• 12 Aug 2019
• Research & Ideas

How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

way or if it's time to part ways–the company has outgrown them. I once had a talented engineer on my team who was a great prototyper but not strong writing production-level code. Each time he tried to follow a project from the View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

• 06 Feb 2020
• Research & Ideas

What We Learned from Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents

secretive companies. About the Authors Boris Groysberg is the Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Tricia Gregg is an independent researcher. [Image: Chuck Bigger / Alamy Stock Photo] Related Reading Creating the View Details

Keywords: by Tricia Gregg and Boris Groysberg; Retail

• 13 Apr 2009
• Research & Ideas

Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis

to nurture talent is legendary. Just about anybody who is anybody in jazz can trace some lineage back to "Miles University." Finally, the process that led to Kind of Blue is an example of pushing boundaries and taking View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music

• 13 May 2013
• Research & Ideas

How to Spot a Liar

researchers recruited 104 participants to play the ultimatum game, a popular tool among experimental economists. In the traditional version of the game, one player (the allocator) receives a sum of money and proposes how to divvy it up... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

• Research Summary

Overview

By: Roberto Verganti

Roberto’s research focuses on how to create innovations that are meaningful for people, for society, and for their creators. He explores how leaders and organizations generate radically new visions, and make those visions come real. His studies lie at the intersection... View Details

Keywords: Integrated Design; Strategy; Design Thinking; Innovation; Artificial Intelligence; Design; Technology; Leadership; Innovation Strategy

• 21 Sep 2020
• Research & Ideas

Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?

go back and haggle over the minutes of a meeting,” says Thomke, whose recently released book Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments encourages companies to test new business models to gain a competitive... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

• Teaching Interest

Negotiation

By: Kevin P. Mohan

Managerial success requires the ability to negotiate. Whether you are forging an agreement with your suppliers, trying to ink a deal with potential customers, raising money from investors, managing a conflict inside your firm, or resolving a dispute that is headed... View Details

• 17 Sep 2012
• Research & Ideas

Blue Skies, Distractions Arise: How Weather Affects Productivity

conducted the sessions of the study to take advantage of natural variation, and then we experimentally manipulated subjects' exposure to outside options," the authors explain in the paper. Half of the participants were asked to come to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

• 07 May 2020
• Research & Ideas

The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation

Learning from forced experimentation and investment in risk-mitigating technologies may help firms become smarter and more flexible. For example, before the crisis, firms may have regarded the investment of time and resources to... View Details

Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso

• 14 Jul 2020
• Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

heightened uncertainty? While we are still far from knowing what constitutes a “best practice,” there is already a great deal of experimentation emerging globally. To provide an early report of these emerging approaches, over the past... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

• 28 Jul 2020
• Research & Ideas

Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Discrimination

incorporate efforts to measure discrimination into their experimental testing to understand the impact of different design choices. Be transparent. Platforms should make their work on issues of discrimination transparent and open up lines... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Travel; Entertainment & Recreation; Service