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- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
learning that will be useful to future missions. This might include decisions on how much telemetry data to provide in flight, a useful source of fault-finding data should things go wrong, as well as the choice of when to fly a new View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details
- 03 Oct 2012
- What Do You Think?
Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?
regenerate the "industrial commons"? What do you think? Original Article A new book, Producing Prosperity , by profs. Gary Pisano and Willy Shih, argues that a manufacturing renaissance is critical to the process-oriented... View Details
- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
Gotham Greens has an ongoing sustainable packaging team that stays abreast of new technologies as they emerge, continually searching for more sustainable options. Puri believes that a lack of suitable... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 05 Mar 2014
- What Do You Think?
When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?
meeting room for that purpose at Flatiron Partners in New York. Companies in which Flatiron had invested scheduled the room, one after another, for their board meetings. In our case, we had moved our meeting to View Details
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
that small businesses spend on filling out paperwork at an average of three conventional banks before securing some form of credit, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Fall 2013 Small Business Credit Survey. Upon filling... View Details
- 02 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Research and Prospects
outstanding work. Rob Huckman's done a lot of very interesting work on adoption of new medical technology and how competing technologies—how the organization of hospitals influences the uptake of competing... View Details
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
Why are so many businesses—though seemingly intent on fostering innovation—unable to get new products through their organizations and into the marketplace? Ed Ludwig faced such circumstances as the new... View Details
- 04 Mar 2014
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation
workplace transparency can increase productivity. Do Creative Types Need To Be Managed Differently? Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs In her new Harvard Business School course, Creative High-Impact Ventures:... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 07 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Obama’s Clean Power Plan: Can Nuclear Power Beat the Global Threat of Coal?
receive credits for emission reductions related to new nuclear power plants - including both those under construction and those still in prototype stages. Harvard Business School Professor Joe Lassiter believes nuclear power is an... View Details
- 17 Nov 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design
themselves not just as support functions that police other departments but as catalysts for new ideas and company growth. What Role Does Information Technology Have In Promoting A Decentralized Organization?... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Venturing: Entrepreneurship on the Inside
There's not just one solution to creating the innovative products you want for your business." Networking And Connections All of the panelists agreed that connections are key in pushing new ideas through in large corporations.... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 06 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?
Economics researchers have long studied how local workers respond when an industry such as steel manufacturing is squashed by obsolescence or competition. Is the region able to regenerate with new industries and workers to fill them? Do... View Details
- 10 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook
survey. (Looking at pictures of endangered Acadian redfish and Atlantic halibut had no effect.) Indirect Questions The researchers also showed that people are likely to share information online if a personal question comes at them in a roundabout way. In another... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Aug 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Manager's Guide to Leveraging Disruption
consistently factored into service design. Going Digital: Implications for Firm Value and PerformanceThis study of the economic performance of nontech firms adopting new digital technologies finds a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Guts and Bliss: The Entrepreneur’s Journey
bones and were prepared to ride out the storm. Randi Altschul and Andrea Silbert Starting a business did look like a cinch until recently. According to panel moderator Lynda M. Applegate, a Harvard Business School professor who specializes in View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
time somebody had done something new with locomotives was 50 years before I was born, so I had never had this challenge of, oh, there are so many new things to do we don't know which to do next," Huber... View Details
- 11 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Riding the Internet Fast Track
are malleable among new Web users; Winner-take-all dynamics apply; Competitive risks are reasonable; The company is capable of managing significant growing pains; and Capital markets will reward first movers. Winner-take-all dynamics are... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
re-read Khalil Gibran Muhammad’s The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, which I assigned to a class a few years ago and had Professor Muhammad speak to them about, because I might see new and... View Details
- 03 Oct 2005
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?
will emerge new kinds of collective actions that will address the contemporary issues of multinational workforces and globalized networks of trade and commerce." These comments raise several questions: Just what View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett