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  • 12 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Operations and the Competitive Edge

business, but we see too many companies adopting "cookie cutter" software packages, and seeking the assistance of facilitators that adopt one-size-fits-all approaches. One has to approach the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2006
  • News

Over 50 and Job Hunting?

entrepreneurial ambitions,” Lassiter elaborates. “In any of these scenarios, be sure to highlight your competitive strengths. Quantify your successes. Show how your skills have helped other organizations become profitable and how they... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; job hunting
  • 22 Oct 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Variation in Experience and Team Familiarity: Addressing the Knowledge Acquisition-Application Problem

Keywords: by Robert S. Huckman & Bradley R. Staats; Video Game; Web Services
  • June–July 2014
  • Article

Language as a Lightning Rod: Power Contests, Emotion Regulation, and Subgroup Dynamics in Global Teams

By: Pamela J. Hinds, Tsedal Neeley and Catherine Durnell Cramton
Through an ethnographic study comprised of interviews with and observations of 96 globally distributed members in six software development teams, we propose a model that captures how asymmetries in language fluency contribute to an us vs. them dynamic so common in... View Details
Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Communication Intention and Meaning; Groups and Teams; Applications and Software; Emotions; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Power and Influence; Information Technology Industry
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  • 15 Aug 2024
  • Op-Ed

Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience

over the software supply chain and application security, enabling them to mitigate risks associated with CI/CD. Are we prepared for an investigation to correct errors when... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch
  • Spring 2016
  • Article

Performance Responses to Competition Across Skill-Levels in Rank Order Tournaments: Field Evidence and Implications for Tournament Design

By: Kevin J. Boudreau, Karim R. Lakhani and Michael E. Menietti
Tournaments are widely used in the economy to organize production and innovation. We study individual contestant-level data from 2,796 contestants in 774 software algorithm design contests with random assignment. Precisely conforming to theory predictions, the... View Details
Keywords: Competition; Innovation Strategy
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  • 14 Feb 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Desktop Search and Revenue Streams

Yahoo is able to collect data, such as click patterns, from its users and use the information to individually "tune" searches to users' personal tendencies. Such product improvements, Horowitz said, will change the nature of... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
  • Fast Answer

Forecasts: economic, industry, and country

How can I find economic, industry, and country forecasts worldwide? Datastream: HBS access is limited to Consensus Economics Mean Forecasts. Open the Excel application View Details
  • 18 Jul 2019
  • News

Lessons from the Rise and Fall of VisiCalc

launching VisiCalc, the world’s first independent software company and the first spreadsheet program for personal computers. The program came with a $100 price tag, but people were so eager for it that they... View Details
  • Article

Germany's Digital Health Reforms in the COVID-19 Era: Lessons and Opportunities for Other Countries

By: Sara Gerke, Ariel D. Stern and Timo Minssen
Reimbursement is a key challenge for many new digital health solutions, whose importance and value have been highlighted and expanded by the current COVID-19 pandemic. Germany’s new Digital Healthcare Act (Digitale–Versorgung–Gesetz or DVG) entitles all individuals... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Reimbursement; Digital Health Reforms; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Internet and the Web; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Germany
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  • 14 Jul 2015
  • Blog Post

On the Road: Zurich, Warsaw, and Istanbul

you throughout your career and personal endeavors. What was the most valuable piece of advice offered by the alumni panel? The alumni gave countless pieces of advice to the prospective students. But the most important was: “Don’t... View Details
  • 15 Nov 2010
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives

the case materials, lectures, guest speakers, and application workshops: First, you must understand the externals in your business and their impact on required sales tasks.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 07 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Negotiation and All That Jazz

negotiators” "You can't script the process," says Wheeler, the MBA Class of 1952 Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School. "Whoever who sits across the table from you is likely to be as determined, as smart, and as... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 26 May 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Unraveling Results from Comparable Demand and Supply: An Experimental Investigation

Keywords: by Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth & M. Utku Unver
  • May 2009
  • Article

The Empirical Impact of Intellectual Property Rights on Innovation: Puzzles and Clues

By: Josh Lerner
Economists have long seen the patent system as a crucial lever through which policymakers affect the speed and nature of innovation in the economy. It is not surprising, then, that the profound changes which have roiled the global patent system over the past 20 years... View Details
Keywords: Economy; Policy; Innovation and Invention; Intellectual Property; Rights; Business and Government Relations
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Levels of Government - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Competitiveness & Economic Development CED Competitiveness & Economic Development Frameworks & Key Concepts Research & Applications Frameworks & Key Concepts Frameworks & Key Concepts Drivers of Competitiveness The Diamond Model... View Details
  • 19 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers

the University of California, San Diego. The researchers used computer software to analyze the tone of each columnist's writing, determining whether they wrote with a generally bearish or generally bullish perspective. "Some authors... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Information; Publishing
  • Web

Frameworks & Key Concepts - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Competitiveness & Economic Development CED Competitiveness & Economic Development Frameworks & Key Concepts Research & Applications Frameworks & Key Concepts Frameworks & Key Concepts Drivers of Competitiveness The Diamond Model... View Details
  • 15 Jun 2021
  • News

June 2021 Books and Podcasts

US Navy, works as an application research engineer, and then attends Harvard Business School, where he finds that the financial industry is his true calling. So begins his rapid ascent in the corporate... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 21 Jun 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

institutional voids—in service of businesses or as stand-alone projects. Microsoft's investments in the development of China's software industry facilitated the development of its own business in the country. The job creation View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace