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- 20 Apr 2021
- Book
A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success
creating value. Danielle Kost: What is different about the companies that put value at the center of their strategy? Felix Oberholzer-Gee: I admire how disciplined they are. Every company that I studied for the book has many talented... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 29 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas
inevitable complications Though founders typically allow more time—and often buffer generous time-to-market estimates—they seem blind to the myriad interconnections and changes that subsequent products will require, the study found. That... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
which casts the profit-seeking incentives of firms as the main driver of technical change. In a series of influential writings, von Hippel and colleagues found empirical evidence that flatly contradicted the producer-centered model of innovation. Since then, the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 21, 2010
Burke, and Cantillon through to that of Longfield, Cairnes, Bastable, Edgeworth, Geary, and Gorman, it is surprising that no systematic study of Irish political economy has been undertaken. In this book the contributors redress this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas
“Fail fast” has become the corporate innovation mantra, but new research suggests that inventions that build on science, with its systematic observation and methodical experiments, may deliver more value to companies. US patent filings... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
against it. Our review includes 129 studies spanning three levels of organization: within a single firm, across firms, and open community-based development. Across these levels, the hypothesis was supported in 69% of the relevant cases,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 8, 2010
determinant of choices than fairness, and iii) agents display a marked propensity to work for principals with similar distributional concerns. Working PapersReport on the State of Available Data for the Study of International Trade and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly
life and death for patients. "One device I am studying allows you to replace a heart valve through a catheter inserted in the thigh, rather than doing open-heart surgery," she says. "It allows a whole group of people who are very sick to... View Details
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
old technology, and "retreat" strategies, which attempt to accommodate the rise of the new technology by repositioning the old technology in the demand environment. Underlying our arguments is the observation that the emergence... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 23, 2016
executives and their personal characteristics to study gender gaps in CEO appointments and pay. Both gaps are sizeable: 18% for CEO appointments and 27% for pay. At most one-eighth of the gaps can be attributed to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
Prior research says little on this question because it has tended to study design change and identity change separately. This paper links the two by examining how the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) transformed itself... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service
yet. The first two months of RC (first) year were a blur. I had never really thought about my career so holistically before—I studied biomedical engineering as an undergrad, and immediately became a biomedical engineer. The resources at... View Details
- 16 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making
with busy film executives, however. Indeed, says Luo part of what makes the Black List interesting in the first place is the “light-touch” approach that surveys executives about scripts they are already coming across in the course of their everyday business. New to... View Details
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
Download working paper: http://www.nber.org/papers/w20667 Multi-Sided Platforms By: Hagiu, Andrei, and Julian Wright Abstract—We study the economic tradeoffs that drive organizations to position themselves closer to or further away from a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Pulpit Bullies: Why Dominating Leaders Kill Teams
When Harvard Business School Associate Professor Francesca Gino invites high-powered business leaders to address her class, she often observes an interesting phenomenon. The guest speakers announce that they are just as interested in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 10 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces
on the school’s training programs and read extensively about charter schools in general, for additional context. As they read through their notes, Ramarajan and Reid observed a clear, common theme: Tutors were struggling to implement the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
commonly observed organizational pattern, review the empirical evidence, and conclude with open research questions. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49262 Forthcoming Journal of Economic Geography Return... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
cases. The wide geographical coverage includes not only the United States and Europe but also less studied settings, including Chile, Costa Rica, New Zealand, and Japan. The book serves as a warning against facile beliefs in the potential... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?
behavioral dynamics that may exist in supply chain management. What led you to study this in particular? Rogelio Oliva and Noel Watson: Supply chains are incredibly complex with numerous moving parts. To appreciate this complexity, it is... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
2018 Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism American Capitalism: New Histories By: Beckert, Sven, and Christine Desan, eds. Abstract—The United States has long epitomized capitalism. From its enterprising shopkeepers, wildcat... View Details