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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets - Faculty & Research

a choice architecture design intended to increase short-term savings among employees at five U.K. firms. Employees were offered the opportunity to opt into a payroll deduction program that auto-deposits funds from each paycheck into a... View Details

December 2008
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Which Kind of Collaboration Is Right for You?

By: Roberto Verganti and Gary P. Pisano

Nowadays, virtually no companies innovate alone. Firms team up with a variety of partners, in a wide number of ways, to create new technologies, products, and services. But what is the best way to leverage the power of outsiders? To help executives answer that... View Details

Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Framework; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Partners and Partnerships; Social and Collaborative Networks; Strategy

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25 Jan 2021
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In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded

How did the United States become the world’s center of business growth following its founding in 1776? Surely a number of nations had powerful natural resources, stable financial and legal institutions, and dynamic entrepreneurs over that same span. Why was American... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing

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Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center | About

more than 10,000 executives who attend classes here each year and as a vibrant hub that enables them to convene with each other, with faculty, and with students from the MBA and doctoral programs. The Boston architectural firm of Goody... View Details

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Klarman Hall | About

the Georgian-style architecture of the 1927 McKim, Mead & White campus design. The 81,000-square-foot structure has two stories, with an additional below-grade concourse. Pathways and green spaces around the building complement the site,... View Details

04 May 2021
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Best Buy: How Human Connection Saved a Failing Retailer

practical architecture of what, in my view, we need to move the world forward.” Of course, pulling off such an ambitious effort is easier said than done. At Best Buy, Joly didn’t start with the traditional turnaround playbook of laying... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail

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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

path for our research today, which focuses on value creation of platforms and two-sided markets; use of open architecture and leverage of its collective value; development and execution of innovation strategies; innovative attributes of... View Details

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A Campus Built on Philanthropy | About

School’s leaders have added significantly to the institution’s footprint in response to growing enrollments, changing needs, and enhanced capabilities. New buildings have been designed to blend harmoniously with older architecture and—in... View Details

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Adriann Dolphin

What’s the best thing about your hometown? I’m originally from Palm Beach, FL, but I consider Washington, DC my adopted hometown. I loved being at the center of history in DC. I’m a big history and architecture nerd, so I loved going to... View Details

01 Mar 2019
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The Burden Legacy

US military and the government. After World War II, his focus shifted to still photography for high-end architectural magazines. As Shirley’s talent matured, he experimented with photography as an art form, and his work was exhibited at... View Details

Keywords: Linda Kush

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Events - Business & Environment

design and business leaders can decarbonize the built environment (i.e., architecture and infrastructure). This lecture will be led by industry practitioner & nonprofit leader Lew Epstein. Epstein will reflect on his career, discuss the... View Details

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Tata Hall | About

great-grandson of Tata Group founder Jamsetji Tata, began working at the century-old company in 1962, after graduating from Cornell University with a degree in architecture and structural engineering. Starting his career as a laborer on... View Details

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Strategy and the Internet

companies were forced to adapt their ways of doing things to the software. As a result, IT has been a force for standardizing activities and speeding competitive convergence. Internet architecture, together with other improvements in software View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter

01 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making

of performance? Tushman says they need an overarching aspiration (for a watch company, it might be "We're going to tell time," without being wedded to any particular technology). Also required are internal architectures that... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

30 Jan 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Modularity and Intellectual Property Protection

Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin & Joachim Henkel

09 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation

my firm should be integrated and what are the circumstances in which my firm can be a specialist? Integration provides advantages whenever a product is not good enough to meet customer needs. Proprietary, interdependent architectures... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor & Scott D. Anthony

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Student Research - Doctoral

advantageous as previously assumed. We... 2025 Book Chapter Employer-Based Short-Term Savings Accounts By: Sarah Holmes Berk, John Beshears , Jay Garg , James J. Choi and David Laibson We study the introduction of a choice architecture... View Details

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Aldrich Hall | About

and testing of a full-size classroom prototype on land behind Baker Library—the architectural firm Perry, Shaw, Hepburn & Dean developed a revolutionary horseshoe-shaped classroom layout specifically designed to facilitate case-method... View Details

04 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating

other stages of a project in which the team is defining the problem, gathering data, or synthesizing results." In terms of how to design corporate offices, the findings in "Facts and Figuring" provide rationale for the hot View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Video Game; Web Services

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Shad Hall | About

when it opened in 1990, the Shad Hall fitness center was designed by Kallmann McKinnell & Wood. Despite its massive size, the 118,000-square-foot facility includes architectural details that allow the building to blend harmoniously with... View Details

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