SOCIAL ENTERPRISE TRACK Lokale - Farand Anugerah (MBA 2025) - Address stunting, empower community with organic fruit farming, View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
venture capital, leveraged buyouts, mezzanine investments, buildups, and distressed debt. VCPE is designed to be useful not only to individuals whose eventual careers will demand expertise in markets,... View Details
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria
seemed obvious. Q: Customers are ruled by these four drives, just like everyone else. So what product, or product strategy, is needed to attract the four-drive customer? A: Those who study brands have found that great brands are based on a strong emotional connection... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20
and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—We present an extrapolative model of bubbles. In the model, many investors form their demand for a risky asset by weighing two signals: an average of the asset’s past price... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- December 2017 (Revised January 2019)
- Case
In the Eye of a Geopolitical Storm: South Korea's Lotte Group, China and the U.S. THAAD Missile Defense System (A)
By: Andy Zelleke and Brian Tilley
By late 2016 and early 2017, Lotte Group, a South Korean chaebol (large family-controlled business group) had become embroiled not only in the domestic political turmoil surrounding President Park Geun-hye, but also—uncomfortably—in a four-country geopolitical storm. ... View Details
- 03 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12
multiple sectors were managing through crisis, while building his own business acumen. Post HBS, Surette rejoined Parthenon for four years focusing on education and consumer goods consulting. Then when it... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 04 Feb 2025
- HBS Seminar
Anocha Aribarg, University of Michigan
- 04 Feb 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
The Long-Run Dynamics of Electricity Demand: Evidence from Municipal Aggregation
- 2008
- Working Paper
Consequences of Voluntary and Mandatory Fair Value Accounting: Evidence Surrounding IFRS Adoption in the EU Real Estate Industry
By: Karl A Muller III, Edward J. Riedl and Thorsten Sellhorn
We examine the causes and consequences of European real estate firms' decisions to provide investment property fair values prior to the required disclosure of this information under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). We find evidence that investor... View Details
Keywords: Fair Value Accounting; Financial Reporting; International Accounting; Corporate Disclosure; Standards; Real Estate Industry; European Union
Muller, Karl A., III, Edward J. Riedl, and Thorsten Sellhorn. "Consequences of Voluntary and Mandatory Fair Value Accounting: Evidence Surrounding IFRS Adoption in the EU Real Estate Industry." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-033, September 2008.