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- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
them."6 This may be true enough, but here Schumpeter extends the theme of cycles into something like a determinate paradigm. He attempts the hopeless task of fitting historical patterns of business booms and busts into predictable... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
planning, caution, and preparedness; and order, focused on respect, structure, and shared norms. These styles fit into an "integrated culture framework" according to the degree to which they reflect independence or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
When Product Variety Backfires
assortment tends to be good. For instance, when you go shopping for Levi's 501 jeans, the fact that there are hundreds of combinations of length and waist sizes allows a person to find the one that fits best. The second type of... View Details
- Blog
When Generations Learn Together
from the program. (JS): In my MBA program, it took me a while to learn how to participate. Bracken has just been very natural. Whenever he has an insight, he shares it. He was probably the youngest participant in both programs, but it didn't bother him a bit. He View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
find most challenging? “Day-to-day, my challenges are often related to prioritization, both for the work my team takes on and what types of content and applications we bring to the platform—should we invest in and promote a new VR fitness... View Details
- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
returned. Throughout the rest of 2007, she endured months of especially difficult rounds of chemotherapy and painful side effects. Yet Jen refused to let her physical condition interfere with the effort to assist others. As she wrote in her blog that fall, “[David and... View Details
- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
Was there any middle ground? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/915027-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 815-067 Quincy Apparel (A) Quincy Apparel designs, manufactures, and sells work apparel for young professional women that offers the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
across is that "one size fits all." This strategy effectively sacrifices many opportunities due to an unwillingness to explore how differences in regulatory environments, institutional environments, and tax rules can create... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
Professor of Business Administration and cochair, Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship One such example is CellScope, which manufactures a device that fits easily over a smartphone's camera so a parent or school nurse can take a photo... View Details
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
Applied Corporate Finance When One Size Doesn't Fit All: Evolving Directions in the Research and Practice of Enterprise Risk Management By: Mikes, Anette, and Robert S. Kaplan Abstract—Enterprise risk management (ERM) has become a crucial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
Are the world's poor, who individually have less than $5 a day in disposable income, a viable market for new goods and services? Consider the fact that there are four billion people around the globe that fit this description and you have... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Do I Dare Say Something?
Similarly, senior management in any type of firm can consciously or unconsciously fail to utilize the formal mechanisms that facilitate speaking up. In fact, much of our research has been conducted in settings that don't fit the... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
of these policies—and many others like them—operate in very similar ways, which is why a comparative perspective is so helpful. Once we understand that a great many seemingly unrelated policies all fit under the rubric of risk management,... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
and practices, or to product developments in complementary industries."14 However, another leading strategist, Igor Ansoff, argued that Levitt was asking companies to take unnecessary risks by investing in new products that might not View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
Motors, and Amazon, O'Reilly and Tushman illustrate how leaders can align their organization’s cultures to fit the needed strategy, and how ideation, incubation, and scaling approaches, when used altogether, can successfully develop new... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
the New Competitive Landscape," brought together some 450 participants to focus on challenges arising from the current political and economic climate. Given the prominence of Fitzhugh's legacy throughout the weekend's events, it was a particularly View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
years—developing a gut reaction that a particular candidate, while spectacular on paper, isn't a good fit for his portfolio company. At the end of the day, as Leonard and Swap argue in their new book, Deep Smarts: How to Cultivate and... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
View from the Top
professor Carl Kester, a member of the Class of 1977, has engaged many students in discussions about leadership. So it seemed fitting for the Bulletin to ask him to coordinate an exchange of views on the topic among a small group of the... View Details
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
trade-off between competitive price discovery and convenience. Evidence from eBay fits the theory: auctions are favored by less experienced sellers and for idiosyncratic products, and auction listings sell at a discount but with higher... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
organizations. The American approach to ad hoc globalization suits the interests of the Treasury and of the private financial community perfectly well, and it also fits broader patterns of American foreign policymaking over the past... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen