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- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes to Restore Trust in Business
The crisis in American business has spawned tales of colorful characters who will surely live on in folk memory, quipped Harvard Business School professor D. Quinn Mills: the ignorant CEO; the creative accountants; the big-spending...
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- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
Sandino Abstract—Many service organizations rely on information sharing systems to boost employee creativity to meet customer needs. We conducted a field experiment in a retail chain, based on a registered report accepted by Journal of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues
Law School and Design School, this year's conference hosted over fifty speakers from business, government, and academia in the United States and Asia. Panels focused on the economic future of countries such as Taiwan, India, Japan, Korea, China, and Vietnam. View Details
- 16 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation
Obama-to move government data to the Web-lead to public benefits much faster? Data.gov, the subject of a new HBS case study, taught for the first time this summer, highlights the potential of raw data to spur citizen creativity and...
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- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
asymmetry in message strength in turn permits cutoff equilibria, where players take action after receiving a minimum number of confirmations. Good Morning Creativity: Task Reactivation During Sleep Enhances Beneficial Effect of Sleep on View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 16 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Actively Addressing Unconscious Bias in Recruiting
“There are so many industries that have a history of relying on the "soft stuff," and the soft stuff has worked in the favor of a particular kind of individual. The truth is the soft stuff is often a euphemism, in many cases, for bias;...
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- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?
urgent needs of the future. Start-ups, on the other hand, are intensely focused on innovation but are also beholden to the impatience and boom-and-bust cycles of the venture capital industry. In his new book, The Architecture of Innovation: The Economics of View Details
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by Carmen Nobel
- 15 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
From McRibs to Maseratis: The Power of Scarcity Marketing
KFC pulled the sandwich off the menu across most of Canada. This move may seem strange in an industry where a pivotal goal—in the words of Coca-Cola's long-standing mantra—is to be "within an arm's reach of desire." According to...
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Doing Business with China 2035: Navigating Uncertainty - Course Catalog
environment, and the role of the government in business activities. Furthermore, as relations between the world's two largest economies, the U.S. and China, deteriorate further, companies must find creative solutions to counter ongoing...
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- 02 Dec 2017
- News
Helping HBS Make Big Bets
Kara Medoff Barnett (MBA 2007) Kara Medoff Barnett (MBA 2007) loved being a Broadway producer and came to HBS because she thought the live theater industry could learn a lot from other industries. She also loved her time on campus,...
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- 12 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Amager Bakke: I Like This Waste Incinerator in My Backyard!
power source. Amager Bakke is located within eyeshot of downtown Copenhagen, and despite being an industrial waste management and energy production site, serves as a community gathering point. With the world’s tallest rock-climbing wall...
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- December 2007 (Revised August 2014)
- Case
Xanadu on Broadway
By: Anita Elberse
Can one of Hollywood's biggest flops magically turn into a Broadway hit? Xanadu, an adaptation of a 1980 Olivia Newton-John roller-disco film described by one critic as "the epic failure to end all epic failures," opened on Broadway in July 2007. Producer Rob Ahrens,...
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Theater Entertainment;
Product Marketing;
Product Launch;
Demand and Consumers;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Creativity;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry
Elberse, Anita. "Xanadu on Broadway." Harvard Business School Case 508-062, December 2007. (Revised August 2014.)
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
PublicationsDid Increased Competition Affect Credit Ratings? Authors:Bo Becker and Todd Milbourn Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract The credit rating industry has historically been dominated by just two...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
(MBA 1965) (Springer) This book focuses on how to lead transformative and strategic change in the healthcare industry in times of great uncertainty. It provides new tools, processes, examples, and case studies offering an effective...
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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Tech Trekker
have similarly discovered over the past 25 years. By supporting Lang's creativity and unconventional thinking, high-tech startups and established computer firms alike have found their assets turning to gold under her fingers. "I've always...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
industry entirely. Instead, the Miami native went home after graduation to join an upstart agency that seemed interested in doing things a little differently. At the time, Crispin Porter + Bogusky (CP+B) had a regional focus, with 55...
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- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system...
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- 01 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 1
creative destruction. Dominant incumbent firms, long successful in an existing technology, are often much less successful in new technological eras. This is puzzling, since a cursory analysis would suggest that incumbent firms have the...
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Carmen Nobel
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
workers trained on such software was taking on work that used to be done in the workshops. The seemingly anecdotal homers encapsulated micro-struggles for recognition, ones in which the identity threats that craftsmen were facing were challenged. These artifacts echoed...
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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
sales of $37 billion. The company’s aggressive investment in research has made it an industry leader in new drug approvals. And when opportunity knocks, Vasella doesn’t hesitate to broaden Novartis’s business mix through acquisitions. He...
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