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- 20 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The 5 Strategy Rules of Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs
that no one understood what it did was brilliant," says Yoffie. "That changed the entire structure of the semiconductor industry forever." “They were all in many ways highly imperfect leaders. We didn't want to idealize...
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- 16 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making
industries like biotech, you can test things along the way to see if they are feasible, but for creative ideas like a film, you can’t experiment. You have huge uncertainty and you have to think about how to...
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- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
Interorganizational Network Forms By: Tatarynowicz, Adam, Maxim Sytch, and Ranjay Gulati Abstract—This study investigates the origins of variation in the structures of interorganizational networks across industries. We combine empirical analyses of existing...
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Sean Silverthorne
- March 2001 (Revised January 2009)
- Case
Walt Disney Company, The: The Entertainment King
By: Michael G. Rukstad, David J. Collis and Tyrell Levine
The first ten pages of this case are comprised of the company's history, from 1923 to 2001. The Walt years are described, as is the company's decline after his death and its resurgence under Eisner. The last five pages are devoted to Eisner's strategic challenges in...
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History;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Managerial Roles;
Creativity;
Corporate Strategy;
Boundaries;
Brands and Branding;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry
Rukstad, Michael G., David J. Collis, and Tyrell Levine. "Walt Disney Company, The: The Entertainment King." Harvard Business School Case 701-035, March 2001. (Revised January 2009.)
- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
article concludes that it is critical to make institutions in our current 'consumer era' more attentive to individual patients who are put at risk. Collaborative Brokerage, Generative Creativity, and Creative Success Authors:Lee Fleming,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jun 2022
- HBS Case
From Truck Driver to Manager: US Foods’ Novel Approach to Staff Shortages
from HBS in 1992, and wrote the case study with HBS researchers Olivia Hull and Amy Klopfenstein. With a combination of savvy planning and creative thinking, US Foods managed to weather staff shortages while simultaneously growing its...
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by Pamela Reynolds
- 10 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Top Scholars Say About Leadership
the titles of papers. Even more importantly, we are seeing a growth industry of serious scholars writing books about leadership. Once a subject becomes legitimated, it becomes safer for other people to study it. And when leading scholars...
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- 26 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Paid Promos Take the Shine Off YouTube Stars (and Tips for Better Influencer Marketing)
desired outcome.” Deep dive into YouTube The influencer marketing machine is huge and growing. The industry was reportedly valued at $6 billion in 2020 and is projected to climb to $85 billion by 2028, the paper says, citing Globe...
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- 16 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.
needs. The velocity or rate of adaption that firms need to adjust to a new directional reality will depend on customer demand. Industries with decreasing customer demand—offline entertainment, hospitality, real estate, View Details
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation
different value proposition to a new market context that did not need all of the raw performance offered by the incumbent. They all created massive growth; to flip Joseph Schumpeter's famous phrase, creative destruction, on its head, this...
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- July 2008 (Revised March 2009)
- Case
elBulli: The Taste of Innovation
By: Michael I. Norton, Julian Villanueva and Luc Wathieu
Ferran Adrià, chef at elBulli, the highest-ranked restaurant in the world for two consecutive years, faces two related decisions. First, Adrià and his team must continue to develop new and different dishes for the ground-breaking cuisine at elBulli to guarantee a...
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Innovation and Invention;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Marketing Strategy;
Creativity;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Spain
Norton, Michael I., Julian Villanueva, and Luc Wathieu. "elBulli: The Taste of Innovation." Harvard Business School Case 509-015, July 2008. (Revised March 2009.) (Also available in Spanish: 509S01-PDF-SPA.)
- 2012
- Chapter
Schumpeterian Competition and Diseconomies of Scope: Illustrations from the Histories of Microsoft and IBM
By: Timothy F. Bresnahan, Shane Greenstein and Rebecca M. Henderson
We address a longstanding question about the causes of creative destruction. Dominant incumbent firms, long successful in an existing technology, are often much less successful in new technological eras. This is puzzling, since a cursory analysis would suggest that...
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Technological Innovation;
Opportunities;
Competition;
Information Technology;
Innovation and Management;
Organizations;
Relationships;
Information Technology Industry
Bresnahan, Timothy F., Shane Greenstein, and Rebecca M. Henderson. "Schumpeterian Competition and Diseconomies of Scope: Illustrations from the Histories of Microsoft and IBM." In The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited, edited by Josh Lerner and Scott Stern. University of Chicago Press, 2012.
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising
million within five years. "The creative side, which is what matters in the advertising business, can't be fully explored until the technology has improved," says Silk. Judging by the numbers, that technological improvement will...
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by Susan Young
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
Edmondson: Leadership will engage people to work together creatively I hope we will come to learn that hiding bad news is never a good idea. That will mean recommitting ourselves to mastering the leadership skills to tell the truth and...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
delayed. Additional tests show that the GQ project's effect operates in part through a stronger sorting of land-intensive industries from nodal districts to non-nodal districts located on the GQ network. The GQ upgrades further helped...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
doubled effort within the competitive regime and increased effort by roughly half in the cooperative regime, while accounting for incentives. Our experimental approach and results indicate the importance of accounting for worker preferences in View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 07 Nov 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Sir Alex Ferguson--Managing Manchester United
her course "Strategic Marketing in Creative Industries," with Ferguson in the classroom. HBS Working Knowledge recently interviewed Elberse about the case, which is now publicly available. The Ferguson case is part of Elberse's growing...
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- 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...
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by Martha Lagace
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
Frederick Taylor's application of scientific methods to the study of physical labor had begun to be extended to the organization of industry as well as to spheres such as higher education and government. While Taylorism was quickly...
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- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Box Office Power of Stars
buyers? And in an interesting plot twist, Elberse decided to design her research not around actual box office receipts, but rather around a Hollywood simulation game that has over half a million players. The results were published in her working paper, "The Power...
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