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- 01 Feb 2022
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Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed
silicon chip, Analog would sell an answer." “Becoming a corporate explorer is not a route to a safe or easy career,” they write. However, Tushman and Binns explain in the following Q&A, explorers are the ones who lead established... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- Portrait Project
Kate Kleinsman
“You can always come back home” said my mum as we lugged my suitcases into my college dorm room in the big city. ‘Why would I?’ I thought to myself. I come from a small town where a new bakery opening makes the local paper and you run... View Details
- Profile
Rachel H Chung
stretch my ambitions. Being part of the HBS community is like Playing on a giant sports team, where your teammates are also your cheerleaders and coaches. As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? A race car driver! The mix of... View Details
- 10 Feb 2020
- In Practice
6 Ways That Emerging Technology Is Disrupting Business Strategy
involving artificial intelligence (AI), data analytics, and the Internet of Things are changing the way business leaders think about strategy. Here’s what they said: 1. Talent and data are more critical than ever “Traditionally, companies focused View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Activity-Based Costing
earlier—the fact that surveyed employees respond as if their practical capacity were always fully utilized. The Impact of Practical Capacity This table shows the effect on cost assignment when we use rates... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
$4.25/hour internships and secretarial work, anything to get closer to a job in A&R. Music had always been a force in her life. Her great-grandmother Hazel would hammer out gospel and show tunes on the piano... View Details
- 01 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making
past will always trump the future—people prefer not to know about the future because it's so threatening to entrenched interests and to career competencies." Tushman has been focusing his research on... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
W. Hall Wendel, Jr.
an oxygen mask, Wendel spent ninety minutes on the mountain's tiny peak. "Even now, it's difficult to describe my exhilaration when I realized I was going to make it," recalls Wendel, seated in his office at Minneapolis-based Polaris... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Venturing Forth
Illustration by Adam McCauley Venture capital is a heady industry: Big bets mean big checks when the deals hit right. And for most of the last decade, those taking part in the funds were riding high: Capital was abundant, valuations were soaring, and the stock market... View Details
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?
services that simultaneously provide greater customer value and higher supplier profitability. We constantly strive to move elements of the relationship from the zero-sum conflict side to the win-win cooperation side to achieve business success and relieve personal... View Details
- 15 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'
including two economic recessions. Smaller cities and rural areas were excluded because of missing data for at least one year during this time period. Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Greenstein and Cao parsed both the... View Details
- 09 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
6 Lessons from Donald Trump's Winning Marketing Manual
Donald Trump's victory may be a surprise—but not to astute marketers. Here are six important lessons from Trump's brand marketing playbook: Give consumers a job. The best marketing campaigns always call on... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
In Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices, the authors combine the latest thinking from the biological and social sciences to lay out a new theory on human nature. The idea: We are all influenced and guided by four drives: acquiring,... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation
insurmountable strengths. Incumbents, however, almost always lose battles where the attacker has a legitimate disruptive innovation. To create a new-growth business, companies—established incumbents and start-ups alike—must be View Details
- 11 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
A World of Difference: What Keeps Companies from Becoming More Inclusive
to be more inclusive. "Inclusion always begets difference, but diversity may or may not beget inclusion." One of the reasons there hasn’t been as much progress on DEI as you... View Details
Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint
- 16 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Most Successful Startups Have Hands-On Founders
researchers make it clear in the paper that “we do not assert that ‘more’ management is always better. To the contrary, excessive ‘micro-managing’ could have a negative impact on firm growth.” Effective... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Profile
Adriann Dolphin
Why did you choose this path at this point in time?on an HBS case class in 2019 showed me HBS... View Details
- Web
CEO Leadership - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
the key factors that determine company success? Based on research by Michael Porter and colleagues at the Harvard Business School, the Institute works with established as well as new leaders on how to manage... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
Adebayo O. Ogunlesi, JD/MBA 1979
Independent Director, Goldman Sachs Chairman and Managing Partner, Global Infrastructure Partners As a student of philosophy, politics, and economics at Oxford, Bayo Ogunlesi learned that some lectures were optional. Several weeks into the semester, attendance in View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
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Loujaine AlMoallim
game that keeps you on your toes (or on your head, in some cases). And nothing feels more rewarding than facing these challenges and learning how to tackle them. What is your most memorable classroom moment?... View Details