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The Second Face of Appropriability: Generative Appropriability and Its Determinants

By: Gautam Ahuja, Curba Morris Lampert and Elena Novelli
We distinguish between two forms of appropriability: primary appropriability—effectiveness in exploiting inventions as problem-solving mechanisms and capturing a share of their profits—and generative appropriability—effectiveness in exploiting inventions as concepts... View Details
Keywords: Innovation Management; Profit Management; Product Management; Resource Management; Strategic Alliances (Business); Strategic Planning; Innovation and Management
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    Michael L. Tushman

    Michael Tushman holds degrees from Northeastern University (B.S.E.E.), Cornell University (M.S.), and the Sloan School of Management at M.I.T. (Ph.D.). Tushman was on the faculty of the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, from 1976 to 1998 where he was... View Details

    • January 2024
    • Supplement

    Buurtzorg

    By: Ethan Bernstein and Tatiana Sandino
    As co-founders of home nursing company Buurtzorg, Jos de Blok and Gonnie Kronenberg prized both self-management and organizational learning. Buurtzorg’s 10,000 nurses across 950 neighborhood nursing teams in the Netherlands were empowered to manage themselves, both in... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Design; Management Style; Business Model; Knowledge Dissemination; Learning; Organizational Culture; Health Industry; Netherlands
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    • 24 Jul 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: July 24

    gas regulations are more likely to share greenhouse gas emissions levels and reduction targets. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-026.pdf The Rich Get Richer: Enabling Conditions for View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • November–December 2020
    • Article

    Our Work-from-Anywhere Future

    By: Prithwiraj Choudhury
    The pandemic has hastened a rise in remote working for knowledge-based organizations. This has notable benefits: Companies can save on real estate costs, hire and utilize talent globally, mitigate immigration issues, and experience productivity gains, while workers can... View Details
    Keywords: Remote Work; Best Practices; Employment; Health Pandemics; Geographic Location; Opportunities; Problems and Challenges
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    • December 2023
    • Teaching Note

    Buurtzorg

    By: Ethan Bernstein and Tatiana Sandino
    Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 122-101. As co-founders of home nursing company Buurtzorg, Jos de Blok and Gonnie Kronenberg prized both self-management and organizational learning. Buurtzorg’s 10,000 nurses across 950 neighborhood nursing teams in the Netherlands were... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Employee Relationship Management; Knowledge Dissemination; Knowledge Management; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Groups and Teams; Learning; Health Industry; Netherlands
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    • 23 Oct 2014
    • News

    8 Strategies To Find The Perfect Business Partner

    • September 1997
    • Case

    Information at the World Bank: In Search of a Technology Solution (A)

    By: W. Earl Sasser, Josep Valor and Carin-Isabel Knoop
    Information Technology Services Director Mohamed Muhsin planned to restructure the World Bank's information technology in response to President Jim Wolfensohn's call to build a knowledge bank. Several reorganization efforts taken by the bank in the 1980s led to a... View Details
    Keywords: Restructuring; Information; Knowledge Management; Mission and Purpose; Technology; Public Administration Industry
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      Ashley V. Whillans

      Ashley Whillans is the Volpert Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where she teaches the Motivation and Incentives course to MBA students. Professor Whillans earned her PhD in Social Psychology from the University of... View Details

      • February 1989 (Revised October 1994)
      • Case

      Asahi Breweries Ltd.

      By: Malcolm S. Salter
      Focuses on competitive repositioning, organizational renewal, and personal leadership. Describes how Asahi Breweries was faced with a major capacity expansion decision after succeeding in increasing market share dramatically in the traditionally stable Japanese beer... View Details
      Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Expansion; Leadership; Organizational Structure; Product Launch; Management Teams; Business or Company Management; Marketing Strategy; Supply Chain Management; Mission and Purpose; Food and Beverage Industry; Japan
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      • 24 Sep 2015
      • News

      Global Teams That Work

      • 05 Jul 2016
      • News

      Mobilizing 'Big Teams' For The World's Biggest Challenges

      • Research Summary

      Vicarious Learning in Organizations

      To advance the study of how individuals learn through their interactions with others, Professor Myers has adopted a vicarious learning theory lens. Vicarious learning allows individuals to learn from the outcomes of others’ experiences, rather than solely their own... View Details

      Keywords: Learning And Development; Learning; Health Industry
      • 03 May 2011
      • Working Paper Summaries

      How Do Risk Managers Become Influential? A Field Study of Toolmaking and Expertise in Two Financial Institutions

      Keywords: by Matthew Hall, Anette Mikes & Yuval Millo; Banking
      • 11 May 2009
      • Research & Ideas

      The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

      with a diverse set of companies. "In this way, we could pool all this knowledge and distill it down to the essential principles that CIOs can generally apply, regardless of industry or size of firm, while describing 'realistic' and... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace
      • March 2011
      • Case

      Seven-Eleven Japan: The Tanpin Kanri Retail Practice

      By: Hirotaka Takeuchi and Carin-Isabel Knoop
      This case focuses on Tanpin Kanri, which uses both store-level human knowledge and product information sharing. View Details
      Keywords: Knowledge Sharing; Employees; Practice; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Competitive Strategy; Retail Industry; Japan
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      • Research Summary

      THEME #2: BUILDING CAPABILITIES THROUGH VARIATION

      Prior work has yet to establish definitively the role that variation (e.g. in individuals' activities or organizational processes) plays in the development of capabilities.  Variation is usually either not considered (e.g., the learning curve examines... View Details

      • 12 Oct 2022
      • Video

      Lumumba Seegars: Inequality & Agency in ERGs

      • 21 Nov 2008
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Applicant and Examiner Citations in U.S. Patents: An Overview and Analysis

      Keywords: by Juan Alcacer
      • 04 Apr 2005
      • What Do You Think?

      Can an Organization’s “Deep Smarts” Be Preserved?

      organizational leaders should insist on and practice greater transparency in management decision making." In a U.K. bank, David Physick relates that "we encouraged knowledge View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett