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19 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

implications of these effects for inventory management. To do that, we analyze data from a leading U.S. retailer who introduced a “ship-to-store” (STS) functionality that allows customers to ship products to their local store free of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Aug 2003
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Why IT Does Matter

management should understand about IT is its associated economics. Driven by Moore's Law, those evolving economics have enabled every industry's transaction costs to decrease continually, resulting in new economics for the firm and creating the feasibility of View Details

Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan

28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

maintaining a high level of exploration. Solutions improved most on rounds with social influence after a period of separation. We also show that storing subjects’ best solutions so that they could be reloaded and possibly modified in subsequent rounds—a ubiquitous... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

18 Nov 2013
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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

June 2022 (Revised March 2024)
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Netflix's Culture: Binge or Cringe?

By: Hubert Joly, Leonard A. Schlesinger, James Barnett and Stacy Straaberg

In May 2022, streaming entertainment company Netflix lost customers for the first time in more than 10 years. Once a first mover in the streaming landscape, Netflix was facing competition from Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, HBO Max, and others. A key component of... View Details

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04 Dec 2012
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severity of the coordination problem faced by users. Read the paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=38648 The Costs of Ambient Cultural Disharmony: Indirect Intercultural Conflicts in Social Environment Undermine View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

22 Aug 2005
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The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

the hospital quickly followed their example, finding the idea compelling and practical. In the pharmaceutical industry, about 90 percent of newly developed drugs fail in the experimental stage, and thus drug companies have plenty of opportunities to analyze failure.... View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

27 Oct 2002
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Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing

together at every level—from the core central concepts of the strategy to the minute details of execution. New World, New Roles When companies generally made their money in a large number of mid-sized accounts, marketing was typically seen as the strategic function... View Details

Keywords: by Benson Shapiro

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Leadership and Leadership Development: An Ontological Approach

This summarizes my research program over the last twelve years (with my co-investigators Werner Erhard, Steve Zaffron, and more recently Kari Granger) in which the objective has been to rigorously distinguish leader and leadership and to create a technology for... View Details

18 Jun 2014
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Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’

conflict, and trial and error to advantage. At Pixar, for example, the company was caught up short in 2008 in a clash over production schedules for the movie Up and the short film Cars Toons. Blindsided by news that Cars Toons was behind... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

02 Apr 2015
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Digital Initiative Summit: Who Has the Power in the Music Industry?

new environment? To the latter question, Sider suggested that musicians need to learn a new set of skills. "If you're a musician and you were coming out 20 years ago, you would have had to go through a rigid system to distribute your View Details

Keywords: Re: Felix Oberholzer-Gee; Music

20 Aug 2024
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Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge

resources—be it the myriad Amazon product reviews, a rich collection of free videos on YouTube, or Google’s open-source algorithms. Thanks to these tech giants, a significant portion of your ecosystem is already established and readily... View Details

Keywords: by Feng Zhu; Technology; Information Technology

24 Oct 2007
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation

Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions to be answered: Can innovation and creativity be managed? Where do View Details

February 2010 (Revised September 2011)
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Local Motors: Designed by the Crowd, Built by the Customer

By: Michael I. Norton and Jeremy Dann

In the wake of the meltdown among U.S. auto manufacturers in 2009, Jay Rogers, CEO of Local Motors, has a new approach for the automotive industry: decide which models are produced through online design competitions, and then allow customers to "build their own cars"... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Customer Focus and Relationships; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Product Design; Product Development; Creativity; Social and Collaborative Networks; Customization and Personalization; Auto Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States

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30 Apr 2001
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Why Evolutionary Software Development Works

development was evolutionary in nature. Companies first would release a low-functionality version of a product to selected customers at a very early stage of development. Thereafter work would proceed in an iterative fashion, with the... View Details

Keywords: by Alan MacCormack; Technology

05 Aug 2002
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Understanding the Process of Innovation

pull this off? Focus instead on Big Idea Group's "process of innovation and value creation," says Christensen. Lack of creativity is rarely the reason for lackluster products and services coming... View Details

Keywords: by Loren Gray

29 Aug 2024
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Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy

creativity and innovation on what you might think of as the demand side. How might [leaders] use space? How might they creatively think about ways to use the data and connectivity, or eventually the... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Aerospace

04 Feb 2015
What Do You Think?

Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?

attracts and retains creative people—at least up to now. But there was a healthy skepticism about how influential Google's approach will be in other organizations, particularly outside the realm of high technology. There was general... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

02 Jan 2012
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Most Popular Articles of 2011

School professor Benjamin G. Edelman discusses the paper's findings Teaching a 'Lean Startup' Strategy (24,997) http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6659.html Published: April 11, 2011 Most startups fail because they waste too much time and money building the wrong View Details

Keywords: by Staff

08 Feb 2016
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The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp

environments. “People have this notion that big data can solve every problem,” warns Luca. “We fundamentally think it’s about pairing the right sets of questions and tools with the right datasets.” With some creativity and ingenuity,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products

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