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- 18 Feb 2013
- News
Has American innovation stalled?
- 27 Apr 2020
- News
Three Things Lockdowns Have Exposed About Working and Parenting
- 05 May 2021
- News
How Do You Embed a Sense of Purpose Into a Company?
- January 1996
- Background Note
Standard Costs and Variance Analysis
In an introduction to standard costs and cost variances, discussion, formulae, and examples explore the idea of comparing actual costs to those that were expected. View Details
Keywords: Cost Accounting
Rapier, Donella. "Standard Costs and Variance Analysis." Harvard Business School Background Note 196-121, January 1996.
- 14 Jan 2016
- Blog Post
Liberal Arts Major Pursues an MBA
I could prove myself before being swallowed whole by the swarm of finance wizards. I can’t help but smirk when I think back on this vivid memory, as I couldn’t have been more misguided in my anxiety. It was a matter of hours, not days, before I realized the View Details
- 22 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
The Forward Fellowship Convinced Me That I Belong at HBS
up, I did not have any idea what an MBA was or why anyone would need one. Enjoying Kentucky’s Lake Cumberland from the pontoon It was years after leaving my beloved hometown that I would hear that all-empowering phrase: “The answer is... View Details
- 23 May 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
What Causes Industry Agglomeration? Evidence from Coagglomeration Patterns
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The Surprising Power of Online Experiments
In the fast-moving digital world, even experts have a hard time assessing new ideas. Case in point: At Bing a small headline change an employee proposed was deemed a low priority and shelved for months until one engineer decided to do a quick online controlled... View Details
- November 2007
- Case
Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT)
By: H. Kent Bowen and Courtney Purrington
Translating innovative ideas form the clinician to the patient remains a major problem in the field of medicine. Dr. John Parrish and colleagues created an organization (CIMIT) that brings the technical, financial, and administrative resources to these innovative... View Details
Keywords: Financing and Loans; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Resource Allocation; Alliances; Research and Development; Health Industry; Service Industry
Bowen, H. Kent, and Courtney Purrington. "Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT)." Harvard Business School Case 608-036, November 2007.
- 21 Dec 2019
- News
3 myths about creativity that are probably holding you back
- 27 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Ordinary People Get Creative?
Teresa Amabile argues that average folks deserve careful investigation, especially in the age of user innovation and crowdsourced problem-solving, when big ideas routinely come from the masses. The article appears in a forthcoming issue... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- January 2024
- Case
Deion Sanders: The Prime Effect
By: Hise O. Gibson, Nicole Gilmore and Alicia Dadlani
In 2023, Deion Sanders, known as “Coach Prime,” became head football coach of the University of Colorado Boulder (CU). Sanders was tasked with leading CU’s struggling football program, which had only achieved one winning season in the last 15 years, back to glory. Many... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Style; Leading Change; Management Style; Race; Prejudice and Bias; Sports; Experience and Expertise; Sports Industry; United States; Colorado
Gibson, Hise O., Nicole Gilmore, and Alicia Dadlani. "Deion Sanders: The Prime Effect." Harvard Business School Case 624-001, January 2024.
- 22 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Bringing ‘Lean’ Principles to Service Industries
well-grounded research on how improvements can be brought to services through some of these lean concepts." Not all lean manufacturing ideas translate from factory floor to office cubicle. For example, tools such as the andon cord, a... View Details
- 27 Sep 2017
- News
What Happens When Ordinary People Get Creative?
- November 2007
- Article
The Accidental Entrepreneur: The Emergent and Collective Process of User Entrepreneurship
By: Sonali K. Shah and Mary Tripsas
We develop a process model of how users, an understudied source of entrepreneurship, create, evaluate, share, and commercialize their ideas. We compare and contrast our model to the classic model of the entrepreneurial process, highlighting the emergent and... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Valuation; Business Model; Commercialization; Adoption; Adaptation; Product; Civil Society or Community
Shah, Sonali K., and Mary Tripsas. "The Accidental Entrepreneur: The Emergent and Collective Process of User Entrepreneurship." Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 1, nos. 1-2 (November 2007): 123–140.
- 12 PM – 1 PM EST, 09 Jan 2019
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How Better Immigration Policies Foster Business Innovation and Growth
Talent is a critical factor in driving innovation in science, engineering, and today's knowledge economy. Professor Bill Kerr explores the data and ideas that should drive the next wave of policy and business practice around high-skill immigration. View Details
- 26 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?
When ChatGPT and other large language models began entering the mainstream two years ago, it quickly became apparent the technology could excel at certain business functions, yet it was less clear how well artificial intelligence could handle more creative tasks. Sure,... View Details