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  • 14 Feb 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Desktop Search and Revenue Streams

and other types of data are still locked away from Internet users. It's really going to be about great execution.— Mark Kroese, MSN "Rather than leave someone behind, the approach we at Google take is, 'Let's make all that... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
  • 18 Jun 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’

of Leading Innovation, was written by Hill, the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration, with Greg Brandeau, former CTO of The Walt Disney Studios and current COO/president of Media Maker; Emily Truelove, a PhD candidate... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 14 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off

pay-for-performance plans in the early 1990s. Within three years, all had dropped them. In a recent talk to HBS faculty and in two working papers, which he co-authored with Nancy Katz and Mark D. Cannon, respectively, Beer explained why... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 26 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

joint venture with Toyota called NUMMI, approximately fifteen years ago. However, despite Toyota's openness and the genuinely honest efforts by other companies over many years to emulate Toyota, no one had yet matched Toyota in terms of... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto
  • 25 Jun 2019
  • Research & Ideas

The Powerful Strategic Tool Companies Should Not Try to Control

they forge relationships with user groups. Danielle Kost: How can companies engage user communities more effectively? What advantages can they provide a firm? Frank Nagle and Sonali K. Shah: User communities can differentiate a firm’s offerings View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 30 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax

reduction, there is a long way to go from lowering tax rates to introducing a flat tax in the U.S. or in Western Europe. This would require a change of attitude in countries marked by a substantial history... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 23 Aug 2019
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?

their “agency” at every level will be in the best position to create change. Corporate social responsibility in action Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening Are product sales affected by the CEO's stance on... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Green Technology

    Rembrand M. Koning

    Rem Koning is the Mary V. and Mark A. Stevens Associate Professor at Harvard Business School. He researches and teaches entrepreneurship, exploring the biases and frictions that shape how founders and markets learn. His current research explores... View Details

    Keywords: high technology; software; biotechnology
    • 03 May 2021
    • What Do You Think?

    Where Does CEO Activism Go From Here?

    month’s column were, by and large, not surprised by the question: Why can’t more leaders teach? They offered some persuasive reasons. For example, Lisa Marks Dolan put it this... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 02 Sep 2010
    • What Do You Think?

    How Transparent Should Boards Be?

    think? Original Article The case study for this month is inspired by the Hewlett-Packard board, which deserves some kind of award for continuing to supply business schools with years worth of materials on corporate governance. One can... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett
    • May 2024
    • Case

    SofMedica Group: Managing Growth

    By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott
    SofMedica Group had expanded from its origins as a medical equipment distributor in Romania to a holding company with four business lines operating in six countries. This expansion had been driven by SofMedica’s mission: to make cutting edge medical technology... View Details
    Keywords: Growth; Healthcare Access; Healthcare; Medical Devices; Medical Equipment ＆ Devices; Medical Care; Eastern Europe; Quality Management System; Health Care and Treatment; Growth Management; Education; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Quality; Leadership; Mission and Purpose; Expansion; Developing Countries and Economies; Technological Innovation; Health Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Europe; Romania
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    • August 2007 (Revised June 2020)
    • Case

    Trouble with a Bubble

    By: Tom Nicholas
    Examines technology, firm performance, and the stock market during the 1929 Great Crash and the Great Depression of the 1930s. The 1920s was an extraordinary period of technological progress marked by a strong run-up in stock market prices. Firms invested heavily in... View Details
    Keywords: Bubble; Stock Market; Great Depression; Irving Fisher; Information Technology; Organizational Change and Adaptation; History; Financial Markets; Performance; Labor and Management Relations; Equity; Financial Crisis; Innovation and Invention; United States
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    • 24 Mar 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    These Coronavirus Heroes Show Us How Crisis Leadership Works

    Now, at 79, Fauci is the central figure that Americans depend upon to lead us through this crisis with his honest, candid advice and counsel. Last week he was on all five Sunday talk shows and then on a Facebook Live show with Mark... View Details
    Keywords: by Bill George; Health
    • 10 Nov 2008
    • What Do You Think?

    How Much Can You Ask of Your Customers?

    the biggest challenges for organizations are to have the necessary competencies and resources to act upon inputs." Sowmia Gopinathan echoed this comment: " (the) downside is only where expectations of the customers are made high View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett
    • 03 Mar 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    Facebook’s Future

    people use various online social platforms, makes some predictions. In the first decade of its existence, Facebook, aided by the broad adoption of mobile devices and fast internet connections, emerged as a virtual Cheers bar where people... View Details
    Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski
    • November 2003 (Revised April 2010)
    • Case

    Flextronics International, Ltd.

    By: Robert S. Huckman and Gary P. Pisano
    Describes Flextronics' evolution from providing outsourced manufacturing services for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in the electronics industry to developing entire unbranded products for purchase by OEMs. In 2001, Flextronics began a development program that... View Details
    Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Product Development; Production; Service Operations; Performance Effectiveness; Electronics Industry; Manufacturing Industry
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    • 06 Nov 2019
    • Op-Ed

    Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything

    The world is. on. fire. The Earth is burning. We only have a little time to arrest climate change, and if we fail to do so the consequences will be both dire and irreversible. We have the technology and the resources to fix things, if we want to. We even have a... View Details
    Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson; Energy
    • 03 Apr 2006
    • What Do You Think?

    Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?

    global basis . . . nothing short of dismantling the global economy could reverse the trend." Nari Kannan commented, "Clamping down on globalization by any country or company will ensure its own demise that much quicker."... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 05 Jul 2017
    • What Do You Think?

    Can Innovation Save Us From Ourselves?

    Summing Up Do We Need to Give More Attention to the Dark Side of Innovation? Innovation may be able to help us deal with problems such as famine, pollution, and even global warming. But unless it can prove to be just as effective in combating destructive human traits... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology
    • 11 Jun 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet

    But if you ask Bob Higgins, Wyc Grousbeck, and Mark Wan—all seasoned sports team owners-—about the secret to investment success in sports, they'll tell you it has little to do with owning a team. Rather, it's all about the media... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports; Financial Services