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- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
The team was initially very focused on defense and a running-dominated offensive scheme, which they used to win Super Bowls in 2002, 2004, and 2005. Partially in response to New England’s dominant defense, the NFL introduced a new set of... View Details
- 03 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?
passing and running, defensive formations to protect the pass and the run—that Holcomb, Holmes Jr., and Connelly called resource bundles. Head coaches rely on their evaluations of players’ skills, and they reallocate players with specific... View Details
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
operational scope and political complexity. As he reviewed the after-action reports, George Topic, the Vice Director of the Center for Joint and Strategic Logistics at the National Defense University wondered how the performance of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The New CEO’s Wrong Message
defensiveness in colleagues and subordinates. Second-guessing a senior manager can demoralize and demotivate not only that person but others around him, while eroding his authority and confidence. What's more, the need to overrule a... View Details
- 09 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety
Restaurant inspectors can be the last line of defense between you and moldy bread. (HighLaZ) Simple tweaks to the schedules of food safety inspectors could result in hundreds of thousands of currently overlooked violations being... View Details
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
the trading of patents: brokers, non-practicing entities (NPEs), defensive aggregators, online platforms, auctions, and unique entities such as Intellectual Ventures. We discuss the fundamental causes for the lack of liquidity in the IP... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
the leading proxy advisor Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). Lastly, the case discusses the critique and defense of the board's role and is designed to allow for a discussion of the causes and consequences of the cyber breach and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
When we perceive a competitor's groundbreaking innovation as a threat, we may act defensively and hastily. But if we see that same event as an opportunity, our response might be more deliberate and unhurried. As a leader, how you frame... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
and affiliated physicians. Over the last two decades, through a combination of active legal defense and medical error prevention, the RMF has successfully controlled the medico-legal costs of physicians practicing at the Harvard teaching... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Life of Leaders
of California and at Harvard Business School, where he became a member of the HBS faculty. McNamara was a devotee of managerial control, an expertise he applied in his work at the Ford Motor Company and later at the Department of Defense... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Aug 2024
- Book
Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge
thriving products at their core. To ensure sustained growth of an ecosystem, a company must prioritize the defensibility of its product. In the case of Anker, the company was able to convince industry leaders, such as Apple and Costco, to... View Details
- 17 Oct 2016
- HBS Case
Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste
delicious, nutritious food that is just plowed under every year” Alvarez was a facilitator during a conference in June at Harvard Law School on the topic Reduce and Recover: Save Food for People. The conference included seminal figures in the movement, such as Dana... View Details
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
evolved in those markets. New business processes had to be created from scratch as a network originally intended for research and military defense had to deal with network interconnectivity, the needs of commercial users, and a host of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
inventors. However, the model also shows that as NPEs become effective at bringing frivolous lawsuits, the resulting defense costs inefficiently crowd out some firms that, absent NPEs, would produce welfare-enhancing innovations without... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
categorize as trust or litigate. Since I am an engineer and not a lawyer, I fall into the trust camp, but there are obviously minimal legal defenses that you absolutely have to build. If things become overly litigious, however, it really... View Details
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
of these targeted coupon promotions as a defensive strategy against their challengers. Overall, retailer-initiated loyalty systems are truly triple win marketing activities simultaneously benefiting retailers (more loyalty, more sales,... View Details
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
digital technologies and business models. The Incumbents' Challenge As competitors attempt to wedge their way between incumbents and their customers, decoupling presents a difficult challenge. One counter-strategy is what Teixeira calls recoupling. "Intuitively, the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
for basic scientific research through newly created agencies such as the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and through existing agencies such as the Department of Defense and Department of... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One
changing social hierarchy and Wedgwood's bringing what had been the trappings of a small minority, the aristocracy, to the growing middling classes at a moment when Britain was industrializing. From a branding standpoint, it is a brilliant example of creating a fairly... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace