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- June 2018 (Revised January 2020)
- Case
Sony
By: Stefan Thomke, Atsushi Osanai and Akiko Kanno
Sony used to be synonymous with "innovation" and "cool products." The case reveals how the company lost its edge and describes the leadership initiatives to restore its former glory. In 2012, Kazuo (Kaz) Hirai becomes CEO and successfully transforms Sony, including a...
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- 01 Feb 2022
- Book
Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed
Devices because they've got 50-plus years of being an advanced leader in electronics in the world. People see lots of entrepreneur successes, and they say, boy, that must be easy because they're free and autonomous and they can do this....
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by Lane Lambert
- 09 Jun 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge
laws are not a cure-all. And the scope of industries considering adopted patent pools has also grown. While the patent pools have been well established in basic manufacturing and electronic industries for decades, they have been seen as a...
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- 14 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Becoming a Jack-of-All-Trades
game-changing technology, Microsoft Kinect, which transformed the field of motion-capture. Released as a gaming accessory for Microsoft’s Xbox in 2010, Kinect was leagues ahead of similar technologies such as Nintendo’s Wii and...
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by Michael Blanding
- 18 Feb 2019
- Book
What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology
“preemptively decoupling.” Instead of waiting to be disrupted, you just break it. When Amazon started selling electronics online, it created apps that encouraged customers to go to a store and check out the prices and products, but order...
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- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
retail space, as many areas of its stores fall below critical levels of retail productivity. But these are not the only categories that suffer from the consumer' embrace of e-commerce. Best Buy, arguably a bricks-and-clicks monopolist in the View Details
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
academics talk a good game about the need for interdisciplinary thinking, but we usually fall back on the strengths (or prejudices) of our primary discipline. Chandler was heavily influenced by sociologists such as Max Weber and Talcott...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- September 2013 (Revised August 2015)
- Background Note
Leadership and Teaming
By: Ethan Bernstein
Small differences in the leadership of teams can have large consequences for the success of their efforts. Many initiatives fail not because of a fatal error in judgment or insufficient ideas, knowledge, motivation, or capabilities to deliver a solution. They fail...
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Bernstein, Ethan. "Leadership and Teaming." Harvard Business School Background Note 414-033, September 2013. (Revised August 2015.)
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
What’s Your Strategy for Managing Knowledge?
removing client-sensitive information, we develop 'knowledge objects' by pulling key pieces of knowledge such as interview guides, work schedules, benchmark data, and market segmentation analyses out of documents and storing them in the View Details
- 21 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
Without Immigrants, We Wouldn't Have Google
mail. Their idea became Hotmail, the world’s first free web-based email service and the first electronic mail for tens of millions of users. While it was only a promise, the parties struck a deal less than...
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- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
two. Though a step in the right direction, this approach suffers because the boundary between "market" and "nonmarket" is artificial and far from clear-cut. We find it more productive to focus on the key types of games...
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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores
that merchandise would no longer carry individual price tags and that shoppers might be overcharged at the register. More recently, customers have expressed concern that electronic shelf labels could be used to raise prices between the...
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- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pride Goeth Before a Profit
sure it was done properly." The electronic reports get to customers up to two weeks faster than mailed copies do and save Aetna $300,000 annually. "I inherited a good crew," says Schlichting....
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by Theodore Kinni
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/aknin%20dunn%20norton.pdf Correlation in the Multiplayer Electronic Mail Game Authors:Peter A. Coles and Ran Shorrer Publication:B.E. Journal...
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Carmen Nobel
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
each agent is free to participate in the game directly. In this paper we introduce a study of mediators for games with incomplete information and apply it to the context of position auctions, a central topic...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
structurally, functionally, geographically, and strategically diverse firm. The full data set comprises more than 100 million electronic mail messages and over 60 million View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
proponent of evolutionary change, he is considering a radical move: create a senior management position responsible for e-commerce to coordinate web-based offerings and outreach across the Society's various departments, transition NGS from its many disparate and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
What's more, since going green is now red hot, a growing number of companies—especially in Europe and Japan—are also starting to issue Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) or Sustainability reports. Sometimes these are mailed with the...
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by Staff
- 24 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Is Your iPhone Turning You Into a Wimp?
monitor? The answer may determine whether you'll play the wimp or the hero in your next office meeting. The body posture inherent in operating everyday gadgets affects not only your back, but your demeanor, reports a new experimental study entitled iPosture: The Size...
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- 04 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
RealNetworks, CNET, and Judo Strategy
RealNetworks founder Rob Glaser, a veteran of doing battle with much larger Microsoft, has some words of wisdom on competing against a market giant: "If you want to beat Bobby Fischer, don't play chess." Glaser, president and CEO of the streaming media...
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by Jim Aisner