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  • 15 Jun 2016
  • Research & Ideas

These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative

You don’t know what you don’t know—and almost by definition new entrepreneurial ventures need a helping hand from established partners if they hope to succeed. “Startups suffer from what researchers call ‘liability of newness,’” says... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services; Banking
  • 05 Jun 2013
  • Op-Ed

Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change

Green initiatives are ubiquitous these days, implemented with zeal at companies like Dupont, IBM, Walmart, and Walt Disney. The programs being rolled out—lighting retrofits, zero-waste factories, and carpool incentives—save money and provide a green glow. Most large... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler
  • 16 Jul 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity

innovation, PE firms are discovering new sources of value creation, new research shows. Moreover, the PE industry itself has become more competitive as the number of PE firms grows, prompting firms to explore a new way of boosting the success of portfolio companies... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 18 Jul 2019
  • Lessons from the Classroom

The Internet of Things Needs a Business Model. Here It Is

in the business-to-business space.” Indeed, the kinds of innovation possible in the B2B world seem limitless. By placing sensors on machinery and connecting them to the internet, companies can capture real-time data on their assets and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Computer
  • 17 Feb 2015
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco

been a draw for innovators of a different sort—technology workers who began populating the suburbs of the South Bay, which came to be known as Silicon Valley, in the 1970s and '80s. In recent years, they have increasingly put down roots in San Francisco itself,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology
  • 18 Dec 2013
  • HBS Case

Lessons from the Lance Armstrong Cheating Scandal

Foundation (now the Livestrong Foundation). Since 2004, the yellow Livestrong bracelets on the wrists of his supporters had become a ubiquitous symbol of hope and determination. When Armstrong chose to break the rules of professional cycling View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports
  • 15 Apr 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Solving the Search vs. Display Advertising Quandary

these investments motivated consumers to plunk down their credit cards or fill out an application for a service. That's why the Internet has been such a godsend to companies, says Sunil Gupta, the Edward W. Carter Professor of Business Administration at Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising
  • 20 Sep 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Solving the Riddle of How Companies Grow Over Time

Sant’Anna; and Federico Tamagni, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna. They define growth as “a process by which organizations pursue market opportunities and the acquisition and accumulation of the resources required to exploit those... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing
  • 21 Oct 2015
  • Research & Ideas

How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good

uniform format, and then circulates it among a pool of more than 100 possible mentors, who may express interest in the idea. Shu and Scott realized that they had the perfect laboratory for judging the success of ideas. By comparing the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Accommodations; Financial Services
  • 14 Mar 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need

article, which he co-wrote with physicians Lisa Rotenstein, assistant medical director at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston; and Christine Cassel, professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco. For many physicians who are burned out View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health
  • 18 Nov 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Pulpit Bullies: Why Dominating Leaders Kill Teams

there." At the same time, she has observed, by hogging the discussion, these leaders not only limited their own learning but also made the class less productive as a whole. Gino wondered if the same dynamic could be occurring in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 25 Mar 2019
  • Research & Ideas

The Secret Life of Supply Chains

of the supply chain economy will be a good way to keep America a leader in growth and innovation. [About the Author] Michael Blanding is a writer based in the Boston area. Image: VM Related Reading: Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing; Service
  • 24 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership

Corporations are facing great uncertainty. For the world to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the United States eventually will have to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions, as has been done by Europe, parts of Canada, and California. To plan for the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Energy; Utilities
  • 09 Dec 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity

difficult, those seeing conflict around them by involving people of different cultures may develop the idea that ideas from those cultures are incompatible and cannot be easily combined." For his second study, Chua asked participants to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 20 Feb 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Having No Life is the New Aspirational Lifestyle

Americans are working longer hours than ever before, with the office increasingly stealing our leisure time. But according to new research by Anat Keinan, this hectic way of life is, for many of us, far from an unmitigated negative. In... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 29 Jul 2013
  • Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism

Capitalism's moral logic was perhaps most famously articulated by free market champion Milton Friedman when he said that "the social responsibility of business is to increase its profits." That sentiment puts faith in the market... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 17 Oct 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Why Quiet Quitters Need More Than Money to Re-Engage

micro level, the authors argue. On the macro level, companies need to send employees the message that they are valuable by retaining them, rather than resorting to layoffs when times get tough. For instance, during the pandemic, some... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 16 Nov 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Turning One Thousand Customers into One Million

soliciting feedback from its most loyal and vocal customers” As impressive as that accomplishment was, 1,000 customers is hardly enough to ensure long-run success. For that, these companies had to scale up dramatically, from 1,000 to over 1 million, which is the... View Details
Keywords: by Thales S. Teixeira and Michael Blanding; Retail; Transportation; Accommodations
  • 25 Mar 2015
  • HBS Case

Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum

"Shake Me," the pink triangle reads, hovering in the middle of the Magic Tate Ball—a smartphone app mimicking the popular Magic 8 Ball novelty. When shaken, the virtual prognosticator reads "Choosing Your Artwork" for a dramatic moment before... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education
  • 09 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government

Mitchell B. Weiss has heard it too many times: government doesn't work. Too slow. Too bureaucratic. Too burdened by procurement rules and performance measures. "Some of that is fair, and some of that is unfair, but it adds up over... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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