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- 28 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 28
to do so. He has an offer from Havas, a leading global advertising company interested in acquiring V&S, which would give V&S access to unprecedented resources. However, Winsor and the V&S team have concerns about how their... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008
of Blue album in 1959. Students consider how and why Davis, who had already proven he was tops in his field, created a new disruptive innovation in the field of jazz, in the process creating the most commercially successful jazz album of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
their prior knowledge, whereas knowledge recombination is more likely to be pursued by teams comprising inventors from other ethnic backgrounds. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54569 forthcoming American... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17
entrepreneurs constitute a key economic driving force for many countries, they often face unstable environments due to violence and civil unrest. Yet, we know very little about how environments characterized by high levels of political and civil violence affect new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
health, the process is a bit like throwing a lasso around a tsunami. That's why integrated medical data has now become a major goal of health care reform. Integrating patient records, such as physicians' notes, diagnoses, medical device... View Details
- 14 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 14
interest in the web platform so that they have real impact on retail corruption in India. Possible solutions discussed include teaming up with local governments and police, focusing attention on one or two Indian cities, and franchising... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 7
Economic Forum, 2009 Abstract Mexico is often cited as one of the world's most entrepreneurial countries in terms of the percentage of its population that has started or is in the process of starting a business venture. Yet Mexico does... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Kayak Users Built a New Industry
settings. They cried out for a theoretical explanation. So Eric von Hippel, Christoph Hienerth, and I teamed up to see if we could construct a theory to explain the phenomena. Q: Can you describe in general the pathways user innovations... View Details
- 08 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know
ChromeOS as the user-facing operating system.” You Might Also Like: Harnessing AI: What Businesses Need to Know in ChatGPT’s Second Year How Will the Tech Titans Behind ChatGPT, Bard, and LLaMA Make Money? How Humans Outshine AI in Adapting to Change Feedback or ideas... View Details
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
accelerate through the crisis. We are finding that there are three stages of addressing a crisis: Stabilize and defend your core business by engaging employees, customers, suppliers and members of your community to identify and address immediate, critical problems.... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
the variables that align with different customer types. Given the competing priorities in any venture, we've found that an ICP process must come from the top team to be credible and effective. Conversely,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 6, 2007
Learned from Market Design? Author:Alvin E. Roth Abstract This essay discusses some things we have learned about markets, in the process of designing marketplaces to fix market failures. To work well, marketplaces have to provide... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
Dora Stern Abstract—This study sheds new light on first- and early-mover advantages. Research on this classic topic often assumes that each firm participates in the entirety of the innovation process and that all firms aim to monetize... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 27
(i) few firms lobby, (ii) lobbying status is strongly associated with firm size, and (iii) lobbying status is highly persistent over time. Estimating a model of a firm's decision to engage in lobbying, we find significant evidence that up-front costs associated with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2010
- HBS Case
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
hospital staff tackled the situation head-on, finding that the data galvanized families rather than angering them. The clinic went on to change its processes and communications based on input from seventeen patient-parent View Details
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
uninsured and the middle class. For $70 dollars a month, you get 24/7 access to a doctor. And the reason I told you about who they are is this is not naïve or idealistic—this is a team that can execute. They're bankable. But the insurance... View Details
- 22 Dec 2015
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December 22, 2015
enterprises. The focus is on supply- and demand-side factors that help explicate cross-border expansion. The article explores how appropriability-informed and legacy-shaped entrepreneurial imagination motivates a process of creation and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online?
are subject to human error and bias. Recognizing these limits, the authors focus most of their attention on “opaque” policies, where the precise mechanisms and processes of content moderation are not fully transparent to users. Two types... View Details
- 01 Nov 2011
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First Look: Nov. 1
financial advisor, Barclays Capital, had also been working with KKR and its partners to create a bid process that could favor them. In addition to the fee from Del Monte for advising on a successful sale, Barclays also desired to play a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 13, 2007
for conducting future team research. Three Perspectives on Team Learning: Outcome Improvement, Task Mastery, and Group Process Authors:A. C. Edmondson, J. R. Dillon, and Kate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace