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- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
complexity of product development. With low complexity, both approaches fare similarly. As complexity grows, open innovation becomes increasingly attractive. When complexity is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
Fouraker’s Deanship (1970 to 1980), in particular, McArthur held a range of increasingly important administrative positions. He also took on a highly unusual outside-world assignment as a Trustee in Bankruptcy of the Penn Central Transportation Company. It was an... View Details
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
scholars who focus diverse conceptual lenses on a single high-stakes management task-enhancing port security across the United States. This title considers the challenge of driving change in a complex system involving hundreds of private... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
units for Zappos' employees, and a promise that Zappos could operate as an independent subsidiary-was on the table. Zappos' financial advisor, Morgan Stanley, estimated the future equity value of an IPO to be between $650 million and $905... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51141 2016 Organizational Routines: How They Are Created, Maintained, and Changed Teaming Routines in Complex Innovation Projects By: Zuzul, Tiona, and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract—No abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
and financially—to educate their employees, their communities, the financial community, and the public, as to what they stand for and what they're really about. Make it not only a touchstone for how a particular company conducts its View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
complex chain of events, individuals, transactions, and products that feed the world. Until his retirement in 1997, Goldberg had taught many thousands of MBA and Executive Education students and was the author, coauthor, or editor of more... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
small open economy, final goods production is carried out by foreign and domestic firms, which compete for skilled labor, unskilled labor, and intermediate products. To operate a firm in the intermediate goods sector, entrepreneurs must... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
complex political environment; and 3) Manage a team: Forge a high-performing "we" out of all the "I"s who report to you. Packed with compelling stories and practical guidance, Being the Boss is an indispensable guide... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
worldwide phenomenon. Sensing, analyzing, and developing appropriate responses to the complex new demands of the expanded, global marketplace is difficult, and the greatest challenge comes in developing the organizational capabilities and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
his partners began reviewing the company's inventions. The first opportunity they uncovered was Advanced Workstation Products (AWP). Xerox's high-end printers actually were complex computer systems that contained extensive networking... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 28 Jul 2016
- Op-Ed
Where is TripAdvisor for Doctors?
hernia surgeons in my area by going online and reading patient reviews, rather than just relying on a referral from my primary care physician, no matter how much I trust him or her. Hopefully, the operation goes well and I recover... View Details
- 08 Jan 2007
- What Do You Think?
Neuro Economics: Science or Science Fiction?
operate network-governed enterprises using the knowledge of neuro economics." Among questions this leaves us with are whether this research is valuable primarily in the aggregate or in individual cases. If so, just how long will it... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 16 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
Leading Change and Organizational Renewal
and operate profitably. But, far too often, that success breeds inertia. As customers and markets change, organizations must continually sow fresh seeds if they are to remain a viable force in tomorrow's markets. In this program, we... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
and the Array of Things: A Fitness Tracker for the City No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/517044-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 217-050 Exotic Interest Rate Swaps: Snowballs in Portugal This case explores a View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
and a well-crafted plan to capitalize on it, iTrust slowly assembled a core management team during its inaugural year and, with relief, graduated from its free, but shabby, space to a modern office complex in Gurgaon, a booming suburb... View Details
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
Services cut the ribbon on its new, modern complex at the corner of Penn and Plymouth Avenues in the predominantly Black neighborhood of North Minneapolis. It was a high point in a journey that began five years earlier, following the... View Details
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
field and the central research questions that it sought to answer. However, the commitment to engage with the complexities of business and the disinclination to rely on models with simplistic assumptions about business behavior also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
more effectively design and measure complex projects and organizations. Sean Silverthorne: What drew you to the NASA/JPL Mars program as potential case material? Alan MacCormack: First, it was an ideal context in which to explore one of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
demonstrate the catalytic role of committed state elites, who introduced incremental reforms over three decades. These officials operated beneath the political radar, layering small-scale initiatives on top of the mainstream school... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne