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  • 30 Jan 2013
  • News

Why Running a Family Doesn't Help You Run a Business

  • 06 Sep 2016
  • News

Why psychological safety matters and what to do about it

  • 18 Mar 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Schumpeterian Competition and Diseconomies of Scope: Illustrations from the Histories of Microsoft and IBM

Keywords: by Timothy Bresnahan, Shane Greenstein & Rebecca Henderson
  • Research Summary

Risk Management

The recent proliferation of risk management, as a management control system, and the continuing failures in risk oversight suggest that risk practices warrant further research and understanding.

My mission, ambition, and indeed passion is to document,... View Details

  • Research Summary

Dynamics of Platform Competition: Exploring the Role of Installed Base, Platform Quality and Consumer Expectations

Researchers debate the role of installed base, platform quality and consumer expectations in driving the success of platforms. We analyze these three factors in a dynamic model where a new entrant with superior quality competes with an incumbent platform, and... View Details

  • August 2024 (Revised December 2024)
  • Case

Influencer-Led Brand Building: Hairitage and the McKnights

By: William R. Kerr, Daniel O'Connor and James Palano
Longtime hairstyle influencer Mindy McKnight had been building her “Cute Girls Hairstyles” audience across numerous online platforms for nearly two decades. Brand incubator Maesa took an innovative approach to producing successful brands: identifying white space in the... View Details
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  • November 1988
  • Case

Honeywell Residential Division: New Product Development

By: Steven C. Wheelwright
Describes three different product development efforts at the Residential Controls division of Honeywell, Inc. Each of the three projects was for a different market and competitive environment. Each was tackled in a somewhat different way within the Honeywell... View Details
Keywords: Product Development; Construction; Outcome or Result; Situation or Environment; Business Divisions; Product Design; Change Management; Construction Industry
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    Leaders Can Move Fast and Fix Things

    The assumption embedded in Silicon Valley’s famous “move fast and break things” ethos is that we can either make progress or take care of people, one or the other. A certain amount of wreckage is the price we have to... View Details

    • 2014
    • Book

    Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation

    By: Linda A. Hill, Greg Brandeau, Emily Truelove and Kent Lineback
    Why can some organizations innovate time and again, while most cannot? You might think the key to innovation is attracting exceptional creative talent. Or making the right investments. Or breaking down organizational silos. All of these things may help—but there's only... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation; Innovation Leadership; Leadership; Organizational Culture; Innovation and Invention
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    • March 2023 (Revised May 2023)
    • Technical Note

    Technical Note: The Traits of Entrepreneurs

    By: Jo Tango and Alys Ferragamo
    Why do some entrepreneurs succeed and others do not? Are there personality traits that lead someone to become an entrepreneur? Although many questions still remain, there has been significant research on the “entrepreneurial personality.” This note provides an... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneur; Innovation; Personality; Personality Traits; Risk Preference; Big Five; Locus Of Control; Success; Entrepreneurship; Personal Characteristics
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    • 2012
    • Book

    The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup

    By: Noam Wasserman
    Often downplayed in the excitement of starting up a new business venture is one of the most important decisions entrepreneurs will face: Should they go it alone or bring in cofounders, hires, and investors to help build the business? More than just financial rewards... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Partners and Partnerships; Social Psychology; Outcome or Result
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    • Program

    Foundations of Private Equity and Venture Capital

    knowledge of industry processes and terminology Assess the implications of different deal structures and terms Establish a successful private equity/venture capital partnership structure Expand your personal and professional network... View Details
    Keywords: Finance; Finance
    • May 2017 (Revised May 2019)
    • Supplement

    Intuit: QuickBooks (B)

    By: David Yoffie and Nicole Tempest Keller
    This short case updates the earlier Intuit case on transitioning from a product company into a platform company. In addition to providing information on the recent successes and challenges of the business, it also explores a new challenge of building a platform with a... View Details
    Keywords: Platform; Strategic Transition; Strategy; Digital Platforms; Transition
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    • January 1998
    • Case

    Jerry Sanders

    In 1997, Jay Sanders sold his 10-month-old medical device start-up company for more than $33 million. Looking to the future, he wondered if this was a success he could transform into a medical device brokerage business. As he reviewed his career history and the... View Details
    Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Business Startups; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Service Industry
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    • October 1993
    • Case

    Wertheim Schroder/Schroders

    By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Kalman D. Applbaum, Lisa Gabriel and Pamela A. Yatsko
    In 1986, Wertheim & Co. of New York entered into a joint venture with Schroders plc of London to form the investment bank Wertheim Schroder. By 1993, there were numerous successes as the partners pursued joint opportunities, but there were also areas in which... View Details
    Keywords: Joint Ventures; Investment Banking; Partners and Partnerships; Alliances; Horizontal Integration; Outcome or Result; Balanced Scorecard; New York (city, NY); London
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    • 15 Feb 2015
    • News

    Hoping Google’s Lab Is a Rainmaker

    • 29 Nov 2012
    • News

    What Washington must do now

    • 04 Feb 2020
    • Video

    Dr. Elizabeth Mary Okelo

    Mary Okelo, who pursued a successful career as an executive of British-owned Barclays Bank In Kenya before founding the only women’s bank in Africa and the Makini schools system, explains how she was regarded... View Details
    • July 2012
    • Case

    Droga5: Launching Jay-Z's Decoded

    By: Anita Elberse and Kwame Owusu-Kesse
    In 2010, David Droga and Andrew Essex, co-founders of advertising agency Droga5, hope to convince both John Meneilly, manager of hip-hop star Shawn Carter—better known as Jay-Z—and a partner in Carter's company Roc Nation and Yusuf Mehdi, senior vice president of... View Details
    Keywords: Advertising; Advertising Campaigns; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Entertainment; Advertising Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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      Rajiv Lal

      Rajiv Lal, is the Stanley Roth, Sr. Professor of Retailing at Harvard Business School. He is currently teaching an elective MBA course on the Business of Smart Connected Products/IOT. He has been responsible for the retailing curriculum and has served as the course... View Details