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  • 20 Aug 2020
  • Book

From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives

For centuries, the creation of innovative technology—from steam engines and automobiles to computers and smartphones—has dramatically changed the nature of our work. Less deeply understood has been the impact of technology on the inner currents of our personal lives,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • March 16, 2021
  • Article

From Driverless Dilemmas to More Practical Commonsense Tests for Automated Vehicles

By: Julian De Freitas, Andrea Censi, Bryant Walker Smith, Luigi Di Lillo, Sam E. Anthony and Emilio Frazzoli
For the first time in history, automated vehicles (AVs) are being deployed in populated environments. This unprecedented transformation of our everyday lives demands a significant undertaking: endowing complex autonomous systems with ethically acceptable behavior. We... View Details
Keywords: Automated Driving; Public Health; Artificial Intelligence; Transportation; Health; Ethics; Policy; AI and Machine Learning
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  • 2013
  • Chapter

Effective Teamwork and Collaboration

By: Heidi K. Gardner
Book Abstract: The ability to attract, develop, and retain talent has become one of the biggest competitive issues for law firms. But although talent management is now recognized as a business issue of prime importance, law firms often lack the experience, vision, and... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Legal Services Industry
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    ShotSpotter

    SST offered a subscription-based gunfire detection service, ShotSpotter Flex, to cities across the United States, and a few abroad. Over its 20-year history, SST had mostly honed a reliable business to government sales model, and the company had been focused on... View Details
    • 17 May 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: May 17

      Working PapersThe First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures Authors:Thomas F. Hellmann and Noam Wasserman Abstract This paper examines the division of founder shares in entrepreneurial ventures, focusing on the decision of whether or not to divide... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • November 2020
    • Article

    Taxation in Matching Markets

    By: Arnaud Dupuy, Alfred Galichon, Sonia Jaffe and Scott Duke Kominers
    We analyze the effects of taxation in two-sided matching markets, i.e., markets in which all agents have heterogeneous preferences over potential partners. In matching markets, taxes can generate inefficiency on the allocative margin by changing who is matched to whom,... View Details
    Keywords: Matching Markets; Labor Markets; Taxation; Labor; Markets
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    • June–July 2019
    • Article

    A Methodology for Operationalizing Enterprise IT Architecture and Evaluating Its Modifiability

    By: Robert Lagerström, Alan MacCormack, David Dreyfus and Carliss Y. Baldwin
    Recent contributions to information systems theory suggest that the primary role of a firm’s information technology (IT) architecture is to facilitate, and therefore ensure the continued alignment of a firm’s IT investments with a constantly changing business... View Details
    Keywords: Enterprise Architecture; Modularity; Information Systems; Modifiability; Design Structure Matrix
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    • July–August 2015
    • Article

    Engineering Reverse Innovations: Principles for Creating Successful Products for Emerging Markets

    By: Amos Winter and Vijay Govindarajan
    Multinationals are starting to catch on to the logic of reverse innovation, in which products are designed first for consumers in low-income countries and then adapted into disruptive offerings for developed economies. But only a handful of companies have managed to do... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation Strategy; Emerging Markets
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      New To Big: How Companies Can Create Like Entrepreneurs, Invest Like VCs, and Install a Permanent Operating System for Growth

      Serial entrepreneurs David Kidder and Christina Wallace reveal their revolutionary playbook for igniting growth inside established companies.

      Most established companies face a... View Details

      • 01 Dec 2023
      • News

      The Imposter Among Us

      Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Peter Arkle It was their rst day at Harvard and like the rest of his cohort, Edgar Wallner (PMD 22, 1971) will never forget meeting Robert Gaines-Cooper. Frankly, it would have been difficult to miss the Englishman, who... View Details
      Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
      • 28 May 2024
      • In Practice

      Job Search Advice for a Tough Market: Think Broadly and Stay Flexible

      is that the types of skills needed are constantly evolving, so many employers prefer workers with a strong foundation in a variety of skills. This allows them to learn quickly and adapt to whatever new skills are required of them. Country... View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne
      • June 2017 (Revised October 2017)
      • Case

      Becton Dickinson: Innovation and Growth (A)

      By: Raffaella Sadun, Michael Beer and James Weber
      In late 2015, CEO Vince Forlenza was reviewing Becton Dickinson’s transformation efforts designed to enable the company to innovate and grow in a changing environment. Becton Dickinson had been a successful medical device company for over 100 years. In recent years,... View Details
      Keywords: Transformation; Change Management; Innovation Leadership; Mergers and Acquisitions; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Health Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States
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      • 12 Sep 2023
      • Research & Ideas

      How Can Financial Advisors Thrive in Shifting Markets? Diversify, Diversify, Diversify

      broadly for other industries looking to appeal to younger clients or adapt marketing strategies to a fluid business environment. Sizing up a changing investment world Historically speaking, financial advisory firms have focused on... View Details
      Keywords: by Ben Rand; Financial Services
      • 06 Jul 2016
      • Research & Ideas

      The Truth About Authentic Leaders

      In this sense leaders’ styles become the outward manifestation of their authenticity. As leaders gain experience and develop greater self-awareness, they become more skillful in adapting their style, without compromising their character.... View Details
      Keywords: by Bill George
      • 31 Oct 2023
      • Research & Ideas

      Beyond the 'Business Case' in DEI: 6 Steps Toward Meaningful Change

      More than three in four Fortune 500 companies justify their workforce diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts by making the business case. It sounds like this: By making our workforce more diverse, we’re building a more innovative and competitive company. The... View Details
      Keywords: by Katherine Hutt Scott and Barbara DeLollis
      • Research Summary

      Management Control Systems in Multiunit Companies

      By: Tatiana Sandino

      Professor Sandino conducts research on early-stage multiunit companies that introduce management control systems to help maintain operations, as well as company culture, as they grow, but also to enable adaptation to the different markets that they serve. Building... View Details

      • 14 May 2018
      • Research & Ideas

      Amazon vs. Whole Foods: When Cultures Collide

      Jamie_Hall Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods last August was the corporate equivalent of mixing tap water with organic extra virgin olive oil. You’d be hard-pressed to find two companies with more different value propositions. Even so, it was surprising to hear... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage
      • 02 May 2023
      • What Do You Think?

      How Should Artificial Intelligence Be Regulated—if at All?

      outside on what is acceptable. After interviewing Google CEO Sundar Pichai for 60 Minutes last month, CBS correspondent Scott Pelley said Pichai “told us society must quickly adapt with regulations for AI in the economy, laws to punish... View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett; Information Technology; Technology
      • 07 Feb 2022
      • Research & Ideas

      Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success

      digital transformation an even more urgent need, companies must also morph iteratively to keep up with the speed of emerging technologies. It’s a process of continuous learning and pivoting to adapt to an evolving competitive landscape.... View Details
      Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards
      • Web

      Organizational Behavior - Faculty & Research

      well-being of its students. How would the foundation sustain momentum with donors and make the most meaningful difference for generations of rural students in Kazakhstan? Keywords: Mission and Purpose ; Organizational Change and View Details