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- 20 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Three Types of Leaders Who Create Radical Change
group of people around a mutual desire for change. “Effective agitators are able to draw attention to a problem and convince others that it requires both some corrective action and collective work to bring... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 27 Apr 2022
- News
Following the Flow of Aid
and areas in Africa—some of which were already experiencing devastating drought and food insecurity—also rely on crops to flow from Russia and Ukraine. As the world's attention is understandably focused on... View Details
- 2007
- Article
Pharmacovigilance and the Missing Denominator: The Changing Context of Pharmaceutical Risk Mitigation
By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
In the wake of Vioxx, Avandia, and other recent prominent cases of drugs found to cause side effects after marketing, the safety of pharmaceuticals has come to the forefront of American public policy. Press attention, congressional investigations, and legislative... View Details
Keywords: Brands and Branding; Policy; Risk Management; Government Legislation; Risk and Uncertainty; Goals and Objectives; Customers; Pharmaceutical Industry; Health Industry; United States
Daemmrich, Arthur A. "Pharmacovigilance and the Missing Denominator: The Changing Context of Pharmaceutical Risk Mitigation." Pharmacy in History 49, no. 2 (2007): 61–75.
- 29 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The History and Influence of Andy Grove
devote a good deal of attention to Grove's childhood, boyhood, and youth because I think an appreciation of the first two decades of his life is... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Intellectual Underpinnings of Entrepreneurial Management
of entrepreneurs was to bear risk, Cantillon focused his attention on the economic functions of entrepreneurship—a focus that was to hold sway until very recently. In various... View Details
- 05 Feb 2016
- News
The Wheel of the World
full-time attention to horology, serving as chairman of the National Watch and Clock Library and as a member of the collections committee for the National Watch and Clock... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 25 Sep 2019
- News
Leading the Evolution of E-Commerce
allowing more time to focus on what the consumer wants, she says. What the consumer wants is what Fleiss—a mother of three—also wants: efficiency and ease of use. “The idea here is to combine the convenience... View Details
- 13 Jan 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
The Impact of Modularity on Intellectual Property and Value Appropriation
Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin & Joachim Henkel
- September 2013 (Revised June 2017)
- Case
IBM and the Reinvention of High School (A): Proving the P-TECH Concept
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
IBM's Corporate Citizenship office created a social and organizational innovation in public education through a business-school partnership. IBM's Stanley Litow was the key architect in designing Pathways in Technology Early College High School, known as P-TECH. The... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Partnerships; Leadership; Partners and Partnerships; Education; Business and Community Relations; Change; Innovation and Invention; Education Industry
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone. "IBM and the Reinvention of High School (A): Proving the P-TECH Concept." Harvard Business School Case 314-049, September 2013. (Revised June 2017.)
- 01 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?
attention. The latter produced complaints about inappropriate material on the site. In contrast, others cautioned YouTube not to suppress freedom of speech. Now employee claims of having their... View Details
- Research Summary
Managing the Advantages and Tradeoffs of Collaborative Structures
To solve complex problems, organizations must both collect facts and use them to solve problems. In one study, my coauthors and I show that increased connectivity—measured as network... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
Stem cells have been much in the news recently. But the hot-button ethical and political questions currently surrounding this area of research may ultimately prove moot, if the past is any guide. Business history shows that if the desire... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 06 Jul 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?
to do it. What do you think? Original Column The Brexit vote by citizens of the United Kingdom to leave the European Union was neither the beginning nor the end of the anti-globalization, anti-establishment... View Details
- 13 Aug 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
In Favor of Clear Thinking: Incorporating Moral Rules into a Wise Cost-Benefit Analysis
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman & Joshua D. Greene
- 2016
- Working Paper
Towards a Prescriptive Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategic Choice, Learning, and Competition
By: Gary P. Pisano
The field of strategy has mounted an enormous effort to understand, define, predict, and measure how organizational capabilities shape competitive advantage. While the notion that capabilities influence strategy dates back to the work of Andrews (1971), attempts to... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Advantage
Pisano, Gary P. "Towards a Prescriptive Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategic Choice, Learning, and Competition." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-146, June 2016.
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
operators. Well, you know, elevators used to all have operators. When we automated them we eliminated those elevator operator jobs. Does that mean we shouldn't have put in automated elevators? No. Of course not. But what it does mean is... View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
within the organization warn of the impending change (and somebody nearly always does), their warnings are usually ignored. One tactic for forcing the organization to pay attention is to label the innovation... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- 06 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Art of American Advertising
Professor of Marketing, Emeritus, and an adviser on the exhibit. "Many firms competed for the attention and affection of customers. And, whole new kinds View Details
- 2017
- Working Paper
Intermediation in the Supply of Agricultural Products in Developing Economies
By: Kris J. Ferreira, Joel Goh and Ehsan Valavi
Problem Definition: Farmers face several challenges in agricultural supply chains in emerging economies that contribute to extreme levels of poverty. One common challenge is that farmers only have access to one channel, often an auction, for which to sell their crops.... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries; Agricultural Supply Chain; Intermediation; Multiple Cahnels; Walrasian Auction; Developing Countries and Economies; Supply Chain; Distribution Channels; Profit; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
Ferreira, Kris J., Joel Goh, and Ehsan Valavi. "Intermediation in the Supply of Agricultural Products in Developing Economies." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-033, October 2017.
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
practices is to comply with the law," says Rowe. "The second is to get out in front of the law, which is only going to get more complicated as attention is turned increasingly to environmental issues." NEES... View Details