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- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
Review 48, no. 2 (winter 2007): 29-36 Abstract Many technology-intensive companies today depend on employees with specialized technical skills, and managers may not fully understand the work these employees... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Health Care - Faculty & Research
Affordable Care Act. The (A) case in this series discusses the legislative strategy in the House of Representatives, where three different committees each had jurisdiction over health care legislation. Blog Post Innovation in Health Care... View Details
- 17 Jan 2020
- In Practice
6 Traits That Set Top Business Leaders Apart
Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time. 3. They balance confidence and humility "Great leaders have the ability to act decisively and with confidence to inspire their team while... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 2021
- Book
Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator's Dilemma
By: Charles A. O'Reilly III and Michael Tushman
Why do successful firms find it so difficult to adapt in the face of change—to innovate? In the past ten years, the importance of this question has increased as more industries and firms confront disruptive change. The pandemic has accelerated this crisis, collapsing... View Details
Keywords: Organization Change And Adaptation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation and Management; Leading Change
O'Reilly, Charles A., III, and Michael Tushman. Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator's Dilemma. Second ed. Stanford, CA: Stanford Business Books, 2021.
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
change in the information set for employees when the incentives and decision rights remain unchanged. Also examines the tradeoffs front-line employees face as they divide their efforts between reaching new... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
involvement of star actors critical to the success of motion pictures? Film studios, which they regularly pay multimillion-dollar fees to star actors, seem driven by that belief. I shed light on the returns on this investment using an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Globalization - Faculty & Research
democracy being a substitute for economic IGOs, but a complement for social and cultural IGOs. July 2013 Article Ethnic Innovation and U.S. Multinational Firm Activity By: C. Fritz Foley and William R. Kerr This paper studies the impact... View Details
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
List: Breakthrough Ideas for 2010," which is compiled by this journal in collaboration with the World Economic Forum. The ten problems and the innovative solutions are discussed in each essay. This particular essay describes research... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- October 2014 (Revised June 2015)
- Case
Quiet Logistics (A)
By: Robert Simons and Natalie Kindred
This two-part case focuses on how to identify and manage strategic uncertainties in an innovative, entrepreneurial start-up company. In the (A) case, students learn about Quiet Logistics, an e-commerce fulfillment company working with high-end apparel retailers such as... View Details
Keywords: Strategy Execution; Strategic Uncertainty; Disruptive Change; Managing Growth; Robotics; Disruptive Technology; Managing Start-ups; Management Control Systems; Performance Measurement; Business Growth and Maturation; Disruption; Entrepreneurship; Disruptive Innovation; Crisis Management; Risk Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; E-commerce; Distribution Industry; Technology Industry; United States
Simons, Robert, and Natalie Kindred. "Quiet Logistics (A)." Harvard Business School Case 115-001, October 2014. (Revised June 2015.)
- 10 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business
employees who volunteer for the effort. The initiative is launched by top management or an executive committee. The principles of Kotter's dual operating system are: Important changes are driven by many... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/113059-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Supplement 913-416 From Little Things Big Things Grow: The Clontarf Foundation Program for Aboriginal Boys (B) This case focuses on the growth of an View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
universities and private companies to develop technologies important to Danish industry. We assess the effect of a unique mediated funding scheme that combines project grants with active facilitation and conflict management on firm performance, comparing the likelihood... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
for persons 6 months of age and older, but less than half of U.S. adults get vaccinated. Many employers offer employees free influenza vaccinations at workplace clinics, but even then take-up is low. Objective: To determine whether View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
HBR Classics - Alumni
Gabarro, Robert J. Lees Wild West of Executive Coaching , Stratford Sherman, Alyssa Freas Motivating Others Employee Motivation Moving Mountains One More Time Negotiating with and Persuading Others Necessary Art of Persuasion Negotiating... View Details
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
increasingly using crowdsourced public goods as inputs for innovation and production. Counterintuitively, some firms pay their employees to contribute to the creation of these goods, which can be used freely... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Developing Leaders Who Bridge Business and Engineering
Denise Dupré and Mark Nunnelly (MBA 1984) Mark Nunnelly (MBA 1984) and Denise Dupré are deeply committed to the creation of innovative programs for students who are driven to create, lead, and grow companies... View Details
- 27 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11
organizational units, one for law enforcement and one for domestic intelligence, seeking what scholars call “structural ambidexterity.” Two, the FBI could have pursued “contextual ambidexterity” wherein senior management establishes simultaneous structures and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
James L. Heskett
James L. Heskett is UPS Foundation Professor Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author of his latest book, With From Within: Build Organizational Culture for Competitive... View Details
- 10 Feb 2020
- In Practice
6 Ways That Emerging Technology Is Disrupting Business Strategy
itself, companies are considering their user data and their tech employees as the primary drivers of competitive advantage.” Frank Nagle (@frank_nagle), an assistant professor who is also affiliated with the HBS Digital Initiative, the... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 12 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities
recalibrate everyone’s compensation down the road. The recalibration process is PAINFUL. Employees are driven by three major motivators: The work they do, the people they do it with, and fair compensation... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin