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  • 02 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

regulations needed to be based on hard science and engineering knowledge. To achieve this, collaboration with the Swedish government was seen as instrumental and joint R&D was regarded as a means to share knowledge and costs. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2012
  • Working Paper

What Do Managers Do? Exploring Persistent Performance Differences among Seemingly Similar Enterprises

By: Robert Gibbons and Rebecca Henderson
Social networks and social groups have both been seen as important to discouraging malfeasance and supporting the global pro-social norms that underlie social order, but have typically been treated either as pure substitutes or as having completely independent effects.... View Details
Keywords: Social Norms; Social Networks; Triadic Closure; Social Groups; Group Identity; Groups and Teams; Identity; Performance Consistency; Social and Collaborative Networks; Societal Protocols; Social Media
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  • 15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15

cooperation and coordination. Prior research has emphasized cooperation, and specifically the partners' commitment and alignment of interests, as the key determinant of collaborative success. Scholars have paid less attention to the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • August 1998
  • Case

Electronic Commerce at Air Products

By: F. Warren McFarlan and Melissa Dailey
In 1998,chief information officers (CIOs) in the highly competitive international gases and chemicals business faced the reality that electronic commerce capability was a strategic necessity. The results of annual surveys of technology officers in the chemical industry... View Details
Keywords: Management Teams; Information Technology; Globalized Markets and Industries; Infrastructure; Internet and the Web; Technology Adoption; Business Strategy; Chemical Industry; United States
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  • 21 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 21

Abstract—The business case for acting sustainably is becoming increasingly compelling-reducing our global footprint to sustainable levels is the defining issue of our times, and it is one that can only be addressed with the active... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 17

  Working PapersUser, and Open Collaborative Innovation: Ascendent Economic Models Authors:Carliss Y. Baldwin and Eric von Hippel Abstract In this paper we assess the economic viability of innovation by producers relative to two... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 22, 2007

advantage, leading companies are now using an advanced form of outsourcing, called global collaboration, to drive new revenue, quicken time-to-market, and increase innovation. Global View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 17

health, education, business-government relations, and the degradation of the environment. These problems are not entirely new, but the forces of globalization and the economic crisis have made them more visible and increase their urgency.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Location, Location, Location: The Strategy of Place

around town, firms operating in these types of highly competitive environments need to maintain strong internal linkages between units and create a culture of collaboration among workers across distances, according to the working paper... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • December 2024
  • Case

Tencent Games

By: Rebecca Karp, Billy Chan and Nancy Hua Dai
For years, Tencent Games, a division of China’s largest internet company, had taken the lion’s share of revenue in the global gaming market with blockbuster titles such as “League of Legends” and “PUBG: Battlegrounds.” These games defined the game genres that they... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Development; Organizational Culture; Business Strategy; Investment; Competitive Strategy; Video Game Industry; Europe; China
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  • 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14

and the fluidity of most work structures mean that it's not really about creating effective teams anymore, but instead about leading effective teaming. Teaming shows that organizations learn when the flexible, fluid collaborations they... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Dec 2023
  • Research & Ideas

15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023

BlackBerry had gone from being a corporate world must-have to a global has-been. Chen tells Ranjay Gulati that the key to turning Blackberry around was being prepared to make hard calls, even in midst of uncertainty. He says that, in... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 26 Mar 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Learning from Failed Political Leadership

found over decades of collaboration that clever piecemeal solutions to international security problems were always inadequate on a global basis because they omitted existing linkages. Also, American... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 14 Feb 2023
  • HBS Case

Is Sweden Still 'Sweden'? A Liberal Utopia Grapples with an Identity Crisis

Sweden has long seemed like a social-welfare capitalist dream come true, where companies and labor unions collaborate in harmony with government support. Swedish citizens are among the wealthiest in the world, and they enjoy publicly... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 07 Jul 2021
  • Book

Good News for Disgraced Companies: You Can Regain Trust

new book The Power of Trust: How Companies Build It, Lose It, Regain It, Sucher and her coauthor, HBS research associate Shalene Gupta, highlight those social media examples along with a global list of companies that have either... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 19 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

coupled with collaboration between companies is value enhancing. However, collaboration between companies is notoriously difficult and fragile requiring commitment mechanisms. I suggest that a small set of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

You're Right! You Are Working Longer and Attending More Meetings

Work-from-home employees whose days seem longer, with more meetings and emails than ever before, may find a new Harvard Business School study validating. An analysis of the emails and meetings of 3.1 million people in 16 global cities... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 24 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

incentives to collaborate would remain intact. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/718422-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 718-423 Tempur Sealy International (B) Analyzes the commercial relationship between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Mar 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Why Business Travel Still Matters in a Zoom World

Nonstop flights generally make traveling more pleasant—but can they lead to innovation, too, especially in the global context? Research suggests that they can, with important takeaways for managers reinstating business travel in a world... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Air Transportation
  • 04 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 4

types of divergent organizational change are likely to be undertaken by individual actors with different profiles in terms of social position within the field and the organization. Should You Have a Global Strategy? Authors:C. Carr and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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