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- 25 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Powerful Strategic Tool Companies Should Not Try to Control
user community is a great example of how a company can gain competitive advantage by tapping into its user community. LEGO allows its users to create their own designs and share them with other users. They can even enter these designs into a View Details
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by Danielle Kost
- 27 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Ordinary People Get Creative?
Business School, Emerita, who has studied workplace creativity for more than 40 years. “Those breakthroughs will be made by collaborative groups of ‘ordinary people,’ by open innovation contests and other open innovation processes, by...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 31 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Scholarly Crowd Explores Crowdsourcing
Cox Pahnke, Dan Wang, and Benjamin Hallen. Ripe for study. In a plenary talk on crowdsourced contests and competitions, Lakhani outlined numerous areas in need of further study, which is made much easier by hundreds of crowdsourcing...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Is MySpace.com Your Space?
Research, a leading journal publishing interdisciplinary studies of consumer behavior. Sean Silverthorne: Who is using MySpace to advertise? John Deighton: Fox created a profile page for X-Men: The Last Stand. Disney ran a contest to...
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- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
geographies, it seems reasonable to expect the contest for recognition to intensify. Many moral gray zones provide readily available intra- and inter-occupational sorting mechanisms. In global labor markets, moral gray zones will likely...
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by Martha Lagace
- 30 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Your Employees and Customers Drive a New Value Profit Chain
people back to Bentonville headquarters for recognition; and executive merchandising contests that create incentives for executives to spend more time in the stores. All of this reflects basic company values and culture. In other very...
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by Manda Mahoney
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
private companies, the USPS has to have even its best ideas reviewed by regulators and contested by competitors. But inevitably making tough choices about technology to create new services has to be market-driven, in spite of the...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 17 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2024: Business and Environment Ventures
entrants, and we wanted to highlight the contestants from this year’s competition who are developing a wide range of ventures to address climate change. 2024 Business Track Winner: Crop Diagnostix - Brandon Chi (MBA 2024), Joseph Swift,...
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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
A Wider Net
candidates for president—including former national team stars like Hope Solo and Eric Wynalda—making it the first contested election for the position in 20 years, a sign of how high emotions were running at the time. In a three-month...
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- Profile
Patrick Chun
contest semi-finals, had a beta-launch in the fall of his EC year, and according to Patrick, "is undergoing further work and evaluation." Anticipating deeper, hands-on product engagement in the tech sector, Patrick took his...
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- 19 Apr 2018
- News
One Last Pitch
Contestants fidgeted, going over their pitches one last time in their heads as they waited to take the stage. The digital clock in the corner of the big screen on the stage kept time—90 seconds, diving into the red for some as they rushed...
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Jennifer Myers
- 19 May 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts
Harvard Business School MBA '03 students Raj De Datta, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Meghna Modi recently won the Social Enterprise track of the annual HBS Business Plan contest with their plan for brokering microfinance loans to families in...
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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Jennifer L. Scott
design one of the most innovative student-driven initiatives to hit the HBS campus in years. The contest provided students with the opportunity to develop a business idea from concept through execution - an experience, Scott notes, that...
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Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
natural curiosity was encouraged by his parents (and by a memorable high-school teacher), and as a child who had had glimpses of San Francisco and Washington, D.C., Stevenson recalls, “I was desperate to get to the outside world. I tried to do that by entering every...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
the prospects of video game competition as a spectator sport—“for two mind-numbing hours, contestants stared at their screens and manipulated laser guns”—but Warner Communications was elated by all the attention it received, and the View Details
- 28 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Capital Rules: The Tensions of Global Finance
cross-border finance and in patterns we have seen before. In his new book Capital Rules: The Construction of Global Finance, Abdelal documents the waxing and waning of international capital controls in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and the View Details
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by Rawi Abdelal
- 08 Apr 2021
- News
Real Talk
Contrast that real-life vulnerability and storytelling with a two-hour, mandatory, computer-based training, say the Equitas founders, and there’s no contest in terms of efficacy. “In fact,” says Harmeling, “we’ve found that some of those...
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- 20 Mar 2017
- Book
Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies
convinced Lakhani to drop his engineering aspirations and become a scholar of innovation. Lakhani has devoted much of his research at HBS exploring how communities and contests can be designed to achieve innovative outcomes. Last year, he...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Apr 2006
- What Do You Think?
Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?
annual contest among budding entrepreneurs here at HBS, were awaiting the arrival of software being designed in India that would allow them to demonstrate smoothly-functioning Web sites important to their prospective businesses. Getting...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change
out with Nextel? One person knew a career not to be taken: Jim Stern decided against retail. His rejection letter from J.C. Penney won a Harbus contest and was published in the paper. The future banking mogul did, however, win the stock...
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Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer