Publications

18 Sep 2007
First Look

First Look: September 18, 2007

Bruce Harreld, Charles A. O'Reilly III, and Michael Tushman Periodical:California Management Review 49, no. 4 (summer 2007) Abstract In the past 15 years, the IBM Company has undergone a remarkable transformation from a struggling seller... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Web

Managing the Future of Work

organization and create the workforce of the future? Spotlight How Gen AI Could Change the Value of Expertise By: Joseph B. Fuller, Matt Sigelman & Michael Fenlon MAR 2025 In the near future, gen AI is likely to affect some 50 million... View Details

April 2009 (Revised June 2010)
Case

Supply Chain Partners: Virginia Mason and Owens & Minor (A)

By: V.G. Narayanan and Lisa Brem

Virginia Mason Medical Center (VM) hired Owens & Minor (O&M) as its alpha vendor for medical/surgical supplies in 2004. By 2005, O&M was performing Just-in-Time and Low Unit of Measure services for VM, but they believed the pricing model in the industry was outdated.... View Details

Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Price; Distribution; Supply Chain Management; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry

March 1996
Case

Erox Corporation: Leverage Marketing

Erox Corp. is a biotechnology start-up that creates products containing synthetic human pheromones. It was founded in 1989, went public in 1993, and brought in a turnaround team in 1994. Sales ramped from $110,000 in 1993 to over $1 million in 1994, with prospects for... View Details

Keywords: Marketing Communications; Entrepreneurship; Biotechnology Industry

18 Jan 2012
News

Harvard Business School Survey Reveals Deepening U.S. Competitiveness Problem

Web

Marketing - Faculty & Research

future. Recent Publications Ecosystem Disruption: A Multi-Stakeholder View of Disruptive Innovations By: E. Ofek , Michael Haenlein, Eitan Muller and Roman Welden July 2025 | Background Note | Faculty Research The purpose of this note is... View Details

09 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 9

Corporate Disclosure of Climate Change Strategies Authors:Erin M. Reid and Michael W. Toffel Publication:Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract The challenges associated with climate change will require governments, citizens,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Competitiveness & Economic Development - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

poorly understood. The Solution: Understanding Competitiveness Michael Porter defines competitiveness based on productivity and focuses on the microeconomic foundations of competitive advantage that underpin productivity in nations,... View Details

03 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 3

entrepreneurship researchers. Working PapersSpeaking Up Constructively: Managerial Practices That Elicit Solutions from Front-line Employees Authors:Julia Adler-Milstein, Sara J. Singer, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Ideas that could... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 May 2024
Research & Ideas

Called Back to the Office? How You Benefit from Ideas You Didn't Know You Were Missing

classrooms, labs, dining halls, and elsewhere on campuses have a unique influence on the course of scientific research, according to the study, coauthored by Eamon Duede, a postdoctoral fellow at the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard, and Karim Lakhani, the... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

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Creating Shared Value - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

framework. CSV Explained Emerging Topics Discover the latest work on Shared Value Measurement and Investment. Read about Emerging Topics Reinventing Capitalism Preview the award-winning 2011 Harvard Business Review article Creating Shared Value , by View Details

01 May 2024
What Do You Think?

Have You Had Enough?

within rather than how it gets compared in the trivial world with tangible possessions.” Michael Levin reminded us that it’s not easy to determine enough when he said, “Happiness, enough, and a metric for life are a hard trio to dance to.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 Apr 2015
First Look

First Look: April 21

Publications April 2015 John Wiley & Sons The Integrated Reporting Movement: Meaning, Momentum, Motives, and Materiality By: Eccles, Robert G., and Michael P. Krzus Abstract—The Integrated Reporting Movement explores the meaning of... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne

27 Nov 2023
Research & Ideas

Voting Democrat or Republican? The Critical Childhood Influence That's Tough to Shake

gears up for the coming presidential contest, the results highlight the challenge candidates face each year as they seek to sway voters to their side, says Vincent Pons, the Michael B. Kim Associate Professor of Business Administration at... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

2012
Book

Talk, Inc. : How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations

By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind

How can leaders make their big or growing companies feel small again? How can they recapture the "magic"--the tight strategic alignment, the high level of employee engagement--that drove and animated their organization when it was a start-up? As more and more... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Interpersonal Communication; Organizational Culture; Social and Collaborative Networks; Spoken Communication

February 2001 (Revised October 2002)
Background Note

Entrepreneurial History: A Conceptual Overview

By: Nancy F. Koehn

Analyzes HBS cases on five entrepreneurs and the companies they built: Josiah Wedgwood, Henry Heinz, Marshall Field, Howard Schultz of Starbucks, and Michael Dell. These five cases and their accompanying teaching notes comprise a course module on entrepreneurial... View Details

Keywords: Transition; Demand and Consumers; Competition; Business History; Entrepreneurship; Customer Focus and Relationships; Business Strategy; Society