Employee Driven Innovation - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Sep 2024
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Creating a Candidate-Centered Recruiting Process

for the interview process to mirror that. Or if there will be periods of consistent pace followed by times of deadline driven pressure, that should be clearly explained. Candidates know themselves and their work styles and want to set... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

04 Dec 2007
First Look

First Look: December 4, 2007

and consumers' discount factor in this market are within the range in which platform success is driven by quality advantage and the market is potentially efficient. Counterfactual experiments suggest that PlayStation 2 could have View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?

employee can work together on a project, so it's really about enhancing the value proposition instead of just defending against the threat of the Internet. If you think of the service side of it, you have businesses like PetSmart where... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

September 1999
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Trisha Wilson of Wilson & Associates

By: Teresa M. Amabile and Sarah S. Khetani

Texan entrepreneur Trisha Wilson has founded an interior design firm and watched it grow into one of the most successful firms in the hospitality design services industry. After 20 years of building a company that is truly a reflection of her own personality, Wilson... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Employees; Innovation and Management; Management; Business or Company Management; Management Succession; Organizational Culture; Strategy; Service Industry; Texas

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01 Sep 2014
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All For One

creative building blocks that contributed to an innovative whole. Instead of a cult of personality around a leader who compelled other people to follow, this kind of leadership was based on virtually the opposite—setting up structures... View Details

Keywords: Michael Blanding; faculty; research; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services

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The Ownership Project | Institute for Business in Global Society

key institutional features that support particular forms of ownership? Current research includes cases on employee ownership trusts, developing dimensions for an expanded typology of ownership models, creating a cartography of alternative... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Hard Choices

considerably better off, even as it creates both winners and losers, and the losers often suffer through no fault of their own. A capitalist economy should be judged not just on the aggregate economic improvement driven by its View Details

Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)

09 Dec 2020
Blog Post

How to Create a Psychologically Safe Workplace

productive, safe, or innovative path. However, when leaders reframe failure as an opportunity for growth, acknowledging failure in an effort to solve problems becomes engrained in the culture and employees... View Details

13 Dec 2016
First Look

December 13, 2016

regulators, where no one federal entity has oversight, and protections around small business borrowing slip through the cracks. This paper takes a detailed look at the current state of small business lending, the causes for the persistent low-dollar loan gap, the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2018
News

Ask the Expert: Star Search

engaging with this prospect cohort the same way that we think about engaging with our customers. There is also some interesting work happening in process improvement for recruitment. That includes innovations aimed at scheduling, which is... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

28 May 2012
Research & Ideas

A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy

Associates. A social responsibility strategy should fulfill two goals: create a positive social impact, and enhance the company's brand, reputation, employee morale, and/or its bottom line, Rangan says. "But it does not have to be totally... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

25 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

The Country Effect: Does Location Matter?

types of organizations. Highly entrepreneurial organizations are rabbits, emphasizing innovation and risk-taking. And tigers are built around competitive advantage and market superiority. Elephants are, as you would expect, full of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

25 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments

Should companies let employees keep working remotely after the COVID-19 pandemic ends? Assessing the impact of remote work has involved a lot of guesswork for business leaders, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Consider the Chinese... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

27 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: September 27

PublicationsThe Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators Authors:Jeffrey H. Dyer, Hal B. Gregersen, and Clayton M. Christensen Publication:Harvard Business Press, 2011 Abstract Some people are just natural... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Faculty Books Published in 2020

need to hear about their company's fitness to compete, and employees lose trust in those leaders and become less committed to change. In Fit to Compete, Beer presents an antidote to silence—principles and a time-tested View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Mar 2007
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Pursuing a passion

In addition to her field research on creativity, Teresa Amabile is a keen observer and enthusiastic supporter of the creative efforts of her HBS students. To illustrate her belief that entrepreneurial success is driven by passion for... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2013
News

Curing Health Care

Illustrations by Andrea Manzati Prescription: Free the Data! On a bright September morning, on the expansive lawn outside the Watertown, Massachusetts, headquarters of the e-health firm athenahealth, city and state officials, company executives, and hundreds of View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

09 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions

they know well; but I am not certain that they’ve really considered the alternatives and what workplace would fit into their broader strategy. And then you have other companies and executives that went remote during the pandemic and are still scared to ask their View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint, HBS Alumni Bulletin

01 Sep 2011
News

Breaking Free from Fear of Change

research on high-need-for-achievement professionals — people with an insatiable need to keep achieving at all costs — DeLong took stock of the ways in which he and other driven executives can become victims of their own ambitions and... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

17 Nov 2011
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design

Questions To Be Answered: What are the best techniques for fostering innovation in multicultural teams? I want my functional experts to influence high-level strategy. How can managers get the best thinking out of support staff? What role... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun

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