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- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/315047-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 615-072 Innovating with the Crowd No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/615072-PDF-ENG Harvard Business...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn’t)
maintained, the power of self-policing organizations, the question of whether the service is drifting from its core principles, and whether a Wikipedia-like concept can work in a business setting. (See related story below.) The Wisdom Of View Details
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
Capital IQ database, fewer than 6 percent achieved more than $10 million in revenues by 2010, and fewer than 2 percent grew to more than $50 million. The percentages are worse for US and international companies founded in years since 2000. The increase in angel groups,...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
retailers rely on temporary workers during the holiday season, so training and managing frontline staff becomes essential. Finally, retail executives should be highly focused on customer service. Consumers who shop in person will likely be more anxious about View Details
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
reliable, branded beauty services in office parks and hotels, but she focused first on the high-visibility airport market, where customers in transit needed the services she could provide—and might relish them as an alternative to waiting for delayed flights in View Details
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by John S. Rosenberg
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
Maderis. "People tend to be afraid of the unknown. We spend a lot of time at Genzyme meeting with groups that work to educate legislators, as well as the general public." Representatives from Genzyme and hundreds of firms at the Bio2000 conference in Boston...
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- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
and identity change interacted. We find instances in which urgent focus on design change consumed top management attention and crowded out identity change; in which experimentation in design made it premature to develop a new identity;...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
crowded marketplace, while preserving its rich heritage? Which changes would best propel The Park Hotels into the future? Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/the-park-hotels-revitalizing-an-iconic-indian-brand/an/314114-PDF-ENG...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
https://hbr.org/product/indus-towers-from-infancy-to-maturity/415005-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 814-031 Homestrings, Inc.: Diaspora-Based Financing and the Crowd Funding of Development Homestrings is an online investment...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?
can crowd out other positive considerations. “When I am surrounded by my loyal brothers, I am thinking about related traits, like honor and honesty and integrity,” he says. “I care about my group’s image. But at the moment I am told this...
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by Michael Blanding
- 01 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?
through the crowd to lesser-known microfinance borrowers in developing countries. Nanda puts most current crowdfunding platforms such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo in the equivalent of the donation or lending category. Kickstarter began as...
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- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
Publisher's link: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo16956514.html 2006 Harvard Business Review Using the Crowd as an Innovation Partner By: Boudreau, Kevin J., and Karim R. Lakhani Abstract—No abstract available....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
the prospects for implementation in the field. We present the decision process and competition design considerations that lead to these successful outcomes as a model for researchers who want to use competitions and non-domain crowds as...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
consumer distrust of domestic infant formula brands that still pervaded China in 2016. Foreign brands, priced at a substantial premium, were strongly preferred by consumers who could afford them. The field of domestic infant formula brands was View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
pressure—people switch what knowledge they listen to and what they are willing to think about. The subtle process of general expertise crowding out customer-specific expertise was part of what had escaped me when I'd been in the...
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS
When Dean Nitin Nohria stepped onto the Burden Auditorium stage on the morning of October 1 to welcome a standing-room-only reunion crowd back to Harvard Business School, his audience was as attentive as any he had experienced in his...
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- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
faced a crowded market filled with fierce competition. As he walked back to the office, he reflected on the time it was taking to establish the Dongfeng brand. Would his business unit grow strong enough in its five-province geographic...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
NPEs become effective at bringing frivolous lawsuits, the resulting defense costs inefficiently crowd out firms that, absent NPEs, would produce welfare-enhancing innovations without engaging in infringement. Our empirical analysis shows...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
and hence crowd out the motivation to volunteer? Since the strength of this greedy signal is normally unobserved, the answer is theoretically unclear, and corresponding empirical evidence is mixed. To help counter this ambiguity, this...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
Quarterly Do Experts or Collective Intelligence Write with More Bias? Evidence from Encyclopædia Britannica and Wikipedia By: Greenstein, Shane, and Feng Zhu Abstract—Organizations today can use both crowds and experts to produce...
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Sean Silverthorne