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- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
collective creativity and insight. These two divergent perspectives pose a paradox that has held the attention of scholars for many years. In response, researchers have marshaled evidence to specify the conditions under which diversity...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How to Compete Like a Judo Strategist
Several best practices, as explained by past and current masters of judo strategy, can help you reach the top of your game. While there are no substitutes for mastering the concepts of judo strategy and carefully studying your industry...
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by David B. Yoffie & Mary Kwak
- 29 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Helping Women in Mexico to Live Fulfilled and Healthy Lives
Giovanna Abramo (MBA 2022) spent the last three years prior to HBS working at Bain & Company in Mexico City where she worked on performance improvement, strategy, and operational model redesign projects across industries like consumer...
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Souvenirs & Novelties - The Art of American Advertising
of almanacs annually. Advertisers took another creative leap with the production of novelty items, the precursors to bubble gum cards, Cracker Jack Toys, and other souvenir collectibles of the twentieth century. Offshoots of trade cards...
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- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
are less responsive to changes in investment opportunities, especially in industries in which stock prices are most sensitive to earnings news. These findings are consistent with the notion that short-termist pressures distort investment...
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Carmen Nobel
- 22 Oct 2018
- News
Capital Murder
after another, then one sentence after another, then a paragraph, and a page, and suddenly you’ve written a chapter. Is there any way in which your job at Netflix was useful in the experience of creating something of your own? More the other way around—the View Details
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Julia Hanna
- 18 Nov 2020
- News
Networking Goes Truly Global; Confronting Institutional Racism with Case Method Webinar
their own virtual GNN events. More than 100 alumni attended the HBS Club of the Philippines GNN event, which focused on the “Future Lifestyle of Work” and featured panelists Donnie Tantoco, president, Rustan Commercial Corporation; Josie Natori, CEO, Natori Company;...
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Margie Kelley
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
Business School’s Ranjay Gulati looks at how it tackled the challenge. He identifies several important takeaways for other multinationals: Give the local organizations clout, embrace creative abrasion, build strong functions, and...
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Carmen Nobel
- February 2010 (Revised September 2011)
- Case
Local Motors: Designed by the Crowd, Built by the Customer
By: Michael I. Norton and Jeremy Dann
In the wake of the meltdown among U.S. auto manufacturers in 2009, Jay Rogers, CEO of Local Motors, has a new approach for the automotive industry: decide which models are produced through online design competitions, and then allow customers to "build their own cars"...
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Business Startups;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Product Design;
Product Development;
Creativity;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Customization and Personalization;
Auto Industry;
Auto Industry;
United States
Norton, Michael I., and Jeremy Dann. "Local Motors: Designed by the Crowd, Built by the Customer." Harvard Business School Case 510-062, February 2010. (Revised September 2011.)
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
development of the U.S. railroad industry in the latter half of the 19th century. Al went straight to the sources and expanded upon them in a series of important articles in the Business History Review. That work developed into his...
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by Jim Aisner
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
the footwear industry. So when a well-respected industry leader asked to talk about a merger, Cabot had to admit that with her "crisis of confidence," it might just be time. Purchase this case:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
motorbikes, which posed a threat to the company's core business. Sourcing the technology for these e-bikes, and hiring and retaining the management and creative talent the company needed, were continuing challenges. The case traces the...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
Company; and HBS professor Michael Porter (MBA ’71). In addition to the pioneering roles played by this innovative quartet, there is another leitmotif — a fifth key player — that runs throughout the book: The industry would not exist as...
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- 05 Aug 2010
- What Do You Think?
What Is Customer Opinion Good For?
Jacoline Loewen pointed out that "Asking the customer's opinion is great for quality control check(s), but for creative strategy get beyond the client." Gerald Nanninga commented that "consumers are very good at explaining frustrations...
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- 01 Aug 2008
- What Do You Think?
Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?
Yet others viewed it as a means of getting more for less out of people, something to be tried when other approaches don't work. Howard Esbin likens it to "strategic scenario planning or futurism. The more one is able to ask 'what if' and 'why not', the more View Details
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by Jim Heskett
- Web
Rock 100: The Summit - Entrepreneurship
Sheila Lirio Marcelo – Care.com Alexis Maybank – Gilt Groupe Terry McGuire – Polaris Partners Steve Papa – Parallel Wireless Victoria Ransom – Wildfire, a division of Google Neil Rimer – Index Ventures Phil Terry – Creative Good Alexandra...
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- 26 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Where will Pokémon Go with Your Personal Information?
app’s success has striking implications for a number of industries. Willy Shih is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Management Practice in Business Administration at Harvard Business School and spent 28 years in industry at IBM,...
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- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
since Microsoft is a very aggressive company and eventually they'll figure out that prices are going to have to get lower and they're going to have to be more aggressive. The third option is that Apple says our real advantage is in application and View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The Maestro and the Market
Business and Creativity at elBulli WIZARD: Chef Ferran Adrià at the World Summit of Gastronomy in Tokyo. He’s been called “the Salvador Dalí of the kitchen” for creations ranging from beetroot and yogurt ice-cream lollipops to a...
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Julia Hanna;
Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries;
Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries;
Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries;
Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries;
Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries;
Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries
- 24 May 2021
- Blog Post
Rebekah Emanuel: Host of Season 3 of the Climate Rising Podcast
from looking at one sector and finding something analogous that's applicable to another sector. The more I work in different places and with different people, the more I see that cross-pollinating between industries ends up being...
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