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The Art of Balancing Autonomy and Control: What Managers Can Learn from Hackathon Organizers about Spurring Innovation.

By: Hila Lifshitz - Assaf, Sarah Lebovitz and Lior Zalmanson
Today, managers recognize that innovation requires a high level of work autonomy for their employees. This encourages curiosity, enables independent thinking, and provides an environment in which employees can experiment and test new problem-solving approaches with... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Hackathon; Autonomy; Control; Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management
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  • 17 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 17

of NiSource's recent proposal to pursue a tax-advantaged spin-off its pipeline business. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/215026-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 815-001 Growth Hacking at Bazaart (A) The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • September 2013 (Revised November 2013)
  • Case

AngelList

By: Ramana Nanda and Liz Kind

In early 2010, Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi posted a list of angel investors on the Venture Hacks blog as a resource for founders looking for funding prior to seeking venture capital. The list quickly evolved into AngelList, a separate matchmaking platform for... View Details

Keywords: Angel Investors; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurial Finance; Finance; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • 07 Nov 2023
  • Research & Ideas

When Glasses Land the Gig: Employers Still Choose Workers Who 'Look the Part'

graphic designers, for instance, it is better to be female, and to have a high quality, professional-looking photo (with a small plus for glasses). Other hacks for programmers: Grow a beard and keep a computer visible, Troncoso finds.... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
  • 26 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 26

  Publications International Marketing Review Achievement Motivation, Strategic Orientations and Business Performance in Entrepreneurial Firms: How Different Are Japanese and American Founders? By: Deshpandé, Rohit, Amir Grinstein, Elie Ofek, and Sang-Hoon Kim... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Feb 2020
  • Sharpening Your Skills

How Entrepreneurs Can Find the Right Problem to Solve

Ethnography. Observing prospects performing the job you hope to improve or replace can be extremely insightful. You may find hacks they would never tell you about in an interview or discover a whole new set of problems in their process.... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • 13 Jul 2016
  • HBS Case

How Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy Attracted Their First 1,000 Customers

a better job of making apartments appealing than the online classified site, but first they had to siphon away its customers. To do that, Chesky and Gebbia created software to hack Craigslist to extract the contact info of property... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail; Service; Transportation
  • 08 Feb 2010
  • HBS Case

Looking Behind Google’s Stand in China

of action? A: The hacking incident was probably the last straw in a rather long line of issues. Sooner or later, Google had to stand up for its principles. They have always been at odds internally as to whether or not being in China,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
  • 06 Apr 2016
  • What Do You Think?

As Tim Cook, How Would You Tackle Apple's Next Challenge?

Summing Up--Is Product Security A Potential Distraction for Apple’s Leadership? The saga of Apple’s stand-off with the United States government over the Company’s refusal to assist the FBI in hacking its own iPhone product to aid in a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer
  • 22 Jul 2019
  • Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

property owners who wanted to rent out their properties. Where could they find this kind of information? A large number of owners had already posted their properties on a popular online classified website, Craigslist. Airbnb founders developed a piece of software that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 07 Sep 2016
  • What Do You Think?

How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?

is this term an oxymoron?) received attention. To some degree, readers adopted a “user beware” stance. This becomes even more relevant in view of the massive hacking of Yahoo’s email user base that was disclosed after the column was... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 12 Jun 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs

may not be a good investor for you.” This can also be a nice hack around targeting the right investors from the start. Do you have other examples of ways your investors have been helpful beyond their funds? Please share in the comments... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • 05 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/617058-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 818-010 Hacking Heroin “Hacking Heroin” was the first hackathon that Annie Rittgers, founder of Cincinnati-based 17a, had organized or even attended.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jan 2015
  • What Do You Think?

SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?

demand which is deemed as justified by a panel ." What isn't off limits when it comes to transparency? What do you think? Original Article When Sony was hacked recently, most observers concentrated on issues of criminality as well as... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 19 Jul 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard

to illegally hack into the phones of select individuals. That these hackers seem not to be News of the World employees illustrates the Russian nesting doll model, which contains the seeds of moral hazard, since it allows for the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Journalism & News; Publishing
  • 17 Dec 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2020

Values, and Damages Great Companies Performance hacking means overzealous advocacy of positive interpretations to the point of detachment from actuals. In business as in research there are strong incentives for it, but if behaviors are... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 14

the Venture Hacks blog as a resource for founders looking for funding prior to seeking venture capital. The list quickly evolved into AngelList, a separate matchmaking platform for founders and investors to make early stage fundraising... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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