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- Faculty Publications (259)
- Research Summary
The Role of Leadership in Strategy
Professor Montgomery's current research centers on the human side of strategy, and in particular the unique and abiding role leaders play in the formulation and implementation of strategy. Her article "Putting Leadership Back into Strategy,"... View Details
- July 2016
- Case
Spotify
By: Anita Elberse and Alexandre de Pfyffer
In November 2014, Spotify's chief content officer Ken Parks learns that record label Big Machine Records has requested the immediate removal of superstar artist Taylor Swift's entire catalogue from Spotify's music streaming service. Is it time for Spotify to reconsider...
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Keywords:
Entertainment;
Marketing;
Superstar;
Music;
Entertainment Marketing;
Media;
Digital Technology;
Creative Industries;
Product Portfolio Management;
General Management;
Management;
Strategy;
Internet and the Web;
Open Source Distribution;
Creativity;
Music Entertainment;
Product Marketing;
Music Industry
Elberse, Anita, and Alexandre de Pfyffer. "Spotify." Harvard Business School Case 516-046, July 2016.
- February 2019 (Revised September 2019)
- Case
Theranos: The Unicorn That Wasn't
By: Joseph B. Fuller and John Masko
In 2003, 19-year-old Elizabeth Holmes founded a startup dedicated to making blood testing easier and more affordable. By 2015, her company, Theranos, was worth $9 billion. It boasted a star-studded board and contracts with national pharmacy and supermarket chains...
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Keywords:
Theranos;
Blood;
Lab Testing;
Fraud;
Holmes;
Balwani;
Shultz;
Carreyrou;
Securities And Exchange Commission;
Food And Drug Administration;
FDA;
SEC;
Health Testing and Trials;
Corporate Accountability;
Organizational Culture;
Misleading and Fraudulent Advertising;
Crime and Corruption;
Entrepreneurship;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Fuller, Joseph B., and John Masko. "Theranos: The Unicorn That Wasn't." Harvard Business School Case 319-068, February 2019. (Revised September 2019.)
- Research Summary
Innovation and Performance Improvement in Health Care
This stream of Professor Huckman's work examines how organizations delivering health care can structure and manage their activities to improve operational performance. It addresses issues including the impact of various forms of familiarity on performance, the impact...
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Consumer-Brand Relationships and CRM
By: Jill J. Avery
This highly pragmatic stream investigates the contemporary practice of customer relationship management (CRM) by exploring the phenomenological, lived experience of consumers' relationships with brands. Using a contracting theory lens supplemented with knowledge of...
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- April 1993 (Revised December 1993)
- Case
NEC
By: Marco Iansiti
Investigates product development practices at NEC. The company provides an intriguing example of how to build capability through a stream of product development projects. Focuses in detail on an engineering group that develops the core component of its line of...
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Keywords:
Product Development;
Product Design;
Innovation and Invention;
Innovation and Management;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Technological Innovation;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Information Technology;
Factories, Labs, and Plants;
Information Technology Industry
Iansiti, Marco. "NEC." Harvard Business School Case 693-095, April 1993. (Revised December 1993.)
Lumumba B. Seegars
Lumumba Seegars is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches the Leadership and Organizational Behavior course (LEAD) in the MBA Required Curriculum.
Professor Seegars... View Details
- March 2015 (Revised May 2015)
- Case
Turkey and the Southern Corridor
By: Rawi Abdelal, Esel Çekin and Cigdem Çelik
In December 2014, Russia cancelled the South Stream pipeline that was envisaged to deliver natural gas through the Black Sea basin on to Europe and replaced it with a new pipeline through Turkey. The Turkish Stream was a great opportunity for Turkey to turn itself into...
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Keywords:
Business & Government Relations;
Energy;
Energy Security;
Energy Corridor;
Hub;
Turkey;
European Union;
Eurasia;
Politics;
International Relations;
Trade;
Energy Sources;
Business and Government Relations;
Energy Industry;
European Union;
Turkey;
Russia
Abdelal, Rawi, Esel Çekin, and Cigdem Çelik. "Turkey and the Southern Corridor." Harvard Business School Case 715-042, March 2015. (Revised May 2015.)
- Research Summary
Building a Corporate Culture of Health
This stream of Professor Huckman's work involves developing and implementing a survey of U.S. corporations regarding their commitments to developing a “culture of health” aimed at improving well-being for employees, consumers, communities, and the environment. This...
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- 05 Nov 2015
- News
Why a single win in college football is worth millions of dollars
- 25 Apr 2022
- Video
Professor Cynthia Montgomery: Pivots
- Summer 2017
- Article
Measuring Consumer Preferences for Video Content Provision via Cord-Cutting Behavior
By: Jeffrey Prince and Shane Greenstein
The television industry is undergoing a generational shift in structure; however, many demand-side determinants are still not well understood. We model how consumers choose video content provision among over-the-air (OTA), paid subscription to cable or satellite, and...
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Keywords:
Information Technology;
Service Delivery;
Consumer Behavior;
Television Entertainment;
Service Industry;
Media and Broadcasting Industry
Prince, Jeffrey, and Shane Greenstein. "Measuring Consumer Preferences for Video Content Provision via Cord-Cutting Behavior." Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 26, no. 2 (Summer 2017): 293–317.
- 09 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Navigating Grey in the Ever-Evolving Tech Community
Carlyn Strand Sylvester (MBA 2016) leads a small team at Netflix focused on creative testing and innovation for the streaming service’s global paid digital and acquisition channels, with an emphasis on growing the Netflix audience through...
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- Research Summary
Customer-Centric Marketing Strategy
By: Rohit Deshpande
Rohit Deshpandé's research program focuses on Customer-Centricity. A stream of projects examines the interaction between corporate and national culture as they influence the development and implementation of global marketing strategies in high performance firms. This...
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- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Professor Cynthia Montgomery: Pivots
- 14 Dec 2021
- News
Trustees Capital
- 27 Jan 2022
- News
What If TV Isn’t Bad for Us?
- October 2021
- Case
(180) Days of Quibi
By: David J. Collis and Terrence Shu
Mobile streaming app Quibi was ready to take the entertainment world by storm at its April 2020 launch. Backed by $1.75 billion, influential investors from Hollywood to Wall Street eagerly anticipated early success for this brainchild of Meg Whitman, former CEO of...
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Collis, David J., and Terrence Shu. "(180) Days of Quibi." Harvard Business School Case 722-377, October 2021.