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- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
Absolutely, the handcuffs of life are things that we accumulate without realizing it. I think that just about everyone accumulates them in some ways, because we make incremental decisions that in the short-term make all the sense in the...
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- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
division were just looking for ways to build a faster pump. They didn’t want innovation; they wanted incremental improvements. And they didn’t really see the value of Local Motors. They weren’t believers. For this to work, Rogers needed...
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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Incentives and Operational Excellence
video they wanted was out of stock. Retailers typically buy videocassettes from studios for $45 each and rent them for $4. Tapes are disposed of for $5 after three months, so the retailer must rent the tape at least ten times to break even. The View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
“Big breakthroughs are great, but we found that even incremental progress evokes a powerfully positive inner work life,” Amabile notes. “In my Managing for Creativity course, I ask students to consider how they will establish a work...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
also apparent that a dollar of earnings generated through business expansion may be an annuity, and perhaps even a growing one, while a dollar gained from cost savings is a one-time improvement, an incremental cash flow that is not...
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Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
innovation strategy at HBS. “It’s going to change the way we live our lives. We just don’t know how.” After decades of false starts and incremental advances, quantum computing finally began to show signs of business relevance about 10...
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- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
focus so much on the intermediate goal that often we neglect the overarching end goal: happiness. It is central to our existence—the soul of our lives. Everything we do is with the inherent intention of making us happy. In the self-published guide, Sodha shows us how...
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- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
been unable to adapt and grow. The authors present a set of practices to guide firms as they adopt ambidexterity. Readers will understand how to improve their existing businesses through efficiency, control, and incremental change while...
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- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
utilities to review their established capacity-based strategies. "My predecessor, Guy Nichols, became persuaded by the arguments of a number of engineers and environmentalists who contended that the incremental cost of building new power...
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- 07 Oct 2014
- News
Network Effect
were looking for ideas with potential to revolutionize the field quickly. “We tell our scientists, ‘Dare to be great. Bring us the projects that you can’t get funded elsewhere.’ We don’t want safe, incremental science. We’re not looking...
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Linda Kush
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
confronted with setbacks. Yet in a survey of 669 managers around the world, “progress” ranked dead last as a perceived source of employee motivation, falling behind more expected (but less effective) carrots such as bonuses and promotions. “Even View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
sustainable as well as how these strategies have faced constraints, trade-offs, and challenges of legitimacy. The industries covered range from sustainable finance and solar energy to organic food and wine, ecotourism, and outdoor clothing. Strategies pursued range...
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- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
business of publishing technical papers. “I didn’t want to spend the next 5 to 10 years doing these little increments and never knowing whether, with the right effort, we could solve a big challenge,” Ferrucci told HBS Professor of...
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page