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acaracuzzo@hbs.edu. Harvard affiliates may also want to explore ProQuest TDM Studio, a tool that allows you to mine large volumes of published... View Details
- 05 Aug 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is Platform Leadership Old Hat or the Wave of the Future?
entrepreneurs can exploit through the development of products and services specifically for inclusion in platforms, whether they are technological or marketing in nature? And do increasingly powerful platforms represent opportunities or... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 May 2019
- Blog Post
Viewpoints: Synthetic Thinking with a Humble Mindset
Last week, all the first-year (RC) students completed “Viewpoints,” a day designed to expose us to current issues at the intersection of business and society taught by more than 20 HBS faculty members. We explored a variety of topics,... View Details
- 12 May 2016
- News
What Ernest Shackleton has in common with Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk
Will space explorers create new ventures that benefit us, or will they (like the old factory whaling ships) exploit and ravage natural landscapes that had been untouched? Will even less human restraint in... View Details
- 28 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 28
externally hired CEOs increase the likelihood of providing guidance. Complicated Firms Authors:Lauren Cohen and Dong Lou Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We exploit a novel setting in which the same piece... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2017
- News
Energy Efficiency as a Common Purpose
ambidextrous organization that can embrace both exploiting the existing business while at the same time exploring new business opportunities. “There’s lots of change going on in the utility world today.... View Details
- 26 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Clear Eye for Innovation
preparing for the innovations that will define the future. This mental balancing act can be one of the toughest of all managerial challenges—it requires executives to explore new opportunities even as they work diligently to View Details
- 08 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Cost of Cutting in Line
waiting in line at the airport. Later, he decided to conduct a field experiment to explore the question. He and a team of experimenters equipped with small bills approached 500 people in lines and offered a cash payment of up to $10 to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
interview with HBS Working Knowledge's Martha Lagace, he discusses what companies should bear in mind going forward.Lagace: People often equate globalization with the idea that globally standardized products are displacing local ones. In one of your new working papers,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2006
Working PapersNone this week Cases & Course MaterialsCreating Meaning for the Customer: The Case of GMACI Harvard Business School Case 106-073 Excellence in exploiting customer information and leveraging its affiliation to the GM... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Faculty Research Online
investment managers and firms. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5648.html. Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer Apple’s iTunes music download service and illegal peer-to-peer (P2P) music downloads offer two contrasting... View Details
- 25 Nov 2021
- News
An Aria for the Ambidextrous Organization
organization—one that, as Tushman says, has “the dynamic capability to exploit existing strategies better than anyone and simultaneously explore new terrain.” Doing this can present a contradiction for... View Details
- 20 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2018
moms are high achievers at work. Now it turns out they are happy, too. Amazon vs. Whole Foods: When Cultures Collide Amazon's acquisition of Whole Foods seemed a Wall Street dream come true. But then Amazon's data-driven efficiency met... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Tough Tech Ventures - Course Catalog
strategies and tactics for managing risk vs. reward. Historically, most entrepreneurship courses (at HBS, and elsewhere) disproportionately focus on consumer- and /or software-centric business model and product experimentation tools... View Details
- Web
Shlomo Zach Cahlon | MBA
discharged, I continued to explore the field of technology as a Harvard undergraduate. At Harvard, I was exposed to different scientific studies and research and their application to new technologies by taking courses in computer science,... View Details
- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
contests perform less well on average in the presence of a larger number of competitors in total and superstars. Particularly in field settings, studies often lack direct evidence about the underlying mechanisms, such as the amount of effort, that might account for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories 2007
true? As it turned out, good teams, which value communication, report more errors. In a recent research paper Edmondson and doctoral student Sara Singer explore this and other hidden barriers to organizational learning. Five Steps to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Driving Profitable Growth - Course Catalog
examined in this course. One of the primary objectives of the course is to get you to think strategically about growth. Growth involves a series of choices about rate (e.g. how fast to grow?), direction (scale vs. scope), and method of... View Details
- 07 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
Attending Peek Weekend
was that HBS is about a lot more than just learning business concepts through case discussions. I realized that HBS is a community where you get to explore different academic fields, meet remarkable people, build lasting friendships, take... View Details
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
"locked-in," but because the commercial firm deploys a "divide and conquer" strategy to attract early adopters and exploit late adopters. To capitalize on its first-mover advantage, the commercial firm must increase... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace