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- 16 Dec 2019
- News
FINTECH READING LIST
- 16 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?
idea with the San Francisco SPCA, she learned that somebody else had approached the organization with a similar thought. This was Elena Battles, a Stanford MBA graduate and the former COO of the Humane Society Silicon Valley. Exley and...
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- 19 Feb 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Amazoned: Is Any Industry Safe?
With Amazon’s Low-Retention HR Strategy? Does Amazon's "only the strongest survive" employee-retention policy make for a better company or improved customer relationships? Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn...
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Getting Smarter About Smart Buildings
We’re seeing renewed energy around smart buildings as organizations, their landlords, and developers consider what it will take to facilitate the return of more employees to physical workspaces post-pandemic. In particular, they are thinking about how... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Q&A With Harvard Professor Sunil Gupta
- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Minding the Muse: The Impact of Downsizing on Corporate Creativity
Not long ago, the senior management of a leading high-tech company was surprised to learn that research showed their R&D groups' creative performance to be in a prolonged slump following a corporate downsizing. The company's...
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by Peter K. Jacobs
- 22 May 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Testing Strategy with Multiple Performance Measures Evidence from a Balanced Scorecard at Store24
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
into the business to the day the product departs the shipping dock. The researchers encouraged businesses to think of that order as the actual customer, and watched as they routed that person here and there among departments, perhaps...
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by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 08 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Fix a Broken Marketplace
Roth discusses these and other markets in his reflective paper What Have We Learned from Market Design?, which draws from decades of his fieldwork. In the paper, published in 2008 and updated in September 2010, Roth discusses how issues...
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- 03 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dealing with the ‘Irrational’ Negotiator
owed $130,000 in sales commissions for the work he had done prior to being fired from the firm a few months earlier. The executive, on the other hand, claimed the employee was owed nothing—in fact, he insisted the employee had been overpaid View Details
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by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman
- 20 Sep 2017
- News
Harvard Study: Two-Party Duopoly to Blame for Government Dysfunction
- 28 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
Brick-and-Mortar Stores Are Making a Comeback
have an experience and learn about products, but now that can be decoupled from the act of taking possession of a product because there are better and cheaper ways of doing that. Malls are going to increasingly transform into places for...
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- 27 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Should I Pay the Bribe?
been more salient than others. I've been surprised by how little progress we have made with the standard economic model of incentives (to fight corruption). For example, I don't think we could have predicted...
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by Cynthia D. Churchwell
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
submitted, from managing a remote workforce to making decisions in the face of vast uncertainty. Not surprisingly, one significant challenge reported by many CEOs was how to position their company to survive, or even thrive, during the...
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- 25 Apr 2014
- Video
Karthik Ramanna - Making A Difference
- 16 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘The Strategist’
executives in Harvard's Entrepreneur, Owner, President (EOP) program. During that time, she realized that many of her students hadn't spent much time thinking about their own companies' strategies. In this excerpt, Montgomery describes a...
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by Cynthia A. Montgomery
- 2019
- Chapter
Problem, Person, and Pathway: A Framework for Social Innovators
By: Julie Battilana, Brittany Butler, Marissa Kimsey, Johanna Mair, Christopher Marquis and Christian Seelos
As the appetite for learning about social innovation intensifies, how can we better prepare practitioners for the work of addressing the world’s pressing social problems at the relevant scale? This chapter presents the “3P” framework that we developed to help address...
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Social Innovation;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Social Issues;
Change;
Problems and Challenges
Battilana, Julie, Brittany Butler, Marissa Kimsey, Johanna Mair, Christopher Marquis, and Christian Seelos. "Problem, Person, and Pathway: A Framework for Social Innovators." In Handbook of Inclusive Innovation: The Role of Organizations, Markets and Communities in Social Innovation, edited by Gerard George, Ted Baker, Paul Tracey, and Havovi Joshi, 61–74. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019.
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Road Less Traveled
(MBA 1996), is a more sustainable, space-saving, and fun solution. Dediu started thinking about these alternatives around 2012, while working with Clayton Christensen at the late HBS professor’s disruptive innovation View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Take a Trim Tab Approach to Climate Change
The "bully pulpit"—a term coined by Theodore Roosevelt back when the word "bully" meant terrific—originally referred to the US presidency and its tremendous potential for speaking out and influencing public opinion. Nowadays, the term describes any position with the...
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- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
need to get out there and create data." Collectively, these five discovery skills constitute what we call the innovator's DNA, the code for creating innovative business ideas. By mastering these discovery skills, you can View Details