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- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’
career. But he hardly worked alone. As many have observed, perhaps Edison's greatest contribution was his artisan-oriented shops—a new way of organizing for innovation he created that has evolved into today's R&D laboratory with its team-based approach. The process... View Details
- 21 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are We Thinking Too Little, or Too Much?
you've done something the same way for 10 years, it might be time to reconsider.” "Academics traditionally have taken two different approaches View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Surveying the VC Landscape
performance of venture capital funds. What could be done to make this information more readily available to investors? A: The lack of... View Details
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century
advantages by being first in developing their technical and functional capabilities that provided barriers to entry. The Evolving Paths In Consumer Electronics In consumer electronics, the commercializing of... View Details
- 17 Jul 2000
- What Do You Think?
Where Is the Microsoft Board?
defending the right to innovate or standing up against the Government's regulatory bias. There was some feeling in this group that Microsoft was unlucky in drawing a judge who turned out to View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Cast a Longer Shadow on the 21st Century: Friedman or Galbraith?
the latter's Vermont farm, according to biographer Richard Parker. Galbraith, in his book The Affluent Society, argued for the importance of fiscal policy in influencing the allocation of resources between rich and poor. This was View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
classic The Obstacle is the Way. I have also been ramping up my anti-racist readings, devouring White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo and Ibram Kendi’s How View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
we believe this is possible. Two things must be done to spur innovation and realize the greatest benefits from it. The first is that companies must build more rigorous business... View Details
- 02 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories 2007
accelerate this transition, as professor and program chair Benjamin C. Esty explains. What's to Be Done About Performance Reviews? What can we do View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Corporate Strategy
person to be the steward or organizer of the strategy map. This person ensures that data are continually fed into the map and Balanced Scorecard to keep them refreshed,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Becoming an Ethical Negotiator
or the matter of taking advantage of an unsophisticated seller. Examining cases like this exposes the core principles from which people reason and act. Q: The two books Getting to Yes and You Can Negotiate Anything tend View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2001
- What Do You Think?
Fine Coupling: Can Human Resource Management Learn from Supply Chain Management?
To some degree, this has exacerbated the challenge to those responsible for staffing these activities by creating more frequent peaks and valleys in demands for talent. Are there lessons for human resource... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?
industry consider peer-to-peer services as marketing tools rather than the enemy? Should online pricing be different from in-store pricing? What happens when broadband makes it as easy to illegally download... View Details
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
lasting impact. Reference checks need to be done as in normal hiring situations—recognizing that tracking down referees make take more time and effort. Using recruiters can... View Details
- 02 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps
what can be done to reverse that trend. In doing so, they take aim at some misconceptions about what keeps voters home, and show the surprising effectiveness of door-to-door... View Details
- 23 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Putting the Project Puzzle Together
McFarlan: Fifty percent of all capital investment today is being done in IT projects. The way this money is spent deeply impacts the organization's future. It is because of the size of investment as a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
stagnating sales, accounting losses, or a falling stock price. In extreme cases such poor performance may cause the company to default on its debt, resulting in bankruptcy. Restructuring the debt can be... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
was René's notion that in Denmark, people had lost sight of Danish cuisine, and he wanted to see if it could be done inventively. The Noma menu is, View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making the Most of Government Upheaval
transformational process hypothesized in their study may also be applicable to companies in newly emerging economies outside Latin America, such as Eastern Europe, northern Africa, China, and India. Setting... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
- 02 Oct 2000
- What Do You Think?
What Lies Beyond NAFTA?
something might be done to foster the creation of wealth (and jobs) in Mexico through the removal of structural barriers that inhibit entrepreneurial behavior. However, before... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett