Publications

Aurora Turek is a PhD candidate in the Organizational Behavior program at Harvard Business School. Her research focuses on the future of work. In particular, she studies how flexible work practices - like remote and hybrid work - emerge and the implications of these... View Details

09 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk

one this step is based on, is figuring out how you will know when to go for Options B or C and call it quits on the current game. To do this, we first assess what our best option seems to be based on: our satisfaction to date with the... View Details

Keywords: by Eileen C. Shapiro & Howard H. Stevenson

07 Jun 2023
Blog Post

My One Case: MBA Class of 2023 Looks Back

students discuss and debate potential solutions with fellow classmates, bringing their personal, cultural, and professional backgrounds to bear. While all cases help broaden the perspectives of View Details

September 1998 (Revised October 1998)
Case

Adventurous Computer Games, Inc. (Abridged)

By: William J. Bruns Jr.

A new company that manufactures computer games must begin to capitalize computer software development costs. Issues that must be addressed include the effects of capitalization and decisions about how to match costs with future revenues. View Details

Keywords: Cost; Applications and Software; Accounting; Revenue

24 Nov 2020
News

Investors Demand Climate Change Action

2012
Dictionary Entry

Learning from Failure

By: Mark D. Cannon and Amy C. Edmondson

Failure is defined as an outcome that deviates from expected and desired results. Learning from failure describes processes and behaviors through which individuals, groups and organizations gain accurate and useful insights from failures and modify future behaviors,... View Details

Keywords: Learning From Failure; Failure; Learning; Behavior; Organizational Change and Adaptation

April 2018
Case

Ferrari

By: Stefan Thomke, Elena Corsi and Ashok Nimgade

Ferrari is among the world’s most powerful brands, but how the company operates has remained mysterious. The case reveals the inner workings of the company—the Ferrari Way—from the way it designs, produces, and markets its cars, to how its leadership team is driving... View Details

Keywords: Growth; Innovation; Technology Adoption; Product Design; Business Strategy; Technological Innovation; Operations; Management; Growth and Development; Auto Industry

23 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

openness-extroversion dyads perform substantially better—having both a higher pool of novel information and better recombinative capability with the team. We discuss implications for future research on the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

27 Apr 2018
News

What Rachel Carson Can Teach Us About 2018

18 Sep 2013
News

Sell-Off of Tower Business Logical for AT&T

December 1999 (Revised June 2000)
Case

Smithfield Foods, Inc.

By: Ray A. Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and David Lane

Smithfield has become the number-one pork producer and processor in the world--given all the changes in the global agribusiness industry. How does the company develop its future strategy? A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details

Keywords: Economy; Globalized Economies and Regions; Agribusiness; Globalization; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategic Planning; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry

10 Dec 2008
Other Presentation

New Research: Value-Based Health Care Delivery

By: Michael E. Porter and Rebecca Weintraub

This presentation draws on Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg: Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, Harvard Business School Press, May 2006, and "How Physicians Can Change the Future of Health Care," Journal of the... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; United States

Keywords: Allison Webster; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services

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01 Feb 2011
News

5 ways to reward the B-player in your team

30 Oct 2017
Blog Post

How My Engineering and Manufacturing Background Prepared Me for an MBA

to troubleshoot the breakdown of an electric motor. This involved having to identify causes of the failure, produce remedial plans, and subsequently implement measures to fix the problem and undertake... View Details

02 Dec 2018
News

An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities

those living in different ways and places. Acknowledging that no one gets a free pass when it comes to climate change, Lassiter said alumni must continue to exchange and act on those novel ideas critical for... View Details

12 Apr 2021
News

BMW’s Virtual Factory Uses AI to Hone the Assembly Line

September 1992 (Revised January 1993)
Case

Courtyard by Marriott

By: James L. Heskett and Roger H. Hallowell

Courtyard by Marriott, a chain of modestly priced hotels, weighs its future options regarding human resources, its service delivery system, and management structure. Fairfield Inn, another Marriott product, is discussed for contrast. View Details

Keywords: Human Resources; Service Operations; Brands and Branding; Management Systems; Decision Making; Service Industry; Accommodations Industry