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- 05 Sep 2023
- Book
Thriving After Failing: How to Turn Your Setbacks Into Triumphs
open the door to major success down the road. In 1993, as a doctoral student at Harvard, Edmondson conducted a study at two local hospitals, where she hypothesized that teams that worked better together would make fewer medical errors....
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by Michael Blanding
- 25 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business
of Management at MIT Sloan School of Management. We asked Hagiu to discuss the book. To learn more about Hagiu's early-stage research into the concept of multi-sided markets, of which many software platforms are a manifestation, see this...
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- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
you need to think critically about what you are doing every 100 years or so, whether you need to or not," Dean Jay Light wryly observed in opening remarks to an unprecedented campus gathering last March of business school deans,...
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- 08 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Fix a Broken Marketplace
of where their schools ranked on each list, and some chose only those students who had ranked their school first. ("This meant you didn't really have five choices," Roth says.) Sometimes principals would withhold open slots,...
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- 11 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Non-competes Push Talent Away
non-competes while in the doctoral program at Harvard Business School. "There's an open labor market," he continues. "People can leave when they want. They're not trapped at companies the way they are in Massachusetts. And that's what...
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- 09 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Who Sways the USDA on GMO Approvals?
on the process. On the other, it opens up the possibility that firms could capture these third-party actors instead—for example, drug companies influencing doctors with incentives for prescribing drugs or sponsoring medical conferences....
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- 18 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth
between savings and growth through investment. This link, however, disappears in open economy models, which is surely the relevant scenario in reality. An alternative interpretation of the relationship between savings and growth is that...
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 07 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success
different generations in the workforce: digital natives, who grew up with digital tools; digital immigrants, who are open to learning and changing; and digital refugees, who avoid digital tools they view as unsettling and scary. While not...
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- 18 Apr 2007
- HBS Case
How Magazine Luiza Courts the Poor
Frei notes. Employee training relies on a management approach summed up by Luiza Helena as "assisted freedom," with a focus on self-development, open communication, and participation. For most workers, about 65 percent of their...
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- July 2019 (Revised May 2021)
- Case
Acelerex
By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In early 2019, Randell Johnson, Founder and Chief Executive of Acelerex, was reflecting on the company’s first year of rapid growth and the challenges of scaling the business that lay ahead. Acelerex was riding the waves of change taking place in electrical power grids...
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Energy;
Energy Sources;
Growth Management;
Expansion;
Global Strategy;
Cash Flow;
Energy Industry;
Web Services Industry;
Consulting Industry
Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "Acelerex." Harvard Business School Case 720-360, July 2019. (Revised May 2021.)
- 17 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry
no longer sitting in front of the television screen and are open to more creative options. They will increasingly go to where the audience is—social networking, video sharing, and virtual world sites. We're also seeing advertising tapping...
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- 11 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t
companies," Siegel says. "With democratization there's more open access to higher education in previously male-dominated fields since 1990." Furthermore, Confucianism has contributed toward the assignment of certain...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
marginalized groups; The Identification and Preparation and Appraisal stages should be based on participatory identification of options and risks, comprehensive and public analyses of alternatives (including no-project options), assessment of distributional impacts and...
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by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 15 Aug 2023
- HBS Case
(Virtual) Reality Check: How Long Before We Live in the 'Metaverse'?
But it must first overcome key technological and developmental challenges. One of the most critical questions yet to be answered: Will it be an open and interoperable virtual world, similar to today’s internet, or will it be a closed 3D...
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- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
recursion, interaction, and subjective construal between the self concept and the social system. In two lab experiments and a field experiment in a global consulting firm, we tested the hypotheses by offering people reflections on times...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
can provide a valuable source of product differentiation. And finally, advances in development tools (e.g., computer-aided design) coupled with a move to more open architectures and technical standards have driven down the cost of...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
financial advisors to make saving and investment decisions. Low literacy and lack of information affect the ability to save and to secure a comfortable retirement; ignorance about basic financial concepts can be linked to lack of...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
at maximum efficiency because they didn't have much competition from abroad, but given the environment within South Africa, the strongest ones had come to survive and existed in the form of large conglomerates. When the economy opened up...
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by Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Groupon Good for Retailers?
practical steps that merchants can take to prevent multiple purchases? A: In practice, it's not easy to prohibit the purchase of multiple vouchers. A voucher service can configure its systems so that a single account only lets a user purchase a given offer once. But...
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- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
accepted advice is that wealth and growth will come to countries that open their borders to foreign direct investment. "The historical evidence shows clearly that this is an article of faith rather than proven by the historical...
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by Sean Silverthorne