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- 23 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Innovation Is Magic. Really
authors also teamed to write The Magic of Innovation, published in the European Business Review earlier this year. A Magical Process Thomke maintains that innovative managers looking to create successful new... View Details
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De-risking the startup process may be important for fostering pioneering entrepreneurs. Cultural nuances also influence consumer behavior, market acceptance, and even team dynamics. The sixth and final... View Details
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
and innovation need not be strategic tradeoffs and highlight the substantive role of senior teams in building dynamic capabilities. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-088WP.pdf Organizational Designs and Innovation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
growing pains. RITE is the first commercially licensed tidal power project in the United States, and reaching that milestone was an odyssey: Smith reckons that the technical challenges, funding crunches, and regulatory hurdles involved in... View Details
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
managers publicly acknowledge the need to explore new businesses and markets, the claims of established businesses on company resources almost always come first, especially when times are hard. When top teams allow the tension between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
Your Skills: Managing Teams The ability to lead teams is fast becoming a critical skill for all managers in the 21st century. Here are four HBS Working Knowledge stories from the archives that address... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53786 forthcoming Strategic Management Journal Scope versus Speed: Team Diversity, Leader Experience, and Patenting Outcomes for Firms By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Martine R. Haas... View Details
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Crafting Your Life: The First 10 Years Post MBA (LIFE) - Course Catalog
my goals? With this in mind, LIFE is not your typical HBS class. When you sign up for LIFE, you sign up for: A Laboratory . We think of life as a laboratory, and crafting your life as an ongoing discovery process of experimenting,... View Details
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Mike Maples Jr.
fund, a mezzanine fund, or late-stage. What really matters is you’ve got to have some unfair advantage to get access to those ten deals. And if you don’t, you won’t succeed.” To a great degree, Maples views his job as a process of... View Details
- 04 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Tapping into “Nontraditional” Private Equity and Venture Capital Talent at HBS
After a year and half as a Process Engineer at Exxon Mobil in Texas, followed by a year and a half working in supply chain optimization at Pinnacle Foods in New Jersey, Sheil faced a choice – begin her MBA now or pull one more lever of... View Details
- 20 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Being patients compelled us. Sequoia inspired us. HBS sustained us.
started treatment to add members to our family, not take them away. We’d been to three clinics, in two states, and felt beaten by a process that had dented our confidence, our marriage and our savings. As we raced to the hospital, we... View Details
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
characterizes the financial world. They also overlook the role of natural selection. To be sure, natural selection in the financial world is not exactly analogous to the processes first described by Darwin and elaborated on by modern... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
is a simplistic view. A company's unique competitive circumstances should dictate the innovation portfolio it pursues. Because innovation cuts across functions, only senior leaders can set an innovation strategy. In doing so, they must recognize that the strategy, like... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Changes for MBA Applicants
interviewees have a chance to further personalize the process and bring it to a close in their own words. “Reflection is a big part of the new FIELD course,” she adds. “This admissions component mirrors what candidates will be doing as... View Details
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Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) - Course Catalog
and how improvements are delivered. This course provides frameworks to guide the process of developing and implementing action. LEAP demonstrates “how” to lead implementation efforts – from diagnosis to design to execution. It presents... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?
Wagaroo, rather than to the previous owner. In return, Wagaroo uses the fee to help other dogs find homes and to support organizational operating costs. NEXT STEPS The Wagaroo team has expansion plans. For people who simply desire a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
economic model of the business, and understanding whether there is a compelling need,” Stevenson told me. “We try to point out — gently — that actually knowing something really helps.” Pick Great Teams We hear businesspeople say this... View Details
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
creating the final versions. Some companies even base their business model on co-production; Build-a-Bear stores allow consumers to create personalized teddy bears. "With the growth of customizable technology, there is an appreciation of this co-generation View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
sit at meetings, for example — whereas in other aspects of life, everybody is treated the same. How do you operate in such a different environment? I spent the first year developing a strategic operating plan for the company. For the first seven months, I devoted... View Details
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
audits yield fewer violations when the audit team had been at that particular supplier before, when audit teams are less experienced or less trained, when audit teams are all... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel