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- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs
growth of our company." Adds Urquhart, "You don't want the guys in the core part of your business to feel like they're working at the wagon wheel factory after the car has been invented." It's important that growth teams recognize this as well, Tushman...
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by Paul Michelman
- 08 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Second Life: Reflections on Complementing Success with an Encore Career
staff community projects program that organizes offsite charitable activities, such as Habitat for Humanity. In addition, Velocity rewards employees with $1,000 cash contributions to their charities of choice and peer to peer ‘flash’ awards of Kiva gift cards which...
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Technology
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Class Day and Commencement 2001
relocated from nearby Aldrich Lawn due to construction of the new Hawes Hall classroom building, tradition otherwise prevailed in the form of beautiful weather, wise and humorous speeches, and an enthusiastic crowd of MBA graduates (some...
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- 23 Jan 2008
- Op-Ed
A House Divided: Investment or Shelter?
live and take root, the home in recent times has been elevated to Investment Opportunity, a place where you stayed for awhile, made a lot of money, then moved on to the next home-investment. Is the definition of home about to change once again? Family Sanctuary When...
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Making Markets - Course Catalog
transactions to occur. Once running, a marketplace must maintain balance between its supply and demand sides, or else participants may leave to transact elsewhere. Yet at the same time, marketplaces must avoid crowding that makes it hard...
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- 13 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril
disregard—advice all the time. A widely recommended strategy for figuring out the most accurate solution to a complex problem is to reach out to multiple people to leverage the wisdom of the crowds in weighing alternatives. Prior research...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
prize. In a community-based setting, you give up IP in exchange for complementary assets that create value for customers. Then there's the fear that my competitors will find out what I'm working on. Open companies have adopted a nuanced attitude that embraces...
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- 03 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Web Services
Movie buffs may recall that "plastics" was the whispered tip to Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate; if the movie were remade today, "Web services" might replace that advice. An overflow audience already seemed to know this, View Details
- 02 Jan 2014
- News
The Power to Change
scientists from MIT who stood up and talked about this new kind of nuclear reactor," he says. "And at the end I watched 300 people cheering nuclear energy, and I thought, 'Wow, this is different.'" The crowd was cheering the WAMSR (Waste...
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- 24 Feb 2014
- News
A Capital Idea for Small Business
managements, and form groups around common interests." "I like the idea of the crowd vetting ideas, and determining winners and losers by voting with their capital," says McGee. "This project got its start back in 2011. I had been...
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- 31 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Niche Content in an Ad-Driven World
hours available to maximize ad revenue—the shift to popular content crowds out niche shows. (The researchers did not study the effects on viewing habits created by digital video recorders and on-demand programming.) Online, there are no...
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Trade Catalogs - The Art of American Advertising
including Profitable Advertising , Printers’ Ink , and the Inland Printer , offered advice on designing trade catalogs that were both informative and inviting. Fowlers Publicity Encyclopedia provided such guidelines as: “Do not crowd...
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- 30 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Do Mergers Hurt Product Quality?
off the shelf, and you take it home with you." The research team also kept track of brand consolidation, noting that companies were most likely to prune brands post-merger when the marketplace was crowded with similar products. But...
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Creating Brand Value - Course Catalog
and play a participatory role in brand management that can make them allies or adversaries. The contemporary brandscape is crowded with new competitors vying to stake claims to rich, meaning-laden value propositions that reflect and...
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- 21 Mar 2024
- News
OC Alumni Get Clarity on AI; Inequality and Climate Change Explored in DC
crowd for the club’s reboot of the Leadership Breakfast, and noted that they saw many younger and recent HBS alumni who were likely attracted by the topic of AI. “Marshall truly demystified it for so many of us. AI is really a way to make...
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Margie Kelley
- 19 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Codeacademy’s Delicate Work of Adding Monetization Without Crushing Mission
the world, as millions of companies have downloaded their free database and incorporated it into their technology infrastrcture. Only recently has the company focused on monetization. Q: What lessons does Codecademy offer for companies trying to differentiate...
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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
How Sports Should Use Its Timeout
building. And I think in the long run, that'll be a great thing for the industry. Dan: Most Americans in surveys have said that they don't think sporting events should have crowds without more testing, or even a vaccine. What do you think...
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- 02 Aug 2011
- News
A Fearless Force for Change
states HBS professor emeritus Carl Sloane, who taught the case to a SRO crowd on the occasion of Linn's 10th HBS Reunion. "She typified the very best of HBS." "That case stands as one of the most meaningful projects I've ever worked on,"...
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- 25 May 2015
- Blog Post
RapidSOS Wins the HBS New Venture Competition
with a live finale in which a winner and runner up (as well as crowd favorite) are selected. The winner receives $50,000 in cash prizes and the runner up receives $25,000 – and both receive significant in-kind legal service prizes. This...
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- 02 Jan 2019
- News
Not Waiting for Progress
financial services with the Capital Group Companies, attended the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, with some HBS friends. A believer since childhood in the power of storytelling on the big screen, Diamond was struck by the lack of diversity, both in the View Details
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Deborah Blagg