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- June 2015 (Revised October 2015)
- Case
High Liner Foods, 2015
By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
In 2015, Canadian-based High Liner Foods Ltd was one of North America's largest frozen fish processors with extensive shares of both the food service and retail channels in Canada, the USA and Mexico. With over C$1 billion in revenues, the company had grown four fold... View Details
- 15 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Five Imperatives for Improving Health Care
business management expertise can be harnessed to improve everything from delivering affordable essential services to the poor to making the US more competitive in world markets. In the future, the Forum on Healthcare Innovation will turn... View Details
- 19 Oct 2022
- Op-Ed
Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup
or relies on tech to some degree is not nearly as hard as it once was.” Conversely, expertise and experience can be additive to the business without a cofounder title and compensation. Unless you are doing hard science that is your core... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- January 2008 (Revised January 2008)
- Case
Two Brattle Center: A Mental-Health Clinic in Search of a Viable Operating Model
By: Robert G. Eccles
Two Brattle Center (TBC) is a struggling for-profit private mental health clinic based in Harvard Square. Its founder, Dr. Joan Wheelis, is a nationally recognized practicing psychiatrist who has developed outpatient treatment programs based on Dialectical Behavior... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Medical Specialties; Nonprofit Organizations; Emotions; Health Industry; United States
Eccles, Robert G. "Two Brattle Center: A Mental-Health Clinic in Search of a Viable Operating Model." Harvard Business School Case 408-103, January 2008. (Revised January 2008.)
- Research Summary
Strategic Human Capital
My research focuses on the links between managerial background, job attributes, organizational/firm characteristics, and firm performance. Broadly speaking, I am interested in how a manager's skills, knowledge, connections, experiences, and other attributes... View Details
- 12 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment
operations. NASA ran 17 challenges with prizes that ranged from $250 to $5,000 and included a promise that features from winning entries would be incorporated in future Astrobee designs. The contests drew more than 250 proposals. The researchers asked 374 evaluation... View Details
- January 2024
- Case
Deion Sanders: The Prime Effect
By: Hise O. Gibson, Nicole Gilmore and Alicia Dadlani
In 2023, Deion Sanders, known as “Coach Prime,” became head football coach of the University of Colorado Boulder (CU). Sanders was tasked with leading CU’s struggling football program, which had only achieved one winning season in the last 15 years, back to glory. Many... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Style; Leading Change; Management Style; Race; Prejudice and Bias; Sports; Experience and Expertise; Sports Industry; United States; Colorado
Gibson, Hise O., Nicole Gilmore, and Alicia Dadlani. "Deion Sanders: The Prime Effect." Harvard Business School Case 624-001, January 2024.
- 27 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Cost of a Product Recall
six months. Medtech product development teams typically focus on a single product category or line, allowing them to apply their expertise more efficiently. However, recalls force these teams to shift their attention from making... View Details
- 06 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Latest Isn’t Always Greatest: Why Product Updates Capture Consumers
In another study, they found that when people were less familiar with a product category, they were also less likely to scrutinize the reworked version and instead assumed it was better. On the other hand, when they did have more View Details
- 21 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Artificial Intelligence Isn't a Sure Thing to Increase Productivity
turned out to be crucial to students getting the right answer. “Without the advice, no one gets the silver bullet—it doesn’t matter if you use the Boolean or machine learning,” Choudhury says. “That’s a validation of human expertise of a... View Details
- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
not take a great deal of capital nor technological expertise to launch an entrepreneurial venture in many beauty products—although for such a venture to have any hope of success, high levels of imagination and creativity have always been... View Details
- 14 Dec 2007
- Op-Ed
When Your Product Becomes a Commodity
segments. Marketers can focus on providing applications expertise for less price-sensitive customer segments for whom the product is still important. However you approach commoditization, try to innovate at all costs. The most overlooked... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 05 Jul 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is “Executive Intelligence” for Leaders?
purpose. K. Anders Ericsson, in the recently published Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance, has concluded in addition that the most effective ways of developing this kind of capability involve constant exposure to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Future of IT Consulting
expertise in designing and coding complex computer applications. SAP and Seibel have developed unique package software, and have provided specialized consulting services to assist in the implementation of the package software. A third... View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Inside the OR: Disrupted Routines and New Technologies
process matter greatly for an organization's ability to learn in response to external innovation." In undertaking their study, Edmondson, Bohmer and Pisano drew on their respective expertise in organizational behavior, medicine and... View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
- 06 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
What We Learned from Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents
focused on devices and three on e-commerce. Given his lead role in these inventions, we surmise that Bezos has developed expertise in e-commerce and devices, two of Amazon’s core business areas. This perhaps isn’t surprising, given Bezos’... View Details
- 22 Feb 2018
- Book
The New History of American Capitalism
communicate reality. Timothy Mitchell, for example, explores how the parameters of economic expertise shape the questions the discipline investigates, while others have scrutinized how data and statistics come to represent the... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 11 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
A World of Difference: What Keeps Companies from Becoming More Inclusive
sometimes what feeds that instinct is experience. Experience and expertise are not bad things, but sometimes they narrow the way we think about problems because we think we have the right answer. "e’ve never seen an organization that... View Details
Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Hedge Funds
fund for management. For a percentage of the assets managed, or a percentage of the investors' gain, the bank places investors' money in other funds for management. The fee the investor pays the bank is for expertise the investor lacks in... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 2021
- Chapter
Leapfrog Leaders: Accelerating Systems Leadership Skills
By: Laura Cabrera, Derek Cabrera and Hise O. Gibson
We need leaders who can execute at the Strategic, Operational, and Tactical (SOT) levels. But, research shows it takes time for skills to develop at all three levels—too much time. Why does it take too much time? First, because expertise is borne of experience. An... View Details
Keywords: DSRP; VCML; Strategy; Operations; Leadership Development; Decision Making; Organizational Structure
Cabrera, Laura, Derek Cabrera, and Hise O. Gibson. "Leapfrog Leaders: Accelerating Systems Leadership Skills." In The Routledge Handbook of Systems Thinking, edited by Derek Cabrera, Laura Cabrera, and Gordon Midgley. London: Routledge, forthcoming.