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  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

Books

economies and cultures. Understanding this phenomenon of design evolution, the authors write, "is crucial to comprehending the opportunities and the risks that change creates." The authors describe their book as an examination of "the View Details
  • 02 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Explaining China's Crash

decades, the level of exports to developed markets from China grew on the order of 20 percent per year. And yet, the consumption of goods in those markets was only growing by about 5 percent per year. China was therefore grabbing market... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese; Financial Services
  • 14 Aug 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018

believe that the process of voting has resulted in an unacceptable outcome. More generally, we show that procedural justice plays a key mediating role in determining the relative success or failure of various empowerment initiatives—from... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures

budgeting practices is critical. Q: What research is next for you? A: We (C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines Jr. of the University of Michigan, and I) have been in the process of analyzing many of the financial decisions multinationals... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 22 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 22

http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12819 Do you Need a New Product-Development Strategy? Authors:Alan MacCormack, W. Crandall, P. Toft, and P. Henderson Publication:Research Technology Management 55, no. 1 (January-February 2012) Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

evolved and adapted in order to meet new business challenges. This ability—to rapidly update, improve, remove, replace, and reimagine the software applications that underpin a firm’s competitive position—is at the heart of what has been... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 5

Authors:Sebenius, James K. Publication:Negotiation Journal: On the Process of Dispute Settlement Abstract Roger Fisher, who died in 2012, enjoyed a remarkable career that modeled one way that an academic, especially in a professional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Feb 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t

digital technologies and business models. The Incumbents' Challenge As competitors attempt to wedge their way between incumbents and their customers, decoupling presents a difficult challenge. One counter-strategy is what Teixeira calls recoupling. "Intuitively, the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 14 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 14

serious challenges for capturing value. In order to draw in external contributors, an innovator often waives legal exclusion rights or reveals formerly exclusive knowledge. But as a result, contributors may appropriate a large share of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2000
  • News

The Business of Biotech

approval process can add years to a drug's development. "My biggest source of frustration is the inability to move candidates into products more quickly," re-marks Mara Aspinall (MBA '87), president of Genzyme Emerging Technologies at... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 15 Aug 2005
  • HBS Case

Classic Cases Live On at HBS

process analysis—a concept we taught in Production and Operations Management—in a setting that didn't involve steel mills, printed circuit boards, or sorting cranberries. Students got to see the design of a system, linked together in a... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 01 Oct 2009
  • What Do You Think?

Can the “Masks of Command” Coexist with Authentic Leadership?

mask concept explains most if not all of mankind's woes of today." Those arguing a middle ground put forth some interesting suggestions, such as Leamon Duncan's: " sometimes leaders must mask feelings and emotions in order to... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 06 Aug 2020
  • Blog Post

WHY WE STARTED THE HBS BLACK INVESTMENT CLUB

classmate Paul Ampofo (MBA 2020). The idea came to me after I saw many of my Black classmates become discouraged by being left out of recruiting processes altogether or repeatedly rejected from the small pool of coveted roles in venture... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 21 Mar 2023
  • Blog Post

Grundfos: Innovation & Inspiration for Sustainable Product Design

they’ve increased – by 83% since 2000. The company has also focused on reducing carbon emissions of its pumps by initiating a take-back program to disassemble pumps at their end of life in order to recycle the scrap materials. For this... View Details
  • 20 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

highlight a two-stage process for marketing resource allocation. In stage one, a model of demand is estimated. This model empirically assesses the impact of marketing actions on consumer demand of a company's product. In stage two,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 30

effect of variation in experience on performance. The problem is that variation in experience improves a team's information processing capacity and knowledge base but also creates coordination challenges. We hypothesize that team... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 15, 2015

Common mistakes, the authors say, include failing to view disruption as a gradual process (which may lead incumbents to ignore significant threats) and blindly accepting the “Disrupt or be disrupted” mantra (which may lead incumbents to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 May 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy

and $20 discounts, respectively, in exchange for targeted advertisements from Amazon and third-party sellers on the device. If consumers opt-out of the program, they skip both the ads and the subsidy. The logical conclusion is that Amazon is willing to subsidize... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products
  • 05 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 5, 2010

Demand: Model and Estimation Methodology Authors:Nathan Craig, Nicole DeHoratius, and Ananth Raman Abstract To set service levels, firms must understand how changes in service affect customer demand. Supply learning is a process whereby... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 May 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018

Abstract—Many production processes are subject to inspection to ensure they meet quality, safety, and environmental standards imposed by companies and regulators. Inspection accuracy is critical to inspections being a useful input to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne