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- 23 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 23, 2008
employed marketing and marketing strategies to diffuse products and brands internationally, despite business, economic, and cultural obstacles to globalization. The process was difficult and complex. The globalization of toiletries... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
Publications February 2015 Academy of Management Review Reflections on the 2013 Decade Award: "Exploitation, Exploration, and Process Management: The Productivity Dilemma Revisited" Ten Years Later By: Benner, Mary, and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2016
- What Do You Think?
When Business Performance Falters, is Culture Change the Fix?
articulate (culture) well and more important infuse it into an entire leadership team at the front of a change process is what separates great leaders from the pack.” A larger group sided with the notion... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
- 29 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas
not commercialize the innovations. It was Steve Jobs and his Apple team that saw the possibilities during visits in 1979 and made them the cornerstone of the Macintosh. In other words, while Xerox may have invented many wonderful things,... View Details
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
by systematically increasing the rigor in the procurement process. Still skeptical, Sophia runs the process of systematically analyzing and comparing the competing firms' bids. This case also describes the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
Abstract—Innovation has traditionally taken place within an organization's boundaries and/or with selected partners. This Chandlerian approach to innovation has been rooted in transaction costs, organizational boundaries, and information View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
improved diversity. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52703 Homophily in Entrepreneurial Team Formation By: Gompers, Paul A., Kevin Huang, and Sophie Q. Wang Abstract—We study the role of homophily in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 9
ways to increase their performance. Meanwhile a globally networked team of manufacturing experts led by Marty Cole, the case protagonist, is trying to spread best practice from other sites around the globe. Unfortunately these two View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
Your Skills: Managing Teams The ability to lead teams is fast becoming a critical skill for all managers in the 21st century. Here are four HBS Working Knowledge stories from the archives that address... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 15 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience
scenarios to ensure everyone on the disaster team knows their duties during a crisis. In particular, the team will need primary and backup responsibilities, and guidelines on decision-making. These areas of... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch
- 07 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
process-improvement strategies. We used TDABC to evaluate the cost of providing pain control to patients undergoing thoracic surgery and to estimate the impact of specific process improvements on cost. Retrospective healthcare utilization... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Venturing: Entrepreneurship on the Inside
"is the extreme form of change that management teams within companies have to go through. The degree to which that change is hard is tied to how well you are doing when you attempt to do something like that within the company.... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 01 Dec 2011
- What Do You Think?
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?
Kahneman's diagnosis, but not his remedy Whether the decision is to be made by an individual, a team, or 'the bureaucracy', I would say that all would be well served by the discipline imposed by adherence to a rational process (which)... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 16, 2015
is a simplistic view. A company's unique competitive circumstances should dictate the innovation portfolio it pursues. Because innovation cuts across functions, only senior leaders can set an innovation strategy. In doing so, they must recognize that the strategy, like... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53786 forthcoming Strategic Management Journal Scope versus Speed: Team Diversity, Leader Experience, and Patenting Outcomes for Firms By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Martine R. Haas... View Details
- 21 Jan 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Market Basket’s Lessons About Buyouts
One of the highlights of my year is in November, when teams of enterprising families meet for the Executive Education program I founded and still lead at Harvard Business School, Families in Business. One of the thornier problems we... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 23 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Innovation Is Magic. Really
authors also teamed to write The Magic of Innovation, published in the European Business Review earlier this year. A Magical Process Thomke maintains that innovative managers looking to create successful new... View Details
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
terms, the team "throws it over the fence" to operational management, which is stuck with the unenviable job of forging a strong, positive social contract after the fact. Jerry Kaplan, Go Technologies' founder, was especially... View Details
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53251 August 22, 2017 Harvard Business Review Find the Right Metrics for Your Sales Team By: Cespedes, Frank V., and Robert Marsh Abstract—This article reports the results of a survey of key... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2010
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First Look: May 11
Amyris' marketing team was investigating the commercial interest for both types of products, while the research and development team and the operations group were building View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace