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- 04 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 4
http://hbr.org/product/Teaming-at-Disney-Animati/an/615023-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 515-003 MRC's House of Cards In March 2011, Asif Satchu and Modi Wiczyk, co-chairmen and co-chief executive officers at independent View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: The Strategy of Differences
independently from the way it chooses to compete in product markets. Some companies have gone further. Consider the case of GE Medical Systems (GEMS), the division that Jeffrey Immelt built up between 1997...
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 15 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
This Workplace Certification Made Already Safe Companies Even Safer
States cost companies an estimated $171 billion in wage and productivity losses in 2019, according to the National Safety Council. By 2018, more than 90,000 organizations across 127 countries had adopted OHSAS 18001. The similar ISO 45001...
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by Rachel Layne
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
technology and develop a framework for understanding how software-driven medical devices differ from traditional medical devices. We identify opportunities and challenges for regulators and innovators in three main areas: (1) software development processes, (2) View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
agricultural raw materials were safe, high quality, of consistent supply, and sustainably, ethically, and economically produced? How can the procurement process enable the small-scale producer to become a viable partner in the milk View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
through social learning) and costs (lower maximum solution quality due to a reduction in individual exploration for novel answers) relative to independent problem solving. In contrast to prior work, which has focused on how the presence...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
interest in the subject was initially stimulated by the explosive growth of the Microsoft Windows operating system. The real value of Windows, we learned, was not about the product, per se, but the applications written by independent...
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by Martha Lagace
- 04 Feb 2010
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?
the nature of the problem, match solution techniques with problems, seek diversity in our feedback, and use technology where possible. Among other things, he argues, we ignore the subtle and ignored biases that our experiences impose on our View Details
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by James Heskett
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
and sharing 30,000 repair tips, Xerox saves an estimated $100 million a year through service operations efficiencies. The Eureka analysis also provides important information for new product design.6 Analyzing Employee And Customer...
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by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 30 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?
giving it more independent leadership, (2) provide more “community training” on the use of user data, (3) “invest in reducing fake articles,” (4) publish a quarterly “report to Congress” regarding “detailed privacy issues/actions”, and...
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- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
Gambro employees are suspicious of Thiry's authenticity and critical of DaVita's arguably eccentric culture-Thiry is considering whether to impose DaVita's culture on the new arrivals, or just allow Gambro to operate independently for a...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
option, independent of the other side” needlessly limit its applicability, especially in the many bargaining relationships where BATNAs are inherently interdependent. Third, BATNAs are often mistakenly described mainly as “last resorts”...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
Case 517-021 Brand Portfolio Strategy and Brand Architecture While companies choose to brand their products and services in many different ways, there are some central tenets that help define an optimal brand portfolio and associated...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
http://hbr.org/search/113094-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 613-031 Microsoft Server & Tools In 2011, Microsoft's Server & Tools Business (STB) was large, fast growing, and highly profitable on the strength of traditional packaged View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/13-010.pdf IP Modularity: Profiting from Innovation by Aligning Product Architecture with Intellectual Property Authors:Joachim Henkel, Carliss Y. Baldwin, and Willy C. Shih Abstract Distributed value...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why Evolutionary Software Development Works
the performance of projects in the industry, we examined two outcome measures—one related to the performance of the final product and the other to the productivity achieved in terms of resource consumption...
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- 15 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem
Many distinctive aspects of the textile and apparel industries present challenges to implementing electronic commerce. First, and perhaps most important, is the difficulty of accurately characterizing the product online. Many of the...
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- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century
public use—major new products of either consumer electronics or computer hardware with their essential software technologies. In the United States, no enterprise had the capability to commercialize new consumer electronics technologies....
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- 27 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Ordinary People Get Creative?
Business School, Emerita, who has studied workplace creativity for more than 40 years. “Those breakthroughs will be made by collaborative groups of ‘ordinary people,’ by open innovation contests and other open innovation processes, by users of View Details
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by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
XTV ventures, however, could produce products for "leading-edge" users, who emphasized technological performance over careful documentation. Giving Up Control Like independent venture capitalists,...
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by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner