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- 09 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Manager in Red Sneakers
a contestant who entered a prestigious MIT young entrepreneurs competition. Survey respondents perceived the contestant as having higher status when he used his own presentation layout versus the official... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Innovation has a New Home: The Harvard Innovation Lab
Contest will be among the many to benefit from the i-lab. Inaugural i-lab director Gordon Jones thinks there’s no shortage of opportunity, noting: “I am excited by the level of desire I am witnessing within Harvard for the i-lab to become... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Is the Auction House of the Future Online?
of the new art collector, someone who looks a lot like Julka and Khan: new to collecting, with a budget north of eBay but south of Sotheby’s, and a comfort with technology. This long overlooked middle market—pieces from about $1,000 to $100,000—has suddenly become a... View Details
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Four Questions for David Garvin and Michael Roberto
describe collaborative problem-solving. The "advocacy" process they mention is more of a contest among multiple points of view.Lagace: What leaders come to mind as people who use or have used the inquiry process to great... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Countries on the Cusp: The Power of Nationalism
nation is most defined—then we can really see how national identities and nationalisms might interact with globalization. I think the most important thing to recognize about the possibilities, therefore, is that there is no inherent View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Jan 2012
- News
Where Are They Now?
Mahesh checks in from the factory floor. Courtesy Krishna Mahesh Related Links Alum startup wins HBS contest New Venture Contest: Call for entries Upcoming webinars for entrepreneurs HBS New Ventures group on LinkedIn “I am still amazed... View Details
- 25 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Powerful Strategic Tool Companies Should Not Try to Control
user community is a great example of how a company can gain competitive advantage by tapping into its user community. LEGO allows its users to create their own designs and share them with other users. They can even enter these designs into a View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?
at certain times, it is not a one-size-fits-all model." Corporate Venturing And Internal Contests The Architecture of Innovation suggests that the solution to shortcomings with private-sector R&D funding may lie in marrying the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Books
The Oxford Handbook of Business History edited by Geoffrey Jones and Jonathan Zeitlin (Oxford University Press) This handbook surveys research in business history, a broad area of study generating empirical data that have sometimes confirmed and sometimes View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
More than a Game
Serious fun: Old Boys returned from around the world for their annual match with the HBS Rugby Club Photography by Ben Staples It is said that soccer is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians, whereas rugby — a grueling physical View Details
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Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism - Course Catalog
journey, which grows in complexity and depth as students debate contested and sensitive topics. The course challenges students to think of business not in a vacuum, but in a rich context considering competitive landscapes, information... View Details
- 19 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 19
share of female candidates from major political parties in the subsequent election. This stems mainly from an increased probability that previous women candidates contest again, an important margin in India where a substantial number of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Your Employees and Customers Drive a New Value Profit Chain
people back to Bentonville headquarters for recognition; and executive merchandising contests that create incentives for executives to spend more time in the stores. All of this reflects basic company values and culture. In other very... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
private companies, the USPS has to have even its best ideas reviewed by regulators and contested by competitors. But inevitably making tough choices about technology to create new services has to be market-driven, in spite of the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Shari P. Hubert
It's impossible to talk for long with Shari Hubert without hearing her mention the importance of "giving back." In fact, when she is asked to reflect on her most significant accomplishments to date, she doesn't at first mention that she won a city-wide college... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 10 Dec 2010
- News
Notes from the Trenches
Last week’s post by Roger Thompson featured “Ten Rules for Entrepreneurs”. To build on that, I thought I’d include some of the more quotable moments and insights from a recent panel featuring past participants of the HBS Business Plan View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
Cathedral. Even the design of the HBS campus began as an architecture competition. Contests work well when we don't know what the right approach may be to a problem. Today they're used in a variety of situations, from creating logos to... View Details
- 27 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Ordinary People Get Creative?
Business School, Emerita, who has studied workplace creativity for more than 40 years. “Those breakthroughs will be made by collaborative groups of ‘ordinary people,’ by open innovation contests and other open innovation processes, by... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Web
A Catalyst for Commitment | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
A Catalyst for Commitment “It was a moment of commitment—a no-turning-back experience.” That’s how Abby Falik (MBA 2008) describes winning the Harvard Social Enterprise Conference’s Pitch for Change contest with her proposal for Global... View Details
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
high-beta stocks. An Empirical Analysis of Innovation Contests: Strategic Incentives, Problem Uncertainty and Independent Experimentation along Parallel Paths Authors:Kevin J. Boudreau, Nicola Lacetera, and Karim R. Lakhani Publication:Management Science (forthcoming)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne