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- 12 Jan 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.
we have people that are willing to stand up to him and do the right thing by their companies. I'm thinking somebody like Mary Barra at General Motors, where they've said you can't have a supply chain that goes around the world. Well, she's plunging full View Details
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
Canadian facility that performs hernia operations only, has developed procedures to maximize surgical success rates, save patients money, and speed their recovery in a friendly, noninstitutional environment. The hospital's advertising... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
match, “The Big Durian” after the sweet Southeast Asian fruit that emits such an overwhelming stench of blue cheese and sweaty gym clothes that it is banned by most airlines and hotels. The key to making life in Jakarta a little easier is View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
speed their recovery in a friendly, noninstitutional environment. The hospital’s advertising consists of word of mouth, and Shouldice’s popularity is such that former patients (“alumni”) return by the hundreds for reunions. The hospital... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
following the oft-cited advice to “fail fast” and to “launch before you’re ready,” founders risk wasting time and capital on the wrong solutions. False promises. Success with early adopters can be misleading and give founders unwarranted confidence to expand. View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
to take the lead in globalisation, developing its higher education and research systems at speed and actively seeking to cooperate with academic partners along the New Silk Roads in order to attract talent (back). But under which... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
their customers moved toward a different style of measurement mandating speed and integration with production systems. The case discusses the threat of new in-line metrology systems to the core business as well as the arising new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
celebrated its 10th anniversary as a center of the Milken Institute, Executive Director Margaret Anderson thought about what the organization should do to ensure it had even more impact in its next 10 years. FasterCures was a non-profit "action tank" whose... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
speed of these changes, observing, "Nobody on the organizing committee had any idea, when the planning for this conference began several years ago, how central concepts such as interconnectivity and the Internet would be by the time we... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
Office examination process. We randomize assignment of novice patent examiners to each process technology and provision of domain-specific expertise. Our analysis of examiner accuracy and speed in patent adjudication reveals, irrespective... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
fiercely competitive market for outdoor wear and gear. GoLite’s mission sounds simple and logical enough — give serious trail runners, alpine athletes, fast-packers (backpackers who speed along trails), and even once-discouraged hikers... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
developments of 3-D seismic data acquisition and horizontal drilling techniques that increase the speed and accuracy of locating and tapping pockets of oil. "On the one hand, this technology enables us to find reserves more cheaply and... View Details
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
attempting disruptive innovation and entrepreneurship in these industries. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/812041-PDF-ENG Speeding Ahead to a Better Place Elie Ofek and Alison Berkley WagonfeldHarvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
long-run equilibrium regardless of the speed of Linux's demand-side learning persists if there are cost asymmetries. We find that because OSS implies lower profits for Microsoft, the larger the cost differences are between Linux and... View Details
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
processes as well as the appropriate scope and speed of strategic changes. Now, Parker must decide on the composition of AAL’s senior executive team. Should Parker select a team dominated by US Airways executives with whom he has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
might be found in loading docks or applications that demanded fast read speeds in demanding applications. When it was first funded, Intel was in the midst of record growth and was seeking diversification. The new business was viewed as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
question-asking on liking. In addition to analyzing live get-to-know-you conversations online, we also studied face-to-face speed-dating conversations. We find that speed daters who ask more questions during their dates are more likely to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
rescue of 33 Chilean miners. More and more people in nearly every industry now work on teams that vary in duration and have constantly shifting membership. Teaming presents technical and interpersonal challenges: people must get up to View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
at speeds reaching more than 2,000 miles per hour. By the time it glided to a landing two hours later the ship had won the coveted Ansari X PRIZE, a $10 million award for the first privately funded manned spacecraft to break through the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1475725 Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation Author:William R. Kerr Abstract We investigate the speed at which clusters of invention for a technology migrate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace