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- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
coupled with various programs to address the frozen credit markets and depressed investors' confidence. Yet the burning question in every policymaker's mind was—how effective would the various plans work to revive the U.S. economy?... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool
sponsors need to develop an a priori view of how solutions will be evaluated. Both of these activities are non-trivial, and the best scientific minds struggle with clearly articulating problems and defining solution criteria. However, our... View Details
- 04 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage
offerings. Focus first on the problem—not the solution. Be sure that you don't just listen to your current customers. They have the same tunnel-vision problems that you do and may even actively push to keep you from considering new approaches. Keep in View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- 05 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV
Central Europe is very much like going to Mexico, he says. Yet as Central Europe is integrated into the European Union, it is still important for managers to keep in mind that wage rates also tend to rise very quickly there, particularly... View Details
- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
discoveries. The Irrational Economist challenges the conventional wisdom about how to make the right decisions in the new era we have entered. It reveals a profound revolution in thinking as understood by some of the greatest minds in our... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store
rewards programs as a defense mechanism. They just try to copy what the competition is doing. If that is all that you do, then you are not clear in your own mind about what can be done with the help of these programs. Unless you have... View Details
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
kind of arrangements under negotiation such as the requirement that the majority of a joint venture be owned by a local partner? Are high-tech deals particularly sought after by the state? What recent deals by others, successful or not, will be salient in the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
transmit knowledge for a lot of reasons, both in the types of knowledge and the types of ways that they try to do it, and also the degree to which the entrepreneurs have receptors for it. Brian DeLacey: One statistic that still sticks out in my View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
Abstract—Preparing students for the consequential ethical decisions that they will face in their careers is among the most difficult tasks of management education. I describe some of these challenges based on my book Why They Do It: Inside the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
launch of new products. A series of questions are presented that companies should keep in mind when poised to launch a product. Questions about advertising, pricing, and branding are explored, as well as who in a product's supply chain... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Small Wins Unleash Creativity
at all until we cure cancer.'" (Shifting goals constantly, on the other hand, would be an inhibitor. Imagine a meeting at which the leader says something to the effect of, "Do this because I said so, and never mind that I said... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
HBS grad, too, just for the record. He said, "You know, as a CEO, you've got to be focused on the key issues. There are so many things coming at you. But always have in your mind what are the five or ten key things that have to get... View Details