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09 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

design process. This design rule is easy to state, but it is difficult to follow for two basic reasons. First, some core production technologies are less amenable to applying the rule than others. Second, organizations have a tendency to... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria

17 Jan 2011
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Being the Boss

between those two bosses and how to negotiate what will be your priorities, given their priorities. Q: Due to technological advances and globalization, more and more managers find themselves leading, collaborating with, and reporting to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

September 2013 (Revised August 2015)
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Leadership and Teaming

By: Ethan Bernstein

Small differences in the leadership of teams can have large consequences for the success of their efforts. Many initiatives fail not because of a fatal error in judgment or insufficient ideas, knowledge, motivation, or capabilities to deliver a solution. They fail... View Details

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24 Apr 2012
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and resource-efficient development with the use of information and communication technologies to better manage complex urban systems. Book: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415893169/ Integrated... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

23 May 2012
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Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

communication and encouragement, they can find the courage to try, fail, redo, and try again. Carliss Baldwin How can companies tap their customers for innovative ideas? Firms have a tendency to look at their navels. The first thing I... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson

August 2000
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Developing Nurse Practitioners at the College of St. Catherine

By: Clayton M. Christensen and Sarah S. Khetani

Margaret McLaughlin has just begun her new appointment as the Dean of Health Professions at the College of St. Catherine in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota. As an education leader, her charge is to develop Minnesota's health care workforce for the future. She is... View Details

Keywords: Trends; Debates; Decision Choices and Conditions; Higher Education; Teaching; Growth and Development; Technological Innovation; Leading Change; Goals and Objectives; Value Creation; Health Industry

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04 Apr 2017
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Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51635 forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Cost of Experimentation and the Evolution of Venture Capital By: Ewens, Michael, Ramana Nanda, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract—We study how View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Oct 1999
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Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

Rica, for instance, with a long history of investing in education, began developing a cluster in information technology some years ago and eventually convinced Intel to build a plant there. Related actions followed, including supplier... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter

22 Jul 2008
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different responses lenders designed to minimize the impact of information asymmetries. As far as Latin America is concerned, there is no previous historical research available. In that sense, this paper aims to depict some of the mechanisms used within the Argentine... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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

communications and sales strategy. As a new startup with constrained resources, the company knew its marketing decisions would make or break the new product. Purchase this case: https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/518065-PDF-ENG Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

17 Aug 2009
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Quantifying the Economic Impact of the Internet

in social networks and online communities as a source of support. And 19 percent of all U.S. marriages are now the result of bride and groom meeting via the Internet. When regulators start trying to constrain the Internet, let's be aware... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Advertising; Publishing

31 Jan 2023
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It’s Not All About Pay: College Grads Want Jobs That ‘Change the World’

organizational purpose or social responsibility—reduce the overall bump paid to college-educated workers by about 5 percent, finds the study, which Zhang wrote with Nathan Wilmers, an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

12 Oct 2022
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When Design Enables Discrimination: Learning from Anti-Asian Bias on Airbnb

While the company admits the project won’t end prejudice on its platform, “it’s an important step that can identify discrimination that would otherwise go undetected,” according to Airbnb’s website. The company has removed 1.5 million people from its View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds; Technology; Technology

20 May 2014
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Hellenic Bottling Company) and the role of regulation in integrated reporting (Anglo-American). Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2388716 Information Technology and the Distribution of Inventive Activity By: Forman, Chris,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Mar 2023
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Why Business Travel Still Matters in a Zoom World

the power of Zoom and similar communication technologies. The advent of these technologies has really shrunk distance,” he says. Ultimately, Choudhury hopes that leaders realize that nonstop flights could... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Air Transportation

25 Mar 2015
HBS Case

Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum

four museums, including the acclaimed Tate Modern—has pushed the boundaries of what an art museum can be. Its journey may be both a road map and a caution for many institutions—cultural and business—as they begin to explore the promise of digital View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

25 Oct 2016
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October 25, 2016

on how they communicate with the capital markets and how the markets respond to the disclosure event. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51752 Carbon Tariffs: Effects in Settings with View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Nov 2007
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What Is Management’s Role in Innovation?

managers, according to Marc Sniukas, should "set the context; guide the process ; clearly communicate reasons ; shield creative teams ; appreciate distinctiveness in people and their thinking; and welcome change." As Dan Hoch... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

December 2022 (Revised June 2023)
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Hacking the U.S. Election: Russia's Misinformation Campaign

By: Shikhar Ghosh

The case discusses the relatively low technology approach used by Russia to influence the U.S. Presidential Election in 2016. Although political parties manipulating the media was not a new phenomenon, the Russians ran a broad, well-financed, and sophisticated social... View Details

Keywords: Political Elections; International Relations; Social Media; Power and Influence; Information; Russia; United States

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27 Mar 2018
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First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018

also present a panoply of challenges for communities and states. Surprisingly, federal laws are chief among those challenges despite the fact that online marketplaces facilitate transactions traditionally regulated at the local level. In... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

Being the Boss

Leadership and Teaming

First Look: April 24

Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

Developing Nurse Practitioners at the College of St. Catherine

First Look at New Research, April 4

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

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

Quantifying the Economic Impact of the Internet

It’s Not All About Pay: College Grads Want Jobs That ‘Change the World’

When Design Enables Discrimination: Learning from Anti-Asian Bias on Airbnb

First Look: May 20

Why Business Travel Still Matters in a Zoom World

Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum

October 25, 2016

What Is Management’s Role in Innovation?

Hacking the U.S. Election: Russia's Misinformation Campaign

First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018

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