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  • 2012
  • Chapter

Knowledge-based Innovation: Emergence and Embedding of New Practice Areas in Management Consulting Firms

By: Heidi K. Gardner, N. Anand and Tim Morris
How do innovative knowledge-based structures emerge and become embedded in organizations? We drew on theories of knowledge-intensive firms, communities of practice, and professional service firms to analyze multiple cases of new practice area creation in management... View Details
Keywords: Competency and Skills; Innovation and Invention; Knowledge; Organizations; Practice; Mathematical Methods; Consulting Industry
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  • 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20

has received substantial attention in the strategy literature, where a number of qualitative approaches to describe, represent, and evaluate business models have been proposed. We contend that while helpful to understand a firm's overall... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Social Influence Given (Partially) Deliberate Matching: Career Imprints in the Creation of Academic Entrepreneurs

By: Pierre Azoulay, Christopher C. Liu and Toby E. Stuart
Actors often match with associates on a small set of dimensions that matter most for the particular relationship at hand. In so doing, they are exposed to unanticipated social influences because counterparts have more interests, attitudes, and preferences than would-be... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Patents; Marketplace Matching; Mathematical Methods; Science-Based Business; Power and Influence; Social and Collaborative Networks; Biotechnology Industry
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  • July 2006
  • Article

Bringing History (Back) into International Business

By: G. Jones and Tarun Khanna
We argue that the field of international business should evolve its rhetoric from the relatively uncontroversial idea that 'history matters' to exploring how it matters. We discuss four conceptual channels through which history matters, illustrating each with a major... View Details
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    Ryan L. Raffaelli

    Ryan Raffaelli is the Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He created and teaches the MBA course "Leadership: Execution and Action Planning" (LEAP) and serves... View Details

    Keywords: publishing industry; advertising; consulting; information technology industry; grocery; nonprofit industry; retailing; consumer products; federal government
    • 2015
    • Working Paper

    Financial Patent Quality: Finance Patents After State Street

    By: Josh Lerner, Andrew Speen, Mark Baker and Ann Leamon
    In the past two decades, patents of inventions related to financial services ("finance patents"), as well as litigation around these patents, have surged. One of the repeated concerns voiced by academics and practitioners alike has been about the quality of these... View Details
    Keywords: Patents; Lawsuits and Litigation; Finance
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    PhD Programs - Doctoral

    requirements and curriculum, read student profiles as well as student research , and placement information. The PhD in Business Administration grounds students in the disciplinary theories and research methods that form the foundation of... View Details
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    By: Andy Wu
    How can technology entrepreneurs build competitive advantage from the ground up? Professor Andy Wu conducts scholarly research and develops course materials that document how technology entrepreneurs can (1) organize for innovation to create new market opportunities... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Growth Management; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Technology Platform; Technological Innovation; Information Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Video Game Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States; China; Southeast Asia; South Asia
    • Web

    Faculty & Research

    reflected and shaped Microsoft’s strategy, culture, and financial communication. The case provides rich quantitative exhibits (segment revenue, operating income, margins, cloud KPIs) and qualitative material (CEO commentary, analyst... View Details
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    Program Requirements - Doctoral

    behavior courses: Micro Topics in Organizational Behavior (HBS 4882) Macro Topics in Organizational Behavior (HBS 4880) Completion of four term-length courses in research methods: Two term-length courses in quantitative methods (FAS... View Details
    • 26 Jul 2011
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    First Look: July 26

      PublicationsPolicy Bundling to Overcome Loss Aversion: A Method for Improving Legislative Outcomes Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Mary Carol Mazza, Lisa L. Shu, Chia-Jung Tsay, and Max H. Bazerman Publication:Organizational Behavior and... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 May 2024
    • What Do You Think?

    Have You Had Enough?

    within rather than how it gets compared in the trivial world with tangible possessions.” Michael Levin reminded us that it’s not easy to determine enough when he said, “Happiness, enough, and a metric for life are a hard trio to dance to. Life measured against View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 25 Feb 2015
    • HBS Seminar

    Jeffrey Schnapp, Harvard Graduate School of Design

    • 20 Aug 2021
    • Blog Post

    Is the MBA Worth It? Hear What Recent HBS Grads Have to Say

    HBS MBA worth it? I graduated from a liberal arts undergrad with a major in American Studies. Despite working in private equity for a few years pre-MBA, I felt I needed a proper business education. HBS provided me with the technical and View Details
    • 05 May 2009
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    First Look: May 5, 2009

    lines. The discussion can end with comparisons of the Mexican political and government circumstances that encourage this method of producing workforce housing as compared with the U.S., China, India, and other markets. Purchase this case: View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • December 5, 2024
    • Article

    A Consensus Definition of Creativity in Surgery: A Delphi Study Protocol

    By: Alex Thabane, Tyler McKechnie, Phillip Staibano, Vikram Arora, Goran Calic, Jason W. Busse, Sameer Parpia and Mohit Bhandari
    Introduction
    Clear definitions are essential in science, particularly in the study of abstract phenomena like creativity. Due to its inherent complexity and domain-specific nature, the study of creativity has been complicated, as evidenced by the various... View Details
    Keywords: Creativity; Health Care and Treatment; Outcome or Result; Measurement and Metrics
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    About the Center - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

    About the Center The C. Roland Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning was established in 2004 to promote and support teaching excellence and innovation within Harvard Business School. It also provides leadership and expertise about case View Details
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    Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

    over small changes in their collective interest levels to implement a regression discontinuity approach. We confirm the positive effects for venture operations, with qualitative support for a higher likelihood of successful exits. On the... View Details
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    Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

    and unfunded firms. Because randomization of the sample was not feasible, we address endogeneity around selection bias using a sample of qualitatively similar firms based on a funding decision score. This allows us to observe the local... View Details
    • 10 May 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

    Portraiture is a method of qualitative research that blurs the boundaries of aesthetics and empiricism in an effort to capture the complexity, dynamics, and subtlety of human experience and organizational... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education