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- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
collective-impact effort to achieve its aims: (1) a common agenda, which helps align the players' efforts and defines their commitment; (2) a shared measurement system; (3) mutually reinforcing activities;... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
multi-sided business, its technology offering and early business model, its efforts to shift to a new model based on media distribution, and its chief competitors in that market space. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
greater success in their collaborative innovation efforts. We found many firms mistakenly applied an "outsourcing" mindset to collaboration efforts which, in turn, led to three critical errors: First, they focused solely on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
that the choices a VC makes when negotiating can contain important clues about her assessments and expectations. Above all, when you're negotiating with a VC, think not only about what will look good in a press release today but also... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 28 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #4: Erika Myers, World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
increased 30% year over year. “Partly, that’s a result of feelings of oil insecurity and supply reductions,” Erika said. “But Tesla can’t fill all of the orders it’s receiving because of the high demand.” She applauded the choices and... View Details
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
in choosing between a traditional mode (where the firm takes control of service provision) and a platform mode (where professionals retain control over service provision). The choice of mode is determined by the need to balance two-sided... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2023
- Blog Post
Choosing To Be Optimistic about Climate Change
hundreds of billions of dollars to train workers to build the electricity infrastructure required to achieve net-zero targets, retrain workers displaced from the fossil fuel sector, and bring climate justice to places where good jobs have never existed. Yet we also... View Details
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
Location Choices Through the Value Chain By: Alcácer, Juan, and Mercedes Delgado Abstract—We explore the impact of geographically bounded, intra-firm linkages (internal agglomerations) and geographically bounded, inter-firm linkages... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
Porter: HBS alumni are in leadership positions all over the world, and they are making critical choices that determine the ultimate success of the US economy. The ability to get this in-depth information from our alumni and to have so... View Details
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
competence—expertise in technology—and its skilled people to accomplish what government and relief agencies could not: an information system and supply chain that tracked and managed the flow of relief supplies. Its efforts were crucial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
"multi-front negotiation campaign" (Sebenius 2010, Lax and Sebenius 2012) offers an analytic approach that may enjoy descriptive and prescriptive advantages over more traditional approaches that focus on a specific negotiation as the unit of analysis. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963
education, as superintendent. In partnership with the charismatic Stanford, Nielsen worked to bring about a "transformation"—a word he much prefers over "reform." In a series of controversial moves, the school board eliminated mandatory busing and instituted... View Details
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
enrolled at centers with biometric monitoring are 25% less likely to interrupt their treatment than those at regular centers—an improvement driven by increased attendance and efforts by health workers and greater protocol adherence by... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 27
comprehensive analysis of the range of possible strategic interactions between an innovative entrant and an incumbent where their choices of business models are endogenously determined and where the incumbent may imitate an entrant's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
may respond to this additional uncertainty by purchasing more products, thereby generating additional sales for the retailer. We refer to this phenomenon as the value of concealment (VoC). We develop a model of consumer choice that is... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
Your Mind? A Countrywide Experiment on Voter Choice in France By: Pons, Vincent Abstract—Existing evidence on the impact of door-to-door canvassing comes from small-scale experiments that assign treatment at the individual level (at which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
1990s, NASA had implemented a program called "Faster, Better, Cheaper," (FBC) which involved making fundamental changes to the way the organization developed unmanned spacecraft. It was a massive organizational transformation View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2017
- Book
Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies
challenge for companies is organizational. Gerdeman: In a world where both user and producer innovation exists, do you think we need to reassess the role of intellectual property? Lakhani: The role of intellectual property is a very important question. This research... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Mar 2006
- What Do You Think?
The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?
choice of resisting or leaving, as we will be inevitably be the next victims of the repressive policies we did not confront but ended up supporting by complying." Some offered more highly-textured advice. Saurabh Gautam said,... View Details
- 03 Sep 2014
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Choose Your Boss?
duties, it is wise, as part of its selection process, to seek inputs from those who will 'live' daily with the next leader." Mike Flanagan commented: "The more buy-in from a broader range of people the better (the) choice and... View Details