Filter Results:
(56)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(112)
- News (26)
- Research (56)
- Multimedia (7)
- Faculty Publications (13)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(112)
- News (26)
- Research (56)
- Multimedia (7)
- Faculty Publications (13)
Sort by
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
thereby rescuing a drug that the organization was ready to discard.5 Failure analysis can reach beyond the company walls to include customers. Systematic analysis of small failures in the form of customer breakdowns was instituted at... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 16 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Now Is the Time for Entrepreneurs to Play Offense
roadmap. Engineers and product managers love it when they’re “left alone.” Take the time to do deeper customer discovery and requirements gathering. Customers might be more... View Details
Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang
- 07 Aug 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?
reasoning, no more human 'interference' replacing hordes of managers. What will one do with those?" Yan Song reminded us that, "As long as there is still mystery and new discovery to be made in life, human judgment will remain... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Oct 2014
- What Do You Think?
Is Too Much Focus a Problem?
"fail to consider or know how to recognize what is outside their industry that is impacting their business (such as) customers who are buying their goods but don't fit the target profile, or alternative (product) uses Focus has a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
forecasted probability of future funding by funding more innovative ideas. We propose that extremely novel technologies may need 'hot' financial markets to get through the initial period of discovery or diffusion. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
slogan from Apple. And thinking differently leads them to act differently. From our research, consistent patterns emerged that led us to identify five primary discovery skills that underlie innovation: associating, observing, quetioning,... View Details
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
for new products, services, and entire businesses. It may look like innovators are born, not made. But according to Jeffrey Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clay Christensen anyone can become more innovative. How? Master the discovery skills that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
try to understand it. When you thoroughly examine the assumptions behind their current use, you will likely make surprising discoveries with a capacity for large changes. When you get to the root cause, you are not only solving this... View Details
- 03 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
Authenticity over Exaggeration: The New Rule in Advertising
pharmacy lab who finds young, classically trained musicians; records their work; and distributes the CDs to customers. "He blends the purity of the artist and a sense of discovery with his business," he says. "It speaks to a certain... View Details
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
to their reliable software and responsive customer service. The company had achieved this growth without the help of any outside financing. The five co-founders of eCW, who treated each other like an extended family, invested years of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
it’s someone in the History Department trying to make sense of the past, or somebody trying to do customer research on widgets in South Africa.” One of the key components of the FIELD course is contextual intelligence—the ability to apply... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry
1960, electronic data processing as well as information storage and retrieval had made a lasting impression in both the private and the public sectors, and discoveries and improvements in areas such as circuit design and solid-state... View Details
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
boots. Creating variations of these core products, along with expansion into apparel, had sustained Timberland's business for more than 30 years. Timberland's growth in the past six years was due to increased international sales and new View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action
his research, few managers know how to channel innovative thinking into practice by making sense of the overwhelming amount of market, financial, and technical data now available and then sharing discoveries and strategies with other... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
trade-off between competitive price discovery and convenience. Evidence from eBay fits the theory: auctions are favored by less experienced sellers and for idiosyncratic products, and auction listings sell at a discount but with higher... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/412066-PDF-ENG Customer Discovery and Validation for Entrepreneurs Frank V. Cespedes, Thomas R. Eisenmann, and Steven G. BlankHarvard Business School Note... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
and complementary effects across channels to provide sales forecasting, promotion planning, and customer relationship management guidance to multichannel managers. We investigate three contingencies in a sales analysis of a leading U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 8, 2015
financial markets to get through the initial period of discovery or diffusion. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49551 September 2015 Harvard Business Review The Organizational Apology: A Step-by-Step Guide... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53429 September 2017 Academy of Management Discoveries The Advocacy Trap: When Legitimacy Building Inhibits Organizational Learning By: Zuzul, Tiona, and Amy C. Edmondson... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
effects of v4 scarcity, while obtaining price discovery and allocative efficiency benefits of market transactions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-091.pdf Why Do Countries Adopt International Financial Reporting... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace