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- 26 Apr 2022
- Book
What Does Your Business Stand For? Why Building Trust Starts with Purpose
isn’t absolute. It usually comes with guardrails that instill a degree of control and render greater autonomy possible. Some might think of control and autonomy as opposites, antagonists in a zero-sum game. My research has shown that we can deploy View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 20 Aug 2020
- Book
From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives
Spar: Yes, if this moment demonstrates anything, it’s that science matters and that we need to invest more of our talent and resources to scientific inquiry. Now that doesn’t mean that scientists always get everything right. But the long... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Feb 2022
- Book
Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed
to solve that problem? Have we got the right formula? And then scale it, turn it into real business. And they're completely different because the context in which they're doing it is in some respects harder, and in some respects easier. Any entrepreneur will tell you,... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 28 Jan 2020
- Book
Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking
venture to connect principals with resources they needed—and was immediately greeted with suspicion and virtually ignored. She realized she needed a better and deeper story, plus some specific demonstrations. Silverthorne: You mention... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
keeping the learning dialogue open and flowing. In relation to the drive to defend, work groups must be provided with the means to fend off external attacks. They must be able to press their legitimate claims for resources and support... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 12 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Using the Law to Strategic Advantage
affects each of Porter's Five Forces as well as the resources and capabilities of the firm. The availability of patents may be key to deciding what barriers to entry exist. The enforceability of covenants not to compete and assignments of... View Details
- 12 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
In a Landscape of 'Me Too' Drug Development, What Spurs Radical Innovation?
drug development—therapies that are chemically similar to established drugs—rather than on riskier, novel drugs. Critics say this tendency helps explain why therapeutic breakthroughs are increasingly less frequent. “When firms are making investment decisions—not... View Details
- 09 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Marketing a Country: Promotion as a Tool for Attracting Foreign Investment.
difficult to attract to the public sector, especially with the salary constraints typical of civil services. Accordingly, if the government decides to manage the activity, it may also, through various methods, have to take steps to obtain... View Details
Keywords: by Louis T. Wells & Alvin G. Wint
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
(2012) Abstract This paper summarizes research trends and opportunities in the area of managing air transportation demand and capacity. Capacity constraints and resulting congestion and low schedule reliability currently impose large... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
shareholders. Unilever's historical legacy provided organizational and cultural constraints on the options available. It entered the 1960s with an organization that was so decentralized as to be fragmented. The British and Dutch... View Details
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
some people than others, in order to reach their goal. Next, help negotiate the allocation of resources within the team, recognizing that some functions will contribute more to the team (at the very least, in terms of people’s time) than... View Details
- 04 Aug 2006
- What Do You Think?
What Happens When the Economics of Scarcity Meets the Economics of Abundance?
of scarcity has not been repealed by the digital Long Tail prices are set by demand, not the constraints of supply." Edward Hare opened an aspect of the debate that several commented on when he said, "The rules of economics have... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Max Bazerman
on ways to grow the pie of social resources within the legal and legislative systems of the United States, as well as within the democratic systems of other nations. The constraints that democracies place on... View Details
Keywords: Re: Max H. Bazerman
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
algorithms developed for the same setting. More broadly, our paper contributes to the literature on the multi-armed bandit problem with resource constraints, since our algorithm applies directly to this setting when the inventory View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
dynamics. Furthermore it is unclear whether these factors differ significantly from those identified in the broader competitive strategy literature (e.g., are political resources different fundamentally from market resources; do firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
founder believes crowd-funding can become a pillar for development, but U.S. regulatory hurdles and resources constraints are substantial. The company is considering targeting non-diaspora investors,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
policies, institutions, or resource endowments. I show that firms have agency. When governments attempted to reverse globalization during the interwar years, firms redesigned their international businesses rather than abandon them.... View Details
- 13 Aug 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Entrepreneurs Needed for Long-Run Success
generations of the family are supposed to take care of and grow the founder's creation; they are not expected to be entrepreneurs themselves. Even attempting to reinvent the family company can be seen as disloyal by the family. This View Details
Keywords: by Michael J. Roberts
- 10 Dec 2007
- HBS Case
One Laptop per Child
collaborative tasks from writing assignments to playing digital instruments. At the same time it needed to address constraints such as the lack of electrical power in many remote rural areas—a problem it solves in several ways. Kids can... View Details
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
priority criteria, e.g., waiting time, medical urgency, etc., or a combination thereof. Rather than making specific assumptions about fairness principles or priority criteria, our method offers the designer the flexibility to select his desired criteria and fairness... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne