Publications

29 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater

If you don't know where you're going, any map will do.1 This conventional wisdom sounds right to many managers. It highlights the safety of having a clear objective for your management actions. It implies that all View Details

Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin

October 2002 (Revised March 2017)
Teaching Note

DIENA

By: Robert Simons and Indra Reinbergs

Teaching Note for (102-001) View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Execution; Management Control Systems; Organization Design; Implementing Strategy; Pulp and Paper Industry; Publishing Industry; Latvia

March 2010 (Revised February 2014)
Case

Community Health Workers in Zambia: Incentive Design and Management

By: Nava Ashraf and Natalie Kindred

This case examines the various considerations relevant to selecting and compensating workers in a context where their work involves a pro-social component. This is relevant to not only health care in Zambia, but to NGO and public sector workers who are both motivated... View Details

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Training; Health Care and Treatment; Compensation and Benefits; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Mission and Purpose; Non-Governmental Organizations; Motivation and Incentives; Health Industry; Zambia

2003
Case

Bridge the Gap Between Strategy and Tactics with the Magic Matrix

By: Benson P. Shapiro

Keywords: Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Strategy

February 2024
Case

Innovation Strategy at Stanley Black & Decker: Setting the Direction for Growth

By: David L. Ager and Antonio Manuel Oftelie

On July 1, 2022, Don Allan was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Stanley Black & Decker (SBD). Although Allan had been with the firm for 23 years, most recently serving as President and Chief Financial Officer, he recognized that he was stepping into his new role as... View Details

Keywords: Health Pandemics; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Growth Management; Business and Stakeholder Relations

08 May 2015
News

An alternative view of the role of the corporation in society

world’s largest corporations has created an opportunity for managers to consider the interests of a broader set of stakeholders. The role of the corporation in society can be a... View Details

May 1997
Teaching Note

Managing Product Development: Matching Technology with Context, Instructor's Note

By: Marco Iansiti

This overview to Managing Product Development (MPD) both previews course material, cases, exercises, and lectures--and provides its conceptual and academic underpinnings. Additionally, this note links these materials to the activities students will be undertaking in... View Details

Keywords: Curriculum and Courses; Product Development; Knowledge Management; Performance; Projects; Management Practices and Processes; Opportunities; Strategy; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques

09 Mar 2017
News

IDEO is Changing the Way Managers Think About Thinking

21 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them

smart about competitive analysis and forging a strategy that considers realities and which way public policy is moving," Herzlinger says. "She must also understand capital markets, group dynamics, and different kinds of leadership." But... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health; Education

November 2006 (Revised November 2007)
Case

Strategy in the Twenty First Century Pharmaceutical Industry: Merck & Co. and Pfizer Inc.

By: David J. Collis and Troy Smith

The global pharmaceutical industry has gone through substantial changes in the last few decades and pharmaceutical firms face major challenges including headline-grabbing litigation, imminent patent expirations, new technologies, rising drug development costs, generic... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Development; Research and Development; Corporate Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States

13 Nov 2003
Keynote Speech

The CEO's Role in Fostering Corporate Responsibility." Presenter. "G100 CEO Academy

By: Lynn S. Paine

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Managerial Roles

Web

The Global Health Delivery Project - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

initiative of Harvard Business School's Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Harvard Medical School's Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, and the Brigham and Women's Hospital Department of Global Health Equity. GHD... View Details

08 Nov 2011
News

Capitalism 2.0: Corporate Social Responsibility Is Not the Enemy of Profits

August 2019
Case

Simón Cohen at Henco: Sustaining 'High Performance, Happy People'

By: Francesca Gino, Jeff Steiner, Arianna Camacho and Paul Green

Simón Cohen—Founder of Henco Logistics—transformed a small Mexican logistics company into a major player within the industry. Cohen credits the firm’s focus on employee happiness as the key ingredient to its success, an approach he developed following a personal... View Details

Keywords: Work/life Balance; Growth Strategy; Corporate Culture; Motivation; Values; Authentic Leadership Development; Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Motivation and Incentives; Values and Beliefs; Service Operations; Organizational Culture; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Industry

13 May 2015
News

A new book titled "Strategy Rules" by Harvard and MIT Professors Analyzes the Business Strategies of Apple and Wintel

Web

The Green Industrial Strategy Project | Institute for Business in Global Society

The Green Industrial Strategy Project More Research Projects The Green Industrial Strategy Project examines how business and government can create, scale, and compete in clean tech markets to accelerate... View Details

01 Apr 1999
News

HBS Collaboration Helps Management Education for Minority Students

Five years ago, HBS professor Francis J. Aguilar (now emeritus) and Walter Y. Elisha (MBA '65), then chairman and CEO of Springs Industries, Inc., brought together a dynamic coalition of corporations and business schools to address the... View Details

Keywords: Anne Kavanagh

spring 2006
Article

All's Fair in Love, War, & Bankruptcy: Corporate Governance Implications of CEO Turnover in Financial Distress

By: Ethan S. Bernstein

Prior discussions of management turnover during financial distress have examined bankrupt and non-bankrupt firms as distinct groupings with little overlap. Separately investigating rates of turnover in-bankruptcy and out-of-bankruptcy, without a direct comparison... View Details

Keywords: CEO Turnover; Bankruptcy; Restructuring; Shadow Of Bankruptcy; Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Financing and Loans; Corporate Governance; Finance; Theory; Markets; United States

Find at Harvard

2011
Case

The Haidilao Company

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Zheng Xiaoming and Ziqian Zhao

Haidilao Hot Pot brings customers delightful dining experiences. Like most restaurants, its workforce is mostly composed of young employees born in underdeveloped suburban areas. Instilled with the founder's unique entrepreneurial values, they are enthused and... View Details

Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Customer Service; Employee Empowerment; Global Corporate Cultures; Organizational Values; Transformations; China; Restaurants; China