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- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
hard time focusing on anything else. Q: Can you talk a bit about the rationale behind using insights from other sectors to accelerate innovation in energy? A: Part of the idea is to bring attention to industries that have experienced... View Details
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
France. An example of special interest will be the widespread laws against the buying and selling of organs for transplantation. The historical record suggests that while repugnance can change over time, it can persist for a very long... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
understanding of design and manufacturing processes to instruct successfully her American and offshore contractors on how to mass-produce designer clothing at affordable prices. Claiborne was an industry pioneer in many ways. She developed detailed View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity
mid-sized companies.” “Investing in those technologies would make portfolio companies better able to utilize the data they collect from customers and stakeholders, so they could make better business decisions.” In all of these cases, such... View Details
- 25 Apr 2012
- What Do You Think?
How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?
the Big Thinker." Gerald Nanninga cautioned us that "the big risk is that it gives executives a false sense of comfort." Clifford Francis Baker added, "My concern is primarily focused on the possibility of complacency data derived from... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 09 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: JSW Steel
across the country. This January, we had the good fortune to travel to India for one of Harvard Business School’s Immersive Field Courses (IFCs), focusing on “Decarbonizing while Developing.” It was a unique opportunity to understand how... View Details
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
Information Systems Research Open Content, Linus' Law, and Neutral Point of View By: Greenstein, Shane, and Feng Zhu Abstract—The diffusion of the Internet and digital technologies has enabled many organizations to use the open-content... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 14
afraid to demonstrate any sign of weakness. They're reluctant to ask important questions or try new approaches that push them outside their comfort zones. For high achievers, looking stupid or incompetent is anathema. So they stick to the tasks they're good at, even... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
digital platforms not only shaped individual organizations but changed the structure of the entire computer industry. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55092 Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Early on in Kim Scott’s career, she had a few wake-up calls that set her on a mission to become a better boss—a leader who was highly effective but still very human. She began to develop a... View Details
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
consolidated and centralized all key functions, while their "My Macy's" initiative focused on customizing the offerings of individual stores to local markets. By 2011, Macy's had many advantages,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Web
The Spiritual Lives of Leaders - Course Catalog
have a profound influence on your self-understanding, on your formation as a leader, on your understanding of the communities in which you will operate, and on your sense of personal purpose. Course Outline To serve the objectives outlined above, we are planning to... View Details
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). SEAS is relocating its campus across the street from the business school in a few years, and the two organizations are discussing collaboration opportunities. Seeking answers from... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
involves cities across America. Our alumni and our alumni clubs will be key partners in organizing and convening not just HBS alumni, but also other business, government, and labor leaders in each region. We want to identify local View Details
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
Founding Institutions in the U.S. Commercial Banking Industry Authors:Christopher Marquis and Zhi Huang Publication:Academy of Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract This study focuses on the imprinting of institutional environments,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
together before the season," O'Reilly says. Guided by its extensive customer research, fan polling, and tracking of fan-engagement data across all its platforms, the NFL "gets smarter every day in terms of what our different fan segments... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
huge inefficiency.” It was while attending HBS that Makarim formed Go-Jek, a more efficient ojek service that organized 20 or so drivers through a call center; he relied on word of mouth to market the idea to friends and relatives in a... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
learn outside her comfort zone. Today Wallace is founding director of BridgeUp: STEM, an educational initiative at New York’s American Museum of Natural History focused on introducing girls and minorities to computer science. “It’s very... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=108012 GE's Imagination Breakthroughs: The Evo Project Harvard Business School Case 907-048 In September 2003, Jeff Immelt challenged the business leaders at GE to come up with "Imagination... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Aug 2025
- News
Back to the Future
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Scott Anthony (MBA 2001) is a clinical professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, and the author of Epic Disruptions: 11 Innovations That... View Details