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- 13 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?
markets. Sean Silverthorne: When we think of developing economies or countries, instability is often seen as a negative. Should you build a business in a place where the rule of law is suspect? But Hamdi Akın seemed to have thrived in the political turmoil in Turkey.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2011
- News
HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovation
four half-terms, allowing faculty more creativity in shaping innovative courses and students more flexibility in building their schedules. While less far-reaching on the surface, over time the modular approach promises to transform the... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Intellectual Underpinnings of Entrepreneurial Management
among lenders, investors, suppliers, employees, and so on. Recently this perspective has again been confirmed by Amar Bhidé's systematic study of the "bootstrap" entrepreneur. Schumpeter himself associated entrepreneurship with innovation. Schumpeter defined... View Details
- 06 May 2022
- Blog Post
Career Advice: Starting a Sustainable Startup
scooters), and more, and I had a blast playing my small part in the future of mobility. Throughout this work, sustainability came up as a common thread, and I found myself consistently drawn to the intersection of sustainability and... View Details
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
Sandino Abstract—Many service organizations rely on information sharing systems to boost employee creativity to meet customer needs. We conducted a field experiment in a retail chain, based on a registered report accepted by Journal of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing
services. IT managers typically find themselves with diverse talents. People in IT are idiosyncratically talented. This case is about putting talent where it is most effective." Companies with in-house talent tend to focus on the more View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
and Daisy Azer (Columbia University Press) Through ten stories of struggles and successes in fields such as health care, education, agriculture, transportation, social services, and security, the authors show how collaborative creativity... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovations
four half-terms, allowing faculty more creativity in shaping innovative courses and students more flexibility in building their schedules. While less far-reaching on the surface, over time the modular approach promises to transform the... View Details
- 09 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Career Advancement Without Experience
get the next job that will get them the next job," O'Mahony says. Stretchwork Strategies The researchers identified four successful tactics for obtaining stretchwork that were common to both groups: Differentiate competence. Anyone... View Details
- 05 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity
mental models of what an industry is or should be, and so you're likely to see much more creativity in their definition, if you will, of a new market. It's extremely difficult to have enough self-awareness as a company to understand how... View Details
- 09 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
How to Create a Psychologically Safe Workplace
of psychological safety can be seen at Pixar, where candor is essential to the creative process and has helped the organization create hugely successful films and become a leader in the entertainment industry. Psychological safety is also... View Details
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
his noncompete and avoid similar entanglements. Q: How did you frame and carry out this study, and why in Michigan? A: Other studies had looked at rates of firm foundings, but we wanted to track the mobility of individual scientists, engineers, and other View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
By: Gil, Nuno, and Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract—We argue that a design commons can be an advantageous organizational form under two salient conditions: 1) high "subtractability" because different claimants have mutually exclusive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How to Compete Like a Judo Strategist
frontal assaults against armies that are ten times your size. Those are suicide missions," echoes David Peterschmidt, Inktomi's CEO. Rule Three: Plan And Be Prepared To Pivot It is a common fallacy that fast-moving companies like the... View Details
Keywords: by David B. Yoffie & Mary Kwak
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Digitalization: The Key to the Future of HBS
step is to build a common data platform and a common data perspective. A decade ago, that would have been a Herculean task, but technology has moved fast, and it’s no longer this “bet your company on it”... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
common in negotiations and that many negotiators prefer to palter than to lie by commission. Paltering, however, may promote conflict fueled by self-serving interpretations; palterers focus on the veracity of their statements (“I told the... View Details
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
How to Tap the Talent Automated HR Platforms Miss
As the global staffing shortage grinds on, corporate recruiters everywhere are relying on their online hiring platforms and automated systems to deliver the candidates they need. Too often, these tools will fail them, sidelining many qualified workers in the process.... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller
- 17 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 17, 2007
to platform leadership change that does not rely on Schumpeterian creative destruction: platform envelopment. By leveraging common components and shared user relationships, one platform provider can move... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Jul 2013
- News
The Good Writer
of the European Common Market in 1792. Before HBS, he worked as an M&A analyst at Morgan Stanley. In the summer between his first and second years, he worked as a summer intern at Cineplex Odeon in his native Toronto, and then upon... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- Profile
Lara Hodgson
How do you grow and maintain a culture of innovation, collaboration and creativity but also put structure in place? That seems pretty common to growing startups. Yes, and it’s less about finding the right... View Details