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- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
seem to want. For example, Kodak first began to sense that digital imaging might pose a threat to its core business in the mid-1990s. It invested more than $2 billion in research and development. However, it framed the challenge as,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Exploring Career Passions through Short Intensive Programs – Moving Beyond Direct to Consumer
disruption and its implications for the strategies people carefully constructed for a world that no longer fit their assumptive patterns. The course is tackling urgent business issues at the strategic and operational levels in the same time View Details
- 18 Dec 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Grooming Next-Generation Leaders
assume we have fantastic R&D people," he continues. "They are building ideas. They might never ask the question, 'Is this relevant to the company, customers, and marketplace?' Sometimes they might just work with the budget they have on a potential... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are You Supporting Your B Players?
them kept very simple agendas, not long to-do lists. Their agendas were divided into three time periods: zero to six months, six to eighteen months, and eighteen months and longer. Have only two or three items on your zero-to-six-month View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rituals Strengthen Couples. Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, Too
the couple viewed it. In fact, the same actions—going on a regular date night or making coffee for a partner—may be framed by some couples as mere routines, but by others as meaningful rituals. The researchers found that the benefits of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Life
who had such disparate beliefs. "But in the end I'm glad, because I think that the principles we discuss in this book are broadly applicable to people's lives. I hope that we've been able to frame them in a way that is accessible to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Best Paper Award for “Cognitive Framing and Capability Development at the Federal Bureau of Investigation” with Tiona Zuzul, Ryan Raffaelli, and Jan Rivkin. Ranjay Gulati : Winner of the 2019 Strategic Management Society (SMS) Annual... View Details
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: The Strategy of Differences
usually much less profitable than domestic business. Why is globalization proving so hard to get right? The answer is related in part to how companies frame their globalization strategies. In many if not most cases, companies see... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
dive into a subject area than a single course but less comprehensive than CLIMB, and participants earn a Certificate of Specialization . Courses are HBS Online’s most targeted learning experience for those interested in a specific subject and shortest time View Details
- 01 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?
short-changed, or disappointed ” Other comments reflected the nature of the dilemma, with some advice about what she should do. Philippe Gouamba’s comment framed the dilemma nicely: “As this Nation still believes in freedom of speech and... View Details
- 27 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution
analysis," he continues, "reveals that Firestone failed not despite, but because of its historical success." In this excerpt Sull shows how, from the start, Firestone's reliance on managers' existing strategic frames and... View Details
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)
to sort of leverage this subtle change in the founding story over time,” he says. When startups are pivoting to adapt their product or service, they need to be aware of how they frame those changes for external stakeholders and their... View Details
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What Black Executives Really Want
of support at the company to advance. We need to do better. If I am a Black executive, how will I get practical tools and opportunities? For some it was seeking help with basic things like—How do I reply to an email from my boss? How do I View Details
- 30 Jun 2021
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021
What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details
Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland
- 29 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The History and Influence of Andy Grove
being an historian is the perspective provided by the passage of time. You have a frame in which you can place events. The historian is willing to sacrifice, for that priceless asset, immediacy and access. We have a lot of perspective on... View Details
- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
good at associational thinking, or simply associating. They make connections between seemingly unrelated problems and ideas and synthesize new ideas. I would frame associational thinking by asking this question: Has somebody else in the... View Details
- 04 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms
of psychological research showing that your background influences the way you frame problems,” Gompers says. “If I am in a firm with five white guys who all went to Harvard, it’s likely we are going to see the world in the same way and... View Details
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
base of decades of archival research, what remains the most convincing explanation for the growth of large firms and the emergence of modern management. Moreover this research agenda was framed in a much wider context, because he... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
air.” Two critical questions, posed by Hernan Saenz and Dunigan O’Keeffe of Bain and Company, can help organizational leaders frame their thoughts about how to survive in the present and position their companies to thrive in the... View Details
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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
they have built up to the daily problem of making scratch resistant sheets . . . of keeping the frame from warping, of getting dirt out of the lamination. . . . Whatever is necessary to make the whole gang of us do a better job for... View Details