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- 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
- 11 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Board
meaningfully to strategy development. Making It Safe To Be Critical Chief among the responsibilities of a corporate board member is to develop and share an honest assessment of the company's performance, including the performance of the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table
bolster their bargaining power, and channeling the flow of the process through time. They understand that actions taken away from the negotiating table can be as important as what goes on at the table, if not more so.1 Specifically,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
employed marketing and marketing strategies to diffuse products and brands internationally, despite business, economic, and cultural obstacles to globalization. The process was difficult and complex. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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 Feb 2000
- News
New Releases
The book represents a milestone in a lifelong personal spiritual odyssey, a process he likens to climbing a mountain with many paths to the top. Richly anecdotal, the volume provides examples of spiritual journeys drawn from literature... View Details
- 03 Jun 2014
- News
Share Your Financials to Engage Employees
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation
sensibly choose substance (the second dimension) over interpersonal process (the first) or moves away from the table over moves at the table. The most effective negotiators often craft mutually reinforcing moves from each dimension.... View Details
Keywords: by Anita M. Harris
- 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
- Web
Curriculum | MBA
with new content. The goal is to give students a firm grasp of broad-based fundamentals. The School’s inductive learning model goes beyond facts and theories—a process that teaches individuals not only how to manage organizations, but... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Defending Your Brand: How Smart Companies Use Defensive Strategy to Deal with Competitive Attacks by Tim Calkins (MBA 1991) (Palgrave Macmillan) Calkins, a professor at the Kellogg School of Management, shows business leaders how to... View Details
- 23 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
2024 Summer Internships in Business & Environment
have led to their trajectory of becoming the largest utility by market cap in the U.S., underscoring their influence and leadership in the energy sector. Ines's role prior to HBS was Corporate Business Strategy at Mercado Libre... 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
- 31 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Not to Trust Your Gut
article explores why we often think irrationally—and why, even when the stakes are high and mistakes are costly, we sometimes are unable to overcome our psychological biases. We begin with an overview of intuition and rationality in negotiation and then offer four... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman & Deepak Malhotra
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Elevator Pitch: Forget Me Not
her stories as possible. Heard: “When people create something for the future, and in the process come to discover someone they love in a completely different way, it’s incredibly fulfilling.” Status Update: Founded in February 2021,... View Details
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
Business School Case 315-130 HealthCare.gov: The Crash and the Fix (B) The (B) case provides the follow on strategy and processes utilized to get the site up and running after the initial failures of... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
New Releases
Sebenius—address topics such as individual decision-making under uncertainty, games of strategy in which one player's actions directly influence an-other's welfare, and the process of forging negotiated... View Details
- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
requires substantial resources, both in terms of computing power and human capital. Even companies that contract with third-party providers to run pricing algorithms on their websites need significant data storage capacity, processing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- What Do You Think?
When Business Performance Falters, is Culture Change the Fix?
This involved such things as reorganizing, delegating authority, increasing accountability, building trust among employees, and recognizing and rewarding desired behaviors. The authors conclude from this that “cultural change is what you get after you’ve put new View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
- October 2007
- Background Note
Price Formation
By: Joshua D. Coval and Erik Stafford
Investigates how prices are formed in competitive capital markets. Focuses on a single security called AOE. Students compete with computer traders and each other for market making and informed trading profits. Participants receive a variety of public news in the form... View Details