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- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
to bolster and enhance the taste of nearly all processed foods because manufacturing techniques weaken the real flavors. The development of those added flavors requires a high degree of customization and expertise, and the practice... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
consumption growth by a representative agent with a high elasticity of intertemporal substitution. This paper documents several empirical difficulties for the model as calibrated by Bansal and Yaron (BY, 2004) and Bansal, Kiku, and Yaron... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Resisting the Seductions of Success
prominent figures who ruin splendidly successful lives and careers. Others have high potential for leadership, but fall far short of their early promise. And then there are others who do succeed but lead lives of quiet desperation. These... View Details
- 15 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons Not Learned About Innovation
Institutional memories are short. But internal business pressures also play a part as executives balance the need to protect current revenue streams with the imperative to get behind new concepts crucial to future success. And too often... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Creating the Founders’ Dilemmas Course
wishes he had taken the entrepreneurial plunge sooner. Students also study the case of major league All-Star pitcher Curt Schilling, who, as his pitching career winds down, decides to switch gears by founding a video-game company called 38 Studios. (Data suggests that... View Details
- 31 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies
In the run-up to the global financial crisis, credit rating agencies gave high marks to such risky financial vehicles as collateralized debt obligations, which few people understood. It has been argued that these ratings misled investors... View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
that colleagues support one another's efforts to do the best work they can. That has always been true for efficiency reasons, but collaborative helping becomes even more vital in an era of knowledge work, when positive business outcomes depend on View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?
balanced manner." It would be important to determine how often physicians feel pressured into prescribing drugs inappropriately.— Joel Weissman Although persuasion may be desirable from a medical perspective, just under half of our... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 03 Oct 2012
- What Do You Think?
Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?
"Where was (the) support for manufacturing when it really counted, before much of it escaped offshore? Why should we believe this 'new thinking' now?" Citing " high labor costs and uncooperative unions," Philippe... View Details
- 09 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unconscious Executive
conscious thought that produced the best results overall. It resulted in participants choosing options that were both compliant with the decision rule and had a high number of positive attributes. Q: One way you and colleagues have tried... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
Arabia's development strategy unfolds in the past six years, it is contrasted to social and political pressures within the country, volatility in global oil markets, and severe political problems in the Middle East. Purchase the case: View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
today innovating in a complex intellectual property environment in fields where there is a high amount of cumulativeness. The case highlights the leverage that good strategic thinking can bring to influencing the outcome. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
Enforcement By: Heese, Jonas Abstract—I examine whether political pressure by the government as a response to voters' general interest in protecting employment is reflected in the enforcement actions by the Securities and Exchange... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2019
- News
Cure All
deliver a product that is more focused on what patients need. Hopefully, that also pressures providers to provide high quality care at a lower price. RS: I agree, but these incentives for change may not be... View Details
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
but also that NEAD chains produced more transplants for highly sensitized and blood type O recipients. Read the paper: http://kuznets.fas.harvard.edu/~aroth/papers/Nonsimultaneous%20Chains%20AJT%202011.pdf Female Empowerment: Impact of a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 6, 2008
business model, one that positioned the company simultaneously in the PC industry and the consumer electronics industry. While Apple enjoyed a high market share in digital media players and in online music sales, it remained a niche... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures
operations. While joint ventures were always fragile entities, they appear to be both more fragile and less rewarding. This puts enormous pressure on the infrastructure of global multinationals to support these myriad transactions. How do... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
to the company. In 1988, Binder was named CEO. That same year, Amgen's R&D efforts began to pay off as the company launched its first product, Epogen, which stimulates red blood cell production and thus fights the anemia common to... View Details
- 17 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete
purchasing health plans start to demand something different, which in turn is going to require insurers to deliver a product that is more focused on what patients need. Hopefully, that also pressures providers to provide View Details
- 02 Apr 2010
- What Do You Think?
Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?
Wegrzyn cited (1) "incredible pressure from the economic side," (2) "incredible instability," and (3) a resulting "dog-eat-dog attitude." Dennis Hopwood said, "In the end, it's all about making the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett