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- 09 Jun 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge
became a paramount concern. The MPEG-2 patent pool was thus formed in 1993 to develop a unified approach to licensing. Led by CableLabs, an R&D consortium for the cable industry, the group established a patent View Details
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
are processed through the same United States Bankruptcy Court system, and are overseen by the same pool of federal bankruptcy judges, who currently number about 350 only. The bankruptcy process also requires the active participation of... View Details
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future
Experience and Start-Up Exits, a forthcoming study in the Academy of Management Journal. Startup founders, pick your path Past research about the degree of collaboration among investors offers mixed messages. On one hand, investors who have worked together might View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 09 Jan 2020
- Book
Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI
and says it may never make money. Businesses need to figure out where the profits can pool and how they can sustain themselves over time. Yes, there’s opportunity everywhere, but it’s tricky because some will lead to a sustainable... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Where to Find Remote Work Now: 250 Million Job Postings Paint a Complex Picture
company is based is another big factor, Sadun says. “What's in the San Francisco and Boston talent pool is likely very different from what is in Savannah or Miami Beach,” she says. “You will compete for talent based on whether you offer... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
underlying principles: Businesses try to learn from noisy signals and quickly adapt their activities to newly emerging information. They actively cooperate with external stakeholders (including, in some instances, their competitors) to View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
signals and quickly adapt their activities to newly emerging information. They actively cooperate with external stakeholders (including, in some instances, their competitors) to pool and disseminate information and safeguard the stability... View Details
- 17 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Blue Skies, Distractions Arise: How Weather Affects Productivity
study gives you the reality of the phenomenon. A lab study answers the question, why is this happening?" The team recruited 136 college students through the study pool at the Harvard Decision Science Laboratory in Cambridge,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 16 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Technology Alone Can't Solve AI's Bias Problem
proportion to their presence in the wider pool of qualified candidates. A fair algorithm may also change the applicants ranked highest, theoretically giving more opportunities for a variety of candidates to make a hiring company’s short... View Details
- 21 Aug 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively
analyzing that data and designing strategy around it. That’s one reason eight HBS professors pooled resources in June to launch the Competing on Business Analytics and Big Data Executive Education program. “It was unprecedented to engage... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Americans Voted for an Income Tax
from our economic system, earning little income and having even less to spend. Is it fair to ask them to contribute to the pool of taxes nevertheless, or should we focus on providing them with the opportunity to share the benefits most of... View Details
Keywords: by Matthew C. Weinzierl
- 11 Jul 2016
- HBS Case
Neurodiversity: The Benefits of Recruiting Employees with Cognitive Disabilities
There’s a new frontier in diversity programs focused not on race or gender but on cognitive ability. The growing interest in neurodiversity—hiring people with cognitive disabilities like Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)—is motivated by companies looking to tap into a... View Details
- 31 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not
for testing home health aids). Q: What did you learn from the two "extreme teams" you followed out of a total pool of twenty-six? One, which you call the "Vision" team, received the highest rating for daily perceived... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
years. The British merchants also sometimes formed locally registered firms, especially in British colonies where the company legislation was modelled on Britain, which mobilized the pools of capital accumulated by resident Europeans in... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- 04 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them
Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details
- 21 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
What's Missing from the Racial Equity Dialogue?
pools. At one point, America was the world’s capital when it came to beautiful, free-to-the-public pools. But during the civil rights era, local governments decided to fill the pools in with concrete instead of sharing them with their... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
with a diverse set of companies. "In this way, we could pool all this knowledge and distill it down to the essential principles that CIOs can generally apply, regardless of industry or size of firm, while describing 'realistic' and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Oct 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?
suggests a more complex approach that would involve pooling employee populations among consortiums of companies, presumably some growing rapidly (with low dependency ratios now but higher ones later) and some growing more slowly.... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 03 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First
Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 20 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Having No Life is the New Aspirational Lifestyle
traditional status and luxury, featured a popular ad during the 2014 Winter Olympics in which a middle-aged actor sitting by the pool monologues: Why do we work so hard? For this? For stuff? Other countries, they work, they stroll home,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding