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  • 15 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 15

HerzlingerHarvard Business School Case 310-071 Vitality is part of a $2 billion start-up South African and U.K. health insurance firm. It has achieved excellent results in rewarding people for promoting their health. It is now... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 19, 2009

salinity; and poses strategic choices for a start-up company operating at the intersection of business, agriculture, and climate change. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709019 CalPERS'... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: November 15

The company could also revisit the previous two applications, tracking and tracing processed meat and tracking employee safety practices. At the other extreme, after seven years of R&D and marketing efforts and millions of dollars in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Dec 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Risks and Rewards of the Intrapreneur

Your company is forming an intrapreneurial venture, and has asked you to join the start-up team. Is this a career pick-me-up, or occupational suicide? It could be either one, and employees should carefully... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

high because website owners would need to recode data and content on their existing sites, agree on ontologies for structuring information, and develop new tools for querying Semantic Web data. The case profiles two start-ups with very... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jul 2000
  • What Do You Think?

Where Is the Microsoft Board?

interests of shareholders alone or, those of all stakeholders, including employees and customers? Moris Simson (HBS ISMP 91) Mitel Corporation Those taking issue with these premises generally saw the company's leadership with the support... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 18 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Breaking Through a Growth Stall

where a company seems weighted down by the bounds of its original start-up business model, a lack of experience by its founder(s), and an accelerating, expense-fueled burn rate through working capital and investor patience. "Once a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Mar 2014
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation

employees to raise their creative game. But Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, has a different approach, creating an organization that values and rewards innovation rather than attempting to create it with his bare hands. AG Lafley, P&G's... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 21 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 21

entrepreneurial human capital across several generations. We test this idea by looking at the spatial location of past mines across the United States: proximity to historical mining deposits is associated with bigger firms and fewer View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jan 2001
  • What Do You Think?

Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?

extension of organization boundaries. In the future, will this phenomenon be limited primarily by the environment, or by the ability of managers to take advantage of it? What do you think? Original Article A byword of the new economy has been "partnering."... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 11 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 11

  Publications November 2014 Harvard Business Review Cooks Make Tastier Food When They Can See Their Customers By: Buell, Ryan W., Tami Kim, and Chia-Jung Tsay Abstract—While existing theory suggests that increased contact between customers and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Nov 2015
  • First Look

November 10, 2015

innovation, by encouraging workers to cultivate their individual strengths and to speak up when they have ideas for improvements. And they can develop and empower their employees to solve problems instead of turning automatically to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Benefits of “Not Invented Here”

invests significant resources in software such as Java and Linux that IBM does not own in order to integrate many companies' products and services for IBM's customers. Intel invests significant resources in university research (which it does not own) and in View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping

"Having the net made these people more willing to walk on the high wire," Olds says. "It didn't make them want to walk on the net." In the next stage of his research, Olds is researching how the social safety net influences the potential labor pool... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 30 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers

and incentives—whether organizations promoted and rewarded employees based on performance and tried to keep the best performers from quitting. To collect the data, the researchers hired teams of MBA students who could interview managers... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 03 May 2016
  • First Look

First Look, May 3, 2016

for "big teaming": intense collaboration between professions and industries with completely different mindsets. To explore the kind of leadership required to build the future, Edmondson and Reynolds tell the story of an award-winning "smart city"... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 3

entrepreneurship researchers.   Working PapersSpeaking Up Constructively: Managerial Practices That Elicit Solutions from Front-line Employees Authors:Julia Adler-Milstein, Sara J. Singer, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Ideas that could... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Dec 2002
  • What Do You Think?

How Will We Respond to the “Moment of Truth” in Option Plans?

options should be rethought in many organizations. First, there is the issue of whether options are the best means of promoting shareholders' best interests in established companies. While making an exception for "cash-poor start-up... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 1

Case 810-018 This case study provides an overview of Intuit's growth and, in particular, the sales and service initiatives that historically fueled the company's growth from start-up to a corporation. It also outlines certain processes... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Jan 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Gurus in the Garage

performance are being carried down to next-generation entrepreneurs. Helping former employees is part of that legacy and culture. Senior mentor capitalists describe how Bill Hewlett encouraged them when they left HP and how HP engineers... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap

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