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ICIC - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Promote a dynamic urban marketplace powered by diversity, creative enterprise, and untapped competitive advantages Determine the industry clusters with the highest market opportunity for inner city business growth and job creation Teach... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
End Game
social or environmental responsibilities are embedded in a company’s fiduciary duties. Naive as it may sound, the evidence is there, says Jones: “Business has this amazing ability to innovate, to come up with creative solutions. It... View Details
- 04 Feb 2010
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?
to help predict the future, it may be a good idea to refer to it. But in most cases, the decision maker is posed with a unique challenge." Vanitha Rangganathan, arguing for the role of intuition in the creative process, commented... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Can Being the ‘Token’ Give Women and Minorities a Competitive Edge?
steps toward addressing institutional racism Companies have long used competition to motivate employees to think creatively and push themselves. Law firms, consultancies, and other adherents to the “up or out” philosophy aim to promote... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Simple Economics of Open Source
also draw an analogy to academe, writing that commercial interests can easily preclude creativity and intellectual exploration if programmers become too fixated on exciting, short-term commercial goals. Puzzles For The Future The open... View Details
- 20 Apr 2021
- Book
A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success
Conceptually, strategy could not be simpler. Once you start thinking about how to create value—that’s when it gets interesting. We get to be endlessly imaginative. Strategy poses little challenge for our conceptual thinking. But it presents the most exciting of... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
of discovery and creative progress rapidly accelerated in the wake of professionalization. In an open society, moreover, there will always be room for "rogue" entrepreneurs to challenge the existing order, as practitioners of... View Details
- 26 Sep 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Lady Gaga
Elberse. "That was just three years ago, and now she is, by many measures, the biggest celebrity on the planet. Gaga is a marketing phenomenon." This fall, Elberse will teach a case on Lady Gaga's meteoric career in her popular second-year MBA course,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
A Sustainable Solution for Fashion
creative decisions that really matter, while the repeatable actions are done by a sophisticated machine.” Theuerkauf came to HBS with a good understanding of the problem. He and Stockmann formulated the Syrup solution after meeting in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
The New Global Business Manager
buying growth. It was also a big contributor to the dot-com crash: an excess of capital chasing a scarce number of creative ideas and scarce expertise. Today's scarce resource is the information, knowledge, and expertise that are embedded... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 13 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding
Picture the Jamaican bobsled team going for the gold at the Winter Olympics. Or competitors in what seem fundamentally unbalanced battles: the Chicago Cubs versus the New York Yankees, Apple versus Microsoft, and Southwest Airlines versus United. In the public eye, the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rituals Strengthen Couples. Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, Too
Sezer, and Michael I. Norton Garcia-Rada says companies could find creative ways to leverage the research results, for example by figuring out how they can foster relationship rituals in consumers. "Most companies that sell products and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching
to encourage employees to interact in both formal and informal ways, he argues, managers can move employees away from the kind of dry learning that stymies growth and creativity and toward the kind of co-created knowledge that allows... View Details
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
keep the team progressing toward their goal, but to properly address all concerns raised along the way. Use the “clean sheet of paper” exercise to think creatively about company processes Another best practice is to perform the clean... View Details
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
Edmondson: Leadership will engage people to work together creatively I hope we will come to learn that hiding bad news is never a good idea. That will mean recommitting ourselves to mastering the leadership skills to tell the truth and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be
ongoing enticement for Birnbaum and the other alumni interviewed for this article. "Luxury goods are in essence a highly creative field," notes Thuy T. Tranthi (HBS MBA '93), president of Thomas Pink USA, the London-based... View Details
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3D Negotiaton
In articles and books, often with David Lax, I have been developing a broad approach to effective negotiation that encompasses three "dimensions." In this "3D" approach, our first dimension — "tactics"-- is the most familiar territory. Tactics are the persuasive... View Details
- 22 Feb 2021
- Book
Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy
multiplier, meaning that the top sellers are 6X more productive than their peers. Sales is like other creative occupations where the stardom phenomenon is well documented. In areas like software programming, the arts, sports, and others,... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
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evaluated? Your participation score will be based on the quality of your contributions across four areas: Required in-course elements, such as in-course reflections, cold calls, and shared reflections Peer Help (answering questions, sharing particularly interesting or... View Details
- 13 Jun 2011
- HBS Case
Mobile Banking for the Unbanked
needs of their target customers. "WIZZIT essentially took a banking service like the one we have here—depositing salaries in the bank that we draw down to make payments—and decided that this is what the poor wanted, too," Rangan says. "Of course the... View Details