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- 05 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots
Then hand over the technical work to them (that way nobody inside has to learn anything new) but refuse to take their advice about how the site should look (after all, you're the industry experts). Use more than one vendor—so you can have... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 09 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer
Management for Corporate Leaders in 2010, says she's still following up with both banks and plans to turn the research into teaching case studies. She's also looking at how risk management works in industries such as electrical and... View Details
- 02 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Research and Prospects
life sciences. The initiative was started in 1997 at the behest of Dean Kim Clark. We asked professor Gary P. Pisano, who heads up the initiative, to give HBS Working Knowledge a peek into the work being... View Details
- 03 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Money Making Movies
keen exhibitors are to free up screens on which to show it, how much space foreign journalists allocate to reviewing it, and so on. As conventional wisdom suggests, the key drivers of success in the U.S. also apply to foreign markets.... View Details
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
Working PapersPlatform Rules: Multi-Sided Platforms as Regulators Authors:Kevin J. Boudreau and Andrei Hagiu Abstract This paper provides a basic conceptual framework for interpreting non-price instruments used by multi-sided platforms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
reviews—with the strategy. Case Study: Sport-Man Inc. We illustrate many of the alignment issues with a disguised case study, Sport-Man Inc. (SMI). The company founded in 1925 to manufacture and market men's work boots. Its early success... View Details
- 18 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool
Science at Harvard (LISH) has a long history of working together with Harvard Catalyst at Harvard Medical School to identify interesting innovation and process problems in translational biomedical areas. We have conducted many research... View Details
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Companies Must Forget—and Borrow
school's new online education program. "We often think of ideas in the visual space arising through creative genius. But they actually are shaped through experience," Anand said during a summit session called "Transforming Giants: Forget... View Details
- 20 Mar 2017
- Book
Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies
on users, communities, and open innovation approaches to tackle important technological and business problems. Lakhani points to innovation contests that have solved a wide variety of major challenges from technology for civilian space... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
exploring how they cope with intuitive doubts that emerge as they try to make critical, high-stakes decisions. I'm also working with my colleagues Amy Edmondson and Richard Bohmer on a paper that examines the flawed decision-making that... View Details
- 05 Aug 2010
- What Do You Think?
What Is Customer Opinion Good For?
dominance, mainly through the design of new businesses and products before the competition might get to them. They wrote, "To set a company on a strong, profitable growth trajectory it won't work to benchmark competitors Nor is conducting... View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
Working PapersThe Framing Effect of Price Format Marco Bertini and Luc Wathieu Existing evidence suggests that preferences are affected by whether a price is presented as one all-inclusive expense or partitioned into a series of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
so detailed an investigation as would be necessary I would have to have a whole research staff working for me." To another friend, he wrote, "I am still a slave to my manuscript and for instance worried last night till 2 a.m..,... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
As we work on challenging public problems, embracing the entrepreneurial spirit can help in developing solutions, says Harvard Business School Professor Mitchell Weiss in a new book, We the Possibility: Harnessing Public Entrepreneurship... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/Levine-Toffel%20The%20Compass%202014-07-02a_151d5c1a-4fe0-4d2a-90f8-54a82b5bb4a6.pdf October 2014 MIT Sloan Management Review What It Takes to Reshore Manufacturing Successfully By: Shih, Willy C. Abstract—The data on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
it a fad that amounts to little more than sensitivity training in New Age clothing, or does it reflect something more profound about the way we are beginning to conceive of and relate to work? In the following pages six HBS alumni who are exploring the intersection of... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Negotiation is Like Jazz
hours of hard work flow into a piece that none of them has ever heard before and will never hear again. Like jazz, communication is improvisational. Each time you communicate with another person, you're playing it by ear. You may have... View Details
Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn
- 07 Sep 2007
- What Do You Think?
Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?
classroom spaces for those interested in managing people, that the market may help redress problems described above? What do you think? Original Article My areas of interest bring me into contact with companies that are, in the words of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
crusade in her working paper The U.S. Experiment with Fair Trade Laws: State Police Powers, Federal Antitrust, and the Politics of “Fairness,” 1890–1938, forthcoming in the Business History Review. Gleason, a self-trained and... View Details
- 12 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch
between other ads as emotional buffers—sort of palate cleansers for the soul. Participants could watch an ad until the end or skip to the next one by pressing the space bar at any time. In each case, a camera recorded participants' facial... View Details