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- October 2020
- Supplement
OpenIDEO (B)
By: Karim R. Lakhani, Anne-Laure Fayard, Manos Gkeredakis and Jin Hyun Paik
In the midst of 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic was unfolding, OpenIDEO—an online open innovation platform focused on design-driven solutions to social issues—rapidly launched a new challenge to improve access to health information, empower communities to stay safe... View Details
Keywords: Innovation Competitions; IDEO; Contests; Contest Design; Platforms And Ecosystems; Open Innovation; Open And User Innovation Strategy; Diversity; Design; Social Entrepreneurship; Global Range; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Social and Collaborative Networks; Health Pandemics; Health; Information; Business and Community Relations; Digital Platforms
Lakhani, Karim R., Anne-Laure Fayard, Manos Gkeredakis, and Jin Hyun Paik. "OpenIDEO (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 621-058, October 2020.
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
adjusts the policy rate slowly in response to changes in its privately observed target. Such gradualism reflects an attempt to not spook the bond market. However, this effort ends up being thwarted in equilibrium, as long-term rates... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
changing the revenue-generating model by incorporating an online market place within "The Blonde Salad," but which strategy and timeline would she need to achieve her aim? Should Ferragni's shoe line, a separate company with a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
primarily at auditors (both external and internal), risk managers, accountants, CFOs, and consultants, Effective Auditing for Corporates covers the following: 1) compliance and the corporate audit, 2) fraud detection, 3) risk-based auditing, 4) the development of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
thought of before. It's one thing to say, "You need to change your system of cooking." Perhaps you could solve it better by saying, "There's a much more efficient way for you to cure your meats." In a sense, the... View Details
- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
work in your lab and expecting her to spend her career there, you now hire more mid-career professionals who bring a deeper, richer human and social capital to your firm. It changes the question of how do I make my R&D lab more... View Details
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
this information would help managers better understand their big-picture role and perhaps lead to more ethical conduct in business. Manda Salls: What did you learn from your look at organizational research, and how has this research View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 29 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 29
Gary Kaplan became CEO of the Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. The hospital was facing significant challenges: it was losing money for the first time in its history, staff morale had plummeted, and area hospitals presented ardent competition.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/709495-PDF-ENG Wal-Mart's Use of Interest Rate Swaps Harvard Business School Case 108-038 "Wal-Mart's Use of Interest Rate Swaps" recounts Wal-Mart's use of interest rate swaps to hedge the fair value of its fixed-rate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Misgovernance at the World Bank
more inefficiencies that have no real effect on distributive justice. Q: What are you working on next? A: I have just started to look into the emerging global institutions that aim to reduce climate change caused by deforestation. Trade... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Usher in the Next Generation
you either have to have money or position," she said. The glass ceiling is real, she added. "Money is what you need to change the world. We get both power and position when we get money. All of us have knowledge." Much of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
of a purchase and final acquisition of a firearm. We show that waiting periods, which create a “cooling off” period among buyers, significantly reduce the incidence of gun violence. We estimate the impact of waiting periods on gun deaths, exploiting all View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
voting. Plan-making prompts are simple, inexpensive, and powerful tools for changing behavior, which preserve the autonomy of decision makers. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50157 November 2015... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
simply begin with the direction you want to go and take a small step. Thinking alone will never change your life-you must ACT. Then evaluate the lessons you learn from that first step, build on them, and take another step in your desired... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
permission to lead. Troy, a customer service manager, endangered his job and his company's reputation by focusing on protecting his position, not helping his team; when a trusted friend advised him to change his behavior, the results were... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
conceptualize an overarching model of how communities influence organizations. We suggest that because organizations are simultaneously embedded in communities and organizational fields, by accounting for both of these different levels, researchers will better... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jun 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
That's Classic: Modern-Day Business Lessons from Ancient Rome
us understand severity, fidelity, and justice in our own lives, and generously teaches us how to effect changes of character and fortune. Then there’s Seneca, Nero’s tutor. His “On Clemency” is lovely. As you read, you realize he’s... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 30 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Preparing to Sell
companies, and those that do sell generally part with them very reluctantly, given all that selling represents. We sympathize with a family's emotional attachment to its company. But given how fast industries are changing and other... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Challenges of Investing in Science-Based Innovation
"Bank of America is interested in accessing innovative digital technologies that will help it redefine how banking is done," Sato says. "The bank sees this as an opportunity to fuel its continued competitive presence in a marketplace where the rules of... View Details
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes to Restore Trust in Business
professionalism. Those are missing now, and those are exactly the qualities that are needed before we'll see any significant change in the prevailing lack of trust, he said. Our securities industry is broken. It's in terrible shape.— D.... View Details