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- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
Frame Flexibility: The Role of Cognitive and Emotional Framing in Innovation Adoption by Incumbent Firms By: Raffaelli, Ryan, Mary Ann Glynn, and Michael Tushman Abstract—Why do incumbent firms frequently reject nonincremental... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government
other projects produced the nation's first big-city 311 app that allows citizens to alert government to potholes and graffiti. He also helped cut through zoning laws to create the Boston Innovation District on a vast and underdeveloped... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 7
incumbent attracting and retaining more profitable customers over time. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=39914 Clusters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation By: Chatterji, Aaron, Edward Glaeser, and William Kerr... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Bringing ‘Lean’ Principles to Service Industries
experience when faced with yet another new initiative, the goal of lean is to open up the work process and abolish the usual hierarchies. According to Staats, this seems to have happened at Wipro. "It was interesting to talk to some... View Details
- September 2011 (Revised July 2012)
- Case
Building Watson: Not So Elementary, My Dear!
By: Willy Shih
This case is set inside IBM Research's efforts to build a computer that can successfully take on human challengers playing the game show Jeopardy! It opens with the machine named Watson offering the incorrect answer "Toronto" to a seemingly simple question during the... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Standards; Product Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Mathematical Methods; Research and Development; Information Technology
Shih, Willy. "Building Watson: Not So Elementary, My Dear!" Harvard Business School Case 612-017, September 2011. (Revised July 2012.)
- 10 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business
change, speed, innovation or agility, go to the new agile network. Book Excerpt Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World John Kotter Read An Excerpt "The world is moving too fast," Kotter says. "You can't add on a... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 20 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh
We all enjoy sharing jokes with friends, hoping a witty one might elicit a smile—or maybe even a belly laugh. Here’s one for you: A lawyer opened the door of his BMW, when, suddenly, a car came along and hit the door, ripping it off... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 23 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'
liberating, creatively and personally. “We had this charismatic appeal, this raw authenticity, but we didn’t have the cultural or social capital to access those worlds and people weren’t exactly excited about opening the doors for us, for... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 09 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?
about what they're doing will invite more targeting. And I think this concern is well founded, which unfortunately leaves consumers in the dark about many of the innovative programs that companies have deployed to address these concerns.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
organizational processes of developing a business model. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=46978 The Liability of Leakage: How Indirect Ties to Competitors Impact Innovation in Entrepreneurial Firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
possessed, first, strong capabilities in branding and marketing. It understood local markets, and it knew how to market to them. It was at the frontier of market segmentation strategies in packaged consumer products. It opened up new... View Details
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
and power in the world's largest corporations, the Global 1000, has opened the way for managers to consider the interests of a broader set of stakeholders rather than only shareholders. Having documented that this alternative view better... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
Richard L. Nolan are professors at Harvard Business School while Shannon O'Donnell is a consultant with Cutter Consortium's Innovation Practice and a PhD fellow at Copenhagen Business School. The three teamed up via email for the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
impact, especially on practitioners. A central reason is that Porter addresses very specific needs of different practitioner constituencies, providing a framework and actionable ideas they could easily relate to. The final section turns to a number of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard
in the book the different roles, frequencies, participants, and agendas for operational review meetings and strategy review meetings. We open the book with a great quote often but perhaps inaccurately attributed to Sun Tzu in The Art of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
review analysis for predicting restaurant inspection results. Publisher's link: http://people.hbs.edu/mluca/hygiene.pdf August 2013 MIT Sloan Management Review Using Open Innovation to Identify the Best... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
policy epoch; second, conditional on the first choice, it has to decide on its local responsiveness strategy at the onset of each policy epoch. India, which experienced two policy shocks-shutting down to MNEs in 1970 and then opening up... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Life of Luxury and How to Sell It
subject of a case study showing that luxury and sustainability need not be mutually exclusive. The Ferrari WaySecretive sports car maker Ferrari opens up about how it bucked industry trends to achieve success. How Would You Price One of... View Details
- 13 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis
only two short sessions in 1959. At the age of 32, Davis coaxed innovative ideas out of his players—among them greats including John Coltrane and Bill Evans—that took everyone by surprise. He also remade the industry, introducing longer,... View Details
- 29 Oct 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Robots in the Boardroom
effective targets. Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer ToolRadiation oncologists are few in number, especially if you are nowhere near a cancer facility. Could artificial intelligence be used... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne