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  • 2012
  • Book

Strategic IQ: Creating Smarter Corporations

By: John R. Wells
In today's world, only the smartest survive. The competitive landscape is littered with graves of well-known firms whose revenues, profits and stock prices rose for decades until they suddenly imploded.
In fast-changing business environments, firms must adapt... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Competition; Business Growth and Maturation; Adaptation; Corporate Strategy; Decision Making; Innovation and Invention
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  • 2007
  • Chapter

Creativity in Product Development

Managing new product development is a key area of management, straddling strategy, innovation and entrepreneurship and macro-organizational behaviour. All of the contributors in the Handbook of New Product Developmet Management are well-known and leading exponents to... View Details
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Product Development; Problems and Challenges; Research; Creativity
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  • May–June 2025
  • Article

Sustainability as a Business-Model Transformation

By: Ivanka Visnjic, Felipe Monteiro and Michael L. Tushman
Many global companies have made public commitments to sustainability targets. Fulfilling these commitments will require firms to transform their business models and organizational architectures. A few pioneers are leading the way, demonstrating that companies can make... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Business Model
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    The Transparency Trap

    To get people to be more creative and productive, managers increase transparency with open workspaces and access to real-time data. But my research shows that less-transparent work environments can actually yield more-transparent employees who solve problems more... View Details

      The Everything Token: How NFTs and Web3 Will Transform the Way We Buy, Sell, and Create

      A Harvard Business School professor and a16z crypto research partner and a career marketer and Web3 entrepreneur demystify the coming digital revolution, showing how NFTs will transform our online and offline... View Details
      • 28 Aug 2008
      • Sharpening Your Skills

      Sharpening Your Skills: History Matters

      excerpt. Key concepts include: Schumpeter's ideas on capitalism, entrepreneurship, and innovation still have great resonance to students and businesspeople today. Do Great American Business Leaders Share Similar Characteristics? Who Rises... View Details
      Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones & Anthony Mayo

        Trust

        Entrepreneurial ventures often fail in the developing world because of the lack of something taken for granted in the developed world: trust. Over centuries, the developed world has built customs and institutions such as enforceable contracts, an impartial legal... View Details
        • Article

        Act Like a Scientist: Great Leaders Challenge Assumptions, Run Experiments, and Follow the Evidence

        By: Stefan Thomke and Gary W. Loveman
        Though they’ve been warned for decades about the dangers of overrelying on gut instinct and personal experience, managers keep failing to critically examine—much less challenge—the ideas their decisions are based on. To correct this problem they need to think and act... View Details
        Keywords: Innovation and Management; Decision Making; Science; Leadership Style
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        • 21 Aug 2019
        • Blog Post

        Leveraging Academic Opportunities to Attain My Post-HBS Job

        immense value for businesses that need to assess an individual’s financial information, such as lenders. Ultimately, Plaid’s mission is to empower innovators by democratizing access to the financial system.   I had always been interested... View Details
        • 2017
        • Book

        Extreme Teaming: Lessons in Complex, Cross-Sector Leadership

        By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey
        Today's global enterprises increasingly involve collaborative work by teams of experts operating across different professions, organizations, and industries. Extreme Teaming provides new insights into the world of complex, cross-industry projects and the ways... View Details
        Keywords: Groups and Teams; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Leadership; Complexity
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        • 13 Feb 2007
        • First Look

        First Look: February 13, 2007

          Working PapersAdding Bricks to Clicks: The Effects of Store Openings on Sales through Direct Channels Authors:Jill Avery, Mary Caravella, John Deighton, and Thomas Steenburgh Abstract We assess the effect of View Details
        Keywords: Martha Lagace
        • 2010
        • Working Paper

        Boundary Spanning in a For-profit Research Lab: An Exploration of the Interface Between Commerce and Academe

        By: Christopher C. Liu and Toby E. Stuart
        In innovative industries, private-sector companies increasingly are participants in open communities of science and technology. To participate in the system of exchange in such communities, firms often publicly disclose what would otherwise remain private discoveries.... View Details
        Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Higher Education; Information Publishing; Innovation and Invention; Science-Based Business; Social and Collaborative Networks; Boundaries; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
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        • February 2010 (Revised June 2012)
        • Case

        "Plugging In" the Consumer: The Adoption of Electrically Powered Vehicles in the U.S.

        By: Elie Ofek and Polly Ribatt
        How will U.S. consumers respond to the proliferation of alternative-fuel vehicles, such as cars powered partially or completely by electricity, in the coming decade? After a century in which fossil fuel-powered vehicles dominated the market, it appeared consumers would... View Details
        Keywords: Energy Sources; Policy; Marketing; Demand and Consumers; Business and Government Relations; Natural Environment; Pollutants; Adoption; Auto Industry; United States
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        • April 2012 (Revised February 2017)
        • Case

        Dovernet

        By: Robert Simons and Natalie Kindred
        This case illustrates the implications of using stringent performance measurement systems to create performance pressure, motivate employee achievement, and sharpen a firm's competitiveness. It opens by describing the downsides of the ruthlessly competitive culture at... View Details
        Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Information Technology; Competitive Advantage; Decision Choices and Conditions; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Compensation and Benefits; Web Services Industry; Information Technology Industry; Vancouver
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        • September 2017 (Revised March 2018)
        • Case

        Chai Point: Disrupting Chai

        By: Shikhar Ghosh, Ramana Nanda and Rachna Tahilyani
        Chai Point is India’s largest organized chai retailer. It has missed its target for retail store openings by approximately 25%, goals that are very important to its investors who are also board members. However, it has developed an exciting new internet-based tea... View Details
        Keywords: Strategy; Venture Capital; Stock; Business Model; Mobile Technology; Technological Innovation; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Food; Selection and Staffing; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Resignation and Termination; Compensation and Benefits; Resource Allocation; Product Positioning; Distribution Channels; Product Design; Supply Chain; Governing and Advisory Boards; Food and Beverage Industry; Retail Industry; Asia; India; Karnataka; Bangalore
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        • August 2023 (Revised October 2023)
        • Case

        Beyond the Barricades: Chile 2023

        By: Debora Spar, Willis Emmons, Leonard A. Schlesinger and Ruth Costas
        Chile, often considered among Latin America's greatest economic success stories, suffered a shocking wave of protests in October 2019, as its citizens demanded reforms across healthcare and education systems, and protested inequality and rising costs of living. As... View Details
        Keywords: Government Administration; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Public Opinion; Equality and Inequality; Public Administration Industry; Chile; Latin America; South America
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        • 06 Apr 2009
        • Research & Ideas

        Cheers to the American Consumer

        countries may be the most important of all enablers of entrepreneurship and innovation in America. Why is the American consumer more venturesome? Six factors come to mind. Wealth. The average American consumer has more disposable income... View Details
        Keywords: by John Quelch
        • Research Summary

        Lean Startup Management Practices

        By: Thomas R. Eisenmann

        Many information technology startups have embraced "lean startup" management practices. Lean startups confront high levels of uncertainty about both customer problems and product solutions: the strength of demand for new... View Details

        • 2011
        • Book

        Accelerating Energy Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors

        By: Rebecca Henderson and Richard G. Newell
        Accelerating energy innovation could be an important part of an effective response to the threat of climate change. Written by a stellar group of experts in the field, this book complements existing research on the subject with an exploration of the role that public... View Details
        Keywords: Energy Sources; Innovation and Invention; Climate Change; Policy; Competition; Demand and Consumers; Finance; Energy Industry
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        • Research Summary

        Overview

        What makes some organizations more innovative than others? Innovation follows from strategy and structure. A good strategy allows individuals to impose their own imagination towards organizational goals in a coordinated way. Good structure adds incentives that... View Details
        Keywords: Energy Generation; Renewable Energy; Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Innovation and Management; Resource Allocation; Strategy; Energy Industry; Green Technology Industry; Canada; United States; Europe; Croatia; Serbia and Montenegro