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- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
Forces. He had at his disposal a large part of the $600-plus billion Department of Defense budget and some of the most inventive people at DARPA, the DoD’s research arm, and other places. And yet he still began a startup outside the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
outlining the situation to the team. His email generated a negative backlash and chain of defensive emails from involved staff who felt criticized. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608171... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
when compared to defense and healthcare expenditures, not to mention the costs incurred recently rescuing failing banks and automakers, among others. But the picture changes when we consider the long-run consequences of policies that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
the leading proxy advisor Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). Lastly, the case discusses the critique and defense of the board's role and is designed to allow for a discussion of the causes and consequences of the cyber breach and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
When we perceive a competitor's groundbreaking innovation as a threat, we may act defensively and hastily. But if we see that same event as an opportunity, our response might be more deliberate and unhurried. As a leader, how you frame... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
new rules are inadequate to treat the performance problems that they encounter most often; 2) The refusal to see governance as a performance element that can be improved may be viewed at least in part as a defense mechanism. No one likes... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
6000 citizens were incarcerated in and around New Orleans without representation and with all official records destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. Professor Sullivan designed an indigent defense delivery system that resulted in the release of... View Details
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
evolved in those markets. New business processes had to be created from scratch as a network originally intended for research and military defense had to deal with network interconnectivity, the needs of commercial users, and a host of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
inventors. However, the model also shows that as NPEs become effective at bringing frivolous lawsuits, the resulting defense costs inefficiently crowd out some firms that, absent NPEs, would produce welfare-enhancing innovations without... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
categorize as trust or litigate. Since I am an engineer and not a lawyer, I fall into the trust camp, but there are obviously minimal legal defenses that you absolutely have to build. If things become overly litigious, however, it really... View Details
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
Gender Inequality: The Work-family Narrative as a Social Defense Against 24/7 Work Culture By: Padavic, Irene, R. Ely, and Erin M. Reid Abstract—It is widely accepted that the conflict between women’s family obligations and professional... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
small inventors. However, the model also shows that as NPEs become effective at bringing frivolous lawsuits, the resulting defense costs inefficiently crowd out some firms that, absent NPEs, would produce welfare-enhancing innovations... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
General Motors a distant fourth. Most influential company/organization Microsoft IBM General Electric Among dozens of other organizations cited, many picked the "U.S. government" or branches of it (the IRS, Defense Department), along with... View Details
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
of over £3 billion. Under the leadership of CEO Peter Rogers, Babcock had grown revenues and profits nearly tenfold over the previous decade as it benefited from increased public sector outsourcing. In 2012, for the UK's Ministry of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
president - McKinsey & Company's Marvin Bower (MBA '30) reported on the effort to "streamline Bulletin make-up and typography." Content of the quarterly magazine was dominated by the School's involvement in wartime training courses, essays on the role of business in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
Fragmented upstream and downstream channels instead persist, with strong odds against upstream suppliers waging a successful defense of material interests. Such distinctive industrial structures, we show, were a direct result of whether... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
motivation for and the development of Siemens' digital manufacturing enterprise vision, which became the foundation for its implementation of Industrie 4.0. While the effort started with a purely defensive move by Anton Huber, head of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
edge of the most dramatic changes in our history. After earning an engineering degree, he served as a pilot in the U.S. Air Force with the Strategic Air Command, America ’s first line of defense during the Cold War against Soviet... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Business Deep Purpose offers a compelling reassessment and defense of purpose as a management ethos, documenting the vast performance gains and social benefits that become possible when firms manage to get purpose right. Few business... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
predecessors to modern computers. The computing revolution naturally followed, in part fueled by government projects like ARPANet, the Defense Department initiative that would lay the foundation for the modern internet. But powering all... View Details