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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
- 21 May 2012
- News
How To Get A Celebrity Endorsement From The Queen Of England
- 14 Aug 2019
- News
The Manager's Guide to Leveraging Disruption
- 2017
- Article
High-Stakes Innovation: When Collaboration Undermines (and Sometimes Enhances) Innovation
By: Johnathan Cromwell and Heidi K. Gardner
Organizations must constantly innovate, or else they may suffer consequences that range in severity. In low-stakes situations, they may lose a small opportunity for growth; and in high-stakes situations, they may lose significant market share that threatens their... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Collaboration; Teams; Creativity Teams; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Groups and Teams; Creativity
Cromwell, Johnathan, and Heidi K. Gardner. "High-Stakes Innovation: When Collaboration Undermines (and Sometimes Enhances) Innovation." Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings (2017).
- 14 Jul 2014
- News
Act Like an Entrepreneur Inside Your Organization
- January 1996 (Revised February 1997)
- Case
Exploring Brand-Person Relationships: Three Life Histories
The idea that "relationships" exist between consumers and products has implicitly occupied a central place in brand marketing thought and practice. Now as relational (one-on-one) marketing is said to be replacing transactional (mass) marketing as the dominant paradigm... View Details
Fournier, Susan M. "Exploring Brand-Person Relationships: Three Life Histories." Harvard Business School Case 596-093, January 1996. (Revised February 1997.)
- 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.
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Conservative Club
- 09 Nov 2015
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Thinkers50 Ranking of Management Thinkers Announced
- 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
- 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
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
- 23 May 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
What Causes Industry Agglomeration? Evidence from Coagglomeration Patterns
- 28 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India
lobbies to keep foreign investment out. There are other aspects to openness, of course, than just FDI. Traditionally, India has been more open to ideas than has China, for instance. Q: How should a foreign entrepreneur size up the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 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