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- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
external solvers through innovation contests, has to decide if it will enable collaboration in its community. Case covers the basics of a distributed innovation system works and the advantages of having external R&D. Links how concepts of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
open space while decreasing greenhouse gas emissions. This year, the DUMBO BID must decide if it should continue its small actions or pursue a neighborhood-wide Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating while constrained... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29
KR, which ironically improves with increasing access to other sources of knowledge. We conclude that KRs are unlikely to scale service operations without additional intervention. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries
more specific rules. “Regulators should have the temperament that ‘we need to make this thing work,’ but most regulators don’t think about it that way and just want to protect the down side,” Lal says. “Regulators should have an open... View Details
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
GlaxoSmithKline: Sourcing Complex Professional Services Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) uses an innovative new approach to procuring outside legal counsel: it replaces relationship-based selection and law firms' traditional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
leverage this source of demand to learn from these experiences and design and develop innovative products. What should GM do? It must aim to achieve a clear transition with the IPO and not be satisfied with only incremental improvements.... View Details
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
do, provides actionable access to the source of performance. This actionable access to the source of performance opens up a new realm of opportunity for study and research and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
companies have more experience with self-cannibalization than Amazon. Several years ago, it announced its Fulfillment by Amazon strategy. Just when it had created an impressive warehousing and logistics operation, it opened up these... View Details
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
more than managerial hierarchies, immigrants and diaspora were critical sources of entrepreneurship, illegal and informal forms of business were commonplace, diversified business groups rather than the M-form became the major form of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
Quelch and Rodriguez wrote a case in May about Philips, which started in 1891 as a light bulb manufacturer in the Netherlands and, more recently, has become a major manufacturer of medical devices and software sold primarily to hospitals.... View Details
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
thirty-nine-year-old fellow we interviewed cashed out his start-up software business for a cool $19 million in 1999 and felt ashamed to tell his peers he hadn't made more! When records break at such earth-shattering speed, being all we... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
creativity and innovation in the world: open innovation, user innovation, and citizen innovation. Research into this phenomenon could do much to advance the study and practice of creativity. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
past few years (yes there are some). It is true that Greece reformed laws and regulations to make its economy more open to foreign trade and as a result more competitive. Trade (defined as the sum of exports and imports) to GDP ratio... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
collateral and liquidate it at the first sign of trouble. Thus traditional banks have a stable source of funding, while shadow banks are subject to runs and fire-sale losses. These different funding models in turn influence the kinds of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
More Business-Related Pandemic Coverage from Around Harvard and Beyond COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business School) Your CEO Succession Plan Can’t Wait (Harvard Business Review) A Pandemic Won’t Kill The Open Office, But... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
In the opening minutes of the only classroom video ever made of the man widely recognized as the world's leading authority on case-method teaching, Professor C. Roland ("Chris") Christensen carefully arranges desks in an empty... View Details
- 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28
interactive online demonstration enables first-hand exploration of the parameter space (www.mpmlab.org/groups), and available source code (supplementary materials) provides a guide to implementing psychological agent-based models.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
important single person to your business." When you really analyze it, you don't want the creative person to be more customer-oriented. That's not what he does for a company. He's the source of surprises that the customers might... View Details
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2197876 Expectations of Returns and Expected Returns Authors:Greenwood, Robin, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract We analyze time-series of investor expectations of future stock market returns from five data sources... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers
Bulls In The News While not in the realm of incentives, per se, another of Parsons's papers also shows how extremely open to influence people can be. It stands to reason that news can influence events as much as it reports on them—but... View Details