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  • August 2005 (Revised October 2005)
  • Case

Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots (A)

By: John R. Wells and Travis Haglock
What happens when an MBA buys a football team and hires a bunch of MBAs and a coach with an economics degree to run it? In this case, a historic three Super Bowls in five years. The end run Bob Kraft (HBS '65) used to acquire the New England Patriots. Why Kraft ignored... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Management Style; Motivation and Incentives; Leading Change; Management Practices and Processes; Leadership Style; Sports; Management Teams; Sports Industry; United States
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  • January 1998 (Revised May 1999)
  • Case

General Scanning, Inc. (A)

By: H. Kent Bowen, Sean McClenaghan and Charles Tillen
General Scanning, Inc. was founded by Jean Montagu and Pierre Brosens, two MIT mechanical engineers with an interest in developing innovative products based on the early application of lasers. They invented proprietary technology for laser beam positioning and scanning... View Details
Keywords: Transition; Entrepreneurship; Management Practices and Processes; Product Development; Strategic Planning; Research and Development; Risk and Uncertainty; Commercialization; Manufacturing Industry
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  • 2017
  • Article

Natural Environmental Responsibility in Indian Corporations: A Mixed Method Study

By: Shashank Shah
The world is going through unprecedented environmental crisis. The type of destruction and dissolution of natural resources and elements by individuals and institutions that has been witnessed in the last century is much more than that witnessed in the previous... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Natural Environment; Management Practices and Processes; Research; Framework; India
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  • 17 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 17

style, and thus set prices that limit market penetration. The winning strategy diverges from this approach in almost every respect. When innovators develop products that people want to pull into their lives, they create markets that serve... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Dec 2006
  • First Look

First Look: December 5, 2006

success contrast with anecdotes where the diffusion of CRM into organizations continues to be a slow process and/or where CRM implementation outcomes have fallen short of expectations. Successful implementation depends on a number of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Nov 2007
  • What Do You Think?

Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?

Summing Up Should CEO succession processes be certified? Respondents to this month's column agree that CEO succession is badly managed, perhaps accounting in large part for the fact that few "inside outsiders" ever make it into... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
  • 05 Aug 2002
  • What Do You Think?

Is Platform Leadership Old Hat or the Wave of the Future?

Summing Up Platform leadership, the process by which base technologies are developed and on which innovations created by many entrepreneurs can be based, may be characteristic of the knowledge economy. But it isn't new, at least to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 12 Mar 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager

before—coordinating all the top minds in the top office. "CEOs are spending more and more time with their direct reports, in larger and longer meetings," says Julie M. Wulf, an associate professor of strategy at Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Dec 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Sometimes Success Begins at Failure

discovered these negative results, some firms might have thrown in the towel and moved on to other projects. But Pfizer's scientists picked up on—and decided to pursue—what they thought might be an interesting side effect. That side effect led the View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough; Health; Pharmaceutical
  • 14 Jul 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Keeping Your Balance With Customers

A successful CM strategy must address each of the following processes. (Typical objectives and measures for customer management are shown in Figure 1.) 1. Customer selection. The customer selection process... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
  • 05 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 5

helps explain why platforms offering a restricted number of candidates can coexist alongside those offering a larger number of candidates, while charging higher prices. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-098.pdf View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market

categories assigned value? One of the first studies of value construction as a detailed process in new market categories has been written by Mukti Khaire, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, and R. Daniel Wadhwani, an... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

How to Spur Prosperity

LERNER: The federal government lacks a clear, rational process for spending $40 billion to boost the nation’s clean-tech industry. Across the decades and around the globe, governments have tried various approaches to kick-starting... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Administration of Economic Programs; Government
  • 10 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Industrial Giant

internal processes online. Originally GM had different Web sites for its different types of cars; however, in 1999 the company decided to put all their Web sites under one organization. To streamline its relationships with dealers, GM... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, Davis Dyer & Frederick Dalzell; Manufacturing
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • News

Faculty Research Online

Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution In his new book, Seven Strategy Questions, Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration Robert Simons explains how managers can... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Jun 1997
  • News

Short Takes

all, say Professor Krishna G. Palepu and Assistant Professor Tarun Khanna, authors of "Corporate Strategies for Business Groups in Emerging Markets," a working paper slated to be published (under a different title) in the July-August... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • 01 Dec 2003
  • News

Books

with the job, to getting it done well. It’s not much time — even the president of the United States gets one hundred days — but HBS associate professor Michael Watkins insists that it can be done. In his new book, The First 90 Days: Critical Success View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • June 2001
  • Exercise

Strategic Human Resource Management Applications Exercise

By: Michael Beer
Overview of a method for diagnosing and developing an organization's capability to achieve its goals and implement its strategy, with exercises for application. A rewritten version of an earlier exercise. View Details
Keywords: Competency and Skills; Goals and Objectives; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Design; Strategy
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  • 23 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO

internally. Program developers felt they were at the mercy of broadcast commissioners and that they were being treated unfairly, having to endure a long bureaucratic process that ended in their show proposals being rejected more than half... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • 09 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 9, 2008

Schoar, Jialan Wang Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-024.pdf The Contingent Nature of Public Policy and Growth Strategies in the Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Banking Industry Authors:Christopher Marquis, Zhi Huang... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne