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- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
Is there a special sauce for stimulating innovation in the energy sector, a concoction to spur cost-effective developments toward solving the climate change problem? HBS professor Rebecca Henderson doesn't claim to know all the ingredients for that special sauce. But... View Details
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
focuses on basic scientific discovery, it has identified clinical physicians and scientists in the broad research community as its primary customers. Accordingly, the firm is organized to support pure and applied research and the interchange of View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It
managers redesigned the customer experience at dealerships and added subtle cues in their advertising to make the idea of patriotism more salient. For GM's overseas managers, the task was more difficult but no less valuable for that.... View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything
over ephemeral ideas and rapidly moving bits; they can't control information flows; they even may not be able to collect taxes. Such is the nature of politics along the technological frontier. Yet even in the midst of all this tumult, it... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
were convinced that their classmates had no idea what it would be like to be in a small town in New England, and to no longer have a source of employment." “We want to change the way layoffs are done” Those emails have led to a... View Details
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
expand on her ideas detailed in Blockbusters. Book Excerpt Blockbusters: Hit-making, Risk-taking, and the Big Business of Entertainment Colin Durrant Read An Excerpt Sean Silverthorne: What is a blockbuster strategy? Anita Elberse: I... View Details
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
game. That's why at the 2008 annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Gates advocated a creative capitalism in which big corporations, the distinguishing feature of the modern global economy, integrate doing good into their way of doing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Get Off the Dime!
and keep them fixed so we would have a satisfied customer. People started throwing out ideas. As you can imagine, some of the ideas weren't very practical. Nevertheless, it was a good discussion. We showed the video to about 400 employees... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
Obscurity: An Individual-Level Examination of 'Long Tail' Consumption Author:Anita Elberse Abstract The idea that online channels facilitate the distribution of a vast assortment of products is undisputed, but what consequence the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
Publication:In 21st Century Management: A Reference Handbook, 490-499. Los Angeles: Sage Publications, 2008 Abstract The idea that artists' work can usefully inform business practice has gained support in recent years. Managers have long... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
financial communication to the group but also in other departments. And not just in obvious targets such as press relations or communications. “[W]hile bringing in external information may look like an evident idea to outsiders, it starts... View Details
- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
scholarship that has documented how important, fundamental ideas can emerge from “use-inspired” research (see Pasteur’s Quadrant (Stokes, 1997)). The paper concludes by suggesting reforms to overcome the dysfunctional fixation on... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
Chinese exceptionalism? This concept dovetails with the idea that China must change its development model in order to gain long-term economic and social stability. Economists have been saying this for a long time and the Chinese... View Details
- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
it a wise idea to model the revamped club after its namesake in Las Vegas that had become North America's highest-grossing club by focusing on electronic dance music and featuring a high-profile DJ every night? Could Strauss and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
small groups where we had repeated opportunities to discuss the issues raised in each panel." Those opportunities sparked new ideas that Glick said will influence his future work. "Although many of the scholars in the room knew... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 08 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 8, 2010
the extent of investor protections across countries, since that is the main channel through which legal origin affects financial development, and shows that all the evidence supports the idea of relative convergence in corporate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry
Internet you can target the demographics of the segment you're looking for. And there are a variety of mechanisms for identifying them. Q: BMW Films has received a lot of praise. Is this a good example of broadband advertising? A: It's viral marketing. The View Details
- 10 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table
handful of overarching ideas about breakthrough negotiation. The seven principles that follow represent an overview of how breakthrough negotiators operate. Principle 1: Breakthrough Negotiators Shape The Structure Of Their Situations... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
- 28 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War
did not go unnoticed in the industry. This point was critical to the study. In most of the previous research done on disruptive technology, the established firms simply had no idea what was happening until it was too late. The question... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
particularly daunting when cross-sector alliances are sought because information about the availability and suitability of partners is not readily available. Sometimes serendipity appears to play a role. The idea of forming an alliance... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin