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  • 11 Apr 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy

Technology Ventures (LTV), offered as a half-course at the beginning of the term, with some students continuing on to work on a field-based project during the second half. The course focuses on the "lean startup" methodology, created View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Computer
  • 03 Jul 2008
  • What Do You Think?

Are Followers About to Get Their Due?

Summing Up Are leadership and followership joined at the hip? It seems impossible to separate the two. They are reflective of one another. These are two of the predominant opinions expressed in one way or another by respondents to this... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett

    SoundCloud: Subscription Streaming?

    Established in 2007, by early 2014 SoundCloud already boasted the second largest number of active music listeners among all streaming services and was recognized as the go-to platform for new artists. Yet, its founders Alexander Ljung and Eric Wahlforss were... View Details
    • 04 Dec 2019
    • News

    Alphabet Turns a Page and a Brin

    • 01 Jun 2023
    • News

    Curb Appeal

    Jessica Tisch (JD/MBA 2008) has a problem. And she couldn’t be happier about it. It’s a chilly February morning in Lower Manhattan, and Tisch, who was appointed commissioner of the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) last April, has only hours to pivot the world’s largest... View Details
    Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photography by Vance Jacobs; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government
    • 04 Feb 2015
    • What Do You Think?

    Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?

    product-market view of the world; it was all about the automobile. The Google approach, by contrast, "is more an organization building. The premise is if you build an investment business and bring in enough great talent, they will... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Education
    • 03 Dec 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry

    Conference, led by the HBS Health Industry Alumni Association, presented two days of provocative lectures, panel discussions, and case studies surrounding questions like: What's next for healthcare? And how should smart businesses... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
    • 27 Feb 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Podcast: Revisiting Rental Housing

    continuing, it appears as if the situation will only worsen as former home owners now seek shelter in the rental market. In the new book Revisiting Rental Housing: Policies, Programs, and Priorities, editors Nicolas Retsinas and Eric... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Construction; Real Estate
    • 01 Dec 2003
    • What Do You Think?

    Is This the Twilight Era for the Managed Mutual Fund?

    a vile 'market timer' is a sad commentary on how inflexibly the mutual fund industry is viewed by academics, regulators and distributors." Richard Eckel suggests that both perceptions and real problems will be addressed when, among... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 24 Jul 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    How Kayak Users Built a New Industry

    The sport of rodeo kayaking—the use of specialized kayaks to perform acrobatic tricks and maneuvers in rough white water—began around 1968 when an avid sportsman by the name of Walt Blackader developed techniques for entering waves... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation
    • 25 Sep 2013
    • News

    Fake Reviews Are Everywhere. How Can We Catch Them?

    • 02 Oct 2013
    • What Do You Think?

    Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?

    Summing Up What's the Future of the Authority Figure In Leadership? Leadership involves the effective management of tensions characteristic of all organizations. Are such tensions exacerbated by today's need for increasing speed and... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 09 Jul 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization

    insights to be leveraged. These discussions are then translated into action points. Organizations should ensure internal decision-making processes incorporate conflicting points of view, if necessary designating a devil’s advocate or what the military calls a “red... View Details
    Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
    • 30 May 2019
    • What Do You Think?

    Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?

    from those “schooled” on the West or East Coasts. Fortunately, expert coaching was available to West Coast entrepreneurs. Names that have been mentioned frequently include Andy Grove, Eric Schmidt, John Doerr, and perhaps most famously... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Education
    • November 2016 (Revised November 2016)
    • Case

    Radial Analytics Probes Post-Acute Care

    By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Olivia Hull
    Thaddeus Fulford-Jones and Eric Weiss, founders of healthcare technology startup Radial Analytics, have been busy developing a software program designed to save hospitals money and improve patient outcomes by producing customized care plans for patients leaving the... View Details
    Keywords: Electronic Medical Records; Electronic Health Records; Data Science; Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Business Model; Business Startups; Innovation and Invention; Growth Management; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Science-Based Business; Business Strategy; Health Industry; Technology Industry; Cambridge; Massachusetts
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    • 12 Apr 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    What Great American Leaders Teach Us

    overall database. Tony Mayo, executive director of the Initiative, describes the project and what business leaders can take away from it in this interview. Sean Silverthorne: Can you describe the genesis and mission of the Leadership Initiative? Tony Mayo: Chaired... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 12 Sep 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World

    The world as we know it is about to change in many ways thanks to a "broadband explosion"—the coming together of real-time communication and rich media. Professors Robert Austin and Stephen Bradley discuss their new book by that... View Details
    Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications
    • 01 May 2009
    • What Do You Think?

    Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?

    energy to priority areas for innovation." Amy Sauers added findings that suggest that large firms succeed that "attempted to 'get small' (through the vehicle of) 'lean, mean, heavyweight teams.'" Another ingredient suggested View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett
    • Research Summary

    Incentives and Education

    (with Bob Slonim and Eric Bettinger)
    No Child Left Behind has created an incentive system for schools to increase test scores as well as attendance figures.... View Details
    • 07 Sep 2007
    • What Do You Think?

    Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?

    hundred e-mail inquiries from prospective students at his business school. All but two inquired primarily about the earnings of previous graduates. Eric Mueller comments that management will not be a profession until it requires... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett