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- 23 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming Nervous Nelly
A colleague is out sick, and suddenly it's fallen on you to deliver a crucial client presentation. The saliva dries up in your mouth, your heart races. You briefly consider heading home sick yourself, before moving into the conference... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Difficult Transition from For-Profit to Nonprofit Boards
to this new realm of nonprofit? The authors answer this question with an emphatic no! Although, as noted, many aspects are the same, in important areas there are deep differences. Failure to understand these differences can cause the new... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
or multiple keystones, the heart of technology strategy for a niche player is to continually innovate by integrating technology available from the ecosystem to sharpen the niche offering that it is crafting. It is important to examine... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 06 Jan 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is a Stringent Climate Change Agreement a Pot of Gold?
financing, a socially positive attitude toward entrepreneurship and the failure that it often entails, and a market for new ideas). If that's the case, countries that should be at the forefront in advocating more stringent rules regarding... View Details
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Three Steps for Crisis Prevention
to actually mobilizing the resources required to stop it. We term this the "RPM process": recognition, prioritization, mobilization. Failure at any of these three stages will leave a company vulnerable to potentially devastating... View Details
Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman
- 11 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Four Ways to Create Lasting Change
CEO and his team. Q: What caused the failure of Alpha's first attempt at a customer service initiative in the early 1990s? A: Initially, the first CSE [Customer Service Enhancements] initiative was not a failure. It did lead to some... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 1
old lines of business and, if economies of scope are unavailable, to simply reproduce entrant behavior by creating a "firm within a firm." There are two broad streams of explanation for incumbent failure in these circumstances.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
Business Review You Need an Innovation Strategy By: Pisano, Gary P. Abstract—Why is it so hard to build and maintain the capacity to innovate? The reason is not simply a failure to execute but a failure to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
platforms, and hybrid platforms. We suggest that the world is moving towards more and more hybrids, and we identify the key steps in building a successful platform. 3) Failure is more likely than winner-take-all: mispricing, mistrust,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
years required to bring a drug to market—and the potential for failure looming every step of the way—the business of biotech is one of managing uncertainty over time. HBS professor Gary P. Pisano, a longtime observer of the industry,... View Details
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger
the sick. The resulting competition for consumers with differentiated products will control costs by increasing quality of care—e.g., integrated teams for congestive heart failure have reduced costs by... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
operations. Product failures are, therefore, likely to impact firms’ subsequent innovation activities. Using 13 years of Food and Drug Administration data, we examine the effects of firm and competitor medical device recalls on subsequent... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
performance improvements during the incentive period but are relatively short lived, while implicit incentives facilitate a longer persistence of the organizational behavior modification. Innovation Policies By: Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract—Past... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road
A: Many of the case studies in the volume identified the issue of control at the heart of the management problems experienced by foreign firms in the United States. For considerable periods of time, European firms such as Unilever, Shell,... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
being values-based, led by principles and a sense of purpose at the heart of the enterprise. They are dealing with the crisis of capitalism by offering a new and different model. Q: Why do we need a new corporate model? A: There have been... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
quantity and quality. Performance data was always at the heart of those efforts, but it wasn't a leading factor. Q: What is your primary focus? Morino: Performance really starts with the leadership of the organization. I didn't set out to... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
or template, which we call a "strategy map," that complements the Balanced Scorecard with a simple, succinct visualization of the hypotheses and interrelationships that are at the heart of strategy.4 (See Figure 2-2.) The... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
watch a series of real, crime-related videos (while the control group watches non-crime-related videos). Not previously victimized participants exposed to the treatment video show significant changes in cortisol level, heart rate, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
announced a small profit. Do you think this is giving heart to other online businesses? A: Priceline failed in the grocery business. But I'm not sure I would develop much out of that [the profit]. There are plenty of profitable online... View Details
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
although structure is undoubtedly an impediment to the process, an even bigger barrier is managers' outdated understanding of strategy. At the heart of the problem is a failure to recognize that although the... View Details