by Carrie Levine - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works

blockbuster approach. In the book, I provide several examples, from Apple to Red Bull and from Victoria's Secret to Burberry. And I describe in depth how the blockbuster strategy is increasingly carrying the day in the hospitality sector,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation

11 Dec 2006
Working Paper Summaries

Three Perspectives on Team Learning: Outcome Improvement, Task Mastery, and Group Process

Keywords: by Amy C. Edmondson, James R. Dillon & Kathryn S. Roloff

22 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

in production and economies of scope in distribution. In some industries, Adam Smith's "invisible hand" was gradually tamed by what the historian Alfred D. Chandler Jr. has termed the "visible hand" of professional... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

15 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat

Thomas Friedman, author of "The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century", opines that a number of events ranging from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the rise of the Internet have flattened the competitive landscape worldwide View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

30 Nov 2007
What Do You Think?

What Is Management’s Role in Innovation?

example, given the proliferation of networking technologies, will more and more innovation be carried out in communities that cross corporate lines? Following from this, one has to ask whether truly large innovations needed View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

18 Jul 2023
Research & Ideas

Will Global Demand for Oil Peak This Decade?

Is the globe’s thirst for oil finally topping out? A major international energy watcher says yes, predicting last month that demand for global oil for transport will peak around 2026, plateau for all uses by 2028, and possibly hit a zenith by the end of the decade.... View Details

Keywords: by Alvin Powell, Harvard Gazette; Energy; Industrial Products; Auto; Green Technology

18 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool

article, “Use of Crowd Innovation to Develop an Artificial Intelligence-Based Solution for Radiation Therapy Targeting,” is co-authored by Harvard Business School Professor Karim R. Lakhani and seven colleagues with expertise in radiation... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

08 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System

else struck you as you were writing this book? A: I was surprised that Gallatin was involved so deeply in managing the governments of Presidents Jefferson and Madison, and by the significant diplomatic role he played in negotiating an end... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Banking

07 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

new book, Career Imprints: Creating Leaders Across an Industry, is scheduled to be published in April by Jossey-Bass. Mallory Stark: What is career imprinting? Monica Higgins: Career imprinting refers to the process View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

29 Apr 2020
Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

04 Nov 2009
What Do You Think?

What is the Role of Government Vis-à-Vis Capitalism?

commits itself to democratic capitalism . Our focus should be on sorting out these tensions rather than clinging to a notion that 'free markets' are efficient (good) and 'government' is inefficient (bad)." Several commented on the challenges that government faces... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

October 2012 (Revised September 2015)
Case

Altoona State Investment Board: July 2012

By: Josh Lerner and Nathaniel Burbank

Considers the decision faced by state pension fund manager Rod Calhoun as he decides whether to invest $200 million in Bain Capital's eleventh global buyout fund: Bain Capital Fund XI. For the fund, Bain was offering its limited partners a choice between three... View Details

Keywords: Management Fees; Bain Capital; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Leveraged Buyouts; Banking Industry; Boston

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15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Women Leaders and Organizational Change

Why are women so dramatically underrepresented in formal leadership positions, and what can be done about it? That's the basic question contemplated in a book of essays called, The Difference "Difference" Makes, edited by Debra... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

15 May 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Money or Knowledge? What Drives Demand for Financial Services in Emerging Markets?

Keywords: by Shawn Cole, Thomas Sampson & Bilal Zia; Financial Services

08 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform

Finally, we recommend that the external auditor problems can only be solved through a major change in the relation between auditors and the companies they audit. This may be achieved by making the audit committee responsible for hiring... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

21 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Missing the Wave in Ship Transport

industry: dry bulk carriers, which primarily carry iron ore, coal, and grains; cargo ships, run by companies like Maersk that rent container space; and fuel tankers. In 2011, Dry bulk ships made up about 40... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Transportation

24 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Activity-Based Costing

now possible through an approach that we call time-driven ABC, which we have successfully helped more than 100 client companies implement, including those described in this article. In the revised approach, managers directly estimate the resource demands imposed View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson

06 Apr 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Do Not Trash the Incentive! Monetary Incentives and Waste Sorting

Keywords: by Alessandro Bucciol, Natalia Montinari & Marco Piovesan

04 Oct 2021
What Do You Think?

How Do We Make Sure the Right People End Up with Power in Organizations?

into the force. They were seeking the power over others that wearing a uniform and carrying (and using) a weapon would afford them. As a result, the selection process was altered, but of course the effects of the change would take years... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

27 May 2021
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