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Leadership and Leadership Development: An Ontological Approach
This summarizes my research program over the last twelve years (with my co-investigators Werner Erhard, Steve Zaffron, and more recently Kari Granger) in which the objective has been to rigorously distinguish leader and leadership and to create a technology for... View Details
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
industry: What consumer needs cannot be satisfied by e-commerce? What is the most effective use of store-level assets to offer a unique shopping experience? In the current environment, online shopping cannot satisfy the desire for instant consumption or gratification.... View Details
- 06 Oct 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?
spending your time on disruptive innovations!" M. P. Singh, a manager in the public sector, suggests, "Expecting corporate culture to tolerate or encourage radical change or innovation is like expecting a country to encourage... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Jan 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs
indicator that somewhere, somehow, you managed to change people's way of assessing something as appropriate and valuable." Market-creating innovations also are difficult to introduce because there may... View Details
- 02 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Open Source vs. Proprietary Decision
the particular task for which software is needed, so the same user could make different choices about which software to use. The appropriate mixture between open and proprietary software will vary with the company's circumstances. When... View Details
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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
The Master's Tools: Exposing Rejecting, and Appropriating The Master's Tools: Exposing Rejecting, and Appropriating MAY 5-6, 2022 Home Speakers Videos Agenda Location: Harvard Business School Organizer: The... View Details
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
right-stuff attributes, the first step specifies the circumstances in which the new team will be asked to manage. The second step matches those circumstances against the challenges with which the managers of the new venture need already to have wrestled. Finding... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
- 03 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Fierce Competitors Apple and Amazon Became ’Frenemies’ Over eReaders
e-books through its own iBooks app, so why would [Apple] ever say yes?" Such questions intrigued Zhu, whose research covers competitive strategy and innovation in high-tech industries. Along with Ron Adner of Dartmouth and Jianqing Chen... View Details
- 13 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
From Turf Wars to Learning Curves: How Hospitals Adopt New Technology
influential…, PTCA has been used less frequently than in hospitals with less influential surgeons." And even if PTCA and other innovations make it past initial gatekeepers, it's a long road to adoption because of learning curves... View Details
- 29 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas
more important than the physical aspect." “Companies don't fully exploit the latest ideas that their product has created” In a paper published last year in the Academy of Management Review called "The Second Face of Appropriability: Generative View Details
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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
The Master's Tools: Exposing Rejecting, and Appropriating The Master's Tools: Exposing Rejecting, and Appropriating MAY 5-6, 2022 Home Speakers Videos Agenda Location: Harvard Business School Organizer: The... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Takeaways
make additional efforts to infuse scaling into the DNA of their business models, and institute appropriate strategies for recruiting and retaining talent, leveraging financing and partnerships for scaling impact.” —Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli... View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Facebook’s Future
however, before the two trends converge, and we will start broadcasting personal information automatically as we go through our day. As soon as Facebook develops appropriate algorithms to deliver the right social information to the right... View Details
Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Platforms and Collaborations
presentation that uses multimedia resources such as streaming video, polls, and chat areas, to name a few. A professor might continue a classroom discussion, for example, by uploading video of the completed class, supplementing it with PowerPoint slides, and adding a... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Student turns family health crisis into online solution
opportunity,” she explains. Hoffman’s experiences inspired her to collaborate with classmate Arick Morton (MBA 2014), with whom she brainstormed in Harvard’s Innovation Lab (i-lab), which led to a concept for an entrepreneurial solution... View Details
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Entrepreneurship in Life Sciences - Course Catalog
with the appropriate financial and human resources, and scaling. The course will explore which areas of the life sciences are ripe for innovation and entrepreneurship and will cover therapeutics, devices,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
loved ones. However, widespread adoption of new medical innovations goes through three phases: Fear, Value, and Acceptance. Patients, physicians, and payers are understandably skeptical at first and fearful about how View Details
- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
In trying to secure financial backing for a new product, independent innovators generally face the question of how much to invest in development before showing it around. Should they create, say, a working prototype (and maybe even... View Details
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Arjun Goyal
molecular signatures to develop precisely targeted treatments specific to appropriate patient populations. Through the Entrepreneurship Club, Arjun was introduced to Louis Levy, HBS MBA 2014, who has assumed responsibilities for... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
management, and higher ROA. These effects are concentrated at innovating firms—those firms that are early-life-cycle or engage in R&D spending—and especially at those facing Wall Street scrutiny. Collectively, the evidence suggests... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman