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- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
employees tended to be most engaged by regular, incremental progress toward the accomplishment of a meaningful goal—a phenomenon Amabile calls The Progress Principle, which is also the title of her new book. Analyzing some 12,000 journal... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
business of publishing technical papers. “I didn’t want to spend the next 5 to 10 years doing these little increments and never knowing whether, with the right effort, we could solve a big challenge,” Ferrucci told HBS Professor of... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
Tripsas "Big breakthroughs are great, but we found that even incremental progress evokes a powerfully positive inner work life," Amabile notes. "In my Managing for Creativity course, I ask students to consider how they will... View Details
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
Case 806-069 Randall Fojtasek, a partner at Brazos Private Equity Partners, must decide whether to invest more money in Cheddar's restaurant chain, which the firm invested in 10 months earlier. The incremental investment would fund a real... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
people on campus to meet with our students. That kind of interaction would make a deep and valuable impression. Hall: We need to show our students how incremental errors of judgment can lead down a slippery slope to a whole heap of... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
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From the Chief Financial Officer | Annual Report 2024
The increase largely represented spending on incremental projects, DTx, and IT infrastructure. Key accomplishments in fiscal 2024 included strategy and planning to modernize the IT portfolio, the initial implementation of a new digital... View Details
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
these factors to overall mortality and health spending in the United States is not known. In this paper, we build a model to estimate the excess mortality and incremental health expenditures associated with exposure to the following 10... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
effects (on the low bidder) and indirect effects (on others), and we show that most of the incremental revenue from setting reserve price optimally comes from indirect effects. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
“Big breakthroughs are great, but we found that even incremental progress evokes a powerfully positive inner work life,” Amabile notes. “In my Managing for Creativity course, I ask students to consider how they will establish a work... View Details
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
that customers were willing to pay significant premiums for organic cotton garments although the organic cotton provided no demonstrable private incremental benefits to the customer. Turbulent Firms, Turbulent Wages? Authors:Diego A.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
focus so much on the intermediate goal that often we neglect the overarching end goal: happiness. It is central to our existence—the soul of our lives. Everything we do is with the inherent intention of making us happy. In the self-published guide, Sodha shows us how... View Details
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
must be nurtured and the transition to high growth must be managed. Once breakthrough innovations catch hold, growth must be funded and managed to exploit the full value of the opportunity. And finally, incremental innovations must ensure... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
channel stewardship, as we define it, is anchored in the principle of evolutionary change. This should not be confused with incremental change. Stewardship means constantly guiding and directing changes in channel design and management to... View Details
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
re-adjust the balance between break-through innovation (a big change to the brand) and incremental innovation (a small change to existing products). Which strategy should Jim Murphy and his brand management team choose to turn this brand... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
items, which benefit the firm through a decrease in returned merchandise. However, with quotas set over shorter time horizons, even the highest-performing salespeople focus mainly on incremental sales, resulting in a decrease in sales of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
division were just looking for ways to build a faster pump. They didn’t want innovation; they wanted incremental improvements. And they didn’t really see the value of Local Motors. They weren’t believers. For this to work, Rogers needed... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
un‐cited or self-cited, suggesting that incumbents are more likely to engage in incremental innovation compared to VC-backed startups. Third, we document a rising share of patenting by startups that coincided with the surge in venture... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
payments, and deferred taxes are incrementally value-relevant but that only the impairment of goodwill and deferred taxes reveal new information. Our results indicate that mandatory IFRS adoption alters investors' beliefs about stock... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
focus events, and maintaining executive dedication to execute the initiative. The case provides a generalizable example for AHCs of how applying explicit management design can foster robust organizational change with relatively modest View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace