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- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
or multiple keystones, the heart of technology strategy for a niche player is to continually innovate by integrating technology available from the ecosystem to sharpen the niche offering that it is crafting.... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Desktop Search and Revenue Streams
information…(but) the problem is at the end of the day, the user wants an answer—he doesn't want more and more of them." Herve Gellaire, chief technology officer of... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 07 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?
Many of us learned at an early age the expression caveat emptor, or let the buyer beware. The phrase conjured up an image of a roiling, rollicking market that consumers best entered equipped for battle and... View Details
- 22 Dec 2016
- Op-Ed
The Small Business Administration is a Model for How to Drive Economic Growth
to American innovation and growth. Small businesses are actually the foundation for economic growth and, with that, critical to policy that purports to care about the average American. In fact, if we consider what Americans expect from... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills
- 22 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs
period between 1995 and 2008. In jobs closely linked to innovation and technology, the share of immigrants was even higher, closer to 24 percent. "Skilled immigration is important for the United States,... View Details
- 08 Sep 2011
- What Do You Think?
What’s Apple’s Biggest Challenge: Replacing Steve or Wall Street?
opposed to Microsoft where the technical people rule. In some respects, Apple's experience with Jobs has parallels with Starbucks' history with Howard Schultz, also a hands-on, detail-oriented leader who created the innovative concept... View Details
- 08 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy
In the new book International Strategy: Context, Concepts, and Implications, Harvard Business School Adjunct Professor David J. Collis presents a comprehensive guide to a topic of ever-increasing relevance for managers across all sectors... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 07 Oct 2015
- What Do You Think?
What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?
On Immigration Does the US Have Anything to Learn from Europe? We should not confuse the potential economic benefits of immigration for the United States with what is happening in Europe and specifically Germany. While the benefits can be... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Aug 2010
- What Do You Think?
What Is Customer Opinion Good For?
I'll throw the finished product back over the wall,' dissolving the wall and finding the best product collaboratively is the way to innovation." Naveen Kashyap commented, "In a business world where the paradigm is collaborative innovation... View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
corporate attention than employee, consumer, and environmental health. In a survey of more than 80 companies attending the Building a Culture of Health conference at Harvard Business School in April 2016, a... View Details
- 03 Feb 2020
- What Do You Think?
Can an Organization Have Too Much 'Rebel Talent'?
agility and innovative outcomes. Take diversity, for example. As Gino herself points out, research has found that “greater diversity produces better outcomes exactly because it is harder to work among a mix View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
With more than 7,500 views and 180-plus tweets, I want to thank everyone for taking the time to read the original HBS Working Knowledge piece, The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking, and, in particular, for sharing your thoughts with one... View Details
- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
Harvard City Leadership Initiative, I have met unbelievably innovative leaders whom some of my American colleagues and counterparts could learn from. Even where we should not replicate precisely what they do... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Why Global Brands Work
world. They're no longer on that list, but Toyota now is. How did Toyota—and the other nine companies—do it? There are 5 characteristics that all top global brands have in common: 1. The same positioning worldwide. This provides a combination View Details
- 11 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Politicians Benefited From Using Toxic Loans
and risk-taking was especially high," he says. "But this was widespread across Europe, and has been observed in India, China, and the United States to some extent. Politicians are kind of the same all over the world. If you give them an... View Details
- 30 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?
effectively only to allow talent to slip through our fingers. Rather, retention and personal development are the name of the game. Inclusion and voice are important ways of achieving them as well as the... View Details
- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
profligate consumers of it," he said. "Maybe we just need to figure out how to get the high-end, expensive hospitals and doctors to somehow get good at providing inexpensive care. Or maybe we just need to subsidize it with... View Details
- 11 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers
mass of consumers and producers. “If I was a tech company, I would sponsor every single hackathon I could find.” The researchers used an innovative dataset to show that the social environment View Details
- 17 Apr 2017
- Research Event
The Most Pressing Issues for Platform Providers in the Sharing Economy
is just one of many dilemmas that can incite insomnia in a sharing-economy platform provider. There’s also the threat of disintermediation between producers and consumers; the fear View Details
- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
No matter how you slice the numbers, all arrows in biotechnology's financial performance after twenty years are still pointing downward, said HBS professor Gary P. Pisano recently. Despite the great promise of the sector—to improve the... View Details