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- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
Carliss Y. Abstract—How do firms create and capture value in large technical systems? In this paper, I argue that the points of both value creation and value capture are the system's bottlenecks. Bottlenecks arise first as important technical View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
All Those Zoom Meetings May Boost Connection and Curb Loneliness
Americans are lonelier than ever—a problem the COVID-19 pandemic may have exacerbated. Could interactions on platforms like Zoom and Twitch come close to replicating the real-life contact people crave? New research suggests that’s more... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 28 Jun 2022
- Book
The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose
How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
for the first-best quantity even if the difference in the degree of asymmetric information between the two sides is narrow. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-080.pdf Accelerating Energy Innovation: Insights from View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Brand Manager’s Guide to Losing Control
practice." The hypocrisy issue is especially challenging for parent companies of multiple brands. Fournier and Avery cite the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty, Unilever's marketing effort focused on encouraging women to embrace their... View Details
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Four Keys of Enduring Success: How High Achievers Win
If you really like something you keep doing it, sometimes after it's no longer appropriate to do it.— Howard Stevenson "The only problem is, when you look at those characteristics, passion is often addictive," said Stevenson.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2014
- What Do You Think?
Is Too Much Focus a Problem?
point, he cites the popular example of an audience of leaders asked to focus on counting the number of times that a ball is passed among a group of people being shown on film. In the middle of one version of the film, a woman with an... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
year, with the goal of making the world of finance accessible to broader audiences by providing a rigorous but accessible overview of the biggest topics in finance. Finance is “the language of business, the lifeblood of the economy, and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Common Strategy Mistakes
define industries broadly, following the influential work of Theodore Levitt some decades ago. His famous example was railroads that failed to see that they were in the transportation business, and so they missed the threat posed by trucks and airfreight. The View Details
Keywords: by Joan Magretta
- 25 May 2011
- HBS Case
QuikTrip’s Investment in Retail Employees Pays Off
able to fill in for workers who get sick, take a vacation, or have an emergency. These people ensure that the stores are never understaffed. QT also cross-trains employees for multiple functions, making it possible to shift employees as... View Details
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
We drew on theories of knowledge-intensive firms, communities of practice, and professional service firms to analyze multiple cases of new practice area creation in management consulting firms. Our qualitative analysis identified four... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2015
- Op-Ed
Authentic Leadership Rediscovered
difficult times. Authentic leaders are constantly growing. They do not have a rigid view of themselves and their leadership. Becoming authentic is a developmental state that enables leaders to progress through multiple roles, as they... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 16 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Competition Make Us More Creative?
Software was used to compare multiple submissions and numerically calculate their similarity. At the same time, Gross was able to view the ratings—from one to five stars—that sponsors had given to different designs throughout each round... View Details
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781846142734,00.html?strSrchSql=Civilization%3A+The+West+and+the+Rest/Civilization_Niall_Ferguson Accelerating Energy Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors Authors: Rebecca Henderson... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing
into the social space for fear of how customers will react, but Gupta questions whether that’s a sign these companies really have a more general image problem that needs to be addressed. “A health care company might say we wouldn’t have a... View Details
- 29 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Income Inequality Is Rising. Are We Even Measuring It Correctly?
world, is released by statistics bureaus in multiple countries, and is commonly discussed in news media and policy discussions alike. In our paper, recently published in Nature Human Behaviour, we argue that researchers and policymakers... View Details
- 07 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?
inventory management), production, and logistics. Many of these [academic] papers pursue an optimizing approach given the assumption of a completely rational decision maker. In a supply chain, however, these activities are usually spread over View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
conservation problem as a behavior change problem, understand behavioral mechanisms and identify appropriate approaches for behavior change (awareness, incentives, nudges), and evaluate and adapt approaches based on new behavioral... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
denying responsibility for failures, and attributing the problem to others or to "the system." We would prefer to move on to something more pleasant. Rigorous analysis of failure requires that people, at least temporarily, put... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
considered to be especially important. “I have had papers rejected because they are ‘of interest to a specialized audience and not to a general audience,’” says Shane Greenstein, the MBA Class of 1957 Professor of Business Administration... View Details