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    Stefan H. Thomke

    Stefan Thomke (sthomke@hbs.edu), an authority on the management of innovation, is the William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He has worked with firms on product, process, and... View Details

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    • 04 May 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating

    Game Previous academic research generally has focused separately on two aspects of problem-solving—either gathering facts or figuring out solutions. And the findings often have contradicted each other. Collaboration may hinder... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Video Game; Video Game

      David B. Yoffie

      Professor David B. Yoffie is the Max and Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration at Harvard Business School. A member of the HBS faculty since 1981, Professor Yoffie received his Bachelor's degree summa cum laude and Phi Beta... View Details

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      • 23 Jan 2024
      • Book

      More Than Memes: NFTs Could Be the Next Gen Deed for a Digital World

      open up markets and help build loyal communities of customers. In the following excerpt, the authors shed light on the value and potential of NFTs. Could digital “tokens” possibly be worth hundreds or thousands or even millions of dollars? The tokens themselves are... View Details
      Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Information Technology; Technology; Financial Services

        William A. Sahlman

        William Sahlman is a Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

        Mr. Sahlman received an A.B. degree in Economics from Princeton University (1972), an M.B.A. from Harvard University (1975), and a Ph.D. in Business... View Details

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        • 13 May 2013
        • Research & Ideas

        How to Spot a Liar

        differences between flat-out lying and so-called deception by omission—that is, the willful avoidance of divulging important information, either by changing the subject or by saying as little as possible. The Ultimatum Game To garner a... View Details
        Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
        • Web

        Leadership - Faculty & Research

        Su accepted the top position in 2014, AMD was on the verge of collapse. Su focused the company’s culture, simplified its product roadmap, repaired relationships with key stakeholders, and placed a big bet on innovations in high performance View Details
        • 10 Feb 2020
        • In Practice

        6 Ways That Emerging Technology Is Disrupting Business Strategy

        Economic Research. 3. Algorithms are changing the pricing game   “Firms are increasingly using pricing algorithms to set prices, especially in online markets. Pricing algorithms can enable better-targeted prices, but they also can... View Details
        Keywords: by Danielle Kost
        • Web

        Regional Winners - Alumni

        faster to implement. Rajiv Singhal, MBA 2007, CEO & Founder Region: Europe and International Closing Theory Studios Closing Theory Studios is a mobile game development company creating games like Househunt,... View Details
        • 04 Oct 2011
        • First Look

        First Look: October 4

        argue that the evolving global network structure affects firms' propensity to form bridging ties by shaping the structural opportunities for bridging. We test our theory using the network of partnership ties among firms in the global View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • March 2016 (Revised May 2018)
        • Case

        Reinventing Best Buy

        By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
        On March 1, 2017, Best Buy Company, Inc., North America’s largest retailer of consumer electronics and appliances, announced a third year of comparable-store sales increases and a 20.8% increase in domestic comparable online sales. These results were in marked contrast... View Details
        Keywords: Best Buy; Hubert Joly; Renew Blue; Showrooming; Webrooming; E-commerce; E-Commerce Strategy; Online Retail; Multichannel Retailing; Omnichannel; Marketplaces; Turnaround; Consumer Electronics; Consumer Electronics Accessories; Appliances; Stores-within-stores; Store Experience; Store Size; Store Pickup; Store Management; Delivery; Delivery Models; Amazon; Amazon.com; Pricing Strategy; Business Subsidiaries; Business Units; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Music Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Theater Entertainment; Price; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Business History; Cost; Selection and Staffing; Reports; Technological Innovation; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Human Capital; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Demand and Consumers; Media; Distribution; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Distribution Channels; Infrastructure; Product; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Programs; Groups and Teams; Sales; Salesforce Management; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Information Technology; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Internet and the Web; Applications and Software; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Resource Allocation; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; United States; Minnesota; Minneapolis; Saint Paul; St. Paul
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        • 27 Apr 2016
        • Research & Ideas

        How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11

        the Directorate of Intelligence, which established a Field Intelligence Group (FIG) and new security analysts at each of the FBI’s field offices. That didn’t sit well with some old-guard law enforcers, who didn’t take kindly to sharing both an office and a mission with... View Details
        Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
        • 23 Apr 2012
        • Research & Ideas

        How to Brand a Next-Generation Product

        video game consoles, for example) or the complete name change approach (Nintendo's Nintendo 64, GameCube, Wii). The professors conducted a series of experiments to determine when and why each approach made the most sense. Brand Name... View Details
        Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
        • 01 Feb 2022
        • Book

        Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed

        somebody inside the business who cares about this. Who's going to actually provide you with that opportunity to solve the customer problem? Book Excerpt Corporate Explorer: How Corporations Can Beat Startups at the Innovation Game Andrew... View Details
        Keywords: by Lane Lambert
        • 01 Sep 2023
        • News

        Case Study: The Home Team

        relatively simple to design a computer to win a game of checkers, it’s remarkably difficult to get a robot to do the kinds of physical movements a toddler can master, Andersen notes, citing the Moravec... View Details
        Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Real Estate
        • 09 Jun 2008
        • Lessons from the Classroom

        Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge

        Model-Linker to the open source community to help the Linux community write software to connect Linux with Hewlett-Packard's RISC computer architecture. This strategy is similar to giving away the razor (the released code) to sell more... View Details
        Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Video Game
        • 13 Jun 2019
        • Blog Post

        Expanding My Worldview Through FIELD Global Immersion

        populated. We hopped in a small elevator and quickly arrived on the 7th floor. The open office floor plan had six rows of computers with the company’s CEO and the newest hire sitting practically shoulder to shoulder. We soon realized we... View Details
        • 15 Jul 2019
        • Book

        Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence

        by asymmetric information—in other words, managers have a lot of information, and investors don’t know if they can trust them. We’re all engaged in a large information game where agents don’t always do what their principals want them to.... View Details
        Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

          Arthur Schleifer

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          • 02 Mar 2016
          • News

          David Moss is Rewriting History

          pieces, including the blueprint, the Constitution, to another country you don’t get a working democracy.” Eleanor Cannon’s sunny, spacious classroom at St. John’s School in Houston is well appointed, with bright white dry-erase boards covering two walls and a View Details
          Keywords: April White