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- 05 Aug 2010
- What Do You Think?
What Is Customer Opinion Good For?
mine]. Our research found that customers can scarcely imagine how to create uncontested market space. Their insight also tends toward the familiar 'offer me more for less.' And what customers typically want 'more' of are those product and... View Details
- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
Blagg: "Disruptive innovation" is a term you've used in your analyses of other industries, but what does it mean in the context of the health-care industry? Clayton Christensen: People think they know what disruptive innovation means, but I've View Details
- 01 Aug 2008
- What Do You Think?
Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?
progress that the effect of such an agreement may have been fatally compromised. But at least it was discussed and publicized. Is it time to revisit stretch? For example, if the concept had been employed in Detroit, would the American auto industry have View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 30 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Looking Behind Bad Decisions
Psychological Perspective," has been accepted for publication in Perspectives on Psychological Science later this year. What they found was that psychological science does indeed help explain how governmental decision making is... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Digital Designs on the Inner City
for the creation of jobs and wealth among urban families. Moderator Randall Pinkett of M.I.T. Laboratory Anne Habiby, executive vice president of the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, a national nonprofit founded by HBS professor... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Women Leading Business: A New Kind of Conversation
which our faculty provide. EE: What is the typical profile of the group? Hart: The single defining characteristic of our participants is that they have achieved a position of extraordinary responsibility and recognition in their industry and firm. More than half are... View Details
Keywords: Re: Myra M. Hart & Cynthia A. Montgomery
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
found that both native and nonnative English speakers suffer anxiety when faced with conducting business in English. Nonnative English speakers respond with anxiety-mitigating strategies, such as avoiding English-only speakers or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
Exercises Harvard Business School Exercise 208-045 Introduces students to simple forms and solution techniques for real options found in corporate settings. Revised versions of problems appearing in an older problem set (293-095). The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
founded an open platform called SOFWERX to speed the rate of ideas to Navy SEALs, Army Special Forces, and the like. His team even sourced the idea for a hoverboard from a YouTube video. But how should things like SOFWERX and protypes... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
provided to facilitate deeper study by interested students. Thus, when students complete the BGIE course, they have engaged with a curated selection of ideas that their faculty have found most valuable in analyzing how the world works.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Aug 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night
as one of those, Bill. Thanks for joining me. Bill: It's great to be here, Brian. Thanks for asking. Brian: I found this case to be very, very interesting. I think many of our listeners have probably referred to those rankings at some... View Details
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51028 Harvard Business School Case 316-002 N12 Technologies: Building an Organization and Building a Business N12 Technologies was a startup founded in 2010 that employed nanotechnology to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
which casts the profit-seeking incentives of firms as the main driver of technical change. In a series of influential writings, von Hippel and colleagues found empirical evidence that flatly contradicted the producer-centered model of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2015
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First Look: May 26
expertise in personalization developed during his time as a serial entrepreneur and a founding team member of Google+; he sets about recruiting engineers, educators, VC investors, and families to set in motion his mission to provide... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 3
property owners and managers who supply them. The case traces HomeAway's founding and acquisition-led growth, its 2011 IPO, and the core elements of its subscription-based business model. By 2014, incumbent travel giants like TripAdvisor... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
intangibles. Read the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=913363 Cases & Course MaterialsInternet Securities, Inc.: Path to Sustainability Lynda M. Applegate, William R. Kerr, and Ryan JohnsonHarvard Business School Case 811-098 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
Academy: Getting in the Game Harvard Business School Case 807-122 Urban Video Game Academy was founded to enhance the academic and career prospects of urban youth. How will its founder grow it into a sustainable business? Provides an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
set on the productivity of technology-based services workers, supervisor effects are estimated and found to be large. Replacing a boss who is in the lower 10% of boss quality with one who is in the upper 10% of boss quality increases a... View Details
- 06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
associated with billing and insurance activities at a large academic health care center that had a certified EHR system. The center enjoyed economies of scale by concentrating its bill paying functions within a single, dedicated unit. The study View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Think of it as Professors in Cars Having Coffee
going for a walk. I started thinking about how at HBS so much of the content we produce—we produce an extraordinary amount of content—is perfectly and beautifully polished, which in general is great. On the other hand, I found it... View Details