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- 01 Sep 2009
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Outtakes with Russ Wilcox
have 150 issued patents in the United States. You definitely need them, but you can’t rely on them alone. As a small company, we can’t pursue millions of dollars in patent lawsuits. At the end of the day, you have to stay ahead with your technology and compete on... View Details
- 26 Nov 2019
- News
Collective Genius: Leading Innovation and Digital Transformation
person can make to the organization, no matter what level that person is at. In fact, she says, many of the best ideas percolate from the bottom up. According to Hill, there are three interconnected capabilities necessary for innovation:... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Faculty Books
developing innovative products and services. He discusses the full range of activities required: learning about customer needs; managing experimentation and problem-solving; product-development process design and improvement; and development strategy and project... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Read This and Write
Koruth Courtesy Monisha Koruth “If you are capable of reading this article, you are capable of writing a short story,” says Monisha Saldanha Koruth (MBA ’01), cofounder and director of London’s Momaya Press,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Losing Our Competitive Edge
difficult than suspected. During the boom years, when all seemed well, capabilities that underpin innovation in a wide range of products were continuing to deteriorate. My HBS colleague Willy Shih and I described in “Restoring American... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Agenda: Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963)
In the early 1970s, Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) was CEO of Texas International Airlines, a struggling regional operation. There were whispers of change coming for the airline industry as Washington considered the pros and cons of ending regulation. “If there was a list of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Books: Brand New
listening to customers by means of ongoing two-way communication; and building organizational capabilities that delivered on the promise of their brands. From Wedgwood’s making of a large market for his china in 18th-century Britain, to... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Moving Mountains
Charlie Barco passed away unexpectedly in 1994, he left a strong operation in the capable hands of his wife and daughter. "My parents understood the importance of long-range planning in a family business," says Kathy Barco, who had... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time
partnership helped them find errors in the initial version, as well as add new features to it." Such collaboration allows a search engine like Yahoo!, for example, to respond to customer requirements by adding new types of personalized search View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 25 Mar 2018
- News
Modernizing Infrastructure Management
assess taxes for all the properties within their county. “An interactive digital mapping brought that capability to them. And that really benefited the communities because everyone knew they were being treated fairly. And we have grown... View Details
- 09 Feb 2016
- News
Applying Business Principles to Military Problems
the other special operations forces and, believe it or not, these forces have a five-year business plan where they have to organize, train, and equip our folks and allocate resources. Given the fiscal environment, it’s [about] making tradeoffs. So [that’s] the ability... View Details
- 08 Mar 2017
- News
Safe, Secure, and Prosperous
Maria Fernandez (AMP 187, 2014) is the deputy secretary of the Intelligence and Capability Group for the Australia Department of Immigration and Border Protection. In this interview, she describes how her department’s intelligence... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
New Releases
in the highly competitive pharmaceutical industry, challenging the widely held view that firms tend to emphasize either product or process innovation, depending upon their stage of development. Rather, Pisano argues, product and process development View Details
- 23 Oct 2024
- News
Running Man
There aren’t many people on this planet—let alone septuagenarians—who can contemplate running 50 or 100 miles at a time. But for 77-year-old Eric Spector (MBA 1972), a retired entrepreneur and CEO in the tech, consumer retail, and media sectors, running long (long,... View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- News
Many of the best ideas for improving health care are quite simple
about what, group experience in adapting to change, the likelihood of integrating information to develop innovative solutions, and the competitive advantage of team capabilities that competitors cannot replicate. (Published September... View Details
- 03 Dec 2024
- News
Magic Numbers
Courtesy Shalinee Sharma Courtesy Shalinee Sharma As a sixth grader in Buffalo, New York, Shalinee Sharma (MBA 2005) believed math just wasn’t her thing. There were only a few girls in the honors class at her new school, and Sharma soon realized that she was far behind... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 07 Feb 2017
- News
Shaping Singapore
Development. “Singapore’s story is about how a land- and resource-poor city-state has managed to develop a highly livable, high-density city,” she said in her acceptance remarks last October. “Doing this has not come easy. It requires collective effort, innovative... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Powering on wireless electricity
award underlines the fact that our technology is capable of enormous positive economic and environmental impact,” says Giler, whose entrepreneurial spirit extends to other areas of interest. He is the cofounder of Scratch Wireless, which... View Details
- 25 Nov 2021
- News
An Aria for the Ambidextrous Organization
organization—one that, as Tushman says, has “the dynamic capability to exploit existing strategies better than anyone and simultaneously explore new terrain.” Doing this can present a contradiction for organizations, Tushman admits, but... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals
confronting today and the skills and capabilities leaders will need to effectively address those problems. From there we can think about the curricula, research agendas, and questions arising from that. It’s worth pointing out that a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna