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- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
submitted. Seeking answers from the crowd may be more important than ever. Even as the use of data science is expanding, we face a shortage of 1.8 million data scientists. “There’s a lot of competition for data science talent,” Lakhani said, with medical schools,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
A Conversation with Dean Clark
Abernathy, we used our experiences in the auto industry in Japan to better understand what was going on in productivity, quality, and innovation. I became an inveterate comparatist. And I've never met a researcher who's had a similar... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
particularly women of color, were more likely to be employed by the industries hardest hit by shutdowns, including leisure, hospitality, and retail. “The gender pay gap, in aggregate, has shifted 8 cents in 25 years, which is pathetic.”... View Details
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
creative or in love with risk, but they are deeply inquisitive, open to new experiences, and comfortable with the unpredictable. He also offers evidence-based, practical advice for interviews and résumé screening that hiring managers can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- April 2025
- Case
Giving Up on a Passion: Elizabeth Rowe at the Boston Symphony Orchestra
By: Jon M. Jachimowicz, Maisie Wiltshire-Gordon and Alexis Lefort
For 20 years, Elizabeth Rowe was a world-renowned principal flutist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. But in 2024, Rowe decided to leave her position to pursue a new full-time career as a leadership coach. At 50, Rowe was well under the typical retirement age, and,... View Details
Keywords: Arts; Small Business; Social Media; Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Learning; Music Entertainment; Values and Beliefs; Creativity; Happiness; Identity; Interests; Satisfaction; Motivation and Incentives; Prejudice and Bias; Reputation; Culture; Resignation and Termination; Personal Development and Career; Consulting Industry; Consulting Industry; Consulting Industry; United States
Jachimowicz, Jon M., Maisie Wiltshire-Gordon, and Alexis Lefort. "Giving Up on a Passion: Elizabeth Rowe at the Boston Symphony Orchestra." Harvard Business School Case 425-037, April 2025.
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
Company; and HBS professor Michael Porter (MBA ’71). In addition to the pioneering roles played by this innovative quartet, there is another leitmotif — a fifth key player — that runs throughout the book: The industry would not exist as... View Details
- 22 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 22, 2015
in primetime on network ABC's Thursday night, is plotting the future. One challenge she faces is to, as she put it, "solve the problem of writing and producing serialized dramas for broadcast network television." What changes could she propose to ABC to make... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- February 2010 (Revised September 2011)
- Case
Local Motors: Designed by the Crowd, Built by the Customer
By: Michael I. Norton and Jeremy Dann
In the wake of the meltdown among U.S. auto manufacturers in 2009, Jay Rogers, CEO of Local Motors, has a new approach for the automotive industry: decide which models are produced through online design competitions, and then allow customers to "build their own cars"... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Customer Focus and Relationships; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Product Design; Product Development; Creativity; Social and Collaborative Networks; Customization and Personalization; Auto Industry; Auto Industry; United States
Norton, Michael I., and Jeremy Dann. "Local Motors: Designed by the Crowd, Built by the Customer." Harvard Business School Case 510-062, February 2010. (Revised September 2011.)
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
variables are you tracking? How are you creating accountability for performance on those variables? (4) What strategic boundaries have you set? Does everyone know what actions are off-limits? (5) How are you generating creative tension?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
industry and provides a comprehensive look at investor-centric marketing and fundraising strategy. Whether you work in hedge funds, private equity, or are aspiring to be part of one, you’ll gain invaluable insights into understanding... View Details
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
change in a nation with a relatively constant patent policy, Great Britain. Getting Known by the Company You Keep: Publicizing the Qualifications and Former Associations of Skilled Employees Authors: Peter Roberts and Mukti Khaire Publication: View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
severity of the coordination problem faced by users. Read the paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=38648 The Costs of Ambient Cultural Disharmony: Indirect Intercultural Conflicts in Social Environment Undermine View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
likely to be overlooked for top assignments and promotions. As partners and friends, we are checked out and unhappy. Rebels—those who practice “positive deviance” at work—are harder to manage, but they are good for the bottom line: their passion, drive, curiosity, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?
through the crowd to lesser-known microfinance borrowers in developing countries. Nanda puts most current crowdfunding platforms such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo in the equivalent of the donation or lending category. Kickstarter began as a way for View Details
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
expertise in the new composite materials being used in the airframe, integrating their work with other partners developing complementary technologies. Indeed, this type of project could never get off the ground without the ability to collaborate effectively. Q: Are... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
who is invested in keeping it that way. The book presents a new vision of how health care could work if it were truly designed to meet consumer needs, creating a call to action on how to demand and help create such a system. A wake-up call to an View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
which was held on May 18 in the city. Intended to explore the impacts of technology on the nature and availability of work in San Francisco, the all-day conference invited alumni to join a conversation with HBS faculty, city stakeholders, and tech View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
reduce their purchases of items when they see their friends buying them. This negative social effect reduces the revenue for this group by more than 14 percent. This finding is consistent with the typical fashion cycle wherein opinion leaders or the elite in the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 12 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World
invitation-only conferences are convened every few years (the one before this one was in 1995); the idea is to bring together a critical mass of the best thinkers in these industries for an intense session of discussion and debate.... View Details
- 18 Nov 2013
- News
Diving into the 'Shark Tank'
positive feedback for our product. We've seen a huge surge in gift orders ahead of the holidays. We've also gotten numerous requests for a grown-up version of Surprise Ride that fosters curiosity and creativity in adults. You'll see that... View Details