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- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
development of a business model based on "software as a service" (SaaS) for security solution distributed through Internet Service Providers (ISPs). F-Secure disruptively entered a mature business with dominant players by executing an View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Apr 2018
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New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018
was already close to the margin of exit. Restaurants with lower ratings are closer to the margin of exit at all observed minimum wage levels and are disproportionately driven out of business by increases to the minimum wage. Our point... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Becoming an Entrepreneur - Alumni
In the first step toward entrepreneurship, career seekers face a fundamental choice that affects every subsequent action: do you see yourself as a startup founder or joiner? The Path of the Founder Founders are typically driven by one of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
spread such efforts, YALP is slowly but surely beginning to see on-the-ground results of the partnerships and innovation it’s designed to foster. In the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, phrases like income inequality and... View Details
- 08 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 8
Working Papers Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation Authors: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Eric von Hippel Abstract In this paper we assess the economic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis
only two short sessions in 1959. At the age of 32, Davis coaxed innovative ideas out of his players—among them greats including John Coltrane and Bill Evans—that took everyone by surprise. He also remade the industry, introducing longer,... View Details
- 16 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.
end-customers. Finally, Dettol created the #HandWashChallenge to encourage proper washing techniques while using its product, garnering over 20 billion views on TikTok. Firms that connect emotionally with their external and internal customers and emotionally and... View Details
- 15 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2021
7. Commuting Hurts Productivity and Your Best Talent Suffers Most Companies that prize innovation should keep employees out of soul-crushing transit, even after the COVID-19 pandemic ends, suggests research... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 11 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy
General Manager of E-Commerce role and later GM of North America position, leading thousands of employees and a billion-dollar business. During this time, she also took on new roles in her personal life, marrying her husband Mike and... View Details
- 22 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Bringing ‘Lean’ Principles to Service Industries
the more familiar lean technique of value stream mapping (VSM) to identify and decrease wasted time and effort throughout the software development process. Improving From The Bottom Up While most organizations struggle with implementing a new system, fighting the... View Details
- 23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23
multi-location firms increase internal ties when they face appropriability risks from direct competitors. Our empirical analysis of the global semiconductor industry shows that when leading firms co-locate with direct market competitors, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- September 2016 (Revised July 2017)
- Case
Transferring Knowledge Between Projects at NASA JPL (A)
By: Dorothy Leonard and Christopher Myers
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a federally funded research institution within NASA, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, has played a large role in many space and planetary explorations, particularly to the planet Mars. As a project-based... View Details
Keywords: Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Management; Employees; Experience and Expertise; Aerospace Industry; United States
Leonard, Dorothy, and Christopher Myers. "Transferring Knowledge Between Projects at NASA JPL (A)." Harvard Business School Case 917-404, September 2016. (Revised July 2017.)
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
Publisher's link: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo16956514.html 2006 Harvard Business Review Using the Crowd as an Innovation Partner By: Boudreau, Kevin J., and Karim R. Lakhani Abstract—No abstract available.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
performance, even after controlling for current performance, and that this relation is driven by the perceptions of middle management and professional staff rather than senior executives, hourly, or commissioned workers. Taken together,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
Highway: Technology and Mobility Trends and Opportunities Technological innovation is considered a competitive strength for America, but the nation does not score as high in deploying its technology. U.S. transportation systems are in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 May 2013
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First Look: May 7
incumbent attracting and retaining more profitable customers over time. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=39914 Clusters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation By: Chatterji, Aaron, Edward Glaeser, and William Kerr... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching
are you won’t ever learn how to pull off a triple bypass. And yet, in business, companies routinely expect employees to pick up new job knowledge through vicarious learning—through reading descriptions of tasks in knowledge-management... View Details
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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni
2015–2021, Jones served as the founding Dean of the College of Innovation + Design at Boise State University, and from 2010–2015, he worked at Harvard University, serving from 2011 as the Evans Family Foundation Managing Director of the... View Details
- 19 Jan 2024
- News
The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Speed has gotten a pretty bad rap, says Anne Morriss (MBA 2004). The Silicon Valley mantra of moving fast and breaking things has led to waves of high-profile... View Details
- 05 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software
employees on company time to make updates and edits to the software for community use that could be used by competitors? New research by Assistant Professor Frank Nagle, a member of the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School, shows that... View Details