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13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13

PublicationsHigher Ambition: How Great Leaders Create Economic and Social Value Authors:Michael Beer, Russel A. Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote, Tobias Fredberg, and Flemming Norrgren Publication:Harvard Business Press, 2011 Abstract View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Feb 2019
Book

What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology

tried to prevent customers from showrooming. They considered changing the barcodes on products to make them hard to search for online. The company even tried to use signal jammers, like the ones they use to keep prison inmates from using... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Beauty & Cosmetics; Insurance; Service; Retail

23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23

leading players in these clusters are multi-location firms that organize and integrate knowledge across sites worldwide. Strong internal links across locations allow these firms to leverage knowledge for competitive advantage without... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

The History and Influence of Andy Grove

wonder Grove's search for the truth in the business world was so intense, so passionate. He has an uncanny ability to abstract himself from a decision in which he is deeply, emotionally involved and view the problem as an outsider would.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

22 Jul 2019
Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

organization that operate under a corporate umbrella. For example, Google Search is a classic transaction platform that connects end users to advertisers, and the Android operating system is a classic... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

04 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

From Lone Star to Team Player

on individual performance are prone to this problem. It is a problem in investment banking and can also be a problem in sales organizations where individuals are compensated for their own sales and not for helping others and sharing best... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

study business. But, starting in the early 1960s, he produced an extraordinary series of books—Strategy and Structure, The Visible Hand, and Scale and Scope—that established the workings of the business organization as a legitimate field... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

26 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?

When ChatGPT and other large language models began entering the mainstream two years ago, it quickly became apparent the technology could excel at certain business functions, yet it was less clear how well artificial intelligence could handle more creative tasks. Sure,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information Technology; Information; Technology

27 Jun 2024
Research & Ideas

Gen AI Marketing: How Some 'Gibberish' Code Can Give Products an Edge

search engine optimization, the established and mostly accepted practice of optimizing website content for better search rankings. For decades, organizations have sought to... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology

21 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill

professor in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at Harvard Business School. "In an organization, all the employees already have some of this, in varying degrees." “Altruistic capital is the idea that every individual has... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

28 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 28

shown to users who performed similar searches, they find that Google's prominent placement of its Flight Search service increased the clicks on paid advertising listings by more than half while decreasing the clicks on View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

06 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?

going on in the market now that makes that especially true? Amy C. Edmondson and Dr. Howard K. Koh: Market forces continually drive a search for competitive advantage. According to the annual Nielsen survey, about two-thirds of... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

it is no longer enough for firms to be better or cheaper to gain competitive advantage. These new rules make it essential for companies to reexamine four fundamental aspects of their business to thrive in the digital era—their strategy, value chain, customer... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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

09 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off

Corporations have responded to society's plea to provide innovative solutions to deep-seated problems of human misery. Organization and management scholarship can play an important role in understanding and guiding this corporate action.... View Details

Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh

07 Sep 2011
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First Look: Sept. 7

Harald Fadinger, and Andrew F. Newman Abstract This paper provides evidence that market conditions matter for organization design by studying how trade policy affects vertical integration. We embed an incomplete-contract model of firm... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 1

Fútbol By: Elberse, Anita Abstract—Markets for soccer players are winner-take-all markets in which a select few top players earn extremely high rewards. The search for effective talent strategies in these conditions has led clubs to... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

28 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

While Waiting for Japan’s Recovery, Let’s Enhance Supplier Competitiveness at Home

search for high-potential small companies; provide training and mentoring to help those companies qualify as preferred suppliers or distributors; open access to domestic and international business opportunities; and help lower supplier... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

What Great American Leaders Teach Us

Leadership Initiative was organized to be a catalyst for research on leaders and leadership, and to design effective leadership development programs that are relevant for the 21st century. The goal of the Initiative is to support Harvard... View Details