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- 18 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Banks Ditch Coal: The Impact Is 'More Than Anyone Thought'
Consumers who are eager to mitigate climate change can take many actions, such as reducing the number of airline flights they take or installing solar panels on their homes. But the planet is in a race against time, and individual action alone won’t help most countries...
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- 18 Oct 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Historical Trajectories and Corporate Competences in Wind Energy
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
contest. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54708 June 2018 Management Science Personal and Social Usage: The Origins of Active Customers and Ways to Keep Them Engaged By: Lee, Clarence, Elie Ofek, and Thomas...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
When Showing Know-How Backfires for Women Managers
combination of observations, interviews, and archival data in The Task Bind: Explaining Gender Differences in Managerial Tasks and Performance, recently published in Administrative Science Quarterly, to analyze 80 retail grocery stores...
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- 2021
- Working Paper
The Value of Data and Its Impact on Competition
By: Marco Iansiti
Common regulatory perspective on the relationship between data, value, and competition in online platforms has increasingly centered on the volume of data accumulated by incumbent firms. This view posits the existence of "data network effects," where more data leads to...
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Online Platforms;
Data Network Effects;
Analytics and Data Science;
Value;
Competition;
Digital Platforms
Iansiti, Marco. "The Value of Data and Its Impact on Competition." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-002, July 2021.
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
Self-Service Distribution Channels: Evidence from Customer Behavior in an Online Banking Channel Authors:Dennis Campbell and Frances X. Frei Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract This paper uses the context of online...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 3
N. Licht, and Shalom H. Schwartz Publication:Organization Science (forthcoming) Abstract This study addresses an apparent impasse in the research on organizations' responses to cultural distance. Using historically motivated instrumental...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment
breakthroughs may hit the discard pile before companies can evaluate them in full—causing companies to miss out on big competitive leaps, write the researchers in their working paper. Lane, who is affiliated with the Laboratory for Innovation View Details
- 15 Aug 2022
- Book
University of the Future: Finding the Next World Leaders in Higher Ed
propelled China to the first ranks in science and engineering ..." [And yet] no civilization has a longer or more enduringly successful record than China of educating, examining, and promoting talent to...
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- 21 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Artificial Intelligence Isn't a Sure Thing to Increase Productivity
necessary? Choudhury and his fellow researchers were interested in finding out whether having a background in computer science and engineering (CS&E) would improve patent workers’ ability to use the...
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- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470634251.html Thinking Too Little to Thinking Too Much: A Continuum of Decision Making Authors:Dan Ariely and Michael I. Norton Publication:Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2018
- Book
The New History of American Capitalism
Desan look to how scholars in history, law, and political science are redefining capitalism in light of the American experience. Essayists write on such diverse subjects as markets, selling of slave clothing, the Gilded Age, women’s...
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Manufacturing
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
unavailable at this time. Read the paper: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/gsj.28/abstract Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation Authors:Carliss Baldwin and Eric von Hippel Publication:Organization View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- March 2024
- Case
From “BIG” Ideas to Sustainable Impact at ICL Group (A)
By: Linda A. Hill and Lydia Begag
In the summer of 2023, Eduard (“Eddie”) Croitoru, Vice President (VP) of ICL Group (“ICL”) Corporate Initiatives, was reflecting on ICL’s internal ideation program, the Business Innovation for Growth (BIG) Accelerator. When Raviv Zoller became the CEO of ICL in 2018,...
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Change Management;
Agribusiness;
Accounting;
Communication;
Renewable Energy;
Chemicals;
Machinery and Machining;
Metals and Minerals;
Mining;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Values and Beliefs;
Environmental Sustainability;
Natural Resources;
Globalization;
Information Technology;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Leadership;
Organizational Culture;
Personal Development and Career;
Talent and Talent Management;
Manufacturing Industry;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Chemical Industry;
Israel;
China;
United States
Hill, Linda A., and Lydia Begag. "From 'BIG' Ideas to Sustainable Impact at ICL Group (A)." Harvard Business School Case 424-042, March 2024.
- 09 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Identify Great Customers from Their First Purchase
manage newly acquired customers, for whom there is no historical data—something known in computer science as “the cold-start problem.” “People who bought more products at the first transaction, especially those who did so in stores, were...
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- 11 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI
business problem you are solving is at least as important as your algorithms. Even though the technology and data science behind AI is what makes these applications different from conventional software, your business customers are not...
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by Rocio Wu
- March 1999 (Revised April 1999)
- Case
Environmental Risk Management at Chevron Corporation
By: Forest L. Reinhardt, Monica M Mandelli and Jennifer Burns
Chevron Corp., headquartered in San Francisco, manages a worldwide, vertically integrated value chain from the oil well to the gasoline station. Mishandling of oil at any stage of production can damage the natural environment, human health, corporate profitability, or...
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Keywords:
Risk Management;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Environmental Sustainability;
Energy Generation;
Supply Chain Management;
Metals and Minerals;
Management Systems;
Management Teams;
Trade;
Vertical Integration;
Energy Industry;
Mining Industry
Reinhardt, Forest L., Monica M Mandelli, and Jennifer Burns. "Environmental Risk Management at Chevron Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 799-062, March 1999. (Revised April 1999.)
- 2022
- Case
Tesla's Battery Supply Chain: A Growing Concern
By: Andrew J. Hoffman
In October 2021, the fictional vice president of supply chain sustainability at Tesla is working on finding the best way to achieve Tesla's goal of 100% recycling for the batteries in its electric vehicles (EVs) as they reach their end of life. A major challenge in...
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Supply Chain Management;
Environmental Sustainability;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Governance Compliance;
Metals and Minerals;
Auto Industry
Hoffman, Andrew J. "Tesla's Battery Supply Chain: A Growing Concern." William Davidson Institute Case 9-884-554, 2022.
- 13 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas
Grounding innovation in science also results in more unique products. For companies with thousands of patents, the value difference quickly adds up. "If you are willing dive into the frontier of scientific journal articles, the rewards of...
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by Avery Forman
- 23 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation
much information. Netflix is one of his favorite examples of selective data use. The company’s data suggested that the science fiction series Stranger Things, a drama set in the 1980s with teen protagonists, might not resonate with its...
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by Lane Lambert