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- 18 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool
about separating problem definition and solution assessment from the solving phase.” It tells how 34 contestants competing anonymously online over 10 weeks reviewed almost 78,000 images and submitted 45... View Details
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bringing the Environment Down to Earth
considerations of social responsibility are important, executives who frame environmental problems solely in those terms may overlook the business opportunities and risks that come with such problems. Treating environmental issues like... View Details
Keywords: by Forest Reinhardt
- 11 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Saving the Planet
Still Care About the Paris Climate Change Agreement?America has withdrawn from the 2015 Paris agreement on climate change. Should business leaders care? Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?If industry... View Details
- 14 Dec 1999
- Research & Ideas
From Spare Change to Real Change: The Social Sector as a Beta Site for Business Innovation
Despite its long economic boom, America's social problems abound. To ensure future economic success, the country needs dramatic improvement in public schools, more highly skilled workers, jobs with a future for people coming off the... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 24 Oct 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation
Solutions? Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation Borrowing a practice that is common in the open source software community, HBS professor Karim Lakhani and colleagues decided to see how "broadcasting" might work among scientists trying to View Details
- 10 Dec 2007
- HBS Case
One Laptop per Child
collaborative tasks from writing assignments to playing digital instruments. At the same time it needed to address constraints such as the lack of electrical power in many remote rural areas—a problem it View Details
- 11 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives
You may think that being an energy executive—especially a manager in a leading oil company—might be the easiest job around. Just flip the production switch, and watch gas prices head toward $4 a gallon. But students enrolled in Harvard Business School professor Forest... View Details
- 08 Apr 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?
stirred up and targets solving the preeminent problem that emerges as the mud settles. Disruptive leverage lies in the hands of an astute follower." Thornton Parker carried this line of thinking a bit... View Details
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
entirely on faraway academics and organizations to solve local problems. This frustrates Ashraf, who for more than a decade has studied behavioral economics in the context of developing countries. She believes that global health... View Details
- 06 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything
The world is. on. fire. The Earth is burning. We only have a little time to arrest climate change, and if we fail to do so the consequences will be both dire and irreversible. We have the technology and the resources to fix things, if we want to. We even have a... View Details
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Challenge of the Multi-site Nonprofit
Rangan cautioned that there is no single cookie-cutter approach to solve the problems of all nonprofits. For example, if a meal kitchen has 100 strong, local operations there is little need for national... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?
co-researchers wanted to find out whether sustainable investment capital is flowing to companies that are in the best position to solve the urgent and complex problems created by climate change. In their new... View Details
- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Negotiator’s Secret: More Than Merely Effective
these potentially damaging biases. You may be crystal clear on the right negotiation problem—but you can't solve it correctly without a firm understanding of both sides' interests, BATNAs, valuations, likely actions, and so on. Yet, just... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Innovation Is Magic. Really
not seen as making progress when you don't have solutions to show. I would argue it's just as important as solving problems. Organizations can do a wonderful job at solving the wrong problems." Figure out... View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Industrial Giant
basically the same things, which forced the two firms to compete for suppliers. 87 Ford and GM also had disparate styles and software, which made it very difficult for suppliers to streamline their systems. To solve these problems, Ford,... View Details
- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
and Performance in Information and Solution Spaces By: Shore, Jesse, Ethan Bernstein, and David Lazer Abstract—Using data from a novel laboratory experiment on complex problem solving in which we varied the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
problems like advertising auctions and market design. The accelerating phenomenon has given rise to a new field within economics called the economics of digitization. Research from the field is quickly finding its way into practice,... View Details
- 28 Nov 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?
individualized) levels." Peter Lee added "The real issue is what you consider to be performance Performance is all about quality-quality of effort as well as results." Gerald Nanninga suggested that "let's solve the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Freeing Patient Data to Enable Innovation
in the industry that have obvious inefficiencies and solving those directly. Corbin turned back to the problem of customer service. "I'd pay attention to hospital systems and how they engage with payers,"... View Details