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  • 2011
  • Working Paper

The Contingent Effect of Absorptive Capacity: An Open Innovation Analysis

By: Andrew A. King and Karim R. Lakhani
Technological advancement and innovation requires the integration of both external knowledge and internal inventiveness. In this paper, we unpack the concept of absorptive capacity and separately explore the effect of different types of prior experience on the capacity... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Performance Capacity; Technology Adoption
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  • 24 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

staff are well positioned to conceive improvement opportunities based on first-hand knowledge of what works and does not work. The innovation contest may be a relevant and useful vehicle to elicit staff ideas. However, the success of the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Jun 2016
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June 14, 2016

and the design and construction of leading-edge buildings. I have identified the leadership practices that make successful cross-industry teams work: fostering an adaptable vision, promoting psychological safety, enabling knowledge... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jul 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way

Unfair. Undignified. Inappropriate, unprofessional, distasteful—and most of all, repugnant. To the wonder and surprise of Alvin E. Roth, a Harvard economist, these harsh words are often hoisted to describe an important task of his: View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 2011
  • Working Paper

How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools

By: Rakesh Khurana, Kenneth Kimura and Marion Fourcade
The question of institutional change has become central to organizational research (Powell, 2008). Recent scholarship has demonstrated, often through carefully researched cases, that institutions can and sometimes do change. According to this research, there are two... View Details
Keywords: Change; Business Education; Business History; Organizations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Relationships; Behavior
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  • 20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015

international institutions, a bank and a museum, adds value to both in terms of interaction with customers and breadth of audiences. The paper further points to key aspects of resource integration in a co-marketing partnership. Design /... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 25

a comprehensive sample of shareholder activism between 2004 and 2011, we find that directors are almost twice as likely to leave over a two-year period if the firm is the subject of a shareholder activist campaign. While it has been argued that proxy View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 23, 2008

this is one aspect that the good design of policies on the extraction of oil and mineral resources should take into account. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-035.pdf   PublicationsEntrepreneurial Ventures and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment

of whether managers should aim to deliberately increase the diversity of their evaluator pools,” the researchers write. Experts prefer feasible robot designs To test how open experts are to unique ideas, the researchers worked with NASA... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Aerospace
  • 09 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

example, offering large financial incentives to the winners of intergroup contests would predictably pull these relationships into cutthroat competition. In addition, in an effort to keep the competition from becoming cutthroat or the... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
  • 11 Mar 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Branding Sells Cereal, Handbags, and Vacations. Can It Sell a Country?

complicated history still dominate public consciousness. Memories of failed peace talks tend to loom larger than Israel’s image as a startup nation. Thousands of Instagram posts from Tel Aviv’s gay pride festivities or the buzz from winning the recent Eurovision song... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Tourism
  • 24 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business?

restaurants of gaming the system by stacking reviews by friends and family, or simply falling prey to a popularity contest by uninformed palates. "Given the evidence, I don't think many people would dispute Yelp's influence,"... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage
  • 01 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

I. Levine, 241-267. Cambridge University Press, 2010 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item2708038/?site_locale=en_GB Organizational Sustainability: Organization Design... View Details
  • 15 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions

Alternatively, the group may designate "intellectual watchdogs" who are assigned the task of scrutinizing the process for unchecked assumptions and challenging them on the spot. Well-Defined Criteria. Without crisp, clear goals,... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
  • 16 Sep 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making

credibility on the screenwriter, and gives producers confidence that a movie might succeed. But should it? In fact, says Luo, the way the list is constructed is inherently flawed (from an ideal design standpoint). No one knows how many... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Motion Pictures & Video
  • 28 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 28

attributable to comparability. Together, the findings are consistent with mandatory IFRS adoption improving comparability and thus leading to capital market benefits by reducing insiders' ability to exploit private information. Epistemic View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 10

the economy to organize production and innovation. We study individual contestant-level data from 2,796 contestants in 774 software algorithm design contests with random... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research

hosting contests to find solutions to problems ranging from automotive design to cleaning up oil spills. Karim R. Lakhani has spent the past five years working with NASA, Harvard Medical School, and TopCoder... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • 19 May 2016
  • Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

Lakhani said the question comes down to this: Do we have the right labor force? His research team recently held a three-weeklong contest that looked to improve the accuracy and processing speed of an algorithm View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Aug 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs

Partners, RelayRides, and Birchbox, among others—the Business Plan Contest has grown and evolved from its first iteration in 1997. Back then, 37 teams submitted plans. Last year, a record-breaking 110 teams vied for a total of $170,000 in... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

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