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- 16 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 16, 2007
distribution of sales and profits across products. By enabling an analysis of the book acquisition, development, and marketing process from the perspective of the publisher, author, and agent, serves as a vehicle for contrasting different... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2004
- What Do You Think?
For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?
Summing Up Responses to this month's column raise questions about whether Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, requiring that senior managers certify the integrity of the processes by which their companies' financial reports are... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Mar 2025
- News
Uncertain Terms
that instead of solely relying on data, entrepreneurs and other businesspeople should engage in a “creative process that combines facts and imagination.” People who should know better intone “let the evidence speak.” That’s nonsense,... View Details
- 24 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Growing the Seeds of an Early-Stage Startup
process tasks that could be outsourced. At Brass Roots, the team and I are the only resources. We do whatever it takes to complete the tasks and find workarounds when budget isn’t available. For instance, as we work towards piloting a new... View Details
- 24 Apr 2020
- News
Spreading the Love
moments, so if we see an opportunity to make something just a little bit more meaningful, we’re always going to take it.” The company is in the process of deploying 10,000 face shields to health care providers and staff in Massachusetts.... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Intellectual Underpinnings of Entrepreneurial Management
among lenders, investors, suppliers, employees, and so on. Recently this perspective has again been confirmed by Amar Bhidé's systematic study of the "bootstrap" entrepreneur. Schumpeter himself associated entrepreneurship with innovation. Schumpeter defined... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup
trenches. “The creative work is always challenging and fun, but I had become frustrated by how onerous, expensive, and slow it was to do a good job of checking the availability of new names and brands,” she says. “The whole View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 12 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Amager Bakke: I Like This Waste Incinerator in My Backyard!
and lift the waste into the incinerator. The two incinerators can process up to 42 tons per hour at temperatures as high as 1,100°C (2000°F). The exhaust stream reaches twin boilers which produce high pressure steam. The steam powers a... View Details
- 07 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Negotiation and All That Jazz
parties creatively search for mutual gain, and hardball, where each party ruthlessly presses its own advantage. "Win-win has much to say for it," Wheeler says. "But it's not appropriate in every case. If the other person refuses to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
ensure that potentially influential parties bought into the new social contract. When third parties drive the deal. Failure also happens when one team, such as the business development unit, uses a heavily price-driven process to... View Details
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
at hand. The Dark Side of Creativity: Original Thinkers Can Be More Dishonest (2,036) http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6613.html http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-064.pdf Published: February 10, 2011 Paper Released: January 2011 Anyone who has spent significant time with... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 29 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services
advertising stars prefer the creative process to management hassles. Expert accountants prefer accounting. Often the response to an opportunity to assume a leadership position is "Thanks, but no... View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney
- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
(for adults) and improv (for kids) are only some of the creative rewards managers have given their teams. Celebrate not only splashy wins but the steadfast, regular business-as-usual activities that are now being accomplished under... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
(for adults) and improv (for kids) are only some of the creative rewards managers have given their teams. Celebrate not only splashy wins but the steadfast, regular business-as-usual activities that are now being accomplished under... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
“establishing a sense of urgency” — is told by a middle manager who sought to spur change in his company's purchasing process by highlighting its inefficiencies.The manager hired a summer intern to catalogue all the types of gloves being... View Details
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action
alone do not a learning organization make. The necessary complement is a mind-set of inquiry and experimentation, plus a knowledge-sharing process that enables everyone in a company to act in an informed way upon what's been learned... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- Profile
Ann Lucena
large part of the answer is the people the company brings in and the culture it creates," Ann says. "At Google, you could see how much value they place on treating employees well. Creativity and risk-taking are not only valued,... View Details
- Web
IDEO: Human-Centered Service Design | Information Technology
Facing competition from streaming services and increased piracy, Cineplanet sought IDEO’s expertise. Together, they redesigned every facet of their customer experience—from the company’s website to their lobbies. For this request, IDEO embarked on a multi-week trip to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Designing Change
process from the perspective of Kenny Kahn, vice president of marketing, while also including the insights of Kit Hinrichs, a well-known figure in the design world, and his team at Pentagram, the firm that takes on the Muzak assignment.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- Web
Ai Weiwei Strength 2019 | About
traditional processes and lifeways that have been forgotten, usurped, or upended, often as a result of Industrialization and modernization. Born in 1957 in Beijing, Ai Weiwei currently lives and works in Portugal. He attended the Beijing... View Details