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  • 12 Aug 2013
  • Research & Ideas

‘Hybrid’ Organizations a Difficult Bet for Entrepreneurs

primarily by the sale of the glasses themselves. VisionSpring is what organization scholars call a "hybrid" social venture, since it combines the social welfare logic of a nonprofit and the commercial logic of a for-profit business. When hybrids work, they can be a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 28 Mar 2004
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Celebrates Social Enterprise Initiative

task is the organization's mission. Clarity of mission is the starting point and devising corresponding meaningful outcome measures requires considerable creativity and analytical capacity. Furthermore, the challenge is integrating those... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 14 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 14

Transparency Trap By: Bernstein, Ethan Abstract—To get people to be more creative and productive, managers increase transparency with open workspaces and access to real-time data. But less transparent work environments can yield... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jan 2004
  • Research & Ideas

What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation

versions of products originally designed for wealthier markets. This approach rarely succeeds. But some companies have committed themselves to understanding the needs of less-affluent customers and using this knowledge to devise creative... View Details
Keywords: by Donald N. Sull, Alejandro Ruelas-Gossi & Martin Escobari
  • 27 Aug 2014
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery

future," says Bunsho Kure (HBS MBA '14), now at Mitsui & Co. "By coming up with creative business models to solve those problems, Tohoku and the people in the region can become a leader for other regions or countries."... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities; Retail
  • 29 Jan 2015
  • Op-Ed

The Fall of Greece

cohesiveness, freedom of speech, and non-violence. Greece badly needs the creative destruction brought by the forces of competition—not a destruction brought by outdated and failed political views. However, with both financial and human... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
  • 16 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Times Captures History of American Business

individuals. It is the journeys those people have made, and a brief glimpse of those journeys, that this book affords. Excerpt From Epilogue Of the Story Of American Business: From The Pages Of The New York Times Nancy F. Koehn, editor In 1942, the economist Joseph... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News
  • 13 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 13, 2009

Nanda Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We examine entrepreneurship and creative destruction following U.S. banking deregulations using Census Bureau data. U.S. banking reforms brought about exceptional... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 May 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Advertisers Get Serious About Playing With Their Brands

3. Rule out the rules: Play can generate quite a bit of charm, even when the message is not straightforward. Brands should be creative and flexible—and as long as the marketing episode does not involve trickery, the public will likely... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Advertising
  • 28 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?

uncertainty in global markets and a diminishing control in their environments generally. For companies to "break through the illusion of certainty," she says, they must embrace imaginative, creative thinking to better prepare... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 03 Feb 2011
  • What Do You Think?

Are We Going “Back to the Future” In Researching Management?

towards empowering employees to be creative and make decisions," which she believes will continue. Penny Cortez thinks that we should see more research on why "bad leadership seems to be more common than good " Illysa would... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
  • January 2008
  • Article

Nonemployment Stigma as Rational Herding: A Field Experiment

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee
Long spells of unemployment are known to reduce the likelihood of re-employment, but it is difficult to discern the reasons for this observation. Using an experimental method that controls for search intensity and possible discouragement of job applicants, I document... View Details
Keywords: Job Search; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Employment; Cognition and Thinking; Perception; Creativity; Human Needs; Job Interviews; Selection and Staffing; Recruitment; Managerial Roles; Judgments; Employment Industry
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  • 2011
  • Article

Strategic Change and the Jazz Mindset: Exploring Practices That Enhance Dynamic Capabilities for Organizational Improvisation

By: Ethan S. Bernstein and Frank J. Barrett
How can leaders adopt a mindset that maximizes learning, remains responsive to short-term emergent opportunities, and simultaneously strengthens longer-term dynamic capabilities of the organization? This chapter explores the organizational decisions and practices... View Details
Keywords: Dynamic Capabilities; Strategic Change; Jazz; Jazz Mindset; Improvisation; Innovation; Change Management; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Leading Change; Leadership Style; Leadership; Management; Management Style; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizations; Creativity; Strategy; Auto Industry; Banking Industry; Bicycle Industry; Computer Industry; Consulting Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Education Industry; Electronics Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Financial Services Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Health Industry; Information Technology Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Music Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Retail Industry; Semiconductor Industry; Service Industry; Technology Industry; United States; Japan; Taiwan; Europe; Asia
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  • 08 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 8

Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/510063-PDF-ENG Creative Capital: Sustaining the Arts G. Felda Hardymon and Ann LeamonHarvard Business School Case 810-098 Creative Capital provides... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • June 2009 (Revised April 2019)
  • Case

Crosley

By: Tom Nicholas and David Chen
In October 1941, a top secret envoy from the U.S. military was sent to Crosley Corporation in Cincinnati, Ohio to request their assistance to construct a weapon that would drastically strengthen the defenses of U.S. troops: the proximity fuze. Such a fuze would allow... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; History; Production; National Security; Organizational Structure; Corporate Strategy; Research and Development; Product Development; Business and Government Relations; Creativity; Innovation and Invention; Ohio
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  • 23 Jul 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How Relationships are Building Biotech

Creativity (Oxford University Press) spells it all out. The Missing Link Higgins became interested in this missing link after watching a young biotech company go through two public offerings in the early 1990s. The observations she made... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark
  • 10 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 10, 2007

  Working PapersNone this week.   Cases & Course MaterialsAscent Media Group (A) Harvard Business School Case 607-064 Ascent Media races to adapt to the changes resulting from increasing digitalization of its business, from creative... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Nov 2018
  • Research & Ideas

'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making

maximize how much people learn from each other; we want to maximize transparency,” adds Lazer. “I don’t want there to be zero communication, but I do think that transparency and communication do have downsides, especially for certain kinds of problems; problems where... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
  • 17 Nov 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Decoding the Artful Sidestep

question. One of the positive results that come from our inability to detect the shifting of a conversation is that we can move seamlessly from one topic to another semantically similar topic. In my experience, some of the most interesting and View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 16 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 16, 2007

idea is formally evaluated as the basis of a commercial venture. Users also tend to engage in collective creative activity prior to firm formation—often within the social context provided by user communities—that results in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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