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- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Accidental Innovator
Business School, while Devin is professor emeritus from Swarthmore College. Sarah Jane Gilbert: Can you explain what accidental innovation is? What led to your interest in researching this concept? Robert Austin: Historical accounts of... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 04 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Finding My Passion in the Startup Space
Business Operations for Blueground, one of the few bright exceptions, working between our New York headquarters and our offices in Athens. Finding your career passion is a trial and error process. People say “follow your passion” but this... View Details
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
October 2016 Harvard Business Review Competing with a Goliath By: Avery, Jill Abstract—A Peruvian apparel company struggles to position itself against a global brand. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51646... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2022
- Op-Ed
Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC
solution—relying on the SEC and FASB to compel uniform, trustworthy, and accessible information about hospitals’ surge capacity plans—would help avoid yet another calamity during the next inevitable cycle of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more about the authors’ View Details
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
concluding section. Global companies will need to organize cross-functional value capture teams focused on appropriating value from their know-how and reputation by combining different institutional, market, and nonmarket tools, depending on the institutional and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
Business School Supplement 707-020 Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707020 Global Climate Change and Emissions Trading Harvard View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
Harvard Business Review Managing Political Misfits By: Bermiss, Y. Sekou, and Rory McDonald Abstract—Not all employees agree with your politics. That's OK. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54406... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
corporate governance in emerging economies, and we think the conventional wisdom about the economically important topics of tunneling and business groups will need to be significantly questioned and reformulated in light of new findings,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
facilities each year, an increasing number of which are on foreign soil. "Without the FDA, each of us would individually spend a lot more time researching where products come from and what ingredients they contain," says Harvard Business... View Details
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
Payment: Evidence from the Federal Quickpay Reform By: Barrot, Jean-Noel, and Ramana Nanda Abstract—We study the impact of Quickpay, a federal reform that indefinitely accelerated payments to small business contractors of the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?
alleged, had led to the site hosting inappropriate material. Employees believed that their proposals had been ignored in management’s quest for higher revenues and profits. YouTube is the video website and Google subsidiary on which... View Details
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
We investigate these research questions in the context of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Audit Policy. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-021.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsGianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki and the 2004 Athens Olympic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/110004-PDF-ENG The LCA Ethics Lens Sandra J. SucherHarvard Business School Note 610-050 A practical framework for evaluating the ethical dimensions of a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Feb 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has Listening Become a Lost Art?
leadership strategy at Harvard Business School is based on this assumption: It is that a discussion leader should avoid calling on students whose hands have been in the air for several minutes. The assumption, which is nearly always borne... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?
Are auditors becoming too big to fail? For over a decade, there have been articles and op-eds in the popular and business press arguing that the auditing industry, currently dominated by Deloitte & Touche, Ernst & Young, KPMG, and... View Details
- 18 Feb 2019
- Book
What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology
to it. Finally, the format clarifies for all interested parties—including advisors, investors, and employees—the incremental value of the proposed business idea relative to the traditional approach. Further,... View Details
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
Vijayaraghavan Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 9 (September 2012) Abstract An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2012/09/should-you-listen-to-the-customer/ar/1 'I'll Have One of Each': How... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Agents of Change: The Founding of the African-American Student Union
Baker Library Special Collections Exhibits More Exhibits Explore the Exhibit Student Pioneers The Value of Business Education The Golden Age of Black Business AASU Early Years & Influence AASU Founders Core... View Details
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
personality theory into a multi-level model of information acquisition and idea generation. We posit that innovator and peer personality are critical factors conditioning who will generate high-quality ideas, and that our proposed... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- April 4, 2009
- Article
The Return of State-Owned Enterprises: Should We Be Afraid?
By: Aldo Musacchio and Francisco Flores-Macias
The global financial crisis of 2008-2009 has prompted many industrialized states worldwide to increase their stakes in private corporations. This wave of partial nationalizations has come amidst full-scale expropriations in developing countries such as Venezuela,... View Details
Keywords: History; Private Ownership; State Ownership; Financial Crisis; Business and Government Relations
Musacchio, Aldo, and Francisco Flores-Macias. "The Return of State-Owned Enterprises: Should We Be Afraid?" Harvard International Review (website) (April 4, 2009).