Speed - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

The Future of IT Consulting

"computer-to-computer" communication. By the end of the decade, more than 60 percent of the computer communications will be computer-to-computer. Computer-to-computer vastly speeds up the pace of business. For example,... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Consulting

10 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business

that fuel this new dual system in Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World, released this week. The book is Kotter's latest to address large-scale organizational change. Fifteen years ago, in Leading Change, Kotter offered eight steps companies... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

07 May 2020
Research & Ideas

The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation

products, formats, and content will intensify. This will speed up automation and digitization investments and generate new products, services, and business models. "Amidst these massive disruptions, a combination of short- and... View Details

Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso

30 Apr 2020
Book

Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism

Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Energy

Research Summary

Research Summary

By: Leslie A. Perlow

There has been tremendous change in the workplace — ubiquitous technology, 24/7 globalization, hyper-efficiency and now significant changes in work location. Professor Perlow’s research explores the implications for the ways we work and live, and what we can do to... View Details

09 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government

startups. And when the 2013 Boston Marathon was attacked, Weiss helped establish the One Fund within 24 hours to serve as a central pool for donations to victims. "The One Fund ended up channeling $60 million to survivors and to the families of the victims in 75... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

06 Dec 2017
What Do You Think?

Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?

strong-arm suppliers and competitors As long as Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple operate transparently and legally, I don’t think we need to worry. The speed with which innovation occurs and expands will almost certainly see competitors... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology; Web Services

08 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Building Effective R&D Capabilities Abroad

Because he knew the company inside and out—from central research and development to international marketing—the team reasoned that he would be able to bring the new laboratory up to speed quickly by drawing on resources from various... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

25 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Is Baseball Ready to Compete for the Next Generation of Fans?

anywhere it is, those are positive things. Gazette: The league has made a number of rule changes over the last several seasons to try to speed up the games and make them more exciting, and plans to introduce more next year. Will any of... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Media & Broadcasting; Sports

17 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Can Autonomous Vehicles Drive with Common Sense?

as the gold standard, he says. After all, humans often drive unsafely: They may drive a little over the speed limit, fail to come to a complete stop at a stop sign, or speed through a crosswalk instead of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Auto

11 Apr 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy

features to allow useful feedback from early adopters. This makes it easier for the company to speed to market with subsequent customer-driven versions of the product. And it mitigates the likelihood of a company wasting time on features... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Computer

29 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas

One might expect first-time entrepreneurs to pick up speed as they churn out more products, but new research finds that nascent firms typically launch second products six weeks later than originally planned. What’s more, with each... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

10 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly

While the US Food and Drug Administration has chiseled away pharmaceutical review times over the years to speed innovative drugs to market, the opposite seems to have occurred in the agency's approval of medical devices. Instead of View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Technology

29 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

The History and Influence of Andy Grove

the speed of the gang is the speed of the boss. No faster. Q: Most of the titans of industry you have studied in the past are deceased. Andy Grove is very much alive. As an historian, what were some of the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

11 Feb 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI

for neural networks increase, as does accessibility to off-the-shelf APIs from big tech and academic institutions that help speed up innovation. Entrepreneurs have also learned the wisdom of targeting AI applications toward specific,... View Details

Keywords: by Rocio Wu

03 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

reported trouble staffing up when the economy began to recover. "Helping workers keep attached to their prior employers could speed up the recovery," explained Till von Wachter, an economist with the University of California at Los... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

24 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

How Much Will Remote Work Continue After the Pandemic?

owners or managers of small businesses, whereas NABE respondents generally work at larger firms and were not owners. “The pandemic has brought about tremendous changes, and we couldn’t have anticipated the scale or speed at which they... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

28 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It

will deliver risk management; a lean, effective supply chain; cost and value improvement; speed to market; and innovation," says ADR's Michels. "It is the lack of a strategic source plan that can result in a conflict of cost... View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

01 May 2017
Research & Ideas

Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault

wide span of influence to figure out how to make the customer happy. One individual doesn’t control all the resources at that company, so that person relies on talking to others about delivery speed and other features to make sure the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

19 Aug 2021
Op-Ed

Don't Ignore Your Employees' Misery—TAKE Control

popular sentiment could prove disastrous for employers trying to retain professional and highly skilled talent. And while speed is required, leaders also need a long-term view. They need to envision the practices that will be common... View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson

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