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- 14 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 14
Working PapersCapitalizing On Innovation: The Case of Japan (revised October 2009) Authors:Robert Dujarric and Andrei Hagiu Abstract Japan's industrial landscape is characterized by hierarchical forms of industry organization, which are...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Growing CEOs from the Inside
brutal, understanding of what needs to change if the company is to succeed in the competitive environment that lies ahead. The inside-outsider knows that if his or her vision of the way the world is headed is remotely right, then real...
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- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
The growth and competiveness of emerging markets is a fundamental reality in global business today. Yet it is often forgotten just how much these countries have changed in a short period of time, how challenging their business View Details
- 19 Jan 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing the Economic Crisis
Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered: How do I lead in a crisis? What roles does the Board play? What are the...
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by Staff
- 11 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Cheap, Fast, and In Control: How Tech Aids Innovation
what are some of the possible negative consequences of remaining stagnant? Stefan Thomke: Competitive environments and technologies are constantly changing, which creates both wonderful opportunities to innovate and grave threats if we...
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by Wendy Guild
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2290658 May 2015 Oxford University Press Entrepreneurial Creativity: The Role of Learning Processes and Work Environment Supports. By: Kanter, Rosabeth M....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
medical schools continue to focus on the basic sciences, to the exclusion of such managerial topics as running effective teams. The approach to executing reform appears to assume that practice managers and entrepreneurs can undertake the managerial View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Jul 2004
- What Do You Think?
Work-Life: Is Productivity in the Balance?
conflicts between work and life more broadly defined. Joe Violette suggests that at least in the project-oriented environment in which he works, one should "Make your family a part of your View Details
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by James Heskett
- 06 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
Unexpected Exercise Advice for the Super Busy: Ditch the Rigid Routine
“People think, ‘It would be wonderful if every morning I went for a run at 7 a.m. and then was showered and ready to work at 8 a.m.,’” says John Beshears, the Terrie F. and Bradley M. Bloom Associate Professor of Business Administration...
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by Danielle Kost
- 03 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Board Directors
three on their list of concerns. That’s the surprising finding in a new survey of boards of directors conducted by Harvard Business School professor Boris Groysberg and doctoral student Yo-Jud Cheng. “The concerns that ranked at the top for them were things like the...
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by Michael Blanding
- 28 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?
Mintzberg argued that strategic planning techniques (such as scenario planning) do not work well for organizations because they typically fail to engage business managers and remain detached from everyday action. But Mikes says the...
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- 09 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Who Sways the USDA on GMO Approvals?
subtle difference in perspective also has the potential to distort the agency's reliance on pure science in its approval of GMOs. In his working paper "Lords of the Harvest: Third-Party Signaling and Regulatory Approval of...
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- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
Author:Louis T. Wells Publication:AIB Insights 10, no. 1 (2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Download the Paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/lwells/Insights.pdf Working PapersAgency Costs, Mispricing, and Ownership Structure...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Sep 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO
women from advancing and make their work lives uncomfortable. In my experience, Damore’s assertions don’t match the reality in today’s corporate environment. Having worked with female CEOs under enormous...
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by Bill George
- 02 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 2
an instrumental variables and a simultaneous equations approach. Finally, we show that the relation is driven by both the social and the environmental dimension of CSR. Read the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1847085 View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2001
- What Do You Think?
Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?
results for those engaged in it. Those organizations thought to be most able to extend their boundaries are those able to work in a "componentized" manner, with "certain pieces of technology or innovation that can be...
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by James Heskett
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
negatively associated with FLSI. These findings suggest that rather than relying on hiring motivated individuals, managers need to support employees' efforts to improve their work systems by (1) creating a View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
http://www.vcc.columbia.edu/yearbook Working PapersSustainable Cities: Oxymoron or the Shape of the Future? Authors:Annissa Alusi, Robert G. Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson, and Tiona Zuzul Abstract Two trends are likely to define the 21st...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
or at least step back from their intensive careers and for most, the timing coincides with the period when they're just getting to the top in their careers. Women are far more likely than men to make this choice, partly because of the View Details
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by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 18 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups
have worked on" —Max Bazerman A recent collaboration between Harvard Business School and the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) reveals that you're much less likely to stereotype by gender if you apply an "evaluation nudge"—an...
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by Maggie Starvish