Balancing Innovation And Control - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2022
News

A Sustainable Solution for Fashion

while pursuing their long-term vision of reshaping the fashion industry and its impact on the environment. Entrepreneurship, Theuerkauf says, is a lot like inventory management, both art and science. That’s... View Details

Keywords: April White

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

institutions and our approaches to managing ourselves will have meaningfully evolved. And in fact, 20 months later we have seen and are seeing rapid acceleration of View Details

22 May 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders

compelling answer in an unintentional haiku. “Their work is flawless,” she says. “Their quality control is tighter than NASA’s.” The Aesthetic Idol competition The final assignment in “The Business of Aesthetics” requires both an... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Beauty & Cosmetics; Apparel & Accessories; Auto; Tourism

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HBS - The year in Review

exceeding Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) standards.... View Details

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Globalization: The Strategy of Differences

respond to local differences. Recently, as at Coke, many companies have moved toward more localization and less standardization. But no matter how they balance localization and... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Economics , January 2022) with Jason Mao, Antoinette Schoar, and Nan R. Zhang. Mitchell B. Weiss : Winner of the 2022 Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching. 2021 Jeffrey J. Bussgang : Received the Robert F.... View Details

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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

balancing basic and applied research while demonstrating accountability to the company's stockholders: Our scientists get half of their time for themselves, to be free scientists, to think, to dream, to... View Details

16 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making

remain after controlling for a large number of observable factors, including the experience of the writer, the agent, and the identity of the studio. “These are big differences, “ says Luo. “It shows that... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Motion Pictures & Video

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Harvard Business School

Accenture). He became a partner in 1976, specializing in the development of financial control and operating systems in retail and banking industries. In 1985, Gates began to... View Details

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

emerging examples of innovative technologies, financing structures, policies, and geo-politics that are reshaping our global economy as it struggles and strives to transition... View Details

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

and services they consume. In many cases, collaborative user innovators are vying with producers for intellectual property rights and the control... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

25 Aug 2022
News

Up on the Corner

housing in the next few years, and Dlodlo is currently looking to assume control of a large portfolio of vacant properties presented to her by community leaders, in which she intends to house frontline... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

10 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Women at Work

work out," Clarizio said. "Kids get sick; you can't control everything." One thing she learned was not to make her life more stressful than it needed to be. "Travel less and be flexible... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild

29 Sep 2011
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Leveraging Intellectual Property

Universität München and Harvard Business School professor Carliss Y. Baldwin. Key concepts include: Controlling too much of the system's intellectual property will deter outside innovation, but View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

12 Jul 2020
Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

and the legacy that you wish to leave, and it is probably still my favorite of all Ishiguro’s books. I also love memoirs and found Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air to... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

27 Sep 2016
First Look

September 27, 2016

of different constituents; (4) balancing opportunities and attention; and (5) balancing the motives of human behavior. Management View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 May 2017
Research & Ideas

Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups

substantially between 2006, when AWS was introduced, and 2010, especially for those firms that could most take advantage of cloud services. For the control group of companies in industries such as aerospace... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Financial Services; Information Technology

2024
Working Paper

Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting—Impossible to Routine: Case Histories of Transformational Advances

By: Amar Bhidé, Srikant M. Datar and Fabio Villa

We describe how Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG, or more popularly, “bypass”) operations revolutionized the treatment of coronary disease (that can produce fatal heart attacks and debilitating angina). Specifically, we chronicle the: 1) development of the... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Technology Adoption; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Invention; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms

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13 Oct 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Building a Business in the Context of a Life

decades, including those who have found success professionally, when they lift their heads up in their 40s or 50s and question whether their lives are heading in the right direction. “We sit back, look ahead, View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

02 Dec 2015
What Do You Think?

What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?

he said, “The very act of trying to attain gender equality portends to assume that is a positive goal. My concern is not equality but quality. Man or woman, we as individuals and organizations need to rip away all the barriers that lie... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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