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  • May–June 2025
  • Article

Balancing Digital Safety and Innovation

By: Tomomichi Amano and Tomomi Tanaka
Designers of consumer-facing digital products have tended to focus on novelty and speed (“move fast and break things”). They’ve spent more effort on innovating than on anticipating how customers—and bad actors—might engage with products. But as digital products become... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Cybersecurity; Demand and Consumers; Safety
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  • 12 Nov 2021
  • HBS Seminar

Prof. Rosabeth Moss Kanter, HBS

  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Innovation Network

By: Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit and William Kerr
Technological progress builds upon itself, with the expansion of invention in one domain propelling future work in linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its strength. Past innovation... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Growth; Networks; Patents; Industry Growth; Technology Industry
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  • September 2016 (Revised October 2018)
  • Case

LabCDMX: Experiment 50

By: Mitchell Weiss and Maria Fernanda Miguel
There were probably 30,000 public buses, minibuses, and vans in Mexico City. Though, in 2015, no one knew for certain since no comprehensive schedule existed. This was why el Laboratorio para la Ciudad (or LabCDMX) had spawned an effort to generate a map of the... View Details
Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Experimentation; Lean Startup; Government; Innovation; Crowdsourcing; Open Data; Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Government Administration; Transportation; Transportation Industry; Mexico City; Mexico
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  • October 2006 (Revised July 2007)
  • Case

China Resources Corporation (A): 6S Management

By: Dennis Campbell and David Lane
In 2006, Jiang Wei, CFO of China Resources Corporation, was seeking to implement a variety of new management control systems in a complex diversified corporation during a period of rapid economic expansion in mainland China. Instilling efficiency, productivity,... View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Business Conglomerates; Governance Controls; Balanced Scorecard; Management Systems; Performance Improvement; Business Strategy; China
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    Sara McKinley Torti

    Sara Torti is a senior product and operating executive who has focused extensively on creating and scaling technology-based businesses that require a combination of detailed execution, business insight and technical acumen. She has grown products... View Details

    • June 4, 2025
    • Editorial

    Employee Stress Is a Business Risk—Not an HR Problem

    By: Marion Chomse, Lydia Roos, Reeva Misra and Ashley Whillans
    Workplace stress, on the rise for decades, has been treated by many organizations as a personal issue instead of a business-critical risk that merits executive oversight. This is likely due in part to the fact that companies have not effectively quantified and tracked... View Details
    Keywords: Employees; Well-being; Risk Management; Competitive Advantage
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    • 2025
    • Chapter

    Culture and Contemporary Political Preferences

    By: Vasiliki Fouka and Marco Tabellini
    This chapter reviews the literature on the relationship between culture and political preferences. We distinguish conceptually between the direct cultural transmission of political ideology and the transmission of more primitive preferences and beliefs that influence... View Details
    Keywords: Political Preferences; Culture; Values and Beliefs; Identity; Perspective; Government and Politics
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      Balancing Digital Safety and Innovation

      Designers of consumer-facing digital products have tended to focus on novelty and speed (“move fast and break things”). They’ve spent more effort on innovating than on anticipating how customers—and bad actors—might engage with products. But as digital products become... View Details
      • November 2022
      • Technical Note

      Leader Action Orientations

      By: Ryan Raffaelli, Akshaya Varghese and Laura Weimer
      Leaders are responsible for planning and executing actions that advance organizational goals. As individuals gain career experience, they tend to develop and rely on implicit mental models that shape how they go about “getting things done.” Without knowing it, most... View Details
      Keywords: Leadership Development; Prejudice and Bias; Cognition and Thinking; Decision Making; Behavior
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      • 2010
      • Book

      The Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System

      By: as part of the Squam Lake Working Group Scharfstein, David S.
      In the fall of 2008, fifteen of the world's leading economists-representing the broadest spectrum of economic opinion-gathered at New Hampshire's Squam Lake. Their goal: the mapping of a long-term plan for financial regulation reform. The Squam Lake... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Crisis; Financial Markets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Government Relations
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      • June 2001 (Revised July 2001)
      • Case

      Boston Lyric Opera

      By: Robert S. Kaplan and Dennis Campbell
      The Boston Lyric Opera was the fastest growing opera company in North America during the 1990s. Having successfully completed a move to a larger facility in 1999, the board and general director recognize the need to develop a formal strategic planning and governance... View Details
      Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Strategic Planning; Arts; Growth and Development Strategy; Governing and Advisory Boards; Fine Arts Industry; Massachusetts
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      • July 2025
      • Background Note

      Ecosystem Disruption: A Multi-Stakeholder View of Disruptive Innovations

      By: E. Ofek, Michael Haenlein, Eitan Muller and Roman Welden
      The purpose of this note is to offer a more expansive view of how innovations disrupt markets than has been portrayed thus far in the extant literature by taking an ecosystem perspective. This broader outlook allows examining not only the product strategies of the... View Details
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      • September 2022
      • Case

      AllSpice: GitHub for Hardware Engineers

      By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Mel Martin
      AllSpice, a software-as-a-service company that built a GitHub-like revision control tool for hardware engineers, was in the midst of preparing for rapid scale when the 2022 market downturn left them with big decisions to make. Cofounder and CEO Valentina Ratner had to... View Details
      Keywords: Scaling; SaaS; Strategy; Marketing; Growth and Development Strategy; Resource Allocation; Customer Focus and Relationships; Technology Industry; Electronics Industry; United States
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      • September 2019
      • Supplement

      pymetrics (B)

      By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
      In March 2013, pymetrics CEO Frida Polli visited Harvard Business School to listen to a section of MBA students from the class of 2013 discuss her business plan and provide feedback on the tests they had taken to identify career opportunities. Polli had developed a... View Details
      Keywords: BrainTech; Hiring; Hiring Of Employees; Recruiting; Personality; Personality Traits; Startup; Start-up; Startups; Start-ups; Employment; Strategic Evolution; Psychodynamics; Psychology; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Business Startups; Strategy; Personal Characteristics
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      • 2012
      • Working Paper

      Finding the God Particle of the Sustainability Business Case: Greener Pastures for Shareholder Value

      By: Marc L Bertoneche and Cornis van der Lugt
      The start of the 2000s saw a flurry of international publications on "the business case" for sustainability, seeking to map out the returns on investment and to differentiate recommended actions from cases of corporate philanthropy. Reports by business organisations... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance; Environmental Sustainability
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      • August 2002
      • Case

      Siebel Systems: Anatomy of a Sale, Part 3

      By: John A. Deighton and Das Narayandas
      How does a $2 million software sale happen? This case traces efforts by Siebel Systems to sell lead management software to discount broker Quick & Reilly. The buying process is mapped out over four years. Covers in detail the last six months--from Siebel's initial... View Details
      Keywords: Sales; Decision Choices and Conditions; Competitive Strategy; Customer Relationship Management; Product Marketing; Information Technology Industry
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      • 18 Feb 2015
      • News

      The National Front’s Post-Charlie Hebdo Moment

      • 11 Mar 2014
      • Interview

      The Looming Challenges of US Competitiveness: Implications for Philadelphia

      By: Michael E. Porter
      The third installment of the Fox School's Innovation Leadership Speaker Series featured Professor Michael E. Porter, William Lawrence University Professor, Harvard Business School. Dr. Porter addressed the factors driving innovation and competitiveness in a given... View Details
      Keywords: Competitiveness; Economic Analysis; Economics; Philadelphia
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      • August 2002 (Revised February 2003)
      • Case

      Siebel Systems: Anatomy of a Sale, Part 2

      By: John A. Deighton and Das Narayandas
      How does a $2 million software sale happen? This case traces efforts by Siebel Systems to sell lead management software to discount broker Quick & Reilly. The buying process is mapped out over four years. Covers in detail the last six months--from Siebel's initial... View Details
      Keywords: Business Cycles; Leadership; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Marketing Strategy; Consumer Behavior; Organizational Structure; Behavior; Competition; Applications and Software; Technology Industry
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