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The Art of Balancing Autonomy and Control: What Managers Can Learn from Hackathon Organizers about Spurring Innovation.

By: Hila Lifshitz - Assaf, Sarah Lebovitz and Lior Zalmanson

Today, managers recognize that innovation requires a high level of work autonomy for their employees. This encourages curiosity, enables independent thinking, and provides an environment in which employees can experiment and test new problem-solving approaches with... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; Hackathon; Autonomy; Control; Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management

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01 Dec 2012
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The Billion-Dollar Question

Jobs said, "Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new." Fortunately, we don't need to die to enjoy some of Death's benefits. Many of us "died" when we... View Details

Keywords: Advice; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

18 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool

Radiation therapy can be lifesaving for lung cancer patients. The first step, though, is having a trained, skilled oncologist who knows how to best segment or mark off the tumor for radiation. This expertise is vital for targeting the tumor and controlling the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

30 May 2013
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Product Launch Day

around us was filled with the sound of his playing combined with the orchestra coming out of the speakers, and we started attracting an audience. Throughout the day we saw a lot of fun reactions. One of the best parts of user testing is when people surprise you,... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology

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Yubo Cui

Karl Benz and Henry Ford. The first one invented the automobile; the second created the automotive industry.” Where others may view the prospects for these aging giants with skepticism, Yubo sees hope. “As long as you learn, you can... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy

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Medium of Artistic Expression - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

photographs by Polaroid employees from 1948 to the early 1950s, spanning the transition from sepia to black-and-white images, reveal the playful nature of the medium in everyday scenes as well as its artistic possibilities in portraits and still lifes with View Details

23 Jun 2003
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Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

work. Alfred Chandler: The road that led me to write Inventing the Electronic Century had a bit of a twist and turn. I originally planned a single study in comparative institutional history called "Paths of Learning: The Evolution of... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

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Harvard Business School and Polaroid - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Polaroid, McLean and Smith advised the company on the potential, design specifications, and monetary value of Edwin Land's new instant photography system that would be commercially released in 1948. Their recommendations included developing a marketing strategy for the... View Details

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Professor Myers studies the ways people learn from their own—and others’—experiences at work, with a particular emphasis on learning in health care organizations and emergency medical contexts. Though his interest is in individual-level learning, he focuses in... View Details

Keywords: Learning And Development; Learning Organizations; Learning By Doing; Health Care Industry; Innovation; Identity Construction; Medical Error; Knowledge Development; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Work; Learning; Leadership Development; Knowledge Management; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Health Industry; United States; Singapore; Asia

2023
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Visions of Vision Pro

By: Randolph B. Cohen

Daily ups and downs of the market are often driven by changes in interest-rate expectations and investor risk aversion. But over the long run, it's often technological change that is the primary driver of value. A decade ago, Tyler Cowen argued in his book The Great... View Details

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Disruptive Innovation; Product Launch

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