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14 Dec 2021
News

The Four Principles Of Change Management

19 May 2023
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Innovating, Funding, and Scaling Climate Solutions at Harvard Business School: Day Three of Harvard Climate Action Week

13 Apr 2015
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Partners with Purpose

21 Jun 2021
News

The World Relies on One Chip Maker in Taiwan, Leaving Everyone Vulnerable

14 Feb 2023
HBS Case

Is Sweden Still 'Sweden'? A Liberal Utopia Grapples with an Identity Crisis

Swedish capitalism is like.” Could this lead to the end of the high-tax “Swedish model” that like-minded nations have come to admire? Harvard Business School Professor Debora Spar, who has analyzed Sweden extensively, says no, the Swedish... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

30 Mar 2017
News

Science says parents of successful kids have 17 things in common

13 Oct 2020
Video

Managers, respect your workers’ time by setting the right tone

22 May 2021
News

This Neighborhood Badly Needs A Grocery Store. A Medical Device Maker Will Build One

04 Jun 2024
Cold Call Podcast

How One Insurtech Firm Formulated a Strategy for Climate Change

Keywords: Re: Lauren H. Cohen; Insurance

07 Nov 2018
News

Rakuten’s English drive a case study of success, but wider adoption by Japan Inc. much slower going

06 Feb 2011
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Why Some Twitter Posts Catch On, and Some Don't

01 Apr 2013
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Cultural Entrepreneurship finalists named

16 Aug 2012
News

Switzerland Has Its Own Kind of Obamacare — and Loves It

28 Feb 2019
News

Conscious decoupling

November–December 2018
Article

Slack Time and Innovation

By: Ajay Agrawal, Christian Catalini, Avi Goldfarb and Hong Luo

Traditional innovation models assume that new ideas are developed up to the point where the benefit of the marginal project is just equal to the cost. Because labor is a key input to innovation when the opportunity cost of time is lower, such as during school breaks or... View Details

Keywords: Crowdfunding; Slack Time; Innovation and Invention; Labor; Projects; Complexity; Value

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