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- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
categories represented significant opportunities and challenges. The smartwatch category was new and poised for growth when Apple released its watch in April 2015, but the use case remained uncertain, and Apple would face a strong... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
productivity. Ideally, you need to make your technical staff aware of the tradeoffs and the technical/competitive landscape without building barriers to creativity. One thing is to appoint a technical gatekeeper that will keep close watch... View Details
- 31 May 2016
- HBS Case
Who Owns Space?
five-year-old Jeff Bezos, who watched Neil Armstrong take humankind’s first steps on the moon, an experience Bezos said “deeply imprinted” him. It fostered his interest in and admiration for the space sector and the work NASA was doing... View Details
- 14 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Deflategate and the Sustained Success of the New England Patriots
footballs should be.” “I don’t think this is about football at all. I think this is about human nature and organizations and performance” As Iansiti watched the AFC title game in January 2015, and the ensuing uproar, he was hooked. As an... View Details
- 23 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Break the Expert’s Curse
sound like beginners. After playing for a minute, all the expert guitarists watched a YouTube video clip of a true beginner, who struggled to play a series of chords. They each wrote a few sentences of advice for the beginner, and then... View Details
- 15 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 15
Retail Inventory: Managing the Canary in the Coal Mine! By: Gaur, Vishal, Saravanan Kesavan, and Ananth Raman Abstract—Retail inventory is a statistic that is closely watched by retailers as well as their investors, lenders, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
CEO Succession: The Case at Ford
for them to start making great products again? A: I would guess so. I'm not a car person, but yes. I think that's probably what appealed to them about Mulally because everybody was singing the praises of Airbus and then, five years later, Boeing has recaptured its... View Details
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
attests to the idea that ritual behavior stimulates goal-directed action (to consume). Experiment 3 found that performing rituals oneself enhanced consumption more than merely watching someone else perform the same ritual, suggesting that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
HP and Dell that have outsourced most of their computer product design to ODM firms like ASUSTeK, only to watch them morph into competitors. Students can also examine how organizational resources, processes, and values can shape or limit... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
such as the journalists, museums, and galleries who were watching the category emerge. Although Saffronart may have originated the practice of providing discursive descriptions of the art, it was soon joined in this practice by the other... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
restaurateur in Japan, Aoki eventually opened his own four-table unit in Manhattan in 1964 and called it Benihana (after a Japanese flower), the name of his father's first establishment. Watching Americans dine out, Aoki had concluded... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 25 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager?
Credit: PhonlamaiPhoto Thirty years ago, the idea of a machine learning on its own would have stoked the worst kind of sci-fi nightmares about robots taking over the planet. These days, machine learning is so commonplace, we barely notice it. Computers routinely learn... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Relationships are Building Biotech
Creativity (Oxford University Press) spells it all out. The Missing Link Higgins became interested in this missing link after watching a young biotech company go through two public offerings in the early 1990s. The observations she made... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark
- 23 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier
donations to relieve medical debt. Because so little medical debt sent to collections is ever repaid, it can be purchased for pennies on the dollar. The organization has relieved more than $11 billion of debt to date. Kluender says he and his colleagues embarked on the... View Details
- 29 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?
to work long hours at a time when people in some other countries increasingly stand by watching them do it. James Surowiecki, in a piece last year in The New Yorker, argued that the more that Americans work, the more they spend. And the... View Details
- 06 Mar 2006
- What Do You Think?
The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?
Gaurav Goel agreed: " . . . the solution is to make sure customers are aware that they are being watched or are being stopped from accessing particular information. Who knows? This may lead to a change in local policies toward a... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
peripheral products. I wanted to explain in some detail how this happened. Nancy Koehn: Reading Al's work, I was struck by the implications of technological change for the demand side of the economy. As a historian watching the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 07 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips
libraries are full of novels of unhappy people who married for money. I have a friend who recently turned down a big promotion, which went to her former employee. At first, she felt like a slacker, watching those around her rise through... View Details
- 09 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
In This Classroom, Beer Can Improve Your Grade
Casadesus-Masanell says. At the end of the week the teams make brief presentations, faculty present aggregate data, and students discuss what they learned. During last year’s simulation Casadesus-Masanell watched as teams, surrounded by a... View Details
- 03 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Brand Lessons From the Nobel Prize
in the first sentence of the obit, "BLANK, who won a Nobel Prize for his work in BLANK ." Greyser says. "I've been watching the obits of laureates ever since we started this work. And to a person, that is in the first sentence." The Nobel... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel