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- Student-Profile
Sarah Wolfolds
organizational practices of firms, and how these interact with the firms’ strategies. Coming into graduate school with less clearly defined interests meant that I have been able to use my coursework to guide potential research ideas. For example, my interest in... View Details
- June 2016
- Teaching Note
N12 Technologies: Building an Organization and Building a Business
By: David A. Garvin
N12 Technologies was a startup founded in 2010 that employed nanotechnology to manufacture a patented material to improve the performance of carbon fiber composites, which were used in a wide variety of products, ranging from bicycles to automobiles to aircraft parts.... View Details
Keywords: Startup; Organizational Structure; Nanotechnology; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Management Systems; Commercialization; Industrial Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; Bicycle Industry; Transportation Industry; United States
- Career Coach
Thoba Grenville-Grey
Thoba wants to help students interested in investing careers from international backgrounds break into US roles by highlighting the nuances of the process and the potential resources and strengths students can lean into. Having worked in... View Details
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
have been largely ineffective as they failed to address the root causes of the problems and have dealt instead with micromanaging and inspecting providers and forcing process compliance as opposed to achieving outcomes and results. The... View Details
- 28 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Manufacturing Matters
manufacturing is not part of the innovation process. In many sectors that's simply not true. The ability to develop very complex, sophisticated manufacturing processes is as much about innovation as dreaming up ideas. Thompson: What does... View Details
- December 2002
- Article
Something Old, Something New: A Longitudinal Study of Search Behavior and New Product Introduction
By: Riitta Katila and Gautam Ahuja
We examine how firms search, or solve problems, to create new products. According to organizational learning research, firms position themselves in a unidimensional search space that spans a spectrum from local to distant search. Our findings in the global robotics... View Details
Keywords: Problem Solving; New Products; Organizational Learning; Uncertainty; Organizational Research; Knowledge Management; Robotics; Organizational Behavior; Organizational Effectiveness; Innovation Adoption; Strategy; Product Design; Business Processes; Product Development
Katila, Riitta, and Gautam Ahuja. "Something Old, Something New: A Longitudinal Study of Search Behavior and New Product Introduction." Academy of Management Journal 45, no. 6 (December 2002): 1183–1194.
- Career Coach
Claire DSilva
Checkout.com in Strategy & Product. Claire particularly enjoys helping students evaluate potential career paths, identify & engage with interesting new start-ups, develop networking strategies for... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Snapshot: Gary DiCamillo, Polaroid's CEO
marketing specialist with an engineering background, DiCamillo immediately set about restructuring Polaroid, filling key positions with new people, "refreshing the brand," as he puts it, and instituting cost-cutting measures to stem a decade of lagging performance.... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Inbox: From Das’s Desk
strategy of continuous education and continuous engagement to serve you through the many different phases of your career and life. How will we do that? By evolving the toolkit of programs, activities, and resources we provide as well as... View Details
- September 2000 (Revised October 2006)
- Teaching Note
Wildfire Communications, Inc. (A) and (B) (TN)
Teaching Note for (9-396-305) and (9-396-306). View Details
- 12 Jun 2023
- News
How AI Will Accelerate the Circular Economy
- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Minding the Muse: The Impact of Downsizing on Corporate Creativity
pharmaceutical firms that rely on creativity," she says. "Today's fast-changing global markets place increased pressure on companies of every kind to continuously create new products, services, and competitive strategies if they... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
competitor's action as both a threat and an opportunity. Here are organizational and process changes that can help meet the challenge.It's one thing to recognize the importance of careful framing when you're faced with a disruptive... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Diagnosing DC’s Dysfunction
School’s US Competitiveness Project from business leader Katherine Gehl and University Professor Michael Porter. Gehl and Porter use the lens of industry competition to analyze the US political system and propose a strategy for reform and... View Details
- March 2011
- Case
Insight Communications
By: Rajiv Lal and Natalie Kindred
After undertaking a multi-year, metrics-driven operational and cultural overhaul, in April 2010 Insight Communications was planning the next phase of its development. Insight was a New York-based provider of cable, landline phone, and high-speed Internet service to... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Hands-on Simulations Complement the Case Method
During a hands-on simulation, first-year MBA students work in teams to design and implement a complex process to produce electronic circuit boards. During a hands-on simulation, first-year MBA students work in teams to design and... View Details
Keywords: Educational Innovation
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Path to Economic Revival
many sectors that’s simply not true. The ability to develop very complex, sophisticated manufacturing processes is as much about innovation as dreaming up ideas. What does this reliance on manufacturing tell us about globalization?... View Details
- Article
Turnkey or Tailored? Relational Pluralism, Institutional Complexity, and the Organizational Adoption of More or Less Customized Practices
By: Ryan Raffaelli and Mary Ann Glynn
We examine how the organizational adoption of new practices is influenced by relational pluralism, i.e., an organization's multiple ties to actors inside and outside its industry. We theorize that institutional mechanisms of practice diffusion underlying relational... View Details
Keywords: Networks; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business Processes; Adoption; Customization and Personalization
Raffaelli, Ryan, and Mary Ann Glynn. "Turnkey or Tailored? Relational Pluralism, Institutional Complexity, and the Organizational Adoption of More or Less Customized Practices." Academy of Management Journal 57, no. 2 (April 2014): 541–562.
- 13 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Manufacturing
this strategy to help companies to target specific students through the resume databases based on industry/function/location preferences and increase their application to hire yield. Regardless of timing, Kristen emphasized the importance... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 04 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Lose Money With Customers
management process. One study, completed in collaboration with HBS professor V. Kasturi Rangan, addresses the strategy design and implementation phase of the process by exploring how buyer-seller... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs